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Interdisciplinarity in environmental research: Insights from 25 years of crossing boundaries
Venue: Centre for Contemporary Studies, IISC Speaker: Sharachchandra Lele
Course 1003: Reframing the Debate on ‘the Political’ (in the wake of the Financial Crisis)
Course Instructor: Swagato Sarkar/Session 1
Talk by Akshay Khanna
A State of Arousal: Eroticism and Violence in the making of Homophobia
Production of Knowledge in the Natural and Social Sciences
Inaugural session and introductory module: Prof. Tejaswini Niranjana (CSCS) and Prof. Sanil V (IIT Delhi)
Course 1001: The Knowledge Society: Limits and Possibilities
Course Instructors: CSCS faculty, anchored by Dr. Sitharamam Kakarala/ Session 1
NIAS Graduate Seminar with Dr. Vinay Gidwani: Class 1
The Origins of Modernity
Course 1003: Reframing the Debate on ‘the Political’ (in the wake of the Financial Crisis)
Course Instructor: Swagato Sarkar/Session 2
Workshop on Introduction to History and Philosophy of Science
Integrated Science Education Initiative of the HE Cell in collaboration with IISER-Pune presents a three day workshop on Introduction to History and Philosophy of Science, a Second Year UG course for students of IISER-Pune. Instructor: K. Subramaniam
NIAS Graduate Seminar with Dr. Vinay Gidwani: Class 2
Development
NIAS Graduate Seminar with Dr. Vinay Gidwani: Class 3
Late Capitalism
Seminar on the Anthropology of Contemporary Capitalism
Session 1
Course 1001: The Knowledge Society: Limits and Possibilities
Course Instructors: CSCS faculty, anchored by Dr. Sitharamam Kakarala/ Session 2
Workshop on 'Psychobiography as Methodology' ([email protected] in collaboration with School of Human Studies, AUD)
Coordinators: P.Radhika/Asha Achuthan/Ranjita Biswas/Anup Dhar Venue: School of Human Studies, Ambedkar University, Delhi (as part of ICSSR project on The Experience of Gendered Violence: Developing Psychobiographies)
Ashish Rajadhyaksha
Work-in-Progress
Course 1003: Reframing the Debate on ‘the Political’ (in the wake of the Financial Crisis)
Course Instructor: Swagato Sarkar/Session 3
Workshop
Higher Education Cell/Venue: IISc
Course 1001: The Knowledge Society: Limits and Possibilities
Course Instructors: CSCS faculty, anchored by Dr. Sitharamam Kakarala/ Session 3
Tejaswini Niranjana
Work-in-Progress
Course 1003: Reframing the Debate on ‘the Political’ (in the wake of the Financial Crisis)
Course Instructor: Swagato Sarkar/Session 4
Talk by Rounaq Jahan
Challenges of Democratic Consolidation in Bangladesh
Presentation by CCS/CSCS Library Fellows
Venue: CCS
Course 1002: Personal Identification, Appearance and Politics
Course Instructor: Sruti Chaganti/Session 1
Workshop on Gender and Religion
Promoting Pluralism project of the Law, Society and Culture Programme
Course 1001: The Knowledge Society: Limits and Possibilities
Course Instructors: CSCS faculty, anchored by Dr. Sitharamam Kakarala/ Session 4
Fellowships at CSCS
The CSCS Fellowships Programme began in 2002 to make its substantial library and faculty resources available to a range of researchers outside the institution.
Visiting Fellows
CSCS provides affiliation to Indian and international researchers for varying periods of time. In addition CSCS also invites academics to interact with faculty and students and to present their work at the Centre.
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Current State: Published
Mobilizing India: Women, Music, and Migration between India and Trinidad
by Tejaswini Niranjana. Durham: Duke University Press, 2006.
Descendants of indentured laborers brought from India to the Caribbean between 1845 and 1917 comprise more than forty percent of Trinidad’s population today. While many Indo-Trinidadians identify themselves as Indian, what “Indian” signifies—about nationalism, gender, culture, caste, race, and religion—in the Caribbean is different from what it means on the subcontinent. Yet the ways that “Indianness” is conceived of and performed in India and in Trinidad have historically been, and remain, intimately related. Offering an innovative analysis of how ideas of Indian identity negotiated within the Indian diaspora in Trinidad affect cultural identities “back home,” Tejaswini Niranjana models a necessary project: comparative research across the global South, scholarship that decenters the “first world” West as the referent against which postcolonial subjects understand themselves and are understood by others.
Niranjana draws on nineteenth-century travel narratives, anthropological and historical studies of Trinidad, Hindi film music, and the lyrics, performance, and reception of chutney-soca and calypso songs to argue that perceptions of Indian female sexuality in Trinidad have long been central to the formation and disruption of dominant narratives of nationhood, modernity, and normative sexuality in India. She illuminates debates in India about “the woman question” as they played out in the early-twentieth-century campaign against indentured servitude in the tropics. In so doing, she reveals India’s disavowal of the indentured woman—viewed as morally depraved by her forced labor in Trinidad—as central to its own anticolonial struggle. Turning to the present, Niranjana looks to Trinidad’s most dynamic site of cultural negotiation: popular music. She describes how contested ideas of Indian femininity are staged by contemporary Trinidadian musicians—male and female, of both Indian and African descent—in genres ranging from new hybrids like chutney-soca to the older but still vibrant music of Afro-Caribbean calypso.
http://mobilizing-india.cscsarchive.org/
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