Professor Anil Srinivasan, Visiting Professor of Practice, Literature & the Arts, SIAS, Krea University and Dr Sumitra Ranganathan, Associate Professor of Music, SIAS, Krea University were on a panel at The Arts in Higher  Education – convened by the International Society for Music Education (ISME) at KM Music Conservatory and represented Krea University for the Global Arts. They were also part of a panel convened by the Parthasarathy Swamy Sabha – Chennai’s oldest music institution –  on Music in Education alongside leading classical music exponents. The events were held at the beginning of the year.

Professor Anil Srinivasan was also an invited keynote speaker at the recently concluded Liberal Arts and Sciences Symposium in Ooty – talking about our interwoven approach at Krea. All liberal universities of India were present. 

Dr Sumitra Ranganathan presented a 2-hour lecture demonstration in the monthly lecture series at Tyaga Brahma Gana Sabha, Chennai, titled “Gods in Place: pada as worship in Bettiah gharana Dhrupad”. The lecture curated archival materials from her extended fieldwork with the musicians of the Bettiah Dhrupad tradition, bringing together theoretical ideas on the entanglements of place, listening communities and aesthetics,  with approaches to archiving and engaging with the archive. The lec dem was held in March 2024.

Dr Rama Devi, Visiting Assistant Professor, SIAS, Krea University virtually presented a paper titled Politics in time precarity: Aspirations, Anxieties and Dalit youths in Delhi at the South Asia Forum Conference organised by the University of Melbourne.

Dr Sayandeb Chowdhury, Senior Assistant Professor of Literature, SIAS, Krea University has authored an article titled Red Alert: How Cinema Helps the Modi Myth in 360info.org.

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The Night the Writing Fell Silent – Words by Dr Srajana Kaikini, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, SIAS, Krea University / Works by Jogen Chowdhury published by Priyasri Art Gallery (2023) has been longlisted by The Oxford Bookstore for their Art Book Prize 2024. Dr Alka Pande and HE Ms May-Elin Stener revealed thirteen titles recognised for their artistic quality and overall design. The jury for this prize includes May-Elin Stener, Priti Paul, Dr Alka Pande, Anjani Kumar Singh, and Sunaina Anand. The Art Book Prize aims to celebrate and support artists, designers, and publishers in India.

Check out the Longlist  here:

Dr Srajana Kaikini, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, SIAS, Krea University has been awarded an IFA Grant under their Archives and Museums Projects for one year 2024-25, to work with the collection at the Zapurza Museum of Arts and Culture, Pune. Dr Kaikini as the Principal Investigator, will be researching the narratives of the intellectual history of Bombay and Pune of the 19th and 20th centuries and will situate the museum and its collection within the larger context of the history of Pune and its traditions of ‘avant-garde’ and the manners in which it intersected with its pre-modern, and modern historical inheritance.

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Dr Joya John, Assistant Professor of Literature, SIAS, Krea University presented a paper in a symposium on Energy History and Environmental Sustainability at the University of Chicago, Delhi Center on 3 May, 2024. The paper is titled, The Subaltern Modernizers of World History: Belatedness and Vernacular Publics in the Energy Humanities.

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.