Gita Chadha in conversation with Hiyaa Ghosh - Event RSVP

Join us to discuss books on Women in Science to celebrate International Day for Women and Girls in STEM with Dr Gita Chadha and Prof. Hiya Gosh! This event is in collaboration with NCBS.

Join us on 18 February, 2024 at 5 pm!

Open to Bangalore only. 

About the speakers:

Dr. Gita Chadha is Visiting Professor, Azim Premji University, Bangalore. She holds the Obaid Siddiqui Chair at NCBS, Bangalore for 2023-24. She was formerly a faculty member at the Department of Sociology, University of Mumbai, India. She has a doctorate in sociology and has taught at undergraduate colleges at the Mumbai University and on the International Programme of the University of London in Mumbai. She was the Chairperson of the Women’s Development Centre, University of Mumbai from 2016 to 2020. Gita has developed frameworks for feminist archiving at the Research Centre for Women’s Studies, SNDT Women’s University, Mumbai, India. She has designed and taught a first of its kind course in Feminist Science Studies at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences in Mumbai, India. She has designed innovative pedagogic initiatives for integrating science and social science teaching. Gita is a member of several Board of Studies including SGODS, IGNOU and RCWS, SNDT University. Gita has published several articles on science criticism. Her research interests lie in science studies, feminist theories and post colonial studies. She has co-edited a volume called Zero Point Bombay. Her two volumes on Feminists and Science are co-edited with Sumi Krishna and are published by Stree Samya, Kolkata and SAGE. Her volume Re- Imagining Sociology in India: Feminist Perspectives co-edited with M.T. Joseph has been published by Routledge. She has edited a special issue of the Contributions to Indian Sociology entitled Feminisms and Sociologies: Insertions, Intersections and Integrations. With Asha Achuthan, she has edited a special issue of the Review of Women’s Studies of the Economic and Political Weekly entitled Feminist Science Studies: Intersectional
Narratives of Persons in Gender-Marginal Locations in Science .For EPW Engage , she has co-edited with Rukmini Sen a set of articles entitled Feminist Dilemmas: Moving beyond the List-Statement Binary. Recently she edited a Special issue of EPW Engage on Gender and COVID 19: Perspectives from the Margins. Her recent volume Mapping Scientific Method: Disciplinary Narrations is co-edited with Renny Thomas and published by Routledge. She has just completed curating and editing a series of essays called Pathaan, Meri Jann: Memoirs, Reflections, Analyses for Doing Sociology. She has been the Reviews Editor of Sambhashan, the Journal of University of Mumbai and is on the editorial team of Confluence, Indian Academy of Sciences and Catalyst Gita has also collaborated with women artists and poets in building common understandings of feminist art practices in India. She writes regularly on these issues.

Prof. Hiyaa Ghosh is a neuroscientist at the National Center for Biological Sciences (NCBS), a center of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR). She grew up in Delhi, where she did her schooling and college, and then went to the United States for higher studies. She did her PhD at the University of Pittsburgh, followed by postdoctoral training at Columbia University in New York. Her postdoctoral research on blood cells using genetic fate-tracking was among the first pieces of evidence that demonstrated active cell maintenance in adult animals. She was awarded the Scholars Award from the American Society of Haematology for these investigations. Before starting her laboratory at NCBS, she worked as a fellow in the Dept. of Neuroscience at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, studying brain regeneration. In 2015 she received the Ramanujan Fellowship for returning to India to establish her research program. She was selected as a global investigator for the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) in 2021, and last year she became a senior fellow of the Wellcome-Trust DBT India Alliance. Her laboratory at NCBS focuses on adult brain homeostasis and neuroinflammation, seeking to understand the genetic regulations underlying the maintenance of brain cells through a lifespan and the deregulations thereof that contribute to neuropathologies. More details about her work can be found here - https://www.ncbs.res.in/faculty/hiyaa