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SUMMARY:The IR Department at Ashoka University invites you for two events\, featuring Prof. Jeffrey T. Checkel\, European University Institute
DESCRIPTION:9 April: Distinguished Speaker Series talk: ‘Identities in Motion: Practices\, Enactment\, Narration’\, 6:30 pm. \nVenue: MPH\, Administration Block \nThe talk will be followed by the buffet for all attendees. Please make sure to register by clicking the ‘Register’ button. \n \nAbstract: \nIf identity – as theoretical construct or lived reality – was ever some stable and apolitical entity\, those days are rapidly disappearing\, if not gone for good. Identity has been weaponised\, with people experiencing it less as an act of deliberation or calculation\, and more as a process of rupture to the routines and practices that shape ‘who they are.’ Given these developments\, I argue that scholarship on identity needs a meta-theoretical\, theoretical and methodological rethink and expansion. The argument is developed in three parts. First\, I introduce relationalism as ontology and its implications for how we think about theory. Second\, the bulk of the talk then draws upon relational identity scholarship in sociology\, feminist theory\, everyday nationalism\, critical border studies and visual ethnography. This allows me to develop a rich and diverse roster of social practices\, enactments and narrations – accessed through immersive field methods – that capture the dynamics of identity formation in a world of flux and rupture. Third\, I argue that the pluralism behind this roster – far from a weakness – is precisely the point. If political science takes its foot off the neo-positivist meta-theoretical and method/design accelerator\, the result will be a broader and deeper conceptual space for creating new theory and data on identity formation. The discipline needs multiple gold standards for advancing the knowledge frontier. \nBio: \nJeffrey T. Checkel holds the Chair in International Politics in the Department of Political and Social Sciences\, European University Institute (EUI). Earlier\, he held the Simons Chair in International Law and Human Security at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver. Priorly\, he taught at the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Oslo. \nAfter a first degree from Cornell University in applied physics\, Checkel received a PhD in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. A consistent theme in his scholarship has been to bridge divides of meta-theory\, discipline\, and subfield. After a start in Sovietology and arms control\, Checkel turned to the study of institutions and norms; to European politics and identity; to transnationalism\, civil wars and political violence; and – most recently – to the politics of identity formation and processual methods in the social sciences. \nCheckel’s research interests include international relations theory (identity formation\, constructivism\, international institutions\, civil war\, domestic-international linkages) and qualitative methods (meta-theoretical foundations\, process tracing\, practice analytics\, bridging positivist-interpretive techniques). He has published broadly on these topics\, including four books from Cambridge University Press and one volume from Yale University Press. At EUI\, he offers seminars on international relations theory\, international institutions\, philosophies of the social sciences\, and qualitative methods (introductory and advanced seminars; workshops). \n\n10 April: Methods Workshop\, ‘Putting Social Science in Motion: Process Tracing and Beyond’\, 11:30 am – 3:30 pm. \nAimed at early-career researchers\, postdocs\, and current PhD Students. \n \n  \nPlease register using the ‘Register‘ button above. \n 
URL:https://www.ashoka.edu.in/event/the-ir-department-at-ashoka-university-invites-you-for-two-events-featuring-prof-jeffrey-t-checkel-european-university-institute/
LOCATION:MPH\, Administration Block\, Plot No. 2\, Rajiv Gandhi Education City\, National Capital Region P.O. Rai\, Sonepat Haryana-131029 (India)\, Sonepat\, Haryana\, 131029\, India
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SUMMARY:Bridging Techne and Episteme: Knowledge Within and Beyond the Academy
DESCRIPTION:The conference aims to initiate a dialogue that includes teachers\, students\, artists\, independent scholars\, journalists\, podcasters and content creators – voices operating both inside and beyond the academy – to explore alternative modes of theorising\, teaching\, and public engagement. In light of the ongoing transformations in the education sector\, marked by the emergence of new enclosures of knowledge\, privatisation and the accelerating AI-turn\, radically impacting curricula\, pedagogy\, modes of research and intellectual labour\, we observe an increasing obfuscation of the relation between techne (how knowledge is produced) and episteme (the frameworks and forms of knowledge that are produced). In attempting to bridge techne and episteme\, the central question we pose is: who is the intellectual/ ‘expert’? And whose labour in knowledge production is and can be considered as constituting intellectual labour/ expertise? Papers presented at the conference will offer reflections that interrogate the manner in which different practitioners and sites – online archives\, open-access journals\, independent research collectives\, podcasts\, media platforms\, to name a few – contribute to newer modalities of learning and awareness\, radically altering and reconfiguring the ‘education’ landscape. The larger aim of the conference is to discuss spaces that allow critique and creativity to operate outside institutional settings. \nLink to Conference Programme
URL:https://www.ashoka.edu.in/event/bridging-techne-and-episteme-knowledge-within-and-beyond-the-academy/
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SUMMARY:Computer Science Seminar |  Safety Verification of AI-enabled Cyber-Physical Systems
DESCRIPTION:Dear All\, \nThe department of computer science invites you to a seminar on "Safety Verification of AI-enabled Cyber-Physical Systems" \nAbstract: AI-based components are increasingly integrated into autonomous and cyber-physical systems (CPS)\, replacing traditional modules in control and perception. These integrations have led to significant advances in safety-critical domains such as aerospace\, automotive systems\, and robotics. At the same time\, the increased adaptability and complexity of AI-enabled components introduce new safety challenges\, as failures in such systems can lead to catastrophic consequences. To address these challenges\, formal verification is emerging as a powerful framework for providing guarantees on the correctness and safety of such systems. \n\nIn this talk\, we focus on safety verification of AI-enabled CPS along two complementary directions. \n\nFirst\, we address the continuously evolving nature of neural network controllers\, which are frequently retrained or updated to improve performance. We introduce an approximate conformance framework that enables safety guarantees of a previously verified network to be transferred to its retrained variants without re-verifying the entire closed-loop system from scratch.\nSecond\, we consider safety verification of anytime perception-based CPS. Anytime sensors are being introduced to offer flexibility in latency and accuracy\, unlike traditional sensors with fixed performance. Such variations in sensing performance can lead to mission-critical failures. We address this challenge by developing efficient reachable-set computation algorithms for closed-loop systems with anytime sensors and neural network controllers using the star set data structure and designing new algorithms for some star set operations.  \nAbout the Speaker: Lipsy Gupta is a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Kansas State University. She was previously a Postdoctoral Fellow at Kansas State University and at the University of Missouri–Columbia. Her research focuses on developing practical formal methods for scalable analysis of AI-enabled autonomous systems\, providing mathematical guarantees for their safety\, reliability\, and privacy\, with publications at ICRA\, EMSOFT\, CDC\, and IEEE TCAD. She has been recognized with several awards at Kansas State University\, including the Distinguished Research Award and the Excellence in Research Award. She holds a Ph.D. in Mathematics from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi\, where her work centered on topology of metric spaces. \nWe look forward to your active participation. \nRegards\, \nDepartment of Computer Science
URL:https://www.ashoka.edu.in/event/computer-science-seminar-safety-verification-of-aienabled-cyberphysical-systems/
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SUMMARY:TEDxAshokaUniversity
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URL:https://www.ashoka.edu.in/event/tedxashokauniversity/
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SUMMARY:The Artists of Ālampur: Identifying Individuals\, Processes\, and Interventions
DESCRIPTION:Dear All\, \nThe Department of Visual Arts is delighted to invite you to the fifth colloquium in the Visual Arts Colloquium Series\, Spring 2026. \nTitle: The Artists of Ä€lampur: Identifying Individuals\, Processes\, and Interventions \nSpeaker: Dr. Ajeya Vajpayee\, Visiting Faculty\, Visual Arts & Fellow\, CIAR\, Ashoka University \nDate: Friday\, 10th April\, 2026 \nTime: 1:30 PM \nVenue: Visual Art Studio (near sports block) \nAbstract: This talk will discuss the artists of Ä€lampur through labels\, visuals\, and mason marks found on various architectural members of the temples and related structures standing within a small\, ruined fortress overlooking the western bank of river Tungabhadra in Telangana. The site yields a handful of etchings that identify artists\, their epithets\, and crafts from the early seventh to the mid-14th centuries CE. These provide insights into authorship and rivalry\, practices that were not-so-prevalent in earlier periods and became increasingly apparent as the number of inscriptions claiming definite authorship increased in later periods. In the absence of labels\, the visuals and mason marks offer significant insights into creative processes\, regional interactions\, localisation of motifs\, possible migrations\, and a peek into the artists’ sensibilities\, who used their works to assert and negotiate their agency. Collectively\, the labels\, visuals\, and their absence counter the earlier historiographical notion about the anonymity of early artists. \nKeywords: Artists\, Ä€lampur\, Early Western Calukyas\, Temple Architecture\, Visual Culture \nSpeaker's Bio: Ajeya is a visiting faculty in the Department of Visual Arts\, Ashoka University. She is also a Fellow at the CIAR\, Ashoka University\, where her research–an extension of her PhD on the Ä€lampur temples–examines the shared visuality and networks between the early shrines of Ä€lampur and the Mahanandi basin in Chhattisgarh. Her research interests lie in the art historical traditions of India and South Asia.   \n  \nWe encourage interested faculty and students to join us. \nWarm regards\, \nVisual Arts Department
URL:https://www.ashoka.edu.in/event/the-artists-of-lampur-identifying-individuals-processes-and-interventions/
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SUMMARY:Eminent Speaker Series | Public Lecture | Prof. Anna Maria Mayda | 10 April 2026
DESCRIPTION:Dear All\, \nThe Department of Economics is delighted to invite you to a Public Lecture by Prof. Anna Maria Mayda as part of its Eminent Speaker Series. \nTitle: The Political Impact of Globalization   \nAbstract: Globalization has produced benefits\, on average\, for countries that have liberalized but its effects have been uneven\, with some individuals and locations within each country gaining and others losing. In turn\, the uneven effects of globalization have caused a public backlash and shaped recent elections outcomes. This lecture will discuss theory and evidence on the political impact of globalization\, focusing on trade\, offshoring and immigration. \nAbout Speaker: Anna Maria Mayda is a Professor of Economics at the School of Foreign Service and the Department of Economics at Georgetown University. Her research focuses on international migration\, international trade\, and political economy. She is a Research Fellow of CEPR\, CReAM\, and IZA. She obtained a PhD in Economics from Harvard University in 2003 and a Laurea in Economics from the University of Roma\, La Sapienza\, in 1997. \nWe look forward to having you with us.  \nKindly fill out the RSVP form if you are interested in attending the public lecture: RSVP \nThanks & Regards\, \nManish
URL:https://www.ashoka.edu.in/event/eminent-speaker-series-public-lecture-prof-anna-maria-mayda-10-april-2026/
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