Category: Faculty & Staff Spotlight

Kaveri Bharath, a ceramic artist and Visiting Faculty, Global Arts at SIAS, Krea University and Radhika Krish, a glass artist, collaborate in their latest exhibition, “Kindred Fire: Shared Stories.” Through the transformative power of fire, Kaveri’s ceramic sculptures and Radhika’s glass artworks come to life, weaving together narratives of nature, nurture, and nostalgia. From transparent paper planes caught in mid flight to poignant reflections on motherhood, each piece reflects their diverse backgrounds and shared passion for art. 

Don’t miss the chance to experience the magic at The Gallery @ InKo Centre from 23 February to 19 March, 2024.

Exhibition Poster

Event Link https://www.inkocentre.org/kindred_fire_shared_stories.html 

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 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 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.

Dr Rama Devi, Visiting Assistant Professor at SIAS, Krea University gave an online talk titled Between Impositions and Autonomy: Dalit Women, Education, Skill and Employment at the South Asia Forum Education Transformations and Youth, University of Melbourne, on January 23, 2024. 

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. Establishing such simplistic interconnections evades hidden constraints of socio-cultural conditions entwined with patriarchal ideologies that influence and even partially prohibit women’s access to education vis a vis work/marginalization in the labour market. Examining the nature of educational access and occupational aspirations of urban Dalit women residing in a Delhi settlement, the presentation underlines that patriarchal ideology impresses and controls the nature and outcome of the education they obtain. In the settlement, while most young girls pursue higher education, not everyone is expected to channel 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 intimately tied to notions of honour and disgrace of the family. Locally prevailing patriarchal norms dictate and define what constitutes respectable work for women.