Inaugural Day hosted by SIDDHI Webinar Series, IIT Madras Dec 13, 2020 The Write Thoughts 6.00 - 7.00 pm A talk by Prof. Arunn Narasimhan IST Dept of Mechanical Engineering Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India Dec 13, 2020 Inauguration 7.30 - 8.30 pm IST Prof. Wendy Singer Roy T. Wortman, Distinguished Professor of History Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio, USA Introducing Kenyon – IITM Writing Workshop (5 minutes) Prof. Sean Decatur President Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio (5 minutes) Prof. Bhaskar Ramamurthi Director, Indian Institute of Technology Madras Chennai, India (5 minutes) Prof. David Lynn Special Assistant to the President, Editor Emeritus of the Kenyon Review Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio, USA (5 minutes) Prof. Raghunathan Rengaswamy Dean Global Engagement, Indian Institute of Technology Madras Chennai, India (5 minutes) Readings by Kenyon - IITM Writing Workshop Faculty: Prof. Nancy Zafris Former Fiction Editor, Kenyon Review Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio, USA (5 minutes) Prof. Geeta Kothari Non-fiction Editor, Kenyon Review & Senior Lecturer University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA (5 minutes) Prof. Chris Gillen Professor of Biology Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio, USA (5 minutes) Ms. Geetha Iyer Mellon Science and Nature Writing Fellow Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio, USA (5 minutes) Robert Mauck Professor of Biology Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio, USA (5 minutes) Yutan Getzler Associate Professor of Chemistry Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio, USA (5 minutes) Vote of Thanks: Dr. Sudarsan Padmanabhan Associate Professor, Dept of Humanities and Social Sciences IIT Madras, Chennai, India (2 minutes) https://hss.iitm.ac.in/kenyon-iitm 2 https://siddhi.iitm.ac.in Kenyon – IITM Writing Workshop (December 14 – 18, 2020) Inauguration – 13.12.2020 (Please see invitation) Group I - Fiction Group II - Non-fiction Group III - Science Writing Session-I (All Five Days) 2.00 - 4.30 pm 2.00 - 4.30 pm 2.00 - 4.30 pm 2.00 - 4.30 pm Preparation Session with Preparation Session with Preparation Session with Teaching Preparation Session with Teaching Fellows Teaching Fellows Fellows Teaching Fellows Dr. Kaamya Sharma Ms. Shweta Venkatesh Mr. Ragavendra H V Ms. Malayaja Chutani Assistant Professor Alumnus, Integrated Masters in Research Scholar Research Scholar Dept. of HSS Humanities and Social Sciences Department of Physics, IIT Madras Department of Physics IIT Jodhpur IIT Madras, Chennai Chennai, Tamilnadu, India IIT Madras, Chennai Rajasthan, India Tamilnadu, India Email: [email protected] Tamilnadu, India Email: [email protected] Email: Email: [email protected] [email protected] Mr. Sam Zafris Writer Ms. Smruthi Bala Kannan Columbus, Ohio, USA Research Scholar Department of Education Rutgers University New Jersey, USA Email: [email protected] Session-II Workshop with Faculty (All Five Days) Prof. Nancy Zafris Prof. Geeta Kothari Prof. Chris Gillen & Prof. Robert Mauck & Ms. Geetha Iyer Prof. Yutan Getzler 7.30 - 9.15 pm 7.30 – 9.15 pm 7.30 - 9.15 pm 7.30 – 9.15 pm Session with Faculty Session with Faculty Session with Faculty Session with Faculty 3 Kenyon - IITM Writing Workshop Indian Institute of Technology Madras (December 14 - 18, 2020) A collaborative endeavour between Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio, USA & IIT Madras, Chennai, India A five day Writing Workshop offered by scholars who teach writing at the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop at Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio, USA and faculty from IIT Madras, Chennai, India who are creative writers but specialize in variegated fields such as engineering, biotechnology, humanities and social sciences. Date: December 14 – 18, 2020 (Inaugural Lecture and Inauguration on Dec 13, 2020) Genre: Fiction – 15 seats Non-fiction – 15 seats Science Writing (Group I) – 15 seats Science Writing (Group II) – 15 seats Who can apply - young faculty, aspiring writers, college students, other interested individuals Application: Click here for application Deadlines: 1. Submission of application - November 20, 2020 2. Intimation of acceptance – November 27, 2020 Coordinators from Kenyon College: Prof. Wendy Singer Roy T Wortman Professor of History and South Asian Studies Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio, USA Email: [email protected] Prof. David H. Lynn Special Assistant to the President Professor of English Editor Emeritus of the Kenyon Review Kenyon College, Treleaven House 201 Gambier, Ohio, USA Email: [email protected] 4 Organising Committee: Prof. Wendy Singer (Coordinator) Roy T Wortman Professor of History and South Asian Studies Kenyon College Gambier, Ohio, USA Email: [email protected] Prof. David H. Lynn (Coordinator) Special Assistant to the President Professor of English Editor Emeritus of the Kenyon Review Kenyon College, Treleaven House 201 Gambier, Ohio, USA Dr. Sudarsan Padmanabhan (Coordinator) Associate Professor Department of Humanities and Social Sciences IIT Madras, Chennai, India Email: [email protected] Prof. Sriramkumar L (Coordinator) Professor Department of Physics IIT Madras, Chennai, India Email: [email protected] Dr. Kaamya Sharma Assistant Professor Department of Humanities and Social Sciences IIT Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India Email: [email protected] Ms. Suguna P V Technical Team Web designer, Documentations, Outreach Dept. of HSS, IIT Madras, Chennai, India Email: [email protected] Mr. Sasikumar D Technical Team Designer, Documentations, Outreach Dept. of HSS, IIT Madras, Chennai, India Email: [email protected] 5 Teaching Fellows: Mr. Sam Zafris Writer Columbus, Ohio, USA Dr. Kaamya Sharma Assistant Professor Department of Humanities and Social Sciences IIT Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India Email: [email protected] Ms. Smruthi Bala Kannan Research Scholar Department of Education Rutgers University New Jersey, USA Email: [email protected] Teaching Assistants: Ms. Shweta Venkatesh Alumnus Department of Humanities and Social Sciences IIT Madras, Chennai, India Email: [email protected] Ms. Malayaja Chutani Research Scholar Department of Physics, IIT Madras, Chennai, India Email: [email protected] Mr. Ragavendra H V Research Scholar Department of Physics, IIT Madras, Chennai, India Email: [email protected] Course Fee: ₹ 1000/- for B. Tech., M. A., M. S., & M. Tech., (IIT Madras Students) ₹ 2000/- for Ph.D., (IIT Madras Students) ₹ 2000/- for Students from other IITs and other Colleges ₹ 3000/- faculty, professionals and other interested people (Course fee covers Registration, Study Materials and Faculty Lectures for all five days.) Supported by: Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio, USA Kenyon Review, Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio, USA Office of Dean Students, IIT Madras, Chennai, India Office of Alumni & Corporate Relations, IIT Madras, Chennai, India Office of Global Engagement, IIT Madras, Chennai, India Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Madras, Chennai, India Department of Physics, IIT Madras, Chennai, India 6 Coordinators from Kenyon College: Wendy Singer is an historian of South Asia, whose research focuses, primarily, on the period after 1947. Her current projects connect the history of the anti-colonial movement to the development of the post-independence state. At the moment she is finishing an essay, “Women in the State: Elected women and the Challenge of Politics in the 1950s,” which is part of a collaborative project on Feminism and Nationalism in India. A highlight of this collaboration was a conference in September of 2018 at Cambridge University. In addition, she is co-editing a volume on India’s multi-language policies and particularly the variation in language politics across states. Finally, and connectedly, she is writing a monograph on the history of "Reservations," India policy, somewhat like affirmative action, that provides designated seats in Parliament, state legislatures and other institutions for under-represented groups. The research for this book was sponsored by a Fulbright-Nehru Senior Research Grant. All three projects point to the organic and changing nature of Indian democracy, which was designed to emphasize its inclusiveness of various constituents and stake-holders within Indian society and, in so doing, provide potential lessons for the rest of the world. David Lynn is Editor Emeritus of the Kenyon Review, an international journal of literature, culture, and the arts, which he edited from 1994-2020. He is also professor of English and Special Assistant to the President of Kenyon College. In 1990, he founded the KR Young Writers Program and, in 1997, the KR Writers Workshop. His collection, Children of God: New and Selected Stories, appeared in 2019. One of its stories, "Divergence," won an O. Henry Award. David Lynn is also the author of Wrestling with Gabriel, a novel, and two earlier collections of stories, Year of Fire and Fortune Telling, as well as a critical study, The Hero's Tale: Narrators in the Early Modern Novel. His stories and essays have appeared in magazines and journals in America, England, India, and Australia. David Lynn lives in Gambier, Ohio with his wife, Wendy Singer, a distinguished historian of India. 7 About the Faculty conducting the Writing Workshop: In addition to many short stories, Nancy Zafris has published four books of fiction: The People I Know (U of Georgia Press), winner of the Flannery O’Connor award for short fiction and the Ohioana Library Association award for best book of fiction; The Metal Shredders (Blue Hen/Penguin Putnam), a NY Times Notable book, Lucky Strike (Unbridled