Past Events

DISASTER PLANNING AND GOVERNANCE IN INDIA: Experts Experiences and Insights Book Launch & Discussion
The book launch event, “Disaster Planning and Governance in India: Expert’s Experiences and Insights” was held on Tuesday, May 27th 2025, at India International Centre (IIC) at 5:30pm. The book is co-edited by Dr. Sunita Reddy and Shri Anil Kumar Sinha, bringing together knowledge and firsthand experiences from India’s evolving

Do we have a Feminist Anthropology in India? | Prof. Subhadra Channa | AIF Guest Lecture Series | 22 May 2025
Prof. Subhadra Channa delivered a distinguished lecture titled “Do We Have a Feminist Anthropology in India?” under the AIF Distinguished Guest Lecture Series. Introduced by Prof. Sunita Reddy and Dhuri Saxena, Prof. Channa explained that during the period starting from the Second World War, feminism as a movement started

Weaving Indigenous Knowledge into the SDG Narrative: Whispers from the Field by – Prof. K. K Misra (24 April 2025)
Prof. Kamal K. Misra, Ph.D., is an eminent Indian anthropologist with over four decades of distinguished academic, research, and administrative experience. He currently holds the position of Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at KISS Deemed to be University (KISS-DU), Bhubaneswar. He formerly served as Vice-Chancellor of Utkal University of Culture and

ANTHROPOLOGY FOR DEVELOPMENT : REACHING OUT IN LETTER AND SPIRIT – Professor Geetika Ranjan
Anthropos India Foundation organized a very interactive and thought-stimulating lecture by Prof. Geetika Ranjan, a well-known anthropologist with a wide range of research in political anthropology, childhood studies, and tribal society. The lecture delved into the role of anthropology in development using the framework of meticulous ethnographic studies, critical thought,

PALAEOPATHOLOGY AT THE BEGINNING OFAGRICULTURE: ISSUES OF ADAPTATION, CULTURALPROGRESS: INDIAN SCENARIO -By PROF. SUBHASH R. WALIMBE
Professor Subhash Walimbe, a retired faculty member of Deccan College Post-Graduate
and Research Institute, Pune, is a leading expert in human skeletal biology and
bioarchaeology. With over four decades of research, he has played a key role in shifting
Indian skeletal studies from racial typology to a bio-cultural approach. His

Anthropology & Museums In India From The Colonial Period To The Contemporary Times By Prof Kishor Kumar Basa – AIF Guest Lecture Series (23 Jan 2025)
Prof. Basa completed his Ph. D. in Archaeology from the University of London and was a Commonwealth Academic Staff, Post Doctoral Fellow at the University of Cambridge. A former Head, Department of Anthropology, Utkal University, Prof. Basa has the rare distinction of heading seven leading organisations of the country, which