Workshops and Conferences—Dept HSS, IIT Kharagpur

03/03/2025

That's the wrap of our SPARC international workshop "Have we ever been Posthuman?", organised by Dr Saswat Das as the Local Coordinator, between 23rd February 2025 and 27th February 2025.

05/10/2023

25/09/2023

As you know from our previous updates, CEP International Conference on "Interweaving Anthropology, Science, and Narrative: Postanthropocentric , Mappings in the Era of Climate Crises is scheduled to happen from 1st to 3rd November 2023 at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Kharagpur.

The overview of the Conference:

With anthropocenity driving the planet towards the brink of extinction, the survival of humanity hinges on reconfiguring its relationship with narratives. Rather than merely using narrative spaces to record encounters with phenomenological realities, narratives should become an effective mechanism for actualizing a post-anthropocentric imaginary. John Wyndham’s The Kraken Wakes, Amitav Ghosh’s The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables of Planet in Crisis, Rajat Chowdhury’s The Butterfly Effect, James Bradley’s Clade and Jaspreet Singh’s Face imagine such a world by combining multiple trans-disciplinary strands. In their bid to problematize and transcend the existent anthropocentrism these writers produce new ecocratic sensibilities through their narratives, searching for what can stand as foundational essences of the post anthropocentric world that we seek to actualize at this juncture.

Simultaneously, anthropocentric narrators maintain a disjunctive relationality with organization of modern narratives and engage with planetary sciences, emphasizing the need for a “new philosophical anthropology”. However, this is a process that partakes of side-lining modern narrative’s colonial genealogy and overlooking the degree to which precolonial knowledge systems were integral to planetary and geological sciences. Despite these challenges, anthropocentric narratives offer a powerful means of grappling with the urgent issues facing our planet and imagining a post-anthropocentric future.

We are looking forward to academic papers, creative writings and posters in the theme related to the aforementioned overview. The deadline for the abstract submission is 30th September, 2023.

For more info, visit https://www.sensationsoftware.com/conference/ # , or write to our coordinators:

1. Dipra Sarkhel
Email: [email protected]
Ph: 9474106244

2. Dibyendu Sahana
Email: [email protected]
Ph: 7074365706

16/09/2023

A great opportunity to showcase your research papers, posters and creative writings has come! Be a part of the International Conference "Interweaving Anthropology, Science, and Narrative: Postanthropocentric Mappings in the Era of Climate Crises," organised by the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Kharagpur in collaboration with IMIS Bhubaneswar and University of Oldenburg between 1st and 3rd November 2023. For more info, watch this space or visit https://www.sensationsoftware.com/conference/

The deadline for abstract submission is 30th September. Hurry up!

31/08/2023

The Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Kharagpur , along with the University of Oldenburg and IMIS Bhubaneswar, is proud to organise a CEP International Conference on "Interweaving Anthropology, Science and Narrative: Postanthrpocentric Mappings in the Era of Climate Crises". This conference is coordinated by Dr. Saswat Samay Das and Dr Bhagirath Behera of IIT Kharagpur, and Dr Ananya Roy Pratihar of Institute of Management and Information Sciences, Bhubaneswar, India. We are looking forward to research papers, posters and creative writing pieces. To know more, click https://www.sensationsoftware.com/conference/

29/04/2023

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21/01/2023

Here are some photos clicked during the last session of the CEP workshop. The session had two back-to-back lectures by Prof Anton Kirchhofer and Prof Kevin LaGrandeur.

The organising committee of the CEP workshop thanks all the participants, speakers for being a part of the event, either in person or via online, and making it a grand success.

20/01/2023

It was a delightful and intellectually rewarding experience to host Prof Neela Bhattacharya Saxena of Nassau Community College, New York. Here are some photos of Prof Neela Bhattacharya Saxena with Prof Saswat Das , Chief Coordinator of the CEP workshop and Dipra Sarkhel and Dibyendu Sahana , Research scholars of the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Kharagpur .

20/01/2023

Here are a few photos from the engaging lecture of Prof Jens Schröter of University of Bonn, Germany. Dibyendu Sahana , Guhan Priyadharshan Paramasivam and Deepak Mathew, research scholars of critical theory at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Kharagpur engaged in a scholarly discussion with Prof Schröter.

20/01/2023

Here are some photos from the first session of the CEP international workshop's day two. Dr Anna Auguscik delivered an insightful lecture titled "Explorer Myth, Expedition Narratives and the Planetary Turn