Event calendar 2026

DateTitle
Thursday, 22 JanuaryCSH Seminar on “The Case for Dalit Reparations”, by Amit Thorat (JNU), followed by a discussion with Harish S.Wankhede (JNU) from 5 pm to 6:30 pm IST onwards
Tuesday, 27 JanuaryCSH-CPR Urban Workshop N° 191 on “Futures of Historic Cities: An Introspective Reading”, by Jigna Desai (CEPT University) from 3:45 pm IST onwards
Thursday, 29 January & Friday, 30 January[International Conference] French Colonial Presence in India: Cultural Imprint & Decoloniality at Central and BRC Campuses of the CHRIST (Deemed to be University) Bengaluru
Friday, 6 FebruaryCSH Workshop on “The Social Good in Technical Education: Enduring Merit, and Institutional Life at IIT X”, by Yogita Suresh (Shiv Nadar University) from 5 pm to 6:30 pm IST onwards
Tuesday, 25 FebruaryCSH Seminar on “Erosion of Land and Citizenship: Dispossession and Eviction of Muslim Lives, Stories from Assam’s Char-Lands”, by Bhargabi Das (Shiv Nadar University), followed by a discussion with Anupama Roy (Jawaharlal Nehru University) from 5 pm to 6:30 pm IST onwards
Tuesday, 24 FebruaryCSH-CPR Urban Workshop N° 192 on “Satellite Slum Clearance: The Techno-Politics of Land and Legibility in Mumbai”, by Sanjana Krishnan (University of Kentucky) from 3:45 pm IST onwards
Monday, 02 March CSH Seminar on “Technoscientific Globalisation from Below”, by Mathieu Quet (Institut de recherche pour le développement), followed by a discussion with Vidya Subramanian (Jindal Global Law School) & Naveen Thayyil (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi) from 5 pm to 6:30 pm IST onwards
Tuesday, 24 MarchCSH-CPR Urban Workshop N° 193 on “The Neighbourhood of the Brothel: Reflections from Fieldwork in a Small Town”, by Tridib Mukherjee
(Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Guwahati) from 3:45 pm IST onwards
Wednesday, 25 MarchCSH Workshop on “Against the Fetishisation of Plural Time
Rethinking Ways of Doing a Social History of Time
”, by Dr Nitin Sinha
(Centre for Modern Oriental Studies, Berlin) from 5 pm to 6:30 pm IST onwards
Friday, 10 April CSH Workshop on “The Horse in South Asian History”, from 2:30 – 6:00 pm IST onwards
Friday, 10 AprilCSH-AFD Indie Talkies Film Screening of “Shape of Momo 
(Chhora Jastai)
”, byTribeny Rai, the film director, from 6:00 pm IST onwards
Tuesday, 28 AprilCSH-CPR Urban Workshop N° 194 on “Architectural Compositions in Uncertain Grounds”, by Prasad Khanolkar (School of Environment and Architecture, Mumbai), from 3:45 pm IST onwards
Wednesday, 27 MayCSH Seminar on “Resilient Communities”, by Girija Joshi
(Centre d’études  sud-asiatiques et himalayennes), followed by a discussion with  Tanuja Kothiyal (Dr B. R. Ambedkar University Delhi) from 5 pm to 6:30 pm IST onwards
Tuesday, 26 MayCSH-CPR Urban Workshop N° 195 on “Hill, Forest and a River: The Story of a City”, by Shubham Mishra (Doctoral Candidate, University of Twente), from 3:45 pm IST onwards
Monday, 15 JuneCSH Seminar on “What Does My IITian Tag Actually Mean? The Relationship between Academic Titles and Job Positions (IIT)”, by Odile Henry (Director, Centre de Sciences Humaines; Professor, Paris 8 University), and Mathieu Ferry (Researcher, French Institute of Pondicherry; Associate Professor, Université Versailles Saint-Quentin) followed by a discussion with (TBA) from 5 pm to 6:30 pm IST onwards