We are ready to host our very first summer camp at Sambhaavnaa Institute. We invite students to join us for a six week summer course (May 21 – June 30, 2012) at the SambhaavnaaInstitute that aims at providing students a fresh window/lens to viewing development, economics, society, policy and politics. Through 2 weeks of interactive sessions with activists, thinkers, academics and experts from various fields and four weeks of hands on field work with organisations committed to change, this course attempts to sharpen their skills for critical analysis of, and a overall perspective to, the challenges facing our country today.

The details about the program and application form are attached with this email. We request you to please share it with students who may benefit from it. The application deadline is March 10th, 2012. Please visit our website www.sambhaavnaa.org for more information about us.

Sandhya Gupta
Sutradhaar
Sambhaavnaa: The Institute of Public Policy & Politics
Kandbadi, Palampur
Dist. Kangra, Himachal Pradesh 176061
Mobile:09816314756
Email: sutradhaar@sambhaavnaa.org
www.sambhaavnaa.org

The 2012 Learners Societies Unconference in taking place from February 28 to March 4, 2012 in Maharashtra State, India. Multiversity is one of the organisers. For full information and registration, please download the following documents and you may find it difficult to resist participating:

About the Conference

Registration Form

The 40th World Congress of the International Institute of Sociology will take place in Delhi, India, on Thursday, 16 February – Sunday, 19 February, 2012. Local host is the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies. The theme of the congress is After Western Hegemony: Social Science and its Publics.

For more details including the programme, visit the website:

http://www.iisoc.org/iis2012

Decolonising the University: The Emerging Quest for Non-Eurocentric Paradigms
Editors: Claude Alvares & Shad Saleem Faruqi
2012 | Pages: 450 |Black & White | ISBN: 978-983-861-541-9
Price: RM50.00

This book of essays as a sequel to the “International Conference on Decolonising Our Universities” held in Penang, Malaysia from June 27 to 29, 2011. The Conference was jointly organised by Universiti Sains Malaysia and Citizens International in cooperation with the Higher Education Leadership Academy of the Malaysia Ministry of Higher Education.

At the Conference, speaker after speaker pointed out that education in Asia and Africa is too Westcentric. It blindly apes European universities, European curricula and European paradigms. The papers in this volume examine possible ways of overcominig this problem of intellectual enslavement in Asian and African citadels of learning.

Order the book from: http://www.penerbit.usm.my

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COLONIALISM AND DECOLONIZATION

Call for papers.

We are pleased to inform you that the Department of History and Civilization, IIUM, with the collaboration of International Institute of Islamic Thoughts and Civilization (ISTAC) and the National Archives of Malaysia will be organizing the above programme at ISTAC, IIUM KL Campus on 17th-19th April 2012.

We are inviting you to contribute generously by sending abstract to the conference. You may send your paper in English, Arabic and Bahasa Melayu or Indonesia. We have an editorial board to look your abstracts and papers to make them publishable.

Kindly visit our website for further details: www.ICCD2012.com

ASSOC. PROF. DR. ARSHAD ISLAM
Head
Department of History and Civilization
Kulliyyah of Islamic Revealed Knowledge
and Human Sciences

Please visit our New IIUM Website by clicking www.iium.edu.my

Multiversity’s international workshop on a “decolonised” Philosophy of Science course (graduate/postgraduate level)

Multiversity, with offices at Penang, Goa and Tehran, proposes to facilitate a week long workshop which will prepare a “decolonised” curriculum on the Philosophy of Science. Most universities do not have such a course of study. If they do, this is mostly structured around some well known names mostly from the western world (including Popper, Kuhn and Feyerabend).

Local organiser of the workshop is the brand new AlBukhary University, located in Kedah, Malaysia. The workshop dates are from 25 March 2012 to 1 April 2012. (Participants will arrive on 25^th and depart on April 1, 2012.)

You are invited to select competent persons who would like to be part of this workshop. We recommend selection of persons who have a background in science and/or mathematics and who may be part of your university’s programmes to initiate or modify “philosophy of science” courses within the university. We also recommend younger rather than older lecturers for the workshop.

The workshop will be conducted by Prof. C.K. Raju who is presently Visiting Professor at the School of Mathematics at the Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang. However, since the workshop programme is being circulated in advance, any of the persons participating in the workshop would be welcome to also address the workshop on areas in which they have core competence.

The specific and limited objective of the workshop: to prepare a curriculum of studies for a philosophy of science course in Asian universities including a syllabus.

The travel to and from Malaysia will be committed by your institution. Local hospitality (including board and lodging) will be made available by AlBukhary University.

Please act on this urgently as we have just three months to go before the workshop.

About Prof. C.K. Raju:

He was awarded the 2010 Telesio-Galilei Academy of Science Award for pointing out an error made by Albert Einstein in his special theory of relativity.

Raju website: http://ckraju.net/

About AlBukhary University:

Website: http://www.aiu.edu.my/

About Multiversity:

Website: www.multiworldindia.org

Home Schooling has come to roost in Indian homes. The breed of parents who wish to fiercely protect their rights to bring up children in a way that they deem fit seems to be growing. Their main objective: to provide for a childhood of free growth and free learning.

The incidence of home learners a decade ago was few and far between. Not so today, if one were to go by the traffic on virtual communication and social networking sites. This fact is amply clear from three recent developments.

A full half hour programme was aired recently on national news. It centered round the home educators of Pune city and their children.

Watch it here: http://www.ndtv.com/video/player/india-matters/india-matters-coming-home-to-school/216468

The Nov 28, 2011 issue of Outlook carries a full length article on Home Schooling in India also listing institutes that support such open learning efforts.

Read about it here: http://www.outlookindia.com/printarticle.aspx?279013

Marking the movement’s official presence is a call from home schooling families to initiate a National Body of Homeschoolers under the banner of the Open Learning Foundation which presently is an online group. Its objective is to best represent the rights and interests of parents who wish to take the sole responsibility of teaching their own children.

Write to them here: openlearners@googlegroups.com

The year 2011 may well one day be remembered as a significant one in the history of Home Schooling in India. Parents with complete trust in their children and in their own abilities have made it happen. Parenting has come of age!

Organised by Third Theatre Movement, Kolkata.

Anshuman Das and Malini Mukherjee are offering a “Theatre for Bonding” workshop for the age group 18 and above on 26th, 27th and 28th of November from 11 am to 5 pm at Kolkata.

The workshop is targeted to build performance skills related to theatre. Apart from this, a strong focus would be to build intra and inter personal skills like communication, expression, collaboration etc which are an integral to any performing art.

Malini had been involved with Third Theatre Movement since her university days. She and Anshuman are the founder members of Saanko, a third theatre group in Santiniketan.

As theatre practitioners they have conducted workshops for several groups of theatre enthusiasts. As educators (their second passion) they have used theatre as an education tool for both teachers and students.
To register, please contact Anshuman (9433079847) or Malini (9432338436) by 20th Nov or mail at dasanshuman@yahoo.com or mukherjeemalini@yahoo.co.in.

Requested contribution is Rs 100/- per participant towards venue hire charge.

Dates: 26 to 30 November 2011

Deer Park, Bir, Himachal Pradesh, India

with Ankit Pogula

“Tuning Fork Film Workshops” are about learning how to make films with minimum resources, how to get creative in filmmaking and above all how to evaluate the relevance of what one wants to convey through this powerful and captivating medium.

During the course of the workshop, through different exercises and activities participants will learn to script, storyboard, shoot, edit and finally export one’s ‘own’ film. It is a process that involves creativity, teamwork and self-reflection. Read the rest of this entry »