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SUMMARY:Psychology & Cognitive Sciences Colloquium | What Is “the Social” in Social Psychology?
DESCRIPTION:Dear All\, \nThe Department of Psychology and Cognitive Sciences invites you to a colloquium by Dr. Apurv Chauhan. \nAbstract: This talk addresses a persistent difficulty in my own work and\, I suspect\, in the field more broadly. Put plainly\, social psychology still lacks a settled way of apprehending the social that moves beyond Allport’s mid‑twentieth‑century decree on the discipline’s remit. I will focus on two thematic issues to illustrate how this problem currently plays out. \nThe first concerns the way in which much of what is implied by “the social” in research is relegated to the ill‑defined conceptual rubbish bin of context. Context is routinely invoked as an explanation for empirical findings\, yet it is almost always treated as self‑evident and theoretically under‑specified. It carries few discernible commitments: almost anything seems to count\, and there is rarely consistency across studies by the same researcher\, let alone across the field. This is a serious problem\, as the context of anything is fundamentally indeterminate—it has no reliable boundary and no stable content. The only constructive response I will offer in this talk emerges from this impasse. Drawing on my fieldwork in rural India\, I outline a pragmatic attempt to sharpen our conceptualisation of context\, and our allusions to it\, through a tripartite theorisation of research context. This aims to afford the concept analytical traction without imposing false closure. \nReturning to these difficulties\, I then reflect on how my engagement with a range of theoretical perspectives has shaped my methodological decisions in the search for the social. My research group primarily works with texts (written\, transcribed\, or visually presented thoughts) and treats them as privileged yet partial traces of social life. We approach them as sites in which meaning\, positioning\, and orientation become available for analysis. This orientation has led me\, at different moments\, to privilege content\, distribution\, and temporal patterning as entry points into the social. In retrospect\, however\, these moves appear largely as methodological artefacts – whether assembled through mathematical time‑series modelling\, thematic analysis\, or dialogical approaches – that stubbornly persist. In each case\, the social became analytically tractable only by being narrowed. Some of the social\, always remained poorly captured: depending on the methodology\, this took the form of relational\, interactional\, or socio‑material processes through which texts were produced\, circulated\, and taken up. \nOne minor theoretical proposition on the research context aside\, the purpose of this talk is not to offer solutions\, but to initiate conversation\, collaboration\, and dialogue in the ongoing search for the social\, and indeed in negotiating the tension between its analytic capture and its inevitable loss. \nAbout the Speaker: Dr Apurv Chauhan is a Senior Lecturer in Social & Cultural Psychology at King’s College London where he is the Director of the Sociocultural Lab @ King’s and leads the IoPPN research theme Society\, Culture\, and Constructed Worlds. His previous appointments were at the University of Brighton and as a Canadian Institute of Health Research Fellow at University of Guelph\, Canada. Apurv is the past editor in Chief of Sage Open and currently sits on the APA task force for Indigenous Psychology and BPS National Reference Group for Poverty.  \nApurv received his PhD from London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) on a LSE full Doctoral Scholarship. Prior to this\, he received his MPhil in Social and Cultural Psychology from the University of Cambridge on a full Cambridge Trusts Scholarship. He received his BSc Hons in Psychology from Zakir Husain Delhi College\, University of Delhi. \nApurv’s research looks at social inequalities and experiences of marginality\, culture and meaning\, and traditional and new media. His upcoming book Meanings of Poverty: Alterity\, Representations\, and Dialogue is going to be published by Bloomsbury in 2027. \nWe look forward to your active participation.
URL:https://www.ashoka.edu.in/event/psychology-cognitive-sciences-colloquium-what-is-the-social-in-social-psychology/
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SUMMARY:Kāñcīpuram in the Varadābhyudayacampū: Thesis presentation by Lakshminarayanan Sundara Raman
DESCRIPTION:Dear All \nYou are cordially invited to the presentation of a 4th year undergraduate thesis\, being submitted in the department of Sanskrit Studies\, by Lakshminarayanan Sundara Raman. \nTime:\n6pm tomorrow (Thursday) \nPlace:\nAC04 537 \nTitle:\nAn Ornament to the Field of True Vows: KāñcÄ«puram in the VaradābhyudayacampÅ« of Veá¹…kaṭādhvarin \nAbstract:\nThe present study introduces and analyses the Varadābhyudaya\, a little-known campÅ«-kāvya poem of the renowned Sanskrit poet\, Veá¹…kaṭādhvarin (circa 16-17th century CE). \nConsisting of verse interspersed with sections of prose\, the poem retells the sthalamāhātmya  of the Varadarājasvāmi Temple\, a prominent temple to Viṣṇu and a major site of ÅšrÄ«vaiṣṇava pilgrimage located in KāñcÄ«puram\, Tamilnadu. \nBy attempting to analyse the influence of the depiction of  KāñcÄ«puram in earlier sthalamāhātmya texts and poetry on the poem and through a careful analysis of the poem itself\, the study aims to analyse the depiction of KāñcÄ«puram and its temples in Veá¹…kaṭādhvarin's  work\, while exploring their role in the text's narrative and their significance to Veá¹…kaṭādhvarin himself.
URL:https://www.ashoka.edu.in/event/kcpuram-in-the-varadbhyudayacamp-thesis-presentation-by-lakshminarayanan-sundara-raman/
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