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Upcoming Events

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