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SUMMARY:Autism Awareness Month
DESCRIPTION:Every year\, April is observed as World Autism Awareness Month\, with an aim to support the creation of fulfilling lives and relationships for persons with autism. This month also acts as a marker of the work that has been done so far\, and the road that lies ahead of us in our pursuit of enabling the inclusion and acceptance of persons with autism in our university. To observe this month\, the OLS planned a series of events and activities to promote and foster feelings of warmth and acceptance among the Ashoka community\, specifically in the context of appreciating and accepting neurodiversity around us. \nAs a kickstart\, the OLS put up posters across the campus listing a few ways in which we can extend a hand of friendship to our peers who are on the autism spectrum. The idea was to encourage the Ashoka community to pause for a moment and engage with the poster to understand and implement some of the inclusive practices highlighted through it\, so as to make our neurodiverse peers feel more at home at Ashoka. \n \nOn April 12\, the OLS had invited two organizations\, Action for Autism (AFA) and Action for Ability Development and Inclusion (AADI)\, for the Spring Haat organized by the Student Life Office. Both the organizations set up their stalls\, showcased the products made by people with autism and other disabilities\, and engaged with various students\, staff\, and faculty at the stalls. Along with this\, there was an interactive activity organized to explore the common understanding of autism amongst the Ashoka community members and put down questions that might have about it. The purpose was to initiate a conversation around autism and neurodiversity on the Ashoka campus. Later\, the responses were collated\, the Ashoka community was encouraged to reflect on their connotations\, and common questions were addressed for the purpose of increasing awareness about autism. \n\n		\n		\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n		\n\n  \nThe OLS encourages those curious to learn more about autism or create inclusive spaces around themselves to reach out to the office\, for the month may have drawn to a close\, but the dialogue on autism must continue. \n 
URL:https://www.ashoka.edu.in/event/autism-awareness-month/
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SUMMARY:Visual Arts Colloquium | Saumya Agarwal
DESCRIPTION:The Department of Visual Arts welcomes you to the VA Colloquium 21-22 \nTracing Transitions in the Temporal at the Site of the Decorative through the Wall Paintings of Shekhawati (1850-1940) \n  \nSaumya Agarwal  \nMonday\, 11 April 2022 | 1:30–2:45 PM (IST) \nZoom meeting Link: https://zoom.us/j/97846452808?pwd=bGFTUEYwdW9YUnNUQ1hkTjNRT285dz09 \n  \nThis presentation will discuss the wall paintings from a region in North Eastern Rajasthan\, known as Shekhawati\, as an important visual archive to understand socio-cultural changes from the middle of the 19th century to the middle of the 20th century. Through an exploration of the decorative\, and its affective potential\, the talk will show how the wall paintings are both important historical sources as well as agents mediating historical change. The themes of the frescoes\, while vast and varied\, have certain subjects that are consistently prominent. These include religious paintings; portraits of both the local rulers as well as the colonial monarchs; the means of mobility that were intrinsic to shaping the region; and novel technologies that were finding their way into Shekhawati through actual objects and printed imagery. The influence of changing patterns of consumption and the influx of mechanically reproduced images gave the paintings a certain protean quality making them an important visual resource to understand the transitions caused by colonial contact and introduction of new technologies. These transformations included the increase in influence of mechanized temporality of imperial clock time. The talk will focus on the depictions of mechanical clocks in the wall paintings to explore transitions in the temporal. The railways\, factory and clerical work are ‘sites’ that have been studied to understand the impact of the advent of mechanized time in the context of South Asia. I aim to add to these by exploring the ‘decorative’ as a potential site to study the vexed process of transition to a novel temporal order. \n  \nSaumya Agarwal’s primary area of research are wall paintings decorating 19th and 20th century merchant houses in the Shekhawati region of Rajasthan. She completed her PhD on the same from Universität Heidelberg in 2021. She is currently conducting ethno-historic research on the painters of Shekhawati. This has been funded by the India Foundation for the Arts through an Arts Research Grant. She has previously been a research fellow at Musée du quai Branly from 2016-2017. Saumya completed her BA\, MA and Mphil in English Literature from Delhi University\, where she also taught as an assistant professor at various Delhi University colleges. Her areas of interest include concepts of time and temporality\, place making practices\, popular visual culture\, artistic practices\, and film studies. She has a strong interest in approaching the visual in innovative ways as an important resource for socio-historical enquiry. \n\nLog infor free to continue using Ginger.Limited modeSaumya×
URL:https://www.ashoka.edu.in/event/visual-arts-colloquium-saumya-agarwal/
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SUMMARY:Physics colloquium | A Breakdown of Standard Cosmology | Chethan Krishnan | April 11
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: The persistent mismatch between early and late time measurements of the Universe\, in particular in the value of the current expansion rate of the Universe\, has been called a crisis in modern cosmology. After discussing some background and historical context\, I will present my own personal take on what the most conservative resolution(s) may be. \nBio: Upon discovering that he has a Bachelor's degree in electronics from the Indian Institute of Technology\, Chennai\, Chethan Krishnan quickly course-corrected himself and ended up receiving his Ph.D. In theoretical high energy physics from the University of Texas at Austin in 2006. After postdoctoral fellowships at the Solvay Institute in Brussels and SISSA\, Trieste\, he is currently permanent faculty at the Center for High Energy Physics in the Indian Institute of Science\, Bangalore. His research interests are broad\, but centered around string theory. He has written highly cited papers on cosmological supersymmetry breaking\, de Sitter vacua in string theory\, membranes in M-theory\, as well as various aspects of AdS/CFT correspondence and black holes.
URL:https://www.ashoka.edu.in/event/physics-colloquium-a-breakdown-of-standard-cosmology-chethan-krishnan-april-11/
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