Article 19

Category: Department Events

  • Conference 2018 | Panel 5 | Medical Discourses and their (Dis)contents

    The 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 Read More

    4–6 minutes

  • Cricket Team Preview | HS13

    Biyas 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 Read More

    4–5 minutes

  • Conference 2018 | Panel 4 | Boundaries and Belonging: The Geographies of Space, Place and Culture

    Panel 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 Read More

    5–8 minutes

  • Conference 2018 | Panel 3 | (Un)Covering and (Un)Knowing: The Poetics and Politics of Knowledge Production

    The 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 Read More

    5–7 minutes

  • Conference 2018 | Panel 2 | The Aesthetics and Politics of Artistic Praxis

      The 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 Read More

    4–7 minutes

  • Cricket Team Preview | HS15

    Biyas 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 Read More

    3–5 minutes

  • 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

    2–3 minutes

  • Interview with A.V Dharmakrishnan, CEO of Ramco

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    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

  • 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

    5–7 minutes

  • 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

    5–7 minutes