Ahmedabad University School of Arts and Sciences

The School of Arts and Sciences @AhdUniv. Offering a world-class liberal arts and sciences education in the heart of the city.

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It is a very special day for us @ahmedabad. The spectacular School of Arts and Sciences building, designed by Rahul Mehrotra of RMA architects, was inaugurated today. #liberalarts #humanities #sciences #socialsciences

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Join us for the next talk in the Arts and Sciences Research Seminar Series:

What Eigenvectors and Eigenvalues Reveal About Graphs: Distance and Resistance Laplacians

Register here: https://t.co/8ufEAUVlNp

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Join Rochona Majumdar, George V. Bobrinskoy Professor at The University of Chicago, as she explores filmmaker Mrinal Sen’s late career and lasting influence.

“Mrinal Sen and the ‘Enemy Within’”
14 Oct 2026 | 4:30–6 PM IST
Room 004, School of Arts & Sciences, Central Campus

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Two students of PhD in Biological and Life Sciences Tathagata Bhowmik and Aditya Wadekar, as well as an alumna, Chena Desai, presented papers in the 20th International Society for Behavioural Ecology (ISBE) Conference on 20 to 24th July 2026 at Centro Congressi Lingotto, Italy.

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Prof. Ranu Roychoudhuri from the Performing and Visual Arts Division at Ahmedabad University is participating in two upcoming programmes exploring the histories, practices, and changing meanings of photography in South Asia.

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An alumni, 𝗥𝗮𝘆 𝗥𝘂𝗱𝗿𝗮(𝗢𝗺 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗸𝗵) presented their paper at the 3rd 𝘈𝘯𝘯𝘶𝘢𝘭 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘧𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘰𝘯 𝘘𝘶𝘦𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘎𝘭𝘰𝘣𝘢𝘭 𝘚𝘰𝘶𝘵𝘩 𝘰𝘯 ‘𝘈𝘳𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘴, 𝘈𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘴, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘍𝘶𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴’ in Johannesburg, South Africa.

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We are delighted to organise a one-day Fulbright Graduate Enrichment Workshop on 8th April 2026. Students visiting India from the US will be presenting their research alongside our Interdisciplinary Humanities and Social Sciences PhD candidates.

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The Division of Performing and Visual Arts, School of Arts and Sciences, Ahmedabad University, recently hosted a seminar, "Behind the Lens: Techniques and Narratives in Wildlife Filmmaking" by Nitye Sood, a documentary filmmaker, cinematographer, and National Geographic Explorer.

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The School of Arts and Sciences, Ahmedabad University, recently held a panel titled "Making Selves, Making Claims through Property, Aspirations, and Affect". The panel brought together three papers by Prof. Maya Ratnam, Prof. Mona Mehta and Prof. Safwan Amir.

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It is a pleasure to share that Ms. Gargi Mukherjee, a final-year IMS Life Sciences student of Ahmedabad University, has secured a PhD position at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Heidelberg, Germany.

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The School of Arts and Sciences, Ahmedabad University, co-hosted the First Annual Conference of the Forum for Research in Indian Music, 7-8 Feb 2026.
Scholars presented research exploring Indian music traditions through textual, historical, and empirical approaches.

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Fourth Year B. Sc. Computer Science students Saumya Devang Shah, Suryaraj Jadeja, and Om Chelji Patel recently participated in the Codeversity – National Level Hackathon IIT Gandhinagar Edition 2026, where their team Blockchain_Disruptors secured the Third Prize.

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Conceptualised by Prof. Koustav Nag (Performing and Visual Arts), Chhapa–Hanga is an Indo–Japan Printmaking Exhibition on view at Japan Foundation, New Delhi, from 8–14 Feb 2026. Prof. Nag's block print Labour–II (2020) reflects on the harsh realities of brick factory workers.

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Students at Ahmedabad University are undertaking a capstone project titled "Hearing for Inclusion" under the guidance of Prof. Shilpa Pandit. The project focuses on understanding the challenges faced by people with hearing impairments, especially children. #ahmedabadstudentlife

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Professor Rachna Mishra, Assistant Professor of Psychology at Ahmedabad University, has been awarded the University startup grant to lead a longitudinal research project on child care institutions in India.

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𝘌𝘯𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢 𝘕𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯: 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘓𝘪𝘧𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘊𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘳 𝘰𝘧 𝘔. 𝘝𝘪𝘴𝘷𝘦𝘴𝘷𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘺𝘢 (Penguin Random House India) by Aparajith Ramnath, Associate Professor, School of Arts and Sciences, Ahmedabad University, has been awarded the prestigious Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book Prize 2025. The jury, which included N. Chandrasekaran (Chairman, Tata Sons and Tata Group), Manish Sabharwal (Entrepreneur), Niraja Gopal Jayal (Political Scientist), Srinath Raghavan (Historian), Rahul Matthan (Eminent Attorney), Jawed Ashraf (Former Ambassador of India to France), and Yamini Aiyar (Public Policy Scholar), recognised it as the most outstanding non-fiction book on modern and contemporary India this year. The award will be presented on December 6, 2025 at the Bangalore Literature Festival.

In Professor Ramnath’s words, “Visvesvaraya was easily the most famous Indian engineer of the century, and yet much more than that description suggests.” His legacy, as the book shows, is not abstract but lived. If you have picnicked at Brindavan Gardens near the KRS Dam, studied at IISc Bengaluru or ICT Mumbai, drawn water in Hyderabad from Himayat Sagar or Osman Sagar, or used Mysore Sandal Soap at home, you have already encountered his work whether you realised it or not.

The biography is the result of seven years of extensive archival research across India and abroad, drawing from letters, technical papers, newspapers and official documents to reconstruct not only the life of a remarkable individual but also the story of a modern nation.Congratulations to Professor Aparajith Ramnath on this extraordinary recognition.

Listen to Srinath Raghavan, Trustee, New India Foundation, on this year’s award: https://t.co/1F25JSQR6c

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“The best legal minds have always engaged deeply with psychology because the legal process itself is interpretive. To give justice, one must understand the human mind,” says Professor Shilpa Pandit of the School of Arts and Sciences.

Yet, she observes, the complexity and the absurdity of the Indian system, which remains divided: lawyers study law, psychologists study psychology, and neither truly engages with the other. The result is a fractured framework where psychology students often overlook legal protections for their clients, while legal practitioners lack the psychological insight to grasp lived human experiences.

Her book, Social Psychology and Law in India, brings together psychology, law, and social policy to show that justice cannot exist without understanding the mind. Rooted in her own interdisciplinary journey, the book calls for professionalising psychology and humanising law, helping future practitioners think critically, act ethically, and engage compassionately with justice.

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We often say the city is our classroom, but our BA (Hons) student Jhinuk Sharma took that a step further and expanded it to encompass the entire world. She became one of only 40 delegates representing India at the World Youth Festival Assembly 2025 in Russia, the globe's largest youth gathering.

Representing India among 6,000 participants from 120 countries, Jhinuk gained an inside view of how young leaders across diverse nations think about critical global issues, absorbing different cultures, morals, and values in real time. It was an intensive, living dialogue. Through cross-cultural workshops, she learned about the intricacies of social entrepreneurship, mentorship, and cooperation within the BRICS framework. This experience solidified her academic perspective, which began back at Ahmedabad University.

"At Ahmedabad University, we are constantly encouraged to think beyond disciplinary boundaries," Jhinuk reflects. "This foundational mindset, the push to connect History with global issues, culture, and innovation, helped me approach the Assembly as a delegate and as a humanities student, understanding how policy, art, and identity converge to shape the world's future."

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Join us for the Research Seminar “Heidegger on Human Cognition and AI Cognition” with Navneet Chopra, Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Delhi.

Wednesday | October 29, 2025 | 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM IST

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Join us for the Research Seminar “United by Suspicion? Democracy and Minority Publics” with Shefali Jha, Faculty Member, Dhirubhai Ambani University.

Wednesday | October 15, 2025 | 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM IST

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Join us for the Research Seminar “Enterprise and Temporality: Merchants’ Consciousness of Time and its Representation in Early Modern India” with Ghulam A. Nadri, Professor of History, Georgia State University.

Tuesday | October 7, 2025 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM IST