The Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at Indian Institute of Kanpur conducted the following symposiums. In the first semester of the academic year 2013-14.
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Technological Advances and Applications In Psychology (10 October, 2014)
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Symposium on Identity, Politics and Development (28 September 2013)
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Decision Making by College Students (18 September 2013)
Speaker: Dr. Shalini Choudhary
Topic: Identification of Borderline Personality Disorder Patients and Planning Intervention
Date: April 28, 2017
Venue: FB 620
Speaker: Prof. Kathleen James-Chakraborty (University College Dublin, Ireland)
Topic: Bauhäusler in America: Albers, Breuer, Gropius, Moholy-Nagy and Mies
Date: March 27, 2017
Venue: FB 620
Speaker: Dr. Claire Chambers (University of York)
Topic: The World (Novel) and the Home (Novel): A Gendered Reading of Literature from New India
Date: February 16, 2017
Venue: FB 620
Speaker: Dr. Arpita Chatterjee
Topic: Global Spillover Effects of US Uncertainty
Date: February 09, 2017
Venue: FB 620
Speaker: Dr. Somdeep Chatterjee (IIM Lucknow)
Topic: Getting Girls to Schools! - Assessing the Impacts of a Targeted Program on Enrollment and Academic Performance
Date: February 02, 2017
Venue: FB 620
Speaker: Dr. Amlan Das Gupta
Topic: Impact of Cash Transfers Compared to Subsidy in Food: Evidence from the Indian Public Distribution System
Date: December 08, 2016
Venue: Media Lab (Via Skype)
Speaker: Ms. Ayushi Bajaj
Topic: Adverse Selection and Liquidity in Asset Markets.
Date: December 08, 2016
Venue: Media Lab (Via Skype)
Speaker: Dr. Sami Ahmed Khan
Topic: Star Warriors of the Modern Raj India is mutating—explosively.
Date: December 02, 2016
Venue: FB 620
Speaker: Dr. Rashmi Gupta
Topic: "Role of Attention on our Ability to Ignore Emotional Distracters" & the "Development of a Diagnostic Classification System for ADHD Children"
Date: November 24, 2016
Venue: FB 620
Speaker: Prof. Odile Henry
Topic: Pierre Bourdieu and the Sociology of Education
Date: November 11, 2016
Venue: FB 620
Speaker: Prof. Bandana Purkayastha
Topic: Migrants and Human Security: Contemporary Issues
Date: November 03, 2016
Venue: FB 620
Speaker: Dr Renny Thomas
Topic: "Beyond Conflict and Complementarity: Religion and Science in Contemporary India"
Date: November 01, 2016
Venue: FB 620
Speaker: Paro Mishra
Topic: "The moral panic of trafficking: Deconstructing the popular discourse around cross-region marriage in India"
Date: November 01, 2016
Venue: FB 620
Speaker: COSTICA BRADATAN
Topic: The Philosopher of Failure
Date: September 09, 2016
Venue: L- 8
Speaker: COSTICA BRADATAN
Topic: Writing, Exile, Self-Fashioning
Date: September 08, 2016
Venue: L- 8
Speaker: Kit Patrick
Topic: When can I infer to multiple explanations?
Date: September 02, 2016
Venue: FB 620
Speaker: Dr.Chaitali Dangarika
Topic: Pratibhā or creative imagination in Indian Poetics
Date: August 30, 2016
Venue: FB 620
Speaker: Dr.Carlo Botrugno
Topic: Everyday Bioethics and migrations:the weight of the difference
Date: August 30, 2016
Venue: FB 620
Speaker: Dr. Indranil Dutta
Topic: Nutrient Deprivation in India: Evidence from a Village Study
Date: August 19, 2016
Venue: FB 620
Speaker: Prof. Rakesh Chandra
Topic: Some reflections on a thin theory of self in an expanded universe
Date: August 03, 2016
Venue: FB 620
Speaker: Prof. Rakesh Chandra
Topic: Some thoughts on philosophy and gender politics
Date: August 02, 2016
Venue: FB 620
Speaker: Dr. Urvashi Anand
Topic: A Mindfulness-Based School Program (MBSP) for Stress Reduction in
Adolescents
Date: April 21, 2016
Venue: MediaLab
Speaker: Dr. Soumyatanu Mukherjee
Topic: Technology, Trade and 'Urban Poor' in a General Equilibrium Model with Segmented Domestic Factor Markets
Date: April 16, 2016
Venue: MediaLab
Speaker: Dr. Anoop S Kumar
Topic: Adaptive Market Hypothesis: Evidence from Indian Equity Market
Date: April 16, 2016
Venue: MediaLab
Speaker: Dr. Punam Singh
Topic: Life cycle analysis of biogas plants
Date: April 16, 2016
Venue: MediaLab
Speaker: Dr. Gaurav Arora
Topic: Studies on Factors Affecting the Evolution of Agro-ecosystems in the Dakotas
Date: April 12, 2016
Venue: MediaLab
Speaker: Dr. Debi Prasad Bal
Topic: Is Public Debt a Burden for India?
Date: April 12, 2016
Venue: MediaLab
Speaker: Dr. Rajit Biswas
Topic: Capital flows, import volumes and tariffs
Date: April 12, 2016
Venue: MediaLab
Speaker: Dr.Ajay Mohan
Topic: Objectivity and Truth in Language: A study with reference to Donald Davidson and Richard Rorty
Date: April 12, 2016
Venue: MediaLab
Speaker: Dr. Chandrani Chatterjee
Topic: Translation and Language: Issues in Knowing the Unknown
Date: April 9, 2016
Venue: MediaLab
Speaker: Dr. Manchong Limlunthang Zou
Topic: Internet addiction and adolescents
Date: April 7, 2016
Venue: Media Technology Centre, Studio 1
Speaker: Dr. Shivani Nag
Topic: Epistemological Issues in researching higher mental functions
Date: April 7, 2016
Venue: Media Technology Centre, Studio 1
Speaker: Dr. Antara Chatterjee
Topic: Remembering Bangladesh: Tahmima Anam and the Recuperation of a Bangladeshi National Narrative in Diaspora
Date: April 4, 2016
Venue: Medialab
Speaker: Mr. Koonal Duggal
Topic: The Figure of the Guru: Representation, Sikh Religion and Deras
Date: March 16, 2016
Venue: FB 620
Speaker: Prof Paul Frijters
Topic: Give and you shall receive: the emergence of welfare-reducing reciprocity
Date: March 15, 2016
Venue: FB 620
Speaker: Dr. S. K Dhal
Topic: Who is a migrant? Questioning migrant's identity: A study in an industrial setting
Date: March 14, 2016
Venue: FB 620
Speaker: Dr. Upasak Das
Topic: Prevalence of political clientelism in allocation of benefits in the rural employment guarantee programme: Evidence from three states of India
Date: March 11, 2016
Venue: FB 620
Speaker: Mayurakshi Chaudhuri
Topic: Intimate Relations: Gender, Family, and Marriage across Transnational Spaces
Date: March 7, 2016
Venue: FB 620
Speaker: Dr. Tarun Menon, Centre for Science Technology and Society, Tata Institute of Social Science, Mumbai.
Topic: What is the Problem of the Direction of Time?
Date: March 4, 2016
Speaker: Dr. Tarun Menon, Centre for Science Technology and Society, Tata Institute of Social Science, Mumbai.
Topic: Demystifying the emergence
Date: March 3, 2016
Speaker: Dr Somdeep Chatterjee
Topic: "None Of The Above" Votes in India and the Consumption Utility of Voting
Date: February 29, 2016
Speaker: Dr Deepankar Basu
Topic: Social Hierarchies and Public Distribution of Food in Rural India
Date: February 15, 2016
Speaker: Dr. Abhilash Majhi
Topic: Joint-Liability Group Loan Contracts for Homogeneous Agents
Date: January 28, 2016
Speaker: Dr. Anuj Bhowmik
Topic: Rational Expectations Equilibria: Existence and Representation
Date: January 11, 2016
Speaker: Dr. Deeptanil Ray
Topic: The Sublime Object of Bibliography
Date: December 28, 2015
Speaker: Roli Varma
Topic: Descending Affection: Return Migration from United States to India
Date: December 11, 2015
Speaker: Dr. Ravikesh Tripathi
Topic: Neuropsychology of mild cognitive impairment
Date: November 26, 2015
Venue: FB 620
Speaker: Manish K. Asthana
Topic: Fear and Anxiety Research: Progress and Challenges
Date: November 13, 2015
Speaker: Dilip D'Souza
Topic: Discussion
Date: October 27, 2015
Speaker: Dr. Siddhartha Chattopadhyay
Topic: The Inflation Target at the Zero Lower Bound
Date: October 27, 2015
Speaker: Dr. Nishant Saxena
Topic: Study on counterfactual thinking and regulatory focus orientation among Gurkhas: An interdisciplinary approach
Date: October 6, 2015
Speaker: Prof. Supriya Choudhuri
Topic: Kafka's Sirens: The Silences of the Text
Date: October 6, 2015
Speaker: Dr. Santhosh Mahapatra
Topic: Classroom language assessment literacy (CLAL) and assessment practices of English teachers
Date: September 21, 2015
Speaker: Mridu Prabal Goswami
Topic: Rational Bidding in a Procurement Auction with Subjective Evaluations
Date: September 17, 2015
Speaker: Dr Ratul Lahkar
Topic: Large Population Aggregative Potential Games
Date: September 11, 2015
Speaker: Dr. Vivek Singh
Topic: Spatio-Temporal Big Data: Challenges and Opportunities.
Date: April 21, 2015
Speaker: Arkaprava Bose
Topic: Aesthetics of Printed Image: Technology, Culture and Graphic art in Colonial Bengal
Date: April 20, 2015
Speaker: Dr. Abhay
Topic: Faience Beads : A Splendid legacy of Ancient India
Date: April 15, 2015
Speaker: Dr Gagan Deep Kaur
Topic: Imagination in Simulation Paradigm
Date: April 14, 2015
Speaker: Avishek Konar
Topic: Peer Effects and Farmer Heterogeneity in Tillage
Date: April 11, 2015
Speaker: Dr.Shri Krishan Rai
Topic: Literature on the Silver Screen
Date: April 10, 2015
Speaker: Harshit Yadav
Topic: Game Theory and Brouwer's Fixed Point Theorem
Date: April 9, 2015
Speaker: Somesh Mathur
Topic: IIT Kanpur Exchange Rate Nonlinearities in India Exports to the US
Date: March 12, 2015
Speaker: Manish Pandey
Topic: University of Winnipeg Immigration, Endogeneous Technology adoption and Wages
Date: Feberury 19, 2015
Speaker: Tirupam Goel
Topic: University Leverage, Size Distribution and Bank Dynamics
Date: January 16, 2015
Speaker: Sarani Saha
Topic: Crime and Women's Labor Force Participation
Date: November 24, 2014
Speaker: Charu Agarwal
Topic: Information Asymmetry, Line of Credit and Term Loan Pricing
Date: November 20, 2014
Speaker: Aparajita Dasgupta
Topic: Does Access to NREGA Mitigate Negative Impacts of Early Childhood Shocks? Evidence from Andhra Pradesh, India.
Date: November 14, 2014
Speaker: Sujay Mukhoti
Topic: Single Factor Stochastic Volatility Model for Bounded Stationary Returns
Date: November 6, 2014
Speaker: Prof. A. K. Kaul, Professor of Sociology, Benares Hindu University
Topic: Kashmir: its Subjectivity of Estrangement
Date: November 5, 2014
Speaker: Dr. Sancheeta Ghosh
Topic: Gender and society: The Ecological model and its scope of research
Date: October 30, 2014
Speaker: Dr. Jillet Sarah Sam
Topic: Talking Caste Identity rough Place: Digital Mobilization on Cyber iyyars of Malabar
Date: October 30, 2014
Speaker: Dr. Niloshree Bhattacharya
Topic: Social Movements in Post-Globalisation Era: Processes of Transformation
Date: October 30, 2014
Speaker: Rajneesh Choubisa
Topic: Investigating Mentor-Protégé Academic Relationships: An Appreciative Inquiry Approach
Date: October 28, 2014
Speaker: Ark Verma
Topic: Lateralization of Cognitive Functions: The Visual Half-field Task Revisited
Date: October 28, 2014
Speaker: Ajay Sharma
Topic: Grow of the Urban Shadow, Spatial Distribution of Economic Activities, and Commuting by Workers in Rural and Urban India
Date: October 20, 2014
Speaker: Mr. Darshan Shankar
Topic: Contemporary Relevance of India's Medical Heritage
Date: October 18, 2014
Speaker: Arun A Iyer (via skype)
Topic: Knowledge Beyond Belief: The Historical Density of Knowledge in Heidegger and Foucault
Date: October 16, 2014
Speaker: Sindhu Poudyal
Topic: Eics and Apophasis: Sankara, Levinas and the Critical Appropriation of Tradition
Date: October 16, 2014
Speaker: Niranjan Saha
Topic: Is Devotion (bhakti) an Anaema in Advaita Philosophy?: An Exploration into the Philosophy of the Post-Sankara Advaitin Madhusudana Sarasvati
Date: October 16, 2014
Speaker: Sreekumar Jayadevan
Topic: As far as we Know! A Critique of the Debate over Scientific Realism.
Date: October 16, 2014
Speaker: Joydeep Dutta
Topic: Convex Programming Duality and Game theory
Date: October 16, 2014
Speaker: Rabindra Nepal
Topic: "Electricity Sector Reforms: What have we learnt?"
Date: October 14, 2014
Speaker: Avishek Ray
Topic: The Aeseticizing Gaze: Siting Nineteen Century Indian Travel Writing
Date: October 14, 2014
Speaker: Sudha Srinivasan
Topic: Movement-based assessments and interventions for infants and children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASDs)
Date: October 10, 2014
Speaker: Ratul Lahkar
Topic: Aspiration, Learning and Social Change
Date: October 9, 2014
Speaker: Chetan Sinha
Topic: The social representations of academic achievement and failure
Date: October 7, 2014
Speaker: Naveen Kashyap
Topic: Modulatory effects of Sleep on Memory
Date: October 7, 2014
Speaker: Devpriya Kumar
Topic: Relationship between event control and sense of agency
Date: October 7, 2014
Speaker: Prakash Chandra Mondal
Title: Natural Language and Natural Cognition
Date: September 22, 2014
Speaker: Bhavya Tiwari
Topic: Poetry, Translation and Comparative Literature: Mistral and Mahadevi
Date: September 22, 2014
Speaker: Shyamashree Dasgupta
Topic: Understanding Technological Progress & Input Price as Drivers of Energy Demand in Energy Intensive Industries in India
Date: September 20, 2014
Speaker: Wasim Ahmad
Topic: The Eurozone crisis and BRIICKS stock markets: Contagion or market interdependence?
Date: September 20, 2014
Speaker: Pavel Chakraborty
Topic: Environmental Standards and Trade: Evidence from a Natural Experiment.
Date: September 20, 2014
Speaker: Chiradip Chatterjee
Topic: Pollution Tax, and Heal Insurance: Policy Treatment to Reduce Energy Consumption
Date: September 20, 2014
Speaker: Mayank Raj Gupta
Topic: Global Diversification Benefits: Empirical Evidence from Frontier Emerging Equity Markets
Date: September 20, 2014
Speaker: Shalini Raghav
Topic: Measuring Quality of Life for Public Policy.
Date: September 13, 2014
Speaker: Anupam Sarkar
Topic: Mechanisation in Contemporary Indian Agriculture.
Date: September 13, 2014
Speaker: Shraddha Srivastava
Topic: Impact of ICDS (Integrated Child Development Scheme) on the Nutritional Status of Beneficiaries.
Date: September 13, 2014
Speaker: Rekha Srivastava
Topic: Locus of Control and Study Habit as a Preditor of Academic Achievement.
Date: September 13, 2014
Speaker: Massimilano Tani
Topic: Is expropriation good for you? Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment in modern China.
Date: September 2, 2014
Speaker: Prof. C. M. Pandey, SGPGIMS, Lucknow
Topic: Meods in Heal Research
Date: April 16, 2014
Speaker: Mr. Atul Singh
Title: India: Challenges for our Times
Date: April 1, 2014
Speaker: Prof. Sukhranjan Saha
Topic: Philosophy of the First Person in Sankara
Date: April 15, 2014
Speaker: Prof. B. D. Misra (Retd IIT)
Topic: Population and development
Date: Jan 29, 2013
Speaker: Prof. Bali Ram, IIT Kanpur (visiting)
Topic: Changing Patterns of Regional Disparity in Infant Mortality in India, 1992-93, 1998-99 and 2005-06: Roles of Demographic and Socioeconomic Backgrounds
Date: Feb 15, 2013
Speaker: Prof. Rajarshi Chakraborty
Topic: Transformation of Form in A. Ramachandran's Paintings
Date: Feb 13, 2013
Speaker: Prof. Kanupriya rathore
Topic: 'Astanayikas' in Indian Painting
Date: Feb 13, 2013
Speaker: Phil. Jaison V. D.
Topic: An intercultural approach towards the question of Being: Martin Heidegger and Śankara
Date: Mar 22, 2013
Speaker: Prof. Surya Prakash Upadhyay
Topic: Beyond Television: Spiritual 'tele-gurus' and contemporary Hinduism
Date: Mar 21, 2013
Speaker: Dr. Palayoor Benyne Jos
Topic: Variations in Cone of Gaze: A Special Mention to Social Phobia
Date: Mar 21, 2013
Speaker: Dr. Rajesh Kasturirangan, NIAS, Bengaluru
Topic: The Embodiment of Concepts
Date: Mar 18, 2013
Speaker: Tarun Jain, ISB Hyderabad
Topic: Does who you know matter? Unraveling the influence of student networks on academic performance
Date: Mar 15, 2013
Speaker: Dr. P.M.Prasad (IIT Kanpur), Dr. V. Vasudevan (IIT Kanpur) and Dr. U. S. Racherla (IIT, Kanpur)
Topic: Road Crashes in India:Socio-Economic Costs, Underlying Causes and Sustainable Solutions
Date: Mar 11, 2013
Speaker: Vandana Kothari, IIT Kanpur (visiting)
Topic: The Art of Looking Sideways - The Artist and the Studio
Date: Mar 01, 2013
Speaker: Dr. Arya Kumar Srustidhar Chand
Topic: Strategic Information Transmission with Budget Constraint
Date: Apr 23, 2013
Speaker: Dr. Amitash Ojha
Topic: Creative multimodal communication and perception
Date: Apr 22, 2013
Speaker: Dr. Saujit Das
Topic: Portrayal of Europeans in Imperial Mughal Painting 1556 A. D. - 1628 A. D
Date: Apr 18, 2013
Speaker: Dr. Shonel Sen
Topic: 2-Sided Altruism: Do Inter-generational Transfers Trigger Greater Childbearing In Developing Countries?
Date: Apr 05, 2013
Speaker: Dr. Ritwij Bhowmik
Topic: An introduction to Xu Beihong and the Modern Chinese Paintings
Date: Apr 01, 2013
Speaker: Dr. Tanika Chakraborty
Topic: Court-ship", Kinship and Business: A study on the interaction between the formal and informal institutions and its effect on entrepreneurship
Date: May 13, 2013
Speaker: Dr. Arshad Rahman
Topic: Bayesian Quantile Regression for Ordinal Models
Date: May 04, 2013
Speaker: Dr. Divya John
Topic: Does Group Work Really Promote Speaking Skills?
Date: May 03, 2013
Speaker: Dr. Tuhina Mukherjee
Topic: The Role of Agent and Customer Characteristics for Successful Service Interactions
Date: May 03, 2013
Speaker: Dr. N. Chandra
Topic: Masculinities in Post-Independent Indian Fiction
Date: May 02, 2013
Speaker: Dr. Rajakumar Guduru
Topic: The Role of Discourse Competence in Realizing the Core of English Language Instruction
Date: May 02, 2013
Speaker: Dr. Saumya Sharma
Topic: The Relation between Discourse and Defense Mechanisms in Arthur Miller's The Crucible
Date: May 02, 2013
Speaker: Dr. Soumi Awasthy, DIPR
Topic: Research funding opportunities at DIPR
Date: Nov 29, 2012
Speaker: Dr. Monika Wohlrab Sahr, University of Leipzig
Topic: Multiple Secularities
Date: Nov 16, 2012
Speaker: Dr. Simone Schüller (IZA, Bonn)
Topic: Do Parents learn from their Neighbours ? Evidence on Educational Externalities from a Unique Policy experiment.
Date: Nov 15, 2012
Speaker: Dr. Debabrata Paul
Topic: Rationalizability of Choice Functions: Domain Conditions
Date: Nov 06, 2012
Speaker: Dr. A. K. Sharma, IIT Kanpur
Topic: Domestic violence and its impact on fertility behavior : Evidence from Nationally Representative Household Survey in India
Date: Nov 04, 2012
Speaker: Dr. Sourabh Bhattcharya, University of Pittsburgh
Topic: Mobility and Conflict
Date: Oct 12, 2012
Speaker: Dr. Anirban Mukherjee
Topic: Assimilation and Intergenerational relations among creative workers : the case of Bengali-Indian immigrants in the Kansas city Metropolitan area.
Date: Sep 03, 2012
Speaker: Dr. Deepak Kumar, JNU
Topic: Science and Society: An interactive session
Date: Aug 31, 2012
Speaker: Dr. Bali Ram, IIT Kanpur (visiting)
Topic: Fertility Decline and Family Change in India: A Demographic Perspective
Date: Aug 30, 2012
Speaker: Dr. R.M. Rao (retd IIT Kanpur)
Topic: Scale, Scope and Spin-off from Firms
Date: Aug 22, 2012
Speaker: Prof. Sofia Franco, Nova School of Business and Economics (Nova SBE), Portugal
Topic: Urban Growth Controls and Open Space Protection
Date: Aug 14, 2012
Speaker: Prof. Conan Mukherjee
Topic: Fair and Group Strategy-proof good allocation with money
Date: Jul 31, 2012
Speaker: Prof. Conan Mukherjee
Topic: Fair and Group Strategy-proof good allocation with money
Date: Jul 31, 2012
Speaker: Prof. B Goldar, Institute for Economic Growth, Delhi, India Topic: Energy intensity and CO2 emissions of Indian manufacturing firms
Date: Jul 27, 2012
Speaker: Prof. Amitabha Dasgupta, University of Hyderabad
Topic: On the Autonomy of Human Agency
Date: Jul 11, 2012
Speaker: Prof. Ranojoy Basu
Topic: Public Provision of Security in an Insecure Property Rights Environment
Date: May 31, 2012
Speaker: Prof. Shabori Sen
Topic: Behavioral Responses towards Risk Mitigation: An Experiment with Wild Fire Risks
Date: Apr 20, 2012
Speaker: Prof. Namrata Gulati
Topic: Inequality, Neighbourhoods and Welfare of Poor
Date: Apr 19, 2012
Speaker: Prof. Raman Khaddaria
Topic: Do smokers make bad parents?
Date: Apr 19, 2012
Welcome Message
The Department of Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) was established in 1960 along with other departments of Science and Engineering. With an intent to sharpen the creative talents of the students and to help them evolve as better leaders and decision- makers, the institute allocated more than fifteen percent of the total UG course credits to HSS courses.
The Department has twenty-nine faculty members who teach a range of courses in English, Fine Arts, Philosophy, Psychology and Sociology. Many faculty members of HSS actively participate in the interdisciplinary postgraduate programme in Design (M. Des.) and co-supervise students of other departments as well. Besides teaching, the faculty members are involved in thesis supervision of Ph.D. scholars working in different areas...
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