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SUMMARY:SOA Colloquium
DESCRIPTION:  \nThis talk examines how urban planning\, animal governance\, and racial politics converge in the production of interspecies belonging in Singapore. It asks what drawing—as both a visual practice and an anthropological analytic—might offer for understanding how animal lives are rendered visible\, classified\, and governable. Focusing on the “Singapore Special\,” a term for local mixed-breed dogs\, it traces how housing policy\, animal-control programs\, behavioral training\, and administrative classification shape the conditions under which dogs may enter homes and become recognized as legitimate urban inhabitants.\nDrawing on ethnographic research with animal-welfare volunteers\, the talk considers how governance participates in making the animal kinds it subsequently manages. Drawing offers a way to follow these crossings between bodies and categories\, attending to the lines\, measurements\, thresholds\, and environments through which species politics takes material form. \n\nBio: V. Chitra is an anthropologist and visual artist based at the Australian National University. Her research intersects environmental studies\, science and technology studies\, and the visual arts. Her first book\, Drawing Coastlines: Climate Anxieties and the Visual Reinvention of Mumbai (Cornell University Press\, 2024)\, examines how science\, management\, and planning remake coastal worlds in urban India. Chitra has a background in visual design and works with comics as an ethnographic medium.\n 
URL:https://www.ashoka.edu.in/event/soa-colloquium/
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SUMMARY:THE IMAGE IS NOT INNOCENT: POLITICS OF TEXT\, IMAGE\, AND REPRESENTATION
DESCRIPTION:Dear All\, \nThe Department of Visual Arts is delighted to invite you to the fifth talk in the Visual Arts Colloquium Series\, Monsoon 2026. \nTitle:  THE IMAGE IS NOT INNOCENT: POLITICS OF TEXT\, IMAGE\, AND REPRESENTATION   \nSpeaker: Anupam Roy \nDate & Time: 6th November 2026 / 1.30 pm\nVenue: Visual Arts Studio (near sports block) \nSynopsis:\nThis talk reflects on the relationship between text\, image\, and politics through the artist's artistic practice and ongoing research. Moving across drawing\, painting\, posters\, zines\, photography\, video\, and field-based work\, Roy will discuss how images are produced\, circulated\, and made political\, and how they participate in structures of power rather than simply representing them. Central to the discussion is what Roy describes as “representational impossibility”: the point at which images and language become inadequate to the social and political realities they attempt to address. Drawing from his recent works\, including …ing: Sceneries Without Sovereignty\, Anupam Roy will consider land\, labour\, dispossession\, collective resistance\, and the possibilities of developing a visual language that works through these contradictions. \n  \nAbout the Speaker: \nAnupam Roy (b. 1985) is a multidisciplinary artist\, researcher\, and educator based in India. His practice spans drawing\, painting\, photography\, posters\, zines\, graffiti\, video\, and performance\, emerging from long-term engagements with questions of land\, labour\, ecology\, dispossession\, and collective struggle. His work has been presented at Frieze London\, the New Museum Triennial\, Asia Now\, Colomboscope Festival\, India Art Fair\, Project 88\, Drawing Room London\, and Vadehra Art Gallery. He is actively involved in artist-led and research-based initiatives including Panjeri Artists’ Union\, Jinn\, Khandera Art Space\, Dadri Forecast\, and The Locust Arts and Letters Collective. A recipient of the Prince Claus Fund CAREC Award and the FICA Emerging Artist Award\, he currently teaches as Assistant Professor in the Department of Art\, Media and Performance at Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence\, Delhi-NCR. \n  \nTo receive further updates\, talk-specific announcements and event details\, please sign up for the Visual Arts Colloquium mailing list: [Sign up here] \nWe look forward to having you with us for the talk.  \n  \nWarm regards\, \nVisual Arts Department
URL:https://www.ashoka.edu.in/event/the-image-is-not-innocent-politics-of-text-image-and-representation/
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SUMMARY:Human dimensions of the blue horizon; behavioural insights for compliance and deterrence
DESCRIPTION:Dear All\, \nThe Department of Environmental Studies cordially invites you to the Annual Research Seminar on 6th Nov 2026. \nTitle: "Human dimensions of the blue horizon; behavioural insights for compliance and deterrence” \nSpeaker: Abhishek\, PhD Scholar EVS Department \nDate & Time: 6th Nov\, 4 PM online \nZoom Link: https://zoom.us/j/91256796441?pwd=V5PzGyYkOySOxtOmihRYg78cqKOHzf.1 \nAbstract: \nIllegal fishing is a global threat to sustainable marine resource management and biodiversity conservation. Despite advances in satellite monitoring\, vessel tracking systems\, and stricter regulations\, Illegal fishing continues to harm marine ecosystems and destabilise coastal economies. In India\, where the fisheries sector is crucial for economic sustenance\, Illegal fishing remains a pressing issue. The persistence of illegal activities\, despite technological and regulatory efforts\, highlights the need to address the socio-economic and cultural drivers behind them. Therefore\, some critical questions arise: What are the regulations at place to tackle illegal fishing? What drives the spatial behaviour of fishers in the ocean? Why do some fishers prefer technology and some don't? These questions are essential for developing effective strategies to combat illegal fishing. My research aims to fill these knowledge gaps by examining illegal fishing in the South India region. I  evaluate policy gaps and implementation challenges in India's Monitoring\, Control\, and Surveillance (MCS) framework\, conduct spatial behaviour analyses of fishing using participatory mapping and social science techniques\, and investigate the factors driving the adoption of vessel tracking technologies. By addressing these issues\, my research tries to contribute to interventions that align with the realities of fishing communities in deep sea fisheries in India\, enhancing efforts to combat Illegal fishing.\n  \nSpeaker's Bio:  \nAbhishek is passionate about interdisciplinary conservation research. Before joining Ashoka\, he worked as a Junior Research Fellow at the Wildlife Institute of India on the Gangetic Dolphin research project. He holds a master’s degree in Heritage Conservation and Management from the Wildlife Institute of India and a B.A. Hons. degree in History from University of Delhi. \n  \nWe look forward to having you join us for the seminar.  \n  \nwarm regards\, \nEnvironmental Studies Department
URL:https://www.ashoka.edu.in/event/human-dimensions-of-the-blue-horizon-behavioural-insights-for-compliance-and-deterrence/
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