{"id":90,"date":"2021-03-18T05:16:28","date_gmt":"2021-03-18T05:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.iisermohali.ac.in\/dept\/hss\/?page_id=90"},"modified":"2021-03-20T06:06:21","modified_gmt":"2021-03-20T06:06:21","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.iisermohali.ac.in\/dept\/hss\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<div class=\"col-md-6\">\n<div class=\"about-us-internal-pages-info\">\n\n<p align=\"justify\">What is the role of Humanities and Social Sciences  (HSS) in a science institute? The answer lies in the IISER Mohali motto: <em>In  Pursuit of Knowledge<\/em>. We help situate science within the wider framework of  society and bring to the fore questions of ethics and aesthetics, of history  and philosophy, of poetry and politics. It is in this spirit that HSS has been  an integral part of IISER Mohali right from its inception. <\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">The emphasis at IISER Mohali is on interdisciplinary  scholarship and integration of teaching and research. All BS-MS students at  IISER Mohali are required to take at least 5 HSS courses. Besides, the  department also offers a specialised minor in Science-Society Studies (SSS) as  a part of the minor specialization in BS-MS degree. The HSS courses are well  integrated into the BS-MS curriculum with the following objectives: to make the  students aware of the social\/economic\/ethical implications of science research,  to inculcate an understanding of the historical and philosophical dimensions of  knowledge production, to foster critical thinking, and to initiate an  interdisciplinary dialogue. In teaching these courses, we see our role as  transformative in the educational process of scientists \u2013 we contribute by  taking students beyond a mere <em>doing of science <\/em>to developing an <em>understanding  of science <\/em>as a historically and socially situated practice. In this  respect, IISER Mohali students have an edge over students from all other  IISERs. <\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">The PhD program in HSS is multi-disciplinary and  allows our students to draw from a wide range of faculty expertise. Our  students receive strong training in theoretical as well as empirical aspects  relevent to their research trajectory. <\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">HSS faculty contributes towards original research that  has impact across national borders and across disciplinary boundaries. Areas of  research currently represented in the department include philosophy of  scientific concepts, history of science and its embeddedness in cultural  histories, post-war American literature, archaeology, understanding evolution  through paleoanthropology, feminist and critical geographic approaches to  labour studies and questions of identity, the intellectual history of the  progressive writers association, issues and research related to development  economics, work and employment, public economics and policy studies, economics  of organization and institutional economics. Our objective in the coming years  is to expand and strengthen the disciplinary diversity of our department. <\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"col-md-6\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/web.iisermohali.ac.in\/dept\/hss\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/faculity-01.jpg\">\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the role of Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) in a science institute? The answer lies in the IISER Mohali motto: In Pursuit of Knowledge. We help situate science within the wider framework of society and bring to the fore questions of ethics and aesthetics, of history and philosophy, of poetry and politics. It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-90","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.iisermohali.ac.in\/dept\/hss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/90","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.iisermohali.ac.in\/dept\/hss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.iisermohali.ac.in\/dept\/hss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.iisermohali.ac.in\/dept\/hss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.iisermohali.ac.in\/dept\/hss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/web.iisermohali.ac.in\/dept\/hss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/90\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":823,"href":"https:\/\/web.iisermohali.ac.in\/dept\/hss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/90\/revisions\/823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.iisermohali.ac.in\/dept\/hss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}