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2024 17 July 2024 Panel discussion ‘Cross-Border Mobility’ Learn more 15 – 17 July 2024  Early Career Research Symposium – Cross-Border Mobility Call for papers and read more 19 – 20 June 2024 TM 3 Workshop ‘Bengal Politics’ Centre for Modern Indian Studies (CeMIS) – Georg-August-Universität Göttingen 13 – 14 June 2024 TM 2 Publication Workshop Azim Premji University, Bangalore 10 – 11 June 2024 TM 4 Workshop ‘South Asian Environment in Transition’ Max Weber Centre for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies in Erfurt, Germany 5-7 June 2024 TM 1 workshop ‘Publicity & the Political in the Long 20th Century International Conference’ in collaboration with ConTrust, and the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies. Research Center Normative Orders, Goethe University Read more 22 May 2024 Workshop ‘The COVID-19 Pandemic: Insights from Inside Local Environments’ The University of Potsdam 21 May 2024 Workshop ‘The COVID-19 Pandemic: Insights from Inside Local Environments’ Rachel Carson Center for the Study of Environment and Society, Munich (affiliated to LMU) 11 April 2024 ICAS:MP Fellow Colloquia: Vivek V. Narayan (TM4) Hybrid: ICAS:MP & Online via Zoom Time: 4:30 pm -6:30 pm IST/ 12:00 pm – 2:00pm CET 4 – 5 April 2024 TM2 Workshop “Across the Lines: Railways and Resistance in Modern India” in collaboration with Max Weber Forum, Delhi 21 – 23 March 2024 TM 7 Workshop on ‘Digital networks: Twentieth and Twenty-first-century political archaeologies’ CSDS, New Delhi 11 – 12 March 2024 TM 7 Workshop on ‘New Directions in Media and Tech’ India Habitat Centre, New Delhi 7 March 2024 ICAS:MP Fellow Colloquia: Souvanik Mullick (TM3) Hybrid: CSDS & Online via Zoom Time: 4:30 pm -6:30 pm IST/ 12:00 pm – 2:00pm CET 29 February 2024 ICAS:MP Fellow Colloquia: Manju Edachira (TM7) Hybrid: CSDS & Online via Zoom Time: 4:30 pm -6:30 pm IST/ 12:00 pm – 2:00pm CET 28 February 2024 Joint Committee Meeting 26 February 2024 TM 5 Module Meeting Conference Room 2, India International Centre, New Delhi 26 – 27 February 2024 TM 5 Workshop on The Lens of Gender: Refiguration of Categories Conference Room 2, India International Centre, New Delhi 22-24 February 2024 Internal Meeting: ‘The World After the Pandemic’ 21 February 2024 International Advisory Board Meeting 20 February 2024 Lecture by Professor Sebastian Conrad on “Bodybuilding and muscular manliness – towards a global history’ in collaboration with the German Embassy 19-21 February 2024 ICAS:MP TM 4 Workshop 15 February 2024 ICAS:MP Fellow Colloquia: Manisha Sethi (TM3&4) Hybrid: CSDS & Online via Zoom Time: 4:30 pm -6:30 pm IST/ 12:00 pm – 2:00pm CET 8 February 2024 ICAS:MP Fellow Colloquia: Mallika Leuzinger (TM7) Hybrid: CSDS & Online via Zoom Time: 4:30 pm -6:30 pm IST/ 12:00 pm – 2:00pm CET 8 – 10 January 2024 ICAS:MP TM 2 and 5 International Workshop on Rethinking Labour: Gender, Informality and Politics Venue: Azim Premji University, Bengaluru, India Read more 7 – 8 December 2023 ICAS:MP TM 1 Final Workshop: History as a Political Category (HPC) 4 – 6 December 2023 ICAS:MP TM 1 Workshop on Other Histories, Other Pasts 30 November 2023 ICAS:MP Fellow Colloquia: Thomas John Herzmark (TM1) Hybrid: CSDS & Online via Zoom Time: 4:30 pm -6:30 pm IST/ 12:00 pm – 2:00pm CET 23 November 2023 ICAS:MP Fellow Colloquia: A. Suneetha (TM5) Hybrid: CSDS & Online via Zoom Time: 4:30 pm -6:30 pm IST/ 12:00 pm – 2:00pm CET 16 November 2023 ICAS:MP Fellow Colloquia: Bhargav Rani (TM1) Hybrid: CSDS & Online via Zoom Time: 4:30 pm -6:30 pm IST/ 12:00 pm – 2:00pm CET 2 November 2023 ICAS:MP Fellow Colloquia: Alastair McClure (TM4) Hybrid: CSDS & Online via Zoom Time: 4:30 pm -6:30 pm IST/ 12:00 pm – 2:00pm CET 26 October 2023 ICAS:MP Fellow Colloquia: Lars Aaberg (TM5) Hybrid: CSDS & Online via Zoom Time: 4:30 pm -6:30 pm IST/ 1:00 pm – 3:00pm CET 11 October 2023 Introductory Presentation by ICAS:MP Fellows 11 October 2023 TM  4 Module Meeting 10 October 2023 Joint Committee Meeting 4 – 15 October 2023 ICAS:MP Autumn week 3 – 4 August 2023 ICAS:MP workshop on Re-constituting a South Asian Environmental Humanities  Read more 6 – 9 July 2023 ICAS:MP TM 5 Workshop on Rethinking Categories through the Lens of Gender Venue: Burkardushaus, Würzburg 21 – 23 June 2023 ICAS:MP TM 3 workshop: Metamorphoses of the Political: West Bengal in the New Millennium Venue: University of Göttingen 31 March 2023 TM 2 workshop ‘Democracy and the Labour Movement: Past, Present and Future’ Hybrid: AITUC Bhavan & Online via Zoom 23 March 2023 Colloquium for Fellows: Sonja Hegasy (TM1 Fellow) Project Title: Struggle over Mined Territory: Historical Contingency in the Aftermath of the Moroccan Truth and Reconciliation Instance (2003/04) Discussant: Neeladri Bhattacharya (TM1) Hybrid: ICAS:MP Office & Online via Zoom Time: 4-6 pm IST/11:30 am – 1:30 pm CET 17-19 March 2023 MECAM Conference “Imagining Futures – Dealing with Disparity” 9 March 2023 Colloquium for Fellows: Gadi Algazi (TM2 Fellow Project Title: The Camp Vanishes: A Microhistory of a Transit Camp in 1950s Israel Discussant: Prabhu Mohapatra (TM2) Hybrid: CSDS & Online via Zoom Time: 4-6 pm IST/11:30 am – 1:30 pm CET 3 March 2023 ICAS:MP Special Lecture, Where are the workers? Metamorphosis of labour politics in Africa after the end of colonial rule by Andreas Eckert 3 March 2023 ICAS:MP TM 2 workshop, Archives and Social Movement Hybrid: CSDS & Online via Zoom Time: 11:15 am – 4:30 pm IST 2 March 2023 Public Talk by Martin Gaenszle (ICAS:MP Fellow) on Reinventions of an ethnic religion: the Satyahangma movement in the Nepal-India borderland Seminar Room, CSDS 1 March 2023 International Advisory Board Meeting 28 February 2023 Joint Committee Meeting 27 February 2023 TM5 Module Meeting 27 February 2023 TM4 Module Meeting 23-24 February 2023 TM5 Workshop in collaboration with DFG project “Hidden Histories”, RePLITO (Beyond Social Cohesion: Repertoires of Living Together) on Global Networks, Local Pioneers: Gendered Perspectives on social activism, work and political engagement in and from South Asia Delhi Read more 21-28 February 2023 Exhibition on ‘Intermediations < Panna, Parda, Baja > Curating a People’s Archive’ organised by ICAS:MP member Ravikant (CSDS) Open Palm Court, India Habitat Centre 16 February 2023 Colloquium for Fellows: Vanya Vaidehi Bhargav (TM4 Fellow) Project Title: Indian Secularism: A Contested Concept Discussant: Lajwanti Chatani (TM4) Hybrid: CSDS & Online via Zoom Time: 4-6 pm IST/12:30 pm – 2:30 pm CET 9 February 2023 Colloquium for Fellows: Baidik Bhattacharya (TM1 Fellow) Project Title: Translation without original, sovereignty without exception: Animal fables and the transformation of politics in colonial India Discussant: Rakesh Pandey (CSDS) Hybrid: CSDS & Online via Zoom Time: 4-6 pm IST/12:30 pm – 2:30 pm CET 25 January 2023 Colloquium for Fellows: Vinzenz Hediger (TM7 Fellow) Project Title: Configuring the Demos: Cinema, Democracy, and the “New World Order of Cultural Production” Discussant: Ravi Sundaram (TM7) Hybrid: CSDS & Online via Zoom Time: 4-6 pm IST/12:30 pm – 2:30 pm CET 12 January 2023 Colloquium for Fellows: Martin Geyer (TM3 Fellow) Project Title: States of Exception and States of Emergency: What We Can Learn from German History Discussant: Amit Prakash (JNU) Hybrid: CSDS & Online via Zoom Time: 4-6 pm IST/12:30 pm – 2:30 pm CET 5-7 January 2023 TM7 Workshop on ‘Media aesthetics/political aesthetics’ Kochi, Kerala 2022 14 December 2022 Discussion on Sage series volume ‘Media and the Constitution of the Political‘ edited by Ravi Vasudevan 5 December 2022 Colloquium for Fellows: Arunima Deka (TM6 Fellow) Project Title: Land, Resource and Politics: Looking at Contemporary Northeast India Discussant: Amal Ahmad (CeMIS, University of Göttingen) Hybrid: ICAS:MP Office & Online via Zoom Time: 4-6 pm IST/12:30 pm – 2:30 pm CET 1 December 2022 Colloquium for Fellows: Anne-Kathrin Will (TM4 Fellow) Project Title: Census categories at the intersection of normative order, representation and anti‐discrimination Discussant: Vidhu Verma (TM4) Hybrid: ICAS:MP Office & Online via Zoom Time: 4-6 pm IST/12:30 pm – 2:30 pm CET 21 – 25 November 2022 ICAS:MP – MECAM – MWF Workshop Delhi, India 17 November 2022 Colloquium for Fellows: Pratiksha Baxi (TM3 & TM5 Fellow) Project Title: Women as Custodial Minorities: Patriarchy, Prisons and the Pandemic in India Discussant: Janaki Nair (TM5) Hybrid: ICAS:MP Office & Online via Zoom Time: 4-6 pm IST/12:30 pm – 2:30 pm CET 10 November 2022 Colloquium for Fellows: Pallavi Paul (TM7 Fellow) Project Title: From Ideology to the Fragment: Documentary Reimagined Discussant: Ravi Vasudevan (TM7 & TM1) Hybrid: CSDS & Online via Zoom Time: 4-6 pm IST/12:30 pm – 2:30 pm CET 18 October 2022 Colloquium for Fellows: Urmila Goel (TM5 Fellow) Project Title: Care, Migration, Gender. An analysis of the nurse recruitment from Kerala to West Germany and its consequences Discussant: Dr Maya John (Jesus & Mary College, Delhi University) Hybrid: CSDS & Online via Zoom Time: 4-6 pm IST/12:30 pm – 2:30 pm CET 11 October 2022 Colloquium for Fellows: Roujin Zhang (TM6 Fellow) Project Title: Risk Aversion, Behaviors and Well-Being of the Rural Households: Evidence and Political Implications from India Discussant: Dr Liza von Grafenstein (former ICAS:MP fellow/IDinsight) Hybrid: CSDS & Online via Zoom Time: 4-6 pm IST/12:30 pm – 2:30 pm CET 23 – 24 September 2022 Cross Modular Conference (CMC) on The Social and Political Life of Experience-Near Concepts  22 September 2022 Fellows’ Introductory Presentations 21 September 2022 TM 5 Module Meeting 21 September 2022 Joint Committee Meeting 20 September 2022 TM 4 Module Meeting 20 September 2022 TM 7 Module Meeting 20 – 22 September 2022 TM4 Workshop on De-growth 15 September 2022 Launch of Cambridge University Press (CUP) book by Sushmita Pati  19 – 28 September 2022 ICAS:MP Week 6 – 8 September 2022 Resilient Societies- Early Career Research Symposium for the Humanities and Social Sciences 2022 8 September 2022 Societal Transformations for a Resilient Future 26 July 2022 Book discussion of ICAS:MP’s SAGE Publication book: Wage Earners in India 1500–1900 4 July 2022 ‘Feminism and the Law: An Argument out of India’ 24 June 2022 TM 7 workshop: Media and the Political 23 – 24 June 2022 TM 6  Workshop: Green Finance and the Global South – Money and Nature 16-18 June 2022 TM 2: The Time and Space of Railways: Markets, Work, and Circulation in South Asia- An international workshop in honour of Ian J. Kerr 6-8 June 2022 TM4 Workshop: Born Again Selves: New Religious Movements and the Norms of Belief Augustinerkloster Erfurt, Germany 26 – 29 April 2022  TM1 & TM4 Workshop on The idea of Heresy 4 – 5 April 2022 Merian Centre Meeting and international conference on Decolonizing Methodologies 29 March 2022 Colloquium for Fellows: Supriya RoyChowdhury (TM3 Fellow) Project Title: Democracy and Debates: Urban Poor Housing Movements in India Hybrid: CSDS & Online via Zoom 28 March 2022 Book Launch and Film Screening by Anandita Bajpai 22 March 2022 Colloquium for Fellows: Megnaa Mehtta (TM4 Fellow) Project Title: Reconceiving Forest Sovereignty: The ontological fault lines between forests rights and forest deities in the Sundarbans of India Discussant: Antje Linkenbach (TM4) Hybrid: CSDS & Online via Zoom 21 March 2022 Book Launch of Cambridge University Press (CUP) book by Shail Mayaram  9 March 2022 Colloquium for Fellows: Maria Framke (TM5 Fellow) Project Title: Hidden histories: Women’s role in rural development programmes in India, c. 1920–1966 Discussant: Janaki Nair (TM5) Hybrid: CSDS & Online via Zoom 24 February – 6 March 2022 ICAS:MP Week 3 March 2022 Special Lecture/Colloquium for Fellows: Peter Gottschalk (TM4 Fellow) Sharing Feelings: Affective Portrayls of Hindus and Muslims in British and American Newspapers from 1852  to 1865 Discussant: Rajeev Bhargava (TM4) 7:30 – 9 pm IST/3 – 4:30 CET Online via Zoom 24 February 2022 ICAS:MP at Indo-German Research Day 12:30 – 6:30 pm IST For more info click here 15 February 2022 Colloquium for Fellows: Julia Hauser (TM5 Fellow) Project Title: Mirra Alfassa: The Global Life of a Female Guru  Discussant: Jörg Gengnagel (TM5) Hybrid:  Online via Zoom 7 February 2022 Joint Committee Meeting 24 January 2022  Colloquium for Fellows: Holger Strulik (TM6 Fellow) Project Title: Physiological Aging and Life-Cycle Labor Supply across the World Discussant: Jesus Crespo Cuaresma (Institute of Macroeconomics, Vienna) Online via Zoom 11 January 2022 Colloquium for Fellows: Jana Tschurenev (TM5 Fellow) Project Title: Shared and Equal Parenting: Historical, Transregional, and Comparative Perspectives Discussant: Janaki Nair (TM5) Online via Zoom 2021 7 December 2021 Colloquium for Fellows: Ramnath Bhat (TM7 Fellow) Project Title: Communicative infrastructure and constitution of the political in Chhattisgarh, India Discussant: Lotte Hoek (TM7) Hybrid: CSDS & Online via Zoom 1 – 2 December 2021 TM5 Workshop on  Listen to the Global South! Uncovering the Roles of Southern Actors in Writing Global Gender Norms Online 23 November 2021 Colloquium for Fellows: Prem Poddar (TM1 Fellow) Project Title: China in India: Himalayan Kalimpong Discussant: Indra Sengupta (TM1) Hybrid: CSDS & Online via Zoom 22 November 2021 Virtual Book Launch (ICAS:MP Sage Series): ‘Indian Debates on the International Left: Selected Writings of Lajpat Rai’ 3 pm GMT/ 8:30 IST Online 11 – 16 November 2021 TM2 Workshop: Mapping Lives of Labour   Workshop Organisers: TM2 (Chitra Joshi, Prabhu Mohapatra and Rana Behal) in collaboration with the Association of Indian Labour Historians (AILH) and V.V. Giri National Labour Institute Programme Online 10 November 2021 Colloquium for Fellows: Gayatri Rathore (TM2 Fellow) Project Title: State, Labour and Sanitation: Making and Unmaking of Sanitation Worker Discussant: Rana Behal (TM2) Hybrid: CSDS & Online via Zoom 8 – 9 November 2021 Network Meeting: Merian Centres 27 October 2021 International Advisory Board (IAB) Meeting 18-20 October 2021 TM1 Workshop: History from below: Historiography between populism and democratisation Bad Homburg, Germany 5 October 2021 1pm – 2:30pm Fellows’ Cohort 2021-2022: Introductory Presentations 4 – 6 October 2021 3pm IST onwards on 4 and 5 October and 5pm IST onwards on 6 October TM4 Workshop on De-growth or Reinventing Life: Prospects and Projects 28 September – 1 October 2021 Cross-Modular Conference on The Social and Political Life of Experience-Near Concepts 28 September 2021 Module Coordinator Meeting 27 September 2021 Joint Committee Meeting 27 September – 6 October 2021 ICAS:MP Week 2 September 2021 Publication Meeting and Dinner Reception with Fellows CSDS, Delhi 19 July 2021 Cross-Modular Conference: Preliminary Meeting Concept Note Online via Zoom (2 – 5 pm/ 10:30 am – 1:30 pm CET) 22-24 June 2021 Fellows’ Presentations Venue: Online via Zoom 17 June 2021 Colloquium for Fellows Heena (TM5 Fellow) The Working Women in Pre-Colonial Awadh (1750s–1850s) Discussant: Samita Sen (TM5 Module Member) Venue: Online via Zoom 10 June 2021 Colloquium for Fellows Aheli Chowdhury (TM3 Fellow) Transforming Democracy: Sociological Study of Contemporary Student Movements in India and its Interaction with Media Discussant: Ritajyoti Bandyopadhyay (TM3 Module Member) Online via Zoom (3pm – 5pm IST/11:30 am -1:30 pm CET) 3 June 2021 Colloquium for Fellows Rashmi Singh (TM3 Fellow) Satta and Sangathan – Political Power, Organizational Politics, and the Race for Party Tickets in the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) D iscussant: Dwaipayan Bhattacharyya (TM3 Module Member) Online via Zoom (3pm – 5pm IST/11:30 am -1:30 pm CET) 27 May 2021 Colloquium for Fellows Liza Von Grafenstein (TM6 Fellow) Urbanization – Opportunity or Challenge for Child Health in India Discussant: Malavika Subramanyam (TM6 Module Coordinator) Online via Zoom (3pm – 5pm IST/11:30 am -1:30 pm CET) 22 April 2021 Colloquium for Fellows Anuj Bhuwania (TM3 & TM4 Fellow) Transformative Constitutionalism and Authoritarian Populism in India: The 42nd Constitutional Amendment of 1976 Discussant: Rajeev Bhargava (TM4 Module Coordinator) Online via Zoom (3pm – 5pm IST/11:30 am -1:30 pm CET) 15 April 2021 Colloquium for Fellows Shireen Mirza (TM2 Fellow) Caste and Urban Infrastructure: Waste-work and animal slaughter on the margins of Mumbai Discussant: Awadhendra Sharan (TM2 Module Member) Online via Zoom (3pm – 5pm IST/11:30 am -1:30 pm CET) 9-10 April 2021 Workshop: Querying Childhood: Feminist Reframings  Workshop Organisers: TM5 (Janaki Nair, Mary E John, Barbara Lotz and Elisabeth Schömbucher) Online via Zoom Programme 25 March 2021 Colloquium for Fellows Kena Wani (TM3 Fellow) Broadcasting (rural) Development: Big Science, Televisual Pedagogy and Techno-Managerialism in Western India, 1960s-1970s. Discussant: Amita Baviskar (TM3 Module Coordinator) Venue: Seminar Room, CSDS (3pm – 5pm IST/10:30 am -12:30 pm CET) 15-24 March 2021 Virtual Spring School on Thinking the Political Programme 11 March 2021 Colloquium for Fellows Prabhat Kumar (TM1 Fellow) Republican Pasts and Socialist Futures: Socialist Reconfigurations of Indian Past in Hindi Literary Sphere Discussant: Ravikant (TM1 Module Member) Venue: Seminar Room, CSDS (3pm – 5pm IST/10:30 am -12:30 pm CET) 8-9 March 2021 Fellows’ Presentations Venue: Online 4 March 2021 Colloquium for Fellows Prathama Banerjee (TM1 Fellow) History of Religion’ as Political Critique: Ambedkar and his Contemporaries Chair: Shail Mayaram (TM1 Module Coordinator) Venue: Seminar Room, CSDS (3pm – 5pm IST/10:30 am -12:30 pm CET) 3 March 2021 Joint Committee Meeting Online; 1:30-5:30 pm IST, 9:00 am to 1 pm CET 24 February 2021 Module Coordinator Meeting Online; 2:30-4:30 pm IST/ 10 am to 12 pm CET 24 February – 4 March 2021 ICAS:MP Spring Event Week 2021 16 February 2021 Colloquium for Fellows Deepa Das Acevedo (TM3 Fellow) The Battle for Sabarimala Discussant: Rupa Viswanath (TM3 Module Coordinator) Venue: Online (6:30 pm onwards) 10 February 2021 Joint Committee Meeting 8 February 2021 ICAS:MP Dialogue with Charles Taylor, Hartmut Rosa and Rajeev Bhargava Deep Diversity in Politics, Religion and Selfhood – And A Shared Sense of Belonging 7:30 pm – 9 pm (IST)/ 3 pm – 4:30 pm (CET)/ 9 am – 10:30 am (ET) Online via Zoom 4 February 2021 Colloquium for Fellows Reading Session: Prathama Banerjee’s (TM1 Fellow) latest book Elementary Aspects of the Political: Histories from the Global South Venue: Seminar Room, CSDS (3pm – 5pm) 14 January 2021 Colloquium for Fellows Introduction of Fellows and their research projects to ICAS:MP directors and members Venue: Seminar Room, CSDS (3pm – 5pm) 13 January 2021 Joint Committee Meeting Online via cisco webex (4:30pm – 6:30pm) 7 January 2021 Colloquium for Fellows Introduction to research at ICAS:MP by Laila Abu-Er-Rub Online via cisco webex (3pm – 5pm) 23 November 2020 Online DWIH Science Lecture by Sebastian Vollmer The Impact of Nutritional Interventions on Child Health and Cognitive Development Lecture organisers: The German Centre for Research and Innovation (DWIH) New Delhi and University of Göttingen Professor Vollmer is one of the coordinators of ICAS:MP’s Thematic Module 6 – Political Economy of Growth And Distribution. Time: 5:00 PM to 6:00 PM IST (12.30 PM to 13.30 PM CET) Location: The event will be hosted online on ‘Webex’ Prior registration is mandatory. Register now 13, 14 and 20 November 2020 Workshop: Gender and Reproduction  Workshop Organisers: TM5 (Samita Sen, Michael Becker, Krishna Swamy Dara and Matthias Gsänger) Programme 20 October 2020 ICAS:MP Special Lecture by Faisal Devji (University of Oxford) The Childhood of Politics Chair and Discussant: Mary E John (Centre for Women’s Development Studies, New Delhi) Online via cisco webex at 1 pm -2:15 pm CET/ 4:30 -5:45 pm IST ICAS:MP Week Autumn 2020:  5 October – 15 October 2020 The following events have taken place virtually during the ICAS:MP autumn event week 2020: 6 October 2020  ICAS:MP Joint Committee Meeting 4pm – 7:30pm (IST) via Starleaf 9 October 2020  ICAS:MP Module Coordinator Committee Meeting 2pm – 4:30pm (IST) via Starleaf 19 June 2020 International Advisory Board (IAB) Meeting Venue: via Starleaf 28 May 2020 Virtual Colloquium by Jean-Philippe Dedieu (TM1 Fellow): ‘Afro-Asian’: The Indian Uses of an Intellectual and Political Category in Times of African Decolonization, 1947-1962 Venue: via Starleaf 6 to 8 May 2020 (CANCELLED due to COVID-19) Workshop: New Religious Movements (India and beyond) Workshop Organisers: TM4 (Sanjay Srivastava, Martin Fuchs, Rajeev Bhargava) Venue: TBC, Erfurt 17 to 18 March 2020 (CANCELLED due to COVID-19) Workshop: Gender and Reproduction  Workshop Organisers: TM5 (Samita Sen, Michael Becker, Krishna Swamy Dara and Matthias Gsänger) Venue: Seminar Room, CSDS 20 to 21 March 2020 (CANCELLED due to COVID-19) Workshop: Querying Childhood: Feminist Reframings  Workshop Organisers: TM5 (Janaki Nair, Barbara Lotz and Elisabeth Schömbucher) Venue: Seminar Room, CSDS 12 to 14 March 2020 (CANCELLED due to COVID-19) Workshop: Mapping Lives of Labour   Workshop Organisers: TM2 (Chitra Joshi, Prabhu Mohapatra and Rana Behal) in collaboration with the Association of Indian Labour Historians (AILH) and the V.V Giri National Labour Institute (VVGNLI) Venue: V.V. Giri National Labour Institute, NOIDA, India 24 February – 5 March 2020 The following events have taken place during the ICAS:MP spring event week 2020: 25 February 2020  Presentation of Fellows Cohort 2019-2020 (9.30 am – 6.30 pm) Programme Venue: Seminar Room, CSDS 26 February 2020 Colloquium by Margrit Pernau Feeling the Future Venue: ICAS:MP office (11 am – 1 pm) 27 February 2020  ICAS:MP Joint Committee Meeting (10 am – 5 pm) Venue: ICAS:MP Office 28 February 2020  ICAS:MP Module Coordinator Committee Meeting (2 pm – 5 pm) Venue: ICAS:MP Office 28 February 2020  TM2 Module Meeting Venue: ICAS:MP Office 2 March 2020 TM1 Module Meeting (10 am – 1 pm) Venue: ICAS:MP Office 2 March 2020 Knowledge Exchange Event Merian Centres (Brazil, Ghana, Mexico, India): Horizons of knowledge regarding the political. A discussion on past perspectives and future prospects (2 pm – 6.30 pm) Venue: Lecture Room 2, IIC Annexe, Delhi Programme 3 to 4 March 2020 Workshop: New Roles of professional historians in politics and new forms of public use of history Workshop Organisers: TM1 (Lutz Raphael and Berber Bevernage) Venue: Seminar Room, CSDS Programme 13 February 2020 CSD’s Social Development Forum – A talk by Martin Fuchs on Ambedkar’s Theory of the Social: The Universal Condition of Recognition Chair and Discussant: K B Saxena (Council for Social Development [CSD], Delhi) Venue: Durgabai Deshmukh Memorial Lecture Hall, CSD, Delhi (3 pm – 4:30 pm) 6 February 2020 ICAS:MP-CSDS Lecture Shirin M. Rai (TM5 Fellow): The Politics of Lament Chair and Discussant: Ravikant (Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi) Venue: Seminar Room, CSDS (5 pm onwards) 27 January 2020  MWS IBO and ICAS:MP Joint Colloquium for Fellows with Sebastian Conrad Venue: ICAS:MP office (11 am – 1 pm) 21 January 2020 Colloquium for Fellows Shirin M. Rai (TM5 Fellow): Depletion: the human cost of caring Sujoy Dutta (TM6 Fellow): Does Better Information Lead to Lower Corruption? Evidence from Uttar Pradesh, India Venue: ICAS:MP office (11:30 am – 3:30 pm) 3 December 2019 Colloquium for Fellows Sushmita Pati (TM3 Fellow): Between ‘Ownership’ and ‘Belongingness’: Uneven Terrains of Capital and Community Relationships in Urban Delhi Venue: ICAS:MP office (11am-1pm) 2 December 2019 ICAS:MP Special Lecture by Raka Ray (University of California, Berkeley) Resentment and Revenge: Internal Colonialism, the Decline of Fordism and the Trump Vote Chair and Discussant: Ravi Vasudevan (Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi) Venue: CSDS, Seminar Room (4:30 pm – 7 pm) 29 to 30 November 2019 Workshop: Youth Politics and Projects of Self-Making in the Global South Workshop Organisers: Amita Baviskar (TM3) and Raka Ray (UC Berkeley) in collaboration with Centre de Sciences Humaines, New Delhi (CSH) and Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung (RLS) South Asia Programme Venue: IEG, Delhi 20 to 22 November 2019 Workshop: Formalisation, Informalisation and the Labour Process: Comparative Perspectives (Call for Papers) Workshop Organisers: TM2 Venue: CeMIS, University of Göttingen 25 November 2019 Colloquium for Fellows with Professor Ute Frevert (Max-Planck-Institute for Human Development, Berlin) on The Politics of Humiliation: Historical Trajectories Venue: ICAS:MP office (11am-1pm) 19 November 2019 Colloquium for Fellows Anindita Chatterjee (TM5 Fellow): Uneasy Coexistence: Religion and Patterns of Exclusion of Migrant Female Domestic Workers in Homes and Public Spaces Venue: ICAS:MP office (11am-1pm) 5 November 2019 Colloquium for Fellows Ravi Shankar Jayaram (TM2 Fellow): Municipal Hindu nationalism: Lower caste middle-class participation in urban political processes in UP Venue: ICAS:MP office (11am-1pm) 22 October 2019 Colloquium for Fellows Arnaud Kaba (TM2 Fellow): Of glass, skills and life: representations of work and popular urban cultures among Firozabad’s glass workers  Venue: ICAS:MP office (11am-1pm) 9 to 11 October 2019 Workshop: Collecting, Classifying, (Re)presenting: Archives, Museums, Textbooks and the Politics of the Past (Call for Papers) Workshop Organisers: TM1 (Martin Baumeister and Riem Spielhaus) Venue: German Historical Institute, Rome Programme Report 10 October 2019 Colloquium for Fellows Amrita Dhillon (TM6 Fellow): Inclusive growth: Empowering women in India’s growth trajectory Venue: ICAS:MP office (11am-1pm) 18 to 28 September 2019 The following events have taken place during the upcoming ICAS:MP autumn event week 2019: 18 September 2019 ICAS:MP Editorial Committee Meeting (10:30 am – 1 pm) Venue: ICAS:MP office 19 September 2019 ICAS:MP TM3 Film Screening “Recasting Selves” (6:30 pm onwards) Urban Lens Film Festival, Bangalore Venue: Goethe-Institut/Max Müller Bhavan, Bangalore 20 September 2019 TM2 Module Meeting (11 am – 1 pm) Venue: ICAS:MP office 23 September 2019 ICAS:MP Joint Committee Meeting (11 am – 4 pm) Venue: CSDS, Seminar Room 23 September 2019 ICAS:MP Special Lecture by Niraja Gopal Jayal (Jawaharlal Nehru University) Metaphors and Metamorphoses: Interpreting the Present Discontents of Democracy Chair: Kalpana Kannabiran (Council for Social Development, Hyderabad) Venue: CSDS, Seminar Room (6 pm – 8 pm) 24 September 2019 TM4 Module Meeting (10 am – 1 pm) Venue: ICAS:MP office 24 September 2019 ICAS:MP Module Coordinator Meeting (3 pm – 5 pm) Venue: ICAS:MP office 25 September 2019 Book Launch (11 am – 11:45 am): Sunkari Satyam’s (TM4 Fellow) ‘Tribals and Democratic Politics’ with Ashok Pankaj (Director CSD) 10 September 2019 Colloquium for Fellows (11 am – 1 pm) Venue: ICAS:MP office 8 to 9 July 2019 Workshop: Life, Labour and Infrastructures: Indian Cities in Historical Perspective Workshop Organisers: TM3 (Ritajyoti Bandyopadhyay) Venue: CeMIS, University of Göttingen 28 to 29 June 2019 Workshop: Media and the Constitution of the Political Workshop Organisers: TM7 (Srirupa Roy and Ravi Vasudevan) Venue: German Historical Institute, London 13 to 14 June 2019 Workshop: Gender and Reproduction Workshop Organisers: TM5 (Michael Becker, Matthias Gsänger and Samita Sen) Venue: Burkardushaus, Würzburg 6 April 2019 Colloquium for ICAS:MP Fellows ‘Caste-Occupation Nexus in Colonial India’ with Rachna Singh (University of Delhi) and Neha Chatterji (Manipal Centre for Humanities) Organisers: Tanika Sarkar (TM1 Fellow), Jan Lucassen (TM2 Fellow) 10:00 am to 2:00 pm Venue: ICAS:MP office 2 to 3 April 2019 Intermodular Workshop: Wages, wage payments and small change in India 1300-1875 Workshop Organisers: Jan Lucassen (TM 2 Fellow), Najaf Haider (JNU) Venue: ICAS:MP office 30 to 31 March 2019 Writing Workshop: Taking ‘skill’ seriously: Towards a history of occupational training in modern India Workshop Organisers: Public Policy and Management Group, IIM Calcutta; with support of TM 2 Venue: IIM Kolkata 28 March 2019 Colloquium for ICAS:MP Fellows with Nasreen Chowdhory (University of Delhi) 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm Venue: ICAS:MP office 12 March 2019 Colloquium for ICAS:MP Fellows with Mary E John (Centre for Women’s Development Studies) on Sexual Violence as a Touchstone of the Present 11:00 am to 1:00 pm Venue: ICAS:MP office 24 February to 3 March 2019 The following events were held during the ICAS spring event week 2019: 24-25 February 2019: Workshop: Lectures of all ICAS Fellows Venue: ICAS office 26 February 2019: ICAS:MP Joint Committee Meeting (11 am – 2 pm) ICAS:MP Module Coordinator Meeting (3 pm – 5 pm) Venue: ICAS:MP office 27 February 2019: Meeting of the ICAS:MP International Advisory Board (1 to 5 pm) Venue: CSDS Meeting Room (1st floor) 27 February 2019: Module Meeting TM 5 (11 am to 1 pm) Venue: CSDS Lounge 27 February 2019: Annual Lecture by Prasenjit Duara (Duke University) Revisiting the Chinese World Order: Soft Power or the Imperialism of Nation-states Venue: CSDS, Seminar Room, 6 pm to 8 pm. 27 February to 1 March 2019: Workshop on ‘Deep Diversity’ Workshop Organisers: TM 4 (Rajeev Bhargava & Hartmut Rosa) Venue: CSDS, Seminar Room 28 February 2019: Intermodular Workshop organised by Dorothee Wierling (TM 2) Venue: IEG, A.M. Khusro Room 28 February 2019: Module Meeting TM 2 Venue: IEG, A.M. Khusro Room 2 March 2019: Module Meeting TM 4 Venue: ICAS:MP office 12 February 2019 Colloquium for ICAS:MP Fellows with Manash Firaq Bhattarcharjee 11 am to 2 pm Venue: ICAS:MP office 5 February 2019 Colloquium for ICAS:MP Fellows 11 am to 2 pm Venue: ICAS:MP office 22 January 2019 Colloquium for ICAS:MP Fellows Guest: Niraja Gopa Jayal (TM3, JNU) on ‘Metamorphoses of the Political’ 11 am to 2 pm Venue: ICAS:MP office 17 to 18 January 2019 Workshop ‘Understanding New Nationalisms’ (in collaboration with Thomas Blom Hansen, Stanford) Conference Organisers: TM 3, Srirupa Roy & Lalit Vachani Venue: CeMIS Göttingen 8 January 2019 Colloquium for ICAS:MP Fellows Introduction of new Fellows 11 am to 2 pm Venue: ICAS:MP office 5 December 2018 Meeting ICAS:MP Fellows (Open Session) 1 pm to 2 pm Venue: ICAS:MP office 27 November 2018 Colloquium for ICAS:MP Fellows (Open Session organised by Fellows) 11 am to 2 pm Venue: ICAS:MP office 26 to 27 November 2018 Workshop ‘Fintech & Financial Regulation’ – Issues and Perspectives Conference Organisers: TM 6, Oliver Kessler in collaboration with New Development Bank and CAFRAL Venue: Mumbai 20 to 21 November 2018 Workshop ‘The Challenge of Gender’ TM 5 hosted at the Akademie Frankenwarte, Würzburg 19 November 2018 Internal Meeting TM 5 Venue: Frankenwarte Würzburg 14 to 16 November 2018 Training Meeting by TM 3 Research Group Coordinators Venue: various 13 November 2018 Colloquium for ICAS:MP Fellows 11 am to 2 pm Venue: ICAS:MP office ICAS event week Date: 3-10 October 2018 Organisers: various Location: various Twice a year, ICAS bundles its events and meetings of module members in the autumn and in the spring. Further, the Joint Committee and the Module coordinators gather to discuss their research plans for the future. Schedule TM 1 Internal Workshop Negotiating history education in conflict and post-conflict settings Date: 9-10 October 2018 Organisers: Riem Spielhaus, Eleni Christodoulou, Indra Sengupta Location: CSDS New Delhi Inaugural Meeting ICAS Populism and the Shifting Coordinates of the Political Date: March 14/16, 2018 Location: IIC, New Delhi TM 1 Internal Meeting Selling history: tourist guides, bazaar histories, and the politics of the past. Some preliminary reflections Date: March 17, 2018 Location: IIC, Delhi TM 4 Internal Meeting Limited Success of Egalitarian Programmes Date: March 19/20, 2018 Location: Council for Social Development, Hyderabad TM 5 Internal Meeting Gender, Civil Society, and the Role of the State Date: March 19/20, 2018 Location: CSDS, Delhi TM 2 Internal Meeting (TBC) Extended Archives of Indian Labour Date: March 29 2018 Location: V.V. Giri National Labour Institute, Noida (TBC)