Sathyanarayanan Ramachandran, Sundram Fasteners Associate Professor, Marketing, IFMR GSB, Krea University publishes a guest article titled Taking the franchise places, in The Hindu BusinessLine, discussing the logistics aspects of the Indian elections. The article discusses how multimodal logistics is key to the democratic exercise India undertakes every five years.
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Neha Mishra, Assistant Professor of Practice at the Centre for Writing and Pedagogy (CWP) at Krea University led an online workshop titled From Chit to Chat(GPT): Ethical Conundrums in the Age of AI for undergraduate students enrolled in the Academic Writing course at Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Bengaluru Campus. Hosted by the Department of Liberal Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Bengaluru Campus, the workshop took place on 25 April, 2024.
This workshop explored two questions: while it began with the question Should ChatGPT do your homework?, it ended by answering the question Can ChatGPT do your homework?. It did so by looking at some of the existing policies formulated by leading science and humanities journals on ChatGPT use as well as through a close study of how and why ChatGPT fares poorly at scholarly work.
Dr Shuchita Goyal, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, SIAS, Krea University has been selected to participate in the American Mathematical Society’s Mathematics Research Community (MRC) summer conference on Homotopical Combinatorics. The conference will take place at the Beaver Hollow Conference Center in Java Center, New York, USA, from 30 June to 6 July, 2024. Now in its sixteenth year, the MRC programme has chosen Dr Goyal as the sole Indian national to join this year’s conference.
Dr Sambaiah Gundimeda, Associate Professor of Politics, SIAS, Krea University has been invited by the Centre for Development Studies (CDS), Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, to deliver the 6th Dr B R Ambedkar Memorial Lecture titled Democracy and Social Justice: Reading Ambedkar in Our Times, on 3 May, 2024.
Abstract: According to the Paris-based Reporters without Borders, India has fallen to 161st place out of 180 countries on the World Press Freedom Index. Similarly, in the V-Dem Academic Freedom Index, India is ranked in the bottom 20-30% category, below countries such as Libya, Pakistan, Ethiopia, and others.
How would Ambedkar have responded to the shrinking space for dissent in contemporary India?
For the past three decades, there has been a serious divide between some Dalit castes that accessed reservations and others who could not. While the latter demand sub-classification of SC reservations in the name of social justice, the former counter such demands in the name of unity within the Dalit category.
If Ambedkar were to be alive, what kind of solution would he have offered?
In a move toward eradication of caste, Ambedkar in his “Annihilation of Caste” argued that only ‘fusion of blood’ can truly evoke the sense of kinship.
How can we advance Ambedkar’s project of the annihilation of caste?
Drawing from Ambedkar’s insights, the proposed lecture aims to reflect upon the questions of freedom of speech, social justice and annihilation of caste in our times.
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Dr Sambaiah Gundimeda, Associate Professor of Politics, SIAS, Krea University was invited to participate as a special guest at the two-day international conference on New Media and Its Publics in India, hosted by SRM University, AP on 18-19 April, 2024. During a roundtable discussion on New Media: Realities and Divergences, Dr Gundimeda delivered a presentation on Vicissitudes of Caste in Indian Cinema.
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Role-based and environment-based flexibilities could be the real game-changers for controlling ongoing employment issues. Dr Pallavi Pandey, Assistant Professor, HR & OB, IFMR GSB, Krea University pens an article in The Economics Times discussing flexible practices other than work-from-home and how these strategies are reshaping the modern workspace.
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Dr Sushant Raut, Assistant Professor of Physics, SIAS, Krea University has been invited to deliver lectures at the International Centre for Theoretical Sciences in Bangalore as a part of their Understanding the Universe through Neutrinos school (22 April to 3 May, 2024). This programme is aimed at PhD students who are starting their research in particle physics. Dr Raut will train the students in simulating long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiments which help us to probe the masses of subatomic particles and the symmetries underlying their interactions.
Dr Praveen Bhagawan, Associate Professor, Finance, Accounting and Quantitative Finance & Area Chair – Finance, Accounting and Quantitative Finance, IFMR GSB, Krea University actively participated in the Financial Markets and Corporate Governance (FMCG) 2024 Conference, held on 2–4 April, 2024, at Monash University, Malaysia.
During the conference, Dr Bhagawan presented two papers, engaged in discussions on three papers, and served as the chair for a technical session.
Dr Bhagawan presented the following papers:
Additionally, he contributed to discussions on the following papers:
Dr Bhagawan also chaired Technical Session 2.2 on Sustainable Finance and Corporate Finance during FMCG 2024.
Furthermore, he was part of the PhD programme committee of FMCG 2024.
For further details, please refer to the attached 14th FMCG Conference Program Handbook here.
Dr Vivek Tewary, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, SIAS, Krea University, and Sayantan Datta, Assistant Professor of Practice, Centre for Writing and Pedagogy (CWP) at Krea University won The Ashoka-Sage Prize for Critical Writing at the Critical Writing Pedagogies Symposium held at Ashoka University on 6-7 April, 2024, for their paper presentation titled Form and Formula – Reflections on Teaching Technical & Journalistic Writing in Mathematics.
In this paper, Dr Vivek Tewary and Sayantan Datta draw upon their experience of teaching the Writing and Communication in Mathematics course at Krea University to design a possible framework for writing courses in Mathematics. The course taught math writing in technical and journalistic registers. To read research articles in mathematics, we make use of writing pedagogy techniques developed at the Centre for Writing and Pedagogy at Krea and find that these are in resonance with how expert mathematicians read mathematics. We also juxtapose the technical and journalistic registers to highlight the aims, concerns and disciplinary contours of the two styles of writing.
The two-day Critical Writing Pedagogies Symposium was organised by the Undergraduate Writing Programme (UWP) at Ashoka University, in partnership with Sage, to “explore writing pedagogies and how these can deepen the thinking of students in higher education.”
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Dr Rama Devi, Visiting Assistant Professor, SIAS, Krea University, along with Professor Sawmya Ray, IIT Guwahati, delivered an invited talk titled Not just work, but a respectable work: Caste, Gender, and Employment at the International Conference Celebrating 100 Years of Sociology in India, organised by the University of Hyderabad on 1-3 April, 2024.
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