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SUMMARY:SOA Colloquium Series
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URL:https://www.ashoka.edu.in/event/soa-colloquium-series/
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SUMMARY:The Entrepreneurship Weekender Shatranj Intercollegiate Event
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URL:https://www.ashoka.edu.in/event/the-entrepreneurship-weekender-shatranj-intercollegiate-event/
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SUMMARY:IR Colloquium | Nehru’s First Recruits: A conversation with Nehru and his diplomats
DESCRIPTION:Abstract:  \nMuch has been said about Jawaharlal Nehru in recent years especially by his critics. But Nehru has not been silent either. He continues to speak through his writings and through the memory of India’s state building activities that took place during the Nehru era. In Nehru’s First Recruits which relied on among others Nehru’s own writings and his speeches in India and abroad\, Kallol Bhattacherjee has tried to rebuild the history of the early years of the Indian Foreign Service\, the dedicated diplomatic service that provided some of the key decision makers and influencers in the first several decades of independent India’s history. The IFS was a brand new service of the post-colonial Indian state and it became the voice of the Indian state at a crucial moment in history. Born in the backdrop of famine\, war\,   conflicts and decolonization\, the IFS represented the requirements of India and the world that it came to inhabit as a young independent nation state with deep historical and civilisational roots. The inclusive building of the bureaucratic apparatus for diplomacy was the first message that India delivered to the world that the future of India was not going to be tied down by the horrors that accompanied its birth and that India would be led by a progressive and capacious state. Nehru’s First Recruits attempts to broaden the Nehru narrative by bringing in the characters who were inducted personally by Prime Minister Nehru into the foreign service of the state and then went on to leave their imprint on the narrative of the modern Indian state. \nSpeaker: Kallol Bhattacherjee hails from Tripura and has been a journalist for the past two decades. He is the author of The Great Game in Afghanistan: Rajiv Gandhi\, General Zia and the Unending War (HarperCollins India\, 2017)\, Nehru’s First Recruits: The Diplomats Who Built Independent India’s Foreign Policy (HarperCollins India 2024) and A Singular Spy: The Untold Story of Coomar Narain (Bloomsbury India\, 2024). He has worked with the Iranian News Agency\, and The Week in the past and is currently employed as a  diplomatic correspondent with The Hindu. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.ashoka.edu.in/event/ir-colloquium-nehrus-first-recruits-a-conversation-with-nehru-and-his-diplomats/
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SUMMARY:Research Scholars Colloquium
DESCRIPTION:About the Speaker – Deepti Sreeram is a fourth year PhD candidate at the School of Sociology and Anthropology at Ashoka University. Her work explores the question of quality in higher education through an ethnographic study of a heritage educational institution based in Kozhikode. She was recently awarded the Prof KV Krishna Ayyar Scholar award\, an award instituted to honour original research related to the heritage and  history of Kozhikode in Kerala\, for her doctoral research project. Deepti has an MPhil in Linguistics from Jawaharlal Nehru University\, Delhi and a Master's in Linguistics from English and Foreign Languages University\, Hyderabad. She is currently an editor at Ala\, a Kerala Studies Blog dedicated to publishing emerging studies on Kerala in both English and Malayalam and a co-founder of the Reading Kerala Forum that is dedicated to reading any form of literature or scholarship related to Kerala. Her more recent work related to  fieldworking Kozhikode was published in Ethnographic Marginalia\, a platform dedicated to documenting dispatches from the field and Ala.  \nAbstract for the talk – Kerala has received widespread acclaim for its investment in public education. However\, over the last two decades\, there is an emergent public discourse questioning the quality of students\, teachers and education in Kerala. Drawing on fieldwork conducted at a well-known college in Kozhikode\, located in the northern region of Kerala\, this talk will explore how the social world of examinations\, often identified as a visible measurement of quality\, produces shifting speculative assessments of the student and the teacher. Through exploratory scenes directly or indirectly related to examinations\, this talk intends to show how such assessments are made and what kinds of contestations emerge in relation to such evaluations. How do these assessments make us think of quality differently? \nAbout the Research Scholars Colloquium –  The Research Scholars Colloquium at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology\, Ashoka University\, is led by our graduate students. It is meant to provide a generative platform for PhD scholars in sociology\, anthropology\, and other related disciplines and fields to present their research to an encouraging audience of fellow researchers. The Colloquium provides an opportunity for researchers\, from India and across the world\, to present their work at varying stages of ideation and preparation\, to create a space for productive conversations and mutual learning. For the participants/audience\, this is a chance to engage with cutting edge research as it is formulated\, explored and developed by graduate students.
URL:https://www.ashoka.edu.in/event/research-scholars-colloquium/
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