A book review by Dr Rama Devi, Visiting Assistant Professor, SIAS, Krea University, titled Book review: Sudha Pai, D. Shyam Babu and Rahul Verma (Ed), Dalits in the New Millenium has been published in the recent issue of the Indian Journal of Human Development.
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Dr Mitaja Chakraborty, Visiting Assistant Professor, Centre for Writing and Pedagogy (CWP) at Krea University recently delivered presentations at prestigious academic forums.
Dr Chakraborty presented the paper titled Some methodological concerns: life making and meaning making in the local garment activism spaces in Dhaka at the Workshop on Pluralising Social Reproduction Approaches, organised by the European Council for Political Research & Leuphana University, Lüneburgm on 25–28 March, 2024.
At the 64th Indian Society for Labour Economics Conference, organised by the Department of Economics, University of Hyderabad on 29–31 March, 2024, Dr Chakraborty presented the paper titled Networks of care: work, labour and love in Dhaka.
Dr Chakraborty also delivered an invited talk titled Many lives of Labour: an inquiry into the methods of exploring work at the International Conference on Celebrating 100 years of Sociology in India, organised by the Department of Sociology, University of Hyderabad, on 1-3 April, 2024.
Dr Anannya Dasgupta, Neha Mishra and Sayantan Datta from the Centre for Writing and Pedagogy (CWP) at Krea University, and Dr Vivek Tewary from SIAS, Krea University will be part of the Critical Writing Pedagogies Symposium on How can writing pedagogies build critical thinking among students in higher education? organised by Ashoka University on 6–7 April, 2024.
Dr Anannya Dasgupta, Director, Centre for Writing & Pedagogy (CWP) at Krea University and Associate Professor of Literature, SIAS, Krea University will conduct a writing workshop at Ashoka University entitled Giving Feedback for Revision: A Writing Pedagogy Essential on 5 April, 2024 as a pre-event to their 2-day writing symposium.
Dr Anannya Dasgupta will also deliver the Opening Keynote address, “Is it a thing yet?”: Writing Pedagogy in India. Neha Mishra, Assistant Professor of Practice, CWP, will speak on Cultivating Dispositions for Critical Thinking: Networks of Support & Feedback in Writing Pedagogies. Sayantan Datta, Assistant Professor of Practice, CWP will deliver a talk titled A Neuroscientist Takes on Writing Pedagogy. Sayantan Datta and Dr Vivek Tewary, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, SIAS, Krea University will spek on Form and Formula – Reflections on Teaching Technical & Journalistic Writing in Mathematics.
This workshop will be attended by faculty of the Undergraduate Writing Programme (who teach the first year writing courses), members of the Centre for Writing and Communication, Teaching Fellows, and interested faculty members from different departments eager to gain insights into effective strategies for addressing their students’ writing-related needs.
Dr Suresh Govindapuram, Assistant Professor of Economics, IFMR GSB, Krea University and Christon Thomas, PhD Student, IFMR GSB, Krea University have presented a paper on Women’s Financial Inclusion and Economic Development: Evidence from India at the 64th Annual Conference of the Indian Society of Labour Economics (ISLE). The Conference was held on 29-31 March, 2024 at the University of Hyderabad, and was organised by the School of Economics, University of Hyderabad in collaboration with the Department of Liberal Arts, IIT Hyderabad, the Centre for Economic and Social Studies (CESS), Hyderabad and the Council for Social Development (CSD), Hyderabad.
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Dr Pallavi Pandey, Assistant Professor, HR & OB, and Area Chair – OB & HR, IFMR GSB, Krea University has received the Best Paper Award for her research paper titled Employees Perception Of Work From Home: A Developing Nation Context at the TAPMI International Research Conference on Reimaginging People Management (TIRCRPM), hosted by the TAPMI Institute of Management held on 28 – 30 March, 2024.
A paper titled ‘It’s nice we can do that too’: investigating transgender persons’ negotiations with identity and community questions in Indian science institutions by Sayantan Datta, Assistant Professor of Practice, Centre for Writing and Pedagogy (CWP) at Krea University has been published in the Community Development Journal (Oxford University Press).
In this paper, Datta draws upon the lived experiences of four interlocutors to delineate the ways in which proximal and distal networks of caste-class and gender shape transgender, gender non-conforming, and non-binary persons’ exclusion from and belonging in science collectivities. This paper is a part of the upcoming special issue on queer and trans community building in post-377 and post-NALSA India, edited by Pushpesh Kumar, Sayantan Datta, and Neha Mishra.
Sathyanarayanan Ramachandran, Sundram Fasteners Associate Professor, Marketing, IFMR GSB, Krea University authored a guest article in The Hindu BusinessLine, titled Tourist boom-turned-bane. Trampled by overtourism. The article sheds light on the phenomenon of overtourism and emphasises the need for sustainable destination marketing.
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A paper titled Charting Paths to Recovery: Navigating Traumatic Brain Injury Comorbidities through Graph Theory–Exploring Benefits and Challenges, co-authored byDr Shyam Kumar Sudhakar, Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences, SIAS, Krea University and Kaustav Mehta, a Biological Sciences student, SIAS PG Batch of 2023-24 has been published in the Brain Organoid and Systems Neuroscience Journal.
Traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) are characterized by widespread complications that exert a debilitating effect on the well-being of the affected individual. TBIs are associated with a multitude of psychiatric and medical comorbidities over the long term. Furthermore, no medications prevent secondary injuries associated with a primary insult. In this perspective article, the authors propose applying graph theory via the construction of disease comorbidity networks to identify high-risk patient groups, offer preventive care to affected populations, and reduce the disease burden. They describe the challenges associated with monitoring the development of comorbidities in TBI subjects and explain how disease comorbidity networks can reduce disease burden by preventing disease-related complications. They further discuss the various methods used to construct disease comorbidity networks and explain how features derived from a network can help identify subjects who might be at risk of developing post-traumatic comorbidities. Lastly, they address the potential challenges of using graph theory to successfully manage comorbidities following a TBI.
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Dr Panchali Ray, Associate Dean (Academic) and Associate Professor of Anthropology and Gender Studies, SIAS, Krea University has been awarded the Charles Wallace Fellowship for her research on migration, ecology and borders in Bengal. She will be a visiting fellow at the Queen’s University, Belfast, for three months.
Dr Rakshi Rath, Assistant Professor of Psychology, SIAS, Krea University, and Dr Srajana Kaikini, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, SIAS, Krea University co-presented their paper titled On the Face of It: from Monumental Images to Collective Actions at the Workshop Seminar Twenty-First Century Media? Affective Bodies, Crowds, and Collectives, organised by ICAS:MP TM 7 module, in collaboration with CSDS and Sarai, on 21-23 March, 2024.
This international workshop was focused on site-specific contributions mapping 21st-century media, addressing material and environmental questions for media and political aesthetics. The paper brings theories of Philosophy and Psychology in critical conversation with each other around social ontology, media aesthetics, and political psychology in an attempt to forge new interdisciplinary frameworks for social action.
