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Shajeem M Fazal P V (2220802), PhD candidate at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences has been selected to present his paper at the prestigious annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association (AAA) 2026, to be held from 17th- 22nd November 2026, in St. Louis, Missouri, USA.

Ms. Poonam Uikey (Roll No. 2420805), a PHD student in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, has been selected for the highly prestigious and competitive international workshop titled "From Asia to the EU: Labour Migration and Social Protection" hosted by CASTLE centre for the Study of Transnational Families, Babeș-Bolyai University, Romania from November 3-4, 2026.

Ramya Arumilli, the Fulbright-Nehru Student Research Scholar (2025-2026) from Barnard College, Columbia University, New York has successfully completed her fellowship at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IISER Bhopal, under the supervision of Dr. Renny Thomas. Ramya is an incoming Master's student at Harvard Divinity School-Harvard University, studying South Asian religion.

Ms. Shobha Elizabeth John (Roll No. 2110803), a PhD student in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, has been awarded a travel bursary by GAPS (Association for Anglophone Postcolonial Studies) to present a paper at their annual conference at Osnabrück University, Germany, from 14-16 May 2026.

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Events

Making Managers, Making Modern India by Dr. Lourens van Haaften  21 September 2026, at 05 PM

Summer School (Online) - "Migration, Urban Space, and Climate Change" Organize by Social Policy Lab, HSS, IISERB
Registration 1-7, September 2026

Putting Public in the Bottle of Social or the Other Way Around? by Dr. Sony Pellissery 25 August 2026, at 04 PM

Apokalis Now!: Reading the Bhopal Disaster through Animal’s People by Dr. Ishanika Sharma 15 July, at 10 AM

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