Category: HSS Conference
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Conference 2018 | Panel 1 | Locating the Lyrical: Subjugated Knowledges in Music
The first day of the DoHSS Annual Conference 2018 saw a very interesting and engaging panel discussion centered on the theme, “Subjugated Knowledges in Music”. The panelists were Christy Kuruvilla Thomas from St. Joseph’s College, Bangalore, Ekata Lahiri and Ishita Sharma from TISS Hyderabad, and Monika Yadav from IIT Bombay. The session was moderated by Read More
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Interview with A.V Dharmakrishnan, CEO of Ramco
Shweta Venkatesh and Abhinand Shankar in conversation with A.V Dharmakrishnan, CEO of The Ramco Cements. The man across the table listens to us seriously as we ask him the question every interviewer unfailingly does and smiles a small smile. He hands us a magazine – ‘The CEO Magazine’ – turned open at a leaf titled Read More
5–7 minutes
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Conference 2018 | Poor Stories: Poverty, the Humanities and Yash Chopra’s Deewar | Professor Shankar S.
The second day of the Annual Academic Conference, 2018 began on the 2nd of February, in good spirits, after a successful Inaugural Ceremony the previous day. The first keynote lecture was by Professor S Shankar, Professor of English and Director of Creative Writing at the University of Hawaii, Manoa. Professor Shankar’s talk revolved around the Read More
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Conference 2018 | Inaugural | The Thumri Orchard – Vidya Shah
Artists are often a forgotten lot; more so if they are practitioners of the classical. This year again the Union budget had no mention of art or culture. Even our census puts down all artists under the category ‘others’; a skewed view, and unfortunate. Vidya Shah, delivering the second inaugural lecture-demonstration at the HSS Conference, Read More
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Conference 2018 | Inaugural | Singing on the Razor’s Edge – Lakshmi Sreeram
Our story begins on the 1st of February 2018, at 5.45 PM (although it was scheduled to begin a good fifteen minutes earlier). It was a colourful evening with ladies in gracefully draped sarees and men in elegant kurtas, exchanging excited chit-chat over cups of coffee and tea. The stage was set. It was the Read More
4–6 minutes
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Academic Conference Report 2017
The annual conference of the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Madras on the theme: “Traversing the Margins” took place from 3rd to 5th February, 2017. Click on the link below to view the conference report: TRAVERSING THE MARGINS ACADEMIC CONFERENCE 2017 Read More
1–2 minutes
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Conference calls!
Don’t you all wonder sometimes why we keep doing certain things? You might have been part of a school-fest which is still being organized. A “department fest” that continues to attract huge crowds. A Shaastra or a Saarang which has a combined footfall of more than a lakh. Amongst these crowd-pulling extravaganzas, this student-organized academic Read More
1–2 minutes
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Beyond Facebook shares and Gmail labels
I remember lying down on the side upper berth of a train and picking up the phone. I don’t remember where I was coming back from or anything else for that matter. I only remember sitting up when the phone rang (yes yes, senior bhaav was a thing) and picking up, wondering what might be Read More
4–6 minutes
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Conducting A Conference: From Bullwork to Bullying By Aswin
In 2012, I got involved in the activities related to the Department Conference quite accidentally. ‘Negotiating Conflict’ was the second edition of the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences Academic Conference and the team structure was complicated, to say the least. Since it was envisioned as a bi-annual event, there were two teams responsible for Read More
4–7 minutes
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