Talk by Dr. Madhu Verma on 'Economic Valuation of Tiger Habitats in India: A Value Plus Approach'

Donor's visit: Chandrashekhar Dasgupta's family (wife Devika Dasgupta and son Sanjoy Dasgupta) visit to ACI.

Acquisition of Prema Sastri Papers: Sumi Sastri donated the papers of her mother Prema Sastri, a short-story writer and playwright for preservation and research.

Ali Manikfan (ecologist and marine researcher), Dr Ajmal Mueen (Associate Professor, Department of History, M.A.M.O. College, Calicut, Kerala) and Mustafa Moulavi (Islamic scholar) visited ACI on 20 March 2024.

Talk by Joseph S. Alter (Professor of Anthropology at University of Pittsburgh) on 'The "Discovery" of Yoga in the Himalaya: Swami Sivananda, New Asia Connectivities and the Mythos of Orientalism'.

Launch of the MacFarquhar Collection. Hosted by Centre for China Studies and ACI. Archivists in conversation with Nancy Hearst, Librarian, Fairbank Centre for Chinese Studies, Harvard University.

Visit of Prof. Patrick Olivelle (Professor of Sanskrit and Indian Religions, Department of Asian Studies, University of Texas, Austin) to ACI.

Talk by Prof. Arupjyoti Saikia (Professor of History, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Guwahati, Assam) on his book 'The Quest for Modern Assam: A History, 1942-2000'.

Talk by Prof. Dilip M. Menon (Professor of History, University of Witwatersrand and Founder-Director, Centre for Indian Studies in Africa) on 'An Archives of the Demotic: Thinking Theory from our Spaces' organised by the ACI and Department of History.

Prof. Dilip M. Menon visits ACI

Visit of Latika Padgaonkar (donor of Dileep Padgaonkar Papers) to the ACI.

Visit of Om Thanvi, former Editor of Jansatta and donor of S.H. Vatsyayan Papers visits ACI.

Talk by Dr. K. Ullas Karanth (Emeritus Director, CWS, Bengaluru) on his latest book ‘Among Tigers: Fighting to Bring Back Asia’s Big Cats' organised by the Archives of Contemporary India and Department of Environmental Studies.

Discussion on ‘Growing up Karanth’ by Dr. K. Ullas Karanth, Prof. Malavika Kapur & Ms. Kshama Rau organised by the Department of Sanskrit Studies and Archives of Contemporary India

Talk on ‘Anatomy of Multipolar World’ by Dilip Hiro, well-known historian, author and journalist. (Ashoka Archives was privileged to receive a collection of his papers in December 2019)

Workshop with undergraduates of ICT (Introduction to Critical Thinking) class regarding the basic aspects of private papers and archival management.

In collaboration with the Department of Sociology and Anthropology organised a lecture on ‘India’s Markets: Five Decades of Field Economics’ by Prof. Barbara Harriss-White, Professor Emeritus of Development Studies, University of Oxford.

Participation in workshop on Archival Standards & Digitization Workflows conducted by British Library, London, and hosted by Archives at NCBS, (National Centre for Biological Sciences) Bengaluru

Workshop on the practical working of archives with the students of Johannes Burgers, Assistant Professor, English & Digital Humanities, Ashoka University

Workshop on the practical working of archives with Suzanne Edwards of Gloria Naylor archives, Lehigh University

Felicitation function of Shri Chandi Prasad Bhatt, Gandhian social activist. (Ashoka Archives was privileged to receive a collection of his private papers in October 2017)

Participation in Annual Conference of Oral History Association of India organised by OHAI, Bengaluru, and Department of History, Gauhati University