A state of perpetual flux has been a consistent feature of human experience. We inhabit social, political, and technological conditions that undergo continuous transformations, hence the concepts and tools for understanding them require similar fluidity. The disciplines of Humanities and Social Sciences have served and will continue to serve as professional spaces for such analyses, providing frameworks to map the contours of our ever-changing epistemic landscapes. Simultaneously, within these changing landscapes, certain fundamental inquiries persist. These constants- such as questions of meaning, justice, power, and identity- (re)emerge in different forms across time and space. Our methods of inquiry, whether to meet the ends of normative change or pure curiosity, keep switching from negotiating with these age-old problems to those of contemporary times.

These interrogations are also influenced by the intricacies of knowledge production itself. The solutions and certainties of one era often become the complex problems of the next, demanding new premises, challenging established assumptions, and forcing us to rethink the foundations of our disciplines. Thus, in the 11th edition of Graduate Research Meet, we aim to embrace the complexities of our collective inquiries and take the initiative to nurture multi-disciplinary discussions that take the collaborative goal a little bit further. We invite scholars to foster academic conversations and offer an opportunity for an extensive dialogue across the disciplines of Archaeology, Development Studies, Economics, English, History, Linguistics, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology, and Sociology.