South Asian University
A University established by SAARC Nations
Sociology Seminar Series, January-December, 2024
(Held on Wednesday afternoons)
Curated and Chaired by Dr Mallika Shakya, Senior Asst Professor, Department of Sociology
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3 April |
Dr Praveen Priyadarshi, Assistant Professor, Department of Social Science and Humanities, Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology [Lecture Title: “Distinctiveness of Everyday Political Practices in New Urban Spaces] |
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10 April |
Dr Ravi Nandan Singh, Associate Professor, Humanities and Social Sciences, Shiv Nadar University [Lecture Title: Mapping Morges: Meeting Disasters and Keeping the Dead]
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Sociology Seminar Series, January-December, 2023
(Held on Wednesday afternoons)
Curated and Chaired by Dr Mallika Shakya, Senior Asst Professor, Department of Sociology
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23 February |
Dr Rahul Ranjan Author and Sociologist, Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway
“The political life of memory: Birsa Munda in Contemporary India”
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6 April |
Mr Arvind Mohan, Author and Journalist, Bihar (India) Mr Chandra Kishor, Author and Journalist, Birgunj (Nepal)
“Nepal-India Bordertown Conversation: Champaran, Gandhi and the Workers and Peasants of Today”
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12 April |
Prof Faye Harrison Professor of African American Studies and Anthropology, University of Illionois, Urbana-Champaign
Prof Baliram Gaekwad, Principal, Konkan Gyanpeeth Urban College of Commerce & Arts (former Registrar, Uinversity of Mumbai)
“A Decolonising Lens on Exclusions of Caste, Race and Nation-State: Conversation between Anthropology and Fiction-Writing”
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26 April |
Dr Prabhat Kumar, Assistant Professor, Centre for Study of Developing Societies (CSDS)
“Colonial Internationalism and Vernacular Utopia in the 1920s South Asia”
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3 May |
Dr Devika Bordia Associate Professor, Department of Sociology Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence
“Public Autopsies: The Excorporated Organ and the Politics of Certainty in Rajasthan”
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23 August |
Dr Swargajyoti Gohain, Associate Professor Department of Sociology, Ashoka University
“A New Monastic Geographicity? Buddhist-based Universities and the Indian State”
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13 September |
Dr Kathryn Collins Hardy, Assistant Professor and Head of Department Department of Sociology, Ashoka University
“Regional Cinema, National Politics, The Political Formations of Bhojpuri Cinema”
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4 October
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Dr Fraser Sugden Associate Professor School of Geography, University of Birmingham, UK
“Feudalism, Markets and Migration in Mithilanchal: 200 Years of Agrarian and Ecological Change”
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1 November |
Dr Bhrigupati Singh Associate Professor of Anthropology and Sociology Ashoka University
“What is an Ethnographic Interview? Thoughts at the Intersection of Anthrpology and Psychiatry”
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8 November |
Dr Supriya Singh Adjunct Professor, Department of Social Inquiry La Trobe University, Australia
“Talking of Money to Strengthen Family Relationships: Preventing Domestic Economic Abuse”
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