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The conference received more than 500 submissions from across the country.
New Delhi: Indian Institute of Technology (IIT Kanpur) Department of humanities and social sciences conducted the first national research scholars’ conference ‘Anviksha’. The theme of the conference was ‘Boundaries’.
During the two-day event, talks and discussions were conducted on sociality, political discourse, identity formation, and literary and aesthetic production. The conference received more than 500 submissions from across the country. Out of this, 48 abstracts were selected for the final presentation through a blind peer review process. The conference had 12 panels focusing on themes such as gender, conflict, digital frontiers, urbanisation and knowledge.
Mini Chandran, Head of humanities and social sciences department shared his views on the conceptualisation of the theme and said that the conference will evolve into an annual academic highlight for scholars nationwide.
English and Foreign Language University (EFLU Hyderabad) Ipshita Chanda was the keynote speaker. She expressed the need for ethically engaging plurality. She emphasised how humanities research, to be meaningful, must end in a realisation about the nature of the human through a relation of self to the world and needs to break through fixed ways of thinking about lives.
Janaki Abraham from the Delhi School of Economics, the keynote speaker for the day 2, derived from her fieldwork to question rule-based boundaries of rituals and customs, turning a sociological eye to wedding rituals.
IIT Kanpur director S Ganesh said, "The department of humanities and social sciences has taken a significant step forward by hosting this conference to address critical cross-disciplinary frontiers that affect society as a whole. Anviksha, the department's first national research scholars' conference, highlights our commitment to informed and inclusive education by facilitating insightful dialogues and thoughtful conversations among emerging scholars.”
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