The Indian Animal Studies Collective aims to bring together all those who are interested in nonhuman and human animals and the dynamics of their co-existence, particularly in India. How can we think about animals while living in multispecies spaces, and how do we think about them when some humans share that precarity? The Collective thinks through these positions in the hope to arrive at one of its own. 

The IASC organizes ‘Table Talks’, informal conversations with academics or activists whose work we admire.

We now have a podcast! The Indian Animal Studies Collective Podcast is a recording of our table talks and panel discussions on your favorite platform! We will continue to upload our videos on our youtube channel as well.

Tune in and subscribe on Spotify.

The third episode of the series, Between Theory and Praxis,”Arikomban’s Story” with Dr. Sreedhar Vijayakrishnan and Prakash is now live on Spotify.

Literature and More-Than-Human Encounters in India

August 24 – 25, 2024

Day 1: Saturday, August 24, 2024 (All times in IST)
Day 2: Sunday, August 25, 2024 (All times in IST)

Watch all six panels of Fifty Years of Project Tiger: Conservation, Conflict, Critique

Politics and Markets | Panel 1

Bureaucracy and Community | Panel 2

Reenchanting the Sundarbans | Panel 3

Paper Tigers | Panel 4

Histories from Above and Below | Panel 5

Contested Futures | Panel 6

*James Forbes – Oriental Memoirs, Vol. III, Bombay, around 1779.