The Women’s Football Team from Krea University has secured first place at Syminaret’24, hosted by Symbiosis Law School, Hyderabad. The winning team comprised Nanki Puri (Captain), Mishka Katyanyan, Shilpi Rani, Antim Khare, Aakansha Khetan, Nirjala Sharma, and Navya Holla. Congratulations!
Author: Ram Kumar
Sathyanarayanan Ramachandran writes about the phenomenon of overtourism in The Hindu BusinessLine
Sathyanarayanan Ramachandran, Sundram Fasteners Associate Professor, Marketing, IFMR GSB, Krea University authored a guest article in The Hindu BusinessLine, titled Tourist boom-turned-bane. Trampled by overtourism. The article sheds light on the phenomenon of overtourism and emphasises the need for sustainable destination marketing.
Read the article here.
A paper co-authored by Dr Shyam Kumar Sudhakar and Kaustav Mehta published in the Brain Organoid and Systems Neuroscience Journal
A paper titled Charting Paths to Recovery: Navigating Traumatic Brain Injury Comorbidities through Graph Theory–Exploring Benefits and Challenges, co-authored byDr Shyam Kumar Sudhakar, Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences, SIAS, Krea University and Kaustav Mehta, a Biological Sciences student, SIAS PG Batch of 2023-24 has been published in the Brain Organoid and Systems Neuroscience Journal.
Traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) are characterized by widespread complications that exert a debilitating effect on the well-being of the affected individual. TBIs are associated with a multitude of psychiatric and medical comorbidities over the long term. Furthermore, no medications prevent secondary injuries associated with a primary insult. In this perspective article, the authors propose applying graph theory via the construction of disease comorbidity networks to identify high-risk patient groups, offer preventive care to affected populations, and reduce the disease burden. They describe the challenges associated with monitoring the development of comorbidities in TBI subjects and explain how disease comorbidity networks can reduce disease burden by preventing disease-related complications. They further discuss the various methods used to construct disease comorbidity networks and explain how features derived from a network can help identify subjects who might be at risk of developing post-traumatic comorbidities. Lastly, they address the potential challenges of using graph theory to successfully manage comorbidities following a TBI.
Read the article here.
Dr Panchali Ray Awarded Charles Wallace Fellowship for Research on Migration, Ecology and Borders in Bengal
Dr Panchali Ray, Associate Dean (Academic) and Associate Professor of Anthropology and Gender Studies, SIAS, Krea University has been awarded the Charles Wallace Fellowship for her research on migration, ecology and borders in Bengal. She will be a visiting fellow at the Queen’s University, Belfast, for three months.
On the Face of It: From Monumental Images to Collective Actions – A Paper Presentation by Dr Rakshi Rath and Dr Srajana Kaikini
Dr Rakshi Rath, Assistant Professor of Psychology, SIAS, Krea University, and Dr Srajana Kaikini, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, SIAS, Krea University co-presented their paper titled On the Face of It: from Monumental Images to Collective Actions at the Workshop Seminar Twenty-First Century Media? Affective Bodies, Crowds, and Collectives, organised by ICAS:MP TM 7 module, in collaboration with CSDS and Sarai, on 21-23 March, 2024.
This international workshop was focused on site-specific contributions mapping 21st-century media, addressing material and environmental questions for media and political aesthetics. The paper brings theories of Philosophy and Psychology in critical conversation with each other around social ontology, media aesthetics, and political psychology in an attempt to forge new interdisciplinary frameworks for social action.
Exploring Purpose, Permanence, and Sustainability: Sathyanarayanan Ramachandran Delivers a Talk at the NBS Global Webinar
Sathyanarayanan Ramachandran, Sundram Fasteners Associate Professor of Marketing at IFMR GSB, Krea University, gave a talk on his Purpose, Permanence and Sustainability teaching intervention in the Product and Brand Management elective course of IFMR GSB’s MBA programme during the NBS Global webinar held on 19 March, 2024.
He was invited by the Network for Business Sustainability (NBS), powered by the Centre for Building Sustainable Value at the Ivey Business School at Western University, to present this as a part of their Teaching Climate Change in Business Schools Virtual Event Series.
In this module on Teaching Climate Policy and Negotiations in Business Schools, he described his practice of a sensitisation workshop incorporating the idea of the economy of permanence of the Gandhian economist J C Kumarappa and the deep purpose continuum of the Harvard Business School Professor Ranjay Gulati, followed by the hands-on ENROADS climate action simulation of Climate Interactive and MIT Management Sustainability Initiative. The ideas were well received and appreciated by the audience.
Dr Shyam Kumar Sudhakar delivers a talk at IIIT Hyderabad
Dr Shyam Kumar Sudhakar, Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences, SIAS, Krea University delivered a talk titled Application of computational modeling and large-scale data analysis for identifying drugs and managing comorbidities after traumatic brain injuries at IIIT Hyderabad.
Abstract:
Traumatic brain injuries (TBI) constitute one of the biggest public health problems facing the world population. Physical trauma to the brain could lead to the damage and subsequent death of the affected neurons, and this could continue for extended periods, causing secondary brain injuries. As a consequence, TBI can cause long-term medical and psychiatric problems. No treatment options exist to date to prevent the cascade of secondary brain injuries.
When promising therapeutic options are unavailable to treat TBI, carefully crafted patient care programs and disease prevention strategies could lead to better patient experiences. The goal of my research program is twofold: Construct a detailed bio-simulation platform encompassing post-TBI changes at multiple spatial and temporal time scales to identify the most promising therapeutic agents for neuroprotection after TBI; Perform large-scale data analyses of multi-center patient databases to understand the unique pattern of post-traumatic comorbidities as a function of different injury parameters (sex, age, type and severity of injury, years post-injury, socioeconomic status). In this talk, I will illustrate my recent research results pertaining to computational modeling and large-scale mining of patient databases. I believe my dual approach of computational modeling and large-scale data analysis would lead to the discovery of novel drugs and drug combinations to treat the disease and devise vital patient care programs.
Dr Rama Devi delivers an invited lecture at Saveetha School of Law, Chennai, and co-authors a paper published in the Sociological Bulletin
Dr Rama Devi, Visiting Assistant Professor, SIAS, Krea University, delivered an invited lecture titled Domesticity and Autonomy: Occupational Imageries and Employable Skills of Educated Dalit Women, at the National Seminar on Gendering Social Relations: Caste, Wage Work, Literature and Law organised by Saveetha School of Law, Chennai.
About the Talk
Education is conceived as a powerful and political instrument to gain autonomy, agency, and empowerment for marginalised communities. For women, it holds the promise of liberation from their economic dependence on men by creating several possibilities to gain economic independence, assertive expression of voice, and navigating the tight grasp of patriarchal norms in their everyday lives. This lecture traces how education intersects with gender, norms of domesticity, and modern occupational aspirations to reproduce the ideal of respectable women in the neo-liberal economy.
Dr Rama Devi has also co-authored a paper with Dr Sawmya Ray, IITGuwahati. Titled We Know What is Good for Her: Hunar and Respectable Work for Women, the paper has been published in the Sociological Bulletin.
Abstract
Education is often conflated with women’s empowerment. Access to formal education is considered to possess the potential to usher in the elimination of the imposed dependence of women on men by enhancing their employability and easing their entry into the labour market. This article argues that establishing such simplistic interconnections evades hidden constraints of sociocultural conditions entwined with patriarchal ideologies that influence and even partially prohibit women’s access to education vis-a-vis employment, resulting in their marginalisation in the labour market. Examining the nature of educational access and occupational aspirations, of urban women residing in a Delhi settlement, the article shows that patriarchal ideology impresses and controls the nature and outcome of the education they obtain. In the settlement, while most young girls are pursuing higher education, not everyone is expected to channelise their educational degrees to secure paid employment. Unlike men, women are not encouraged to engage in every form of work as the nature of female occupation is tied to notions of honour and disgrace of the family. Locally prevailing patriarchal norms dictate and define what constitutes respectable work for women. They are permitted to aspire and engage in reputable work.
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Shweta Rani to deliver an invited talk titled Khula Area: On the Urban and the Pathological as part of the CSH-CPR Urban Workshop series
Shweta Rani, Faculty Teaching Associate at the Centre of Writing and Pedagogy (CWP), Krea University will deliver an invited talk titled Khula Area: On the Urban and the Pathological, as part of the CSH-CPR Urban Workshop series, organised by the Centre de Sciences Humaines (CSH) and the Centre for Policy Research (CPR), on 26 March, 2024.
About talk: Pathology is one of the key factors that informs and structures urban spaces. To explore the relationship between the urban and the pathological, this talk trails the Aedes mosquito, the dengue vector, to trace the intersection of civic, social, ecological, and political in the everyday life of Delhi. Since 1996, the Indian capital city has faced almost a yearly outbreak of dengue, a mosquito-borne viral infection. To control the possibility of yet another dengue epidemic, the gaze of public health authorities primarily focuses on the areas considered inherently ‘dirty’- localities of East Delhi at the margin of the city, situated at Yamuna riverfront, populated by working-class migrants living in the unauthorised colonies. The residents of such areas have to deal with the absence of basic urban infrastructure while also being under the stringent administrative glare for pest control.
Picking up on the usage of the colloquial expression ‘khula area’ by inhabitants of these areas and their administrators to express the ungovernable stubbornness of such regions, this ethnographic shows that while the state works to localise the pathological, it remains fuzzy and deterritorialised. By analysing narratives around the ‘Khula Area’ this work explores how a city is imagined, inhabited, and governed through the prism of the pathological and all things that fall within its shadow.
Register for the Zoom meeting here.
The World Humanities Report
The World Humanities Report (WHR), coordinated by the Consortium of Humanities Centres and Institutes (CHCI) and the International Council of Philosophy and the Human Sciences (CIPSH), in collaboration with UNESCO, has now been released. Professor Bishnu Mohapatra, Director, Moturi Satyanarayana Centre for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences and Professor of Politics, SIAS, Krea University is the World Humanities Report (WHR) regional team leader for India and South Asia.
The World Humanities Report (WHR) presents diverse ways in which the humanities enable us to understand social realities and human entanglements in different regions of the world. In collaboration with UNESCO, the Consortium of Humanities Centres and Institutes (CHCI) and the International Council of Philosophy and the Human Sciences (CIPSH) coordinate the making of this report. Eight core research groups organised regionally (Africa, the Americas, the Arab Region, Australia, Europe, Mainland China, Russia, and India /South Asia) contribute to the fashioning of this report.
On an invitation by CHCI, Professor Bishnu Mohapatra anchored the India /South Asia report. With the help of thirteen critical essays and twelve short video conversations, the India/South Asia report depicts the humanities’ active presence in plural locations, diverse forms, and multiple tongues. Several people were involved in the making of this report, including twenty-nine scholars/researchers drawn from universities, research institutions, and civil society organisations connected to vast swathes of academic disciplines such as history, literary studies, social anthropology, social theory, aesthetics and performance studies, feminist studies, philosophy, cultural studies, linguistics, and musicology.
The report is by no means exhaustive. Its central objective is gestural, which points out how the humanities, despite resource and status-deficits, have enabled critical interrogation of social practices in India and South Asia.
Read the Report here.