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
Dr. Antara Chatterjee has been invited for a short-term research visit to the University of Leeds, funded by the International Academic Mobility Funding scheme, University of Leeds, U.K.
Dr. Antara Chatterjee has been selected for the Charles Wallace India Trust Research Grant, 2024-25.
The following PhD students from the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences have been selected for the prestigious and competitive "UCSIA 21st International Annual Summer School on Religion, Culture & Society", at the University of Antwerp, Belgium, to be held from the 25th to 30th August 2024. 1) Mr. K J Ananthapadamanbhan (Roll No. 2210804) 2) Ms. Bincy Mariya N (Roll No. 1920802)
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.
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
