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SUMMARY:The Fossil Dilemma: Law\, Sovereignty and Forest Rights in a Warming World
DESCRIPTION:Dear All\, \nThe department of Environmental Studies cordially invites you to a colloquium on  \nTitle: The Fossil Dilemma: Law\, Sovereignty and Forest Rights in a Warming World \nSpeaker: ARPITHA KODIVERI\, Assistant Professor of Political Science\, Vassar College\, New York \nDate: 22 April 2026 \nTime: 6:30 – 7:30 PM  \nZoom Link: https://zoom.us/j/97608050293?pwd=NlqdqRyivmbuYqyk1u7X1yDBNiO9qk.1  \nAbstract: In the coal rich forests in India the law configures conflict and contestations over land through a particular definition\, understanding and interpretation of sovereignty\, rights and property. In this talk I will explore how the multiple expressions of sovereignty and rights in land conflicts emerging from the state\, forest-dwelling communities and the non-human world inhabit the law and are made and unmade through specific legal interpretations by the bureaucracy and invention of new legal categories in coal bearing areas. Through an analysis of jurisprudence\, legislation and interviews with forest-dwelling communities and lawyers embedded in these conflicts the talk focuses on how the law is mobilized and interpreted by these actors and the strategies that underlie them. The talk will conclude by seeing how newer climate legal frameworks on the regulation of fossil fuels particularly those in the recent advisory opinion by the international court of justice may shape the law and decision-making in these localized forest rights struggles.  \nSpeaker's Bio: Arpitha Kodiveri is an international and comparative environmental law scholar and assistant professor of political science at Vassar College. Her work focuses on the role of environmental law in the context of forest governance in South Asia. Her previous research examines land conflicts and legal mobilization by forest-dwelling communities in India. She has worked as an environmental lawyer supporting Adivasi and forest-dwelling communities in India. She is the recipient of the Hans Kelsen Fellowship at the EUI and the Fulbright-Nehru Fellowship. \n  \nWe encourage insterested students and faculty members to join the talk. \nWarm regards\, \nEnvironmental Studies Department
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SUMMARY:Psychology & Cognitive Sciences Colloquium | What Is “the Social” in Social Psychology?
DESCRIPTION:Dear All\, \nThe Department of Psychology and Cognitive Sciences invites you to a colloquium by Dr. Apurv Chauhan. \nAbstract: This talk addresses a persistent difficulty in my own work and\, I suspect\, in the field more broadly. Put plainly\, social psychology still lacks a settled way of apprehending the social that moves beyond Allport’s mid‑twentieth‑century decree on the discipline’s remit. I will focus on two thematic issues to illustrate how this problem currently plays out. \nThe first concerns the way in which much of what is implied by “the social” in research is relegated to the ill‑defined conceptual rubbish bin of context. Context is routinely invoked as an explanation for empirical findings\, yet it is almost always treated as self‑evident and theoretically under‑specified. It carries few discernible commitments: almost anything seems to count\, and there is rarely consistency across studies by the same researcher\, let alone across the field. This is a serious problem\, as the context of anything is fundamentally indeterminate—it has no reliable boundary and no stable content. The only constructive response I will offer in this talk emerges from this impasse. Drawing on my fieldwork in rural India\, I outline a pragmatic attempt to sharpen our conceptualisation of context\, and our allusions to it\, through a tripartite theorisation of research context. This aims to afford the concept analytical traction without imposing false closure. \nReturning to these difficulties\, I then reflect on how my engagement with a range of theoretical perspectives has shaped my methodological decisions in the search for the social. My research group primarily works with texts (written\, transcribed\, or visually presented thoughts) and treats them as privileged yet partial traces of social life. We approach them as sites in which meaning\, positioning\, and orientation become available for analysis. This orientation has led me\, at different moments\, to privilege content\, distribution\, and temporal patterning as entry points into the social. In retrospect\, however\, these moves appear largely as methodological artefacts – whether assembled through mathematical time‑series modelling\, thematic analysis\, or dialogical approaches – that stubbornly persist. In each case\, the social became analytically tractable only by being narrowed. Some of the social\, always remained poorly captured: depending on the methodology\, this took the form of relational\, interactional\, or socio‑material processes through which texts were produced\, circulated\, and taken up. \nOne minor theoretical proposition on the research context aside\, the purpose of this talk is not to offer solutions\, but to initiate conversation\, collaboration\, and dialogue in the ongoing search for the social\, and indeed in negotiating the tension between its analytic capture and its inevitable loss. \nAbout the Speaker: Dr Apurv Chauhan is a Senior Lecturer in Social & Cultural Psychology at King’s College London where he is the Director of the Sociocultural Lab @ King’s and leads the IoPPN research theme Society\, Culture\, and Constructed Worlds. His previous appointments were at the University of Brighton and as a Canadian Institute of Health Research Fellow at University of Guelph\, Canada. Apurv is the past editor in Chief of Sage Open and currently sits on the APA task force for Indigenous Psychology and BPS National Reference Group for Poverty.  \nApurv received his PhD from London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) on a LSE full Doctoral Scholarship. Prior to this\, he received his MPhil in Social and Cultural Psychology from the University of Cambridge on a full Cambridge Trusts Scholarship. He received his BSc Hons in Psychology from Zakir Husain Delhi College\, University of Delhi. \nApurv’s research looks at social inequalities and experiences of marginality\, culture and meaning\, and traditional and new media. His upcoming book Meanings of Poverty: Alterity\, Representations\, and Dialogue is going to be published by Bloomsbury in 2027. \nWe look forward to your active participation.
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SUMMARY:Investor Awareness Session
DESCRIPTION:More about the Session: \nThis initiative is a pure investor education initiative by UTI Mutual Fund\, focused on building financial awareness and encouraging disciplined investing habits\, especially among first-time and young investors. The following topics will be covered by the speaker: \nIntroduces the F.I.R.E framework (Financial Independence\, Retire Early) as the core theme \nExplains the journey of money: \n\nIncome → Savings → Wealth creation\n\nSimplifies key financial concepts: \n\nPower of compounding\nImpact of inflation\nDifference between saving vs investing\n\nDemonstrates how small\, regular investments (SIPs) can grow into large wealth over time \nHighlights the cost of delay: \n\nStarting late significantly reduces wealth potential\nRequires much higher investment to achieve same goals\n\nUses relatable examples (lifestyle spends\, real-life scenarios) to make concepts easy to understand \nEmphasises the importance of: \n\nStarting early\nStaying consistent\nThinking long-term over short-term noise\n\nPositions SIP (Systematic Investment Plan) as: \n\nA simple\, disciplined way to invest\nIdeal for first-time investors\n\nThe speaker will also conduct a 15-minute Q&A session and will answer queries by students \n______ \nAbout the Speakers: \nVetri Subramaniam is the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of UTI Asset Management Company Limited. He joined UTI AMC as Head of Equity in January 2017 and assumed the role of Chief Investment Officer in August 2021. \nPrior to joining UTI\, he was Chief Investment Officer at Invesco Asset Management Limited. He was part of the start-up team at Invesco (then Religare Asset Management) in 2008 and helped establish the firm’s proprietary investment process and the team. He started his career at Kotak Mahindra in 1992 after passing out from IIM Bangalore with a PG Diploma in Management. His experience in equity markets and investment roles at various firms from 1994 includes Kotak Mahindra\, SSKI and Motilal Oswal. He was also one of the founders of Sharekhan.com (now Mirae Asset Sharekhan)\, where he led the research and content team. He has also worked as an advisor to a UK Hedge fund on its equity investments in India during 2003-2007. \nVetri Subramaniam has more than three decades of experience in equity markets\, investment strategy\, mentorship and financial literacy advocacy. He is a frequent contributor to the media and regularly speaks on investing and markets at various forums\, including the media and educational institutions. \n  \nNeha Singh is the founder of Womoneysta (pronounced Wo-MONEY-sta)\, a financial wellness platform focused on building financial awareness and capability among individuals and communities. \nWith over 14 years of corporate experience\, Neha has worked with leading organisations\, including Standard Chartered Bank\, Kotak Mahindra Bank\, and Deloitte India. Through these roles\, she developed deep expertise in personal finance\, financial planning\, and financial education. \nShe is a Certified Financial Planner (CFP\, CM)\, a globally recognised certification in financial planning. Neha is widely recognised as a financial educator and speaker\, and her work has been featured on platforms such as UN Women and UpGrad. \nShe has also been recognised as a LinkedIn Top Voice for Gender Equity\, is a TEDx speaker\, and serves as an empanelled faculty member with NSE Academy and personal finance faculty at The Vedica Scholars Programme.
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SUMMARY:CWC Online Summer School 2026
DESCRIPTION:CWC Summer School 2026 is now open for registration. This year's programme includes our regular workshops on Research Writing in the Humanities and Social Sciences\, designed for MA and PhD cohorts. Alongside these\, we are offering a series of special interest workshops on Translation in the Classroom\, the Genre of True Crime\, Storytelling and Policy Briefs\, and Evidence in the Field.  \nAll workshops are open to applicants who meet the eligibility criteria and will be held from 18 to 23 May 2026. Further details on the workshops and the registration process are available in the Summer School Catalogue.  \nThe deadline to apply is 27 April 2026. 
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SUMMARY:CS Colloquium |Secure Information Flow Connections
DESCRIPTION:Title: Secure Information Flow Connections (Joint work with : Chandrika Bhardwaj\, Goldman Sachs India) \nAbstract: Denning's (1976) lattice model provided secure information flow analyses with an intuitive mathematical foundation: the lattice ordering determines permitted flows. We propose a connection-based extension of this framework that permits two autonomous organisations\, each employing possibly quite different security lattices\, to exchange information while maintaining security of information flow as well as their autonomy in formulating and maintaining security policies. Our prescriptive framework is based on the rigorous mathematical framework of Lagois connections proposed by Melton\, together with a simple type system and operational model for transferring object data between the two domains. The merit of this formulation is that it is simple\, minimal\, adaptable and intuitive. We show that our framework is semantically sound\, by proving that the connections proposed preserve standard correctness notions such as noninterference. We then illustrate via examples how Lagois theory also provides a robust framework and methodology for negotiating and maintaining secure agreements on information flow between autonomous organisations\, even when either or both organisations change their security lattices. Composition and decomposition properties indicate support for a modular approach to secure flow frameworks in complex organisations. Finally\, a natural and conservative extension of the Decentralised Labels Model of Myers et al. shows the applicability of the framework — a Lagois connection between the hierarchies of principals in two organisations naturally induces a Lagois connection between the corresponding security label lattices\, thus extending the security guarantees ensured by the decentralised model to encompass bidirectional interorganisational flows. \nAbout the Speaker: Sanjiva Prasad is a Professor and former Head of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (2018-2021) and also the Amar Nath and Shashi Khosla School of Information Technology (2011-20015) at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. His research interests include formal methods\, programming languages and their semantics\, security of information flow and networks\, and medical applications of computing. He has written several conference and journal papers in these areas\, served on the technical programme committees of several international conferences\, and delivered seminar talks at leading universities across the world. He is currently Co-Editor-in-Chief of ACM Books (based in New York).  \nProf. Prasad was Head of IIT Delhi's School of Public Policy (2022-24). His research interests in this area concern issues regarding data and computation\, and their confidentiality and integrity\, in particular health-related data systems. He is also interested in issues of higher education\, pedagogical processes and affordable access to educational materials. \nPrior to working at IIT Delhi\, Prof. Prasad worked on program verification at Odyssey Research Associates in Ithaca\, USA from 1990-1992\, and then at the European Computer-Industry Research Center (ECRC GmbH) in Munich\, Germany from 1992-1994 on the Facile project which was based on his dissertation. He was a visiting Lektor at BRICS\,Aarhus University from 1998 to 1999. His PhD is from Stony Brook University\, New York\, and he earned a BTech in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur in 1985.
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