Academic Events

Conferences, Workshops and Memorial Lectures constitute a significant part of the academic activities of the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta. Eminent scholars as well as young researchers regularly participate in such events. Conferences and workshops are usually inter-disciplinary in temper and multi-focused in approach. Apart from these the Centre organizes Cultural Studies Seminars, Economics Study Group Seminars, General Seminars and Staff Seminars on an on-going basis. Holding General Discussions on Current Affairs is a regular feature of the Institute. 

• Conferences

• Workshops

• Memorial Lectures

Conferences:

A wide cross-section of national and international scholars are brought together at conferences held from time to time at CSSSC. The Centre's conferences on the West Bengal economy and society, on Indian industry, or on tribal governance, are still remembered as outstanding academic events. We continue to host these gatherings and facilitate the international exchange of up-to-the-minute research. See the announcements for current and upcoming conferences.

Some past themes of CSSSC conferences

In addition, two major 25th anniversary conferences were held in the winter of 1998-99, on
'Development, Displacement and Disparity: India in the Last Quarter of the Century' and 'History and the Present'.

Workshops:
Scholars, students and researchers find valuable meeting ground for the exchange of ideas at the Centre's workshops. Informal readings, discussion groups and workshops on a variety of subjects are held round the year.

The Centre is also organizing a series of international Cultural Studies Workshops funded under the ENRECA, SEPHIS and FORD FOUNDATION schemes. These workshops involve young researchers from all over India, from Denmark, and from Uganda and other countries of the South, and have turned out to be very innovative and stimulating. At present no other institution in India runs anything comparable.

Themes for the past Culture Studies Workshops include:

Memorial Lectures:

The Centre runs two series of annual lectures by eminent academics, the S.G. Deuskar lecture on Indian History and Culture and the R.C. Dutt lecture on Political Economy.
 

Some of the past R.C. Dutt Lectures:

* These lectures have been published and are available with Orient Longman, 17 Chittaranjan Avenue, Calcutta 700 072.

Some of the past S.G. Deuskar Lectures:

Lecture Year	Speaker	Title	Time of Delivery
2000	Geeta Kapur	Critical Art: Sub Terrain: artists dig the contemporary art x documentary: cultural conjuncture	March 2005
1999	Gayatri Chakravarty Spivak	Midnight's Children and the Schreber Case	July 2003
		The Concept of Disgrace in the Postcolonial Nation: Tagore, Coetzee and Primary Education in West Bengal.	February 2003
1998	Sanjay Subrahmanyam	Acculturation and Conflict in the Early Modern Deccan	July 1999
1997	Gulammohammed Sheikh	Reading Pictures: Stories of Mediations, Stories of Transgressions	February 1999
1996	Veena Das	Thinking about Violence: The Stake in Everyday Life, and Boundaries: Saying and Showing	January 1999
*1995	Gyanendra Pandey	Memory, History and the Question of Violence: The Reconstruction of Partition	April 1998
1994	Muzaffar Alam	Sharia and Language in Medieval Indian Politics	December 1996
1993	Sudipta Kaviraj	Democracy in India	August 1995
*1992	K.G. Subramanyam	A Matter of Perspective, and What Shall We Do with Culture?	March 1993
1991	Madhav Gadgil	India: An Ecological History	June 1992

* These lectures have been published and are available with K.P. Bagchi & Co, 286 B.B. Ganguly Street, Calcutta 700 012.