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Reading Group
History of Science and Technology Reading Group
A shared space for reading the histories of science and technology and thinking through how those histories shape contemporary STS questions in India.
Current question
How do histories of science and technology in South Asia reorganize the questions STS asks about institutions, expertise, and public life?
Convening model
Madhulika Banerjee, Abhinav Tyagi, and Aditi Dey. Fortnightly sessions in online format.
Public outputs
Session notes, Reading paths, Teaching prompts
Reading cycle
Slow conversation becomes public infrastructure.
Reading groups are not side activity. They are where themes become people, questions become outputs, and shared reading becomes the site's living curriculum.
Read
A shared text, field case, report, or resource item anchors the session.
Discuss
Participants turn concepts into questions, examples, disagreements, and local observations.
Publish
Notes can become readers, NEXUS reflections, teaching prompts, or event ideas.
Share
Useful traces move into the Resource Hub so the conversation remains findable.
Join this cycle
Share your interests, city, and availability. The right follow-up may be a reading group session, a chapter route, a NEXUS report-back, or a resource contribution.