19 February 2026 [By invitation only]
Book Launch Symposium ‘Subalterns and Histories in the Present: Predicaments, Provocations, Possibilities‘
Organizers: Max Weber Forum for South Asian Studies (MWF), Delhi in collaboration with Political Processes and Social Transformation Cluster, Centre for Asian Studies, GITAM (Deemed to be University), Bengaluru
23-26 March 2026 [By invitation only]
Workshop ‘Markets in Society’
Venue: New Delhi
1-2 April 2026 [Closed-door]
Fellows Colloquium
Venue: New Delhi
13-16 April 2026
PhD training school and Symposium ‘Knowing How to Labor. (Disruptive) Knowledge in Global Labor’
Organisers: Universidad Nacional de San Martín (UNSAM), Buenos Aires, the Centro Maria Sibylla Merian de Estudios Latinoamericanos Avanzados en Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales (CALAS) and the Max Weber Forum for South Asian Studies, Delhi (MWF)
The training school and symposium explore work processes and capital-labor relations embedded in informational regimes and will highlight the dimensions of knowledge in the study of labor, focusing specifically on the knowledges and practices of workers and laboring populations, as opposed to the knowledge about labor generated by capital…..
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24-25 April 2026 [By invitation only]
Ashoka Sociology and Anthropology Graduate Workshop
Organisers: The Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Ashoka University, in collaboration with the Max Weber Forum for South Asian Studies
Venue: Ashoka University, Sonipat (Haryana)
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9-10 July 2026
International Workshop ‘Transformations and Contestations from the Global South: Rethinking Livestock Frontiers’
Organisers: Dr. Soheb Niazi (Freie Universität, Berlin and MWF Delhi), Dr. Vishal Singh Deo (Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal- Karnataka)
Venue: German Historial Institute London
The workshop invites contributions from various disciplines (social, economic and labour histories, geography, sociology and anthropology, science and technology and environmental studies) and regions (Asia, Latin America and Africa) within the Global South, with the aim of fostering a collaborative understanding of the expansion and transformation of frontiers and global networks related to the trade of commodities.
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9-15 July 2026 [By invitation only]
Indian Ocean Writers’ Residency: History and Fiction, History as Fiction
Organisers: Tambapanni Academic Publishers, Colombo in cooperation with the Max Weber Forum for South Asian Studies (MWF) Delhi
Venue: Bentota, Sri Lanka
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21-22 August 2026 [Closed-door]
Publication Workshop for JOSAS special issue on ‘The Public and the Professional’
Venue: New Delhi
7-9 September 2026 [By invitation only]
Workshop ‘Intermediation, Negotiation, Obligation in Coercive Contexts, 16th – 19th century.’
Venue: New Delhi
29 September 2026 [By invitation only]
OPUS workshop with Indrani Chatterjee, John L. Nau III Distinguished Professor of the History and Principles of Democracy, University of Virginia and Distinguished Fellow, MWF Delhi
Venue: New Delhi
6-7 October 2026 [Closed-door]
Labour and Coercion, a Publication Workshop.
Venue: Oslo, Norway

