2025
14 March 2025
Keynote Lecture by Rosie Bsheer (Harvard University): The Archive: From the Ordinary to the Spectacular
12-14 March 2025
Workshop ‘Archives, Authenticity and Authorship’
Venue: German Historical Institute London
25-27 February 2025
TCG ‘Normative Conflicts and Transformations’ workshop
Urban Futures
24 February 2025
Film Screening of documentary ‘All that Breathes’ (Delhi, 2022)
Roundtable discussion with director, Shaunak Sen, protagonist Salik Rehman and discussant, Professor Veena Hariharan
24 February 2025
Joint Committee Meeting
20-21 February 2025
Workshop by Joanna Pfaff-Czarnecka
Mitigating Inequalities in Higher Education: Trajectories, Constellations and Aspirations in India and Beyond
20 February 2025
International Advisory Board Meeting
19 February 2025
Book Discussion
Querying Childhood: Feminist Reframings
Panel: Mary E John, Elisabeth Schoembucher & Barbara Lotz
18 February 2025
Fellows Introductory Presentation
Merian Centre Roundtable discussion (MIASA, MECAM and ICAS:MP)
2024
13–16 November 2024
International Symposium “Precarious Water Futures and the End(s) of World(s) – an Integrative Dialogue Across Disciplines and Societies”
Venue: Multipurpose Hall, Kamaladevi Complex, India International Centre, New Delhi (India)
13 November 2024
Fireside Chat with Experts “The Aquatic Polycrisis – Precarious Water Futures and the Ends of Worlds” With Sara Ahmed, Jörg Gengnagel, Annette Hornbacher, Rolf Scheuermann, and Anna-Maria Walter; Moderation: Suboor Bakht
Venue: Multipurpose Hall, Kamaladevi Complex, India International Centre, New Delhi (India)
11 October 2024
TCG ‘Normative Conflicts and Transformations’ Meeting
8 October 2024
ICAS:MP Public Lecture by Prathama Banerjee
8 October 2024
Joint Committee Meeting
7 October 2024
German Institutional Consortium Meeting
7 – 11 October 2024
ICAS Week
17 July 2024
Panel discussion ‘Cross-Border Mobility’
15 – 17 July 2024
Early Career Research Symposium – Cross-Border Mobility
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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
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
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.
13, 14 and 20 November 2020
Workshop: Gender and Reproduction
Workshop Organisers: TM5 (Samita Sen, Michael Becker, Krishna Swamy Dara and Matthias Gsänger)
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)
Venue: Seminar Room, CSDS
26 February 2020
Colloquium by Margrit Pernau
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
Venue: Lecture Room 2, IIC Annexe, Delhi
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
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
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)