Dr Shyam Kumar Sudhakar, Associate Professor, Biological Sciences, SIAS, delivered a talk titled ‘Graph-based and Machine Learning Approaches to Understanding Brain Health and Function’ as part of the Synapse neuroscience conference, held from 6-7 March 2026 at IISER Tirupati. Undergraduate students from Krea, Nidhi, Zoeya, and Kailash also presented their ideas during the ideathon held …
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Dr Lakshmi Narayanan’s paper published in the Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy
A paper by Dr Lakshmi Narayanan, Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies, SIAS, titled Global response of low and mid-latitude ionosphere to the severe geomagnetic storm of April 2023 has been publishedin the Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy. The paper is published as a part of the special issue ‘The evolution and space weather impact of coronal mass ejections’ organised following a workshop at Krea …
Professor Anil Srinivasan conferred with RCME Dronacharya Award
Professor Anil Srinivasan, Visiting Professor of Practice, Literature and the Arts, SIAS, was conferred the prestigious award of RCME Dronacharya Award in October 2025.More recently Professor Anil was the keynote speaker at ThinkEdu 2026 by The New Indian Express. Anil headlined the discussion titled ‘AI in Arts: Why Humanity Will Survive’. Read more
Dr Chirag Dhara co-authors an op-ed in Hindustan Times
Dr Chirag Dhara, Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies, SIAS, has co-authored an op-ed titled Lost in war: An alternative template of governance, published in Hindustan Times. The article discusses the current assault on Rojava, and why it’s a matter of grave concern for all. Read more
A roundup of Dr Madhavilatha Maganti’s recent academic engagements in London
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 and Sayantan Datta conduct a workshop at GITAM Deemed to be University, Visakhapatnam
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 signs a contract with Oxford University Press (USA) for her upcoming monograph
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’s research paper published in the book East Meets West: Justice, Law, and Politics
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 conducts a grant writing workshop at GITAM University, Bengaluru
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 pens another review in The Wire
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