Anindita Chakrabarti

Papers presented (after joining IIT Kanpur) National and international seminars, workshops and conferences:

1. Ayushi Dube and Anindita Chakrabarti  “Religious Freedom, Human Rights, and Secular Governance in India: A Socio-legal Study of Jain Santhara”, Flashpoints Conference: Law, Human Rights and Religion, Nottingham Law School, December 2021.2. Anindita Chakrabarti and K. C. Mujeebu Rahman “Of Marriage, Divorce and Family Laws: Feminist Activism and Muslim Personal Law Reform in India”, Workshop on The Best of Intentions: Marriage, Women's Rights and Legal Reform in Muslim Societies, Journal of Legal Anthropology, November 2021.3. Anindita Chakrabarti and Mujeebu Rahman K. “Religion as an Object of Social Scientific Study: the Case of Islam in India”, Workshop on Religion as an Object of Historical and Social Scientific Study: Global Perspectives at Leipzig University November 2021.4. Anindita Chakrabarti and Shriram Venkataraman, “God’s Gold, Legal Frames and the Question of Material and Non-Material Heritage: the Case of Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple in Kerala, India” Workshop on Enshrining the Past: Religion and Heritage-Making in a Secular Age. Leipzig University, October 2021.5. Anindita Chakrabarti and Mujeebu Rahman K. Environmental Discourse in the Muslim Public Sphere in Kerala: A Sociological Investigation. Religion, Faith, Spirituality, and Sustainability (Session of the Cluster of Excellence “Religion and Politics” European Academy of Religion (EuARe), Muenster, Germany September 2021.6. Anindita Chakrabarti and Suchandra Ghosh “Religion-based ‘Personal’ Law, Legal Pluralism and Secularity: A Field View of Adjudication under Muslim Personal Law in India” presented at the Workshop on Plural Ideas of Justice Stories, Narratives and Experiences from India held at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay on April 23-24, 2021 (paper presented by co-author Suchandra Ghosh).7. Anindita Chakrabarti. 'Rights, Religion and Law: What Can Sociology Bring to the Conundrum?' Plenary Session Titled: “Making of the Nation in the Post Liberal Era - Shifting Agenda and Identities” at the 45th All India Sociological Society Conference, Department of Sociology, University of Kerala. December 2019.8. Anindita Chakrabarti. ‘Local, Global and the Sociological: Research in Post-Truth Times’ Workshop on Academic Writing for Young Faculty Members/ PhD Students of Anthropology and Sociology, Lucknow University, November 2019.9. Anindita Chakrabarti. 'Gender Rights, Civil Society and Personal Law: Towards a Sociology of Marriage, Divorce and the Minority Question in India'. 2-day workshop on Civil Society and Good Governance in India and Bangladesh, IIT Delhi, January 201910. Anindita Chakrabarti. Migrant Artisans’ Guilds, Village Networks and the Unorganized Goldsmithing Sector: An Ethnography of Gold Manufacturing Industry in India. Workshop on History and Material Culture, Tubingen University, October 2018.11. Anindita Chakrabarti. 'Public Interest Litigation, Religion and the Question of Secularity in Contemporary India'. XIX ISA World Congress of Sociology. Toronto, Canada. (RC22), July 2018.12. Anindita Chakrabarti. Presented a paper on my work on religion at a seminar titled "The Study of Religions with Colonialism in the Rearview Mirror." Organized by Department of Religious Studies at the University of Cape Town March 2017.13. Anindita Chakrabarti and Sruti Kanungo. "Who are the Goldsmiths? A Sociological Study of Network, Mobility and Precarity among Migrant Goldsmiths of West Bengal, India" at Living in an Age of Precarity: Living and Lives in 21st Century Asia Conference, organised by the Asia Research Institute (ARI) , National University Of Singapore (NUS), February 2017.14. Anindita Chakrabarti. “Personal Law, (Personal) Disputes and Adjudication: An Ethnography of the ‘Islamic’ and Civil Courts of Uttar Pradesh (India)” at the International Workshop on Multiple Secularities—Beyond the West, Beyond Modernities. Leipzig University, 27-29 June 2016.15. Anindita Chakrabarti and Suchandra Ghosh. “An Ethnography of Judicial Reasoning: Exploring the Personal, Legal and Political in Sharia Courts of Uttar Pradesh” at the International Workshop on Religion and Law: Colonial and Post-Colonial Encounters, organized by the Centre for the Study of Comparative Religions and Civilizations, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, March 2016.16. Anindita Chakrabarti. “Exploring Multiple Secularity: Majoritarian Morality, Religious Communities and Law” at the 41st All India Sociological Conference of the Indian Sociological Society, Bhubaneswar, December 2015.17. Sruti Kanungo and Anindita Chakrabarti. “A Sociological Study of Network and Trust among Goldsmiths: A Case Study of Migrant Goldsmiths of West Midnapur (West Bengal)”, presented by Sruti Kanungo at the Economic Sociology Conference on Trust in Transactions hosted by the Institute of Development Studies Kolkata (IDSK), sponsored by the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR), November 2015.18. Anindita Chakrabarti. “Democracy as Civil Religion: Reading Alexis De Tocqueville in India” at a seminar titled Reasoning with Value(s): Explorations in the Contemporary Milieu organized by IIM, Kolkata, March 2015.19. Anindita Chakrabarti and Suchandra Ghosh. “Imam, Qazi and the Judge: Sociology of Legal Forum Shopping in Kanpur City” at the 40th All India Sociological Conference of the Indian Sociological Society, Varanasi, November 2014.20. Anindita Chakrabarti. “Interrogating Islamization: Towards a Non-dualist Framework” at the 39th All India Sociological Conference of the Indian Sociological Society, Mysore, December 2013.21. Anindita Chakrabarti. “Sociology of Religious Movement and Sect Formation: A Theoretical Exploration.” at the 38th All India Sociological Conference of the Indian Sociological Society, Udaipur, December 2012.22. Anindita Chakrabarti. “The Role of Critical Thinking in Religion” at the National Seminar organized by the Vidyajyoti Journal of Theological Reflection (19372012), Vidyajyoti, New Delhi, October 2012.23. Anindita Chakrabarti. “Sociology of Sectarianism and the Question of Religious Plurality: Towards a Conceptual Framework” at a National Seminar on “Culture of Religion and Trans-cultural Religion” organized by the Department of Philosophy, Christ Church College, Kanpur, February 2012.24. Anindita Chakrabarti. “Religious Movements, the Question of Sanskritization/Islamization and Religious Identity”, at the 37th All India Sociological Conference of the Indian Sociological Society, New Delhi, December 2011.25. Anindita Chakrabarti. “Sacred traditions, Sectarian Identity and the Question of Secularism in Contemporary India” at a Conference on Rethinking Religion in India: European Representations and Indian Responses organized jointly by Research Centre Vergelijkende Cultuurwetenschap (Ghent University), the Centre for the Study of Local Cultures (Kuvempu University). The conference was hosted by the Department for the Study of Religion (Faculty of Arts and Philosophy, University of Pardubice, Czech Republic, October 2011.26. Anindita Chakrabarti. “Movement, Institutionalization and Sectarianism: Exploring the Question of Succession in Religious Movements” at the 36th Annual Conference organized by the Indian Sociological Society, Cuttack, December 2010.27. Anindita Chakrabarti. “A Research Note on Religion and Politics”—paper presented at a seminar on Interdisciplinary Dialogue on Religion and Politics at the Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, November 2010.28. Anindita Chakrabarti. “Sectarian Identity, Sanskritization and the Question of the ‘Classical/Vernacular’, at an International Seminar on Language, Culture and Identity: Issues and Challenges, organized by the Department of Linguistics, Aligarh Muslim University in collaboration with the Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore, February 2010.