Upcoming Events
7 January 2021
Colloquium for Fellows
Introduction to research at ICAS:MP by Laila Abu-Er-Rub
Online via cisco webex (3pm – 5pm)
13 January 2021
Joint Committee Meeting
Online via cisco webex (4:30pm – 6:30pm)
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)
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)
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
10 February 2021
Joint Committee Meeting
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)
24 February – 4 March 2021
ICAS:MP Spring Event Week 2021
24 February 2021
Module Coordinator Meeting
Online; 2:30-4:30 pm IST/ 10 am to 12 pm CET
3 March 2021
Joint Committee Meeting
Online; 1:30-5:30 pm IST, 9:00 am to 1 pm CET
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)
8-9 March 2021
Fellows’ Presentations
Venue: Online
11 March 2021
Colloquium for Fellows
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)
15-24 March 2021
Virtual Spring School on Thinking the Political
25 March 2021
Colloquium for Fellows
Pedagogies of Development, Conceptions of Efficiency: The Rural Analogues of ‘Democratic Managerialism’
Discussant: Amita Baviskar (TM3 Module Coordinator)
Venue: Seminar Room, CSDS (3pm – 5pm IST/10:30 am
-12:30 pm CET)
8 April 2021
Colloquium for Fellows (TBC)
Transforming Democracy: Sociological Study of Contemporary Student Movements in India and its Interaction with Media
Discussant: Ritajyoti Bandyopadhyay (TM3 Module Member)
Venue: Seminar Room, CSDS (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
15 April 2021
Colloquium for Fellows
Caste and Urban Infrastructure: Waste-work and animal slaughter on the margins of Mumbai
Venue: Seminar Room, CSDS (3pm – 5pm IST/11:30 am
-1:30 pm CET)
19 April 2021
Colloquium for Fellows
The Working Women in Pre-Modern India (1750s-1850s)
Venue: Seminar Room, CSDS (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
Venue: Seminar Room, CSDS (3pm – 5pm IST/11:30 am
-1:30 pm CET)
6 May 2021
Colloquium for Fellows
Satta and Sangathan – Political Power, Organizational Politics, and the Race for Party Tickets in the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)
Discussant: Dwaipayan Bhattacharya (TM3 Module Member)
Venue: Seminar Room, CSDS (3pm – 5pm IST/11:30 am
-1:30 pm CET)
20 May 2021
Colloquium for Fellows
Megnaa Mehtta (TM4 Fellow)
Rules of the Jungle: Vernacular Conceptions of the Political and Ecological in the Sundarbans Forests of West Bengal, India
Venue: Seminar Room, CSDS (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
Venue: Seminar Room, CSDS (3pm – 5pm IST/11:30 am
-1:30 pm CET)
7 June 2021
Colloquium for Fellows
Gayatri Rathore (TM2 Fellow)
State, Labour and Sanitation: Making and Unmaking of Sanitation Worker
Venue: Seminar Room, CSDS (3pm – 5pm IST/11:30 am
-1:30 pm CET)
10-11 June 2021
CMC Meeting
Online; 2pm-6:30 pm IST/ 10:30 am- 3 pm CET