Centre for Contemporary Studies

Podcasts

   
229. "Music revivals – Major and Minor: Studying the Politics of Performance in Modern South India", by Prof. Lakshmi Subramaniam
228. "Re-imaging space technology: Encounters with Chandrayaan-1 through art-practice perspectives", by Joanna Griffin
227. "Dismal Science of Economic Austerity: Metaphors, Models and Policies" by Dr. Srinivasa Raghavendra
226. "Gender differences in local residents' relationships with protected areas in Asia" by Dr. Teri Allendorf
225. "India's High Economic Growth: Is the Solution the Problem?" by Prof. Amit Bhaduri
223. "Social Sciences: The Missing Beacon of India"by Rama Bijapurkar
222. "The Story of Asia's Elephants" by Prof. R. Sukumar
220. "Roll of Honour" by Amandeep Sandhu
218. "Aravind Adiga's Indian Noir" by Yumna Siddiqi
217. "Encountering Fauna in late 18th and early 19th century Eurocolonial India" by Dr. John Mathew
215. "The Politics of Climate Change and the Global Crisis; Mortaging Our Future" by Praful Bidwai
213. "How I Became a Novelist" by Prof. S. L. Bhyrappa
212. "Video-movies, Spirits and the Popular Imagination" by Prof. Birgit Meyer
211.
"Lecture 4: European Airs: Musical Modernity at the Tanjore Court under the reign of Raja Serfoji II, 1798-1832" by Dr. Savithri Preetha Nair
210.
"Lecture 3: Science as Spectacle: Electrical and Chemical Amusements at the Tanjore Palace, 1798-1832" by Dr. Savithri Preetha Nair
209.
"Lecture 2: Natural History as Vital Economy: Describing Nature in Tanjore in the early Nineteenth Century" by Dr. Savithri Preetha Nair
208. "Lecture 1: The Tanjore Enlightenment, 1798-1832" by Dr. Savithri Preetha Nair
207. "Science Looks at Traditional knowledge" by Prof. Rajan Gurukkal
206. "Why is Modern Medicine Stuck in a Rut?" by Prof. Indraneel Mittra
204. "Biometrics: Privacy and Trust" by Dr. Ian Brown
203. "What is it to be Human?" by Prof.Steven Lukes
202.
"The City As A Laboratory : Exploring the Impact of Engineering and Experimentation on a City" by Amrita Shah
201.
"The Edge of Physics:Crafting a non-fiction narrative that combines hard science with travel writing" by Anil Ananthaswamy
200. "The University of 21st Century:Contents and Curricula" by Yehuda Elkana
198. "Einstein, Picasso; The Art of Science and the Science of Art" by Prof. Arthur I. Miller
197. "Scores for Space - A Theatre of Imaginations" by Ms. Penelope Wehrli
196. "Jagadamba" by Ms. Yashodhara Deshpande Maitra
195. "The Wider Significance of The Concept Of "Nature" by Prof. Akeel Bilgrami
194. "Movemnets in the Brain - The Brian in Movements" by Dr. Arko Ghosh
193. Session 18: The Body in (and out of) the Text: Knowledge Production between the Oral and the Written by Dr. Ananya Jahanara Kabir
192. "Staging a Farce with a Tragic Hero: On Comedy, Tragedy, and The Beginnings of Drama Theory" by Prof. Luca Giuliani
191. Session 17: Burials: The Living and The Dead by Prof. Luca Giuliani
188.
Session 14: A Brief Introduction to Feminist Science Studies by Dr. Gita Chadha and Chayanika Shah (190 Mb)
187. "Fingerprints and Erasures: Mapping the Creaive Process in Science" by Dr. Gita Chadha (108 Mb)
186. "The new world of nanotechnologies: between promises, fears and debates" by Prof. Jacques Arnould (82 Mb)
185. Session 13: Natural disasters, Laws of Science and Moral Work by Prof. Sanil.V (159 Mb)
184. Session 12A : Situating Knowledge in Participatory Processes – creating cocultures of knowledge practices and Session 12B : Participatory Processes and Knowledge Production at the Social and Economic Divide by Dr. N.S. Anuradha and Prof. H.N. Chanakya (152 Mb)
183. Session 11A: Research, Market and Policy: The Construction of Ayurveda in Postcolonial India and Session 11B: Who knows? Some lessons from a Bengali Marxist and a philosopher feminist by Prof. Madhulika Banerjee and Dr. Asha Achuthan (198 Mb)
182. Session 10 A : " Visualizing Nature" and Session 10 B: "Cultural Entomology" by Prof. Barrett Klien ( 215 Mb)
181. "The Technology of Obsolescence" by Prof. J.P.S. Uberoi ( 150 Mb)
180. “SLEEPING IN A SOCIETY: Patterns, plight and purpose of sleep in a bustling hive of honey bees” by Prof. Barrett Klien (106 Mb)
179. Session 9: "Mastery over the Supernatural: Technology and the Dialectic of
Enlightenment" by Prof. S.V. Srinivas (147 Mb)
178. Session 8: "Science Fiction, Literature and Gender" by Prof. Amie Elizabeth Parry (135 Mb)
177. Session 7A: "Situated Cognition: Re-conceptualizing Epistemology" and Session 7B: The Emotional Brain: Imprints of Life History. by Prof. Amita Chatterjee and Dr. Vidita Vadiya ( 195 Mb)
176. Session 6: "What Kind of Knowledge Do the Humanities Produce?" by Prof. Michel Chaouli (186 Mb)
175. "Kant and the Idea of Life: The Use of Teleological Concepts in Biology" by Prof. Michel Chaouli (115 Mb)
174. Session 5: 'New' Knowledge and 'New' India: Lessons from the Colonial Past by Prof. Deepak Kumar (155 Mb)
172. Session 4A:What is Methodological Individualism? & Session 4B:Why methodological Individualism is mistaken. by Prof. Rajeev Bhargava (136 Mb)
171. “Micro Level Perception and Institutional Response: Impact of Climate Change in Meghalaya” by Prof. Kailash Chandra Malhotra (115 Mb)
170. Library Fellowship Workshop: "Thinking Across Disciplines" (114 Mb)
169. “Between the Monsoon and the Sea: Re-visualizing Mumbai’s Terrain” by Prof. Dilip da Cunha and Dr. Anuradha Mathur (91.3 Mb)
168. Session 3: "War and Peace: Conflict and Cooperation in an Insect Society" by Prof. Raghavendra Gadagkar (108 Mb)
167. "Synthetic Life : Myth and Reality" by Prof. K.P. Gopinathan and Prof. D. Balasubramanian (80 Mb)
166. Session 2: Interdisciplinary Study: A Practice of Convergence by Prof. Rajan Gurukkal (152 Mb)
164. “Interdisciplinarity in environmental research: Insights from 25 years of crossing boundaries” Dr. Sharachchandra Lele on 2nd August 2010 (111 Mb)
165. Session 1: Inauguration of the Course (123 Mb)
163. “Ensuring daughter survival in Tamil Nadu, India”by Dr. Sharada Srinivasan and Arjun S Bedi on 22nd July 2010. (88 Mb)
162. “Digital humanities: How social sciences may benefit from the digital revolution?" by Prof. Dominique Boullier on 9th July 2010. (88 Mb)
161. “How is the Individuality of a Face Recognised?" by Prof. M.K. Unnikrishnan on 17th June 2010 (68 Mb)
159. "Knowledges of life and Responses to Death: Medicine and Post/ Modernity" by Dr. Anirban Das on 10th May 2010. (108 Mb)
158. "Scientific Laws: Do They Pose a Challenge to the Essentialist Theory of Laws? " by Mr.S K Arun Murthi on 6th May 2010. (73 Mb)
157. "The Chromosome Woman: E.K. Janaki Ammal and the Re-ordering of the South Asian Enivronment 1897-1984)" by Dr. Savithri Preetha Nair on 13th April 2010 (66Mb)
156. "Development of Evolutionary theorizing in Darwin's Notebooks 1837 - 1839" by Dr. Abhijeet Bardapurkar on 29th March 2010 (70 Mb)
107. "Library Services, Networks and Open Access: The Example of the Institute for Advanced Study Berlin" by Gesine Bottomley on 17th June 2008 (30 Mb)
   

 

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