Academic Events Organized by CSSP

CSSP is actively involved in academic discourses round the year through various events. These academic events attract internationally renowned researchers and academicians. Some of the most prominent events organized during 2007-2010 are briefly shown in the following Table:

Name of the Event	Dates	Collaborating/ Funding Agencies	Coordinator
Research Committee-13 Science, Technology and Society (  List of approved abstracts for presentation)	11-13 December 2011	XXVII All India Sociological Conference, CSSS, JNU, and Indian Sociological Society, New Delhi	Madhav Govind
Indo-Germen Dialogue for Sustainability (D4S):  Workshop on Globalizing Western Lifestyles, Energy Consumption and Policy Interventions	10-11 February 2011	Research Centre for Sustainability Studies (artec), University of Bremen, Germany; Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India	Pranav N. Desai
International Workshop on Understanding Environmental Change: The South Asian Challenge	13 March 2010	Uppsala-Delhi Ecology and Society Network; Swedish Research Council; Uppsala University, Sweden, etc.	Rohan D’Souza
International Workshop on Livelihoods and the Environment: Debating Interdisciplinary Perspectives	15-16 October 2009	University of Delhi; Uppsala University, Sweden	Rohan D’Souza
Global Citizen Consultation on Climate Change	26 September 2009	Department of Science & Technology (DST); Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Govt. of India; Danish Board of Technology; WWViews Alliance	Pranav N. Desai
Training Workshop on Technology Foresight Methodologies in Agricultural Innovation System from.	31 March to 10 April 2008	Indian Agricultural Statistical Research Institute (IASRI), Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR)	Pranav N. Desai
China-India Consultation Workshop on Experiences in Innovation for Development	22-24 November 2007	International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Canada; China Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST); China National Science Foundation; Centre for Policy Research (CPR), New Delhi; Centre for Development Studies (CDS), Trivandrum	V.V. Krishna
International Workshop on Nature in the Raj: Colonial Environments & Indigenous Knowledge	18-19 August 2006	Sussex University, UK; Nehru Memorial Museum and Library (NMML), New Delhi	Rohan D’Souza

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CSSP Research Project 1

Project Title:
Socialisation and Goal-Orientation in Indian Academia: A study of Research Students (Science) in Select Universities

Project Type:
UGC Major Research Project

Objectives:
The broad objective of this project is to study the socialization pattern of doctorate and post doctorate students in the context of the changing academic culture in the field of Science and technology in India. In this project we are specially seeking to explore the social process of research from the problems formulation stage to submission of research papers for publication in disciplinary and organizational contexts.

Sponsoring Agency:
University Grants Commission, Ministry of Human Resources Development, Government of India

Duration of the Project:
2008-2011

Project Director: Dr. Madhav Govind
Research Associate: Mr. Amit Kumar

For any information and feedback, please contact Project Director.

CSSP Research Project 2

Project Title:
Socio-economic Study of  Rainfed Agriculture & Low Input Animal Husbandry in India

The Project titled Socio-economic Study of Rainfed Agriculture and Low Input Animal Husbandry in India was awarded to the Centre for Studies in Science Policy (JNU) in 2010. To pursue the objectives of this grant, a unit termed CSSP-Economic Research Unit (CSSP-ERU) was formed.  The CSSP-ERU will evolve policy instruments for directing public investments towards rainfed agriculture and low-input animal husbandry.

CSSP-ERU will provide research support for advocacy initiatives by the Revitalizing Rainfed Agriculture (RRA) and Rainfed Livestock Networks (RLN). In effect, the CSSP-ERU will attempt to frontally address the  skewed nature of existing  public investment patterns in which   rainfed areas (as opposed to perennial irrigated  zones) and low input husbandry (as opposed to high-input) receive inadequate policy attention and in part causing the continued aggravation of   regional economic imbalances. It is the belief of the CSSP-ERU that critical policy corrections by decisively restructuring public investment regimes in India can yield positive economic outcomes in both agriculture and animal husbandry.

The CSSP-ERU will be guided and supervised by a Board of Advisors. The Board of Advisors will consist of Prof. Kanchan Chopra (ex-Director Institute of Economic Growth, New Delhi), Prof. Amit Bhaduri (Emeritus Professor, Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi), the Chairperson of CSSP, Prof. V.V. Krishna,  Prof. Pranav Desai,  Dr. Rohan D’Souza, Dr. Madhav Govind, Dr. Sardindu Bhaduri & Mr. Vijayshankar (Director, Samaj Pragati Sahyog, Madhya Pradesh).

Sponsoring Agency:
Ford Foundation

Duration of the Project:
1st November 2010 to 1st November 2012

Project Director: Dr. Rohan D’Souza
Project Co-ordinator: Dr. Kaustav Banerjee
For any information and feedback, please contact Project Director: economicsresearchunit@gmail.com

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CSSP Special Lecture Series

• Multinational Enterprises and R&D in Developing Countries: Opportunities and Limitations by Prof. Rajneesh Narula, Professor of International Business Regulation, Director, John H. Dunning Centre for International Business, Henley Business School, University of Reading, UK; Editor-in-Chief, European Journal of Development Research, on 1 April 2011.
• Can IT and ITES be the Engine of Growth? by Dr. Seema Joshi, Associate Professor, Kirori Mal College, University of Delhi, on 22 March 2011.
• Energy Innovations in Ladakh by Sally Daultrey, Visiting Research Associate: Ladakh Renewable Energy Development Agency & Associate, University of Cambridge Central Asia Forum, on 11 March 2011.
• Science, Conservation and Ecology: Rethinking the Sundarban Tiger by Dr. Annu Jalais, International Institute of Asian Studies, Lieden, Netherlands, on 9 March 2011.
• From Cusecs to Megawatts: Transformation of Revers and Traditional Water Sources of Himachal Pradesh (1901-2009) by Dr. Anurita Saxena, ICSSR Post-Doc Fellow at CSSP, on 23 February 2011.
• Managing White Spaces in Building Innovation Clusters by Dr. A.S. Rao, Director-Innovation, CIIE (Centre for Innovation Incubation and Entrepreneurship), IIM, Ahmedabad; Visiting Faculty, SP Jain Institute of Management & Research, on 17 February 2011.

• Science and Society in the ‘New’ India: Some Critical Reflections by Professor Govindan Parayil, Vice Rector, United Nations University (UNU) & Director, United Nations University Institute of Advanced Studies (UNU-IAS), Tokyo, Japan on 2 February 2011.
• Power and Legitimacy in Agricultural Biotechnology Politics in China and India by Katharina Glaab, DAAD scholar, Research Fellow, University of Muenster, Germany on 2 February 2011.
• A New Triumvirate?  Japan, India, and China as Innovation Partners by Prof. Anthony P. D'Costa, Director Asia Research Centre, Indian Studies and Research, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark on 19 January 2011.
• European Systems of Innovation, by Dr. Georgi Dimitrov, Policy Officer, European Institute of Innovation and Technology, European Commission on 3 December 2010.
• History of Electrical Vehicles, by Dr. Gijs Mom, Program Director Mobility History, School of Innovation Sciences, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands on 1 December 2010.
• Technological Achievements of Iran and Scope of Collaboration with India, by H.E. Ali M. Birang, Attaché, Head of Technology Cooperation Section, Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran, New Delhi, India on 10 November 2010.
• Autism Spectrum as Clinical Disease and as Human Diversity, by Dr. Matthew K. Belmonte, Visiting Professor at the National Brain Research Centre, Manesar, India on 10 November 2010.
• Meghnad Saha's Paradoxical Story: Floods and Railways, by Dr. Amitabh Bhattacharjee, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, St. Joseph College, Darjeeling on 25 October 2010.
• Water and Governance:  Reviewing India’s Response to Climate Change, by Mr. Matthew England, School of International Development, University of East Anglia, UK on 29 September 2010.
• Controversy, Facts and Uncertainty: The Great Himalayan Glacier Retreat Debate in India, by Dr. Rajesh Bhakar, UGC Post Doctoral Fellow, CSSP, JNU on 22 September 2010.
• Debating Conservation in India: Wildlife Hunting in the Mishmi Hills (Arunachal Pradesh), by Ms. Ambika Aiyadurai on 15 September 2010.
• Post-Normal Technology and the Role of Science and Technology Studies (STS), by Dr. Sujatha Raman, Institute of Science and Society, University of Nottingham, UK on 9 August 2010.
• Technology of Obsolescence, by Prof. J.P.S. Uberoi, Former Professor & Director, Delhi School of Economics, Delhi 28 April 2010.
• Genetically Modified Cotton: Agrarian Distress and India’s Emerging Economy, by Dr. Asmita Bhardwaj, Cornell University, New York, USA on 21 April 2010.
• Globalization, Innovation and Social Capital: Changing Nature of Indo-French S&T Cooperation, by Prof. Pranav N. Desai, Centre for Studies in Science Policy, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi on 12 April 2010.
• Commercialisation of Grassroots Innovations: Some Field Experiences, by Jaydeep Mandal, West Bengal  Student’s collaborator with the National Innovation Foundation, New Delhi on 7 April 2010
• Ways of Knowing: The Emergence of Knowledge in British India, by Sunandan K N, Department of History, Emory University, Atlanta, USA on 17 March 2010.
• W(h)ither Progress and Development?: Some postcolonial reflections on Science and Social Change, by Prof. Kiran Asher, Clark University, USA on 17 February 2010.
• Gender, Race and Class: Imagining South-South relations between Latin America and India, by Monica Amador Jimenez, Centre of Gender and Culture Studies, University of Chile on 3 February 2010.
• South Asian Rivers in Crisis, by Cheryl Colopy, Independent Writing and Editing Professional, Nepal on 27 January 2010.
• R&D Policy and Its Impact on Society, by Dr. Mohsin U. Khan, Scientist (retired), NISTADS, New Delhi on 24 November 2009.
• Forests in Flux: Effect of Political Mobilization and Local Institutions on Implementation of Participatory Policy Reforms in India, by Prakash Kashwan, School of Public & Environmental Affairs (SPEA), Indiana University, Bloomington, USA on 4 November 2009.
• Reviving the Idea of Scientific Temper: Ten Thesis for Creating a Secular Commonsense, by Dr. Meera Nanda, Visiting Scholar at Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Advanced Study, JNU, New Delhi on 21 October 2009.
• The Sardar Sarovar Project: Where have all the Waters gone, by Himanshu Upadhyaya, Senior Researcher, Academy for Mountain Environments, India on 7 October 2009.
• Asian Innovation Systems, by Dr.  Omkar Lal Shrestha, Visiting Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore on 17 September 2009.
• Technological Zones and Sectors: Governance as Innovation in European Regulation of Medical Devices and Tissue Engineering, by Dr Alex Faulkner, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Biomedicine & Society - CBAS, School of Social Science & Public Policy, King's College, London, UK on 27 August 2009.
• Science Studies and Environmental Studies: Toward a New Antithesis, by Prof. Ravi Rajan, Department of Environmental Studies, University of California,  Santa Cruz, USA on 26 August 2009.
• Emergence of Scientific Community in Post Independent India, by Prof. V.V. Krishna, visiting Professor, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore on 17 April 2009.
• Social Conflict and Conflict Management in Innovation Processes, by PD Dr. Anna Dorothea Schulze, Berlin Institut for Psychology, Humboldt Universität, Germany on 15 April 2009.
• Emergence of Indian Scientific Community, by Prof. V.V. Krishna, visiting Professor, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore on 14 April 2009.
• Systems of Innovation, Learning and Capabilities: Challenges for India and Brazil, by Prof. Arlindo Vilaschi, Federal University at Espirito Santo State, Brazil on 1 April 2009.
• Climate Change and Political Decision Making Under Uncertainty: The Case of Flood Protection at the German North Sea Coast, by Prof. Hellmuth Lange, University of Bremen, Germany on 27 March 2009.
• Raced Natures, Gendered Environments: The Political Economy of Biodiversity Conservation, by Dr. Kiran Asher, Clark University, USA on 18 March 2009.
• ‘Powerless’ Oustees and the Tiger Reserve: Challenging Conventional Theories on Displacement and Socio-Political Change in India, by Kim Beazley, Department of Geography, Darwin College University of Cambridge, UK on 24 February 2009.
• R&D Management and Forecasting in DRDO, by J.P. Singh, Group for Forecasting and Analysis of Systems and Technologies (G-FAST), DRDO, Delhi on 18 February 2009.
• Emerging Knowledge Economy India: A European View of the Indian National Knowledge Commission, by Dr. Waltraut Ritter, Research Director, Knowledge Enterprises, Hong Kong; & Adjunct Faculty, International School of Information Management at the University of Mysore on 5 February 2009.
• Need for Indic Cultural Inputs to the Bioethics Debate, by Dr. Susantha Goonatilake, Royal Asiatic Society, Colombo, Sri Lanka on 18 November 2008.
• Energy and Material Metabolism of Social Systems, by Prof. Marina Fischer-Kowalski, Institute for Social Ecology, Klagenfurt University, Austria on 15 October 2008.
• Apna Aloo Bazaar Becha: From Subsistence Ecology to the Market - Short Film and Discussion, by Pankaj H Gupta, Documentary Film Maker on 26 September 2008.
• Indian S&T Systems, by Dr. Malti Goel, Ministry of Science and Technology, New Delhi and Dr. Rajesh Bhakar on 10 September 2008.
• Human Resources in the Power Sector: A Policy Framework for Developing Sector Personnel, by Dr. Debdutta Ray, Power Finance Corporation Limited, New Delhi on 10 September 2008.
• Academicians and Policy Makers: Can the Twain Meet?  by R. Manonithya &  Rajbeer Singh, CSSP, JNU, New Delhi on 27 August 2008.
• Inter-disciplinarity and the History of Science: To Fashion a Fauna for British India, by John Mathew, Department of the History of Science, Harvard University, United States on 11 August 2008.
• New Frontiers: Innovation Policy in the United Kingdom, by Brune Poirson, National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA), UK on 6 August 2008.
• The Importance of Being Nuclear: Big Science, State Formation and Development in India, by Dr. Jahnavi Phalkey, Deutches  Museum, Munich, Germany on 19 March 2008.
• Science and Technology in Iran: Some Emerging Issues, by Dr Monir S. Madarshahi, Faculty Member of the Ministry of Science, Research & Technology, Tehran, Iran on 12 March 2008.
• Powerful Environmentalisms, Celebrity, Conservation and Capitalisms, by Dr. Daniel Brockington,  Institute for Development Policy and Management, Manchester University, UK on 5 March 2008.
• One Day Workshop on Intellectual Property Rights in Universities, jointly organized byIntellectual Property Management Cell and the Centre, 4 March 2008.
• Social Theory, Social Movements and Neo-Liberalism: The Curious Case of Common Property, by Dr. Subir Sinha, Department of Development Studies, University of London on 20 February 2008.
• Pakistan Policies for Innovation and Technology Capability Building, by Dr. Syeda Tanveer Kausar Naim, Former Chairperson, Pakistan Council of Science & Technology on 30 November 2007.
• Pasteur to Pet Passports: Rabies Control in Britain, 1885-2000, by Prof. Michael Worboys, Centre for History of Science, Technology and Medicine and Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, Manchester, UK on 14 November 2007.
• New Frontier in Science and Technology Studies: Search of a New Sociological Imagination, by Prof. Steve Fuller, University of Warwick, UK on 5 November 2007.
• Converging Technologies: Hope or Hype? A Critical Look at the Alleged Revolution in Nano-, Bio-, Cogno-, Info-, etc. Technologies, by Prof. Steve Fuller University of Warwick, UK on 2 November 2007.
• Universities in a Globalizing World: Where do we go from here?, by Prof. Steve Fuller, University of Warwick, UK on 1 November 2007.
• Consuming Cricket, Virtual Spectators and Real Buyers, by S. Anand, Tehelka Newsmagazine on 24 October 2007.
• Indian Democracy and Ecological Survival SEZ's and the Threat of Globalization, by Dr. Aseem Shrivastava University of Massachusetts at Amherst on 17 October 2007.
• Research Methodology: Debating the Issues in Social and Natural Sciences, by Prof. P.K.B. Nayar, Indian Sociological Society, New Delhi on 10 October 2007.
• Reality and the Failure of Economic Theory, by Prof. Alejandro Nandal, Science, Technology and Development Program, El Colegio de Mexico on 25 September 2007.
• Beyond Ram : The Environmental and Economic Challenges of the Sethusamudram Ship Canal Project, by Sudarshan Rodriguez, Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE), Bangalore on 21 September 2007.
• Knowledge and its Applications: An Argument on Science-Technology-Society Relations, by Avinash Jha, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi on 19 September 2007.
• Genetic Engineering and Anthrax Vaccines: Issues in Technology Transfer and IPR in India, by Prof. Rakesh Bhatnagar, Centre for Biotechnology, JNU on 27 April 2007.
• Rethinking Environmental Impact Assessment: Assessing Technique and Technology in River Valley Development in India, by Manju Menon and Kanchi Kohli, Kalpavkrish, New Delhi on 11 April 2007.
• Water and Cotton: Key Environmental Debates in Australia, by Prof. Heather Goodall, Faculty of Humanities and Social Science, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia on 29 March 2007. 
• Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and Development, by Dr. P. Banerjee, NISTADS, CSIR, New Delhi on 21 March 2007. 
• Technology Development and Commercialization: A Case Study of Technology Development Board (DST), by Dr. Pawan Sikka, Department of Science and Technology, New Delhi on 14 March 2007.
• Institutional and Organizational Dimensions in the Sectoral Innovation System Approach, by Dr. Kavita Mehra, NISTADS, CSIR, New Delhi on 21 February 2007.
• Government Policy, Growth and Internationalization: Case of Indian Pharmaceutical Industry, by Dr. Jaya Prakash Pradhan, Institute for Studies in Industrial Development, New Delhi on 14 February 2007.
• Applying Science Studies in Practice: The Case of System of Rice Intensification in India, by Dr. C. Shambhu Prasad, Xavier Institute of Management, Bhabaneswar on 8 February 2007.
• Technological Capabilities and Export Competitiveness of Automobile Firms in India, by Dr. Neelam Singh, University of Delhi, Delhi on 15 November 2006.
• Patent Specification: Technical Features & Essential Requirements, by Dr. Sujit Bhattacharya, NISTADS, CSIR, New Delhi on 14 November 2006.
• Scientometrics and its Relevance for Science Policy, by Dr. Sujit Bhattacharya, NISTADS, CSIR, New Delhi on 6 November 2006. 
• Digital Divide: Framework and Case Study in the Indian Context, by Dr. Deepak Kumar, Department of Sociology, Punjab University on 10 October 2006.
• Silicon Ceiling India’s Techno-immigrants, by Dr. Roli Verma, University of New Mexico, USA & Indian Institute of Technology Delhi on 30 August 2006.
• Collecting Cyclones: the East India Company and the Origins of Meteorology in Colonial India, by Dr. Richard Grove, Australian National University on 22 August 2006.
• Foreign Investment in R&D in India, by Dr. S.P. Aggarwal, Centre for International Trade in Technology, Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, New Delhi on 10 August 2006.
• Human and Spirit Landscapes in Arunachal Pradesh, India, by Dr. Alex Aisher, Sussex University, UK on 26 April 2006.
• Transport Priorities for Indian Cities, by Prof. Geetam Tiwari, TRIPP, Civil Engineering Department, IIT Delhi on 19 April 2006.
• Neo Liberalizing Development? Village Internet Kiosks and Agribusiness in India, Ms. Richa Kumar, STS Programme, MIT, USA on 5 April 2006.

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