Category: Lectures
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R&D LECTURE SERIES 28 February 2017
Imagining the Forest, Imagining the Self in Modern Indian Literature By Prof Alan Johnson Prof Alan Johnson began the talk by pointing out ironies in our everyday life which we often ignore as normal. On one hand we have software professionals creating photo-real forests for The Jungle Book and on the other, we have people uprooting Read More
2–3 minutes
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R&D LECTURE SERIES 21 February 2017
Beyond the Canon: Mathematical Practice and its Practitioners in Early Modern South India By Dr Senthil Babu Dr Senthil Babu began the talk by drawing the audience’s attention to the relatively small discipline of historical mathematics. He explained that historical mathematical practice looks at the ways in which mathematics was experienced by social groups in Read More
2–3 minutes
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Demonetisation: Some Issues – Faculty Colloquium
A lecture by Prof. Suresh Babu At 5.30 pm on Wednesday, the 25th of January, a group of faculty and students assembled at the Central Lecture Theatre for the first lecture organised by the faculty association, in an upcoming series of lectures. This sort of faculty colloquium is a continuation of a tradition of regular Read More
2–3 minutes
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R&D LECTURE SERIES – 24 Jan 2017
Mathematical and Astronomical Texts from Ancient Mesopotamia by Prof Lis Brack-Bernsen Prof Brack-Bernsen began the talk with a historical introduction of Mesopotamia. Often regarded as one of the cradles of world civilizations, Mesopotamia flourished on the Tigris-Euphrates river system and was home to the Sumerian, Akkadian, Babylonian and Assyrian Empires. The earliest evidences of Mesopotamian mathematics Read More
2–3 minutes
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R&D LECTURE SERIES 17th JAN 2017
Words Matter: Some Challenges of Communication in Global Engineering Teams by Elizabeth Keating Prof Elizabeth Keating’s talk was centred on a three-year longitudinal study of global engineering teams, collaborating from four countries: India, Romania, Brazil and the US, which discusses some of the challenges faced by the engineers in understanding each other. Prof Keating’s study is Read More
2–3 minutes
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R&D Lecture Series: Why Do our Constitutional Debates Matter?
R&D Lecture Series: 13th January 2017 The Department’s R&D Lecture Series began with Professor Mathangi Krishnamurthy welcoming the audience and introducing Mr. Vikram Raghavan. Mr. Raghavan is lead counsel at an organization in Washington D.C. and is interested in India’s constitutional history. He is the founder of a blog titled Law and Other Things. He Read More
1–2 minutes
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R&D TUESDAY LECTURE SERIES: 18th OCT 2016
Exploring Human Capital in a Reassessment of Identity in Rural Indonesia and its Implications for the Indian Subcontinent The Department hosted Dr Maskota Delfi and Dr Johan Richard Weintré for a talk on the 18th of October’16. The speakers were introduced to the audience by Dr Vivek Neelakantan, Post-doctoral Fellow at the Department. Dr Read More
2–3 minutes
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