Past Events

Undergraduate Information Session

6:00–7:30 pm
UChicago Center in Delhi

Please join representatives from Johns Hopkins University, Barnard College, and the University of Chicago for a joint public information session about undergraduate admissions to highly selecting U.S. colleges and universities. This presentation will feature information on academics, student life, and the application process, and will be followed by an opportunity to ask questions of representatives of all three schools.

Connection Series: Bhakti Ke Tin Svar / Three Bhakti Voices

5:00–7:00 pm
UChicago Center in Delhi

Bhakti or ‘devotion’—as a religious concept and practice, as a literary and aesthetic program, and as a social and political ‘movement’—vastly changed the cultural landscape of India in the medieval and early modern periods and continues to shape the way that many people in India (and other South Asian countries) understand the world and their place in it. Through their poetry and their life stories the poet-saints Mirabai, Kabir, and Surdas have become so closely associated with bhakti that their fame has spread among devotees all over the subcontinent, including those far from northern India where these saints are believed to have lived. At the same time they have also become important figures in the more general historical and cultural consciousness of the independent Indian nation as they provide ways to think through questions of morality, duty, individual, and community.

Climate Change and the Human Sciences

2:45–3:45 pm
St. Stephen's College

In this talk, Professor Chakrabarty will discuss the various responses that scholars in the social sciences have had to the phenomenon of anthropogenic climate change and will focus in particular on the social significance of debates on the idea of the Anthropocene, the proposed new name of the geological epoch we may be passing through.

Climate Change and India: Conversing Across Disciplines

1:30 pm
UChicago Center in Delhi

The main objective of this conclave organized by Dipesh Chakrabarty, Lawrence A Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor of History, South Asian Languages and Civilizations, and the College; Faculty Director, UChicago Center in Delhi, is to brainstorm about how climate change is being discussed and responded to in India by various stakeholders including scientists, policy people, science communicators, the media, activists, and social groups and communities. 

International Innovation Corps 2019 Cohort Training

Through March 29, 2019
UChicago Center in Delhi

International Innovation Corps (IIC), a program based at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy, will conduct a two week training program for its 2019-2020 cohort of fellows at the Center. This training program will be led by faculty and staff from the University of Chicago, as well as local experts and Government officials. The IIC fellows will be working in teams on 13-month projects with the Indian Government and other key stakeholders tackling contemporary developmental challenges.
 

Graduate Information Session in Social Sciences

11:00 am–12:30 pm
United States-India Educational Foundation (USIEF), New Delhi

Since its founding in 1890, the University of Chicago has been at the forefront of social scientific disciplines. Graduate programs, including 5 master's degrees and 9 PhD programs, range from Anthropology, Economics, History, and International Relations to Computational Social Science, Sociology, and Political Science. Learn more from Michael Reese and Matthias Staisch about the programs offered, UChicago's unique intellectual environment, and the admissions process. 

Graduate Information Session in Social Sciences

2:45–3:45 pm
United States-India Educational Foundation (USIEF) Maker Bhavan 1, 2nd Floor, Churchgate (E), Mumbai 400020

Since its founding in 1890, the University of Chicago has been at the forefront of social scientific disciplines. Graduate programs, including 5 master's degrees and 9 PhD programs, range from Anthropology, Economics, History, and International Relations to Computational Social Science, Sociology, and Political Science. Learn more from Michael Reese and Matthias Staisch about the programs offered, UChicago's unique intellectual environment, and the admissions process. 

International Conference on How Can India Reduce its Waste and Enhance Livelihoods

Time TBA
UChicago Center in Delhi

Chintan and Friedrich Ebert Foundation, in collaboration with the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago (EPIC India) and the Tata Centre for Development (TCD), are hosting an international conference on waste reduction and enhanced livelihoods. The objective is to bring together major global and domestic players to share their work, ideas and successes around the theme of waste reduction, circular economy and livelihoods. 

Committee on International Relations Visit 2019

Through March 26, 2019
Mumbai and Delhi

The Committee on International Relations (CIR) will offer its students an intensive week-long seminar on Asian international relations at the University of Chicago’s Center in Delhi in March 2019. It will include opportunities to meet South Asian scholars and international relations practitioners from the Indian government and regional think tanks, who will provide guest lectures on such issues as security, international political economy, human rights and climate change.

Harris Admitted Students Dinner

5:00–9:00 pm
UChicago Center in Delhi

The Center in Delhi hosted the annual welcome reception for the newly admitted students to the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy. Newly admitted members of the graduate divisions, and their families were welcomed to the UChicago family by the UChicagoGRAD, alumni, and staff.