Webinar Series

We were happy that Professor Rajan Gurukkal (Vice-Chairman, Kerala State Higher Education Council & Former Vice-Chancellor, Mahatma Gandhi University) led our twelfth webinar. With a fresh probing into the source materials on Aryanisation and Brahman invasion in the context of early Kerala, he questioned the existing historiographical representations and repressed indicators of aggression.

Dr. Manu V. Devadevan (Indian Institute of Technology, Mandi) was the discussant, and Dr. T. Mohammed Ali (Farook College, Kozhikode) chaired and moderated the session. The Program was organized in collaboration with Farook College, Kozhikode.

We were delighted that we started our webinar series of 2022 with a talk by the eminent Comparative Literature scholar, E.V. Ramakrishnan (Professor Emeritus, Central University of Gujarat), titled “When Transnational Imagination Deconstructs the Novel Form: Language in Search of Space”

Dr. Manu V. Devadevan (Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Technology, Mandi) was the discussant and Dr. Josy Joseph (Associate Professor, SB College, Changanassery) chaired and moderated the session.

10th and the last webinar of the year ‘Intersections & Confluences 2021’ was be led by Professor Meena T. Pillai (University of Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram).

Dr. C.S. Venkiteswaran, eminent filmmaker and film critic, was the discussant. Dr. V. Abdul Lathief (Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit, Kalady) chaired and moderated the session.

Dr. Anna Lindberg (former Director, Swedish South Asian Studies Network, Lund University) delivered the ninth lecture in the webinar series “Intersections and Confluences 2021″. Prof. J. Devika (Centre for Development Studies, Thiruvananthapuram) was the discussant and Dr. Abhilash Malayil (Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit, Kalady) chaired and moderated the session.

Filippo Osella (Professor of Anthropology and South Asian Studies, University of Sussex) led eighth lecture of our webinar series. Together with Johnson Jament, Max Martin, OB Roopesh and Visakh Subha, he presented a paper on the consequences of Covid-19 interventions on coastal communities in south Kerala (India). Prof. Osella also touched on wider issues which have informed his anthropological research in Kerala for the last 30 years.

Professor Janaki Abraham​(Delhi School of Economics, Delhi University)​chaired and moderated the session and Dr. Salah Punathil (Assistant Professor at the Centre for Regional Studies, University of Hyderabad) was the discussant.

We were very excited that prominent economist Prof. M. Kunhaman (Nelson Mandela Chair, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala) had delivered our 7th lecture. Dr. Rekha Raj (Mahatma Gandhi University) was the discussant. Dr. V.J. Varghese (University of Hyderabad) chaired and moderated the session.

In our webinar series, we are very happy that Patrick Heller (Lyn Crost Professor of Social Sciences, Brown University, USA) delivered the sixth lecture on Tuesday 31 August 2021.

Dr. T.M. Thomas Isaac was the discussant. Dr. A.K. Abdul Hakkim (Curriculum Steering Committee, Kerala) chaired the session and Dr. Divya Kannan (Shiv Nadar University, Delhi NCR) moderated the event.

We were extremely delighted that in our webinar series Sekhar Bandyopadhyay (Emeritus Professor of History, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand) delivered the fifth lecture on The Question of Caste In The Long History Of Partition In Bengal.

Dr. Annu Jalais (National University of Singapore) was the discussant, and Dr. Meera Muralidharan (New Zealand India Research Institute & Victoria University of Wellington) chaired and moderated the session.

We were delighted that Professor David Shulman delivered our 4th lecture on The Notion of Personal, Individual Introspection in Early Modern South India.  Professor Kesavan Veluthat was the discussant and Dr. Manu V. Devadevan chaired and moderated the session.

In the third edition of our webinar series, we were delighted to host Sharika Thiranagama

(Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Stanford University, USA). She delivered lecture on “Rural Civility: Caste and Public and Private in Kerala”.

R. Santhosh (Associate Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Madras) was the discussant. Fathima E.V. (Former Principal, KMM Govt. Women’s College, Kannur University) chaired and moderated the session.