Category: Department Events
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R&D LECTURE SERIES 21 February 2017
Read more: R&D LECTURE SERIES 21 February 2017Beyond 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…
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Traversing The Margins : A few moments from Day One
Read more: Traversing The Margins : A few moments from Day OneKeynote address by Prof. Sukhadeo Thorat. Prof. Madhava Prasad delivering the plenary lecture. Panel discussion on Film,Pop culture and the Margins. Panelists delivering their papers and responding to the questions. Panel on Margin Through the Gender Lens.
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Conference calls!
Read more: 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…
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Demonetisation: Some Issues – Faculty Colloquium
Read more: Demonetisation: Some Issues – Faculty ColloquiumA 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…
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Beyond Facebook shares and Gmail labels
Read more: Beyond Facebook shares and Gmail labelsI 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…
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R&D LECTURE SERIES – 24 Jan 2017
Read more: R&D LECTURE SERIES – 24 Jan 2017Mathematical 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…
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Conducting A Conference: From Bullwork to Bullying By Aswin
Read more: Conducting A Conference: From Bullwork to Bullying By AswinIn 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…
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R&D LECTURE SERIES 17th JAN 2017
Read more: R&D LECTURE SERIES 17th JAN 2017Words 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…
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R&D Lecture Series: Why Do our Constitutional Debates Matter?
Read more: 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…
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R&D TUESDAY LECTURE SERIES: 18th OCT 2016
Read more: R&D TUESDAY LECTURE SERIES: 18th OCT 2016Exploring 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…
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