Conferences,Talks & Interviews
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Wandering in Elephant Being: Artistic Inquiries to Find ourselves in relationship, Online Talk, Friends for Elephants, March 28, 2021
A wonderful exercise in pondering about my relationship with elephants and a great conversation with singer and composer Bindhumalini and Conservation educator and filmmaker Ramnath on "Can art help us to kindle the ways of connecting and finding ourselves in relationship with the elephant?" Thanks to Anusha S for the introduction and Ankul Shetty for moderating the QA. Many thanks to Surendra Varma, Wildlife Biologist and Elephant expert for encouraging us to present this work. |
The Porous Self, Interactive writing and art session, Online International conference, Global Festival, Climate Coaching Alliance, March 6, 2022. |
Women as primordial beings and mystics, Online talk in NIAS CSP Women’s Day program on Reading Women- Sharing Unspoken Worlds, March 2022 |
U n’ I with Rashmi Shetty - Dr. Srivi Kalyan Conversation with the fantastic Rashmi Shetty sharing my journey. Rashmi with her open-hearted questions, draws out memories and stories that make me who I am |
Interview with Monali Bordoloi
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Interview with Bindhumalini N
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Interview with Shuhua Dai
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Connecting Energies – Creating Visuals – Transforming Selves, SDEA Theatre Arts Conference , Singapore Drama Educators Association, Singapore, June 2-5, 2011
'The moments you remember in your life are probably ones that are a little theatrical – the teacher who dramatised a story so you not only learnt plot and vocabulary, but also empathy and compassion, a warm up game that not only helped you connect with strangers but find out more about their personalities as well as your own, or how, after watching a performance, you were moved enough to examine your own opinions and notions, then make changes. These are just some of the things that participants will re-discover and in turn, think about applying in their own lives at Singapore’s largest ever Theatre Arts Conference.
Held in association with this year’s Singapore Arts Festival, this inaugural event organised by the Singapore Drama Educators Association (SDEA) aims to provide a platform for practitioners to share their experiences, methodologies and research.
Targeted at teachers, independent teaching artists, counsellors, health care workers, social and cultural workers, as well as organisations engaged in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) efforts, the conference will see contributions from 50 theatre arts practitioners from 12 countries including Australia, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, the UK and USA.'
The presentation can be accessed here.
'The moments you remember in your life are probably ones that are a little theatrical – the teacher who dramatised a story so you not only learnt plot and vocabulary, but also empathy and compassion, a warm up game that not only helped you connect with strangers but find out more about their personalities as well as your own, or how, after watching a performance, you were moved enough to examine your own opinions and notions, then make changes. These are just some of the things that participants will re-discover and in turn, think about applying in their own lives at Singapore’s largest ever Theatre Arts Conference.
Held in association with this year’s Singapore Arts Festival, this inaugural event organised by the Singapore Drama Educators Association (SDEA) aims to provide a platform for practitioners to share their experiences, methodologies and research.
Targeted at teachers, independent teaching artists, counsellors, health care workers, social and cultural workers, as well as organisations engaged in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) efforts, the conference will see contributions from 50 theatre arts practitioners from 12 countries including Australia, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, the UK and USA.'
The presentation can be accessed here.
Unesco 2nd world conference on Arts Education, May 25-28, 2010
'The Arts in most, if not all, cultures are integral to life: function, creation and learning are intertwined. The Arts withholds the potential to being fundamentally instrumental, in both formal and non-formal ways, as vehicles of knowledge and the methods of learning different disciplines. This instrumental approach to Arts Education neither limits the Arts as a supplementary educational tool, nor simply aims at bringing arts into curricula as the main content or a study subject.
UNESCO basically promotes two main approaches to Arts Education, which can be implemented at the same time and need not be distinct. The “learning through the arts/culture” approach demonstrates how we can utilize artistic expressions and cultural resources and practises, contemporary and traditional, as a learning tool. It targets to draw on the rich wealth of culture, knowledge and skills of societies to enhance an inter-disciplinary approach to learning in a range of subject areas.'
The paper can be accessed here.
'The Arts in most, if not all, cultures are integral to life: function, creation and learning are intertwined. The Arts withholds the potential to being fundamentally instrumental, in both formal and non-formal ways, as vehicles of knowledge and the methods of learning different disciplines. This instrumental approach to Arts Education neither limits the Arts as a supplementary educational tool, nor simply aims at bringing arts into curricula as the main content or a study subject.
UNESCO basically promotes two main approaches to Arts Education, which can be implemented at the same time and need not be distinct. The “learning through the arts/culture” approach demonstrates how we can utilize artistic expressions and cultural resources and practises, contemporary and traditional, as a learning tool. It targets to draw on the rich wealth of culture, knowledge and skills of societies to enhance an inter-disciplinary approach to learning in a range of subject areas.'
The paper can be accessed here.
National Consultation on Using Visuals as a Pedagogical Aid for Gender Sensitivity 18th Feb 2011
'National Consultation organized by the Department of Women’s Studies, National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) in collaboration with Centre for Women’s Development Studies (CWDS) on using visuals and other mediums for promoting gender sensitivity. Our purpose in organizing this Consultation is to bring together scholars, artists, teachers, teacher’s educators, planners and NCERT’s own experts who are involved in using different forms of visuals for promoting issues of equity and equality.
We hope that the National Consultation will generate a rich body of ideas and suggestions which can be used for formulating future plan of action to make this medium an important aid in the teaching and learning processes.'
Gouri Srivastava Professor & Head , Department of Women's Studies, NCERT
The paper can be accessed here.
'National Consultation organized by the Department of Women’s Studies, National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) in collaboration with Centre for Women’s Development Studies (CWDS) on using visuals and other mediums for promoting gender sensitivity. Our purpose in organizing this Consultation is to bring together scholars, artists, teachers, teacher’s educators, planners and NCERT’s own experts who are involved in using different forms of visuals for promoting issues of equity and equality.
We hope that the National Consultation will generate a rich body of ideas and suggestions which can be used for formulating future plan of action to make this medium an important aid in the teaching and learning processes.'
Gouri Srivastava Professor & Head , Department of Women's Studies, NCERT
The paper can be accessed here.
Rethink Redesign: Towards Socially Responsible Design
International Conference organized by Department of Fine Arts, Stella Maris College in collaboration with Lalit Kala Academy, Chennai, Jan 28-29, 2010
The Paper can be accesed here.
International Conference organized by Department of Fine Arts, Stella Maris College in collaboration with Lalit Kala Academy, Chennai, Jan 28-29, 2010
The Paper can be accesed here.
Conferences, Talks, Workshops
- Speaker, Connecting with loss: Tracing ecological consciousness within, Master Class at Srishti Manipal Institute of Art, Design and Technology, August 2024
- Workshop Lead: Illustrating for Children, Expressing Adivasi and Dalit Lives, Katha, August 2024
- Speaker and Workshop Lead - Immersive Connections: Designing Place-Based Experiences, Talk and design workshop IFS participants at Jungle Lodges & Resorts, Kabini, February 2024
- Panelist - Imagining an Alternative World: Curiosity, Compassion and the Planet, Panel Discussion, Hyderabad Literature Festival, January 2024
- Poet - Kaavya Dhaara - (Indigenous and Endangered Languages). In our own tongues (Multilingual readings - Poetry), Hyderabad Literature Festival, January 2024
- Panelist - Climate Education for a Changing Planet, Panel Discussion, Hyderabad Literature Festival, January 2024
- Speaker, Stage Talk: Prana: Art, Nature, and the Suffused Worlds, Hyderabad Literature Festival, January 2024
- Brews and Brainstorms: Educating for Climate Change, Kupu climate Change Festival, Bangalore, Youth Conservation Action Network, Trust for Environmental Education, June 2023
- Forest, River & Sky- Porous inquiries to find ourselves in relationship, Two sessions, Talk to IFS participants at Jungle Lodges & Resorts, Kabini, June 2023
- Between ‘Cosmic Order, Truth and Ethical Action’: Pedagogical inquiries as a philosophical quest into self, social and ecological consciousness. July 2-5 2023
- Transforming Consumption-Production Systems Toward Just and Sustainable Futures, a joint 5th SCORAI, 21st ERSCP, and Wageningen University Conference. https://www.scp-conference-2023.com/web
- Self in a zillion eco transitions – Experiencing, Documenting, Reflecting, Togetherness , Interactive workshop and talk, Global Festival and International Conference, Climate Coaching Alliance, March 2023
- Reflective healing through Art and Design, Humanising medical practices indigenous, interdependent and cross-cultural insights, Online International Symposium, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Consciousness Studies Program, Bangalore, 29 July 2022
- Designing Projects, Talk and Workshop, Stella Maris College, 26 July 2022
- The Porous Self – Interactive workshops and lectures for Fellows of the YouCan Earth Educators Fellowship Program, as part of a National Geographic Fellowship, Masinagudi, June 28-30, 2022
- Forest, River & Sky- Porous inquiries to find ourselves in rela1onship, Two sessions, Talk to IFS participants at Jungle Lodges & Resorts, Kabini, March 2022, June 2022
- The Porous Self, Interactive writing and art session, Online International conference, Global Festival, Climate Coaching Alliance, March 6, 2022.
- Women as primordial beings and mystics, Online talk in NIAS CSP Women’s Day program on Reading Women- Sharing Unspoken Worlds, March 2022
- Wandering in Elephant Being: Artistic Inquiries to Find ourselves in relationship, Online Talk, Friends for Elephants, March 28, 2021
- Consciousness, Creativity and Transdisciplinarity: Personal practice as research in the arts Conference on Research in Art, Design and Culture, Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Bangalore. December 21-22, 2018.
- Porosity and Transdisciplinarity - Invited talk that showcased the diversity of my work in education, educational design, social and environmental design, art, writing, bookmaking, children's books and others and discussing how it is possible to cross disciplinary boundaries to create new paradigms of thought and work and how the pathways have led to my current doctoral work. Looking Beyond - Confluence of Art and Design: National Seminar on Art and Design at the Department of Fine Arts, Stella Maris College, Chennai. 25-26th September 2018
- Art practice as transformation and equilibrium (Yajna and Hrdayavisranti), Conference at Srishti: Meditation in the Age of Anxiety, 2017
- Learning to experience nature in porous ways through art, National Conference on "'Redefining Early Childhood Development Profession in India: Challenges and Potential', Workshops for teachers – Organised by Association for early childhood education and development (AECED), Azim Premji University and UNICEF, 2016
- Online international panel: Re-imagining Relationships Around the World, as part of the Continuing the Conversation Re-imagining Relationships Conference (aieconversation.org), 2013
- Panel Discussion, "How to talk about your art?", Ilango's Artspace, Chennai, February 2013
- Connecting Energies – Creating Visuals – Transforming Selves, (With Bindhumalini N) SDEA Theatre Arts Conference , Singapore Drama Educators Association, Singapore, June 2-5, 2011
- Paper presentation (Selected): Gender Sensitivity in Illustrations for textbooks and Educational Material – A holistic approach, National Consultation on Using Visuals as a Pedagogical Aid for Gender Sensitivity, Department of Women's studies (NCERT)& Centre for Women's Development Studies (CWDS), New Delhi, 18th Feb 2011
- Talk and discussion session with primary school teachers - “The relevance of using art as an entry point into Language”, Dyatmika School, Bali, September 2010
- Paper presentation (Selected): Where does this circle become a point? - Making learning a thoughtful, fun and lifelong journey, Second International Conference on Arts Education organized by UNESCO, Korea, May 25-28, 2010
- Paper Presentation: The Tree of Life: Educational Design: Making learning a thoughtful, fun and lifelong journey, International Conference on Rethink Redesign: Towards Socially Responsible Design. Organized by Dept of Fine Arts, Stella Maris College and Lalit Kala Academy, Chennai Jan 28-29, 2010
- Paper presentation, Harvard Graduate School of Education, ‘Graphic Design, museum labels and learning’, Student Research Conference, Cambridge, MA, 2007 February
- Round table presentation, HGSE, ‘Discover India and Africa through educational Software’, Student Research Conference, Cambridge, MA, 2007 February
- Panel Discussion, Katha, “Does India produce world class Children’s books – a debate”, Katha Asia Utsav, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, India, 2006 February
