The Sociological Research Colloquium (SRC) is an important institution of the Department to which scholars from other universities both in India and abroad contribute regularly. Both research students and members of the faculty are encouraged to present their research to the SRC which meets on every working Friday afternoon during the academic session. All are welcome to attend.
Latest Research Colloquiums
- FRIDAY RESEARCH COLLOQUIUM: 3:00pm 21st April 2023. Gnana Aloysius: Dimensions of caste today.
- FRIDAY RESEARCH COLLOQUIUM: 3:00pm 31st March 2023. Ratheesh Radhakrishnan: A theatre of mobility: Amateur players in Trivandrum city.
- FRIDAY RESEARCH COLLOQUIUM: 3:00pm 24th March 2023. Sumbul Farah: Mediation, materiality and meaning: Debating the authenticity of visual and sonic reproductions of the divine word.
- FRIDAY RESEARCH COLLOQUIUM: 3:00pm 17th March 2023. Mahesh Rangarajan: How the tiger became Indian: Faunal nationalism, science and society 1969-2019.
- FRIDAY RESEARCH COLLOQUIUM: 3:00pm 3rd March 2023. Vivek Kumar: How egalitarian is Indian sociology?
- FRIDAY RESEARCH COLLOQUIUM: 3:00pm 24th February 2023. Sharib Zeya: Modernities and Repertories: Social imaginaries after Ayodhya.
- FRIDAY RESEARCH COLLOQUIUM: 3:00pm 10th February 2023. Svati Shah: The quest for a fieldsite: Lessons on producing space from sexuality research in India.
- FRIDAY RESEARCH COLLOQUIUM: 3:00pm 3rd February 2023. Irfanullah Farooqui: When a poet insists he is not one: Reflections in the light of Muhammad Iqbal’s letters.
- FRIDAY RESEARCH COLLOQUIUM: 3:00pm 2nd December 2022. Anuja Agrawal: Beyond Agency vs. Victimhood: Making Sociological Sense of ‘Sex Work’.
- FRIDAY RESEARCH COLLOQUIUM: 3:00pm 25th November 2022. Aditya Bhattacharjea: Labour Market Flexibility in Indian Industry: A Sceptical View.
- FRIDAY RESEARCH COLLOQUIUM: 3:00pm 18th November 2022. N. Sukumar: Caste Discrimination in Indian Universities.
- FRIDAY RESEARCH COLLOQUIUM: 3:00pm 11th November 2022. Amita Baviskar: Living with Heat: Bodies and Persons in Urban India’s Changing Climate.
- FRIDAY RESEARCH COLLOQUIUM: 3:00pm 4th November 2022. Divya Vaid: Against the Odds: Gender and Social Mobility in Contemporary India.
- FRIDAY RESEARCH COLLOQUIUM: 3:00pm 28th October 2022. Gisèle Sapiro: Modes of Intervention of Public Intellectuals in France.
- FRIDAY RESEARCH COLLOQUIUM: 3:00pm 21st October 2022. Richa Kumar: Standardised Foods and Compromised Customers: Can the repeal of the farm laws turn the clock back?
- FRIDAY RESEARCH COLLOQUIUM: 3:00pm 14th October 2022. Poorva Rajaram: ‘Bad Lives’: A Post Office Insurance Scheme in Colonial India.
- FRIDAY RESEARCH COLLOQUIUM: 3:00pm 7th October 2022. Hilal Ahmed: Researching Muslims as a ‘Question’.
- FRIDAY RESEARCH COLLOQUIUM: 3:00pm 30th September 2022. Sevanti Ninan: Labour and the Media: Why India’s workers remain invisible.
- FRIDAY RESEARCH COLLOQUIUM: 3:00pm 23rd September 2022. Shashi Bhushan Singh: The riddles of democracy: Elections and the reproduction of dominance in a south Bihar panchayat.
- FRIDAY RESEARCH COLLOQUIUM: 3:00pm 16th September 2022. Sanjay Srivastava: The anthropologist’s stone: Mussavis, satellite mapping and the social life of digital technologies at the rural-urban frontier in Gurugram.
- FRIDAY RESEARCH COLLOQUIUM: 3:00pm 29th April 2022. Geetika Bapna: Marital Biographies of a Household: The Ethnography of a Moral Verb.
- FRIDAY RESEARCH COLLOQUIUM: 3:00pm 22nd April 2022. Supriya Singh: Domestic Economic Abuse: Money Without Morality Becomes a Medium of Abuse.
- FRIDAY RESEARCH COLLOQUIUM: 3:00pm 8th April 2022. Maya John: Law’s Labour Lost: A Short History of Labour Law in India.
- FRIDAY RESEARCH COLLOQUIUM: 3:00pm 25th March 2022. Prasenjeet Tribhuvan: Cannabis Policy in India as a Part of Social Assemblage(s).
- FRIDAY RESEARCH COLLOQUIUM: 3:00pm 11th March 2022. Dhivya Janarthanan: Space, Field and Method: Rhythmanalysis and the Anthropology of the Contemporary Indian Village.
- FRIDAY RESEARCH COLLOQUIUM: 3:00pm 4th March 2022. Amishi Panwar: Amulets as Personal Medicine? Understanding Cord Blood Storage in Chennai.
- FRIDAY RESEARCH COLLOQUIUM: 3:00pm 18th February 2022. A.R. Vasavi: The ‘Integration-Separation’ Spectrum in Rural-Agrarian India.
- FRIDAY RESEARCH COLLOQUIUM: 3:00pm 11th February 2022. Madhava Prasad: The New Indian Cinemas: Capitalism and Aesthetic Change.
- FRIDAY RESEARCH COLLOQUIUM: 3:00pm 4th February 2022. Paramjit Judge: Culture as a Flowing River: Emerging trends in Punjabi music and its cultural implications.
- FRIDAY RESEARCH COLLOQUIUM: 3:00pm 28th January 2022. Nayanika Mathur: Beastly identification: The government of big cats in the anthropocene.
- FRIDAY RESEARCH COLLOQUIUM: 3:00pm 21st January 2022. Prathama Banerjee: The political after critique.
- FRIDAY RESEARCH COLLOQUIUM: 3:00pm 14th January 2022. Janaki Abraham: ‘Sanskritisation’ as appropriation: A view from the Sree Narayana Guru movement in Kerala.
- Friday Research Colloquium: 30 April, 2021: Prof. Sujata Patel: “Colonialism and Its Knowledges”
- Friday Research Colloquium: 23 April, 2021: Prof. Prathama Banerjee: “The Political After Critique” THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED
- Friday Research Colloquium: 16 April, 2021: Prof. Meena Gopal: “From Rejecting Paternalism to Transgressing Gender: Some Thoughts on Gender and Sport”
- Friday Research Colloquium: 09 April, 2021: Dr. Amit Basole : “Covid-19 and Labour in India: Impact, Response and the Way Forward”
- Friday Research Colloquium: 19 March, 2021: Dr. Aniket Aga : “Farm Reforms As If The Agrarian Crisis Mattered”
- Friday Research Colloquium: 12 March, 2021: Dr. Suryakant Waghmore: “From Castes to Nationalist Hindus: The Making of Hinduism as a Civil Religion”
- Friday Research Colloquium: 05 March, 2021: Prof. Christophe Guilmoto: “A Demographic Analysis of Covid-19 Mortality Across the World”
- Friday Research Colloquium: 26 February, 2021: Ms. Twinkle Siwach: “First Information Report & Media: The Informational Universe of Crime and Violence”
- Friday Research Colloquium: 19 February, 2021: Prof. Sanjay Palshikar : “Demons and Demonisation: Othering in the Bhagavad Gita”
- Friday Research Colloquium : 12 February, 2021 : Dr. Shelly Pandey : “The Kabulis in Delhi City: Gender and Cultural Practices of Afghan Sikh Refugees”
- Friday Research Colloquium : 05 February, 2021. Dr. Sandeep Rai: “Aesthetics, Politics, and Culture in ‘Bidesia’ Art”
- ‘Risk, Trust, Poverty and Finance: A Colonial Vista of Pensions’ on Friday, 24th January, 2020
- ‘Skin Colour and “Colourism”: A Global View’ on Friday, 17th January, 2020
- ‘The story of India’s earliest indigenous scanning tunneling microscopes (STMs) and what lab studies can tell us about S&T policy making in India’ on Friday, 10th January, 2020
- ‘Transforming the Subjective and the Objective: The Calling of Transpositional Subject Objectivity’ on Friday, 22nd November, 2019
- ‘Various Shades of Sociology: A Rationale for Dalit Perspective’ on Friday, 01st November, 2019
- ‘Narrow Fairways: Getting By & Falling Behind in the New India’ on Friday, 25th October, 2019
- ‘Housing and Labour relations in Rural Rajasthan: A Village-level Case Study’ on Friday, 18th October, 2019
- ‘Subaltern, Religion and the State: The Making of a Dalit Community in Postcolonial Odisha’ on Friday, 27th September, 2019
- ‘Anti-Semitism, the Contemporary Left and the Temptation of the Conspiracy Fantasy’ on Friday, 20th September, 2019
- Myths, and the Visual Imagination: The ‘Duplicitous Maiden’ as a Narrative Theme in Gond Art by Prof. Roma Chatterji on 13th September, 2019 (Research Colloquium)
- ‘Disciples of the Word’ by Savyasaachi
- ‘Imagery as Discourse: Locating Developmentalism in Indian Currency and Coinage and its Contestations’ by Amit Prakash
- ‘Go-Betweens in the Social Sciences, Humanities, and Science Studies’ by Kapil Raj
- ‘Bollywood’s Law: Cinema, Justice and the Gujarat 2002 Mass Violence’ by Dr. Oishik Sircar
- ‘Petitioners from the Meanest Cast: Petitions and the Early Colonial City in South India’ by Dr. Aparna Balachandran
- ‘Workers’ rights in the era of neoliberalism- the practice of private labour regulation in the garment factories in Delhi (NCR)’ by Archana Prasad
- ‘The monster at the border: Islamophobia, gender and nationalism in Central and Eastern Europe’ by Dr. Kasia Narkowicz
- ‘Justice Vs. The Judicial System’ by Prof. G. Mohan Gopal
- Travel and Masculinity in the Vernacular: Writings of a ‘Pracharak’ by Charu Gupta
- Public wall art in Mumbai: ‘seeing’ Indianness, gendered violence and patriotism by E. Dawson Varughese
- ‘Falling Poverty and Rising Privations: Trends Over a Quarter Century in a Slum and a Village Near Delhi’ by Dr. Devesh Vijay
- ‘Literature, Freedom of Speech and Censorship in a Comparative Context’ by Prof. S.Shankar
- ‘“The son will betray you but the daughter will steady you” The Political Economy of Sex selection’ by Prof. Mary John
- ‘EARLY WOMEN SOCIOLOGISTS IN INDIA Feminist foremothers, Honorary males or what?’ by Prof. Kamala Ganesh
- ‘New Medium, New Historiography: Re-Narrating Islamic Pasts in India through VCDs’ by Ronie Parciack
- ‘Fertile Disorder. Spirit possession and its Provocation of the modern’ by Kalpana Ram
- ‘Upari Chakkar: Psychiatric Insights from a Sufi Shrine’ by Dr. Bhrigupati Singh
- ‘The New Middle Class and the Question of ‘Youth’ in Fast Food Eating-Out Culture’ by Dr. Anjali Bhatia
- ‘Sacralising the Foetus: The birth of the unborn person and the miscarried parent in the Anglophone world’ by Prof. Harish Naraindas
- ‘Production of Segregated Spaces in Delhi: Materiality of Culture and Identity’ by Ghazala Jamil
- ‘Law, religion and marriage: Arya Samaj Marriage in Indian courts’ by Dr. Anuja Agarwal
- ‘Design Ethics: Originality, Ownership and the Limits of Protection’ by Dr. Jane Lynch
- ‘Caste, Capital and “Less-than-Societies”: A Comparative Analysis’ by Prof. Soumyabrata Choudhury
- ‘Producing Paradise: Kashmir’s Commodity Economy and the Politics of Representation, c. 1830-1930’ by Dr. Vanessa Chishti
- ‘Against Eurocentrism: Notes on Recovery of the Anthropic Essence’ by Prof. Rajani Kanth
- ‘An Elusive Revolution?:Reflections on changing Trajectory of Naxalite Movement In South Bihar’ by Dr. Shashi Bhushan Singh
- ‘Caste, Class and Social Mobility: The Critical Role of High School Years’ by Prof. Ashwini Deshpande
- ‘Statue Desecrations, Caste conflict, and state responses in Contemporary Tamil Nadu’ by Dhivya Janarthanan
- ‘Understanding Prison Sociality: Surveillance, Everyday Life and the Ethnographic Method’ by Dr. Mahuya Bandyopadhyay
- ‘New Queer Politics: Notes on Failure and Stuckness’ by Oishik Sircar
- ‘Making India in London: Imperial Internationalism, Atmospheres, and Failures at the Round Table Conferences, 1930-32’ by Prof. Stephen Legg
- ‘Case in Court: Bringing law and society issues before the judiciary ‘ by Justice Dr. S. Muralidhar
- ‘Living and dead in the shifting shadows of place-names’ by Ravi Nandan Singh
- ‘The Politics of Public Interest Litigation in Post-Emergency India’ by Anuj Bhuwania
- ‘Colonial currencies and money illusions’ by Prof. G. Balachandran
- ‘Aspirational Families and the Professional Imaginary’ by Alice W. Clark
- ‘With and Beyond Epistemologies from the South’ by Ananta Kumar Giri
- ‘Justice in a looking glass world’ by Nandini Sundar
- ‘The Protester, the Performer and a Common Political Imagination ‘ by Ruchi Chaturvedi
- ‘The Abiding Binary: Social/Political in modern India’ by Dr. Prathama Banerjee
- ‘Subasri Krishnan will screen and discuss her film “What the Fields Remember”’ by Subasri Krishnan
- ‘Making Sexual Subjects: From Agency to ‘Majburi’ by Svati Shah
- ‘Anthropologising Indian Society: The Colonial Project’ by Dr. Babu C.T Sunil