[WhatsUpUoH] UOH HERALD: new post published

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[WhatsUpUoH] Protest Screening

Inviting everyone to a protest screening outside the Ladies Hostel Complex on January 31, Friday, 9pm. We will be screening Fire by Deepa Mehta, which was initially scheduled to be screened inside the ladies hostel complex mess as a part of Gender Reels film festival. A discussion will follow.

The administration decided to withdraw permission for the mess screenings on the last day. This screening protests against the administration's conservative attitude. It is exactly such mindsets that we wanted to engage with through the mess screenings.

Come, show your support. Let us fight this segregation.

Gender Reels Student Organising Team

(please note that the protest screenings have nothing to do with GSCASH)

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[WhatsUpUoH] Seminar on 04/02/2014 - reg

Dear All,

Please find the Seminar notice which is on 04/02/2014.

With regards,

Prof. V. Krishna

Coordinator, CDAST,

School of Humanities,

University of Hyderabad

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[WhatsUpUoH] [New post] The Palamuru Seven

Ram Ramaswamy, Vice Chancellor UoH posted: "On Monday the 27th January, I was in Mahbubnagar,  at Palamuru University, to attend the Annual Convention of the Andhra Pradesh Akademi of Sciences (APAS), to keep an old commitment, namely to deliver the Sitamahalakshmi Memorial Lecture. And I was fortu" Respond to this post by replying above this line New post on A central Central University The Palamuru Seven by Ram Ramaswamy, Vice Chancellor UoH On Monday the 27th January, I was in Mahbubnagar,  at Palamuru University, to attend the Annual Convention of the Andhra Pradesh Akademi of Sciences (APAS), to keep an old commitment, namely to deliver the Sitamahalakshmi Memorial Lecture. And I was fortunate in at least two ways... The first was that I got to see- after too many years- Ranga, aka Professor S Ranganathan who taught us Organic Chemistry so brilliantly at IIT Kanpur. Ranga, who is now at the IICT in Hyderabad, retired from Kanpur after decades of teaching generations of chemists. His classes were wonderful, and he was one of the first to seriously try to get some of us interested in biology- I remember him and Balu (D. Balasubramaniam, also now in Hyderabad, and at the LV Prasad Eye Institute) inviting a number of people in '73 or '74 to try to educate us philistine M Sc students of the exciting things that were going on in biological chemistry. Some of my classmates took the bait, but it didn't work out in my case... But more of that in another post, maybe. The second was that I got to see seven of our colleagues being inducted into the Akademi at one go- the largest contingent from anywhere to be so elected! In the alphabetical order of the handout, here they are : M. Ghanshyam Krishna of the School of Physics was elected Fellow. His work focuses on the growth, characterization and applications of thin films. Subramanyam Rajagopal of the Department of Plant Sciences, School of Life Sciences was elected Fellow. (OK, so the photo is an older one, and he does not sport the mustache now... His group is working on bioenergy related to photosynthesis and phytomedicines. His major research contribution was on abiotic stress effects on photosynthesis apparatus of cyanobacteria, algae and higher plants. Samar Das, of the School of Chemistry, was also elected Fellow. The focus of his research effort is to synthesize metal-oxide based inorganic compounds and to exploit their host guest, ion exchange and catalytic properties. Pradeepta Panda of the School of Chemistry was elected an Associate Fellow. His  work is on the design and synthesis of various porphyrins. S Srilakshmi of the UCESS was elected an Associate Fellow. She is a geophysicist, and the only woman in the group. S Srinath of the School of Physics was elected an Associate Fellow. His areas are Magnetism, Multiferroics, Oxides, Nanomaterials  and  Thin films. S Venugopal Rao of theACRHEM was elected an Associate Fellow. He does a lot of things, as you can see on his homepage, but to mention a few areas of his interest,  Semiconductor Nonlinear Optics: Optical frequency conversion techniques [Second Harmonic Generation, Sum Frequency Generation, Difference Frequency Generation], Optical Parametric Oscillators/Amplifiers in the near- and mid-infrared spectral region and construction and characterization of femtosecond/picosecond Ti:sapphire lasers. And in addition, there were many other colleagues from the UoH there: they had already  been elected to the Akademi in earlier years. The President, Dr Ch. Mohan Rao, being an alumnus, made the presence of the University even stronger, and drove home the point that we are the preëminent research university in AP. And, of course, in the country. Nice! Ram Ramaswamy, Vice Chancellor UoH | January 30, 2014 at 5:06 pm | Categories: Uncategorized | URL: http://wp.me/p1EBxQ-Cr Comment    See all comments Unsubscribe to no longer receive posts from A central Central University. Change your email settings at Manage Subscriptions. Trouble clicking? Copy and paste this URL into your browser: http://hcurocks.wordpress.com/2014/01/30/the-palamuru-seven/ Thanks for flying with WordPress.com

[WhatsUpUoH] INDIAN STUDENTS RECRUITMENT PROGRAM, NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY -Reg

 

Dear All,


PLEASE TAKE A MOMENT TO WATCH A SHORT VIDEO ENTITLED "INDIAN STUDENTS
RECRUITMENT PROGRAM, NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OFDYoxSEZQ



For the past decade, National Tsing Hua University without fanfare
initiated an interaction with India.



It began with a few graduate students enrolling in the University,
mostly in the chemistry department. In ten years, that interaction has
blossomed. Today, NTHU has close relationship with ten top Indian
universities, a dual-PhD program with one of India's best, IIT Madras,
having many young Indian students interning in the summer on campus
(and did extraordinarily well, I might add,) having over 150 Indian
graduate students and postdocs pursuing degrees and research in all
disciplines on campus (which is ¼ of all Indians pursuing education
opportunities in Taiwan,) organized the largest DIWALI festival
celebration in this part of the world and last but not least,
establishing  FOUR Taiwan education centers throughout India.



As far as recruiting Indian students to study as undergrads and grads
in NTHU, our effort to date can at best be termed as ad hoc. Today,
NTHU's administration feels that with all the above exciting
developments as underpinnings, the time has arrived for us to begin a
comprehensive strategic effort in recruiting the best of the best from
India to seek education opportunities in NTHU. For us, we consider
this is a solemn responsibilities NTHU has to shoulder as one of the
most outstanding research universities in Asia today!



One of our first efforts is to produce a video specifically targeting
Indian students, both grads and undergrads. In this video we hope that
we have provided for the viewer a comprehensive portrayal of the
intellectual ambiance of NTHU. We also want to manifest the employment
opportunities in Hsinchu, the city which NTHU is at and is
unquestionably the most successful science and technology city in this
part of Asia.



Please distribute this video to as many friends as you like.  Thanks
so much for your support.



Namastē!



Warmest regards,
Da Hsuan Feng

Senior Vice President for Global Strategy, Planning and Evaluation

National Tsing Hua University





Da Hsuan Feng

Senior Vice President, Global Strategy, Planning and Evaluation

National Tsing Hua University

資深副校長 馮達旋 教授

(全球策略與企劃研考)

國立清華大學

http://my.nthu.edu.tw/~secwww/vicepresident/vicepresident.html

Facebook URL

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1640363687&ref=tn_tnmn
(welcome to be my friend)

 

 

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[WhatsUpUoH] Change of Hostel mess screenings -Reg

 Dear All,

This is to inform that the film screenings at Hostels Mess will now be held at Open Air Theater.

Thank you,

Sincerely,

P.S. to Chairperson(GSCASH)

 

 

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[WhatsUpUoH] UOH HERALD: new post published

Arun Kumar has published a new post on UOH HERALD: 'स्टडी इन इंडिया' (एस.आई.पी.) को अंतर्राष्ट्रीय शिक्षा में नवीनता के लिए वर्ष 2014 का Andrew Heiskell पुरस्कार
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[WhatsUpUoH] Felicitation - reg

CENTRE FOR DALIT & ADIVASI STUDIES AND TRANSLATION

&

DEPARTMENT OF HINDI

SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES

UNIVERSITY OF HYDERABAD

FELICITATION

OF

Prof. T.V. Kattimani

On Becoming

Vice-Chancellor of

Indira Gandhi National Tribal University, Amarkantak

at

2.00 p.m. on 30/01/2014 (Thursday)

Venue : Auditorium, School of Humanities

All areinvited.

Prof. V. Krishna Head, 

Department of Hindi & Coordinator, 

CDAST

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[WhatsUpUoH] Film festival schedule -Reg

Dear All,

Please find herewith Film festival schedule (2 attachments) scheduled to be held from 30th January, 2014 to 2nd February, 2014.

Thank you,

Sincerely,

P.S. to Chairperson(GSCASH)

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[WhatsUpUoH] Saturday Feb 8, 2014: the next Sawaal-Jawaab: Conversations on Science

Dear friends,

As many of you know, the TIFR Centre for Interdisciplinary Sciences hosts
a monthly discussion series for the general public titled "Sawaal-Jawaab:
Conversations on Science". These are held at Lamakaan in Banjara Hills,
Hyderabad, in a tree-covered courtyard with a tea-shop close at hand.

I invite you all to the next discussion which features Dr. Yamuna Krishnan
of the National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore. She will be
speaking about how to use DNA as a building block to make nanoscale
devices that are both small and smart, and about the amazing things that
can be done with such devices.

Title: Blueprint to Bricks: DNA as a building block
Date: Saturday February 8th
Time: 3:00 pm (note the time!)
Where: Lamakaan
off Road No. 1, Banjara Hills, near GVK One Mall
http://www.lamakaan.com/events/1073

Tea and samosas will be provided.

An event poster is attached. We look forward to seeing you there, and
encourage you to spread the word amongst friends and family!

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Shubha Tewari
TIFR Centre for Interdisciplinary Sciences
21 Brundavan Colony
Narsingi, Hyderabad 500075
(040) 24195011

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[WhatsUpUoH] Gender Reels - film festival on sexual harassment and gender

Dear all,

GSCASH is organising a film festival called Gender Reels on sexual harassment and gender issues, from 30th January to 2nd February, 2014. We invite you to watch the movies, participate in the discussions, and engage with themes. Please find attached a copy of the poster and schedule.

Films revolve around topics like sexual harassment, gender constructions, homosexuality, transsexuals, rights of sexual minorities, relationships, sexuality, and other LGBTQ issues. Most films have English subtitles, and there are discussions scheduled after each film.

The screenings will begin with the inaugural session at 4:00pm, 30th January, at DST Auditorium.

Subsequent screenings are scheduled to be held in C V Raman Auditorium, Humanities Auditorium, SIP Seminar Hall (South Campus), Ladies Hostel Complex Mess, and Mens Hostel J&K Mess. Please refer to the schedule for more information.

We anticipate your wholehearted support.

facebook: www.facebook.com/genderreels         blog: www.genderreels.blogspot.in

Thank you,

GSCASH and Gender Reels Organising Team

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[WhatsUpUoH] Paid Summer Internship Opportunities in Taipei, Taiwan (2014) It's not Spam :) -Reg

Dear All,

Greeting from Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan!

My name is Nicole Chen from the Taiwan International Graduate Program
(TIGP office). I work in Academia Sinica which is one of the most
eminent research institution in Taiwan. As of May 2012, there are 1013
research fellows and research specialists in Academia Sinica. At
present, there are 24 institutes and 7 research centres in Academia
Sinica under three division: The Division of Mathematics and Physical
Sciences. Division of Life Sciences, and Division of Humanities and
Social Sciences. Please also refer to the Academia Sinica website for
more information. http://www.sinica.edu.tw/main_e.shtml

The Taiwan International Graduate Program is pleased to invite
applications to the International Internship Program (TIGP-IIP). The
TIGP-internship programme in collaboration with 10 top-ranking local
research universities. The TIGP office would like to invite young
talents from around the globe to experience Taiwan's top-notch
scientific research facilities and to jointly build up an intellectual
network for people with different ethnic and cultural backgrounds. The
attached file is the TIGP-Summer internship poster. I really hope that
you could help me to promote this Summer internship programme to
students in your department or school. As we know University of
Hyderabad is one of the top universities in India, we really would
like to have some students from your university to come to Taiwan for
the TIGP-Summer internship programme.

The online application starts from 1st January 2014 to 28th February
2014. For more information and online application, please kindly refer
to the following website.

https://db1x.sinica.edu.tw/tigpSummer/



 There are 12 programmes offered by 2014 TIGP Summer Internship Programme:

1. Chemical Biology and Molecular Biophysics
2. Molecular Science and Technology
3. Molecular and Biological Agricultural Sciences
4. Bioinformatics
5. Molecular and Cell Biology
6. Nano Science and Technology
7. Molecular Medicine
8. Earth System Science
9. Biodiversity
10. Interdisciplinary Neuroscience

11. Sustainable Chemical Science and Technology (new)

12. Social Networks and Human-Centered Computing (new)



Eligibility

The TIGP-IIP welcomes applications from overseas candidates of the
following status:
(1) Undergraduate students who will have been conferred a B.S. degree
by August 2015.
(2) Students pursuing a Master's degree and holding a B.S. degree.
(3) Individuals holding a B.S. or Master's degree (student's pursuing
a PhD degree are not eligible for this category)



Once again, I do very appreciate for your help.

If you have any other question about the summer internship programme,
please kindly inform me.

Thank you



Kind regards,

Nicole Chen



International Affairs Office(IAO)

TIGP-IIP Administrative Team

Academia Sinica, Taiwan,

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[WhatsUpUoH] BRITSIH COUNCIL's EDUCATION UK EXHIBITION

Dear All,

Introduce myself Sonu Hemanii, Regional Manager, Education UK (South

India), British Council.

I had been to your university few days back. I met your colleague Ms
Viji and she was very helpful . I got to know you from Mr T V Devi
Prasad, as I happen to visit his institution (IIIT) for inviting him
to our annual Education UK exhibition.

My objective for the visit was to inform you and invite you and your
students to our exhibition which is being held on Tuesday, 4 February
at Vivanta by Taj, Begumpet from 2.00 -7.00 pm.

I attach the e-flyer for the exhibition which I request you to
circulate to your students as they will definitely benefit by
attending this exhibition.

Looking forward to seeing you and your students at the Education UK
exhibition on Tuesday, 4 February at Vivanta by Taj, Begumpet from
2.00 -7.00 pm.

I share my mobile number with you (0) 8939831747 , do feel free to
contact me for any further assistance.

I thank you for your support and co-operation.

Best wishes

Sonu

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[WhatsUpUoH] Gender Reels - film festival on sexual harassment and gender -Reg

Dear  All,

Announcing Gender Reels - a film festival, organised by GSCASH.
January 30 to February 2, 2014.

Inaugural screening-discussion on January 30, 4pm, DST.

Films revolve around topics like sexual harassment, gender constructions, homosexuality, transsexuals, rights of sexual minorities, relationships, sexuality, and other LGBTQ issues.

All films will be English subtitled. We will also have discussions after each movie.

Screenings at DST Auditorium (30 January), C V Raman Auditorium [Science Complex] (31 January), School of Humanities Auditorium (1st February), and SIP Seminar Hall [South Campus, Study In India Programme Building] (2nd February).

We also have screenings in the Ladies Hostel Complex Mess (30th January, 9.15pm) and Men's Hostel J&K Mess [South Campus] (1st February, 9.15pm). These screenings are open for all students.

Please do help us spread the word. Do attend the screenings, and encourage your friends to join you!

We will soon (in a couple of days) put up a final schedule. Our blog and facebook page will soon have the schedule, posters, and synopses of movies.

Like us on facebook: http://www.facebook.com/genderreels

Blog: http://www.genderreels.blogspot.in

(stay tuned to facebook and our blog for updates)

More info? Queries? genderreelsuoh@gmail.com

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[WhatsUpUoH] Endowment Lecture in Urdu. -Reg

Dear All, 

Please find the invitation on Endowment Lecture in Urdu.

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Thanking you,
R. Nagarajan
Dean's Secretariat, 

School of Humanities,

University of Hyderabad 

 

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[WhatsUpUoH] Distinguished Lecture and Writers Panels on 27th January

Centre for Women's Studies and Study in India Programme
University of Hyderabad
Cordially invite you to a
Distinguished Lecture on

"How Motherly is the Mother Tongue?"
by
Suniti Namjoshi

followed by

 Writers in Conversation 

Bama, Sivakami, Salma, Revathi A, and Urvashi Butalia

on

27/01/2014 at 10 am

Venue: Sir C.V. Raman Auditorium

ALL ARE WELCOME

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[WhatsUpUoH] [New post] R-day, 2014

Ram Ramaswamy, Vice Chancellor UoH posted: " Members of the UoH family, This is the 65th Republic Day that we celebrate in our country. Every year it provides us at the University an opportunity to take stock of the year that has passed and to make resolutions for the year ahead. One of the most " Respond to this post by replying above this line New post on A central Central University R-day, 2014 by Ram Ramaswamy, Vice Chancellor UoH Members of the UoH family, This is the 65th Republic Day that we celebrate in our country. Every year it provides us at the University an opportunity to take stock of the year that has passed and to make resolutions for the year ahead. One of the most important events since the last Republic Day has been the re-accreditation of our University by the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) during January 8-11 of this month. This visit by a group composed of our peers gave us a chance not only to look at our achievements in the past five years but also have a chance to clean our campus and put our best foot forward. I would like to take this opportunity to offer my hearty congratulations to the entire University family that came together as one for this accreditation; I would also like to thank the NAAC Chair at the University, Prof. Sachi Mohanty, and his team for guiding us through this process and in an efficient and sensitive manner. In his speech yesterday, the Visitor to the University, President Pranab Mukherjee reminded us that India is not just a geography: it is also a history of ideas, philosophy, intellect, industrial genius, craft, innovation, and experience. And later on, he added that  Education has been an inseparable part of the Indian experience. I am not talking only of the ancient institutions of excellence like Takshashila or Nalanda, but of an age as recent as the 17th and 18th centuries. Today, our higher educational infrastructure consists of over 650 universities and 33,000 colleges. The quality of education has to be the focus of our attention now. We can be world leaders in education, if only we discover the will and leadership to take us to that pinnacle. Education is no longer just the privilege of the elite, but a universal right. It is the seed of a nation's destiny. We must usher in an education revolution that becomes a launching pad for the national resurgence. Keeping this in mind, I would like to reassert that our commitment to enhancing the quality of our education is constant and enduring. The University has had a number of very distinguished visitors to our campus during the past year: Nobel Laureates Amartya Sen and Venki Ramakrishnan, and, among others, A. Paulraj, Sir Tom Blundell, Sir Michael Berry, Aruna Roy, André Beteille, Utsa Patnaik, Richard Gombrich, Rajasekhar Vundru, M. S. Valiathan, Nedunuri Krishna Murthy, Shereen Ratnagar, K. Satchidanandan, Irfan Habib, Mahesh Dattani, Rajeev Bhargava, and most recently, S. V. Raghavan. These distinguished visitors give us, through their lectures and interactions, opportunities to hear the many voices of a democracy, the many voices of scholarship, the many opinions that comprise the body politic and the body intellectual. Our faculty and students have done us proud: Professor P. Appa Rao was awarded the Rangaswami Prize in Plant Sciences, Dr. Vaitheeswaran the B. M. Birla award in Physics, Dr. S. Venugopala Rao the NASI-SCOPUS award in Physics, Professor S. Kumaresan the Mathematics Teacher of the year award from INSA, Dr. V. Vamsicharan the Amartya Sen Award of the ICSSR in Economics, and the Child and Adolescent Mental Health award for Dr. Thomas Kishore. The University has instituted the Chancellor's awards to recognize young faculty across the disciplines, and this year we will institute a set of staff awards to recognize exceptional service to the University by our non-teaching employees. There have been a host of other recognitions that our faculty have received in addition to their numerous publications and books. Several of our students have been recognized for their research and presentations at conferences, both national and international, and P. Shankar, S. Basak and Hanumantha Rao got awards from the K.V. Rao Scientific Society. I would like to commend the Physical Education unit for coaching our students who won the Andhra Pradesh Open Football Tournament, and would also like to congratulate our runners, Mallesam and Vinod for bagging the 1st and 2ndplaces at the Airtel Half-Marathon. Departments of the University have also been recognized for excellence. The Study in India Programme at the University has been given the distinguished Andrew Heiskell award for innovation in international education. The School of Management Studies has been chosen for the B-School Leadership Award and declared the outstanding B-School in the Southern Region. In the past year we have translated our commitment to environment into two very useful actions: the first, which many of you would have noticed as you enter the campus at the main gate, is the installation of a small weather station that informs us constantly of the air quality in addition to the temperature, pressure and wind. The station measures the suspended particle matter, gases such Ammonia. Nitrous Oxide, Carbon Monoxide, Ozone. It also measures the rainfall, wind speed, wind direction, solar radiation, and vertical wind speed to assess the mixing height of the pollutants. This will help us to monitor atmospheric pollution on the campus in a quantitative manner. Second, the Library has been made fully dependent on solar energy, a move that has been widely applauded  by universities throughout the country. To a smaller extent, many solar stand-alone streetlights have been installed to improve the security on our campus. In the coming year, we are taking up a range of other activities designed to further preserve our environment, dredging the lakes, digging more rain harvesting pits, planting more trees... And that starts from today, when we are reclaiming the old nursery and start our coconut tree plantation along the lakes of the University. But more, we need to guard against the pollution of corruption in our lives, both inside the University and outside it. Corruption is a cancer that erodes democracy, and weakens the foundations of our state, another observation in yesterday's speech by the President. The University of Hyderabad is a University of Excellence in the Central University system and the prestige of the institution is of utmost importance. Our prestige comes from the character of the campus, the research atmosphere, our concerns for the environment and our contribution to the process of nation building. President Pranab Mukherjee put it eloquently:  On this day, sixty four years ago, in a remarkable display of idealism and courage, we the people of India gave to ourselves a sovereign democratic republic to secure all its citizens justice, liberty and equality. In this process, we should recall Ambedkar, the father of the Constitution, who nevertheless remarked that "Indians today are governed by two different ideologies. Their political ideal set in the preamble of the Constitution affirms a life of liberty, equality and fraternity. Their social ideal embodied in their religion denies them." Beyond religion, today there are many sources of denial of liberty, equality and fraternity. The Republic belongs to us all, but yet we have many groups who need inclusion. Across the country, people realize that many unheard and sometimes unseen sections of our society have to be included in the constitutional protection of the rights that are guaranteed to every citizen of the country. Thus the most important freedom that we need to remember on this day is the freedom from inequality. We have to guard ourselves against discrimination due to gender, sexual orientation, racial differences, regional and religious identities, physically differential abilities, in addition to class and caste. As people, we need vigilance against the threats of fundamentalism, of censorship, and in this election year, against all divisive politics. The Constitution is the central instrument that will guarantee us our rights and freedoms. Long live our Republic! Jai Hind! 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[WhatsUpUoH] Gender Reels - film festival on sexual harassment and gender

Hello all,

Announcing Gender Reels - a film festival, organised by GSCASH.
January 30 to February 2, 2014.

Inaugural screening-discussion on January 30, 4pm, DST.

Films revolve around topics like sexual harassment, gender constructions, homosexuality, transsexuals, rights of sexual minorities, relationships, sexuality, and other LGBTQ issues.

All films will be English subtitled. We will also have discussions after each movie.

Screenings at DST Auditorium (30 January), C V Raman Auditorium [Science Complex] (31 January), School of Humanities Auditorium (1st February), and SIP Seminar Hall [South Campus, Study In India Programme Building] (2nd February).

We also have screenings in the Ladies Hostel Complex Mess (30th January, 9.15pm) and Men's Hostel J&K Mess [South Campus] (1st February, 9.15pm). These screenings are open for all students.

Please do help us spread the word. Do attend the screenings, and encourage your friends to join you!

We will soon (in a couple of days) put up a final schedule. Our blog and facebook page will soon have the schedule, posters, and synopses of movies.

Like us on facebook: http://www.facebook.com/genderreels

Blog: http://www.genderreels.blogspot.in

(stay tuned to facebook and our blog for updates)

More info? Queries? genderreelsuoh@gmail.com

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[WhatsUpUoH] Distinguished Lecture by Dr. Suniti Namjoshi on 27.01.2014

Dear Madam/Sir,

       Kindly ignore the earlier mail. 

       Please find attached the poster for the Distinguished Lecture  on "How Motherly is the Mother Tongue?" by Dr. Suniti Namjoshi on 27.01.2014 at 10.00, in Sir C V Raman Auditorium. Kindly make it convenient to attend

regards

k vijaya

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[WhatsUpUoH] symposium

UNIVERSITY OF HYDERABAD

SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES

Invites you to

A Half day symposium

By

Scholars from Universita di Pavia, Italy

Lecture-1

A Long Journey to India.Building a New Knowledge of India in sixteenth century Europe

By

Prof .Marica Milanesi

Department of Humanities   

Lecture-2

Rituals and social integration of the Afaqis in the Bahmani and Qutb Shahi Sultanates

By

Prof. Simonetta Casci

Department of History

Tuesday 28^rd JANUARY 2014: 3.00 - 4.30 pm

VENUE:CONFERENCE HALL, SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES

 

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