Dr Vivek Radhakrishnan, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at SIAS published a paper titled Feeling and Moral Motivation in Kant: A Response to the Frierson-Grenberg Debate in Con-Textos Kantianos, and published Maṉithaneya Nokkathilirunthu Pŏi Pesalām Eṉdṟĕṇappatta Ŏru Urimaiyai Patṟi, a Tamil translation of Immanuel Kant’s essay On a Supposed Right to Tell Lies from Benevolent Motives, in Kanali
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Dr Soumyajit Bhar, Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies at SIAS recently organised a panel at the SCORAI-ERSCP-WUR Conference, Transforming Consumption-Production Systems Toward Just and Sustainable Futures, held at Wageningen University, Netherlands from 5-8 July 2023
Dr Kalpita Bhar Paul, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at SIAS presented her paper titled Can Pro-environmental Values Lead to Sustainable Food Consumption in Global South at the SCORAI-ERSCP-WUR Conference on Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP 2023), held at Wageningen University, Netherlands from 5-8 July 2023
Dr Srajana Kaikini, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, SIAS reviewed A Phenomenology by Nicolle Zapien and Susi Ferrarello (2019) in Ethical Perspectives (September 2022) and authored a research essay titled Adyar’s Cosmopolitanisms: Notes from the Adyar Archive (July 2022) in Critical Collectives, commissioned by them for their Art History Project
Dr CP Anil Kumar, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, SIAS published a paper titled On Rational Sets in Euclidean Spaces and Spheres in the Journal of the Ramanujan Mathematical Society
Dr John Mathew, Associate Professor of History of Science, SIAS and Dr Karthick Narayanan, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Moturi Satyanarayana Centre for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences at Krea University are co-organisers of NilgiriScapes, a conference lined towards the bio-culturally sustainable future of the Nilgiris, to be held in Ooty, on 18 – 20 August 2023. This conference is a collaboration between Krea University, Keystone Foundation, Make Ooty Beautiful, Clean Coonoor, ATREE and NNHS NilgiriScapes
(Re)Constituting a South Asian Environmental Humanities co-organised by Dr Kalpita Bhar Paul, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, SIAS; Dr Joya John, Assistant Professor of Literature, SIAS and Megnaa Mehtta, ICAS:MP and UCL will be held on 3 and 4 August at the India International Centre (IIC), New Delhi
Dr Sumitra Ranganathan, Senior Assistant Professor of Music, Literature & the Arts and Humanities & Social Sciences, SIAS delivered an invited lecture titled Creative Visualization for Imaginative Classrooms at a day-long event Unleash your creative potential: Community Canvas, conducted by TREE and Dakshinachitra, on 21 July 2023, attended by over 60 teachers and counsellors from schools in and outside Chennai
Prof (retd) T R Govindarajan, Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, and Visiting Professor of Physics at SIAS recently penned a review on Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer. The review talks about the hits and misses in the movie and acknowledges that the movie is brilliantly made and worth watching for the truthfulness of the presentation of historic events with details of emotions, and empathy of scientists who made it possible
Dr Chirag Dhara, Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies at SIAS and Dr Roxy Mathew Koll from the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology co-authored an article titled, What will an El Niño bring next to India? The article explores the impacts of El Niño events on India’s monsoon and emphasises the need for adaptation strategies. The article has also been republished in The India Forum, and Down to Earth.
