A Round-up of the Kreaverse
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Beginnings, aspirations, dreams, and optimism, these are just some of the keywords that the Kreaverse has been buzzing with this week. A week that witnessed hundreds of eager young minds write their own prologue to the Krea story. The School of Interwoven Arts and Sciences (SIAS) welcomed the incoming cohort of 2027, a welcome which was full of heart and also resolute with hopes, firmly resonating with our mission of preparing humanity for an unpredictable world.
While Kreators’s Mosaic, the Orientation Week at SIAS splashed hues of camaraderie, co-creation, and collaboration across the campus, the week also witnessed an intensive training programme by Krea-CWP (Centre for Writing and Pedagogy), aptly named the CWP Bootcamp. As faculty members kicked off the new academic session, they also continued unabated work in their fields of expertise, both of local and global impact.
Also on the horizon are upcoming discussions on varied critical topics, imperative to the future we are building together, deep diving into challenges across the spectrum of environment, culture, philosophy, and sciences.
Our social media has also been humming with student-centric campaigns — fresh, vibrant, and zealous. Do keep watching them for more updates and information from the Kreaverse. And as we wrap up this week, as always, we raise a toast to the passion and dedication of our student community at Krea. As our Vice-Chancellor Professor Nirmala Rao aptly said in her welcome address to the incoming cohort, “Any institution is only as good as its people and students, and students at Krea go beyond basic passion for subject, with a shared purpose for human rights, to fight injustice and to challenge and change the world.”
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Committees and Clubs in Centrestage
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As part of Prarambh, the Orientation Programme for the MBA Class of 2025 at IFMR Graduate School of Business (GSB), Krea University, various clubs and committees organised a diverse range of activities, fostering an inclusive and engaging environment for the incoming batch. Here is a summary of events that happened over the last couple of weeks.
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Welcome to the Krea Family, SIAS Cohort of 2027
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The newest members of the Krea family are here. The incoming cohort of 2027 at SIAS experienced a warm welcome by the Krea community, as they took their first steps into the Kreaverse. As we send this edition for publishing, the students are immersed in a four-day long experience that ushers them into the world of academics, extracurricular activities, institution building, and the workings of the close-knit Krea community. If the enthusiasm in the air is any sign, Kreators’ Mosaic, the specially curated Orientation Week has been a blast.
The week has been a true reflection of the kaleidoscope that is Krea, where unique individuals come together to splash the canvas with hues, each distinct from the other yet bound by the sense of the collective. The Orientation Week, running from 19-22 July at Sri City Campus, will conclude on a high note with the vibrant Krea Nite tomorrow.
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Dr Vikash Pandey and Dr Venkata Srinu Bhadram, Physics Faculty at SIAS, shared their thoughts about the Chandrayaan-3 lunar mission, the significance of space exploration, and how experiencing a launch first-hand can serve as a source of inspiration and engagement for STEM students at Krea University. View more
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Dr Srajana Kaikini, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, SIAS reviewed A Phenomenology by Nicolle Zapien and Susi Ferrarello (2019) in Ethical Perspectives. September 2022. Srajana reviewed this book which attempts to bring Psychology and Philosophy in conversation with each other in thinking of phenomenological conceptions of time and the varied kinds of experiences of time in different subjectivities for the peer reviewed journal Ethical Perspectives.
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In the research article, Adyar's Cosmopolitanisms: Notes from the Adyar Archive (July 2022) in Critical Collectives, commissioned by the Critical Collective for their Art History Project, Srajana traces the close connection of the Adyar Library and Research Centre and the Archives with the Theosophical Society and their vast collection of private documents, notebooks, artworks and photographs.
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As a warm gesture to welcome the incoming cohort aboard, nine Kreators from SIAS encapsulate their journey and connect it to a term that is innate to the Krea ethos. From inclusivity to sustainability, here's a campaign that brings together their experience at Krea.
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First Impressions at Krea
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Among various other things, at Orientation Week, we asked the freshers their first impressions of the Kreaverse and here’s what they had to say.
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Amidst an atmosphere packed with excitement and anticipation, the newly-launched five-year Integrated BBA+MBA Programme was inaugurated on 14 July on the campus. Gathered for the occasion were the founding batch of 34 students, their hearts brimming with ambition, and their proud parents, beaming with joy. The event commenced with a warm welcome address by Professor Suresh Venkatraman, Chairperson of Admissions, followed by an inspiring speech from Professor Nirmala Rao, Vice-Chancellor, Krea University.
The new cohort had a glimpse of their exciting five-year journey through insights by Nagarani M, Head of Career Services, and Dr Gayathri Sampath, Chairperson of the MBA Programme. An interactive session with faculty followed. Amanjit Kaur, Director of Student Services, and Satya Saran, Chief Administrative Officer, prepared them for a vibrant campus life. With heartfelt farewells, emotions soared as students embraced newfound independence, eager to kick off a memorable academic journey.
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(Re)Constituting a South Asian Environmental Humanities
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(Re)Constituting a South Asian Environmental Humanities co-organised by: Dr Kalpita Bhar Paul, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, SIAS; Dr Joya John, Assistant Professor of Literature, SIAS and Megnaa Mehtta, ICAS:MP and UCL will be held on 3 and 4 August at the India International Centre (IIC), New Delhi.
What might an environmental humanities approach embedded in the context of South Asia look like? How do we re-imagine environmental narratives and environmental regions going beyond political boundaries? What are the ontological differences in perceiving, relating to, and dwelling in specific ecologies — be it a forest, river, village, or city? How do the aesthetic, sensorial and ethical histories of South Asia inform human and nonhuman relations to the environment? What new concepts or equivalences can be found for the “environment” or “nature” within non-anglophone languages? Over the course of two days, with a total of 20 scholars and six discussants, from a range of disciplines and backgrounds, the workshop hopes to answer some of these questions and begin to ask several more that trace the specific genealogies, archives, and philosophical underpinnings of South Asian thought, perception, and practice. If you may be interested in attending a particular day or panel, please write to envhumanities2023@gmail.com and Manocha@mwsindia.org
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NilgiriScapes - A Conference for the Nilgiris in the Nilgiris
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The Nilgiris is a global bio-cultural hotspot, home to diverse indigenous communities, who share the land with rare endemic flora and fauna. Over the last two centuries, the demography and natural landscapes have gone through transformations and are in flux. Today's major challenge is sustaining the bio-cultural diversity of the Nilgiris. In a bid to understand and address some of these crucial issues, a group of like-minded people including a university and NGOs, who have researched and been active in the Nilgiris, have come together. The aim is to create a living knowledge base of the culture, ecology and economy of the Nilgiris and their interlinkages, upon which action plans with a holistic approach will be built on a continuing basis.
The conference is organised by Dr John Mathew, Associate Professor of History of Science, SIAS and Dr Karthick Narayanan, Post-Doctoral Fellow, The Moturi Satyanarayana Centre for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences along with members from the Keystone Foundation, EBR, Make Ooty Beautiful, Clean Coonoor, ATREE and NNHS.
The event is slated from 18-20 August at RCTC Hall, Ooty.
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On Rational Sets in Euclidean Spaces and Spheres
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Dr C P Anil Kumar, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, SIAS, published a paper titled On Rational Sets in Euclidean Spaces and Spheres in the Journal of the Ramanujan Mathematical Society.
A rational set in a metric space is a set in which any two points have a rational distance. There are a number of very interesting questions related to rational sets. In particular, in the 1940s, Ulam asked the following question: Does there exist a dense rational subset in the plane? This was answered by J Shaffaf in 2018 under the Bombieri-Lang Conjecture. He proved that under this conjecture, there is no dense rational subset in the plane. Moreover, he proved that if S is an infinite rational set in the plane, then either all but at most four points of S are on a line or all but at most three points of S are on a circle.
For a positive rational l, the paper defines the concept of an l-elliptic and an l-hyperbolic rational set in a metric space. In this article, they examine the existence of (i) dense and (ii) infinite l-hyperbolic and l-elliptic rationals subsets of the real line and unit circle.
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Who were our freedom fighters? by P Sainath
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In this colloquium talk held at Krea University on 19 April, Professor Palagummi Sainath, Founder-Editor of the People’s Archive of Rural India (PARI) discussed his latest book, The Last Heroes: Foot Soldiers of Indian Freedom, which records the life stories of 15 very ordinary Indians — representative of millions of others like themselves — and how they took on the British Raj. Farmers, labourers, cooks, couriers, homemakers, artisans, students, and others played astonishingly courageous roles without ever gaining personally. They came from a diverse social spectrum of Dalits, Adivasis, Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs, OBCs, Brahmins, and atheists.
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Conversations Around Climate Action and Conservation by Dr Christina Kwauk
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Globally, decision-makers understand the importance of education for climate action. But when it comes to moving from knowledge to action, they have been slow to shift. In her virtual presentation on 18 April, Dr Christina Kwauk, Research Director, Unbounded Associates described ongoing work with decision-makers and stakeholders, to make this shift more quickly. Dr Kwauk introduced two guiding frameworks that she and her colleagues have developed for education systems, that speak to the systemic challenges of the climate crisis, including gender inequality, and address a range of priorities for climate action, including the achievement of climate justice. This talk was part of the Krea Lecture Series in Environmental Studies and was facilitated by Dr Chirag Dhara, Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies, SIAS.
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Decoding Disciplines - The Krea Way
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This latest video series deep dives into the unique academic approach of different disciplines at Krea University
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In this episode of Decoding Disciplines, Professor Chandrasekaran M, Professor, Operations Management at IFMR GSB shares how the campus location at Sri City, amidst a large manufacturing hub, along with courses like supply chain finance, e-business, and more, enrich the MBA programme.
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Say hello to the newest members of our Krea family
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