Category: Department Events
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Prem Ranjan Memorial Cricket Tournament | Team Preview – HS19
Read more: Prem Ranjan Memorial Cricket Tournament | Team Preview – HS19CAPTAIN – KISHAN ALAKKAL SANOJ The freshers are always the team that attracts attention, always the knights of curiosity. Who could be their dark knight? There are a lot of black holes of enigma and plenty of questions to be answered. All thanks to Biyas Muhammad and Banoth Santhosh (of HS14), in my first year,…
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Conference 2020 | Panel 9 | Violence and Language
Read more: Conference 2020 | Panel 9 | Violence and LanguageThe ninth and final panel of the Conference was on Violence and Language, moderated by Prof. Rajesh Kumar. With three speakers from across the country, it covered topics of semantic, linguistic and emotional violence. The first panelist was Afrida Aainun Murshida from Sikkim University, who presented her paper on ‘Linguistic Violence in Salman Rushdie’s Shalimar…
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Conference 2020 | Lecture by Prof. K. Chockalingam
Read more: Conference 2020 | Lecture by Prof. K. ChockalingamOn Saturday, 25 January 2020, the last keynote lecture of this year’s Annual Academic Conference was delivered by Professor K. Chockalingam, Chairperson- Rajiv Gandhi National Institute of Youth Development. He began by stating that his lecture will provide insights on violence from the perspectives of criminology and victimology. He defined criminology as a scientific angle…
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Conference 2020 | Panel 8 | Violence, Children and Childhood
Read more: Conference 2020 | Panel 8 | Violence, Children and ChildhoodThe 8th panel of this year’s annual conference was titled “Violence, Children and Childhood”. The panel was moderated by Dr. Hemachandran Karah. There were two panelists, Ms. Sana Thasneem VA from the University of Calicut and Ms. Mary Theresa K. from Pondicherry University. Dr. Hemachandran opened the session with a note on the varied forms…
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Conference 2020 | Panel 7 | Violence and Literature
Read more: Conference 2020 | Panel 7 | Violence and LiteratureThe 7th panel of the conference was titled Violence and Literature, and was moderated by Dr. Divya. The first speaker, Baishali, began by referring to Elaine Scarry’s The Body in Pain. She described how experiencing physical pain leads to the destruction of language, since language becomes inadequate to communicate or express the reality of that…
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Conference 2020 | Keynote Lecture | Women and the Partition: Rethinking Violence
Read more: Conference 2020 | Keynote Lecture | Women and the Partition: Rethinking ViolenceThe second Keynote Lecture of the Conference was given by Dr. Paulomi Chakraborty, on the topic of Women and the Partition. Dr Chakraborty explained how the partition was a time of population transfers and migration, both on the east and west of India, but what was common on both sides was the rampant violence against…
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Conference 2020 | Panel 6 | Colonial/Historical Violence
Read more: Conference 2020 | Panel 6 | Colonial/Historical ViolenceThe sixth panel of the Conference was titled “Colonial/Historical Violence” and was moderated by Dr Arvind Sivaramakrishnan. The first presentation, ‘Paper Citizens of South Asia: Delineating “Violence” in the Identification Regimes of Post-colonial India and East Pakistan’, was presented by Jigme Wangdi of Jawaharlal Nehru University. The paper examined the documentary practices of India and…
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Conference 2020 | Panel 5 | Gender, Sexuality and Violence
Read more: Conference 2020 | Panel 5 | Gender, Sexuality and ViolenceThe fifth panel of the conference was titled “Gender, Sexuality and Violence, and was moderated by Prof. Binitha Thampi. The session started off with Priyam Sinha investigating the representation of disability in Bollywood cinema, not just how it is, but how it was and how it has changed over the years. She used a methodology…
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Conference 2020 | Panel 4 | Violence, Protest and Resistance
Read more: Conference 2020 | Panel 4 | Violence, Protest and ResistanceThe fourth panel featured the speakers Bushra Punjabi, Ivy Roy Sarkar, and Ruth Susan Mathew, and moderated by Santosh R. The speakers all spoke about a similar form of protest against the state which came from unconventional positions. As the state clamped down on regular forms of protest against laws, especially in Kashmir which was…
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Conference 2020 | Panel 3 | Violence, Memory and Trauma
Read more: Conference 2020 | Panel 3 | Violence, Memory and TraumaThe third panel of the Annual DoHSS Conference 2020 was titled “Violence, Memory and Trauma”, and was moderated by Dr. Avishek Parui. Dr. Parui began by introducing the presenters of this panel – Jasmine Sharma, Nirmala Raja Cynthia, and Anshu Saluja. The first paper was titled “Exploring Techno-archival Violence in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale”.…
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