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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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210226T000000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210226T235959
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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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210224T143000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210224T153000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210218T000000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210218T235959
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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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210204T000000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210204T235959
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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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210128T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210128T143000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210121T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210121T143000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Kolkata:20201226T150000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Kolkata:20201226T220000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20201224T000000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20201224T235959
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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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20201210T000000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20201210T235959
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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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20201203T000000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20201203T235959
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SUMMARY:Awareness Of The Digital Revolution In Education
DESCRIPTION: Awareness Of The Digital Revolution In Education \n\n\n\nSpeaker \n\n\n\nDr. Ilya Levin – Tel Aviv University\, School of Education \n\n\n\nSpeaker Bio \n\n\n\nDr. Ilya Levin received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Engineering in 1987 from the Institute of Computer Technologies\, Latvian Academy of Science. From 1987 he was the Head of the Computer Science Department in the Leningrad Institute of New Technologies (in the former USSR). Between 1993 and 1997\, Ilya Levin was the Head of the Computer Systems Department in Holon Institute of Technology\, Israel. In 1997\, he was a Research Fellow in the Computer Science Department of the University of Massachusetts. For four years between 2003-2006\, Ilya Levin was an Associate Professor of the School of Engineering at the Bar Ilan University. In 2014 and 2018\, he was a visiting professor at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice\, Italy\, and Aix-Marseille Université\, France. Presently\, Prof. Ilya Levin is a Full Professor in the School of Education of Tel Aviv University. His recent research interests include Computer Design\, Cultural Studies of Information Society\, Science\, and Technology Education. Prof. Levin is the author of around 200 research papers\, both in Computer Engineering and in Humanities.
URL:https://ammachilabs.org/event/awareness-of-the-digital-revolution-in-education/
CATEGORIES:Weekly Research Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20201126T000000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20201126T235900
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SUMMARY:The Misappropriation of Gender in Indian Cinema
DESCRIPTION:The Misappropriation of Gender in Indian Cinema \n\n\n\nSpeaker \n\n\n\nShekhar Kapur\, Film Director \n\n\n\nSpeaker Bio \n\n\n\nAfter leaving his corporate career as a Chartered Accountant\, Kapur pursued his passion for the arts and has become an award-winning film\, television\, theatre director\, producer and entrepreneur. He has not only become a prominent figure in Indian cinema\, with films such as Mr. India (1987) and Bandit Queen (1994)\, but also in western cinema\, with the academy award winning\, Elizabeth (1998) and Elizabeth: The Golden Age. Although Kapur continues with his film\, television and theatre career\, more recently he has also become President of the Film and Television Institute of India and co-founder of the digital start-up company\, QYUKI.    \n\n\n\nIf you ask him what he does\, Kapur will say: ‘All art is about us seeking the infinite within ourselves\, so I would describe myself as a seeker.’
URL:https://ammachilabs.org/event/the-misappropriation-of-gender-in-indian-cinema/
CATEGORIES:Weekly Research Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20201119T000000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20201119T235959
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SUMMARY:The Male And Female Brain: Science Or Myth?
DESCRIPTION:The Male And Female Brain: Science Or Myth? \n\n\n\nDr. Daphna Joel\, Tel Aviv University Department of Psychology \n\n\n\nSpeaker Bio \n\n\n\nDaphna Joel is a professor of psychology and neuroscience at Tel Aviv University. In the past decade she has been combining her expertise as a neuroscientist with her interest in gender studies to study the relations between sex\, brain and gender. In her research\, Joel uses various analytical methods to analyze diverse datasets\, from large collections of brain scans to information obtained with self-report questionnaires. She has published over 70 papers in refereed scientific journals and is also the author of Gender Mosaic: Beyond the Myth of the Male and Female Brain (Octopus\, London).
URL:https://ammachilabs.org/event/the-male-and-female-brain-science-or-myth/
CATEGORIES:Weekly Research Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20201030T113000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20201030T123000
DTSTAMP:20201101T151026Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual Project Launch: Empowering Rural Children in 21st Century Skills
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the official launch of the “Empowering Rural Children in 21st Century Skills”\, a project funded by the Department of Science and Technology (DST)\, Govt. of India. The virtual launch will feature special guest Dr. Sujit Banerjee from the DST. Dr. Bhavani Rao and Prof. Kamal Bijlani will host the event on behalf of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham. The project will be implemented by AMMACHI Labs\, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham and will train 200 students from Haryana Chattisgarh and Himachal Pradesh in maker skills\, Mobile Applications\, Multimedia & Games and Life skills through a series of 14 day workshops.
URL:https://ammachilabs.org/event/virtual-project-launch-empowering-rural-children-in-21st-century-skills/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20201029T000000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20201029T235959
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SUMMARY:Why Study Men And Masculinities? And With What Implications For Academia And Science?
DESCRIPTION:Why Study Men And Masculinities? And With What Implications For Academia And Science? \n\n\n\nSpeaker  \n\n\n\nDr. Jeff Hearn\, Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies affiliated to Örebro University\, Sweden; Professor of Sociology\, University of Huddersfield\, UK; Professor Emeritus\, Hanken School of Economics\, Finland; Professor Extraordinarius\, University of South Africa; honorary doctor\, Lund University\, Sweden \n\n\n\nSpeaker Bio \n\n\n\nDr. Hearn’s research has been involved in activism\, policy development and research over many years\, in Europe and beyond\, including long associations with South Africa. His research focuses on gender\, sexuality\, violence\, work\, organisations\, management\, social policy\, and transnational processes. He is co-managing editor\, Routledge Advances in Feminist Studies and Intersectionality book series; co-editor\, NORMA: The International Journal for Masculinity Studies; Co-chair\, RINGS: The International Research Association of Institutions of Advanced Gender Studies. Recent books include Men of the World\, 2015\, Sage; Revenge Pornography\, with Matthew Hall\, 2017; Engaging Youth in Activism\, Research and Pedagogical Praxis\, co-ed.\, 2018; Unsustainable Institutions of Men\, co-ed.\, 2019; all three Routledge; and Age at Work\, with Wendy Parkin\, Sage\, 2020. \n\n\n\nAbout This Talk \n\n\n\nDr. Hearn sought to contextualize and justify the study of men and masculinities as a sub-field of gender studies. In addition to the necessary and preeminent focus given to women in gender studies\, we must also include the study of men. Not as a replacement\, and not to put men at the centre of the universe (as that has already been done for millennia); rather\, provide a holistic view of human experience and explanation of gender in society—which includes both men and women (and non-binary). This is extremely relevant in the discussion of gender equality\, as men are typically in the position of power and dominance\, and there are social structures which perpetuate and reinforce this process. The roots of gender violence\, sexual assault\, and a number of other social ills that are frequently studied along with gender can benefit from the study of men and masculinities.
URL:https://ammachilabs.org/event/why-study-men-and-masculinities-and-with-what-implications-for-academia-and-science/
CATEGORIES:Weekly Research Colloquium
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SUMMARY:A Methodology to Learn Lessons from How Community Empowerment through Digital Innovation in Water and Sanitation Sector has Changed Human Behaviour
DESCRIPTION:A Methodology to Learn Lessons from How Community Empowerment through Digital Innovation in Water and Sanitation Sector has Changed Human Behaviour \n\n\n\nDr. Saket Pande; hydrologist and water economist at Delft University of Technology\, Netherlands (TU Delft) since 2010. \n\n\n\nSpeaker Bio \n\n\n\nSaket Pande’s project experience include assessment of impacts of climate change on agriculture and health in Benin\, anthropogenic influence (grazing) on land degradation and water resource availability in Ethiopia and assimilation and harmonisation of data sets from variety of sources and scales using a software that he co-developed. At Delft University of Technology\, he is involved with the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda of the United Nations and is investigating aspects of coupled human-water systems such as adoption of household water treatment systems\, links between population growth and water scarcity\, behaviour of smallholder farming in India\, valuation of water in Indian and Lebanese basins\, global P recovery from waste water for agriculture\, and coupled system modeling of rural-urban migration in Jiangsu province of China. Saket has been closely involved with sociohydrology and Panta Rhei\, the new scientific decade (2013-2022) of IAHS on coupled human water systems. Currently Saket is leading TU Delft contribution to a major water conservation project on smallholder sustainability in India. He is an associate editor of Journal of Hydrology\, Hydrological Sciences Journal and Frontiers in Water. \n\n\n\nAbout this talk  \n\n\n\nThe Government of India has set an ambitious target to end open defecation across India. AMMACHI Labs’ approach to ending open defecation in rural India is based upon a collaborative framework that trains women to build their own toilets\, through their ICT based training model that has already demonstrated success in empowering marginalized communities.  There is broad literature that highlights that individual and household psychology underpins WASH behaviour and adoption of related technologies\, such as cVET and building toilets accordingly. Several conceptual models exist to analyse the behaviour. One established model is Risk – Attitude – Norms- Ability – Self regulation (RANAS) model that systematically identifies\, measures and integrates behavioural and contextual factors to assess behaviour at an individual scale. \n\n\n\nThis presentation motivates the use of RANAS model to understand how cVET blended training program (ICT blended with hand-on training) is successfully (or not) leading to the adoption of wise sanitation practices by households in the targeted communities. The aim is to present an environmental psychology based methodology to learn from the success and challenges of implementing the training program in the communities and implement best strategies to maximize successful adoption of the program in other target communities. This is done by providing examples of field applications of the model in other human water use behaviour contexts\, such as adoption of household water treatment technologies\, efficient irrigation practices and conservation of ground water resources in countries such as Nepal\, Indonesia\, India and Vietnam.
URL:https://ammachilabs.org/event/a-methodology-to-learn-lessons-from-how-community-empowerment-through-digital-innovation-in-water-and-sanitation-sector-has-changed-human-behaviour/
CATEGORIES:Weekly Research Colloquium
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SUMMARY:Do gamers read instructions? And does it matter? with Dr. Francesca Borgonovi
DESCRIPTION:Do gamers read instructions? And does it matter? \n\n\n\nDr. Francesca Borgonovi\, a British Academy Global Professor \n\n\n\nSpeaker Bio: She is a Senior Policy Analyst at the OECD\, responsible for analytical and developmental work in the OECD-led international assessments (PISA and PIAAC) and the Education for Inclusive Societies project. Her broader research interests include: gender and socio-economic disparities in academic achievement\, student engagement and motivation\, the outcomes of migrant and language minority students\, and the role of education in shaping trust and attitudes towards migration. \n\n\n\nAbout the talk: In 2018\, about one in three (33%) 15-year-olds\, on average across 52 high- and middle-income countries\, played videogames every day or almost every day. Among boys\, that proportion was close to one in two (49%). Many videogames that are popular among teenagers encourage inductive discovery as an effective problem-solving strategy. Reading instructions is something gamers seldom do. By contrast\, gaming often involves early information foraging and expansive exploration behaviors. In this paper\, we use data from the 2018 wave of the Programme for International Student Assessment to explore whether students who regularly play video-games (gamers) adopt behaviors that are typical of gaming while they complete a computer-based assessment of science. The assessment included interactive items designed to identify procedural science knowledge as well as static items designed to identify science content knowledge. We find that gamers do not differ from other students in science content knowledge and in reading fluency\, a measure of how fast they read. Compared to other students\, gamers spend less time reading instructions and display more active exploration behaviors in the assessment on items that include simulation tools. We examine differences in associations by country and\, especially\, by sex. We discuss the implications for education practice and for the design of computer-based assessments.
URL:https://ammachilabs.org/event/do-gamers-read-instructions-and-does-it-matter-with-dr-francesca-borgonovi/
CATEGORIES:Weekly Research Colloquium
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SUMMARY:The Prehistory of Teaching with Dr. Natalie Uomini
DESCRIPTION:The Prehistory of Teaching\,  with Dr. Natalie Uomini\, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History Jena\, Germany \n\n\n\nSpeaker Bio: Dr. Natalie Uomini is a cognitive scientist who is interested in the origins of intelligence. She combines methods from anthropology\, archaeology\, psychology\, neuroscience\, linguistics\, and animal behaviour to study how we came to be human. She is fascinated by similarities across cultures (what all humans share) and the cultural differences in how people think and see the world.
URL:https://ammachilabs.org/event/the-prehistory-of-teaching-with-natalie-uomini/
CATEGORIES:Weekly Research Colloquium
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SUMMARY:Reimagining Social Media with Arnon Zangvil
DESCRIPTION:Speaker Bio: Arnon Zangvil\, a freelance programmer and sociologist from Tel Aviv. He has been developing large-scale Internet platforms and health care platforms for leading vendors around the world\, conceptualizing products\, and managing R&D organizations. Over the last 10 years\, Arnon has been studying the societal and political implications of digital platforms. \n\n\n\nReimagining Social Media with Arnon Zangvil \n\n\n\nThe purpose of this talk is to identify alternative forms of social media that may tip the balance of power away from the handful of vendors that currently control the platforms\, towards the multitude of diverse and unique communities around the world that constitute the more than 2 billion people whose lives are currently affected by these platforms.  \n\n\n\nWhen looking broadly at data-driven production\, three main organizing principles (1)\, or models\, may be identified: The first is the market model\, in which differentiation\, competition and demand serve to create choice and determine value. The second model is a centralized control model\, in which a state (or a large enough corporation) sets policy\, as is required\, for example\, for ensuring fair access to a public utility. The third model is the ‘commons’ model\, in which free association under specific conditions (2) enables cooperative and reciprocal modes of production\, which is the primary model that was used for designing the Internet itself. \n\n\n\nIn real world environments\, the three models usually coexist under tension\, but in the case of today’s social media networks\, the market model only serves the advertisers\, as the users are the products sold on this market\, and centralized control is exercised solely by the vendor with little meaningful state regulation.  \n\n\n\nHowever\, alternative forms of social media exist. Common-based protocols like federated identity and decentralized social networking protocols (e.g. ActivityPub) allow a radically different model of social media: Commons-based models in which communities may both determine their own rules based on their own values\, and at the same time interact with other communities. Only several million users use these systems today\, but now that the societal and political dangers of today’s platforms have been exposed\, this alternative playground may be able to show a path forward.
URL:https://ammachilabs.org/event/reimagining-social-media-with-arnon-zangvil/
CATEGORIES:Weekly Research Colloquium
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SUMMARY:On Curiosity of Robots and Children with Dr. Goren Gordon
DESCRIPTION:On Curiosity of Robots and Children \n\n\n\nDr. Goren Gordon\, Tel Aviv University; Head\, Curiosity Lab \n\n\n\nSpeaker Bio: Dr. Goren has six academic degrees\, a BA\, MSc and PhD in Quantum Physics\, a BMSc\, MBA and another PhD in Neurobiology. He did his postdoc in MIT Media Lab’s Personal Robots Group. Goren is the head of the Curiosity Lab in Tel-Aviv University. He studies mathematical models of curiosity\, implementing them in curious social robots and using them to assess and promote curiosity in children. Goren also developed Quantum Computer Games\, has a teaching certificate from MIT and loves to dance and play role-playing and board games.
URL:https://ammachilabs.org/event/on-curiosity-of-robots-and-children-with-dr-goren-gordon/
CATEGORIES:Weekly Research Colloquium
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SUMMARY:The Function and Mechanism of Teaching: An Evolutionary Perspective with Dr. Alex Thornton
DESCRIPTION:The Function and Mechanism of Teaching: An Evolutionary Perspective \n\n\n\nSpeaker Bio: Dr. Alex Thornton is an Associate Professor at the Centre for Ecology and Conservation\, at the University of Exeter’s Penryn Campus in Cornwall\, UK. His research focuses on cognition\, behaviour and cultural evolution. Specifically\, his research group seeks to understand how the challenges faced by animals (including humans) in their natural environments shape their mental processes\, how the ability to learn from others affects the behaviour of individuals and groups\, and how culture itself evolves (https://www.researchgate.net/profile/…).
URL:https://ammachilabs.org/event/the-function-and-mechanism-of-teaching-an-evolutionary-perspective-with-alex-thornton/
CATEGORIES:Weekly Research Colloquium
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SUMMARY:Seminar by Dr. Laura Corradi: Gender Differences & Inequalities in Social Work
DESCRIPTION:How to study multiple discrimination with the intersectional approach
URL:https://ammachilabs.org/event/seminar-by-dr-laura-corradi-gender-differences-inequalities-in-social-work/
CATEGORIES:Seminar
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