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In this article Dr. @ambreen_agha_ , Constellation Lead PSH, IDEAS & Associate Professor, JGU and Dr. Aqsa Agha, SRM University revisit intellectual legacy of Ali Shariati and examine enduring significance of Karbala in shaping Iran’s political theology & narratives of resistance

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Revisiting Shariati in a Time of War: Karbala, Resistance, and the Political Theology of Iran

How do historical memory, religious symbolism, and political resistance intersect in contemporary Iran?

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Prof. Sarin is an accomplished scholar whose work lies at the intersection of Artificial Intelligence, Computational Social Science, and Digital Behavioral Analytics. She holds a PhD in Information Systems and Analytics from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi.

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📢 Welcoming Prof. Pooja Sarin, Ph.D. Sarin to I.D.E.A.S. at JGU! 🎉

We are delighted to welcome Prof. Pooja Sarin to the Office of Interdisciplinary Studies (I.D.E.A.S.), O.P. Jindal Global University

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In their latest review for The Wire, Prof @Deepanshu_1810 and Aman Chain engage with Sebastian Mallaby’s The Infinity Machine. The review raises critical questions about the promises, uncertainties, and ethical dilemmas surrounding the development of advanced AI systems.

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Book Review | The Infinity Machine

Is the race to build Artificial General Intelligence a story of scientific ambition and innovation, or a cautionary tale about technology advancing faster than our understanding of it?

Link: https://t.co/XRe0QytoCg

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📢 IDEAS Masterclass Series

Join us for an engaging session on “Turning Numbers into Stories: Data Journalism from the Newsroom Perspective” by Mr. Nishant Ranjan, Data Journalist at Hindustan Times.

🔗 Zoom: https://t.co/mcFV5QXBWA

🔒 Password: JGU

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He brings with him decades of experience in public health & community engagement across India. A medical doctor from AFMC Pune with Master’s in Public Health from London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, he has worked extensively with NGOs & government institutions.

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We are delighted to welcome Dr. Sunil Kaul as a faculty member at the Office of Interdisciplinary Studies (IDEAS), O.P. Jindal Global University.

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🔹 Contributors:

• Deepanshu Mohan — Dean and Professor of Economics at O.P. Jindal Global University

• Kent deng — Professor of Economic History at the LSE’s Department of Economic History.

• Ankur Singh — Research Analyst with the Centre for New Economics Studies

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📢 In the News

China’s extraordinary economic rise transformed the global economy—but did ordinary households truly benefit from this growth?

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https://t.co/OQbkqf5PpB

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This edition brings together critical conversations on labour, precarity, neoliberal transformation, gendered inequalities, caste, urban vulnerability, and the evolving meanings of informality in contemporary economies

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📢 The latest edition of Conversations in Development Studies (CIDS) is now live!

“Defining Informality: From Structural Explanations to Social Entwinement”

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https://t.co/vysFimEswA

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At a time when knowledge production is increasingly shaped by digital technologies, the programme explores how traditional scholarship can meaningfully engage with emerging media forms, including textual, visual, audio, and data-driven methods.

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The Summer School on Digital Humanities & Methods is designed to equip participants with critical skills in digital research, analysis, storytelling, and visualization within the interdisciplinary social sciences.

To know more write to: [email protected]

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Prof @Deepanshu_1810, Dean IDEAS & Srisoniya Subramoniam, Research Analyst, CNES, explore this troubling paradox and unpack the structural inequalities that continue to shape women’s lived realities across class divides.

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https://t.co/ULUHg8Vvcy

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Prof Deepanshu Mohan, Dean, IDEAS have been appointed at Oxford Department of International Development, University of Oxford as a Visiting Research Fellow from this summer 2026

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It's an honour and a humbling moment to start and initiate my appointment at Oxford Department of International Development, @UniofOxford as a Visiting Research Fellow from this summer 2026... beyond my associations with The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and Birkbeck, University of London as a Visiting Professor and Research Fellow in the UK...

This is my third appointment and official visit for stay at Oxford, beyond my term at Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Oxford earlier, where I have been visiting since 2024 during late Fall period for research work & conducting seminars for Masters & Phd students in methodological orientation and experimental work (profile: https://t.co/gWxl1nd9tT)... Each visit to Oxford is marked with exceptional experiences of self learning & awareness to greater possibilities of knowing...

Apart from the U.K., my other (previous) visiting appointments & transnational academic exchanges during last 13 years of JGU association have featured institutions across Canada, US, Brazil, South Africa & Cambodia including: University of Ottawa, Carleton University (Ottawa), FGV - Fundação Getulio Vargas (Brazil), Stellenbosch University (Stellenbosch, South Africa) to mention a few...

Each appointment through years of hard work, starting from creating a Centre (CNES), evolving research commitment, and exposure to institutional training has been critical in enabling a globalised space for our Centre's immersive research work's dissemination, while developing research collaboration and opportunities through/for our platforms like I.D.E.A.S. Office of Interdisciplinary Studies and Centre for New Economics Studies at O.P. Jindal Global University (JGU) (see the IDEAS advisory board for instance: https://t.co/FJuwc4dxGj with over 100 scholars now)

At O.P. Jindal Global University (@JindalGlobalUNI), where am based and rooted in India, the university's leadership has exhibited and championed internationalisation as a core value- pursued in all its forms, and emerging as the benchmark pillar for curating, designing and developing tangible, long term research partnerships, while allowing scholars (independent of disciplinary backgrounds) and early-career researchers (including me) with an opportunity to explore, travel, and pursue globalised aspirations, while disseminating our work, engaging in seminars for feedback, while being absorbed in the university's core value system...

All credit for the institutional vision to passionately build this and ensure its practice as a collective good must especially go to the Founding Vice Chancellor Professor C. RajKumar whose invaluable, un-distilled support and vision, has oft helped lesser qualified academics like to me to ensure we can move beyond our bases to thrive in different positions of multiple equilibria, representing JGU, continuing to empower others who are part of this exceptional University ecosystem...

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From global trade tensions and energy insecurity to fiscal vulnerabilities and employment concerns, Prof. Deepanshu Mohan, Dean IDEAS unpacks the deeper geo-economic realities influencing India’s growth trajectory.

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Drawing from her book Sheher Mein Gaon, Dr. Chauhan offered insightful reflections on Delhi’s urban villages and the evolving intersections of migration, housing, gender, identity, and belonging in contemporary urban India.

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📢 Samagana Working Paper Series

We conducted a session of the Samagana Working Paper Series on 9 May 2026 featuring Dr. @ekta2993, Senior Research Fellow, IDEAS & Assistant Professor, JSDA.