HUMANITIES &
SOCIAL SCIENCES
The Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at IISER Bhopal is a multidisciplinary department conceptualised with a vision of foregrounding the interfaces between science, society and culture, and of initiating a dialogue between the natural sciences, the social sciences, and the humanities. The department currently offers a doctoral programme in the disciplines of Cognitive Science, Literature, Philosophy, Sociology and Social Anthropology.
Latest News
Purbita Das (Roll No. 2010805), a Ph.D. student from the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences has been selected for the SSHM (Society for the Social History of Medicine) sponsored bursary to attend the "Health and Environmental Humanities Workshop" at the University of Bristol from August 14-16, 2024.
Dr. Renny Thomas, Dept. of Humanities and Social Sciences, has been invited as 'Taki Visiting Global Professor' at the Gallatin School of Individualized Study, New York University, New York.
Mr. Dipak Kr. Chakraborty (Roll No. 2210803) a PhD student from the Department of HSS has been selected to present his paper at the International Research Network for the Study of Science and Belief in Society’s 5th Annual Conference 2024, in Frankfurt, Germany.
Dr. Renny Thomas, Dept. of Humanities and Social Sciences, has been nominated and elected as a Fellow of the International Society for Science and Religion (ISSR).
Events
PhD Work-in-Progress Presentations. 29 April 2024
Workshop: Knowledge Production, Ethics, and Reflexivity in South Asia. 05 to 07 March 2024.
Seminar: What Responsibility? Whose Responsibility? Intention, Agency, and Emotions of Collective Entities 05 to 07 March 2024.
Where 'Power' Meets 'Identity': Governance, Feminism and the Politics of Representation 05 February 2024 at 11:00 AM
