JNU organizes a National Workshop on Scholarly Publishing, MOOCs and OERs in Education and Research | 13 February

Dr BR Ambedkar Central Library is organizing a 

National Workshop on Scholarly Publishing, MOOCs and OERs in Education and Research

on 13th February, 2020 

at Lecture Hall 1, Convention Centre, JNU, New Delhi  

Register Online | Brochure

CfPs: National Conference On "Science, Technology and Medicine in the History of Modern India" | NOIDA, 23-24 March

National Conference On "Science, Technology and Medicine in the History of Modern India: Exploring Recent Trends, Interdisciplinary Approaches and New Sources"

23-24 March, 2020 at Amity University (Main Campus), Noida. 

Email the abstract to madhumitasaha30@gmail.com by 20th February 2020.

CONCEPT NOTE & BRIEF SUMMARY
The proposed conference on histories of science, technology and medicine in India will build on existing historiography and seek new ways of writing the discipline's histories. The conference aims to recover the specificities of the Indian experiences of science, technology and medicine by exploring a gamut of case studies on related topics. It will critically engage with both intellectual histories as well as practices of techno-scientific and medical researches. While the presenters will delve on a range of topics on techno-scientific and medicinal researches, including histories of institutions, individuals, and instruments, it will also bring to focus other lesser studied topics, such as histories of material cultures, private corporations, and research funding patterns, history of philanthropy, and diplomatic history. The temporal focus of the conference will be on modern India, covering the colonial and post-colonial period. But the conference does not intend to frame histories of science, technology and medicine in terms of binaries of colonialism and nationalism as recent researches bring out limited nature of the control exercised by any form of governments in the use of science, technology and medicine as a 'tool' to fulfill all its ambitions. Rather, the goal is to find out what roles the process of state formation, modernization, Cold War politics and the associated social, political, economic and cultural contexts played in influencing the trajectory of techno-scientific and medical researches. Exploring the twin themes of 'agency' and 'denial' is an important goal of the conference. The papers will seek out the interaction between science, technology and its users not simply in terms of acceptance or  resistance but how the new artifacts or knowledge gave agency to people of different strata of society. At the same time, it will also look into how technologies, medical and scientific knowledge came to be denied to members of society in name religion, caste, feminine virtue etc. The conference wants to explore the histories of science and technology with that of medicine not because we believe that they are of similar nature. Rather, the case studies from the respective fields will show how there are thematic overlaps, convergences and diversities when we look at questions of colonialism, modernity, state building, power politics, and agency through the lens of history of science, technology and medicine. 

Featured Panel
Science and other Indian knowledge systems: The panel discussion will explore the relationship between science and other knowledge systems. In doing so, the discussants will interrogate the categories, reflect on their nature and recount the experience of its practitioners. But most importantly, the discussants will try to give us a roadmap as to what could be the variety of sources for writing the History of Science, Technology & Medicine.
Confluence: History of Science, Technology & Medicine: As History of Science, Technology & Medicine of South Asia is increasingly enjoying a very high standing in the academic world, it is imperative that we find new ways of making the discipline innovative and exciting. Also, it is very important that we start exploring new methodological approaches, which would take us beyond the constraints of the archives, to write these histories through engaging with other historical sources. The resource person attending the conference will look into how histories of science, technology and medicine can be more incisively written by including a more multidisciplinary approach, for instance, sociology of science, STS, anthropology, gender studies and post-colonial studies to name a few.

BROAD THEMES

• Through the Lens: Science, Technology & Medicine in Construction of History
• Technology, Power and Development
• Public Health, Disease and Medicine
• Techno-Scientific Knowledge Production
• State, Science and Native Response
• Confluence: History of Science, Technology & Medicine
• Technology and Environment
• Technology and Democracy

Further Details

SAKURA Exchange Program in Science 2020

SAKURA Exchange Program in Science 

JST invites people from Asian countries and others to Japan through Sakura Science Plan in a collaboration of industry-academia-government, to introduce and offer experience in Japanese science and technology. Beginning in 2014, and for a period of 5 years, approximately 26,000 young people visited Japan on this program.

Purposes of Sakura Science Plan
By exchanging ideas in the field of science and technology among the participants of Sakura Science Plan, we can:
- Strengthen good relationship between Japan and other countries and regions
- Promote globalization of Japanese education and research institutes
- Support the development of talented people overseas who have the potential to contribute to innovation in science and technology; and support continuous interaction between Japan and other countries and regions.

Eligibility Criteria for Sakura Science Plan: Students, researchers and others engaged in science and technology who are 40 years old or younger from 41 countries and regions.

Further Details | Brochure

4th IIC-OHS Colloquium on "Biomedical Data Sciences: New Name with New Opportunities for Change?" 7 February at IIC, New Delhi

4th IIC-Open Health Systems Colloquium on Biomedical Data Sciences: New Name with New Opportunities for Change? | 

Date: 07 February 2020 at 6:30 p.m.

Venue: IIC, New Delhi | Lecture Room-II Basement (Annexe)

Lead presentation by Prof. Philip E. Bourne, Stephenson Dean of the School of Data Science, Professor of Data Science & Professor of Biomedical Engineering, University of Virginia, USA

Discussants: Dr. Vijay Bhatkar, Architect of India's initiative in supercomputing and Chancellor, Nalanda University, Bihar; Dr. B. Jayaram, Professor Emeritus, Supercomputing Facility for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi; Dr. Anand Deshpande, Founder, Chairman & Managing Director, Persistent Systems; and Dr. Jefferey Buchsbaum, Radiation Oncologist and Programme Director, Radiation Research Programme, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda
 
Chair: Dr. Renu Swarup, Secretary, Dept. of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science & Technology
 
Biomedicine, always at the forefront of open data aggregation and reuse, is now being influenced by other fields where the application of data science is rapidly expanding. What are other fields telling us and what do we, scientists, funders and governments need to do differently to instill a cultural change, which is never easy?

Details

A Talk on "Fire and Fury: Transforming India’s Strategic Identity" by Dr Anil Kakodkar, Former Secretary, DAE | 6th February at IHC, New Delhi

The immense success of India's atomic energy programme development has led to transforming India's energy scenario in a big way. One of the key architects in this regard has been Dr. Anil Kakodkar, Former Chairman, Atomic Energy Commission of India and Former Secretary, Department of Atomic Energy.  Recently, Dr. Kakodkar has come out with a memoir that discusses the shaping of the narrative.

 

In light of this,  Research and Information System for Developing Countries (RIS) is organising a talk by Dr. Anil Kakodkar, on his aforesaid book "Fire and Fury: Transforming India's Strategic Identity" at 11.30 am on Thursday, 6 February 2020 at the Marigold Hall (Entry from Gate No. 1), India Habitat Centre, Lodhi Road, New Delhi. 

A panel discussion has also been planned after the Talk.

RSVP: dgoffice@ris.org.in

Tomorrow's CSSP Lecture on "Science Policy in Japan" by Dr. Miyabi Hayama | at 11:00 am

CSSP Wednesday Lecture Series

 

Centre for Studies in Science Policy 
Jawaharlal Nehru University

 

 

Cordially Invites You to a Special Lecture

 

on

 

Science Policy in Japan

 

By

Dr. Miyabi Hayama

(Yokohama National University, Japan)

 

Venue: Room No. 227, 2nd Floor, CSSP, SSS-1 Building, JNU

 

Date: Wednesday, 5th February 2020 | Time: 11:00 am

 

 

About the Speaker: Ms. Miyabi Hayama is an Assistant Professor & University Research Administrator at Yokohama National University in Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan. 

 

 

All are welcome to attend the Lecture. 

 

Coordinator, CSSP Lecture Series

CSSP is among the Top S&T Think Tanks in TTCSP 2019 Global Go To Think Tank Index Report

CSSP is among the Top S&T Think Tanks in TTCSP 2019 Global Go To Think Tank Index Report

Source: https://repository.upenn.edu/think_tanks/17/