A set of haiku by Dr Anannya Dasgupta, Director, Krea-CWP (Centre for Writing and Pedagogy) is hot off the press as a part of an anthology of haiku poetry entitled Late-Blooming Cherries (Harper Collins India, 2024). Compiled and edited by Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih and Rimi Nath, Late-Blooming Cherries features contributions from some of the most prominent haiku artists in India.
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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 Vivek Radhakrishnan, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, SIAS, Krea University and Dr Srajana Kaikini, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, SIAS, Krea University have been included as research collaborators on a project titled Debates and Dialogues in Modern Indian Philosophy (2023-25). This project is led by faculty from IIT Tirupati under the Scheme for Promotion of Academic and Research Collaboration (SPARC).
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 Vivek Radhakrishnan, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, SIAS, Krea University has authored two recent publications:
1. An article titled Immaṉuel Kāṇt: Maṉithaṉai Aṟiyum Vaḻi (Immanuel Kant: Knowing the Human), published in The Hindu – Tamil Thisai
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2. Crito (allathu, Naṉṉaṭatai Patṟi) (Translation of Plato’s Crito), published in Kanali – Online Cultural-Literary Magazine, 34
Read the article here.
Dr Sayandeb Chowdhury, Senior Assistant Professor of Literature, SIAS, Krea University recently authored two articles.
The article titled The Spectre Of Sergei Eisenstein In Cinema, published in the magazine Outlook India, can be read here.
The article titled Mistimed Politics: Why The Left Is Partly Responsible For The BJP’s Rise In West Bengal, published in The Wire, can be read here.
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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Dr Vinod Kumar Saranathan, Associate Professor of Biological Sciences, SIAS and Dr Annu Jalais, Associate Professor of Anthropology, SIAS have co-authored an article on the history of blue colour in nature and culture, titled La couleur bleue : des pigments à l’auto-assemblage, published in Photoniques, the official journal of the French Optical Society.
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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 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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