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
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
| 2008 |
Workshop on Applied Economic Theory |
| 2008 |
The ‘Long’ 1950s |
| 2008 |
Macroeconomic Theory and Policy – A Contemporary Perspective |
| 2007 |
Workshop on Financial Economics: Markets and Institutions |
| 2007 |
Issues in Growth and Poverty |
| 2007 |
International Conference on Researching Anglo–India: Indian and Diasporic Contexts |
| 2006 |
Workshop on Economic Theory and Applications |
| 2006 |
UNU–WIDER joint conference on Gender and Food Security |
| 2005 |
International Conference on Politics, Reform and Prosperity: Quantitative and Qualitative Perspectives on Contemporary India |
| 2004 |
Conference on History in the Vernacular |
| 2002 |
Conference on Frontiers of Development Economics |
| 2002 |
City and Archive |
| 2001 |
Demographic Change in Bangladesh and West Bengal: Some Common Features and Possible Causes |
| 2001 |
Conference to commemorate the birth centenary of D.R. Gadgil |
| 1999 |
Indian Music in the Age of Reproduction: Tradition, Innovation and Enterprise |
| 1999 |
Economics Relevant for Developing Economies |
| 1998 |
The Cultural Consequences of Globalization: The Case of Music |
| 1998 |
Media and Mediation in the Politics of Culture |
| 1995 |
Agricultural and Agrarian Structure in Contemporary West Bengal |
| 1991 |
Adoption of Micro–electronic technologies in India |
| 1988 |
Scientific Information and Cultural Development |
| 1987 |
The 1942 Movement in India |
| 1983 |
Women and Poverty |
| 1981 |
Tribal Politics and State Systems in Pre–colonial Eastern and Northern India |
| 1977 |
Indian Industrialisation |
| 1974 |
West Bengal Economy and Planning |
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:
| TIME |
THEME |
LOCATION |
| 2011 |
Empire,Nation,Cosmopolitanism |
Jaipur |
| 2010 |
The Sacred in Contemporary Culture |
Santiniketan |
| 2009 |
Urban Culture |
Shillong |
| 2008 |
Culture and Economic Life |
Pune |
| 2007 |
Political Cultures |
Hyderabad |
| 2006 |
Cultures of the Body |
Goa |
| 2005 |
The Governance of Culture |
Bhubaneswar |
| 2004 |
Rethinking the ‘Cultural Turn’ |
Bangalore |
| 2003 |
Citizenship and Identities |
Goa |
| 2002 |
Postcolonial Cultures |
Santiniketan |
| 2001 |
Cultural Sites and Spaces |
Toshali Sands (near Puri) |
| 2000 |
Critiques of Culture |
Bharatpur |
| 1999 |
Public Cultures |
Khajuraho |
| 1998 |
Culture and the Disciplines |
Bhopal |
| 1997 |
Culture and Democracy |
Gwalior |
| 1995 |
Culture and Modernity |
Mysore |
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 :
| LECTURE YEAR |
SPEAKER |
TITLE |
|
TIME OF DELIVERY |
| 2002 |
Ravi Kanbur |
Spatial Inequality: Concepts, Evidence and Policy |
December 2008 |
| 2001 |
M Ali Khan |
Identity, Tolerance And Backwardness On The Curtailment Of Development Economics |
November 2008 |
| 2000 |
Debraj Ray |
Polarization and Conflict |
December 2005 |
| 1999 |
Sudipto Bhattacharya |
The Financing and Organization of Knowledge Intensive Activities |
January 2004 |
| 1998 |
Abhijit V. Banerjee |
Living in the World: Globalization and Beyond |
August 2003 |
| 1997 |
Dilip Mookherjee |
Combating the Crisis in Govt. Accountability: A Review of Recent International Experience |
December 2001 |
| 1996 |
Kaushik Basu |
Integrating Social Norms into Economics |
December 1999 |
| 1995 |
Gita Sen |
Gender and Development: A Reflection on Thirty Years of Theory and Practice |
August 1997 |
| *1994 |
Sunanda Sen |
Finance and Development |
November 1996 |
| *1993 |
Deepak Nayyar |
Economic Liberalization in India: Analytics, Experience and Lessons |
March 1995 |
| 1992 |
Pravin Visaria |
Levels of Living in India: Correlates and Determinations |
September 1995 |
| *1991 |
N. Krishnaji |
Population Pressure 1891-1981: Regional Variations and Consequences |
January 1994 |
| *1990 |
C.T. Kurien |
On Markets in Economic Theory and Policy |
December 1991 |
* These lectures have been published and are available with Orient Longman, 17
Chittaranjan Avenue, Calcutta– 72.
Some of the past S.G. Deuskar Lectures :
| LECTURE YEAR |
SPEAKER |
TITLE |
|
TIME OF DELIVERY |
| 2001 |
Prof. Susie Tharu |
Modern Medicine’s Indian Life: Object, Regime, Practice – I and II |
February 2009 |
| 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 |
| 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 Str., Calcutta– 12.