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Happy to share that #IIITD Ph.D. student @MonikaSocio (Advisor; Dr. @ParoMishra) is selected for DERC’s #SummerSchool on "Digital Ethnography Fieldwork and Analysis: Studying Hybrid Contexts of Human+ Non-human+ More-than-human entanglements" to be held @RMIT.

A paper authored by Sumedha Shukla, Gaurav Arora titled "The impact of agricultural credit on farm yield risk due to resource-based risk mechanisms: A quantile regression approach and a test for the rank similarity condition" was accepted in the Asian Economic Development Conference

A paper authored by Sumedha Shukla, Gaurav Arora titled "A Rank Similarity Test for Quantile Treatment Effects with Propensity Score Matching: An Application to Heterogenous Crop Yield Impacts of Agricultural Credit" was accepted in the 2022 Agriculture and Applied Economics Association Annual Meeting

A paper authored by Sumedha Shukla, Gaurav Arora, Sandip K. Agarwal titled "Estimation of crop yield density conditional on input choices for smallholder farms using a BetaIV framework" was accepted in the 2022 Agriculture and Applied Economics Association Annual Meeting.

A paper authored by Sumedha Shukla, Gaurav Arora titled "The impact of agricultural credit on farm yield risk due to resource-based risk mechanisms: A quantile regression approach and a test for the rank similarity condition" was accepted in the 97th Annual International Conference of the Western Economics Association (WEAI).

A paper authored by Dr.Gaurav Arora and Ms. Sumedha Shukla titled "The impact of agricultural credit on farm yield risk: A quantile regression approach in conjunction with propensity score matching" was accepted in the Winter School 2021 organized by Delhi School of Economics and The Econometrics Society

A paper authored by Dr. Paro Mishra and Ms. Yogita Suresh titled "Datafied body projects in India: Femtech and the rise of reproductive surveillance in the digital era" was published in the Asian Journal of Women's Studies (Routledge)

On June 7 th , a research led by Dr. Mrinmoy Chakrabarty was published as a paper titled “State anxiety modulates the effect of emotion cues on visual temporal sensitivity in autism spectrum disorder.” In European Journal of Neuroscience. Read more here: Click Here

On May 27 th , a paper co-authored by Dr. Mrinmoy Chakrabarty was published In Scientific Reports [Nature Publishing Group], titled “State anxiety modulates the effect of emotion cues on visual temporal sensitivity in autism spectrum disorder.”

On March 8 th , contributions of Dr. Venkata Ratnadeep Suri and Dr. Mrinmoy Chakrabarty to the National Committee for “Recommendations for Inclusion of Students with Specific Learning Disabilities in Higher Education” were submitted to the All India Council for Technical Education, New Delhi.

Mishra, P., Kaur, R. (2021). "Gender Imbalance, Marriage Squeeze and Multiple Biological Clocks: Exploring the Challenges to Intergenerational Contract in North India". Anthropology & Aging, 42(1): 97-111. Click Here

Arora, G., Feng, H., Hennessy, D.A., Loesch, C.R., Kvas, S. 2021. The impact of production network economies on spatially-contiguous conservation- Theoretical model with evidence. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Vol. 107 (published)

On February 24, 2021, Dr. Gayatri Nair and Dr. Paro Mishra (along with Anindita Majumdar) delivered a Seminar on the topic 'Risky Lives and Amplified Precarity: Labour Configurations under COVID-19' at the Department of Liberal Arts, IIT, Hyderabad.

On January 21, 2021, Dr. Aasim Khan delivered a lecture on the topic Digitalisation of the Public Sphere in the series organised by UGC-HRD

2021. Paro Mishra Co-edited with Anindita Majumdar and Ravinder Kaur. Journal Special Issue on ‘Reproduction, Demography and Cultural Anxieties in India and China’, Asian Bioethics Review, 13(1), 2021.(with contributions from Shuzhuo Li and Yang Meng, GU Xiaorong, Christina Weis, Rajani Bhatia, Ravinder Kaur, Paro Mishra, and Anindita Majumdar)

On Janurary 15, 2021, Paro Mishra's paper titled Social Sciences, Bioethics, and the Question of Population with Anindita Majumdar and Ravinder Kaur was published in Asian Bioethics Review 2021. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41649-020-00162-y

On Janurary 7, 2021, Paro Mishra's paper titled Reproductive Technologies, Care Crisis and Inter-generational Relations in North India: Towards a Local Ethics of Care was published in Asian Bioethics Review 2021. Click here

Ranjini Ray, Atreyee Bhattacharya, Amir Bazaz, Gaurav Arora and Wrick Mitra 's presentation "Climate adaptation: What worked and what did not. A 200-year record from 18th and 19th century British Administrative documents pertaining to semi-arid regions of peninsular India" is selected at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting 2020

Dr. Gaurav Arora's 165, Agricultural input use and index insurance adoption: Concept and evidence is accpeted in Winter School 2020 (Virtual), jointly organised by the Econometric Society and the Centre for Development Economics, 14-17 December, Delhi, India.

On November 9-10, Dr. Ratan Suri conducted a virtual workshop session for 50 students from around India, titled "Making sense of ICT use with QDA Miner “. It was jointly organised by Association for Information Systems India Chapter | Centre for IT and Public Policy International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore | Dept of Management Studies Indian Institute of Technology Delhi.

Mukherjee, Payel C. “Unhomely Home, Unhomely Women: The Precariousness of Being, Belonging, and Becoming in the Sri Lankan Diasporic Fiction of Nayomi Munaweera”.South Asian Review. doi:10.1080/02759527.2020.1827928

On September 16, Dr Gaurav Arora and Sumedha Shukla's piece on agricultural risk management amidst stagnant rural incomes and unequal credit access was published in Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), India's Down to Earth magazine. Read the article here(Pages: 50-53)

On August 30, Dr Gaurav Arora and Sumedha Shukla's opinion piece on agricultural credit and its role in Covid relief response came out in the Indian Express titled "The credit burden ". Read the article here

On July 11 th , Dr. Mrinmoy Chakrabarty presented a paper titled “Effects of emotion cues and state-anxiety on visual temporal resolution in Autism Apectrum Disorders”: 42nd Annual Forum of the Federation of European Neuroscience Society (FENS; Virtual forum), Glasgow, UK.

On 30th July 2020, Dr Amrit Srinivasan's paper titled 'Once Upon a Time in Bollywood: The Death of Sushant Singh Rajput' was published on The Wire. Read More >>>

On 7th February, 2020, Dr. Paro Mishra presented a paper at the 'Economy and Society in India' Seminar at The Centre for Development Studies, Trivandrum Kerala.

On 21st February, 2020, Dr. Paro Mishra presented a paper at the International Conference on 'Reproduction, Demography and Cultural Anxieties in India and China in the 21st Century' at IIT, Delhi.

On the 29th Jan 2020, Dr. Gayatri Nair presented a paper at the Indian Association of Women's Studies Conference titled 'Gender, Sustainability and Identity: Responses to Technology and the Future of Work'.

On the May 17th, Dr. Kiriti Kanjilal presented a paper titled Endogenous Equity in Cournot Competition: Welfare Analysis and Policy at Beihang University, Beijing

An abstract of Sumedha Shukla has been selected "The Role of Formal and Informal Rural Credit on Crop Yield Distributions and Downside Risk" in INSEE-CESS International Conference.

A paper by Dr Manohar Kumar titled 'Understanding emerging forms of dissent. Civil Disobedience or Uncivil Action?' has been accepted for presentation at the 11th International Conference on Applied Ethics to be held on December 15 and 16, 2018, University of Kyoto, Japan.

Paper titled, "Understanding Health Literacy through the lens of Phronesis: The Case of Coronary Artery Disease Patients" authored by Dr. Venkata Ratnadeep Suri (Faculty, IIIT-D) co-authored by the faculty of Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University; (Shaheen Majid, Schubert Foo, Dumaual Sibal, Trinity Hannah, Yun Ke Chang) was presented at European Conference on Information Literacy (ECIL 2018) held in Oulu, Finland, from 24th - 27th September, 2018

Our Faculty member, Manohar Kumar's book titled, 'Speaking Truth to Power. A Theory of Whistleblowing' co-authored with Daniele Santoro, has been published by Springer (2018). Whistleblowing is the public disclosure of information with the purpose of revealing wrongdoings and abuses of power that harm the public interest. This book presents a comprehensive theory of whistleblowing: it defines the concept, reconstructs its origins, discusses it within the current ethical debate, and elaborates a justification of unauthorized disclosures.

Events/Seminars Corner



Workshop by Ethnography Lab on Fields & Notes, 17th & 18th Jan 2024

IIIT-Delhi successfully organized the fourth edition of its annual Digital Delhi Conclave this Saturday on the theme “Quality and Equitable Education”. Snapshots of the event!!

Workshop by Dr. Gaurav Arora on Geo-statistical Methods for Economic Analysis at Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR), Mumbai June 20-24, 2022. Weblink

NPTEL Course by Dr. Gaurav Arora (starts July 25, 2022) Spatial Statistics and Spatial Econometrics and Youtube Link

Webinar by Suchismita Chattopadhyay, PhD candidate in Anthropology and Sociology at The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva on the topic "Fashioning the ‘Cosmopolitan Diva’: Grooming and Etiquette Training in Contemporary Delhi". The talk was scheduled on 13th April, 2022 (Wednesday) from 04:00pm. Read more

Webinar by Prof Arundhati Virmani, Senior research scholar at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Centre Norbert Elias, Marseille on the topic "Social scientists in the civic space. The right distance for writing national history". The talk was scheduled on 6th April, 2022 (Wednesday) from 03:30pm. Read more

Seminar(Hybrid) by Tanuj Solanki, author of three fiction books and recipient of the Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar award on his book "The Machine is Learning". The talk is scheduled on 21st March, 2022 (Monday) from 03:30pm. Read more

Webinar by Dr. Shivangi Narayan, Researcher, working on a three-year project studying digital policing in India, funded by the Oslo Metropolitan University and Norwegian Research Council on the topic "Facial Recognition and Police Bias". The talk was scheduled on 9th March, 2022 (Wednesday) from 03:30pm. Read more

Webinar by Dr Rohit Azad, Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru University on the topic "Delhi Green Deal". The talk was scheduled on 2nd March, 2022 (Wednesday) from 04:00pm. Read more

Webinar by Dr. Dev Nath Pathak,Department of Sociology, South Asian University (SAU) on the topic "In Defence of the Ordinary: Everyday Awakenings". The talk was scheduled on 23rd February, 2022 (Wednesday) from 04:00pm. Read more

Webinar by Dr. RAHUL DE, Dean (Programmes), Professor of Information Systems Indian Institute of Management Bangalore and SAI DATTATHRANI Doctoral Student, Information Systems Indian Institute of Management Bangalore on the topic "The concept of agency in the era of Artificial Intelligence". The talk was scheduled on 16th February, 2022 (Wednesday) from 04:00pm. Read more

Webinar by Prof. Loraine Kennedy, ACNRS-EHESS, Paris and French Institute of Pondicherry on the topic "Exploring Socio-spatial Approaches to Peripheral Urbanisation". The talk was scheduled on 9th February , 2022 (Wednesday) from 04:00pm. Read more

Webinar by Sara Dickey, Professor of Anthropology at Bowdoin College, USA on the topic "Conundrums of Class, Caste, and History: Urban Hindu Nadar Identities in South India". The talk was scheduled on 19th January, 2022 (Wednesday) from 05:00pm. Read more

A two days symposium on "Making sense of Indian politics on social media" Read more (Part 1)   Read more (Part 2)

Webinar by Alexander Gail, Professor of Sensorimotor Neuroscience and Neuroprosthetics at the Faculty of Biology and Psychology of the University of Göttingen on the topic "Context-sensitive motor-goal selection in the frontoparietal sensorimotor cortex". The talk is scheduled on 18th November (Wednesday) from 04:00 – 5:30 pm. Read more

Webinar by Aakshi Magazine Freelance writer and academic based in Delhi on the topic "Streaming new possibilities? Online content, gender and media". The talk is scheduled on 11th November (Wednesday) from 04:00 – 5:30 pm. Read more

Webinar by Jean-Thomas Martelli , Ethnographer in political science and sociology on the topic "Mapping Urban Protest Cultures in India: Campus Spaces as Generational Communities". The talk is scheduled on 28th October (Wednesday) from 04:00 – 5:30 pm. Read more

Webinar by Dr. Supriya Ray, Assistant Professor and Wellcome Trust DBT fellow at University of Allahabad on the topic "A computational approach to study control of movements in healthy and clinical population". The talk is scheduled on 30th September (Wednesday) from 04:00 – 5:30 pm. Read more

Webinar by Prof. Avijit Pathak, Professor, Sociology at Centre for Study of Social Systems, Jawaharlal Nehru University on the topic "Self,Skills and the World: Redefining Studentship". The talk is scheduled on 09th September (Wednesday) from 04:00 – 5:30 pm. Read more

Webinar by Dr. Ekta Singh, Assistant Professor in Ambedkar University Delhi on the topic "Situating Social Sciences in the Big Data Revolution". The talk is scheduled on 26th August (Wednesday) from 04:00 – 5:30 pm. Read more

Dr. Paro Mishra (in collaboration with the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT, Delhi and Department of Liberal Arts, IIT, Hyderabad) organised an International Conference on 'Reproduction, Demography and Cultural Anxieties in India and China in the 21st Century' on 20-21 February, 2020. The event was funded by UNFPA, PFI, ICSSR, AJWS. Details available at http://tiny.cc/u4c8iz

Seminar by Prof Kalyan Chatterjee, Distinguished Professor of Economics and Management Science at the Pennsylvania State University, USA. The talk is scheduled on June 6, 2019 (Thursday) from 03:00 - 4:30 pm. Read More >>

Seminar by Dr. Jeevant Rampal, Assistant Professor in the economics area at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. The talk is scheduled on March 28, 2019 (Thursday) from 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm. Read More >>

The Department of Social Science and Humanities (SSH) at the Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology (IIIT Delhi) is home to a multi-disciplinary faculty offering courses and conducting research in Economics, Sociology, Cognitive Science, Philosophy, Political Science and Communication Theory.

Catering to undergraduate studies, the department delivers core courses and elective modules for an innovative new degree programme, the B.Tech in computer science and Social Sciences (CSSS) launched in 2017 in collaboration with the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Institute. This unique B.Tech in CSSS, aims to develop cross-disciplinary IT knowledge and expertise in students, very much in demand in the academia and industry. The courses offered within CSSS program also provides to students specializing in other programs offered in the Institute and therefore constitutes an integral part of academic planning and structure. For post-graduate studies SSH offers Ph.D. in Economics and Sociology/Social Anthropology. The department houses a wide range of laboratories like Econometrics, Game theory and cognitive science, enriched in facilities providing a platform for research in these areas.

Located in the heart of India's capital, the department serves as a hub for IT and social sciences and regularly hosts seminars, public talks and research related events at IIIT Delhi. It addresses the educational needs we are likely to see in the future with even more convergence of IT with social systems. It is concievable that an increasing role that IT will play in addressing society's problems, as well as answering the human questions posed by social scientists, will lead to an increase in demand for IT experts who are well versed in the social sciences and also of social scientists who understand computing and IT and apply them innovatively to solve problems in their own domain. The SSH department at IIIT Delhi would seek to bridge the disciplinary boundaries that exist between various IT and social science streams and develop a cross -disciplinary research and teaching agenda that is forward looking and cutting edge in technology education.

Vision

Modern university systems all over the world evolved by separating out the study of science and technology from that of the liberal arts - philosophy, literature and history. Even the social sciences - economics, sociology, anthropology and psychology - which emerged later under the strong influence of the methods and goals of science, could not shake off this divide. But today, the influence of science and technology over actual human lives and societies has increased so dramatically, that this division in knowledge can no longer be supported. The development of Information Technology in particular, has raised an urgent need over the last few decades, to be studied and researched in its social context, given its huge potential for public good and the speed and intensity with which it has overtaken our everyday lives.

The need to examine the societal and human implications of the vast successes and risks of IT can no longer be denied. As a result, the Human and Social Sciences and Computer education have come closer together in the best universities of the world. The Department of Social Sciences and Humanities at IIIT Delhi addresses this changed environment in technology education through its teaching and research program and offers a range of courses in Economics, Sociology and Cognitive Sciences as well as from the broader grouping of Liberal Arts, Communications and Humanities to the students of the Institute. The Department is home to the B.Tech. in IT and Social Sciences programme and provides the core teaching and research support for this innovative educational offering.