Dr Madhavilatha Maganti, Associate Professor, Psychology, SIAS, was involved in multiple academic engagements recently. Dr Madhavilatha delivered a flash talk on 18 February 2026 at the Institute for the Science of Early Years and Youth (ISEY), University of East London, presenting work from the Infant and child Development Lab on ‘Analysing caregiver-infant interactions with high …
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Dr Vivek Tewary, Assistant Professor, Mathematics, SIAS and Sayantan Datta, Assistant Professor of Practice, Krea-CWP led a two-day workshop on ‘Strategies of Reading & Writing for Effective Teaching of STEMM Disciplines’ at GITAM Deemed to be University, Visakhapatnam. In this interactive two-day workshop conducted through 27 and 28 February 2026, they discussed how STEMM faculty …
Dr Proma Raychaudhury, Assistant Professor, Politics, SIAS has signed a contract with Oxford University Press (USA) for her monograph, Institutional Belonging: Women and Party Politics in West Bengal, India (OUP Series: Studies in Feminist Institutionalism).The book will offer a feminist institutionalist study of political party cultures in India to delineate the institutional belonging and political …
Dr Henry Vumjou, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Philosohy, SIAS, authored a paper titled Where Kant’s Hospitality Meets ‘Zo Hospitality’? published by Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart in the book East Meets West: Justice, Law, and Politics. The volume is part of the Archiv für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie – Beihefte series, edited by Makoto Usami and Hidehiko Adachi.
Dr Anannya Dasgupta, Director, Centre for Writing & Pedagogy (Krea-CWP) and Associate Professor, Literature, SIAS, conducted a grant writing workshop for the Social Sciences and Humanities at GITAM University, Bengaluru on 27 February 2026. This workshop is being hosted by the Centre for Asian Studies for its faculty members.
Dr Sayandeb Chowdhury, Senior Assistant Professor, Literature, SIAS, published a review titled Ritwik Ghatak, Between Myth and History, of the book Unmechanical: Ritwik Ghatak in 50 Fragments, edited by Shamya Dasgupta, in The Wire. Read more
Dr Chirag Dhara, Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies, SIAS delivered an invited talk titled ‘Physical limits to the circular economy’ at the XIth Biennial Climate Conference at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) in Mumbai on 20 February 2026. The conference is titled, ‘Climate action, sustainability, and equity in a VUCA World: Development Pathways for …
A chapter authored by Dr Avinash Ediga,Teaching Fellow, Sociology and Social Anthropology, SIAS titled, Becoming ‘Serious Men’:Politics of Emotion and the Disciplining of Desires in an Indian Coaching Town, has been published in an edited volume titled Classed Emotions: Navigating Social Class and Emotions in the Urban Indian and Diasporic Contexts. Know more
Dr Anannya Dasgupta, Director, Krea-CWP and Associate Professor, Literature, SIAS, and Sayantan Datta, Assistant Professor of Practice, Krea-CWP facilitated multiple sessions at the Alliance Literary Festival, organised by Alliance University, Bengaluru, on 19 and 20 February 2026. Sayantan Datta moderated a conversation with Kalki Subramaniam, transgender-rights activist, writer, and member of the National Council for …
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Dr Vivek Radhakrishnan, Assistant Professor, Philosophy, SIAS presented his paper ‘Kant in India’ at International Seminar on Celebrating 300 Years of Immanuel Kant organised by the Centre for Philosophy, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in collaboration with Indian Council of Philosophical Research (ICPR) on 14 February 2026. In the presentation, he traced the reception of Kant’s …