As the New Year unfolds, students and faculty members converge on Krea campus, refreshed from their Christmas break. The Kreaverse, our perpetual hub of activity, hums with renewed vitality.

Our faculty members continue to amplify the portfolios by contributing to the field of academia. Classrooms are bustling with stimulating conversations. Experts from diverse domains are gracing the campus and enlightening our students with insightful Krea talks.

At the backend, admissions for various programmes at both schools are open and in full swing. Placements at IFMR Graduate School of Business (GSB) is keeping students and faculty on their toes. Students at the School of Interwoven Arts and Sciences (SIAS) are enthusiastically diving into a spectrum of extracurricular endeavours everyday. The air is charged with anticipation, signaling the onset of a blend of fruitful developments.

To catch a glimpse of the weekly happenings, read on. For real-time updates, please follow us on our social media channels. If you have stories or news to share with the Krea community, we invite you to connect with us at all.commsteam@krea.edu.in

Admissions to the undergraduate programme at IFMR GSB, Krea University is open. Round 2 closes on 6 January, 2024. If you know anyone interested in the  5 year Integrated BBA+MBA programme, please direct them here

Admissions to the 2 year postgraduate MBA programme are also open, please direct interested candidates here

Do you know someone who aspires to join Krea and wants to tour the Krea campus? Ask them to register to visit Krea's sprawling campus at Sri City, and experience the academic and residential facilities on offer, first-hand. The campus is located 55 kms from Chennai and is well connected by road and air.

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Psychology at Krea invites you for a round table discussion organised by Krea University, in collaboration with Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), delving into the groundbreaking work of Prof Erica Burman on Child as Method. Scheduled for 9 January, 2024, from 2:30 pm to 4:30 pm, this event offers participants the flexibility to engage either in person at Krea University campus or virtually via Zoom. The discussants include Prof Erica Burman, Manchester Institute of Education, University of Manchester; Prof Minati Panda, Zakir Husain Centre for Educational Studies, JNU and Dr Akanksha Adya, Assistant Professor of Psychology, SIAS, Krea University.

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The Guild, Mumbai has published a monograph based on the exhibition of artist Akbar Padamsee’s Searching for the Present, Where?, curated by Dr Srajana Kaikini, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, SIAS, Krea University for the gallery and held at The Guild, Mumbai. In this monograph, Dr Kaikini offers an incisive philosophical reading of Padamsee’s figurations through photography, pencil, and watercolour (1995 - 2006). 

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Prof Akeel Bilgrami will deliver a talk titled How did ’the world’ go from being a place to live into a place to master and control? today from 6.15 pm at Seminar Hall 2. In his lecture, he will explore how the concept of nature was transformed into the concept of natural resources and what the implications of that transformation are for politics, culture and political economy. The talk is organised by faculties of Environmental Studies, Philosophy & Politics in collaboration with Moturi Satyanarayana Centre for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences.

As part of Krea Literature Talks, Prof Sowmya Dechamma C C, Centre for Comparative Literature, University of Hyderabad, will deliver a lecture titled Translation and the Margins on 9 January, 2024. The talk will focus on how translation engages with marginalised identities especially in India, the possibilities it has opened up in the 20th and 21st centuries and the potential it holds for our futures.

Navya J Muricken, PhD candidate, IFMR GSB, Krea University presented the work titled Does the Presence of Female Members on Corporate Boards matter for Firm Value? Empirical Evidence from India, co-authored with Dr Praveen Bhagawan, Associate Professor — Finance, Accounting, and Quantitative Finance — IFMR GSB and Dr Jyoti Prasad Mukhopadhyay, Associate Professor of Economics, IFMR GSB at Indian Finance Conference, Mumbai held from 21 – 23  December, 2023.

As part of the new employee engagement initiative, the HR team organised a virtual farewell for Ms Sravani Sreeramakavacham, Academic Administration, on 22 December, 2023; and for Ms Janaki Ramachandran, Director, Academic Administration, who retired from Krea University on 29 December, 2023.

If you have time this weekend, please do check these productions and publications from the recent past, give them a listen, watch or read.