BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Ammachilabs - ECPv6.17.5//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://ammachilabs.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Ammachilabs REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:UTC BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:UTC DTSTART:20200101T000000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Berlin BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20200329T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20201025T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20210328T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20211031T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20220327T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20221030T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20230326T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20231029T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20240331T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20241027T010000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Asia/Kolkata BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0530 TZOFFSETTO:+0530 TZNAME:IST DTSTART:20220101T000000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240331 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240401 DTSTAMP:20240320T073844Z CREATED:20240320T073647Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240320T073844Z UID:26798-1711843200-1711929599@ammachilabs.org SUMMARY:The program commenced with an ice breaking session by Dr Harikrishnan\, Amrita School of Spiritual and Cultural Studies\, Amritapuri Campus. DESCRIPTION:The subsequent session was graced by the presence of Sampoojya Swami Purnamritananda Puri\, along with Swamiji’s Flute Meditation\, setting a peaceful and contemplative tone for the day. This was followed by a session on advice from Rishis on Intellectual Living by Br Achyuthamrita Chaitanya\, Principal\, School of Spiritual and Cultural Studies\, Amritapuri Campus\, which provided ancient wisdom on intellectual and spiritual well-being. Additionally\, Dr Ram Manohar\,Research Director\, Amrita School of Ayurveda\, Amritapuri\, led a session on Wellness and Nutrition\, providing valuable information on maintaining a healthy lifestyle. \nIn the afternoon\, an interactive session was conducted by Jayamohan K P\, GM\, Amrita Office of Communication\, engaging participants in discussions and activities. The Core team of the SDP from the School of Spiritual and Cultural Studies led by Dr Saranya A R\, Dr Parvathy Jayaram and Dr Agaja M\, took sessions on healthy eating\, workplace yoga\, and daily routines. The program concluded with a feedback session led by Br Sivanandan\, Coordinator\, School of Spiritual and Cultural Studies\, Amritapuri Campus.\nBri Vandana\, Program Coordinator acknowledged the feedback and suggestions provided by the participants and assured the possibility of organizing a one-day tour for the staff. URL:https://ammachilabs.org/event/the-program-commenced-with-an-ice-breaking-session-by-dr-harikrishnan-amrita-school-of-spiritual-and-cultural-studies-amritapuri-campus/ CATEGORIES:Seminar ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ammachilabs.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/PHOTO-2024-03-16-08-09-20-2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240320T080000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240320T170000 DTSTAMP:20240320T120334Z CREATED:20240320T120334Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240320T120334Z UID:26804-1710921600-1710954000@ammachilabs.org SUMMARY:Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham and Colorado State University Form Alliance for Cyber Security Research DESCRIPTION:In a significant stride towards strengthening global cyber resilience\, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham and Colorado State University have joined forces to establish a Joint Center of Research for Cyber Security. The historic memorandum of understanding (MoU) was signed on February 28\, 2024\, at the Bengaluru campus\, marking a pivotal moment in the collaboration between these esteemed institutions. \nThe signing ceremony brought together key figures from both institutions\, including Provost Dr. Maneesha Ramesh\, Director of Cyber Security Research Center Dr. Krishnashree Achyuthan\, and Dean of Amrita School of Business Dr. P. Manoj\, representing Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham. Representing Colorado State University were President Amy Parsons\, Vice-Provost Kathleen Fairfax\, Dr. Indrakshi Ray\, and Dr. Ken Reardon\, among other distinguished academic and administrative leaders. \nAddressing a gathering of over 200 faculty and staff\, Amy Parsons and Dr. Maneesha Ramesh articulated the shared vision behind this collaboration and outlined a strategic roadmap for the future. The partnership is poised to yield long-term\, high-quality academic and research outcomes\, including student and faculty exchange programs\, joint research projects\, X+Y joint degree programs\, and joint guidance of doctoral research students. \nThe Joint Center of Research for Cyber Security aims to tackle contemporary challenges in the rapidly evolving landscape of cybersecurity. By combining the expertise and resources of both institutions\, the alliance seeks to make significant contributions to the field\, fostering innovation and knowledge exchange. \nThe collaboration between Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham and Colorado State University in establishing the Joint Center of Research for Cyber Security marks a significant leap forward in addressing the critical challenges posed by the dynamic landscape of cybersecurity. This strategic alliance embodies a commitment to excellence\, innovation\, and global cooperation in the pursuit of knowledge. As the Joint Center begins its groundbreaking work\, the world awaits the transformative impact that will undoubtedly emerge from the synergy of these two distinguished institutions. With a shared vision for advancing cybersecurity research and education\, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham and Colorado State University are set to make enduring contributions to the field\, shaping the future of digital security on a global scale. URL:https://ammachilabs.org/event/amrita-vishwa-vidyapeetham-and-colorado-state-university-form-alliance-for-cyber-security-research/ CATEGORIES:Online Webinar ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ammachilabs.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/432768234_827146366097625_4810453090519503942_n-1.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240319T080000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240319T170000 DTSTAMP:20240319T113322Z CREATED:20240319T113238Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240319T113322Z UID:26786-1710835200-1710867600@ammachilabs.org SUMMARY:Test DESCRIPTION:Ammachi Labs\, situated in the tranquil surroundings of Amritapuri\, organized a vibrant two-day Financial Literacy workshop on March 14th and 15th. This workshop was specifically designed for the Bachelor of Social Work (BSW) students of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham\, aiming to empower them with essential knowledge and skills related to financial matters. \nThe workshop likely covered various aspects of financial literacy\, including budgeting\, saving\, investing\, managing debt\, understanding financial products\, and planning for the future. These topics are crucial for individuals to make informed financial decisions and achieve financial stability and security. \nBy hosting such a workshop\, Ammachi Labs demonstrated its commitment to enhancing the overall well-being and preparedness of its BSW students beyond their academic curriculum. Financial literacy is a valuable life skill that can positively impact individuals’ lives\, enabling them to navigate the complexities of personal finance confidently. \nOverall\, this initiative underscores Ammachi Labs’ dedication to holistic education and empowerment\, providing students with practical knowledge and resources to thrive in various aspects of their lives. URL:https://ammachilabs.org/event/test/ CATEGORIES:CWEGE Invited Guest Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ammachilabs.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/WhatsApp-Image-2024-03-19-at-4.57.34-AM.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20230708T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20230708T180000 DTSTAMP:20230711T120147Z CREATED:20230621T211849Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230711T120147Z UID:10338-1688810400-1688839200@ammachilabs.org SUMMARY:C20 Symposium - Compassion: the need of the hour DESCRIPTION:Join the Gender Equality Working group at the C20 Symposium on July 8th\, 2023 at 10 AM to discuss the pressing need for compassion in our world today. \n\n\n\nMA Center Chicago in Elburn\, IL. Swami Amritaswarupananda Puri\, Representative of Amma\, Chair of Civil 20 India and Member C20 India Troika will be in attendance along with several dignitaries and guests. \n\n\n\nCivil 20 is an official engagement group of the Group of 20 (G20)\, the premier forum for international economic cooperation. \n\n\n\nOur expert speakers will share their experiences and insights on how compassion can help us build stronger communities and create positive change. From personal stories to practical tips\, you’ll leave feeling inspired and empowered to make a difference in your own life and the lives of those around you. \n\n\n\nThis gathering aims to provide attendees with an immersive and intellectually enriching experience\, granting valuable insights into the impactful endeavors undertaken by the diverse working groups within Civil20 India. There will be multiple sessions and enlightening exhibitions throughout the day that will offer a comprehensive overview of the commendable contributions made by the following working groups: \n\n\n\n\nSustainable and Resilient Communities\n\n\n\nEducation and Digital Transformation\n\n\n\nIntegrated Holistic Health\n\n\n\nTechnology\, Security and Transparency\n\n\n\nGender Equality\n\n\n\n\nDress Code: In line with all C20 events\, the dress code is business casual or business formal. \n\n\n\nTransportation and lodging: Learn about local transportation options and nearby hotels. \n\n\n\nRegistration details: Registration for this event is free of charge. \n\n\n\nSchedule: Details can be found by visiting https://bit.ly/c20schedule \n\n\n\nDon’t miss this opportunity to connect with like-minded individuals and learn from some of the brightest minds in policy making in the fields above. For more information about the day\, please visit c20.amma.org/chicago. \n\n\n\nRegister now to secure your spot! The event will be offered both online and in person. URL:https://ammachilabs.org/event/c20-symposium-compassion-the-need-of-the-hour/ CATEGORIES:C20 GED Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://ammachilabs.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/C20-MACC.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20230623T103000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20230623T130000 DTSTAMP:20230711T120322Z CREATED:20230621T211106Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230711T120322Z UID:10337-1687516200-1687525200@ammachilabs.org SUMMARY:Spotlight Red - Launch of "Menstrual Health & Hygiene Management - Modules and Survey Report" DESCRIPTION:UNESCO & Amrita University are joining forces to launch a crucial campaign on “Menstrual Health & Hygiene Management – Modules and Survey Report” in the state of Karnataka. \n\n\n\nAs part of Procter And Gamble’s “Keep Girls In School” initiative\, the event is in collaboration with Civil20’s Working Groups of Gender Equality and Integrated Holistic Health\, and will include free valuable training resources. \n\n\n\nJoin us as we make a significant impact on the well-being and education of young girls! \n\n\n\nDate: 23 June 2023\, FridayTime: 10.30 AM – 12 PM \n\n\n\nVenue: Amriteshwari Hall\, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham\, Bengaluru\, Karnataka \n\n\n\nMore details on the Registration Page: https://bit.ly/3qFY7ib URL:https://ammachilabs.org/event/spotlight-red-launch-of-menstrual-health-hygiene-management-modules-and-survey-report/ CATEGORIES:C20 GED Events,In-Person ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ammachilabs.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Spotlight-Red.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Kolkata:20230131T193000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Kolkata:20230131T210000 DTSTAMP:20230711T120441Z CREATED:20230111T205703Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230711T120441Z UID:9942-1675193400-1675198800@ammachilabs.org SUMMARY:Webinar: Small water disinfection systems: UV light & the role of women in remote communities DESCRIPTION:This webinar is organised by the IWA Sanitation and Water Management in Developing Countries Specialist Group and it is co-hosted by the International Ultraviolet Association (IUVA). \n\n\n\nWomen and girls often carry the responsibility of collecting water\, and they are disproportionately affected by poor water services and contaminated water. However\, their perspective has historically been excluded from large-scale efforts to improve water access in low-income settings. To overcome these inequalities\, the voices and needs of women and girls must be at the forefront as we design new and effective methods of delivering safely managed drinking water to communities in developing regions. In response\, this webinar will explore the crucial role of women in water resource management\, particularly for water disinfection in small or rural communities. \n\n\n\nThe discussions will start with a presentation on the connections between women and water\, what influences those connections\, and their importance. Water disinfection using ultraviolet (UV) light will then be introduced as an emerging tool to improve access to safely managed water for small\, remote water systems. This will then be tied back to the overall theme of the webinar with a presentation of the results of a study investigating women’s perceptions of a novel household UV disinfection system in rural indigenous communities in Mexico. Finally\, a panel discussion will be held to explore the role of women in water access and considerations for the safe and effective implementation of UV disinfection from a technological\, behavioural\, and institutional point of view. \n\n\n\nDr. Bhavani Rao will be speaking at the event. It is at 2:00 PM London time / 7:30 PM IST. \n\n\n\nLearn more and register here. URL:https://ammachilabs.org/event/webinar-small-water-disinfection-systems-uv-light-the-role-of-women-in-remote-communities/ CATEGORIES:Seminar ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://ammachilabs.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Promotional-Postcards-Webinars-2023.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20221126T000000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20221128T235959 DTSTAMP:20220901T152121Z CREATED:20220901T152121Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220901T152121Z UID:9447-1669420800-1669679999@ammachilabs.org SUMMARY:4th Global Conference on Women's Studies DESCRIPTION:Dr. Bhavani Rao is a Keynote Speaker for the 4th Global Conference on Women’s Studiestaking place 24 – 26 November 2022 in London\, UK. \n\n\n\nFollowing the success of the 3rd edition of the Global Conference on Women’s Studies\, we are excited to announce the 4th edition of this premier academic event. Attended by scholars\, researchers\, and scientists from around the world\, WOMENSCONF is more than an academic event. \n\n\n\nDr. Bhavani Rao will be presenting Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham’s work in the areas of women’s empowerment and gender equality at this conference. \n\n\n\nFor more information visit:https://www.womensconf.org/ URL:https://ammachilabs.org/event/4th-global-conference-on-womens-studies/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20221125T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20221125T110000 DTSTAMP:20221125T211200Z CREATED:20221125T211200Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221125T211200Z UID:9699-1669370400-1669374000@ammachilabs.org SUMMARY:"Introduction to Learning Engineering" by Dr. Shashi Kanth Shankar DESCRIPTION:Hosted by the Amrita School of Social and Behavioural SciencesParticipants – AL Staff\, Research Scholars\, PhD Faculty and MSW FacultyStudents\, staff\, research scholars and faculty were treated to an expert lecture by Dr. Shashi Kanth Shankar\, Assistant Professor\, School of Social and Behavioural Sciences. \n\n\n\nIn this seminar\, Dr. Shashi Kanth Shankar introduced LE as a field and its subfields on an abstract level so that audience can relate to the bigger picture of supporting lifelong learning. Moreover\, the speaker also discussed some milestone projects from different subfields of LE so that the audience could get some deep insights about the works and the way in which they are carried out. He also shared the technical aspects involved in developing LE tools so that technical students can relate to the possibilities as future professionals or pursuing higher studies in this field. \n\n\n\nThe session wrapped up with an interactive Q&A. With over seven years of research experience\, Dr. Kanth provided a wonderful opportunity for the audience to discuss their interests and opportunities in LE with him. \n\n\n\nLearning Engineering (LE) is a field that aims to support teaching and learning practices through evidence-based decision-making by harnessing educational data. In general\, it covers several sub-fields like Learning Analytics\, Technology-Enhanced Learning\, Educational Data Mining\, and Artificial Intelligence in Education. One of the main objectives that LE as a field tries to meet in the future is to support lifelong learning. As it is mentioned in different educational policy documents including NEP2020 in India\, 21st-century skills and innovative pedagogies are required to support lifelong learning in society. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nSpeaker Bio \n\n\n\n Dr Shashi Kanth Shankar is an Assistant Professor in the School of Social and Behavioral Sciences and AMMACHI Labs\, Amrita Vishwa Vidyepeetham\, Amritapuri. Prior to joining AMMACHI Labs\, he was working with the Centre for Educational Technology\, Tallinn University\, Estonia (EU) as a Ph.D. scholar and junior researcher. He earned his M.Tech in CSE from Lovely Professional University\, Punjab\, and MCA from Sikkim Manipal University\, Sikkim. Moreover\, he earned his Bachelor’s in IT from Kuvempu University\, Karnataka. His research interests are in Technology-Enhanced Learning\, Learning Analytics\, Evidence-Based Decision-Making\, and Lifelong Learning. URL:https://ammachilabs.org/event/learning-engineering/ CATEGORIES:Seminar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20221020T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20221020T100000 DTSTAMP:20221019T160030Z CREATED:20221019T160030Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221019T160030Z UID:9567-1666260000-1666260000@ammachilabs.org SUMMARY:“Beyond climate change - Our major threats on the planet and nature-based solutions" DESCRIPTION:We invite you to join us for a expert lecture by distinguished guest:Prof. Avigdor Ableson\, Marine Ecologist from Tel Aviv University. \n\n\n\nHis talk is titled: \n\n\n\n“Beyond climate change – Our major threats on the planet and nature-based solutions” \n\n\n\nand is open to all students\, staff and guests from Amrita. \n\n\n\nOctober 20\, 202210.00 amE-Learning Studio URL:https://ammachilabs.org/event/beyond-climate-change-our-major-threats-on-the-planet-and-nature-based-solutions/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ammachilabs.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Beyond-Climate-Change.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20220303T153000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20220305T213000 DTSTAMP:20220220T130747Z CREATED:20220220T130747Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220220T130747Z UID:9282-1646321400-1646515800@ammachilabs.org SUMMARY:AWESOME International Conference DESCRIPTION:We invite you to join the International Conference on Systems Thinking & Women’s Empowerment (AWESOME Conference). This virtual conference is free to attend. Upon registration\, you will receive details with the meeting link and more information. All attendees are eligible to receive a certificate of participation for taking part in the AWESOME Conference. We look forward to seeing you there. \n\n\n\nFor more information\, visit: \n\n\n\n https://ammachilabs.org/awesome-international-conference/ \n\n\n\nRegister for the AWESOME Conference here! URL:https://ammachilabs.org/event/awesome-international-conference/ CATEGORIES:Conference ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://ammachilabs.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Event-header.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20211113T000000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20211113T235959 DTSTAMP:20211222T163617Z CREATED:20211222T163617Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211222T163617Z UID:9178-1636761600-1636847999@ammachilabs.org SUMMARY:Expert panel to support the NEP 2021 directive for Vocationalization of Schools DESCRIPTION:On November 13th\, we hosted an expert panel “Review Strategies for Development of VirtualSkills Labs to support the NEP 2021 directive for Vocationalization of Schools”. \n\n\n\nPanelists \n\n\n\nDr.Jose James\, Research Scientist\, Brown UniversityAkshay Nagarajan\, Ph.D. Student\, Cognitive Sciences\, UC San DiegoUnnikrishnan\, Ph.D. Student\, VR for Skill Training\, Aarhus UniversityVishnu Rajendran\, Ph.D. Student\, Agricultural Robotics\, University of LincolnSrividya Sheshadri\, Research Associate\, AMMACHI Labs & Center for Women’sEmpowerment and Gender EqualityDeepu DS\, Haptics TeamLead\, AMMACHI Labs\, AmritaVishwavidyapeethamChaired by: Prof. Bhavani RaoModerated by: Ajay Balakrishnan\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBackground \n\n\n\nThe Ministry of Education\, Government of India has taken the initiative to foster and scalevocational skills in schools (grade 6 to 12) as per the National Education Policy (NEP 2020).One major initiative the ministry has identified to enable this is the creation of virtual labs forskills. The Olabs developed by Amrita have contributed considerably to enabling schoolschildren to practice lab work and also its relevance further increased during the recent covidpandemic. The success of this initiative has prompted the MoE to consider a similar initiativefor vocational skills for schools. The MoE has requested Amrita along with other ministrystakeholders to come up with a framework for virtual labs for skills. \n\n\n\nVirtual labs for skills – Objectives \n\n\n\nTo provide remote access to simulation-based Labs in various disciplines of vocational education.To enthuse students to learn and apply the skills arousing their curiosity.\n\n\n\nWorkshop ActivitiesThe workshop consists of technical experts who deliberate on the possibilities\, framework\, challenges to create the virtual lab for skills. The outcome from this workshop would be aa recommendation that could be shared with the Ministry of Education.● Framework & Components of the virtual lab for skills● Determine the type of lab/simulation based on skills E.g plumbing vs automotive repair\,retail operations vs CNC operation\, etc.● Technology recommendation for the simulations (keeping in mind to keep developmentcost per individual skill/ competency reasonable)● Sizing the development efforts for creating a lab (ballpark)● Considerations and Potential challenges for creating the virtual labs● Shortlist samples for skill labs to be shared with the ministry. \n\n\n\nThe event started with the welcome address by Dr. Bhavani Rao with a quick context on the workshop and the agenda. The first discussion was around the “Review of OLabs Structure forSchools\, what may be applied\, what may not be\, what else to include”. The team presented the current OLabs structure\, which is already well accepted by all government institutions and schools. \n\n\n\nMain Discussion points/ Outcomes \n\n\n\na. Practical labs are required for getting practical knowledge of the concepts taught. \n\n\n\nb. A hub with tools for conducting hands-on may be set up for multiple schools. There are already plans for a schools hub model for nearby schools. So logistics can be shared and students need to travel which may have some practical issues. \n\n\n\nc. There is no fund for running this kind of model for existing setups which is available right now. Atal Tinkering Labs could be the best example of this. Also\, entrepreneurship models can be implemented and will be beneficial for students and schools. \n\n\n\nd. NSDC/NCERT has plans for the same and they can handle this entrepreneurship model. There are three priorities: first\, we have to choose the courses that we offer with ease of approach\, second what people demand\, and third what industry demands. \n\n\n\nf. In the virtual labs\, add the context with real-life examples and there should be connectivity for each module in one exercise. Job skills also need to be incorporated. Causality – why certain things work a certain way and include common mistakes/ errors/scenarios. \n\n\n\ng. The content should be context-based learning. First impressions should be good\, so if we can keep the theory second after a good simulation experiment. \n\n\n\nh. Include why questions to each experiment and practice and to improve the skills make a module. \n\n\n\ni. The following modules can be included: \n\n\n\nReal-world applications by video/picturesTeaching components and toolsSome trials with the tools\, how to use it with safety precautions etcTransferring procedural knowledgeApplication-based practicing (task solving)Popping up errors and showing the consequencesGiving statistics/info of what good you have done/ what went wrong in the experiment\n\n\n\nDetailed Responses from the Panelists for the questions \n\n\n\nQ1: Framework for virtual labs & IT components \n\n\n\nAkshayAdd context to the skill exercisesShow connectedness – how would you look at this data; visualize;Include science behind concepts/ skillsAdd job skillsAdd causality – why certain things work a certain wayInclude common mistakes/ errors/ scenarios\n\n\n\n UnniAdd contextSkill applications – use examples at home or where they can accessTheory should come along with the contextFirst impression regarding the skill matters VishnuInclude the why?-Include real world practicesInclude application module; for practice and improve skills\n\n\n\nQ2: Skills Framework and mapping into activity design \n\n\n\nNo one was familiar with any existing skill framework or skill categorization. Pointsfrom panelNeed to build their capacity to build skillsType of skills may be categorized for identified courses. broadly we could start withProcedural skills\,Fine motor skillsDecision-making skillsHigher-order thinking skillsEmotional / Psychological skillsConsider conceptualizing of a framework where skills may be stackedFramework/skill categorization may be iterated upon based on the skills involvedEvaluate toolkits of British\, TAFE systems\n\n\n\nQ3: Examples & Technology \n\n\n\nEPFL has examples of teaching warehouse management using VR/AR.3D gaming/ VR is justified (ROI) when we invoke higher-order thinking skillsBuild on existing PB and Automotive modules. In plumbing\, moving around pipes\, laying pipes\, water connection principles may be developedSome low hanging fruits includeIdentification\, sequencing\, common mistakesType of technology\, immersiveness may be decided based on complexity\, budget\, platform (mobile)\, etc.We may try to build an assembly task of two wheeler in VR\, 3D as an example.Unity 3D is the preferred technology\, due to its support\, optimization\, etc.\n\n\n\nThe session concluded with a vote of thanks by Ajay and Dr. Bhavani thanking all the panelists and the workshop participants. URL:https://ammachilabs.org/event/expert-panel-to-support-the-nep-2021-directive-for-vocationalization-of-schools/ CATEGORIES:Workshop ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ammachilabs.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Virtual-Labs-workshop-Flyer-banner.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210819T000000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210820T235959 DTSTAMP:20210911T122959Z CREATED:20210911T122959Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210911T122959Z UID:8968-1629331200-1629503999@ammachilabs.org SUMMARY:W36 GLOBAL SUMMIT FOR GENDER RELATED UNESCO CHAIRS DESCRIPTION:The Global Summit for Gender-Related Chairs and Networks (W36) convened on Aug 19-20 and brought together UNESCO Chairs from around the world. Hosted by Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham\, the summit invited 36 gender-related UNESCO Chairs and networks to share visions\, bring together voices\, and spark momentum for addressing challenges and co-building a bright future for all women and girls– especially within the fallout of the pandemic. \n\n\n\nTheme: COVID-19 Impacts and Transforming the Role of Women in the Post-Pandemic Era \n\n\n\nView Full Event Report Here\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr. Bhavani Rao\, UNESCO Chair on Gender Equality & Women’s Empowerment said\, “It’s such an honor indeed to be a part of this wonderful network created by UNESCO — the UNESCO Chairs and UNITWIN programs–– for bringing focus\, collaboration and access and for also increasing our boundaries in terms of knowledge\, connections\, and capacity. We gather here today to share what we have learned from the past\, and how it has helped us to understand the present.” \n\n\n\nDr. Tarek Rashed\, Moderator and Adjunct Professor at the Center for Women’s Empowerment & Gender Equality\, kicked off the event with congenial words\, “We sincerely thank each of you – especially those who decided to come forward and participate in this summit despite the vast difference in the time zones. Today’s event is all about shaking hands\, getting to know each other\, and finding ways to collaborate and work together.”  \n\n\n\nThe summit included academics\, researchers\, students\, NGOs\, change makers and other stakeholders which resulted in hundreds of participants from more than 46 countries. Over 54 presentations and interventions took place in various sessions\, and the draft of a signed declaration by all invited UNESCO Chairs was shared for all to witness. \n\n\n\nOver the course of the summit\, participants discussed the most recent trends\, concerns and solutions adopted to address practical challenges and improve women’s resilience.  \n\n\n\nMs. Ava DuVernay\, Guest of Honor and Co-Chair\, Prada Diversity and Inclusion Advisory Council shared some inspiring words via a pre-recorded message she made exclusively for this summit: “Women supporting women is a beautiful and brave thing. I count myself lucky to be the recipient of such support. I greatly value paying it forward in the work that I do each and every day. I salute you from all from afar and thank you for the opportunity to be a part of this global summit hosted by Amrita University. I am so inspired by the fantastic work that Amma does day in and day out to further ensure that no woman or girl is left behind.” \n\n\n\nIn speaking about the vision of UNESCO and the road ahead\, Ms. Jamila Seftaoui\, Director\, Division for Gender Equality\, Cabinet of the Director-General\, UNESCO\, Paris delivered hopeful words in her keynote address: “My vision for the next biennium builds on past progress and takes into consideration the huge still untapped potential of UNESCO to change people’s lives\, in particular women’s and girls’ lives for good\, for the better\,” said Ms. Seftaoui. \n\n\n\nDr. Maneesha V. Ramesh\, UNESCO Chair on Experiential Learning for Sustainable Innovation & Development reiterated these sentiments in her short presentation about the fundamental principles behind Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham guided by Chancellor Sri Mata Amritanandamayi (Amma).  “It is indeed a happy moment to be a part of this Global Summit for Gender-Related Chairs and Networks. I am very much looking forward to seeing all the women experts in this area. Being a woman myself\, I hope that this summit paves the way to shaping a world that holds a bright future for women all across the world.” Amma has dedicated her life to promoting women’s empowerment and gender equality. With her guidance\, the CWEGE under UNESCO Chair has made significant collaborations with international and grassroots partners around the world.  \n\n\n\nDay 1 featured distinguished speakers from around the world\, including keynote speeches during the opening session by:  \n\n\n\nMs. Jamila Seftaoui\, Director\, Division for Gender Equality\, UNESCO\, ParisMr. Eric Falt\, Director and UNESCO Representative to Bhutan\, India\, Maldives and Sri LankaDr. Gloria Bonder\, Coordinator of the Global Network of UNESCO Chairs on GenderDr. Maneesha V. Ramesh\, UNESCO Chair on Experiential Learning for Sustainable Innovation & Development\, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham Dr. Bhavani Rao R.\, UNESCO Chair on Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment\, \, Amrita Vishwa VidyapeethamDr. Tarek Rashed\, Moderator\, Adjunct Professor at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham; Founder of Civilizology\n\n\n\nThe rest of the day and beginning of the second day featured presentations by UNESCO Chairs of their mission\, flagship projects and wishes for the Summit (“Meet the UNESCO Chairs” sessions)\, from around the world including:  \n\n\n\nArgentina – Dr. Gloria Bonder\, UNESCO Chair on Women\, Sciences and Technology\, Coordinator of the UNESCO Regional Chair on Women\, Science and Technology in Latin America\, Coordinator of the Global Network of UNESCO Chairs on GenderBrazil – Prof. Maria Luiza Teofilo Gandini\, UNESCO Chair on Water\, Women and Development Côte d’Ivoire – Prof. Euphrasie Hortense Yao Kouassi\, UNESCO Chair on Water\, Women and Decision-making\, represented by Alexis TCHIAKPE\, General Administrator of the Chair Egypt – Prof. Boshra Mossaad Awad\, UNESCO Chair on the Empowerment of Women through Science and Technology Greece – Dr. Fotini Bellou\, UNESCO Chair on Women\, Peace and Security: Building Capacity and Resilience through Education and ResearchItaly – Dr. Barbara Pozzo\, UNESCO Chair on Gender Equality and Women’s Rights in the Multicultural SocietyJapan – Dr. Ronni Alexander\, UNESCO Chair on Gender and Vulnerability in Disaster Risk Reduction SupportSouth Korea – Dr. Yunkeum Chang\, UNESCO Chair in Communication Technology for WomenKenya – Dr. Marleen Temmerman\, UNESCO Chair on Youth Leadership in Science\, Health\, Gender and EducationKenya – ​​Dr.  Winnie V. Mitullah\, UNESCO Chair in Women and Community HealthPeru – Dr. Patricia Ruíz-Bravo and Aranxa Pizarro\, UNESCO chair on Gender Equality in Higher Education institutionsPoland – Dr. Renata Siemienska\, UNESCO Chair in Women\, Society and DevelopmentTurkey – Dr.  Hülya Şimga\, UNESCO Chair on Gender Equality and CultureHaiti – Dr. Rose-Michelle SMITH\, UNESCO Chair on Women and Science for DevelopmentSpain – Dr. Ines Sánchez de Madariaga\, UNESCO Chair on Gender Equality Policies in Science\, Technology and InnovationTurkey – Dr. Oder Bertil Emrah\, UNESCO Chair on Gender Equality and Sustainable Development\n\n\n\nContributions spanned from systems thinking methods and models to computational social sciences to technological innovations.  Day 1 concluded with the UNESCO Chairs reviewing a draft joint declaration\, that would later be signed\, to affirm intent and commitment to build pathways of collaboration towards the shared goals of decelerating the impacts of COVID-19 for women and girls in the post pandemic era. \n\n\n\nOn Day 2\, participants attended plenaries on Thematic and Applied Research by scholars and researchers affiliated with the UNESCO chairs and partner research centers from over 46 countries. Dr. Joost Monks\, Lecturer\, University of Geneva and longstanding friend\, admirer and supporter of Amrita University moderated the sessions. \n\n\n\nParticipants broke into smaller group sessions to focus on their specific fields\, including Science & Technology; Education & Skill Development; Society\, Culture & Legal Rights; Health & Nutrition; Safety & Security; Environment & Sustainability; Finance & Economics; and Communication & Leadership.  \n\n\n\nThe following thematic and applied research topics were presented in two parallel sessions. Presentations covered diverse applied research areas dedicated to women’s empowerment and offered tools in advancing women’s rights and wellbeing. Research included:  \n\n\n\nGender Dynamics: A Case Study of Role Allocation in Engineering EducationPARWEE – Priority Action Roadmap for Women’s Economic Empowerment in the wake of COVID-19Intelligent Assistive Devices with Community Platform backing: A Socio-Economic Intervention for Gender-inclusive Assistive TechnologyReboot and Recovery: Solutions for Challenges faced by Small Women-Led Businesses\, Post-PandemicGender Friendly Tools and Equipment in Farm MechanizationAn Autonomous Social Robot to Promote Proper Hand Hygiene Among Children in IndiaGender Intersectionality in RecyclingActions for Better Gender Inclusion in Management Integrated Water ResourcesInside-Out: The Effect of Covid-19 Pandemic on the Ritualistic TraditionsThe Culture of Spiritual Connectedness to Nature: Towards Sustainable Water Management in South IndiaInternal Migration and Feminization of Labour Among Refugees: The Post-Pandemic Role of Female Refugees in Adagon Refugee Settlement Perceptions and Attitudes Towards Women Employment and Leadership as Onboard Maritime Officers in India\n\n\n\nMr. Eric Falt\, Director and UNESCO Representative to Bhutan\, India\, Maldives\, and Sri Lanka also reiterated the importance of collaborations between UNESCO Chairs and highlighted those with Amrita. “I’m very happy to report that we are now working in partnership with Dr. Bhavani Rao and Amrita University on producing a flagship report on the Status of Women in Science in India. This will aim to analyze policy\, but also the gaps and lessons learned and best practices with regard to women in science\, envisioning to provide a platform of evidenced based policy to support more women in science fields. The potential in India is absolutely enormous.” He continued\, “Again with Dr. Rao and her team\, we have also been working very closely on implementing a national program on engaging men and boys for gender equality. This is entitled\, Transforming MENtalities. Among other actions\, we have developed a Scoping Report for India on masculinities with recommendations on how the government\, civil society and relevant stakeholders on how to make progress on this issue. These are a part of the projects we have developed in the last year and half.”  \n\n\n\nHe continued\, “we believe in the power of UNESCO chairs to expand UNESCO’s mandate and to help realize the 2030 Agenda because we are convinced that a sustainable and peaceful world will never be so without gender equality. Once again\, I want to congratulate Amrita University.”  \n\n\n\n“May this meeting be just the beginning of lasting friendships and alliances\,” said Dr. Bhavani Rao\, “In keeping with Chancellor Amma’s vision of a genuinely inclusive future\, we approach gender equality as our goal\, using women’s empowerment as an appropriate equitable means to attain the same.” \n\n\n\nThe Global Summit offered a powerful platform to support the transformation process and reach out to all women worldwide\, so no woman or girl is left behind.  \n\n\n\nAmongst the many outcomes of this Summit\, the UNESCO Chairs will gather again on a yearly basis and explore potential collaborations and solutions in more details. A specific conference will also be organized on December 6-8\, 2021 for Accelerating Women’s Empowerment through System Oriented Model Expansion (AWESOME Conference)\, on a solution model for delivering effective transformational change and durable interventional strategies towards the empowerment of women and strengthening gender equality in communities. \n\n\n\nEvent Videos \n\n\n\nKeynote Speaker: Ms. Jamila Seftaoui\, Director\, Division for Gender Equality\, UNESCO\, Paris \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKeynote Speaker: Eric Falt\, Director and UNESCO Representative to Bhutan\, India\, Maldives and Sri Lanka \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA Distinctive Edge\, Dr. Maneesha V. Ramesh: UNESCO Chair on Experiential Learning for Sustainable Innovation & Development\, PGP Chair for Interdisciplinary Studies\, Dean\, International Programs\, Director & Professor\, Amrita Center for Wireless Networks & Applications\, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham:  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPresentation by Dr. Gloria Bonder\, Coordinator of the UNESCO Regional Chair on Women\, Science and Technology in Latin America \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPresentation by Prof. Maria Luiza Teofilo Gandini\, UNESCO Chair on Water\, Women and Development \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPresentation by Prof. Boshra Mossaad Awad\, UNESCO Chair on the Empowerment of Women through Science and Technology\, Egypt \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPresentation by Prof. Fotini Bellou\, UNESCO Chair on Women\, Peace and Security: Building Capacity and Resilience through Education and Research\, Greece \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPresentation by Prof. Barbara Pozzo\, UNESCO Chair on Gender Equality and Women’s Rights in the Multicultural Society\, Italy \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDay 1 Replay\n\n\n\n\n\nDay 2 Opening Session Replay\n\n\n\n\n\nDay 3 Closing Session Replay URL:https://ammachilabs.org/event/w36-global-summit-for-gender-related-unesco-chairs/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://ammachilabs.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/w36-header.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210715T000000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210715T235959 DTSTAMP:20210911T144209Z CREATED:20210911T144209Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210911T144209Z UID:8987-1626307200-1626393599@ammachilabs.org SUMMARY:Sacred Groves DESCRIPTION:SpeakerNibha Namboodiri \n\n\n\nSpeaker BioMs Nibha Namboodiri is a conservation and sustainability enthusiast and activist with more than 20 years of hands-on experience in initiating and preserving traditional as well as state of the art\, practices and technologies for environmental sustainability\, wildlife conservation\, and animal welfare causes. \n\n\n\nHer most recent work has been restoring and rejuvenating the river Tootha (Kunthi)\, through a people’s movement called ‘Puzha’.  \n\n\n\nThis movement has included: \n\n\n\nDeveloping ecologically and economically viable land use practisesIdentifying and preserving key watersheds and water bodies in the Tootha sub basinOrganising environmental education campaigns on river ecology\, water conservationDistributing educational materialsLectures on river ecologyRiver Otter surveys and otter monitoring/conservation programmes URL:https://ammachilabs.org/event/sacred-groves/ CATEGORIES:Weekly Research Colloquium ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ammachilabs.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/colloquium-episode24.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210701T000000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210701T235959 DTSTAMP:20210911T142738Z CREATED:20210911T142738Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210911T142738Z UID:8983-1625097600-1625183999@ammachilabs.org SUMMARY:The Elephant in the Room DESCRIPTION:SpeakerMs. Nibha Namboodiri \n\n\n\nSpeaker BioMs. Nibha Namboodiri is  a conservation and sustainability enthusiast and activist with more than 20 years of hands-on experience in initiating and preserving traditional as well as state of the art\, practises and technologies for environmental sustainability\, wildlife conservation\, and animal welfare causes. \n\n\n\nHer most recent work has been restoring and rejuvenating the river Tootha (Kunthi)\, through a people’s movement called ‘Puzha’.  \n\n\n\nThis movement has included: \n\n\n\n-Developing ecologically and economically viable land-use practises \n\n\n\n-Identifying and preserving key watersheds and water bodies in the Tootha sub-basin \n\n\n\n-Organising environmental education campaigns on river ecology\, water conservation \n\n\n\n-Distributing educational materials \n\n\n\n-Lectures on river ecology \n\n\n\n-River Otter surveys and otter monitoring/conservation programmes URL:https://ammachilabs.org/event/the-elephant-in-the-room/ CATEGORIES:Weekly Research Colloquium ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ammachilabs.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/colloquium-nibhaNamboodirijpg.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210511T000000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210511T235959 DTSTAMP:20211207T145717Z CREATED:20211207T145717Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211207T145717Z UID:9151-1620691200-1620777599@ammachilabs.org SUMMARY:Gendered Spaces in Drought-Prone Gujarat DESCRIPTION:Date: 11/5/2021 \n\n\n\nVenue: Zoom meeting \n\n\n\nParticipants: MSW students (S2) \n\n\n\nObjective: The online guest speaker session was organised exclusively for the MSW students is to discuss and learn about drought in Gujarat and how women are affected by it. Also to know about the issues of the people living in such areas and the strategies of the government to handle the problems. \n\n\n\nAbout Resource Personnel: Dr Nairwita is an assistant professor\, she is currently the Head Of the Department of Geography at Haringhata College\, University of Kalyani. She is a geographer specializing in Disaster Management. She is a researcher on drought at the Delhi School of Economics\, University of Delhi.  \n\n\n\nDr. Nairwita Bandyopadhyay has both research and teaching experience at postgraduate level in : \n\n\n\nGeography\,  \n\n\n\nStatistical application in Geography \n\n\n\nRemote Sensing and GIS\,  \n\n\n\nand Disaster Studies with a specialization in droughts.  \n\n\n\nShe has published in international as well as national conferences and journals. She is widely travelled and has training from International Organizations in Greece\, Spain and Beijing. \n\n\n\nDiscussion Points \n\n\n\nThe introduction of the session was about the ways of managing water and the  responsibilities of women in it. She also discussed the need for further study on Gendered Spaces in Drought – Prone Areas of Gujarat. \n\n\n\nLater on students were taken through the tracing gendered spaces\, power play\, the responsibilities of women\, children and male members in the family\, physical problems of women\, difficulty in collection and storage of the water and government plans to deal with the drought in that area. The areas touched during the discussion were the plans about school drop outs\, cultural factors\, the challenges of the interviewer during the interview and the government schemes to bring the water facility near their homes. \n\n\n\nOutcome: \n\n\n\nThe session helped us to understand the problems of women and children who live in drought prone areas in Gujarat. Also the cultural factors and attitude of the people who live in that area. \n\n\n\nSource of Funding (online lecture organized by Amrita ViswaVidyapeedam\, Amritapuri) URL:https://ammachilabs.org/event/gendered-spaces-in-drought-prone-gujarat/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210506T120000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210506T130000 DTSTAMP:20210510T114007Z CREATED:20210510T114007Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210510T114007Z UID:8708-1620302400-1620306000@ammachilabs.org SUMMARY:Sustaining Ethics while undergoing Digital transformation DESCRIPTION:Sustaining Ethics while undergoing Digital transformation \n\n\n\nSpeaker \n\n\n\nLimor Shmerling Magazanik\, Israel Tech Policy Institute \n\n\n\nSpeaker Bio \n\n\n\nLimor Shmerling Magazanik is the Managing Director of the Israel Tech Policy Institute. In this role\, Limor provides leadership of ITPI\, including directing ITPI’s policy agenda; Limor engages policymakers\, regulators\, academics\, and business leaders and convenes multi stakeholder groups for discussion\, on Innovation and social goals in areas such as AI\, Data Governance\,  Cybersecurity\, Digital Health\, E-Government\, Fintech\, Smart Cities and Smart Mobility. She is a member of the OECD Data Governance Expert Group and initiated the founding of the Privacy Tech Alliance. \n\n\n\nLimor comes to ITPI after a decade with the Israel Privacy Protection Authority\, as Director of Strategic Alliances and as Director of Licensing & Inspection. She was responsible for administrative enforcement of data protection law over all private sector and public sector entities in Israel and for the enforcement of the Digital Signature law and the Credit Data law. She also represented the authority in international and national enforcement collaborations and testified before parliament committees. She took part in legislation processes from inception to ratification and execution. She founded the Data Protection Forum in the Israeli public administration. She was a founding member of the Government Cloud Computing Committee\, a member of the Oversight Committee over the Smart ID and Biometric Identification project\, a member of the Investigating Committee: Promoting Competition in the Financial Sector\, and a member of the advisory board to the Credit Data Bureaus Supervisor at the Central Bank of Israel. \n\n\n\nPrior to that Limor was advisor and Legal Secretary to the Council for Cable & Satellite Broadcasting at the Ministry of Communications. Her previous roles include practicing corporate and commercial law\, product management in the high-tech industry and a judicial clerkship.   \n\n\n\nShe was also an adjunct lecturer at the Hebrew University Faculty of Law and the IDC Herzliya School of Law\, and is a frequent public speaker in academic and business conferences. \n\n\n\nShe earned a bachelor’s in Law\, a Master’s in Literature focused on Women and Gender and a Master’s in Public Law\, all from Tel Aviv University and is a certified lawyer and a certified privacy professional (CIPP/E\, CIPP/US\, CIPM). \n\n\n\nIn 2018 Limor was chosen by Forbes magazine as one of the world’s top 50 women in tech. URL:https://ammachilabs.org/event/tech-policy-leadership-and-scholarship-advancing-ethical-practices-in-support-of-emerging-technologies/ CATEGORIES:Weekly Research Colloquium ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ammachilabs.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/colloquium-Limor.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210505T000000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210505T235959 DTSTAMP:20210517T112554Z CREATED:20210517T112554Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210517T112554Z UID:8724-1620172800-1620259199@ammachilabs.org SUMMARY:The Hindu Temple Architecture and its Symbolism of Human Body DESCRIPTION:SpeakerDr Manoj Gundanna \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBio Dr. Manoj Gundanna is one of the foremost researchers on Hindu temple architecture and archeology. He is a resource person with the Archeological Survey of India.  \n\n\n\nDr. Manoj’s research focuses on the study of ancient Dravidian temple architecture based on traditional agamas and vastugranthas (ancient Sanskrit texts on science and philosophy) as well the study of sculptures and iconography based on ancient texts. He has presented more than 50 research papers at various seminars and symposia. He has delivered lectures on Archeology\, Music and Mythology in various institutions\, religious organizations. \n\n\n\nDr Manoj’s interests include Kannada and Sanskrit literature\, Inscription and Manuscripts.   A multi-linguist\, he has written several compositions in Sanskrit\, Kannada\, Telugu and Tamil to his credit. URL:https://ammachilabs.org/event/the-hindu-temple-architecture-and-its-symbolism-of-human-body/ CATEGORIES:CWEGE Invited Guest Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ammachilabs.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/InvitedGuestSeries-ManojGundanna.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210430T000000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210430T235959 DTSTAMP:20210518T092535Z CREATED:20210518T092535Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210518T092535Z UID:8740-1619740800-1619827199@ammachilabs.org SUMMARY:Literature as Bridging Cultures: An Indian Perspective DESCRIPTION:SpeakerDr. Sudha Gopalakrishnan \n\n\n\nBioDr. Sudha Gopalakrishnan is the Executive Director of Sahapedia\, an online encyclopedic resource on Indian culture and the arts. Previously\, she was Founder Director of India’s National Mission for Manuscripts (2003–07)\, which led a nationwide effort to survey\, document\, conserve\, and place in the public domain information on one million Indian manuscripts\, now a global knowledge resource on www.namami.gov.in. \n\n\n\nSudha Gopalakrishnan did her doctoral research on the traditions of comedy in the plays of Bhasa and Shakespeare and has translated Shakespeare’s comedies into Malayalam. She was Assistant Editor\, Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature\, Sahitya Akademi\, New Delhi\, and Coordinator\, Encyclopaedia of the Arts\, Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts\, New Delhi (IGNCA).  \n\n\n\nSudha Gopalakrishnan has published eight books\, several papers and translations in the field of Indian literature\, performing arts and aesthetic theory. \n\n\n\nShe was Visiting Fellow at Cornell University\, and Professorial Fellow at the National University of Educational Planning and Administration (NUEPA)\, New Delhi. She prepared the nomination dossiers and management plans which led to Kutiyattam\, the oral tradition of the Vedas and Vedic heritage\, and the Ramlila receiving recognition from UNESCO as Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity. She has been associated as member or expert consultant with UNESCO committees on Intangible Cultural Heritage and was most recently part of the Lead Consultant Team advising the Government of Punjab towards framing a cultural heritage policy and action plan for the state. She has served on the boards of the Crafts Museum\, New Delhi\, and the IGNCA\, and is Member of the Committee on Traditional Knowledge Systems (IGNOU)\, of the Steering Group on Digital Library Projects\, Ministry of Information. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nParticipants: Indian Culture Course for E4Life PhD scholars (40) and other PhD candidates \n\n\n\nObjective:  To understand how literature works as a cross-cultural medium\, how cultures go from one place to another\, how it evolves and becomes localized. She focused on the Indian literature context. \n\n\n\nAbout Resource Personnel: Prof. Sudha Gopalakrishnan is the Executive Director of Sahapedia\, an online encyclopedic resource on Indian culture and the arts. Previously\, she was Founder Director of India’s National Mission for Manuscripts (2003–07)\, which led a nation-wide effort to survey\, document\, conserve\, and place in the public domain information on one million Indian manuscripts\, now a global knowledge resource on www.namami.gov.in. \n\n\n\nSudha Gopalakrishnan has published eight books\, several papers and translations in the field of Indian literature\, performing arts and aesthetic theory\, \n\n\n\nShe was Visiting Fellow at Cornell University\, and Professorial Fellow at the National University of Educational Planning and Administration (NUEPA)\, New Delhi. She prepared the nomination dossiers and management plans which led to Kutiyattam\, the oral tradition of the Vedas and Vedic heritage\, and the Ramlila receiving recognition from UNESCO as Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity. She has been associated as member or expert consultant with UNESCO committees on Intangible Cultural Heritage and was most recently part of the Lead Consultant Team advising the Government of Punjab towards framing a cultural heritage policy and action plan for the state. She has served on the boards of the Crafts Museum\, New Delhi\, and the IGNCA\, and is Member of the Committee on Traditional Knowledge Systems (IGNOU)\, of the Steering Group on Digital Library Projects\, Ministry of Information \n\n\n\nEvent/Session Details/Discussions/Highlights: \n\n\n\nDr Sudha G discussed Indian literature through the ages\, as an uninterrupted flow of knowledge. She explained the evolution of the intricate methods involved in this transmission. In the beginning\, through oral tradition\, a multitude of knowledge was transferred by learning scriptures\, myths\, epics\, etc. There were professional storytellers who were attached to temples who were an integral part of this oral tradition. They traveled from villages to villages\, told and retold stories from Ramayana and Mahabharata in public spaces. Their sophisticated interpretive skills ensured the effective communication of even complex ideas to common people. However\, Vedic knowledge is transmitted in a more complex\, highly sophisticated\, elaborate way. These foolproof methods involved in learning and memorizing these compositions ensured the uninterrupted flow of knowledge in its purest form through the ages. \n\n\n\nThen gradually written text came out. Written scripts were found on rocks\, palm leaves\, and paper. One can find such manuscripts in different parts of Asia even today. For instance\, Gilgit manuscripts were the oldest surviving manuscripts in India. India is a diverse country with a huge number of languages. One should wonder how the Vedic literature transcends even with this plurality of languages. It is through these complex methods of learning it gets transferred. On the contrary\, epics like Ramayana and Mahabharata got different versions in different languages and different parts of the country. \n\n\n\nDr. Sudha went on to narrate the story of Nala and Damayanti in a profound way as an example of how a small story of a large epic gets evolved in literature and transmitted over the ages. She presented it with a series of artworks that depicted the story in a vivid way. See images below \n\n\n\nOutcome: Participants were provided a literal wealth of knowledge about Indian literature through the ages. \n\n\n\nDr. Sudha G with Participant List #1\n\n\n\nDr. Sudha G with Participant List #2.\n\n\n\nDr. Sudha G with Participant List #3\n\n\n\nRavi Varma’s Nala-Damayanti\n\n\n\nThe Arati of Nala\n\n\n\nSanskrit and English Text from the Flap of a Painting URL:https://ammachilabs.org/event/literature-as-bridging-cultures-an-indian-perspective/ CATEGORIES:CWEGE Invited Guest Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ammachilabs.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/InvitedGuestSeries-SudhaGopalakrishnan.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210427T000000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210427T235959 DTSTAMP:20210518T090534Z CREATED:20210518T090534Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210518T090534Z UID:8735-1619481600-1619567999@ammachilabs.org SUMMARY:Architecture: The Principles of Vaastu Shastra DESCRIPTION:SpeakerSmt. Sashikala Ananth \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBio Sashikala Ananth is one of the foremost experts in the field of Vaastu Shastra. Her  lifelong passion has been the study of the Vaastu Shastra and adapting the profound insights of the ancient texts to contemporary living. She has researched the classical Indian science of Architecture – Vaastu\, for over three decades. She was a student of Sri Ganapati Sthapati\, a leading authority on the Vaastu Shaastras. \n\n\n\nShe is the recipient of the Ashoka Foundation Scholarship for innovative contribution to the field of architecture. She was also part of a team which made the 1991 National award winning film ‘The Living Tradition\, A Shilpi Speaks’. The books she has written on Vaastu are considered definitive works in the field. \n\n\n\nShe was able to conceive and apply the design concept as well as philosophy in the field effectively by consolidating all the streams of learning which includes yoga\, behavioral work\, fine arts\, mythology\, craft\, Vaastu Shastra\, architectural training and human psychology. \n\n\n\nHer work as a behavioural scientist has been largely focused on helping NGO’s and Educational Institutions. She is the founder of  vadivam  a design and self-development centre and Ritambhara Ashram\, a yoga and meditation centre that offers an alternative way of engaging with life\, rooted in Indian tradition and encompassing contemporary practices to help you live a life full of Rasa. URL:https://ammachilabs.org/event/architecture-the-principles-of-vaastu-shastra/ CATEGORIES:CWEGE Invited Guest Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ammachilabs.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/InvitedGuestSeries-SashikalaAnanth.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210421 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210422 DTSTAMP:20230711T102952Z CREATED:20230711T102952Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230711T102952Z UID:10329-1618963200-1619049599@ammachilabs.org SUMMARY:Modern India and its Role in Today’s World DESCRIPTION:Speaker\nMr. A. Gopinathan\, United Nations\n\n\n\nBio\nMr. Gopinathan has been working since January 2013 as one of the eleven Inspectors with the Joint Inspection Unit of the United Nations system [UN-JIU]\, which is located in Geneva. Prior to this\, he used to be the Ambassador/Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations Office and other international organizations in Geneva from January 2009 to December 2011\, when he retired from the Indian Foreign Service on superannuation.\n\n\n\nParticipants: Amrita University E4Life Sustainable Development PhD scholars and AMMACHI Labs staff (40 participants) \nObjective: To give PhD scholars a general understanding of how the UN works especially in relation to India. \nUN Inspector Mr. A. Gopinathan gave a lecture to the Amrita University PhD students on ‘Modern India in Today’s World: a practitioner’s perspective \nIn life we rarely meet such people who are intellectually brilliant\, inspiring\, and with a will and commitment to bring about change in the world. Mr. Gopinathan has been working since January 2013 as one of the eleven Inspectors with the Joint Inspection Unit of the United Nations system [UN-JIU]\, which is located in Geneva. Prior to this\, he used to be the Ambassador/Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations Office and other international organizations in Geneva from January 2009 to December 2011\, when he retired from the Indian Foreign Service on superannuation. \nAgenda : \nMr. Gopinathan gave us a candid insider’s perspective on the following topics: \nConception of “modern India”\nConception of the United Nations system as a ‘proxy’ for ‘today’s world’\nEvolution of ‘India’s role’ in the United Nations system over the decades\nSustainable Development: concept\, evolution\, India’s contribution\nHe also answered many questions from the participants\, here are a few from the chat: \nQuestion: One of the UN’s criticism is that except UN Security Council\, none of its decisions are enforceable. Doesn’t that take its efficacy low? \nAnswer: Yes and no: no\, because the United Nations has no means at its disposal for enforcing implementation of its resolutions\, except those under Chapter VII of the Security Council. However\, as resolutions do reflect the collective will of the membership of the United Nations\, resolutions of the General Assembly\, Economic and Social Council and their subsidiary organs have often been regarded as having the force of customary International Law. \nQuestion: You mentioned that one of the key issues for the sustainability in India is poverty. \nAnswer: The then prime Minister of India had told the 1972 Stockholm conference that “poverty is the greatest polluter”. Yet in the West the main issue could be considered to be desire and consumerism. \nQuestion: Do you believe India will learn from the mistakes and lessons learnt in the west relating to sustainability and the environment? \nAnswer: The documents adopted during the initial years (1986 – 1995) show us that “unsustainable patterns of production and consumption” had been the main causes of environmental degradation in the industrialized countries; very little has been done to reverse this situation in countries such as the United States. \nOutcome: PhD scholars asked many questions and now have a broad understanding of how India and the United Nations work together to problem solve. Mr. Gopinathan has made himself available as a resource in the future. URL:https://ammachilabs.org/event/modern-india-and-its-role-in-todays-world/ CATEGORIES:CWEGE Invited Guest Series END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210421T000000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210421T235959 DTSTAMP:20210517T111045Z CREATED:20210517T111045Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210517T111045Z UID:8726-1618963200-1619049599@ammachilabs.org SUMMARY:Modern India and its Role in Today’s World DESCRIPTION:SpeakerMr. A. Gopinathan\, United Nations \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBioMr. Gopinathan has been working since January 2013 as one of the eleven Inspectors with the Joint Inspection Unit of the United Nations system [UN-JIU]\, which is located in Geneva. Prior to this\, he used to be the Ambassador/Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations Office and other international organizations in Geneva from January 2009 to December 2011\, when he retired from the Indian Foreign Service on superannuation. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nParticipants: Amrita University E4Life Sustainable Development PhD scholars and AMMACHI Labs staff (40 participants) \n\n\n\nObjective: To give PhD scholars a general understanding of how the UN works especially in relation to India. \n\n\n\nUN Inspector Mr. A. Gopinathan gave a lecture to the Amrita University PhD students on ‘Modern India in Today’s World: a practitioner’s perspective \n\n\n\nIn life we rarely meet such people who are intellectually brilliant\, inspiring\, and with a will and commitment to bring about change in the world. Mr. Gopinathan has been working since January 2013 as one of the eleven Inspectors with the Joint Inspection Unit of the United Nations system [UN-JIU]\, which is located in Geneva. Prior to this\, he used to be the Ambassador/Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations Office and other international organizations in Geneva from January 2009 to December 2011\, when he retired from the Indian Foreign Service on superannuation. \n\n\n\nAgenda : \n\n\n\nMr. Gopinathan gave us a candid insider’s perspective on the following topics: \n\n\n\nConception of “modern India”Conception of the United Nations system as a ‘proxy’ for ‘today’s world’Evolution of ‘India’s role’ in the United Nations system over the decadesSustainable Development: concept\, evolution\, India’s contributionHe also answered many questions from the participants\, here are a few from the chat: \n\n\n\nQuestion: One of the UN’s criticism is that except UN Security Council\, none of its decisions are enforceable. Doesn’t that take its efficacy low? \n\n\n\nAnswer: Yes and no: no\, because the United Nations has no means at its disposal for enforcing implementation of its resolutions\, except those under Chapter VII of the Security Council. However\, as resolutions do reflect the collective will of the membership of the United Nations\, resolutions of the General Assembly\, Economic and Social Council and their subsidiary organs have often been regarded as having the force of customary International Law. \n\n\n\nQuestion: You mentioned that one of the key issues for the sustainability in India is poverty. \n\n\n\nAnswer: The then prime Minister of India had told the 1972 Stockholm conference that “poverty is the greatest polluter”. Yet in the West the main issue could be considered to be desire and consumerism. \n\n\n\nQuestion: Do you believe India will learn from the mistakes and lessons learnt in the west relating to sustainability and the environment? \n\n\n\nAnswer: The documents adopted during the initial years (1986 – 1995) show us that “unsustainable patterns of production and consumption” had been the main causes of environmental degradation in the industrialized countries; very little has been done to reverse this situation in countries such as the United States. \n\n\n\nOutcome: PhD scholars asked many questions and now have a broad understanding of how India and the United Nations work together to problem solve. Mr. Gopinathan has made himself available as a resource in the future. URL:https://ammachilabs.org/event/modern-india-and-its-role-in-todays-world-2/ CATEGORIES:CWEGE Invited Guest Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ammachilabs.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/InvitedGuestSeries-Gopiji.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210415 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210416 DTSTAMP:20230711T104753Z CREATED:20230711T101258Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230711T104753Z UID:10326-1618444800-1618531199@ammachilabs.org SUMMARY:From Action to Abstraction: Gesture as a Mechanism of Change DESCRIPTION:From Action to Abstraction: Gesture as a Mechanism of Change \nSpeaker \nDr. Susan Godlin-Meadow – University of Chicago \nBrief Bio \nDr. Godlin-Meadow is a Beardsley Ruml Distinguished Service Professor in Psychology\, Comparative Human Development\, and the Committee on Education and the Co-Director of the Center for Gesture\, Sign and Language at the University of Chicago. You can find more information about her here. URL:https://ammachilabs.org/event/from-action-to-abstraction-gesture-as-a-mechanism-of-change/ LOCATION:Europe/Berlin CATEGORIES:Weekly Research Colloquium END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210415T000000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210415T235959 DTSTAMP:20210510T110734Z CREATED:20210510T110734Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210510T110734Z UID:8704-1618444800-1618531199@ammachilabs.org SUMMARY:From Action to Abstraction: Gesture as a Mechanism of Change DESCRIPTION:From Action to Abstraction: Gesture as a Mechanism of Change \n\n\n\nSpeaker \n\n\n\nDr. Susan Godlin-Meadow – University of Chicago \n\n\n\nBrief Bio \n\n\n\nDr. Godlin-Meadow is a Beardsley Ruml Distinguished Service Professor in Psychology\, Comparative Human Development\, and the Committee on Education and the Co-Director of the Center for Gesture\, Sign and Language at the University of Chicago. You can find more information about her here. URL:https://ammachilabs.org/event/from-action-to-abstraction-gesture-as-a-mechanism-of-change-2/ CATEGORIES:Weekly Research Colloquium ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ammachilabs.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/colloquium-SusanGodlinMeadows.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210407T000000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210407T235959 DTSTAMP:20211207T150222Z CREATED:20211207T150222Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211207T150222Z UID:9156-1617753600-1617839999@ammachilabs.org SUMMARY:Maa Vuuru Maa Kodaļļu\, Case Study in Gender\, Ecomuseology and Wellbeing DESCRIPTION:Guest Speaker: Prof. Amareswar Galla\, PhD \n\n\n\nTopic: Maa Vuuru Maa Kodaļļu\, Case Study in Gender\, Ecomuseology and Wellbeing \n\n\n\nDate: 7th April 2021 Wednesday from 9-10 PM IST. \n\n\n\nVenue: Amrita UNESCO Chair hosted Zoom meeting \n\n\n\nParticipants: Doctoral Students from E4Life and CWEGE/Ammachi Labs at Amrita University \n\n\n\nObjective:  To share with the scholars different ways of understanding Indian villagers\, how to decolonize researchers inbuilt assumptions\, along with a look at ecomuseology and wellbeing. Also to share his success story in working with Amaravati village in Andhra Pradesh. \n\n\n\nAbout Resource Personnel:  \n\n\n\nProf. Amareswar Galla is an alumnus of the Jawaharlal Nehru University\, New Delhi\, Amar is a champion of cultural democracy\, cultural rights\, gender mainstreaming\, inclusive and deep ecology demonstration projects\, arts policy development\, Intangible Heritage\, World Heritage\, indigenous peoples\, intercultural dialogue and UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and now the UN Agenda 2030 and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). He was the Producer and Editor of the flagship project and publication to celebrate the 40th Anniversary of the UNESCO 1972 World Heritage Convention: World Heritage: Benefits Beyond Borders\, Cambridge University Press & UNESCO Publishing\, November 2012. (French & Korean versions in 2013). The book includes 26 case studies with evidence based analyses of sustainable development and community benefits through good governance\, thus becoming a major publication to mainstream culture in development discourse and for promoting integrated planning for all forms of heritage\, especially tangible and intangible heritage. \n\n\n\nDrawing on his education and experience of affirmative action in India\, Amar founded and directed at the University of Canberra\, 1985-92\, the National Affirmative Action program for the participation of Aboriginal Peoples and Torres Strait Islanders in museums\, galleries\, national parks and World Heritage Areas in Australia. The success of the program led to invitations to provide technical support for similar programs in Canada\, U.S.\, Brazil\, Vietnam\, India\, China\, Norway and several Small Island Development States. During 1994-99\, he was the International Technical Adviser for the transformation of Arts Councils\, National Museums and Cultural Institutions and the National Parks Board in post- apartheid South Africa. His extensive publication record includes an earlier volume on museum training and transformation guidelines to enable the relevance of museums in Australia to its Indigenous Peoples and Multicultural populations. Heritage Curricula and Cultural Diversity\, Prime Minister & Cabinet\, Australia 1993. \n\n\n\nAmar provided in the recent past strategic cultural leadership in Australia and the Asia Pacific Region as the first full Professor of Museum Studies in Australia at the University of Queensland\, Brisbane. Prior to that he was Professor and Director of Sustainable Heritage Development Programs\, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies\, Australian National University\, Canberra. He was also until recently a Visiting Foreign Professor of World Heritage and Intangible Heritage and mentor for Ph.D. candidates at the University of Split located in the World Heritage City of Split. He has just been appointed as the Honorary Professor at the prestigious Global Change Institute\, the University of Queensland. \n\n\n\nEvent/Session Details/Discussions/Highlights: \n\n\n\nProf. Amareswar Galla: \n\n\n\nMahayana Buddhism began in a town called Amaravati\, in Andhra Pradesh. Before the Cultural Revolution in China in 1969 \, Buddhism was the world’s largest faith. In this town was the largest Buddhist Stupa carved with panels telling the story of Buddha . But of course none of the sculptures are there now because the British and other museums around the world looted them. Art institute of Chicago\, MOMA\, New Delhi\, and Chennai Museum to name a few. \n\n\n\nAfter receiving his PhD in 1982\, Dr. Galla went to the British Museum to itemize the stolen artifacts from the Amarvati Stupa.  He says that people go to see them in museums as relics and artifacts but no one really understands where they come from. Also what was the socio-economic status of the people making such amazing artwork. He found that if one is going to give a contextual framework\, then one needs to understand the existing cultural landscape.  \n\n\n\nDr Galla\, in his work\, went to Amarvati to survey the historical culture landscape. He started working on a mapping exercise (not surveying).  The area was about 300 acres of land\, about how to listen to people. This is not taught in universities\, or anywhere in the world is the competency of listening. The first 3 months he moved around and talked to people and listened to them\, street by street. Talked\, sat and ate with people.  \n\n\n\nHe very much prefers the term ‘physical distance’ to ‘social distance’ because as someone like himself growing up in a caste society\, lower caste had to maintain a distance from upper caste people. He says in India we already grew up with social distancing. \n\n\n\nIn Australia\, until 1967\, they had Boundary Laws\, where Aborigines were not allowed to cross certain streets. If they did they would be arrested. \n\n\n\nHe says people that into the Black Lives Matter movement know what social distancing is. He very much advocates for the term Physical Distancing. \n\n\n\nThe people attending this lecture\, the PhD scholars\, come from a whole range of backgrounds. He says that whatever area you research\, listening is important. Dr Galla says that whatever discipline you are working in\, it is really important to listen to question\, to understand\, and to decolonize the discourse. Decolonization does not only have to do with Europe\, but also countries that are politically decolonized\, but not psychologically decolonized\, like India for instance. In Australia they call some people coconuts: brown on the outside white on the inside. Using phrases like these means your thinking is still colonial. If you want to work in areas of different cultures\, you have to understanding things contextually. \n\n\n\nDr. Galla worked in a village\, Amaravati\, in Andhra Pradesh at one point that started out as a 3 month project that became a 5 year project. In this village\, he was looking at the village culture. Here\, it is tradition that men marry women from outside the village. Now these women bring their cultures with them from somewhere else. How they raise a child\, the lullabies they sing\, how they cook\, how they clean\, etc. The point he is making here is that all cultures are dynamic and changing\, and adaptive and evolving. \n\n\n\nOne way to improve conditions in parts of India is by renovating pilgrimage places. Then more people will come\, bringing in more jobs and more money for the community. \n\n\n\nHe talked about the importance of every household having a toilet. And lower castes such as Dalits can be overlooked. Women have to wait all day then go in the dark to relieve themselves and it can be dangerous and makes them vulnerable to rape\, and there are snakes\, etc. \n\n\n\nWherever in India you have child marriages\, you have young women around the age of 30 becoming widows. So widows pensions are very important. However\, what is on paper is one thing\, and having the local government deliver it is another thing.  \n\n\n\nThese widows are often from lower castes\, and because when they get married they move to their husband’s village\, they now no longer are wanted by the extended family and they get rejected and sexually abused\, and so they return to their place of origin. Dr. Galla helped the widows in Amaravati form a collective so they were able to support each other in getting pensions. \n\n\n\nWhen you listen\, you understand\, when you understand you are more ethical and you make responsible interventions.  \n\n\n\nThese villages have very little access to medical care. \n\n\n\nOne of the great things about the Indian constitution is that they were the first ones in the world\, 1950\, to look at Affirmative Action. The constitution gives fundamental rights and privileges to groups who have been historically  discriminated against like Dalits and Tribal people. But translating on paper what is put into practice\, you need to learn to listen\, competency of learning\, competency of understanding cross-culturally\, which means often speaking more than one language. \n\n\n\nIf you speak one language\, its very much the self\, if you speak 2 languages then it is the self and the other. If you speak 3 languages you have the cognitive reserve to process what is intercultural.  \n\n\n\nSimilarly if you have only lived in one culture you have no reference point as a sociologist scholar\, if they have lived in 2 cultures then you have self and other again. If you have lived in 3 cultures you have reference point upon\, which you can benchmark your own behavior\,  your own knowledge\, your own indicators. \n\n\n\nSo multiculturalism\,  trilingualism\, are really huge assets to help empower marginalized cultures. And ecomusiology is a wonderful methodology to bring people and their culture together. \n\n\n\nOutcome: Students were very engaged and Dr Galla spent about an hour just answering their questions. \n\n\n\nAttendance /No.of participants: 44  \n\n\n\nMale- 23   Female -21 \n\n\n\nList of the participants: \n\n\n\n1. Anthony Chafa \n\n\n\n2. Mojtaba Enayati \n\n\n\n3. Hari Chandana \n\n\n\n4. Douglas Marowa \n\n\n\n5. Habanyati Estone \n\n\n\n6. Niloofar Abed \n\n\n\n7. Krishna Sreesuthan \n\n\n\n8. Muganyizi Jonas \n\n\n\n9. Matov Baker \n\n\n\n10. Aswathi Suresh Babu \n\n\n\n11. Pardon Dandadzi \n\n\n\n12. Meenu Prakash \n\n\n\n13. Sreevidhya C \n\n\n\n14. Devika Shaji \n\n\n\n15. Amabile Manianga \n\n\n\n16. Deva Temple \n\n\n\n17. Fernanda Imada \n\n\n\n18. Balogun Babatunde \n\n\n\n19. Krishneil Maharaj \n\n\n\n20. Juliet Angom \n\n\n\n21. Mukil MV \n\n\n\n22. Amritesh AR \n\n\n\n23. Martin Kanyagui \n\n\n\n24. Selina Shah \n\n\n\n25. Rondine Anushree \n\n\n\n26. Kripa Gressel \n\n\n\n27. Debashish Brahma \n\n\n\n28. Krishna Nandan \n\n\n\n29. Jyoti Sharma \n\n\n\n30. Anushri Tiwari \n\n\n\n31. Bernard Otu \n\n\n\n32. Aroun \n\n\n\n33. Amrita Sadanand \n\n\n\n34. Isaac Lukambagire \n\n\n\n35. Reshma AS \n\n\n\n36. Ogbanna Amarachi \n\n\n\n37. Vineeth \n\n\n\n38. Nihal \n\n\n\n39. Akshay Krishna \n\n\n\n40. Cristina Mayumi \n\n\n\n41. Mosoud \n\n\n\n42. Balmukund \n\n\n\n43. Balu \n\n\n\n44. Tzur Sayag \n\n\n\nSource of Funding : E4Life PhD Scholarship fund\, Ammachi Labs\, CWEGE URL:https://ammachilabs.org/event/maa-vuuru-maa-kodallu-case-study-in-gender-ecomuseology-and-wellbeing-2/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210407 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210408 DTSTAMP:20230711T100430Z CREATED:20230711T100353Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230711T100430Z UID:10322-1617753600-1617839999@ammachilabs.org SUMMARY:Maa Vuuru Maa Kodaļļu\, Case Study in Gender\, Ecomuseology and Wellbeing DESCRIPTION:Guest Speaker: Prof. Amareswar Galla\, PhD \nTopic: Maa Vuuru Maa Kodaļļu\, Case Study in Gender\, Ecomuseology and Wellbeing \nDate: 7th April 2021 Wednesday from 9-10 PM IST. \nVenue: Amrita UNESCO Chair hosted Zoom meeting \nParticipants: Doctoral Students from E4Life and CWEGE/Ammachi Labs at Amrita University \nObjective:  To share with the scholars different ways of understanding Indian villagers\, how to decolonize researchers inbuilt assumptions\, along with a look at ecomuseology and wellbeing. Also to share his success story in working with Amaravati village in Andhra Pradesh. \nAbout Resource Personnel:  \nProf. Amareswar Galla is an alumnus of the Jawaharlal Nehru University\, New Delhi\, Amar is a champion of cultural democracy\, cultural rights\, gender mainstreaming\, inclusive and deep ecology demonstration projects\, arts policy development\, Intangible Heritage\, World Heritage\, indigenous peoples\, intercultural dialogue and UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and now the UN Agenda 2030 and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). He was the Producer and Editor of the flagship project and publication to celebrate the 40th Anniversary of the UNESCO 1972 World Heritage Convention: World Heritage: Benefits Beyond Borders\, Cambridge University Press & UNESCO Publishing\, November 2012. (French & Korean versions in 2013). The book includes 26 case studies with evidence based analyses of sustainable development and community benefits through good governance\, thus becoming a major publication to mainstream culture in development discourse and for promoting integrated planning for all forms of heritage\, especially tangible and intangible heritage. \nDrawing on his education and experience of affirmative action in India\, Amar founded and directed at the University of Canberra\, 1985-92\, the National Affirmative Action program for the participation of Aboriginal Peoples and Torres Strait Islanders in museums\, galleries\, national parks and World Heritage Areas in Australia. The success of the program led to invitations to provide technical support for similar programs in Canada\, U.S.\, Brazil\, Vietnam\, India\, China\, Norway and several Small Island Development States. During 1994-99\, he was the International Technical Adviser for the transformation of Arts Councils\, National Museums and Cultural Institutions and the National Parks Board in post- apartheid South Africa. His extensive publication record includes an earlier volume on museum training and transformation guidelines to enable the relevance of museums in Australia to its Indigenous Peoples and Multicultural populations. Heritage Curricula and Cultural Diversity\, Prime Minister & Cabinet\, Australia 1993. \nAmar provided in the recent past strategic cultural leadership in Australia and the Asia Pacific Region as the first full Professor of Museum Studies in Australia at the University of Queensland\, Brisbane. Prior to that he was Professor and Director of Sustainable Heritage Development Programs\, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies\, Australian National University\, Canberra. He was also until recently a Visiting Foreign Professor of World Heritage and Intangible Heritage and mentor for Ph.D. candidates at the University of Split located in the World Heritage City of Split. He has just been appointed as the Honorary Professor at the prestigious Global Change Institute\, the University of Queensland. \nEvent/Session Details/Discussions/Highlights: \nProf. Amareswar Galla: \nMahayana Buddhism began in a town called Amaravati\, in Andhra Pradesh. Before the Cultural Revolution in China in 1969 \, Buddhism was the world’s largest faith. In this town was the largest Buddhist Stupa carved with panels telling the story of Buddha . But of course none of the sculptures are there now because the British and other museums around the world looted them. Art institute of Chicago\, MOMA\, New Delhi\, and Chennai Museum to name a few. \nAfter receiving his PhD in 1982\, Dr. Galla went to the British Museum to itemize the stolen artifacts from the Amarvati Stupa.  He says that people go to see them in museums as relics and artifacts but no one really understands where they come from. Also what was the socio-economic status of the people making such amazing artwork. He found that if one is going to give a contextual framework\, then one needs to understand the existing cultural landscape.  \nDr Galla\, in his work\, went to Amarvati to survey the historical culture landscape. He started working on a mapping exercise (not surveying).  The area was about 300 acres of land\, about how to listen to people. This is not taught in universities\, or anywhere in the world is the competency of listening. The first 3 months he moved around and talked to people and listened to them\, street by street. Talked\, sat and ate with people.  \nHe very much prefers the term ‘physical distance’ to ‘social distance’ because as someone like himself growing up in a caste society\, lower caste had to maintain a distance from upper caste people. He says in India we already grew up with social distancing. \nIn Australia\, until 1967\, they had Boundary Laws\, where Aborigines were not allowed to cross certain streets. If they did they would be arrested. \nHe says people that into the Black Lives Matter movement know what social distancing is. He very much advocates for the term Physical Distancing. \nThe people attending this lecture\, the PhD scholars\, come from a whole range of backgrounds. He says that whatever area you research\, listening is important. Dr Galla says that whatever discipline you are working in\, it is really important to listen to question\, to understand\, and to decolonize the discourse. Decolonization does not only have to do with Europe\, but also countries that are politically decolonized\, but not psychologically decolonized\, like India for instance. In Australia they call some people coconuts: brown on the outside white on the inside. Using phrases like these means your thinking is still colonial. If you want to work in areas of different cultures\, you have to understanding things contextually. \nDr. Galla worked in a village\, Amaravati\, in Andhra Pradesh at one point that started out as a 3 month project that became a 5 year project. In this village\, he was looking at the village culture. Here\, it is tradition that men marry women from outside the village. Now these women bring their cultures with them from somewhere else. How they raise a child\, the lullabies they sing\, how they cook\, how they clean\, etc. The point he is making here is that all cultures are dynamic and changing\, and adaptive and evolving. \nOne way to improve conditions in parts of India is by renovating pilgrimage places. Then more people will come\, bringing in more jobs and more money for the community. \nHe talked about the importance of every household having a toilet. And lower castes such as Dalits can be overlooked. Women have to wait all day then go in the dark to relieve themselves and it can be dangerous and makes them vulnerable to rape\, and there are snakes\, etc. \nWherever in India you have child marriages\, you have young women around the age of 30 becoming widows. So widows pensions are very important. However\, what is on paper is one thing\, and having the local government deliver it is another thing.  \nThese widows are often from lower castes\, and because when they get married they move to their husband’s village\, they now no longer are wanted by the extended family and they get rejected and sexually abused\, and so they return to their place of origin. Dr. Galla helped the widows in Amaravati form a collective so they were able to support each other in getting pensions. \nWhen you listen\, you understand\, when you understand you are more ethical and you make responsible interventions.  \nThese villages have very little access to medical care. \nOne of the great things about the Indian constitution is that they were the first ones in the world\, 1950\, to look at Affirmative Action. The constitution gives fundamental rights and privileges to groups who have been historically  discriminated against like Dalits and Tribal people. But translating on paper what is put into practice\, you need to learn to listen\, competency of learning\, competency of understanding cross-culturally\, which means often speaking more than one language. \nIf you speak one language\, its very much the self\, if you speak 2 languages then it is the self and the other. If you speak 3 languages you have the cognitive reserve to process what is intercultural.  \nSimilarly if you have only lived in one culture you have no reference point as a sociologist scholar\, if they have lived in 2 cultures then you have self and other again. If you have lived in 3 cultures you have reference point upon\, which you can benchmark your own behavior\,  your own knowledge\, your own indicators. \nSo multiculturalism\,  trilingualism\, are really huge assets to help empower marginalized cultures. And ecomusiology is a wonderful methodology to bring people and their culture together. \nOutcome: Students were very engaged and Dr Galla spent about an hour just answering their questions. \nAttendance /No.of participants: 44  \nMale- 23   Female -21 \nList of the participants: \n1. Anthony Chafa \n2. Mojtaba Enayati \n3. Hari Chandana \n4. Douglas Marowa \n5. Habanyati Estone \n6. Niloofar Abed \n7. Krishna Sreesuthan \n8. Muganyizi Jonas \n9. Matov Baker \n10. Aswathi Suresh Babu \n11. Pardon Dandadzi \n12. Meenu Prakash \n13. Sreevidhya C \n14. Devika Shaji \n15. Amabile Manianga \n16. Deva Temple \n17. Fernanda Imada \n18. Balogun Babatunde \n19. Krishneil Maharaj \n20. Juliet Angom \n21. Mukil MV \n22. Amritesh AR \n23. Martin Kanyagui \n24. Selina Shah \n25. Rondine Anushree \n26. Kripa Gressel \n27. Debashish Brahma \n28. Krishna Nandan \n29. Jyoti Sharma \n30. Anushri Tiwari \n31. Bernard Otu \n32. Aroun \n33. Amrita Sadanand \n34. Isaac Lukambagire \n35. Reshma AS \n36. Ogbanna Amarachi \n37. Vineeth \n38. Nihal \n39. Akshay Krishna \n40. Cristina Mayumi \n41. Mosoud \n42. Balmukund \n43. Balu \n44. Tzur Sayag \nSource of Funding : E4Life PhD Scholarship fund\, Ammachi Labs\, CWEGE URL:https://ammachilabs.org/event/maa-vuuru-maa-kodallu-case-study-in-gender-ecomuseology-and-wellbeing/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210406T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210406T110000 DTSTAMP:20211207T145021Z CREATED:20211207T145021Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211207T145021Z UID:9146-1617703200-1617706800@ammachilabs.org SUMMARY:Reflections of Preparedness\, Mitigation\, and Child Protection in Emergency Management DESCRIPTION:By Everett Ressler \n\n\n\nVenue: Virtual mode (Zoom) \n\n\n\nObjective: The online guest speaker session was organized exclusively for the MSW students is to discuss and learn about Disaster Preparedness\, Mitigation\, and Child Protection in Emergency Management from a long term expert  \n\n\n\nBiography of Speaker: Everett Ressler HDPi Executive Director\, Specializes in preparedness\, risk reduction and childprotection Everett has a lifetime of work internationally in the humanitarian and developmentfields. He has lived and worked for most of career in Asia\, Africa and Europe. The focus of hiswork includes organizational development\, programme management\, research and evaluation\,training and consulting support \n\n\n\nDiscussion Highlights: Everett Ressler shared with students that he made a decision that his field of work would be thefield of emergencies\, that is working with people in acute distress situations. It doesn’t havestatus\, and it doesn’t have money. But it has purpose. And he decided that would be his life’swork. He shared the three factors based on the experience that go together to be a goodperson in this field. His discussion covered how students can approach Emergencies in India;The Myths of Disaster Response; defining Emergency; social workers in Emergencies; what onecan do to prevent conflict and can do to mitigate it. Always take the approach of talking andlistening to people find creative ways to solve problems. \n\n\n\nOutcome: Students got a broad understanding of how to hold onto your values during an emergency\, howto define an emergency\, and what the basics of response are in terms of social work. \n\n\n\nParticipants: 33 URL:https://ammachilabs.org/event/guest-lecture-reflections-of-preparedness-mitigation-and-child-protection-in-emergency-management/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210406T080000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210406T170000 DTSTAMP:20230711T095924Z CREATED:20230711T095322Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230711T095924Z UID:10315-1617696000-1617728400@ammachilabs.org SUMMARY:Reflections of Preparedness\, Mitigation\, and Child Protection in Emergency Management DESCRIPTION:Venue: Virtual mode (Zoom) \nObjective:\nThe online guest speaker session was organized exclusively for the MSW students is to discuss and learn about Disaster Preparedness\, Mitigation\, and Child Protection in Emergency Management from a long term expert  \nBiography of Speaker: \nEverett Ressler HDPi Executive Director\, Specializes in preparedness\, risk reduction and child protection Everett has a lifetime of work internationally in the humanitarian and development fields. He has lived and worked for most of career in Asia\, Africa and Europe. The focus of his work includes organizational development\, programme management\, research and evaluation\,training and consulting support \nDiscussion Highlights:\nEverett Ressler shared with students that he made a decision that his field of work would be the field of emergencies\, that is working with people in acute distress situations. It doesn’t have status\, and it doesn’t have money. But it has purpose. And he decided that would be his life’s work. He shared the three factors based on the experience that go together to be a good person in this field. His discussion covered how students can approach Emergencies in India; The Myths of Disaster Response; defining Emergency; social workers in Emergencies; what one can do to prevent conflict and can do to mitigate it. Always take the approach of talking and listening to people find creative ways to solve problems. \nOutcome:\nStudents got a broad understanding of how to hold onto your values during an emergency\, how to define an emergency\, and what the basics of response are in terms of social work. \nParticipants: 33 URL:https://ammachilabs.org/event/reflections-of-preparedness-mitigation-and-child-protection-in-emergency-management/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210401T000000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210401T235959 DTSTAMP:20210406T131915Z CREATED:20210406T131915Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210406T131915Z UID:8661-1617235200-1617321599@ammachilabs.org SUMMARY:Seeds Of A New World: The Archaeology Of Plant Domestication In The Near East And Thoughts On The Modern Condition Of Man DESCRIPTION:Seeds Of A New World: The Archaeology Of Plant Domestication In The Near East And Thoughts On The Modern Condition Of Man \n\n\n\nSpeaker \n\n\n\nDr. Avi Gopher – Institute of Archaeology\, Tel Aviv University \n\n\n\nSpeaker Bio \n\n\n\nDr. Avi Gopher (PhD 1985\, Hebrew University\, Jerusalem) is Professor of Archaeology in the Institute of Archaeology\, Tel Aviv University. \n\n\n\nHe is a highly influential archaeologist whose wide-ranging interests and research have been highly cited. \n\n\n\nOne of his current major research interests is focused on the Neolithic Period\, the Agricultural/Neolithic Revolution and the archaeology of plant domestication in the Near East. URL:https://ammachilabs.org/event/seeds-of-a-new-world-the-archaeology-of-plant-domestication-in-the-near-east-and-thoughts-on-the-modern-condition-of-man/ CATEGORIES:Weekly Research Colloquium ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ammachilabs.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/colloquium-AviGopher.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210325T000000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210325T235959 DTSTAMP:20210406T130723Z CREATED:20210406T130723Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210406T130723Z UID:8658-1616630400-1616716799@ammachilabs.org SUMMARY:Learning To Collaborate And Collaborating To Learn In Simulation-based Learning Environments DESCRIPTION:Learning To Collaborate And Collaborating To Learn In Simulation-based Learning Environments \n\n\n\nSpeaker \n\n\n\nDr. Frank Fischer\, University of Munich \n\n\n\nSpeaker Bio \n\n\n\nDr. Frank Fischer is a full professor of Educational Science and Educational Psychology at the University of Munich. He is the speaker of the Munich Center of the Learning Sciences\, an interdisciplinary collaboration of more than 30 research groups focusing on advancing research on learning. He served as President of the International Society of the Learning Sciences and is a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences. His research focuses on how people learn to collaborate\, and engage in scientific reasoning and argumentation\, as well as in diagnostic reasoning. Settings include computer-supported collaborative learning and simulation-based learning environments in secondary school and in higher education. With respect to guidance he is interested in how scaffolding and scripts can make social interaction more beneficial for learning. He was an associate editor for the American Educational Research Journal and is on the editorial boards of several international journals\, including Learning and Instruction\, Journal of the Learning Sciences and Educational Psychologist. He has edited 13 books and special issues and published more than 120 journal articles and book chapters. URL:https://ammachilabs.org/event/learning-to-collaborate-and-collaborating-to-learn-in-simulation-based-learning-environments/ CATEGORIES:Weekly Research Colloquium ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ammachilabs.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/colloquium-template-FrankFischer.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210319T000000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210319T235959 DTSTAMP:20210517T085337Z CREATED:20210517T085337Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210517T085337Z UID:8714-1616112000-1616198399@ammachilabs.org SUMMARY:Advaita and the Sustainable Development Goals DESCRIPTION:Speaker Dr. Anantanand Rambachan\, Saint Olaf College \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nParticipantsDoctoral Students from E4Life and CWEGE/Ammachi Labs at Amrita University \n\n\n\nObjectiveTo demonstrate the commonalities of the Advaita Philosophy with the United Nations Development Goals\, and give suggestions of how there can be mutual support. \n\n\n\nSpeaker bioAnantanand Rambachan Professor of Religion\, Philosophy and Asian Studies at Saint Olaf College\, Minnesota\, USA\, where he has been teaching since 1985.He received his Ph.D and M.A. (Distinction) degrees from the Department of Theology and Religious Studies\, University of Leeds\, in the United Kingdom.  He completed his undergraduate studies at the University of the West Indies\, St. Augustine\,Trinidad.Prof. Rambachan is the author of several books\, book-chapters and articles in scholarly journals. Among his books are\, Accomplishing the Accomplished\, The Limits of Scripture\, The Advaita Worldview: God\, World and Humanity\, The Hindu Vision\, Gitamrtam: The Essential Teachings of the Bhagavad-Gita and A Hindu Theology of Liberation.   His writings include a series of commentaries on the Ramayana. The British Broadcasting Corporation transmitted a series of 25 lectures by Prof. Rambachan around the world.Prof. Rambachan has been involved in the field of interreligious relations and dialogue for over twenty-five years\, as a Hindu participant and analyst.  He   has contributed to numerous consultations and discussions convened by national and international organizations concerned with interreligious issues. He is very active in the dialogue programs of the World Council of Churches\, and was a Hindu guest and participant in the last four General Assemblies of the World Council of Churches in Vancouver\, Canada\, Canberra\, Australia\, Harare\, Zimbabwe and Puerto Alegre\, Brazil He is also a regular participant in the consultations of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue at the Vatican and an educator on interfaith issues in Minnesota. URL:https://ammachilabs.org/event/advaita-and-the-sustainable-development-goals/ CATEGORIES:CWEGE Invited Guest Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ammachilabs.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/AnantanandRambachan-template.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR