SHSS IIT Mandi

Check out the latest Himalayan Chronicles 2.2 Newsletter with the latest news and updates from SHSS IIT Mandi:

📢 Applications are now open for an MA in Development Studies at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Mandi, for the Batch 2024-25!

🔗 Apply: https://lnkd.in/ggxKyaYE

📅 Important Dates:
•Last date for application: 25th April 2024
•Announcement of shortlisted candidates: 6th May 2024

🎓 Eligibility Criteria:
•Bachelor's Degree (B.A./B.Sc./B.Tech./B.E. or equivalent) after 10+2 or equivalent schooling.
•Minimum 55% marks/6.0 CGPA on a scale of 10 (minimum 50% marks/5.5 CGPA for SC/ST/OBC(NCL)/PwD candidates).

📄 Notification: https://lnkd.in/gFesP4dP
(Read the notification for more details and unique features of this course)

📧 Contact: [email protected]
🔗 Technical support: [email protected]

Dr Saumya Malviya, Assistant Professor in SHSS IIT Mandi reflects on the importance and the necessity of the humanities and social sciences in technological institutes today.

A Lesson from IIT | ‘Why Humanities and Social Sciences are gaining popularity at IITs’ The popularity of Social Science courses is that they allow students at the IITs to be able to talk about their social location in informed and reflexive terms and thus also to make good academic sense of social diversity and difference.

Special recruitment drive for the posts of Assistant Professor (Grade-I) and Assistant Professor (Grade-II) at IIT Mandi. The last date of application is 21.03.2024. The areas advertised for SHSS are:

Development Studies (specialization in 'Ecology', 'Gender', 'Technology and Society', 'Public Policies' and allied areas)
Economics (All areas)
German Language
Demography/Population Studies
Philosophy

https://www.iitmandi.ac.in/careers.php - more details are available here.

IIT Mandi invites applications for eligible candidates for Assistant Professor under Special Recruitment Drive.
Apply before March 21, 2024.
For details, visit: https://iitmandi.ac.in/careers.php

The School of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Mandi hosted a lecture and a workshop by Dr Easterine Kire, a renowned novelist, poet, and writer of short stories and children's books. In her lecture on “Writing from the Heart: Dil se Direct”, Dr Kire discussed how nature and spirituality are closely interwoven in her works, while also reading out passages from her writings. She also highlighted the dangers of academic misinterpretation and political appropriation of literature influenced by inapplicable theories that distance the work from its original intent. During the Creative Writing workshop on “Harvesting Memory”, Dr Kire performed a jazz poem and read out a couple of her works, while also encouraging participants to live and write about localities by experiencing the culture first-hand and speaking to people. Dr Kire also led the inauguration of a Library of Himalayan Literature and Culture, at SHSS IIT Mandi.

We are delighted to have Easterine Kire joining us at SHSS IIT Mandi today. She will be delivering a lecture on "Writing from the Heart: Dil se Direct" and a workshop tomorrow on "Harvesting Memory".

Dr Easterine Kire is an award-winning writer from Nagaland. She is a renowned novelist, short story writer, poet, and a writer of children's books. Her first novel A Naga Village Remembered (2003) was the first Naga novel to be published in English. Since then, she has written several award-winning books, including When the River Sleeps (winner of the Hindu Prize 2015), and Son of the Thundercloud (winner of the Tata Literature Live! Award 2017 and the Sahitya Bal Puraskar 2018). Her works have been translated into numerous languages, including German, Norwegian, Uzbek, Kannada, Assamese, Bengali and Marathi.

All are welcome!