Summary
The Arts Faculty Students' Union is inviting participation for AFSU Sanglap 2023
The National Education Policy proposes to introduce an institutionalised education system
The Arts Faculty Students' Union is inviting participation for AFSU Sanglap 2023, for nurturing its age-long academic enthusiasm of questioning everything without compromise. The major focus of this event is to trigger students to rethink on Multidisciplinarity. The event will take place from 2 to 4 May at Vivekananda Hall, Jadavpur University.
The National Education Policy proposes to introduce an institutionalised education system, which will dismiss the boundaries among disciplines, and students will be able to choose a variety of subjects for their degrees, from different domains. The propaganda preaches the creation of a multidisciplinary education system, which all academic scholars desire, but the question of the depth of knowledge acquired in this system remains. Multidisciplinarity requires the contact and transference of knowledge from different domains, only after each discipline is rich in its own contents and arguments. It is the epistemological urge of
disciplines, to interact, and expand its parameters that will intersect others. Multidisciplinary learning and research champion such intersections and inter-domain communication, but do not intend to completely nullify individual disciplines’ focal points and structure. Under the NEP structure, these independent focus areas of the individual disciplines will be diluted, and whether multidisciplinarity can be achieved in this way is questionable.
This indicates a debate regarding the true form of multidisciplinarity, it's possible manifestation, and inclusion at the curriculum level. Whether an alternative multidisciplinary theoretical framework is possible to construct, which can further be incorporated in every level of institutionalised learning, or whether the NEP proposed model satisfies the requirements of desired multidisciplinary exchanges, is yet to be explored. We welcome papers from scholars, students, and associates of different disciplines, to interrogate the above argument, and come in contact with each other in a truly multidisciplinary platform.
Students must note that the themes of interest will include but are not limited to:
1. Philosophy of Crisis and conflict: Dissecting the global stage
2. Culture of normalising corruption
3. The religion of pandemic: Migration and language
4. Artificial Intelligence, languages and learning
5. From orality to Social Media: Peace and war
6. Rethinking classics and folk literature
7. Education today: Stagnant change or Progress
8. Responsibilities and propaganda of Academia
9. New Education Policy and study of humanities
10. Journalism and culture of silence
11. War politics: real and virtual world
12. Identity politics and South Asia
13. Queer fiction and dehumanisation
14. The theme of violence: Children’s literature and comics
15. Migration and Literature: Archiving politics and memory
16. Documentation and the digital era
17. Gender and Identity politics in sports
18. Independent film and OTT platform
19. Group theatre in this century
20. India after 30 years of a neoliberal economy
21. Demonetisation and lockdown on Indian socio-economy
22. History remaking as political propaganda
23. Alternate history: Finding the Lost Voices
24. Healthcare and decolonisation
Interested students can submit their abstract by clicking here latest by 15 April, 2023.
Last updated on 12 Apr 2023
