Previous Events

● Digital Deliberations- Two-day Workshop on Digitization of Identity and its Impact on the Migrant Masses jointly  Organised by Calcutta Research Group and C.S.C.S. on 29-30 June 2012 at Akash Deep Hotel, Kolkata

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● Book Release and Discussion on " Reflections on Governance in Post-Colonial Democracy" on 4 May 2012 at Swabhumi, Kolkata

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● National Symposium on "Development, Democracy and Governance" Jointly  Organised by Calcutta Research Group and Centre for CODP/School of Social Work, TISS on 1, 2, and 3 November 2011 at TISS Mumbai Campus

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● Three Day Workshop on "Understanding Collective Action, Violence, and Post-Colonial Democracy" Jointly  Organised by Calcutta Research Group and Indian Institute of Advance Studies (IIAS), Shimla on 26 to 28 September 2011 at Shimla

[This programme is an outcome of decisions arrived at during the two-day workshop on "Understanding Collective Action, Violence, and Post-Colonial Democracy" on 19-20 March 2011 New Delhi. For all materials pertaining to the Delhi workshop see below.]

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● Fourth Critical Studies Conference on "Development, Logistics, and Governance" on 8, 9, and 10 September 2011 at Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata

● Panel Discussion on " Writing the Contemporary History of Politics and Governance in West Bengal" on 10 June 2011 at Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata

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● Seminar on " Social Exclusion : Meaning and Perspectives" on 23-25 March 2011 Hyderabad [Hosted by the Centre for the Study of Social Exclusion and Inclusion Policy, University of Hyderabad]

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● Two Day Workshop on " Understanding Collective Action, Violence, and Post-Colonial Democracy" on 19-20 March 2011 New Delhi  

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● One and half day Symposium on " The Biopolitics of Development : Life, Welfare, and Unruly Populations" on 9 and 10 September 2010 at Swabhumi, Kolkata 

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● Second Research Workshop on 14 and 15 May 2010 at the Hotel The Pearl, Kolkata 

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● First Research Workshop on 17 and 18 July 2009 at Sabhaghar I, Swabhumi, Kolkata  

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 Public Lectures   

        ◙ ‘Decolonisation and Indian Experience’ by Sekhar Bandyopadhyay, Deputy Dean, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, on 5 January 2011 at CRG Seminar Room.

        ◙ ‘Party and Government : Sources of Legitimacy’ by Suhit K. Sen, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, on 10 November 2010 at CRG Seminar Room.

      ◙ ‘The Devas and the Asuras: Interpretative Adventures of Indian Nationalism’ by Sanjay Palshikar, Department of political Science, University of Hyderabad, and Fellow, Indian Institute of Advanced Study on 05 February 2010 at CRG Seminar Room.

       ◙ ‘Development, Government, and Nehru Era’ by Benjamin Zachariah, Reader in South Asian History, University of Sheffield, and Visiting Scholar to Calcutta research Group on 04 January 2010 at CRG Seminar Room

                 Chair: Dipankar Sinha, Department of Political Science, University of Calcutta, and Institute of Development Studies Kolkata (IDSK)  

      ◙  A Public Lecture Series on ‘Globalisation: Issues and Rights’ on 14 November 2009 at CRG Seminar Room         Following working papers were discussed:

          ○ ‘Negotiating Rights: Case Study of the Falta Special Economic Zone’ by Ishita Dey, Calcutta Research Group & Discussant: Byasdeb Dasgupta, Department of Economics, Kalyani University

          ○ ‘Voices from Jadugora: Understanding the Changing Dynamics of Managing Common Property in the Wake of Uranium Mining and Associated Risks in a Globalising Economy’ by Suha Priyadarshini Chakravorty, Calcutta Research Group & Discussant: Manabi Majumdar, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta (CSSSC)

          ○ ‘The Background of National Environmental Policy in India – Exploring Influences’ by Sutirtha Bedajna, Calcutta Research Group & Discussant: Sujay Basu, Jadavpur University 

                 Chair: Samir Kumar Das, Calcutta Research Group 

     ◙ ‘Spatial Reorganization of North Eastern Parts of British India, 1905 to Present’ by David Ludden, Department of History, New York University on 12 September 2009 at Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata