Virtual Lectures

Speakers: Trilochan Sastry (Association of Democratic Reforms)

Speaker: Namita Wahi (Centre for Policy Research)

Our latest virtual workshop on Friday was with Aasim Khan (Assistant Professor at the Department of Social Sciences and Humanities, IIIT Delhi) where we heard about youth participation in the 2019 environmental protests in Delhi and Bangalore. Khan co-authored the work with Sarayu Natarajan from the Aapti Institute. A great Q&A with the audience followed. […]

Speaker: Nirupama Rao (Former Ambassador to China) As part of our weekly Friday workshops, we had an hour-long conversation with Ms. Nirupama Menon Rao, the former Indian Foreign Secretary and the head of the Indian Foreign Service from 2009 to 2011. Ms. Rao spoke to us about the history of the tensions between Indian and […]

Speaker: Jean-Thomas Martelli (Centre de Sciences Humaines) This week for our Weekly Virtual Workshop, we hosted Jean-Thomas Martelli and his colleagues from the Centre de Sciences Humaines.They presented their fascinating research spanning text analysis on historical archives. We also saw some snippets of artificial speeches created by the GPT-2 machine learning algorithm on behalf of […]

Speaker: Jagdeep Chhokar (Association of Democratic Reforms) Professor Jagdeep Chhokar led an interactive session where he encouraged us to think about how a democracy is supposed to function right from the level of the individual voter to the political party. He stressed the importance of our fundamental duties as individuals in building a functioning democracy.

Speaker: Anup Surendranath (NLU Delhi; Centre on the Death Penalty) This week we were joined by Anup Surendranath of NLU, Delhi, and Executive director Project 39 A. He spoke about the complexities of criminal justice research in India: the lack of efficient legal representation, little regard for the social context of the accused, the ethics […]

Speaker: Dipin Kaur (PhD candidate, Yale)                                      Dipin Kaur, a doctoral candidate at Yale University is an affiliated researcher at TCPD. Ms. Kaur in her co-authored work with Rahul Verma (CPR) spoke about public attitudes towards violence by […]

Speaker: Apurav Yash Bhatiya (PhD candidate, University of Warwick) Apurav Bhatiya from the University of Warwick took us through his research on the topic of synchronised elections and voter behaviour in TCPD's weekly virtual workshop series.We are happy to announce that the Centre has launched its youtube channel where you may access insightful discussions and […]

Speakers: Harish KhareMr. Harish Khare, distinguished journalist and former Media Advisor to the Prime Minister of India from 2009 - 2012 took us through an overview of the evolving face of Indian media through the decades.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4ebDp9EQdA

Speakers: Charles Crabtree (Dartmouth College)Charles Crabtree, Assistant Professor at Dartmouth, presented his co-authored research on religious discrimination in American public schools. Recording of his lecture:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7quGpJakAE

Speaker: Luis Miranda (Chairman, Centre for Civil Society) Luis Miranda spoke on the importance of civil society to a functioning democracy. He highlighted the role of civil society orates and citizens. He also stressed on the need to incorporate multiple perspectives. He urges that anyone can contribute to a civil society, not necessarily by leading, […]

Speaker: Aditya Dasgupta (University of California, Merced) Aditya Dasgupta presented his paper, "Political Economy of Bureaucratic Overload", which is a study involving Block Development Officers (BDOs) in India. His study offers three key conclusions; first, that BDOs are often forced to multitask due to resource scarcity, second, their inability to focus on managerial activities affects […]

Speakers: Uday Chandra (Georgetown University, Qatar)Uday Chandra spoke on the ethnographic approach to studying politics, building on three case studies from his past work. He highlighted the approaches to ethnographic work and how various factors determine these approaches. His advice to beginners who want to conduct ethnographic work: learn by example, rather than through textbooks, […]

Speaker: Maya Mirchandani (Ashoka University) Maya Mirchandani, Assistant Professor of Media Studies at Ashoka University joined us yesterday as part of the Centre's Virtual Lecture Series. She spoke about the evolving face of Indian media and its vulnerabilities to political pressures. She also touched upon the role that funding plays in influencing the stances of […]

Speakers: Erica De Bruin (Hamilton College)Based on her newly created dataset, Erica De Bruin (Hamilton College) shows that police forces around the globe have become more militarized—adopting the weaponry, culture, and organizational structures of military forces.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqziTqRwma8

Speakers: SY Quraishi, Vikram Chandra and Maya MirchandaniThe Centre in collaboration with Ashoka University's Department for Media Studies hosted a panel consisting of the former Election Commissioner of India, SY Quraishi and Vikram Chandra, well known journalist and founder of Editorji Technologies. The panel was moderated by Maya Mirchandani, who is faculty associate at TCPD […]

Speakers: Saad GulzarSaad Gulzar Assistant Professor Stanford University presented his paper: Representation and Forest Conservation: Evidence from India's Scheduled Areas" today at our virtual lecture. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fFuyJoHcDs

Speakers: Julien Levesque (Centre de Sciences Humaines (CSH))Julien Levesque, from Centre de Sciences Humaines (CSH Delhi), gives a useful overview of minority politics in Bihar and proposes an insightful typology of minority mobilization in that state.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXCwRMoP26s

Speaker: Rajeev Gowda (former Rajya Sabha MP) Former Rajya Sabha MP and National spokesperson Indian National Congress Rajeev Gowda was in Conversation with Dr.S.Y Quraishi who spoke about law and its ramifications. The session was moderated by Gilles Verniers of Trivedi Centre for Political Data Ashoka University

Speakers: Ursula Daxecker (University of Amsterdam) and Hanne Fjelde (Uppsala University)Ursula Daxecker and Hanne Fjede present the results of a field experiment in this Trivedi Centre for Political Data Lecturehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVnKRg18XVk