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SUMMARY:Community-first knowledge circularity for a sustainable planet
DESCRIPTION:Dear All\, \nThe Centre for Climate Change and Sustainability (3CS)\, in collaboration with the Environment Ministry and AUSDG\, is pleased to invite you to the next session of the 3CS Lecture Series. \nTitle: Community-first knowledge circularity for a sustainable planet \nSpeaker: Shannon B. Olsson\, PhD \nFounder and Global Director\, The Echo Network \nAbstract:\nOur planet currently faces a confluence of environmental\, social and technological stressors that threaten the collective wellbeing of our people and our ecosystems. These stressors also reshape the interactions between organisms. Dr. Olsson's research has focused on how environmental change alters interactions between organisms in the Indian context — from the impact of climate change on plant-pollinator chemical communication in the Himalayas\, to air pollution and urban biodiversity\, to microplastic bioremediation by marine invertebrates. Such research can help society understand and adapt to these ecological stressors. Yet this knowledge rarely reaches the vulnerable communities who need it the most\, while science and technology research is often initiated far from these communities\, with public transfer treated as a final rather than an initial step. \nThis disparity inspired Dr. Olsson to found the Echo Network\, a social innovation partnership initiated in 2019 by the Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India. Its 2\,600 members across 46 countries span academia\, government\, business\, NGOs\, and media\, and have trained over 200 students who work with thousands of community members each year. The talk will make the case that if science is to be relevant for communities\, it must place diplomatic practice at the core of the scientific process itself — combining social innovation techniques and behavioral change methods with traditional scientific research to create a circular knowledge pathway that iteratively brings communities into the process of research and discovery. \nWhy Attend \n· Go through a Sustainability Boot Camp and learn how to become a SAGE Ambassador\, taking on practice-led sustainability research. \n· Meet the Echo Network's founder and team in person \n· See how this fits into your coursework\, internships\, dissertations\, or doctoral research projects. \n· Connect with faculty\, researchers\, and partner organizations from across the network \nEvent Details \n\nDate: 25th September 2026\nTime: 1:30 PM – 2:45 PM\nVenue: AC-04-LR-304\n\n\nPlease RSVP using the form.\n  \nWe look forward to your participation. Thank You.  \nBest Regards\,  \nTeam 3CS
URL:https://www.ashoka.edu.in/event/communityfirst-knowledge-circularity-for-a-sustainable-planet/
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SUMMARY:Psychology and Cognitive Sciences Seminar
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: The expressive arts are among the most complex and distinctively human behavioral domains\, integrating perception\, emotion\, cognition\, intersubjectivity\, and more. Though long valued anecdotally\, systematic evidence is beginning to show how neuroaesthetics and arts-based approaches can offer meaningful\, resource-efficient support for health and wellbeing. This talk explores that potential\, beginning with the neuropsychology of role-play and acting\, relevant not only to theatre or narrative dance\, but also to everyday life. The talk shares research on the neural correlates of role embodiment\, and how these processes may vary with aesthetic distance and expertise\, with implications for drama therapy and psychodrama. Building on these findings\, the talk considers the potential of the expressive arts as transdiagnostic tools for wellbeing\, alongside insights from implementing arts-based interventions in applied settings that highlight both the promise of such approaches and the challenges of translating them into effective support systems. The talk concludes by considering future directions for this research and the exciting contributions this emerging field is positioned to make. \n  \nAbout the Speaker: Dr. Sanjna Banerjee is a neuroscience researcher and performing artist exploring the neuropsychosocial bases of how humans generate and respond to artistic experience\, particularly embodied art\, and how these processes can support health\, wellbeing\, and education. Her work spans neuroaesthetics\, arts-in-health\, and social behaviour. She completed her PhD in cognitive neuroscience at the Indian Institute of Science\, studying visuospatial attention\, sensory processing\, and decision-making. Currently\, she is conducting research on the neural signatures of acting with the Jameel Arts and Health Lab\, (NYU Steinhardt)\, research on arts-in-health implementation with the Foundation for Arts and Health India\, and collaborative performance based research on embodied cognition in dancers and its applications to pedagogy with Dr. Shabari Rao (IIHS).  Parallely\, she has an active theatre practice – writing\, directing\, choreographing\, and performing for over 8 years\, with work showcased in festivals. She aims to build truly interdisciplinary frameworks of research and practice connecting the arts\, brain\, behaviour\, and wellbeing.  \nWe look forward to your active participation. \n 
URL:https://www.ashoka.edu.in/event/psychology-and-cognitive-sciences-seminar/
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SUMMARY:Study Abroad Student Experience Series | Avisha Chaudhry's Stanford Summer Experience
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URL:https://www.ashoka.edu.in/event/study-abroad-student-experience-series-avisha-chaudhrys-stanford-summer-experience/
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SUMMARY:Opening the Brain: Psychedelic Signs of a Plastic Future
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: Over the past decade\, psychedelics research has returned to the forefront of psychiatry and neuroscience in the US and the UK. Researchers at Imperial College London speak of a “psychedelic renaissance” which will revolutionise our understanding of the brain\, diagnostic categories\, and psychiatric practice. They claim to have located the basis of mental illness in the disorders of a brain system called the Default Mode Network (DMN). This paper undertakes a material-semiotic analysis of the DMN\, combining an analysis of the foundational papers of the Imperial College Lab with narratives of substance users in the psychedelic underground in New York City and London. It shows that the contemporary rise of psychedelic science depends on the circulation of mystical notions of "ego-dissolution" and conceptions of debt in material\, moral and epistemic registers\, binding psychiatric survivors\, researchers\, substance users and venture capital into novel regimes of “plasticity." It concludes with an account of novel “neuroecosocial” innovations in biomedicine which leverage psychedelics to mount an ecological critique of the brain sciences\, psychiatry and ‘neoliberal’ selfhood. \nBio: Sujit Thomas is an anthropologist of science\, technology and medicine with expertise in Europe\, North America and India. His work examines the history and anthropology of the mind\, cultures of the self\, and the “psy-sciences” (psychiatry\, psychoanalysis\, psychology\, neuroscience). Sujit earned his PhD from the Department of Anthropology at New York University\, where he subsequently taught\, as well as in the Department of Experimental Humanities and Social Engagement. He is currently Visiting Faculty at Ashoka University\, a Visiting Scholar at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA and leads the Thanatology Project at the Psychedelic Humanities Lab at the New School for Social Research. His book project\, The Open Brain\, is an ethnography of American and European neuroscientists\, psychiatrists\, substance-users and "brain-hackers" who have turned to psychedelic drugs and cybernetic devices to treat mental disorders over the past decade.
URL:https://www.ashoka.edu.in/event/opening-the-brain-psychedelic-signs-of-a-plastic-future/
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