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

Archived Events

28Feb

Panel Discussion • Indian Higher Education in Global Context

3:30 pm - 5:00 pmBoard Room, Fourth Floor, VMCC

26Feb

Talk • Ranking and World Class Universities

3:30 pm - 5:00 pmVMCC Hall No.22

07Feb

Talk • Culture as Policy and Policy as Culture

5:30 pm - 7:00 pmADCPS Conference Room

31Jan

Book Discussion • Breaking the Mould: Reimagining India’s Economic Future

2:00 pm - 3:30 pmADCPS Conference Room

19Jan

Round Table • Future Directions of Vocational Education and Training in India

5:00 pm - 6:30 pmJalvihar Conference Room

19Jan

Policy Workshop • Vocational Education and Training in India

9:30 am - 4:00 pmADCPS Conference Room

07Dec

Talk • Caste in Business and Society Studies

10:30 am - 12:00 pmADCPS Conference Room

08Nov

Talk • Caste and Waste Technology

5:00 pm - 7:00 pmADCPS Conference Room

25Oct

Talk • The Disruptive Impact of the Internet on National and Multilateral Policy Making

5:00 pm - 6:00 pmADCPS Conference Room

11Oct

Policy Research Seminar • Outsourcing Urban Resilience: Climate Planning in Indian Cities

5:00 pm - 7:00 pmADCPS Conference Room

20Sep

Talk • Policymaking in Education in India

3:30 pm - 5:00 pmADCPS Conference Room

13Sep

Talk • Shifting Roles of the State and Private Actors in Policy Processes

5:00 pm - 7:00 pmADCPS Conference Room

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

26Apr

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

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

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

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