Registration
Welcome Address
Prof Madhumita Sengupta
Humanities and Social Sciences, IITGN
Welcome Address
Prof Vinod Chandra
Physics, HoD of HSS
Address
Prof Vimal Misra
Civil Engineering, Dean R&D
Address
Prof Neeldhara Mishra
Computer Science and Engineering, IITGN; HoMI Coordinator and Co-organiser
☕ Tea Break
Why Study History of Science?
Prof Deepak Kumar
Retd Professor of the History of Science and Education, JNU
A Perspective on Mathematics in the Sulbasutras
Prof SG Dani
Retd Professor, TIFR, Mumbai; currently with DAE-CEBS, Mumbai
History of Computing, with Interesting (Social) Bits from Far and Near...
Prof K Gopinath
Retd Professor, IISc, Bangalore; currently Professor at Rishihood University, Guest Professor at IITGN
🍽️ Lunch
Notes on a Historic Floorplan: A Fragmentary History of British India's First Purpose-Built Chemistry Lab
Prof Madhumita Mazumdar
Professor, Dhirubhai Ambani University, Gandhinagar
The Contested Terrain of Electrification in Colonial Calcutta
Prof Suvobrata Sarkar
Assistant Professor, Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata
The Extraordinary Career of M Visvesvaraya: Reflections on Biography, the History of Engineering, and Social History
Prof Aparajith Ramnath
Associate Professor, Ahmedabad University
☕ Tea Break
Coding the Nation: A Genealogy of Computing as a Practice in India
Aditya Pandey
Doctoral Fellow, Shiv Nadar University
Derailing Guard? A Global History of Check-Rails
Tilak Bhardwaj
Doctoral Fellow, IIT Delhi
Science at the Edge of an Empire: Joseph Dalton Hooker, Charles Darwin, and the Making of Evolutionary Theory
Anup Sharma
Doctoral Fellow, IIT Gandhinagar
Electrifying a Company Town: Power Infrastructure, Industrial Capital, and Urban Transformation in Jamshedpur
Harsh Kumar
Doctoral Fellow, IIT Gandhinagar
☕ Tea Break
Relationship Between Diseases and Society: A Bioarchaeological Perspective
Prof Veena Mushrif-Tripathy
Associate Professor, Deccan College Post Graduate and Research Institute
Oral Healthcare and Public Health: Twentieth Century Bengal
Prof Sahara Ahmed
Professor, Rabindra Bharati University
Girindrasekhar Bose and Sigmund Freud: Psychoanalysis and the Social History of Science
Prof Arka Chattopadhyay
Associate Professor, IIT Gandhinagar
Colonial Epidemiology: Insights from Assam
Prof Madhumita Sengupta
Associate Professor, IIT Gandhinagar
🍽️ Lunch
Genesis of Zero in Ancient India
Prof Parthasarathi Mukhopadhyay
Associate Professor, Ramakrishna Mission Residential College, Kolkata
A Historical Overview of Gravitational Physics in India
Prof Sudipta Sarkar
Professor, IIT Gandhinagar
☕ Tea Break
Tracing the Historicity of the Water Management System in Ancient India: Gleaned Through Archaeological Records
Dr Shikha Rai
Post Doctoral Fellow, IIT Gandhinagar
River Drought Forcing of the Harappan Metamorphosis
Hiren Solanki
Doctoral Fellow, IIT Gandhinagar
Spaces of Healing and Control: Colonial Medical Institutions in the Madras Presidency
Abin Joshy V
Doctoral Fellow, JNU
Laughing Out Science: A Social History of Satirical Literature and Science in Nineteenth-Century Bengal
Anamika Panda
Doctoral Fellow, IISER Mohali
Negotiating the 'Native Mind': A Social History of Psychoanalysis in India (1922-1950)
Ruchi Sharma
MA Psychology, University of Delhi