Past Events – Ashank Desai Centre for Policy Studies, IIT Bombay

Archived Events

26Apr

Conference on Deepening Local Governance for Sustainable Management of Solid and Liquid Waste in Small Towns in India

9:00 am - 4:00 pmSeminar Hall, SOM

23Aug

Talk | Policy Thrust and Policy Process of ‘Agenda 24×7 Water Supply’ in India

4:45 pm - 6:00 pmADCPS Conference Room

02Aug

Talk | Reforming Higher Education in India: National Education Policy 2020

4:00 pm - 5:30 pmADCPS Conference Room

03May

Policy Workshop: NEP 2020 and the Agenda of Higher Education Expansion

9:00 am - 5:30 pmSeminar Room No. 31, VMCC

06Apr

Policy Workshop | Age-Friendly Urban Policy & Programmes for Older Persons

9:30 am - 5:30 pmVMCC

25Mar

Atelier 2023: Talking Policy Through Cinema

10:00 am - 7:00 pmIDC Auditorium

24Mar

Talk: Mainstreaming Marginalised Voices in Contemporary Malayalam Cinema

7:00 pm - 8:30 pmHSS Seminar Room

24Mar

Talk: Remaking Indian Federalism and Its Discontents

5:00 pm - 6:30 pmVMCC

23Mar

Talk: Innovation Performance of Two High-Technology Industries from India: A Comparative Analysis of India’s Pharmaceutical Industry vis-à-vis Computer Software Services Industry

5:00 pm - 7:00 pmVMCC

18Mar

Data Dialogue: PAN-India Data Journalism Training Series

10:00 am - 5:00 pmSeminar Room No. 31, VMCC

15Mar

Talk: Legal and Regulatory Challenges to Address Air Pollution

5:00 pm - 7:00 pmVMCC Hall No.22

02Mar

Inauguration of the ‘Living Lab for Just Transitions (LLJT) – A project of IIT Bombay

7:00 pm - 8:00 pmVMCC, Hall No.22

02Mar

Policy Dialogue | Emerging issues in Rural Drinking Water Governance in India

9:30 am - 5:00 pmVMCC

01Mar

Talk: Politics, Ethics and Emotions in ‘New India’

5:00 pm - 7:00 pmLC 202

24Feb

Talk: A World of Insecurity: Democratic Disenchantment in Rich and Poor Countries

4:30 pm - 6:30 pmSeminar Room No. 3, VMCC

01Feb

Book Discussion: The Migration-Development Regime: How Class Shapes Indian Emigration

5:00 pm - 7:00 pmHSS Seminar Room

18Jan

Talk: Breaking the Concrete Ceiling: A Transgender Person’s Transformational Journey To Leadership

5:00 pm - 7:00 pmLC 202

17Dec

Winter School on Localizing Climate Governance, December 2022 | Technical University Munich – IIT Bombay

8:00 am - 5:00 pm

25Nov

Policy Dialogue on Gig and Platform Economy

8:30 am - 5:30 pm

28Oct

Talk: Tactical Urbanism

6:30 pm - 8:00 pmLC 202

26Oct

Talk: Land Grabbing in Africa: Regulate, Restrict, Resist?

5:30 pm - 7:00 pmLC 202

17Oct

A Conversation on the Draft Indian Telecommunication Bill, 2022

9:30 am - 9:30 amOnline

12Oct

Talk: Violent Modernities: Cultural Lives of Law in the New India

5:30 pm - 7:00 pm

08Oct

Proposed Amendments in Environmental Legislations: A Policy Dialogue

9:00 am - 5:00 pm

30Sep

Book Discussion: Politics of Urban Planning: The Making and Unmaking of the Mumbai Development Plan 2014-2034 (Springer, 2022)

6:30 pm - 8:00 pmLA 202

28Sep

Talk: Urban Infrastructures of Wellbeing: Lessons from the Interface of Formal and Informal Urban Systems in Dharavi, Mumbai

5:00 pm - 7:00 pmLC 202

27Sep

Talk: An Intersectional Approach to Understanding the Needs of Older South Asians in the US

11:00 am - 1:00 pmLT 305

21Sep

Atelier 2022: Talking Policy through Cinema

11:00 am - 6:00 pmOffline

24Aug

Talk: Homopopulism: A New Layer of LGBTQ Politics in India

5:00 pm - 7:00 pmOnline

17Aug

Talk: Locking Down the Impact of COVID-19: Appraising State and Private Measures for App-based Transport and Delivery Workers

5:00 pm - 7:00 pmLC 202

16Aug

Interaction: Roles for Civil Society Organisations in Policymaking Processes

5:30 pm - 7:00 pmLT 106

10Aug

Talk: Politics of Disinformation: Why the Current Approaches are Geared to Fail and Possible Path Forward

5:30 pm - 7:00 pmOnline

03Aug

Talk: The Age of Reaction: Retrenchment Populism in India and Brazil

5:00 pm - 7:00 pmLC 101

30Mar

Talk: For Whom is the City a Border based on Making the Modern Slum: The Power of Capital in Colonial Bombay

7:00 pm - 8:30 pmOnline

23Mar

ADCPS Policy Dialogue

5:00 pm - 9:00 pmOnline

23Mar

Talk: Practitioner’s perspective of public policy research, advocacy, and consulting space in India

2:00 pm - 3:00 pmOnline

22Mar

Talk: Identity, Disclosure and Power: Research Methodology and the Indian Men’s Rights Movement

3:30 pm - 5:30 pmOnline

16Mar

Talk: The Art of Conjuring Alternate Realities: How Information Warfare Shapes Your World

5:30 pm - 7:00 pmOnline

09Mar

Talk: Public-Private Partnerships in Media Literacy

5:30 pm - 7:00 pmOnline

02Mar

Talk: Colossus: The Anatomy of Delhi

5:30 pm - 7:00 pmOnline

16Feb

Talk: Satyameva Jayate: Kerala Government’s Media Literacy Campaign

5:30 pm - 7:00 pmOnline

09Feb

Talk: Mumbai Urban Transport Projects (MUTP) for the City of Mumbai

5:30 pm - 5:30 pmOnline

28Jan

Talk: Policy Analysis for a Functioning Democracy (M.R. Madhavan, PRS Legislative Research)

3:30 pm - 5:00 pmOnline

19Jan

Talk: K-Rail project- Socioeconomic & Ecological Impacts (RVG Menon, Kerala Shastra Sahitya Parishad)

5:30 pm - 7:00 pmOnline

15Dec

Talk : Your Computer Is on Fire ( Kavita Philip, University of British Columbia).

7:00 pm - 9:00 pmOnline

08Dec

Talk: Towards safe drinking water and clean cooking for all (Isha Ray, Professor, University of California, Berkeley)

7:00 pm - 9:00 pmOnline

24Nov

Talk: Long Lives are for the Rich- Why is there such extreme inequality between older people? How can we analyze this? (Jan Baars, University of Humanistic Studies in Utrecht, The Netherlands)

5:00 pm - 7:00 pmOnline

27Oct

Talk : Out of Time: The Queer Politics of Postcoloniality (Rahul Rao, University of St. Andrews).

5:00 pm - 7:00 pmOnline

27Oct

ADCPS Fellow Talk: Mechanisms of Misinformation in Vernacular Mainstream Media

2:00 pm - 3:00 pmOnline

13Oct

Talk: Looking Out, Looking Within- Manufactured Consent, State-making and the Margins (Sanjoy Hazarika, CHRI)

4:30 pm - 5:30 pmOnline

09Oct

Workshop: Enabling Advocacy & Change Through Documentaries

10:30 am - 5:30 pmOnline

06Oct

Talk: Blue Infrastructures: Natural History, Political Ecology and Urban Development in Kolkata (Jenia Mukherjee, IIT Kharagpur)

5:00 pm - 7:00 pmOnline

29Sep

Talk: Inequalities, Public Policy & The State: Role of Civil Society (Amitabh Behar, Oxfam India)

4:30 pm - 6:30 pmOnline

22Sep

Talk : From the Gita to Google: Policy Challenges and Solutions for an Age of Global Crises(Rohit Chopra, Santa Clara University).

7:00 pm - 9:00 pmOnline

21Sep

Launch of Ashank Desai Centre for Policy Studies

6:00 pm - 8:00 pmOnline

18Aug

Annual Discussion Seminar: “Artificial Intelligence and Policy: Breaking the Technological Ice”

3:00 pm - 6:00 pmOnline

11Aug

Talk: Shifting paradigms: Muslims and the changing contours of politics (Ali Khan Mahmudabad, Ashoka University)

5:00 pm - 7:00 pmOnline

10Jul

Centre for Policy Studies Policy (CPS) Dialogue (Online) Topic: Emission Standards for Coal-Fired Thermal Power Plants

11:00 am - 12:30 pmOnline

28Jun

IPA Conference 2021 Announcement

8:00 am - 5:00 pm

14Apr

Talk: In Pursuit of Usable Knowledge- Policy Analysis as Deliberative Practice (Frank Fischer, Humboldt University, Berlin)

2:00 pm - 3:30 pmOnline

07Apr

Talk: Gendered Citizenship- Understanding Gendered Violence in Democratic India (Natasha Behl, School of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Arizona State University)

7:00 pm - 8:30 pmOnline

31Mar

Talk: The Roads (Not) Taken- The Materiality, Poetics and Politics of Infrastructure in Manipur, India (by Raile Rocky Ziipao, HSS, IIT Bombay)

5:30 pm - 7:00 pmOnline

24Mar

Talk: Pandemics and the Archives (Chinmay Tumbe, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, India)

5:30 pm - 7:00 pmOnline

10Mar

Talk: Smart Cities and Smarter Citizens: Challenges and Opportunities ( Prof. P.B. Anand, Univ. of Bradford, UK)

5:30 pm - 7:00 pmOnline

03Mar

Atelier 2021: Talking Policy Through Cinema

9:00 am - 6:00 pmOnline

29Feb

Artificial Intelligence and Policy: Breaking the Technological Ice

9:30 am - 1:30 pmVMCC

26Feb

Conference: Platform Economies in India

12:00 am - 11:59 pmJalvihar Conference Room

20Feb

Environmental and Social Safeguards Mechanism and Accountability Mechanism in Indian Financial Institutions and Intermediaries

12:00 am - 11:59 pm3rd Floor, VMCC

19Feb

Atelier: Talking Policy Through Cinema

12:00 am - 11:59 pmIDC Auditorium

18Feb

Book Launch: Instrumental Lives

5:30 pm - 7:00 pmLC 301, LHC

08Feb

Internet Governance Workshop

10:00 am - 1:00 pmVMCC

16Jan

RISE World Summit 2020

12:00 am - 11:59 pmVMCC

11Jan

Documentary Screening: #UNFAIR

4:00 pm - 5:30 pmIDC Auditorium

17Dec

Resilient Futures India Initiative Partnership Summit

12:00 am - 11:59 pm

23Oct

Talk: Civil Society and State in India

5:15 pm - 5:15 pmLC 302

18Oct

Panel Discussion: State Law, Dispute Processing and Legal Pluralism

5:00 pm - 5:00 pmSeminar Room 4, VMCC

11Oct

Fecal Sludge Management Workshop: Policy and Practice

9:30 am - 5:30 pmVMCC

09Oct

Talk: Need for a Paradigm Shift in Water Management in India

5:30 pm - 5:30 pmVMCC 31

20Aug

Changing US Policy Landscape and Its Global Impact

2:00 pm - 3:00 pmLT 206 (LHC)

06Jun

Paris and After: Talk by Dr. Dunu Roy

4:00 pm - 6:00 pmVMCC 12

05Feb

Resilience, Contingency, Uncertainty: From Theory to Policy

12:00 am - 11:59 pmCenter for Policy Studies

25Jan

India’s Digital Leapfrog and the New Architecture of Innovation

12:00 am - 11:59 pmCenter for Policy Studies

12Jan

How Public Should Public Data Be?: Privacy and E governance in India

12:00 am - 11:59 pmCenter for Policy Studies

12Jan

Digital Media, Analog Thinking: Enduring Propensity of Media Regulation in India

12:00 am - 11:59 pmCenter for Policy Studies

18Dec

Missing the wood for the trees in India’s land policies: Of ‘Unscrupulous Elements’, Thugs, Fixers, Brokers and Others who People Policy as Practice

12:00 am - 11:59 pmVMCC

10Oct

Gender, Violence against Women, and Health Policy

12:00 am - 11:59 pmVMCC

18Jul

Gender Equal Forest Rights: The Continuing Void between Policy and Practice

12:00 am - 11:59 pmVMCC

24Apr

Do Schemes “For the Poor” Address Gendered Poverty?

12:00 am - 11:59 pmVMCC

08Mar

Policy Making: Gender Blind or Gender Sensitive?

12:00 am - 11:59 pmVMCC 31