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Conference 2018 | Displacing the History of Science OR Fashioning a Fauna for British India | John Mathew
Read more: Conference 2018 | Displacing the History of Science OR Fashioning a Fauna for British India | John MathewThe last keynote lecture of the DoHSS Conference, on “Displacing the History of Science OR Fashioning a Fauna for British India” was delivered by Dr John Mathew of IISER, Pune. Perfectly combining his expertise in both zoology and history of science, he began with an excerpt from Kazuo Ishiguro’s When We Were Orphans. The British…
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Conference 2018 | Panel 7 | Indigenous Identities: History, Narrative and Knowledge Production
Read more: Conference 2018 | Panel 7 | Indigenous Identities: History, Narrative and Knowledge ProductionThe seventh and final panel of the DoHSS Academic Conference, on the topic of indigenous identities, was moderated by Prof Santhosh Raghavan. It featured three panelists presenting their papers on various forms of subjugated traditional knowledge systems, followed by discussions and questions. The first paper by Panchali Bhattacharya was titled “Revival of Indigenous Naga Knowledge…
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Conference 2018 | Panel 6 | Making and Knowing the Body
Read more: Conference 2018 | Panel 6 | Making and Knowing the BodyThe second day of the Department of Humanities and Social Science annual academic conference housed the panel ‘Making and knowing the body’. It was the 6th panel of the conference, and was chaired by the conference convener Dr. Mathangi Krishnamurthy. The session began with Dr. Krishnamurthy outlining the direction of the panel and the question…
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Cricket Team Preview | Research Scholars
Read more: Cricket Team Preview | Research ScholarsBiyas Muhammed writes on the prospects of the Research Scholars’ team for the forthcoming Prem Ranjan Memorial Cricket Tournament. Ph.D SCHOLARS: STRONG FAVOURITES TO CLINCH THE TROPHY AGAIN Captain: Nishant The Scholars need 2 more runs in the final over to win the Prem Ranjan Memorial Cricket Tournament for the first time. The HS14 Captain Santhosh…
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Conference 2018 | Panel 5 | Medical Discourses and their (Dis)contents
Read more: Conference 2018 | Panel 5 | Medical Discourses and their (Dis)contentsThe fifth panel began after a touching address by keynote speaker Dr. Carlo Caduff. Moderator Prof. V. R. Muraleedharan introduced the panel by once again bringing to the table the problem of disclosure in medical practice. The first paper titled “(New) Old Wives Tales of Ossathis and Eattummas: Gender, Caste, Religion and Medicine” was presented…
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Cricket Team Preview | HS13
Read more: Cricket Team Preview | HS13Biyas Muhammed writes on the prospects of the fifth year (HS13) team for the forthcoming Prem Ranjan Memorial Cricket Tournament. HS 13 : ONE LAST HUNT FOR THE ELUDING TROPHY Rewind to last semester’s Challenger Trophy Cricket match. The Rest of HS team, batting first against a strong Scholars’ bowling attack, is in a spot…
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Conference 2018 | Panel 4 | Boundaries and Belonging: The Geographies of Space, Place and Culture
Read more: Conference 2018 | Panel 4 | Boundaries and Belonging: The Geographies of Space, Place and CulturePanel 4 ‘Boundaries and Belonging: The Geographies of Space, Place and Culture’ was moderated by Prof. Merin Simi Raj. Namrapali Narzary was the first presenter. Her paper titled ‘Boundaries and Belonging: An Analysis of Spatial Governmentality in Assam’ dealt with the ethnic conflicts currently taking place in BTAD – Bodoland Territorial Area Districts. The BTAD has…
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Conference 2018 | Panel 3 | (Un)Covering and (Un)Knowing: The Poetics and Politics of Knowledge Production
Read more: Conference 2018 | Panel 3 | (Un)Covering and (Un)Knowing: The Poetics and Politics of Knowledge ProductionThe first of the post-prandial panels for the day was chaired by the genial Prof. Sudarsan Padmanabhan. Being titled ‘(Un)Covering and (Un)Knowing: The Poetics and Politics of Knowledge Production’, the panel featured three papers presented in a clear, well-thought out and surprisingly accessible fashion. The first presenter was Saee Abhyankar with her paper titled ‘Epistemologies…
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Conference 2018 | Panel 2 | The Aesthetics and Politics of Artistic Praxis
Read more: Conference 2018 | Panel 2 | The Aesthetics and Politics of Artistic PraxisThe second panel explored questions surrounding what constitutes subjugated knowledges in art, craft and performance. All the papers looked at the hierarchies implicit in production, at the production of bodies and subjectivities and point towards meanings that cannot quite be contained. A brief introduction by the moderator Dr. Kaamya Sharma was followed by three…
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Cricket Team Preview | HS15
Read more: Cricket Team Preview | HS15Biyas Muhammed writes on the prospects of the third year (HS15) team for the forthcoming Prem Ranjan Memorial Cricket Tournament. HS 15 : TOO MUCH DEPENDENCE ON THEIR CAPTAIN Captain: Aswin Prabhakar HS15 is chasing a target of 109 in a do-or-die match. Their captain has given them a great start, punishing the opponent team’s…
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