International Faculty Development Programme

CONFERENCE | November, 2020 |

AA five day international faculty development programme organized in November 2020 with St. Xavier’s College, Sri Jagannath Research Centre, St. Paul’s Cathedral Mission College, Kolkata Society for Asian Studies and Stockholm University
Platform – Zoom.

Live Streaming-YouTube,

If Philosophy is the mother of all subjects, as opined by scholars, then Research can be considered as the basis of enlightenment, leading humanity towards the path of intellectual growth as well as materialistic development.

Kant famously stated: ‘Thoughts without content are empty; intuitions without concepts are blind”. On the other hand, Vico wanted to bring, through history, a blend of ‘the values and abstractions of rationality, as well as the mixture of skepticism and belief characteristic of the Enlightenment’, while Collingwood harped on causality as the key factor behind the social sciences, which can be questioned from the perceptions of interpretations or the hermeneutical viewpoint, focusing on the dichotomy of objectivity and subjectivity.

In contrast, the Indian system of learning is crucially dependent on 1) epistemology, 2) ontology, and 3) axiology. Amongst these three, epistemology has been regarded as the pillar of Indian philosophy.

Against this backdrop, it can be said that a social science researcher needs to know the nitty-gritty of anticipating knowledge which will help him/her experience the essence of research on the basis of epistemology and ontology.

Through this workshop, the participants were able to get an idea of the recent trends of research in social sciences and humanities focusing on the core of the qualitative methods aimed at research designing, hypothesis formation, data collection, survey methods, field study, content analysis, etc. with a notion of criticality. This workshop also highlighted the research issues related to Indic studies or Indology.highlighted the research issues related to Indic studies or Indology.

Objectives

1. To have a better understanding of the qualitative methods in the said field.
2. Developing basic skills of subjective analysis.
3. To know the theories related to social science and humanities.
4. To get an idea on the essence of Indic Studies with special emphasis on Indian philosophy, manuscriptology, heritage and culture studies.

Speakers

Confirmed Speakers

1. Prof. Kaberi Chakraborty,
   Associate Professor, Dept. of Political Science,
   Calcutta University
    
2. Dr. Santanu Dey,
   Associate Professor, Dept. of History,
   Ramakrishna Mission Vidyamandira, Belur Math, Belur
   
   3) Dr. Sk Makbul Islam,
   
   Associate Professor, Dept. of Bengali,
   
   St. Paul’s Cathedral Mission College, Kolkata
   
   4) Dr. Amit Dey,
   
   Professor, Department of History,
   
   University of Calcutta
   
   5) Dr. Abhishek Bose,
   
   Assistant Professor, Dept. of Comparative Indian Language and Literature,
   
   University of Calcutta
   
   6) Dr. Rajnish Mishra,
   
   Associate Professor,
   
   Dept. of Sanskrit and Indic Studies,
   
   Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
   
   7) Dr. Srijani Bhattacharjee,
   
   Senior Research Fellow,
   
   Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies, Kolkata
   
   8) Dr. Siddharth Satpathy,
   
   Assistant Professor, Dept. of English, School of Humanities,
   
   University of Hyderabad
   
   9) Dr. Tinni Goswami,
   
   Assistant Professor, Dept. of History,
   
   St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata
   
   10) Dr. Ranjana Ray,
   
   Prof. Emeritus, Dept. of Anthropology,
   
   University of Calcutta ( Right Side)
   
   11) Dr. Rajarshi Chakraborty,
   
   Assistant Professor,
   
   Department of History,
   
   Burdwan University
   
   12) Prof. Sraboni Chatterjee,
   
   Assistant Professor, Dept. of Psychology,
   
   Bijoy Krishna Girl’s College
   
   13) Dr. Amiya P. Sen,
   
   Retired Professor of History,
   
   Jamia Milia Islamia University, New Delhi,
   
   Visiting Fellow, Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies, Oxford University
   
   14) Dr. Ferdinando Sardella,
   
   Assistant Professor, Dept. of Ethnology, History of Religions and Gender Studies,
   
   Stockholm University
   
   15) Dr. Kenneth Valpey,
   
   Post- Doctoral Fellow,
   
   Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies,
   
   University of Oxford
   
   16) Dr. Ulrika Martensson
   
   Professor, Dept. of Philosophy and Religious Studies,
   
   Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
   
   17) Dr. David Haberman,
   
   Professor and Former Chair,
   
   Dept. of Religious Studies,
   
   Indiana University, USA
   
   18) Dr. Abhishek Ghosh,
   
   Assistant Professor,
   
   Department of Hinduism and World Religions,
   
   Grand Valley State University, USA
   
    

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