Svanubhava Workshops 2015

This year Svanubhava will be a 24-hour long event 

scheduled to take place on

07 August 2015 

at 

Kalakshetra Foundation, 

Thiruvanmiyur, Chennai.

There will be a series of 3 hour intensive workshops, 

from 3.30 pm onwards, 

happening simultaneously in different spaces 
within Kalakshetra, Chennai.
*****

Guruvayur Sri Dorai – Music Workshop

MIDS Monthly Seminar Series

Battling Over Nature: India’s Ecological Future as if History Mattered

Speaker: Prof. Mahesh Rangarajan

Director, Nehru Memorial Museum & Library, New Delhi

Chair: A. R. Venkatachalapathy, Professor, MIDS

Date: Tuesday, 04 August 2015, 3.30 pm

@ Adiseshiah Auditorium, MIDS

Respectful Homage to Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Only when you have courage to lose sight of the shore, you can discover the oceans! - Dr. Kalam

It's rare to find a gem, so noble and so serene! so humble and so unassuming! Hard to believe that the 'People's President' is no more! Our homage and respects to you dear Kalam Sir. You have not passed away! You are etched in our hearts... forever!

A Memorable Thought on Dr. Abdul Kalam, shared by his assistant:

Often he would ask me, "You are young! decide what will you like to be remembered for?" I kept thinking of new impressive answers, till one day I gave up and resorted to tit-for-tat. I asked him back, "First you tell me, what will you like to be remembered for? President, Scientist, Writer, Missile man, India 2020, Target 3 billion... What? I thought I had made the question easier by giving options, but he sprang on me a surprise. "Teacher", he said.

The Department of English, MCC takes pride in the fact that, it is one among the first institutions in India, to prescribe Dr. Kalam's Speech 'My Visions for India" for all their General English [Part - II] students. MCC also had the pleasant privilege of having Dr. Kalam grace the Convocation Day of MCC in February 2007, where his speech enthralled hearts and minds alike, and served as a great motivation for both the teaching fraternity and the student community. The full text of his speech at MCC on our blog HERE and Part II HERE

You can never die... Kalam Sir! yessss! you live forever... in all our hearts! 

Images of Women in German Cinema

Images of Women in German Cinema

Marianne and Julianne

Dir: Margarethe von Trotta

On 30 July 2015, 6.30 pm

@ Goethe-Institut Auditorium, off Nungambakkam High Road, Chennai

The Institute Seminar Series

Capability Deprivation of People with Alzheimer’s Disease:

An Empirical Analysis Using a National Survey

On Friday, 17 July 2015, at 3.30 pm

At

Adiseshiah Auditorium, MIDS

By

Jaya Krishnakumar

Professor of Econometrics, University of Geneva

Chairperson: Shashanka Bhide

Professor and Director, MIDS

All are Welcome!

Quite an Interesting Meeting of Sorts on Love Letters!

I happened to get an interesting mail asking delegates to present their papers at their Global Meeting of the Letters and Letter Writing Project!

With the thumb generation giving the go-by to writing letters, and catching up with the latest gadgets in town, now, this is quite an interesting read!

I strongly recommend students, researchers and colleagues to give this Meet a try! 

Details below.

Call for Papers

Love Letters

3rd Global Meeting of the Letters and Letter Writing project

Call for Participation 2016

Thursday 21st January – Saturday 23rd January 2016

London, United Kingdom

What is and does a love letter? Are there any essential elements, or do the defining characteristics of amorous correspondence change from generation to generation, and from one culture to another? Is a song, the words of which adopt the conventions of epistolary communication, a letter? Or a love poem in an envelope? Or a greeting card?

Three-day Calligraphy Workshop

Three-day Calligraphy Workshop

Learn the basics of Calligraphy

16 - 18 July 2015

[3 to 4 hrs per day]

Basic strokes, small letters, CAPITAL LETTERS, numerals, 

border designs, designing new fonts, poster making etc.

Free material will be provided which includes 6 nib pen set, and other related stuff.

Free material kit is a take-away.

Contact: Christina’s Art Studio @ 8754407908, 044-26453366

                                              

Travellogue by Bruce Peck in Chennai

Travellogue by Bruce Peck: An Art Exhibition

10 July to 25 August 2015

11 am to 7 pm

@ Apparao Galleries, 7, Wallace Garden, Third Street, Near Taj Hotel, Nungambakkam, Chennai

Seasoned American artist Bruce Peck will showcase an exhibition of his paintings in Chennai which will feature a travellogue by him. 

He has been crafting etchings for over 20 years now, and he explores the beauty and characters of England’s landscape through them.

An avid traveller, the American artist grew up in India. He has won several accolades and awards for his landscapes of New England and India.

Call for Papers on the 'Performative' in Ibsen's Play

Dear Students, Researchers and Colleagues, 

Well, we've got an appreciative response from Researchers at the University of Montreal, in response to our blog post on Thomas Ostermeier's rendition of Henrik Ibsen's An Enemy of the People. 

[The Flashback: As part of my paper with my I MA students on Ibsen, we had taken along with us students from I MA (currently in II MA) and other day scholars aka Ibsen enthusiasts from other departments, for the performance of Ibsen's An Enemy of the People. It was quite an absorbing performance, which went on till late into the night].

Now, researchers from the University of Montreal, have written to invite those of us who were spectators during the performance—to present papers on the various aspects of the play's performance and its reception in Chennai, amongst the Chennai audience. They are also planning to publish the papers. I've offered to contribute a paper too. Would love to have your paper as well, latest by 05 September 2015. Please do contact me for more details.

I reproduce below the Call for Papers sent to me by Ms. Edouard Bourdelle from the University of Montreal, Canada. 

With all best wishes, 

Rufus

Call for Papers – about An Enemy of the People from Thomas Ostermeier

The Art of Cushion-Making

Cushion-Making Workshop

09 July 2015 to 11 July 2015

3 days (2 ½ Hrs per day)

Learn the art of cushion making, and the eight different types of cushions.

Participants can take back their material kit and their work.

Flexible timings will be provided.

Contact: 8754407908

Christina’s Art Studio

New Avadi Road (near Kilpauk)

Chennai, India

Two-Day Interactive Workshop on Creative Writing

07 July – 9 July 2015

@ British Council, Chennai

The Two-day Interactive Workshop aims to

Introduce participants to creative writing in English

Raise awareness of the real-life uses of writing creatively

Provide participants an opportunity to practice writing creatively in English using various techniques and approaches.

They will also look into the different approaches to writing.

For more details, contact: The British Council, 737, Anna Salai, Chennai – 2.

Comics as Visual Literature

LITFEST 2015

International Conference 

on 

Comics as Visual Literature

2 to 4 September 2015

The Literary Seminary

Dr. MGR Educational and Research University

Maduravoyal, Chennai – 600 095

Staff, PG Students & Research Scholars are invited to present papers 

on the theme of the conference.

For more details, click on www.literaryseminary.org

or Contact Dr. Padmasani Kannan, Convener, 9283293754

or Libin Roy Thomas, Student Convener, 9629431457

MIDS Monthly Seminar

Malnutrition and Economic Growth: Sociological Observations

Speaker

V.Sujatha 

Professor of Sociology 

Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

Chairperson

A. R. Venkatachalapathy

Date & Time: Monday, 6 July 2015, 3.30 pm

Venue: Adiseshiah Auditorium, MIDS

All are Welcome!

Pencil Portrait Workshop

Pencil Portrait Workshop

by

Aaakash Ramesh

Sunday, 19 July 2015, 10 am to 5 pm

Venue: IITMadras, Chennai

The session will focus on Pencil and Photo Realism

divided into various sessions.

Art material and Equipment will be provided during the event.

Contact: 9042503325