- On 25th February 2023, Ms. Megha Marik, Assistant professor, Department of Sociology, Xavier’s College, Kolkata spoke on ‘Shifting boundaries of the Home: Exploring the gender dynamics of housework and employment of IT employees in West Bengal’. The department aims to continue in its journey of promoting research excellence in the years to come.
- On 17th February 2023, the department released the 7th edition of its annual departmental journal
- On 17th and 18th February 2023, the department organized its annual flagship event Sansad ’23 culminated in two simultaneous events: the Youth Parliament and the Press Committee. Aimed at cultivating the ‘the leaders of our tomorrows’, Sansad is a seamless enactment and pioneer in higher standards of government, opposition, and press interaction in the Indian polity. While the set agenda for Sansad ’23 was the deliberation upon ‘The Indian Law regarding Classification and Identification of Criminal Detainees and Convicts’ with reference to the Criminal Procedure (Identification) Act 2022, themes of the human rights, right to privacy, criminal investigation, punitive politics, and freedom of dissent, provided multi and inter-dimensional deliberations in proceedings. The fourth pillar of democracy was well represented in the Press Committee. In line with house policy, the press delegates each produced an opinion piece on the agenda, and corresponding beat articles on both days of parliamentary proceedings. The committee engaged in a separate debate on the motion of ‘Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter is a step towards the Freedom of Speech on Social Media’, whereupon both proponents and opponents sparred through three engagements: a round robin, questioning session and the summation speech.
- On 9th November 2022 Ms. Mayuri Banerjee, a Researcher at the Institute for Defence Studies & Analyses. New Delhi spoke on Remembering 1962 war: War Memory and Trust-Deficit in India-China Relations.
- On 28th September 2022, Mr. Avishek Jha, PhD Scholar at the University of Melbourne, Australia spoke on Young People’s Affective States, Agency, and Inequalities in Meerut, India,
- The department has initiated a platform to invite research scholars from diverse fields of the discipline who would present before our students their research experiences and different ideas to explore.
- On 27th September 2022, a special lecture to commemorate the 250th birth anniversary of Raja Rammohun Roy was organized. The speaker was Sudipta Sen, Professor of History and Middle East/South Asia Studies at University of California, Davis. His talk was titled A distant promise: Rammohun Roy’s final days in England.
- The department of Political science organized a National webinar on the Emerging Trends in the Party System in India on 24th March, 2022. The speaker was Manisha Madhava, Associate Professor. and Head, Department of Political science, SNDT Women’s University, Mumbai.
- On 31st March, 2021 the fourth webinar was organized on “Emerging Trends in Public Policy” in which Rumki Basu, from the Department of Political Science, Jamia Millia Islamia New Delhi spoke on the Topic: “Public policy and governance challenges in the Post-COVID era”and Prof. Dipankar Sinha, from the Department of Political Science, University of Calcutta spoke on the Topic: “Public policy communication in India: A missing link?”
