Activities

SOITS Seminars, 2015-16

Debal K. SinghaRoy: Knowledge Society in India, 30 July 2015

Sunita Dhal: Food Security and Initiatives of Women Collectives: : An Ethnographic
Study of the Tribal Community, Kandhamal, Odisha, 20 August 2015
Nilika Mehrotra: The Question of Marginality and Sustainability in Development Policy
and Disability Rights Debates in India, 28th September 2015
Padmini Swaminathan: Formal Creation of Informality: Illustrations from Indias Social
Sector, 15th October 2015
Panel Discussion on Revisiting Access, Quality and Equity: Reflections on Educational
Policy in India ( Panelists: Parvin Sinclair, N.K. Dash, Swaraj Basu, Anu Aneja),
23rd November 2015
Kaustuva Barik : Road Rationing in Delhi: Policy Alternatives, 20th January 2016
Swaraj Basu: Readings on Dalit Identity: History, Literature and Religion (Orient Black
Swan, 2016), 11th February 2016 (Book Discussion)

Earlier SOITS Seminars

Vincent Mosco: Knowledge Workers in the Information Society, 9 July 2009

T.S. Papola: Importance of Labour and Development Studies, 10 September 2009
S. Anand: An Ambedkarite Approach to Caste, Class and Labour, 28 January, 2010.
A. K Ramakrishanan: Feminisms in the Muslim World", 17February, 2010
Saurabh Dube: Historical Anthropology and Cultural Identity, 26February, 2010
Panel Discussion : Cultural Contributions of Indian Diaspora, 18 March 2010
(Panelists: Ravindra K. Jain, J.C. Sharma, Paramjit S. Sahai, Ajay Dubey, Aparajita
Biswas).
Alakh Sharma: Changing Scenario of Labour and Employment in India, 18 August
2010
G. Aloysius: Nation and its Priorities 27 August, 2010.
Rowena Robinson: On Studying Christianity in the Sociology of India 1September,
2010.
K.P. Kannan: The Challenge of Inclusive Development in India: A Labourist
Perspective, 16 September 2010
Padmini Swaminathan: Employment and Maternity Protection: Understanding Poor
Coverage of Beneficial Legislation through Content Analysis of Some Judgments, 24th
September 2010
Pierre Gottschlich: Tracing the Indian Diaspora in Germany: A Historical and
Comparative Analysis, 21 October, 2010
Salil Misra: Predicaments on Nationalism Today, 25 November, 2010
Screeening of Documentary Film & Discussion , Delhi Bound for Work by Reena
Kukreja , 3 December 2010

Sudha Vasan: The Social Life of Law: The Forest Rights Act, 2006 3 February, 2011
Jan Breman: Circulation and Informalisation of the Workforce, 17 February 2011
National Seminar on Caste, Democratic Politics and Nation Building: Historical and
Contemporary India" 10-11 March, 2011
Velayutham Saravanan: Colonialism and Environment in India, 18 April, 2011.
Piyasiri Wickramasekara: International labour migration and globalization: Issues,
challenges and ILO perspective, 21 July 2011
Prabhu Mohapatra: Labour in Times of Crisis , 18 August 2011
Avijit Pathak: Modernity and the Religious Question, 26 August, 2011.
Vijay Baskar: Labour in Garment and Knitwear Industries, 30 August 2011
International Conference on Diaspora and Development: Prospects and Implications for
Nation States, 7-8 September 2011. Jointly organized with School of Extension and
Development Studies, IGNOU
Narasimha Reddy: Understanding Economic and Human Development (Two talks) 14
and 15 September 2011
Niranjan Rao: An Economic Analysis of the Indian Patent System, 23 September, 2011
Babu P. Remesh: Migration from North-East to Urban Centres: A Study of Delhi
Region, 30 September, 2011
Rizwan Qaisar: One Community, Two Nations: Indian Muslims in the 1940s,
18October, 2011
Manjeet Baruah: "Doing Borderland Studies with Cultural Data: The Brahmaputra
Valley", 13 September 2012.
Swaraj Basu: Indias Struggle for Freedom and Dalit Intelligentsia, 18October 2012.
Sasanka Perera: Art and Social Transformation in South Asia, 22 November 2012.
Margaret Walton-Roberts: Multiple Citizenships and Slippery Statecraft, 14 February
2013.
Screening of Documentary and Discussion: Tied in a Knot: Cross Region Marriages in
Haryana and Rajasthan by Reena Kukreja , 21 March 2013.
Young Researchers Seminar Interdisciplinary Inquiry into the Contemporary Issues, 1
& 2 April, 2013.
Ravindra Kumar, Interdisciplinary Studies: A Historians Perspective - 30 August 2013