CWP Director, Dr Anannya Dasgupta is giving a talk titled The Process of Revision on 16 February, 2024 at the 2-Day National Seminar on Academic Writing and Strategic Publication for Research hosted by the School of Social Sciences and Languages VIT, Chennai.
On 10th February 2024, Dr Anannya Dasgupta conducted a workshop titled the other half of the half moon – haiku for psychotherapists. She teamed up with the psychotherapist Anchal Bhatnagar for this event.
In a video interview for Konversations By InsideIIM, Prof Lakshmi Kumar, Professor, Economics and Dean, IFMR GSB, Krea University talks about the current economic situation in the country, the situation around unemployment and inflation, and why she is concerned about whether growth will happen or not.
Prof Lakshmi Kumar talks about the importance of understanding economics and macroeconomics for an MBA student, and the ways in which she makes difficult financial concepts easier to understand for her students. She also talks about the importance of steady alumni support for a B-school, especially in times when the hiring is slow and the markets are down.
Sathyanarayanan R, Sundram Fasteners Associate Professor, Marketing at IFMR GSB, Krea University has been invited by the Network for Business Sustainability, powered by the Centre for Building Sustainable Value at the Ivey Business School (Western University, Canada), to present his Purpose, Permanence and sustainability teaching intervention in the Brand Management elective course of the IFMRGSB’s MBA programme. The intervention covers the idea of the economy of permanence of Gandhian economist J C Kumarappa, the deep purpose continuum of Harvard Business School Professor Ranjay Gulati, and the ENROADS climate action simulation of Climate Interactive and MIT Management Sustainability Initiative. Sathyanarayanan R will deliver this talk in March 2024, during the Global webinar on teaching climate in business schools.
Dr Praveen Bhagawan, Associate Professor & Area Chair – Finance & Accounting, Quantitative Finance and Dr Jyoti Prasad Mukhopadhyay, Associate Professor & Area Chair – Economics, IFMR GSB, Krea University have co-authored a research paper titled Does mandatory expenditure on CSR affect firm value? Empirical evidence from Indian firms, published in the Journal of Accounting Literature (JAL).
JAL is a highly regarded peer-reviewed journal and is categorized as “A” as per the ABDC journal classification, with Impact Factor = 5.6 and SJR (2022) = 1.4 (Q1).
Find out more about the paper here
Prof Jayaram Ramakrishnan, Professor of Practice of Finance at IFMR GSB, Krea University delivered an invited talk on the topic of Foundry Cost Accounting Practice & Procedure at the MSME Conclave of the 72nd Indian Foundry Congress held at Sheraton, Bengaluru on 24 February, 2024.
Dr Srajana Kaikini, Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Dr Vivek Radhakrishnan, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at SIAS, Krea University will deliver talks at the Workshop on Reason, Feeling and Experience. The workshop is co-organised by the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at IIT Tirupati and the Philosophy Department, SIAS, Krea University. The event is set to take place on February 10, 2024.
Dr Kaikini will present on the topic Life-Images: Curatorial Transcendence, while Dr Radhakrishnan’s talk is on Feeling and Moral Agency: Recalibrating Kant towards Okin.
For details about the workshop, click here
Dr Srajana Kaikini, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at SIAS, Krea University has curated Shimmering Whispers from a Kanakambaram Summer – A tribute to time and space, 2018–2023, a debut show by Shivapriya, a self taught visual artist mentored by artist Ravi Kumar Kashi, residing in Chennai.
The Inauguration, followed by a conversation between the artist and the curator, took place on February 3, 2024, at Alliance Française of Madras. The art exhibition is open from February 3–7, 2024.
“Shivapriya’s works made assiduously over the past five years from 2018 to 2023, lyrically entwine mindscape and landscape through the magnanimity of content and fragility of form. A manner of flow can be seen in these works. The refusal to indulge in the artifice or techniques of an academic painter and an almost childlike yet grandmotherly vision percolating her mindscapes – taking the form of alter-egos, mythical characters, allegorical shadows or just exuberant and uncontrollable beings. The works range from almost photographic to almost abstract, resisting complete formations, many perhaps trying to catch in-betweens caught in the state of becoming or just taking shape. These stories and moments are as if tamed and set free by the most agile and tenacious of mediums in art history – the watercolour. Watercolours take on a very unusual form in Shivapriya’s works – offering a different kind of strength promised by paper as opposed to canvas. Through all these works, a witness figure may be seen – a subject that looks on, alongside the spectators yet appearing twice removed; with us but not quite, within the painting but not quite. What follows these witnesses? Glimmering ruptures that disrupt and shine forth.”
Excerpt from the text by Srajana Kaikini
Click here for more information about the show.
Dr Namrata Sathe, Postdoctoral Fellow at SIAS, Krea University has co-edited a special section titled Media and the Police State for the academic journal Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media. This special section brings together the works of several international media and film scholars focused on examining the relationship between media representations and the legitimisation of police violence and brutality in society.
The entire section is available as part of the current issue of Jump Cut, here: https://www.ejumpcut.org/currentissue/index.html
Also read Namrata’s co-authored editorial to the special section, titled Media and the police state: defining the contemporary police state, here: https://www.ejumpcut.org/currentissue/Sathe-Pal/index.html
Manasi B, PhD student at IFMR GSB and Prof Jyoti Prasad Mukhopadhyay, Associate Professor, Economics and Area Chair, Economics at IFMR GSB, Krea University have co-authored a paper titled Definition, measurement and determinants of energy poverty: Empirical evidence from Indian households. The paper was published in Energy for Sustainable Development, a peer-reviewed journal classified as Q1 journal by Scopus, with IF=5.5 and SJR (2022)=1.2.
Dr Shuchita Goyal, Assistant Professor of Mathematics at SIAS, Krea University delivered an invited talk titled Graph Colouring and Some Bounds on It at Curry Leaf, the Math Club of MTTS Alumni, on January 20, 2024.
About the Talk: In this talk, we defined and understood the concept of (proper) graph colouring. Having done that, we then saw the chromatic number of a graph (a graph theoretic parameter) and noted several bounds on the chromatic number of a graph in terms of the graph’s other attributes. The session ended with Brook’s theorem.
