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SUMMARY:First Lecture in Ashoka History Monsoon Seminar 2023
DESCRIPTION:ABSTRACT \nWriting a history of the region of Northeast India is fraught with difficulties – difficulties presented not only by a lack of sources\, but also by differences in scale – of time\, geography\, and culture within the region. The abrupt ruptures caused by political boundaries do not help either. Considering the region as an ecological zone having its own distinctive habitat may\, I suggest\, facilitate as well as provide pointers for the writing of the history of the region. The ecological zone of which the region is a part gives the region its coherence and unity\, and studying the entanglements between humans and non-humans that are specific to the region is an interesting way to show how these interactions have formed the people of the region. Close\, long-lasting relationships with animals characterise most groups in the region not only in practical\, and instrumental terms but also in symbolic and emotional terms. The paper will explore the ways in which the lifeworlds of the people of the region are bound together by these relations. Secondly\, an understanding of human-more-than-human interactions enable us to see the spatial dimensions or the creation of specific cultural geographies. Going beyond the binaries of forest people v/s settled agriculturists\, slash and burn v/s settled agriculture\, primitive v/s civilized the paper will explore how the interplay of micro-organisms\, animals and plants created spatial patterns that changed over time with human and nonhuman mobilities. \n  \nJoy LK Pachuau is Professor of History at the Centre for Historical Studies\, Jawaharlal Nehru University\, New Delhi\, India. More recently she has been working on the history of Northeast India with a focus in the history of identity formations. She is also interested in the visual history of the region. Dr. Pachuau’s publications include Being Mizo: Identity and Belonging in Northeast India\, (OUP\, 2014)\, The Camera as Witness: A Social History of Mizoram\, Northeast India (with Willem van Schendel\, CUP\, 2015)\,  Christianity in Indian History: Issues of Culture\, Power and Knowledge (eds with P. Malekandathil and Tanika Sarkar\, Primus 2016) and Landscape\, Culture and Belonging: Writing the History of Northeast India\, New Delhi (edited with Neeladri Bhattacharya: Cambridge University Press\, 2019). Her most recent book\, Entangled Lives: Human-Animal-Plant Histories of the Eastern Himalayan Triangle\, co-written with Willem van Schendel\, was published in 2022 from Cambridge University Press.
URL:https://www.ashoka.edu.in/event/first-lecture-in-ashoka-history-monsoon-seminar-2023/
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SUMMARY:GAPP Masterclass on Graduate Admissions
DESCRIPTION:We bring you a GAPP Masterclass on Graduate Admissions where you witness a fireside chat with  Vineet Gupta\, Founder and Trustee of Ashoka University & Vanita Shastri\, Dean\, GESP. If you are unsure about where to begin and how to go about the application process for different countries this is the session for you. Vineet will also discuss the GRE/GMAT and management options! \nDate: Tuesday\, September 5\, 2023   \nWhen: 1:30 PM to 3:00 PM (IST) \nVenue: AC02-011
URL:https://www.ashoka.edu.in/event/gapp-masterclass-on-graduate-admissions/
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SUMMARY:Bergman-Einstein metrics on two-dimensional Stein spaces
DESCRIPTION:Abstract:  We show that the Bergman metric of the ball quotients $\\mathbb{B}^2/\\Gamma$\, where $\\Gamma$  is a finite and fixed point free group\, is Kähler-Einstein if and only if  $\\Gamma$   is trivial. As a consequence\, we characterize the unit ball $ \\mathbb{B}^2$ \, among 2 dimensional Stein spaces with isolated normal singularities\, proving an algebraic version of Cheng's conjecture for 2 dimensional Stein spaces. \n  \nAbout the speaker : Soumya is a 4th year PhD student in the Department of Mathematics at UC San Diego. He is working with Prof. Peter Ebenfelt and Prof. Ming Xiao. His research area is Several Complex Variables\, Complex Geometry and Mathematical Physics. His current research interests include classification problems arising in complex geometry based on properties of Bergman kernels and metrics. He completed his M.S. in Mechanical Engg from UC San Diego in 2020 and B.E. in Mechanical Engg from IIEST\, Shibpur in 2017.
URL:https://www.ashoka.edu.in/event/bergmaneinstein-metrics-on-twodimensional-stein-spaces/
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