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Humanities

Dean: Prof Sharada Srinivasan

The School of Humanities is engaged in research in the broad areas of philosophy, psychology, literature, fine arts, and culture. Research in the School currently focuses on philosophical foundations of sciences; cognitive sciences; scientific and philosophical studies of consciousness; Indian psychology and philosophy; history and philosophy of biology; archaeometalurgy and analysis of ancient metals; and translations of literary classics in Kannada into English.

OPPORTUNITY

Post-doctoral Fellow Position (Philosophy in Action)(Last Date to Apply: 30 June 2018) New!

Aditi Kathpalia	B. V. Sreekantan	Ekta Gupta
H. R. Meera	Hema Thakur	Krupa Rajangam
Kuili Suganya	M.B.Rajani	Malavika Kapur
Nalini N S	Naresh Keerthi	Nithin Nagaraj
S. Ranganathan	S. Settar	Samiksha Bajpai
Sangeetha Menon	Shankar R	Sharada Srinivasan
Shatarupa Bhata...	Siddharth S	Sisir Roy
Smriti Haricharan	Srikumar M. Menon	Sumithra Sunder
Varun S Bhatta	Venkatesh K.N.	Vijayashree C S

Current Programmes

Past Programme

Settar, S., 2018. Prakruta Jagadvalaya: convergence of Prakrit, Kannada and Sanskrit languages, Bengaluru: Abhinava. Available at: https://www.sapnaonline.com/books/prakruta-jagadvalaya-settar-s-1234096862-5551234096864?position=1&searchString=prakruta%20jagadvalaya.
Kapur, M., 2018. What's the Hurry? Let Children be Children, New Delhi: Vitasta Publishing Pvt. Ltd. Available at: https://www.amazon.in/Whats-Hurry-Let-Children-Children/dp/9386473305/ref=sr_1_2/260-5084081-4272248?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1534398046&sr=1-2&refinements=p_27%3AMalavika+Kapur.
Menon, S.M., 2018. Megaliths: New perspectives for future studies. In Beyond stones and more stones. Beyond stones and more stones. Bengaluru: Mythic Society, pp. 208-256.
Chippali, M. & Sarukkai, S., 2018. Conceptual Priority of Translation over Language. In A Multilingual Nation: Translation and Language Dynamic in India. A Multilingual Nation: Translation and Language Dynamic in India. New Delhi: OUP, pp. 309-324. Available at: https://india.oup.com/product/a-multilingual-nation-9780199478774.
Sarukkai, S., 2018. Ekalavya and the Possibility of Learning. In Exploring Agency in the Mahabharata: Ethical and Political Dimensions of Dharma. Exploring Agency in the Mahabharata: Ethical and Political Dimensions of Dharma. Routledge India, pp. 179-194. Available at: https://www.routledge.com/Exploring-Agency-in-the-Mahabharata-Ethical-and-Political-Dimensions-of/Bhattacharya-Dalmiya-Mukherji/p/book/9781138709201.
Roy, S., 2018. Quantum Entanglement and the Philosophy of Relations: Jaina Perspective. In Jain Philosophy: a scientific approach to reality. Jain Philosophy: a scientific approach to reality. Ladnun: Bhagawan Mahavira International Research Center.
Rajani, M.B. & Das, S., 2018. Archaeological Remains at Nalanda: A Spatial Comparison of Nineteenth Century Observations and the Protected World Heritage Site. In Records, Recoveries, Remnants and Inter-Asian Interconnections: Decoding Cultural Heritage. Records, Recoveries, Remnants and Inter-Asian Interconnections: Decoding Cultural Heritage. Singapore: ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute. Available at: https://bookshop.iseas.edu.sg/publication/2305.
Thakur, H., 2018. Buddhism, donors and donations at Sannati (3rd century BC- 3rd century AD) – an archaeo-material perspective. In International Conference on the Growth and Development of Indian Culture: Historical and Literary Perspectives (Pre-historic Period-12th C CE.) . International Conference on the Growth and Development of Indian Culture: Historical and Literary Perspectives (Pre-historic Period-12th C CE.) . 29-6 to 1-7-2018. Bengaluru: Dr. S.R. Rao Memorial foundation for Indian Archaeology, Art and Culture.
Menon, S.M., 2018. From megaliths to temples: Astronomy in the lithic record of South India. 9th International Conference on Oriental Astronomy, Growth and Development of Astronomy and Astrophysics in India and the Asia-Pacific Region, p.241‒258.
J Reddy, S.Kiran & Roy, S., 2018. Commentary: Patanjali and neuroscientific research on meditation (General Commentary Article). Frontiers in Psychology, 9. Available at: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00248/full.
Majumdar, S. & Roy, S., 2018. Relevance of Quantum Mechanics in Bacterial Communication . NeuroQuantology, 16(3). Available at: https://www.neuroquantology.com/index.php/journal/article/view/1057/929.
Srinivasan, S., 2017. Chola and Vijayangara Bronzes: Archaeometallurgical mapping of shifting iconographies, Banaras: Banaras Hindu University.
Mallik, A. et al., 2017. Digital Hampi: Preserving Indian Cultural Heritage, Springer. Available at: https://www.springer.com/in/book/9789811057373.
Sreekantan, B.V., 2017. Philosophy of science, Bengaluru: Gandhi Centre of Science and Human Values.
Menon, S., Nagaraj, N. & V, B.V., 2017. Self, Culture and Consciousness: Interdisciplinary Convergences on Knowing and Being, Springer. Available at: https://www.springer.com/in/book/9789811057762.

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