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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
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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
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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/
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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/
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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/
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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/
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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/
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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
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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
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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
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SUMMARY:Open Software\, Open Hardware\, Diy And Solidarity With Your Community: A Mid-flight Case Study
DESCRIPTION:Open Software\, Open Hardware\, Diy And Solidarity With Your Community: A Mid-flight Case Study \n\n\n\nSpeaker \n\n\n\nLeon Fedetov\, Freelance Programmer – Tel Aviv \n\n\n\nSpeaker Bio \n\n\n\nLeon Fedetov is a freelance programmer in Tel Aviv\, Israel. He is interested in developing a communal approach to problem solving\, and open source software\, hardware\, and resources.He has taught himself a great deal of his skills from YouTube tutorials\, and uses these to develop resources that offer alternative experiences of reality and other tools for his community in his lab.
URL:https://ammachilabs.org/event/open-software-open-hardware-diy-and-solidarity-with-your-community-a-mid-flight-case-study/
CATEGORIES:Weekly Research Colloquium
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SUMMARY:A Conversation on Children’s Imagination and Cognition
DESCRIPTION:A Conversation on Children’s Imagination and Cognition \n\n\n\nSpeaker \n\n\n\nDr. Paul Harris\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nSpeaker Bio \n\n\n\n Dr. Paul Harris is interested in the early development of cognition\, emotion\, and imagination. His most recent book\, Trusting What You’re Told: How Children Learn from Others\, was published by Harvard University Press in May 2012. This book discusses how far children rely on their own firsthand observation or alternatively trust what other people tell them — especially when they confront a domain of knowledge in which firsthand observation is difficult. For example\, many aspects of history\, science\, and religion concern events that children cannot easily observe for themselves. How far do children believe what they are told about these domains? When and how do they become aware of the conflicting claims made by science as compared with religion?
URL:https://ammachilabs.org/event/a-conversation-on-childrens-imagination-and-cognition/
CATEGORIES:Weekly Research Colloquium
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SUMMARY:Applying Socio-Moral Principles to Behavior Change in India
DESCRIPTION:SpeakerDr. Hansika Kapoor \n\n\n\nSpeaker bioDr. Hansika Kapoor is a  Research Author at the Department of Psychology\, Monk Prayogshala\, Mumbai since July 2011. Monk Prayogshala is an independent not-for-profit academic research institute\, striving to improve the academic research environment in India\, starting with the social sciences. She is also an Affiliate at the Neag School of Education at the University of Connecticut. \n\n\n\nShe holds a Master’s degree in Clinical Psychology and a PhD from IIT\, Bombay in the area of creativity. She completed a  Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellowship (2019-2020) working with Prof. James C. Kaufman at the University of Connecticut. \n\n\n\nHer work has been published in several international peer-reviewed academic journals\, such as Creativity Research Journal\, Thinking Skills and Creativity\, and Personality and Individual Differences. She also regularly contributes to popular media publications\, including Aeon Magazine\, Psychology Today\, Mint\, and Firstpost. \n\n\n\nDr Hansika is also available for consultation on projects relating to academia-industry collaborations as well psychometric test development and assessment. She is also happy to share inputs on journalistic work in her areas of expertise. \n\n\n\nVenue: Amrita UNESCO Chair Zoom Meeting \n\n\n\nParticipants: Doctoral Students from E4Life and CWEGE/Ammachi Labs at Amrita University \n\n\n\nObjective: To share her knowledge and wisdom regarding contextualizing social science research results according to cultural norms of different countries.  \n\n\n\nClick here to read the full report of the event and the session/discussion highlights \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/applying-socio-moral-principles-to-behavior-change-in-india/
CATEGORIES:CWEGE Invited Guest Series
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SUMMARY:Biodiversity Conservation and Management in Indian Culture and Tradition
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Dr. U.M. Chandrasekara \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAttendees: 44 \n\n\n\nParticipants:E4Life PhD students and CWEGE/Ammachi Labs PhD students \n\n\n\nBio: Dr. Chandrasekhara is with the Forest Ecology department and has two decades of research experience in Forest Ecology and Agroforestry. He has published extensively in the area of tropical forest ecology and biodiversity besides diversity and conservation of sacred groves in Kerala. He was elected as a Fellow of National Institute of Ecology\, India and served as assistant editor for Journal of Food\, Agriculture and Environment of the International Society of Food\, Agriculture and Environment. His primary areas of focus are Forest Ecology and Agroforestry\, with expertise in the following fields: \n\n\n\nRegeneration ecology.Restoration ecology.Eco-cultural analysis for forest conservation.Interaction between aboveground and belowground biodiversity.Environmental education with respect to biodiversity conservation and management.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nObjective: To learn about the Indian cultural traditions of protecting plant biodiversity. \n\n\n\nEvent/Session Details/Discussions/HighlightsDr. Chandrasekhara gave an enlightening presentation on plant biodiversity in India and how Indian culture protects these ecosystems and groves. Due to diverse physical features and climatic conditions\, there exists a variety of ecosystems within the country. These include wetlands and mangroves; shola\, evergreen\, and deciduous forests; grasslands\, and deserts.  These ecosystems harbour and sustain high biodiversity and contribute to human well-being. People of India depend on fruits\, grains\, medicinal plants\, fuel-wood\, fodder\, and green leaf manure for sustainment. \n\n\n\nHere is a specific example of how several plant species can be utilized in India: \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn India\, there are a number of traditional ways that plant conservation is practiced. For example\, sacred groves – these patches of forests that are protected by assigning them as the abode of gods or goddesses. Here is some data collected on plant species diversity in sacred groves: \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHome gardens represent another way of traditional plant conservation practice: \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis is only a sample from Dr. Chandrasekhara’s lecture. He further discussed the traditional practices of intercropping with shade tolerant and short duration crops\, as well as the importance of maintaining this culture of India of plant conservation and management. \n\n\n\nOutcomeThe scholars were very impressed with Dr. Chandrasekhara’s research. They became hopeful that the cultural traditions around ecosystems and gardening will help preserve plant biodiversity in India.
URL:https://ammachilabs.org/event/biodiversity-conservation-and-management-in-indian-culture-and-tradition/
CATEGORIES:CWEGE Invited Guest Series
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SUMMARY:Guest Lecture on Coastal Vulnerability: Risk Factors and Mitigation
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Komali KantamaneniDate: 24 February 2021 \n\n\n\nVenue: Zoom meeting UNESCO Chair \n\n\n\nAttendance: 34 \n\n\n\nObjective: The online guest speaker session was organised exclusively for the MSW students is to discuss and learn about how to assess social vulnerability in coastal areas as impacted by climate change. \n\n\n\nAbout Resource Personnel:  \n\n\n\nKomali completed her PhD at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David\, Swansea\, entitled Assessing coastal vulnerability: development of a combined physical and economic index. Her research produced\, for the first time\, a combined vulnerability assessment based on physical science parameters and economic drivers. \n\n\n\nShe holds an MBA in Business Studies from Cardiff Metropolitan University\, and MSc in Environmental Sciences and a BSc in Biology from Acharya Nagarjuna University\, India. Her academic background gives her different perspectives\, and she engages with interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary projects such as coastal and water infrastructures\, natural disasters\, risk assessment and management. \n\n\n\nInterests: coastal vulnerability; natural disasters (hydrological); climate change and risk analysis; GIS; development and application of holistic framework/systems around various facets of the environment and climate change \n\n\n\nDiscussion Points of Talk \n\n\n\nDr. Komali explained about the research she has been doing in coastal communities that are subject to increased risk of sea level rising due to climate change. She said that these areas need to be systematically measured and assessed for social vulnerability in order to create an index in which can delineate possible funding for mitigation measures.  She demonstrated her methods on how to achieve this\, based on 4 categories of classification:  \n\n\n\nLow physical/low economicLow physical/high economicHigh physical/low economic \n\n\n\nHigh physical/high economic.Dr. Komali also shared with us about the Global Challenges Research Fund Project. This study assesses the physical\, fiscal\, and sociological impacts of natural disasters on coastal communities in South Asia. The data collected through fieldwork across India\, China\, Sri Lanka and the Philippines will be used to create a holistic set of recommendations to national organisations\, which can be used to limit the harm from natural disasters. \n\n\n\nOutcome: Students were able to explain about the different categories of coastal vulnerability impact due to climate change. And the students learned about specific areas where Dr Komali has conducted research.  \n\n\n\n\nDr. Komali Kantamaneni\n\n\n\nProject presentation\n\n\n\nDiscussion on Barton-on Sea
URL:https://ammachilabs.org/event/guest-lecture-on-coastal-vulnerability-risk-factors-and-mitigation/
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SUMMARY:A Conversation Between Howard Gardner and Sidney Strauss
DESCRIPTION:A Conversation Between Howard Gardner and Sidney Strauss \n\n\n\nSpeaker \n\n\n\nDr. Howard Gardner \n\n\n\nSpeaker Bio \n\n\n\nDr. Gardner graduated from Harvard University in 1965 with a BA in social relations\, and studied under the renowned Erik Erikson. After spending one year at the London School of Economics\, he went on to obtain his PhD in developmental psychology at Harvard while working with psychologists Roger Brown and Jerome Bruner\, and philosopher Nelson Goodman. \n\n\n\nFor his postdoctoral fellowship\, Gardner worked alongside Norman Geschwind at Boston Veterans Administration Hospital and continued his work there for another 20 years. In 1986\, Gardner became a professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Since 1995\, much of the focus of his work has been on The GoodWork Project\, now part of a larger initiative known as The Good Project that encourages excellence\, ethics\, and engagement in work\, digital life\, and beyond. \n\n\n\nIn 2000\, Gardner\, Kurt Fischer and their colleagues established the master’s degree program in Mind\, Brain and Education. This program was thought to be the first of its kind around the world. Many universities in both the United States and abroad have since developed similar programs. Four years later in 2004\, Gardner would continue writing about the mind and brain and would publish Changing Minds: The Art and Science of Changing Our Own and Other People’s Minds\, a book about seven forms of mind-change. \n\n\n\nAmong numerous honors\, Gardner received a MacArthur Prize Fellowship (the “Genius Prize”) in 1981 and the University of Louisville’s Grawemeyer Award in Education in 2000. He has twice been selected by Foreign Policy and Prospect magazines as one of the 100 most influential public intellectuals in the world. In 2011\, Gardner received the Prince of Asturias Award for Social Sciences\, and in 2015\, he was awarded the Brock International Prize in Education.
URL:https://ammachilabs.org/event/a-conversation-between-howard-gardner-and-sidney-strauss/
CATEGORIES:Weekly Research Colloquium
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SUMMARY:How to Socialize with Robots
DESCRIPTION:How to Socialize with Robots \n\n\n\nSpeaker \n\n\n\nDr. Peter Gardenfors \n\n\n\nSpeaker Bio \n\n\n\nDr. Peter Gardenfors has been a Senior Professor of Cognitive Science at Lund University since 2016. He has also been a Senior Research Associate with the Palaeo-Research Institute at the University of Johannesburg since 2019. \n\n\n\nAmong his numerous awards and prizes are: The Rausing Prize in humanities in 1996. The Prize for interdisciplinary research by Academiæ Regiæ Scientiarum Upsaliensis in 2008. The Hermann Lotze Prize in 2012. Universitatis Lodziensis Amico Medal 2012. Fellow of the Cognitive Science Society since 2016. Awarded the Einar Hansen Honorary Prize in Humanities 2017. \n\n\n\nPublished more than 400 articles (see http://lucs.lu.se/people/peter-gardenfors-bibliography-2010-present/ and http://lucs.lu.se/people/peter-gardenfors-bibliography-2000/). The journals include Science and are within philosophy\, cognitive science\, logic\, artificial intelligence\, economics\, management science\, linguistics\, psychology\, archaeology\, anthropology\, sociology and biology. \n\n\n\nHe has more than 23\,000 Google citations\, h-index 57\, i10-index 159. The most cited scholar in the humanities in Sweden.
URL:https://ammachilabs.org/event/how-to-socialize-with-robots/
CATEGORIES:Weekly Research Colloquium
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SUMMARY:Science as Storytelling with Dr. Oren Harman
DESCRIPTION:Science As Storytelling \n\n\n\nSpeaker \n\n\n\nDr. Oren Harman \n\n\n\nSpeaker Bio \n\n\n\nProfessor Oren Harman is the Chair of the Graduate Program in Science\, Technology and Society at Bar Ilan University and Senior Research Fellow at the Van Leer Institute. He was trained in history and biology at the Hebrew University\, Oxford\, and Harvard\, and is a historian of science and a writer. His books include The Man Who Invented the Chromosome (Harvard\, 2004)\, Rebels\, Mavericks and Heretics in Biology (Yale\, 2008)\, Outsider Scientists (Chicago\, 2013)\, Dreamers\, Visionaries and Revolutionaries in the Life Sciences (Chicago\, 2018)\, Evolutions: Fifteen Myths That Explain Our World (Farrar\, Straus\, and Giroux\, 2018\, and Handbook of the Historiography of Biology (Springer\, 2021). His book The Price of Altruism (W.W. Norton\, 2010) won the 2010 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Best Book of the Year in Science and Technology\, was nominated for the Pulitzer prize\, and was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Professor Harman has written and spoken widely for popular and professional audiences on genetics\, evolution\, history and philosophy of science\, altruism\, biography\, and science and mythology. He grew up in New York and Jerusalem where he lives with his wife\, Yael\, and their three little children. Oren sings bass with the Tel Aviv Chamber Choir.
URL:https://ammachilabs.org/event/science-as-storytelling-oren-harman/
CATEGORIES:Weekly Research Colloquium
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SUMMARY:Consensus And Deliberation with Dr. Mariano Sigman
DESCRIPTION:Speaker \n\n\n\nDr. Mariano Sigman \n\n\n\nSpeaker Bio \n\n\n\n Dr.Mariano Sigman\, a physicist by training\, is a leading figure in the cognitive neuroscience of learning and decision making. Sigman was awarded a Human Frontiers Career Development Award\, the National Prize of Physics\, the Young Investigator Prize of “College de France\,” the IBM Scalable Data Analytics Award and is a scholar of the James S. McDonnell Foundation. In 2016 he was made a Laureate of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences.      \n\n\n\nIn his book\, The Secret Life of the Mind\, Sigman’s ambition is to explain the mind so that we can understand ourselves and others more deeply. He shows how we form ideas during our first days of life\, how we give shape to our fundamental decisions\, how we dream and imagine\, why we feel certain emotions\, how the brain transforms and how who we are changes with it. Spanning biology\, physics\, mathematics\, psychology\, anthropology\, linguistics\, philosophy and medicine\, as well as gastronomy\, magic\, music\, chess\, literature and art\, The Secret Life of the Mind revolutionizes how neuroscience serves us in our lives\, revealing how the vast number of neurons inside our brains manufacture how we perceive\, reason\, feel\, dream and communicate. \n\n\n\nHe has also written scripts for a TV series and had a minor role as an actor in a recent Argentinian film.
URL:https://ammachilabs.org/event/consensus-and-deliberation-mariano-sigman/
CATEGORIES:Weekly Research Colloquium
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SUMMARY:Virtual Symposium on Tsunami Risk Reduction & Community Resilience
DESCRIPTION:“Virtual Symposium on Tsunami Risk Reduction & Community Resilience” on 26th December 2020 from 3 p.m. to 8 p.m. IST\, 1030 am CET and 930 sm GMT co-hosted by Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham and ESRI India. \n\n\n\nThe Amrita Center for Wireless networks & Applications\, UNESCO Chair on Experiential Learning for Sustainable Innovation & Development\, UNESCO Chair in Women’s Empowerment and Gender Equality – Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham and ESRI India\, global market leader in Geographic Information Systems are jointly hosting a virtual international symposium to commemorate the Indian Ocean Tsunami of 26th December 2004\, to critically reflect on the impact on the global society and track the tsunami preparedness and advances in science and technology enabled early warning systems to build sustainable and resilient communities. This symposium seeks to unveil challenges faced and lessons learnt from this unprecedented disaster event which not only impacted coastal communities in 14 countries in the Indian Ocean\, but provided a watershed opportunity to enact legislations\, establish institutional mechanisms for disaster governance at the national\, state and district levels and strengthen community resilience\, governance\, and technological solutions to mitigate any future onset of Tsunamis. This symposium intends to provide a platform to policy makers\, technological innovators\, the oceanography researchers and industry to come together and share their insights about the progress made in strengthening tsunami preparedness as well as throw light on some of the most assuring technological advancements and strategies that have helped to develop tsunami aware\, tsunami ready and resilient communities across the world. \n\n\n\nDr. M Rajeevan\, Secretary\, Ministry of Earth Sciences\, Government of India; Dr. Shailesh Nayak\, Former Director\, INCOIS and Former Secretary\, MoES\, Government of India; Dr T. Sreenivasa Kumar\, Director\, INCOIS; Mr. Ardito M Kodijat\, National Professional Officer\, UNESCO-IOC Indian Ocean Tsunami Centre\, Indonesia; Ms. Madhavi Malalgoda Ariyabandu\, DRR Expert\, Sri Lanka; Dr R Ramaswamy and several others will be addressing the Virtual Symposium in Invited Keynote Addresses and Thematic Panel Discussions. The registration details are provided on amrita.edu/tsunamisymposium2020. Those who are interested to attend the deliberations are encouraged to register. Invitation links will be shared with registered participants. \n\n\n\nThe Symposium deliberations will also be streamed live on various social media platforms. \n\n\n\nRegister for the Event Here!
URL:https://ammachilabs.org/event/virtual-symposium-on-tsunami-risk-reduction-community-resilience/
CATEGORIES:Seminar
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SUMMARY:Human-Robot Collaborative Design with Dr. Guy Hoffman
DESCRIPTION:Human-Robot Collaborative Design \n\n\n\nSpeaker \n\n\n\nDr. Guy Hoffman\, Cornell University\, Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering \n\n\n\nSpeaker Bio \n\n\n\nDr. Guy Hoffman is Assistant Professor and the Mills Family Faculty Fellow in the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Cornell University. Prior to that he was Assistant Professor at IDC Herzliya and co-director of the IDC Media Innovation Lab. Hoffman holds a Ph.D from MIT in the field of human-robot interaction. He heads the Human-Robot Collaboration and Companionship (HRC2) group\, studying the algorithms\, interaction schema\, and designs enabling close interactions between people and personal robots in the workplace and at home. Among others\, Hoffman developed the world’s first human-robot joint theater performance\, and the first real-time improvising human-robot Jazz duet. His research papers won several top academic awards\, including Best Paper awards at HRI and robotics conferences in 2004\, 2006\, 2008\, 2010\, 2013\, and 2015. In both 2010 and 2012\, he was selected as one of Israel’s most promising researchers under forty. His TEDx talk is one of the most viewed online talks on robotics\, watched more than 2.9 million times. Hoffman received his M.Sc. in Computer Science from Tel Aviv University as part of the Adi Lautman interdisciplinary excellence scholarship program.
URL:https://ammachilabs.org/event/human-robot-collaborative-design-with-dr-guy-hoffman/
CATEGORIES:Weekly Research Colloquium
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SUMMARY:The Conceptual Basis Of Discrimination
DESCRIPTION:The Conceptual Basis Of Discrimination \n\n\n\nSpeaker \n\n\n\nDr. Gil Diesendruck – Bar Ilan University\, Israel – Psychology Department \n\n\n\nSpeaker Bio \n\n\n\nDr. Gil Diesendruck received his B.A. in Psychology and Economics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem\, his Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology at the University of Michigan\, and was a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Arizona. He was also a visiting professor at Yale University. He is currently a Full Professor at the Department of Psychology\, Director of the Language and Cognitive Development Laboratory at the Gonda Brain Research Center\, and Head of the Interdisciplinary Unit\, all at Bar-Ilan University\, Israel. His research – focusing on children’s cultural learning and social categorization – has been funded by the Israel Science Foundation\, German-Israel Foundation\, and Volkswagen Foundation\, and has been published in leading journals in Psychology. He has been an Associate Editor of the journal Child Development\, and is currently Associate Editor in the Annual Reviews of Developmental Psychology and Journal of Cognition and Development. He is a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Sciences.
URL:https://ammachilabs.org/event/the-conceptual-basis-of-discrimination/
CATEGORIES:Weekly Research Colloquium
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