Category: Department Events
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Conference 2018 | Inaugural | The Thumri Orchard – Vidya Shah
Read more: Conference 2018 | Inaugural | The Thumri Orchard – Vidya ShahArtists 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,…
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Conference 2018 | Inaugural | Singing on the Razor’s Edge – Lakshmi Sreeram
Read more: Conference 2018 | Inaugural | Singing on the Razor’s Edge – Lakshmi SreeramOur 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…
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Cricket Team Preview | HS16
Read more: Cricket Team Preview | HS16Biyas Muhammed writes on the prospects of the second year (HS16) team for the forthcoming Prem Ranjan Memorial Cricket Tournament. HS16 : A TEAM LET DOWN BY INCONSISTENT BOWLING Captain: Libin John In the last year’s Prem Ranjan Tournament, the run rate conceded by the HS16 team reads 13.62 in contrast to the tournament run…
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R&D Lecture | Through the Prism of ‘Standpoint’ – Revisiting the Indian Debate on Theory and Experience: A Lecture | Sasheej Hegde
Read more: R&D Lecture | Through the Prism of ‘Standpoint’ – Revisiting the Indian Debate on Theory and Experience: A Lecture | Sasheej HegdeNote from the editors: Our correspondent was asked to write a report on the lecture, but somewhere along the line, this becomes a commentary. The views expressed in this article are the author’s. INTRODUCTION AND SOME CONTEXT As students of the humanities and social sciences, epistemology is of special relevance to us. Understanding what constitutes…
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R&D Lecture | Global Comparative Municipal E-Governance: Factors and Trends | Aroon Manoharan
Read more: R&D Lecture | Global Comparative Municipal E-Governance: Factors and Trends | Aroon ManoharanAs part of R & D Lecture Series organized by the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Prof. Aroon Manoharan, an Associate Professor at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, delivered a lecture on the contemporary global e-governance scenario, on the 18th of January. This was followed by a Q & A session. Prof. Binitha Thampi,…
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Book Launch: 1-800-Worlds by Prof. Mathangi Krishnamurthy
Read more: Book Launch: 1-800-Worlds by Prof. Mathangi KrishnamurthyOn the evening of 23rd January, 2018, the IC&SR building was abuzz with energy and excitement. The high-spirited atmosphere was befitting of the event scheduled for that evening: Prof Mathangi Krishnamurthy was to launch her highly-anticipated book, ‘1-800-Worlds’. A product of her PhD dissertation, ‘1-800-Worlds’ is a work in ethnography that chronicles the experiences of…
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The Pitch and the Pen | A Conversation with Gideon Haigh
Read more: The Pitch and the Pen | A Conversation with Gideon HaighOn the 30th of October, the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences organised a lecture-cum-discussion with Gideon Haigh, Australian writer and cricket journalist. Haigh began with a short talk on what it takes to be a journalist. A lively discussion followed. Haigh called journalism ‘the first draft of history’. It is inherently perishable. He then…
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Workshop | Minding Theatre by Shreekumar Varma
Read more: Workshop | Minding Theatre by Shreekumar Varma“Minding Theatre”, a theatre workshop was conducted by Shreekumar Varma on Thursday, October 12. Prof. Srilata K delivered the introductory remarks and introduced the speaker following which the floor was thrown open with the question “What is theatre?” After gauging the responses which ranged from enactment by people to representation, he launched into the story of…
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Book Launch: Introduction to Political Ideologies: Contexts, Ideas, and Practices by Prof. Arvind Sivaramakrishnan
Read more: Book Launch: Introduction to Political Ideologies: Contexts, Ideas, and Practices by Prof. Arvind SivaramakrishnanTL;DR: nyc buk. even dumb ppls lyk me cn understnd. nyc speeches anol. made dumb ppls lyk me think. panel discussion vv fun and thot provoking. stories abt writing the buk + thot expts about imprtnce of ideologies in real wrld. i think i am less dumb now. Prof. Arvind Sivaramakrishnan, beloved of all for…
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Reshaping Economics – Dr. Bino Paul | October 4, 2017
Read more: Reshaping Economics – Dr. Bino Paul | October 4, 2017As part of the Research and Development (R&D) Methodology Workshop series, Prof. Bino Paul, Dean of School of Management and Labour Studies at Tata Institute of Social Sciences Mumbai, shared his views on “Shaping of Economics: Reflections on the Making of Ideas”. The session commenced with a welcome address by Dr. Santhosh R (Faculty Coordinator,…
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