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Kavita Singh’s sad passing

A sad bit of news

It is with great sadness that we hear of the passing of Emerita Professor Kavita Singh, Dean of the School of Arts and Aesthetics of the Jawaharlal Nehru University. As such, Kavita Singh also represented her Institution in the Indian European Advanced Studies Research Network. She brought her remarkable knowledge, insight and energy to her engagement with IEARN, and was a vital force in shaping the Museum and Art History network. Her rich and original contributions, and her collaboration with the network led to the publication of Museum Storage and Meaning: Tales from the Crypt, edited by Mirjam Brusius, Kavita Singh, London: Routledge (Routledge Research in Museum Studies), 2018. Her pioneering role in the study of Art History in India was recognized by her numerous awards, including the Infosys Prize in 2018. The Indian European Advanced Studies Research Network is privileged to have known her as a colleague and member, and mourns her loss.

Atelier India-Africa: Towards a Dialogue of Humanities (Indian-European Advanced Research Network)

Le projet “India-Africa: Towards a dialogue of humanities” souhaite ouvrir un espace de réflexion commun à l’Inde et à l’Afrique, qui produise un déplacement du “regard éloigné”, par l’échappement aux liens coloniaux constitutifs du dialogue Inde-Europe et Afrique-Europe. Le projet prend ainsi la forme d’un dispositif heuristique pour mettre au jour les points aveugles du regard colonial à la racine même de la production du savoir académique, puisque ce regard n’est plus construit à partir de l’Europe. Il vise à produire une dissipation des relations de domination implicites, tant sur les contenus que sur les méthodologies.
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The project “India-Africa: Towards a dialogue of humanities” wishes to open a space of reflection mutual to India and Africa, which would produce a transfer of the “view from afar”, by escaping the colonial links constituting the dialogue India-Europe and Africa-Europe. The project thus takes the shape of a heuristic device to bring to light the blind spots of the colonial view at the very root of the production of academic knowledge, since this view is no longer constructed from Europe. It aims to produce a dissipation of implicit relations of domination, on both content and methodologies.

The Second Workshop of the Focus Area "The Social Life of Commercial Trust: Comparative Historical Perspectives from Asia, Africa and Europe, 1600-1950", will take place at the Godrej Archives, Mumbai on 08-10 January 2020.

The workshop will revolve around : "Technologies of trust: Law, Custom and Procedure in historical and comparative perspective"

The conveners are Prof. Lakshmi Subramanian (Centre for Studies in Social Sciences) and Prof. Yannick Lemarchand (University of Nantes).

Publication of "Museum Storage and Meaning. Tales from the Crypt", edited by Mirjam Brusius and Kavita Singh, and published by Routledge.

The book grew out of the workshops sponsored by the IEARN from 2010 to 2015, as part of the focus area "Tales from the Crypt: Museum Storage and Meaning"coordinated by Mirjam Brusius (Oxford University).

Publication of "Science of giants: China and India in the twentieth century" edited by Jahnavi Phalkey and Tong Law, as the inaugural volume of the British Journal for the History of Science, BJHS Themes (2016).

The first volume of the BJHS Themes journal is the result of a four year collaboration between historians of China and India, from India, Europe, China and the United-States, as part of the focus area "History of Sciences in India and China" hosted by the IEARN from 2011 to 2015.

Inception of a new focus area: The Social Life of Commercial Trust

A new focus area has been created. Its main convenors are Lakshmi Subramaniam, The Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, and Yannick Lemarchand, University of Nantes.

Democracy in Diversity Workshop held in Delhi

The latest workshop of the Law, Politics and Constitutionalism focus area took place on March 3-6, 2016, in Delhi.

"Tales from the Crypt" : Call for Publications

The "Tales from the Crypt: Museum Storage and Meaning" Focus Area is seeking contributors for research papers for a forthcoming volume of publications.

Abstracts (max. 300 words) for papers (max. 8000 words) should be sent to mirjam.brusius@history.ox.ac.uk and kavising@gmail.com by May 15, 2015.

Authors will be notified in June. The deadline for final papers will be October 15, 2015.

History of Science in India and China Workshop held in Bangalore

The latest workshop of the History of Science in India and China focus area took place on May 22-25, 2015, at the Centre for Contemporary Studies, Indian Institute of Science, in Bangalore.

Democracy in Diversity Workshop held in Berlin

The latest workshop of the Law, Politics and Constitutionalism focus area took place on March 08-10, 2015, at the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin.

Democracy in diversity workshop held in Bangalore

The latest workshop of the Law, Politics and Constitutionalism focus area took place on January 10 and 11, 2014, at the National Law School of India University in Bangalore.

First meeting of IEARN steering committee

The IEARN steering committee gathered for the first time on January 7th 2014, at the India International Center in Delhi.

Jahnavi Phalkey, from King’s India Institute, will be fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin in 2013-2014. She is the convener of the focus area "History of Science in Twentieth Century China and India”.

CPR : Third Interdisciplinary Emerging Scholars Symposium on India China Studies

The Centre for Policy Research (New Delhi), together with the India China Institute (The New School, New York) announce the Third Interdisciplinary Emerging Scholars Symposium on India China Studies to be held from 8-9 November 2013 at the University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad.