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SUMMARY:Humanities Now
DESCRIPTION:The Harish & Bina Shah School of Humanities\, Ashoka University\, presents Humanities Now\, a series of perspectives in conversation around ideas and questions at the heart of the humanities. \nJoin professors Arunava Sinha\, Rita Kothari\, Jonathan Gil Harris and Ashoka alumna Vedika Mehendale\, in the inaugural edition\, Other Words\, Other Worlds. \nPlease note: Snacks will be served from 1:20 PM onwards. The conversation begins at 1:45 PM. \n 
URL:https://www.ashoka.edu.in/event/humanities-now/
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SUMMARY:Physics Seminar
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: Many soft-matter systems operate far from equilibrium\, where continuous energy input or interactions with their environment can drive spontaneous organization\,\nphase separation\, pattern formation\, and collective motion. Liquid-crystalline systems provide a useful platform for studying these effects because orientational order couples directly to particle shape\, chirality\, activity\, and flow. Examples include rod-like colloids and cytoskeletal systems such as microtubule–motor mixtures. \nIn this talk\, I will discuss my work on nonequilibrium behaviour in liquid-crystalline systems using both particle-based and continuum approaches. At the particle level\, I will focus on how particle shape\, chirality\, and activity influence phase behaviour and collective organization. In particular\, I will introduce a minimal two-temperature model\, in which nonequilibrium driving is generated by maintaining a temperature difference between different constituents of the system. I will show how this simple driving mechanism can induce phase separation and promote liquid-crystalline ordering even for rods with aspect ratios (length/diameter) below the Onsager threshold.\nI will then move to a continuum description of active and passive nematics\, where the coupling between orientational order and fluid flow becomes important. Using nematohydrodynamic equations\, I will show how hydrodynamic coupling modifies topological defect dynamics\, suppresses defect recombination\, and alters defect-mediated phase transitions.I will conclude by outlining how these ideas motivate my current and future research in nonequilibrium soft matter\, including responsive colloids\, adaptive soft materials\, and collective organization in complex soft-matter systems. \nAbout the Speaker:  Jayeeta Chattopadhyay is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Freiburg\, Germany\, working in computational soft matter and nonequilibrium statistical physics. She received her PhD in Physics from the Indian Institute of Science\, Bangalore\, and subsequently worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Niels Bohr Institute\, University of Copenhagen\, Denmark. Her research focuses on liquid crystals\, active matter\, responsive colloids\, and collective phenomena in nonequilibrium systems using particle-based simulations\, continuum modelling\, and statisticalmechanical approaches. \nWe look forward to your active participation
URL:https://www.ashoka.edu.in/event/physics-seminar/
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SUMMARY:Session with Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy\, National University of Singapore
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URL:https://www.ashoka.edu.in/event/session-with-lee-kuan-yew-school-of-public-policy-national-university-of-singapore/
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SUMMARY:Study Abroad Student Experience Series | Yashvi Mehta's LSE Summer Experience
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URL:https://www.ashoka.edu.in/event/study-abroad-student-experience-series-yashvi-mehtas-lse-summer-experience/
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SUMMARY:Ecologies of Heritage: Revitalisation and Relationality in Assam\'s Silk Belt.
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: Heritage: Revitalisation and Relationality in Assam's Silk Belt.” Abstract of the Talk: Drawing on ethnographic and archival research\, this talk examines silk as a site where heritage governance runs up against climate change and species survival. Antheraea assamensis (or Muga)–the wild silk moth endemic to Assam–has declined steadily over the past decade\, as its host plants and the insect itself grow increasingly prone to disease\, leaving plantations frequently declared ‘diseased.’ In response\, state-led initiatives now target the industry's revitalization–maximizing production and leveraging its heritage value–even as Muga silk’s intricate\, seasonally contingent production remains organized at the scale of the cottage industry\, unable to be absorbed into large-scale plantation form. In other words\, increased production has become a central aspiration for state and market actors alike even as this durable\, prized material is drawn from an increasingly disease-prone landscape. A question animating my project\, then\, is what it means to produce something durable in an exhausted landscape. My research follows silk-farming communities in Upper Assam who work within and against the technoscientific and bureaucratic categories driving revitalization\, sustaining seasonal rhythms\, forest-farm interfaces\, and specialized labor and knowledge that exceed those categories. I argue that attending to these relational practices–and to the fragile\, vital lives of silkworms themselves–reveals how ecologies of heritage become constitutive of valorization\, and what forms of liveliness persist within\, and against\, the conditions under which commodities become worth governing at all. \nAbout the Speaker: Radhika Moral is a Ph.D. candidate in Anthropology at Brown University. Her research examines agrarian and ecological change in silk-farming (sericulture) communities in Assam and Northeast India. Bringing together ethnographic and archival research\, she situates contemporary efforts to sustainably scale up silk production within longer histories of plantation economies in the region. She traces how sericulture\, often framed as an artisanal or “heritage” practice\, has been shaped by colonial and postcolonial plantation regimes\, land tenure policies\, and extractive commodity logics. By placing current sustainability and expansion experiments in dialogue with histories of plantation and land transformation in Assam\, her work examines how efforts to scale silk production encounter ecological change and historically sedimented land relations\, revealing the limits of plantation-derived models of expansion.
URL:https://www.ashoka.edu.in/event/ecologies-of-heritage-revitalisation-and-relationality-in-assams-silk-belt/
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