The students of SIAS, Concepts in Aesthetics II that is offered by Dr Srajana Kaikini to students of Global Arts, Philosophy and Literature, visited the exhibition Visible/Invisible at the Museum of Art and Photography, Bangalore. They engaged with the curator Dr Arnika Ahldag around the ideas and the works at the museum through the lens of gender, its social life, its conceptual ironies and the possibilities and impossibilities of representation in relation to the tasks of the artist/curators.
Anil Srinivasan, renowned pianist and Visiting Professor of Practice, Literature & the Arts, SIAS joined by bassist Naveen Napier, percussionist Krishna Kishor, and award-winning vocalist Sai Vignesh, conducted a blindfolded performance. The music concert was held in Hyderabad on 24 August 2023 and was organised by IC3 Institute, aimed at contributing towards counselling for children.
The Ceramic Studio on campus, which is part of the Global Arts discipline at SIAS is now home to six new state-of-the-art Shimpo wheels. Kaveri Bharath, Visiting faculty, SIAS inaugurated these on 9 August 2023 along with the student community on campus making some exquisite clayware
Dr Anannya Dasgupta, Director, Centre for Writing and Pedagogy ( Krea-CWP) was invited by the Jindal School of Art and Architecture, Jindal Global University to conduct an online writing workshop for design and architecture students of the Form and Structure Atelier. Titled, Full-on-Feelz: Writing Evocative Descriptions, the session was held on 4 August 2023
Dr Sarabjeet D Natesan, Associate Professor of Economics at SIAS presented a paper titled, Output, Outcome and Impact Framework Approach in Documenting the Role of Street Level Bureaucrats in Covid-19 at the 6th International Conference on Public Policy (IPCCA-6), held in Toronto on 29 June.
Dr Rama Devi, Visiting Faculty at SIAS and Deepshikha Sharma, UTS scholar at the University of Twente, Netherlands and a former Teaching Fellow at SIAS co-authored a blog titled Democracy Denied: the fraught Realities of Higher Education for Dalits in India, published recently in LSE South Asia
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Sayantan Datta, Faculty Associate, Krea-CWP has co-authored a research paper with scientists at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Hyderabad, Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, and the Kunming University of Science and Technology, Yunnan, China, that has been published in the peer-reviewed journal eLife. The publication is titled, DYRK1A Interacts with the Tuberous Sclerosis Complex and Promotes mTORC1 Activity
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
