NIAS Newsletter Vol 4 | Issue 1 | July | 2018

The National Institute of Advanced Studies remembers its founder JRD Tata on his 114th birthday on 29 July 2018.

NIAS July was a hectic month for the Institute with a series of workshops, events, lectures and discussions. The month started with the launch of International Peace Research Initiative (IPRI), within the Interna- Inside this issue tional Strategic and Security Studies Programme (ISSSP) as a part of the NIAS celebrating its 30 years. Later, during the month there were Highlights of July……………...1 three major workshops organised by the Energy, Heritage and Educa- Public Lectures ...... 2 tional Programmes respectively at NIAS. NIAS Discussions ...... 3 Publications ...... 4

The Energy and Environment Programme organised a workshop on "Sustainability of Coal Mining", the Heritage, Science and Society NIAS Calendar Programme held a conference on "Relevance of archaeology in 21st century " and the PRODIGY-NIAS Gifted Education Programme 01/Aug: NIAS Wednesday Discussion: "Satellite Anomaly Resolution-A Case Study" by P S Goel organised a Design Thinking Workshop on "Charting the Path for the 03/Sep-7/Sep: NIAS-DST Training Programme: Next Decade". DISHA Programme for Women in Science - Science and Sustainability in India 01/Oct-05/Oct : NIAS-DST Training Programme: ‘Policy for Science and Science for Policies’ For Directors/Divisional Heads/Chief Scientists/Senior In July, the Institute also witnessed its faculty receiving honours and Scientists Prof. Sharada Srinivasan recognition for their work. Dr. Shailesh Nayak, Director NIAS has been appointed as the Chairperson of the Blue Flag National Jury, Pune and Prof. Sharada Srinivasan has been invited as an Editorial

Board Member of a new international journal on Advances in Archae-

omaterials to be published by University of Science and Technology, This newsletter is compiled by the NIAS communications Beijing, China. officer using submissions from the NIAS community.

Prof. Lynn Meskell © National Institute of Advanced Studies 2018

National Institute of Advanced Studies Indian Institute of Science Campus, Bengaluru-12

JRD Tata Visit us at : www.nias.res.in Highlights of July

NIAS Launches International Peace Research Initiative (IPRI) on 05 July2018

As a part of its 30 years celebrations, NIAS launched a new initiative on peace research. Titled International Peace Research Initiative (IPRI), the Institute has started this new activity in July 2018 under its International Strategic and Security Studies Programme.

IPRI has a four-fold approach: Peace Research, Capacity Building, Creating a Network and Peace Lectures. The initiative seeks to approach peace from a policy perspective in South Asia supporting the State and Civil Society.

One of the major aims of the IPRI is to create a network of academic institutions, research think tanks and also individual scholars who would come together to take forward the multiple activities of this peace initiative. Germany based Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) is one of the major partners of the IPRI.

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Workshop on Sustainability of Coal Mining at NIAS on 05 July 2018

Energy and Environment Programme, NIAS organized a half-day workshop on “Sustainability of Coal Mining” on 05 July 2018 at NIAS. This workshop was organized under the energy component of the project “‘Interdisciplinary forays into human-environment interactions: an integrative research initiative in energy, ecology and nonlinear modelling’” with support from Science and Engineering Research Board, Department of Science and Technology, New . The workshop was aimed to bring together researchers, industry per- sonnel, policymakers, and civil society to explore the interface of coal mining and sustainable development. Highlights of July

Conference on Relevance of archaeology in 21st century India at NIAS during 24-26, July 2018.

The Heritage, Science and Society program held three programs over a three day period of a time under the Disseminating Archaeology project, one was an art show called Exhibition on art and archaeology: Experiencing the field from July 25-26, 2018. This was a two-day public exhibition curating the diverse experienc- es of selected archaeologists and artists exhibiting their records, observations and experiences. The conference – Relevance of Archaeology in 21st century In- dia – was conducted between July 24-25, 2018. Finally, there was a student workshop on archaeological research methods attended by students who were MA and PhD students from across the country.

Design Thinking Workshop on Charting the Path for the Next Decade organised by PRODIGY- NIAS Gifted Education Programme , 29 July 2018 NIAS, Conference on ‘Relevance of Archaeology for 21st century India’ at NIAS during 24-26 July 2018.

The Design thinking workshop was one of the many attempts to facilitate the progression of our work to the next level. The IBM design team facilitated this workshop in which NIAS had invited representatives from school partners, parents, gifted and talented children, mentors, Advanced Learning Centres’ facilitators, teachers and the NIAS Gifted Education team.

The workshop facilitated consensus building across all stakeholders with regard to the goals, resource planning – human and financial, implementation strategies and building a sustainable model for the country. The workshop generated active participation from all the stakeholders.

Padma Menon Public Lectures

"Embodying Archetypes: Navarasas as Spaces of Emotional Transformation" by Padma Menon, Founder of “Moving Archetypes”, Australia, 12 July 2018

"Archaeological Places: Negotiations between Local Communities, Archaeologists, and the State" by Prof. Jaya Menon, Professor and Head of the Department of History, Shiv Nadar University, Dadri and Dr. Supriya Varma, Associate Professor, Centre for Historical Studies, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, 25 July 2018

Prof. Jaya Menon " Save Archaeology from the Technicians’: Wheeler, World Heritage and Expert Fail- ure at Mohenjodaro" by Prof. Lynn Meskell, Professor, Department of Anthropology, Stanford University , 24 July 2018

"Nurturing leadership among youth for global peace" by Ambassador Nirupama Menon Rao, 15 July2018

"Academic Feminism, Public Feminism, and #MeToo" by Prof. Ashwini Tambe, Uni- Dr. Supriya Varma versity of Maryland-College Park , 13 July 2018

“Farmers matter in new India’s political settlement: Discontinuous agrarian policy and new class formations ” by Dr. Sejuti Dasgupta, Former Faculty, TISS Mumbai, 10 Jul 2018

"Lessons to be learnt from mathematical models of T cells" by Prof. Carmen Molina- París, School of Mathematics, University of Leeds, UK, 9 July 2018 Prof. Ashwini Tambe NIAS Discussions

NIAS Wednesday Discussions

"Urban Maoism in India: "Archaeo-Experimental "Global Perspectives on "S&T to Products: The weak Rhetoric and Reality" Approach to understanding Funerary Monuments" by links in Indian Defence R & by Anshuman Behera, Iron Smelting Processes: A Meghna N. Desai, Re- D" by Srikumar Pullat, Vis- Assistant Professor, NIAS search Associate, HSS-TCS iting Professor, ISSSP, case study of Nathara-Ki- 25 July2018 Programme, NIAS NIAS at Lecture Hall, NIAS pal, South East Rajasthan" 11 July 2018 on 4 July 2018 by S Udayakumar, Post Doctoral Associate, HSS- TCS Programme, NIAS 18 July 2018

Final Colloquium

“Downstream Environmental and Socio-Economic Impacts of the Ranganadi Hydel Project in Northeast India" by Priyam Laxmi Borgohain, PhD Scholar

31 Jul 2018

Recent Publications

Books Upadhya, Carol and Rutten, Mario and Koskimaki, Leah, eds. (2018) Provincial Globalization in India: Transregional Mobilities and Development Politics. Routledge/Edinburgh South Asian Studies Series . Routledge, .

Settar, S (2018) Prakruta Jagadvalaya: convergence of Prakrit, Kannada and Sanskrit languages. Abhinava, Bangalore.

Book Chapters Sarukkai, Sundar (2018) Ekalavya and the Possibility of Learning. In: Exploring Agency in the Mahabharata: Ethical and Political Dimensions of Dharma. Routledge, London, pp. 179-194 Upadhya Carol (2018). Capitalizing on the Future: Negotiating Planned Urbanization in South India In: Urban Asias: Essays on Futurity Past and Present, JOVIS Verlag.

Research Papers Kshitija Joshi (2018) Managing the Risks from High-Tech Investments in India: Differential Strategies of Foreign and Domestic Venture Capital Firms, Journal of Global Entrepreneurship Research

Kshitija Joshi (2018) Managing Information Asymmetry Risks Using Deal Syndication and Domain Specializa- tion: An Indian Context, Asian Journal of Innovation & Policy, 7(1).

NIAS Publication D. Suba Chandran (2018) NIAS Strategic Forecast # 22 "Pakistan Elections 2018: Likely Winners, Runners and Losers

Media Publications

Kshitija Joshi, "Waiver is apt tool to repay those who put CM in power" (with Narendar Pani), Times of India , 6 July 2018

D Suba Chandran, "Road to Hell-sinki: Trump, Putin and the Nato," Rising Kashmir, 17 July 2018

D Suba Chandran, "Imran Vs Shahbaz," Rising Kashmir, 24 July 2018

Sundar Sarukkai, "God cannot be privatised", The Hindu, 30 July 2018

D Suba Chandran, "Rise of King Khan," Rising Kashmir, 31 July 2018

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(NIAS Newsletter Editorial Team : Sangeetha Menon, D Suba Chandran, V Girija, MB Rajani , Bharath Chandra BK and Ekta Gupta)