Dr Venugopal Maddipati, Associate Professor, History, SIAS delivered the keynote address for a conference titled ‘Bridging Horizons: The Confluence of Technology and Humanities: A Tribute to Prof Mahajan & Prof Dhanagare’ in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences in IIT Kanpur. In his talk he spoke about the value of witnessing and evidentiary claims …
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Dr Shyam Kumar Sudhakar, Associate Professor, Biological Sciences, SIAS, delivered an online talk titled ‘Graph-Based and Machine Learning Approaches to Understanding Mild Traumatic Brain Injuries’ at IIIT Hyderabad as part of their Cognitive Science Seminar series on 4 February 2026. The talk included the work of few students from the School of Interwoven Arts and …
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Dr Shanti Pappu, Adjunct Professor, Archaeology and History, SIAS, contributed to multiple initiatives, including the release of the book, The Story of a Handaxe (2026), published by the Sharma Centre for Heritage Education; the publication of A Catalogue of Palaeolithic Bifaces (Parikulam, Tamil Nadu), a comprehensive record of prehistoric stone tools generated from 3D models; …
Aravind R, an SIAS PhD scholar in Sociology, presented a paper titled ‘Digital Queer Intimacies in the City: Pleasure, Labour and Ghettoisation’ at the international conference ‘Digitality, Marginality and Plural Subjectivities,’ hosted by the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH), University of Edinburgh.
Dr Sabah Siddiqui, Assistant Professor, Psychology, SIAS was part of a book discussion held in Pune on her book, A People’s History of the Farmers’ Movement, 2020-2021. The event was organised by Shankar Brahme Samajvidnyan Granthalay and the Pune Collective. Professor Prashant Bhansode (Ghokhale Institute of Politics and Economics) was the discussant, in addition to …
Dr Swarnamalya Ganesh, Associate Professor of Practice, Literature and Global Arts, SIAS directed and choreographed a showcase by Ranga Mandira Sadir Melam presented on 2 February 2026 as part of the 25th Bharat Rang Mahotsav, International Theatre Festival celebrated by The National School of Drama.
Dr Venugopal Maddipati, Associate Professor, History, SIAS taught a course for masters level design students centered around the medical humanities and architectural design in Ahmedabad at the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, titled Ontologies of Stillness: Gandhi, Passivity, Pensivity and Illness.
Dr Madhavilatha Maganti, Associate Professor, Psychology, SIAS conducted an online session on ‘Critical Thinking and Research Methods’ for faculty from CMR university, Bangalore as part of their FDP on ‘Teaching and Research in Liberal Studies’ :Interdisciplinary Pedagogies on 23 December 2025.
Aarthi Venkatesh, a third-year Psychology student at SIAS, has been awarded the highly selective Founding Generation Fellowship by the International Congress of Infant Studies (ICIS). As part of the fellowship, she will spend the summer at the University of British Columbia (UBC), Vancouver, conducting research at the Centre for Infant Cognition under the supervision of …
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Dr Rakesh Sengupta, Assistant Professor, Psychology, SIAS delivered an online talk at IIIT Hyderabad in their Cognitive Science Seminar series on 28 January 2026. The talk was titled ‘Graph Surgery: Tuning the Connectome to Predict Distinct Neural Dynamics of Enumeration’.