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Inaugural Day hosted by
SIDDHI Webinar Series, IIT Madras
Dec 13, 2020 The Write Thoughts
6.00 - 7.00 pm A talk by Prof. Arunn Narasimhan
IST Dept of Mechanical Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India
Dec 13, 2020 Inauguration
7.30 - 8.30 pm
IST Prof. Wendy Singer
Roy T. Wortman, Distinguished Professor of History
Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio, USA
Introducing Kenyon – IITM Writing Workshop (5 minutes)
Prof. Sean Decatur
President
Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio (5 minutes)
Prof. Bhaskar Ramamurthi
Director, Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Chennai, India (5 minutes)
Prof. David Lynn
Special Assistant to the President, Editor Emeritus of the
Kenyon
Review Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio, USA (5 minutes)
Prof. Raghunathan Rengaswamy
Dean Global Engagement, Indian Institute of Technology
Madras
Chennai, India (5 minutes)
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Readings by Kenyon - IITM Writing Workshop Faculty:
Prof. Nancy Zafris Former Fiction Editor, Kenyon Review Kenyon
College, Gambier, Ohio, USA It Came In (5 minutes)
Prof. Geeta Kothari Non-fiction Editor, Kenyon Review &
Senior Lecturer University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Crossing Black Water (5 minutes)
Prof. Chris Gillen Professor of Biology Kenyon College, Gambier,
Ohio, USA Novel electrogenic cation-chloride cotransporters in
mosquitoes and fruit flies (5 minutes)
Ms. Geetha Iyer Mellon Science and Nature Writing Fellow Kenyon
College, Gambier, Ohio, USA Scarce Resources, and other poems (5
minutes)
Prof. Robert Mauck Professor of Biology Kenyon College, Gambier,
Ohio, USA Climate and a long-lived seabird: what can 50 years of
data tell us? (5 minutes)
Prof. Yutan Getzler Associate Professor of Chemistry Kenyon
College, Gambier, Ohio, USA On Polymers (5 minutes)
Vote of Thanks:
Dr. Sudarsan Padmanabhan Associate Professor, Dept of Humanities
and Social Sciences IIT Madras, Chennai, India (2 minutes)
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Kenyon – IITM Writing Workshop (December 14 – 18, 2020) Schedule
Group I - Fiction Group II - Non-fiction Group III - Science
Writing
Group I Group II Faculty
Prof. Nancy Zafris Email: [email protected] & Mr. Sam
Zafris Writer Columbus, Ohio, USA Email: [email protected]
Prof. Geeta Kothari Email: [email protected]
Prof. Chris Gillen Email: [email protected] & Ms. Geetha
Iyer Email: [email protected]
Prof. Robert Mauck Email: [email protected] & Prof. Yutan
Getzler Email: [email protected]
2.00 - 4.30 pm Preparation Session with Teaching Fellows
2.00 - 4.30 pm Preparation Session with Teaching Fellows
2.00 - 4.30 pm Preparation Session with Teaching Fellows
2.00 - 4.30 pm Preparation Session with Teaching Fellows
Dr. Kaamya Sharma Assistant Professor Dept. of HSS IIT Jodhpur
Rajasthan, India Email: [email protected] Contact No.:
8270324294
Ms. Smruthi Bala Kannan Research Scholar Department of Childhood
Studies Rutgers University New Jersey, USA Email:
[email protected] Ms. Shweta Venkatesh Alumnus,
Integrated Masters in Humanities and Social Sciences IIT Madras,
Chennai Tamil Nadu, India Email: [email protected]
Contact No: 9686213963
Mr. Ragavendra H V Research Scholar Department of Physics, IIT
Madras Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India Email:
[email protected] Contact No: 9444025629
Ms. Malayaja Chutani Research Scholar Department of Physics IIT
Madras, Chennai Tamil Nadu, India Email:
[email protected] Contact No: 8056103954
5.00 – 7.00 pm Study Break 7.30 – 9.15 pm Session with Faculty
Prof. Nancy Zafris
7.30 – 9.15 pm Session with Faculty Prof. Geeta Kothari
7.30 – 9.15 pm Session with Faculty Prof. Chris Gillen & Ms.
Geetha Iyer
7.30 – 9.15 pm Session with Faculty Prof. Robert Mauck &
Prof. Yutan Getzler
Ms. P V Suguna Organising Committee – Logistics & Tech Dept.
of HSS, IIT Madras Email: [email protected] Contact No:
9841476141
Mr. D Sasikumar Organising Committee - Tech Team Dept. of HSS,
IIT Madras Email: [email protected] Contact No: 9444047944
Dr. Sudarsan Padmanabhan Organising Committee – Coordinator
Dept. of HSS, IIT Madras Email: [email protected] Contact No:
9444782884
Ms. Ujwala Kotti Coordinator, SIDDHI Webinar Series, Office of
Global Engagement IIT Madras Email: [email protected]
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Kenyon - IITM Writing Workshop
Indian Institute of Technology Madras
(December 14 - 18, 2020)
A collaborative endeavour between Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio,
USA & IIT Madras, Chennai, India
A five day Writing Workshop offered by scholars who teach
writing at the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop at Kenyon College,
Gambier, Ohio, USA and faculty from IIT Madras, Chennai, India who
are creative writers but specialize in variegated fields such as
engineering, biotechnology, humanities and social sciences. Date:
December 14 – 18, 2020 (Inaugural Lecture and Inauguration on Dec
13, 2020) Genre: Fiction – 15 seats Non-fiction – 15 seats Science
Writing (Group I) – 15 seats Science Writing (Group II) – 15 seats
Who can apply - young faculty, aspiring writers, college students,
other interested individuals Application: Click here for
application Deadlines: 1. Submission of application - November 20,
2020 2. Intimation of acceptance – November 27, 2020 Coordinators
from Kenyon College: Prof. Wendy Singer Roy T Wortman Professor of
History and South Asian Studies Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio, USA
Email: [email protected] Prof. David H. Lynn Special Assistant to
the President Professor of English Editor Emeritus of the Kenyon
Review Kenyon College, Treleaven House 201 Gambier, Ohio, USA
Email: [email protected]
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Organising Committee:
Prof. Wendy Singer (Coordinator) Roy T Wortman Professor of
History and South Asian Studies Kenyon College Gambier, Ohio, USA
Email: [email protected] Prof. David H. Lynn (Coordinator) Special
Assistant to the President Professor of English Editor Emeritus of
the Kenyon Review Kenyon College, Treleaven House 201 Gambier,
Ohio, USA Dr. Sudarsan Padmanabhan (Coordinator) Associate
Professor Department of Humanities and Social Sciences IIT Madras,
Chennai, India Email: [email protected] Prof. Sriramkumar L
(Coordinator) Professor Department of Physics IIT Madras, Chennai,
India Email: [email protected] Dr. Kaamya Sharma Assistant
Professor Department of Humanities and Social Sciences IIT Jodhpur,
Rajasthan, India Email: [email protected] Ms. Suguna P V
Technical Team Web designer, Documentations, Outreach Dept. of HSS,
IIT Madras, Chennai, India Email: [email protected] Mr. Sasikumar D
Technical Team Designer, Documentations, Outreach Dept. of HSS, IIT
Madras, Chennai, India Email: [email protected]
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Teaching Fellows:
Mr. Sam Zafris Writer Columbus, Ohio, USA Dr. Kaamya Sharma
Assistant Professor Department of Humanities and Social Sciences
IIT Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India Email: [email protected] Ms.
Smruthi Bala Kannan Research Scholar Department of Childhood
Studies Rutgers University New Jersey, USA Email:
[email protected]
Teaching Assistants:
Ms. Shweta Venkatesh Alumnus Department of Humanities and Social
Sciences IIT Madras, Chennai, India Email:
[email protected] Ms. Malayaja Chutani Research Scholar
Department of Physics, IIT Madras, Chennai, India Email:
[email protected] Mr. Ragavendra H V Research Scholar
Department of Physics, IIT Madras, Chennai, India Email:
[email protected]
Course Fee: ₹ 1000/- for B. Tech., M. A., M. S., & M. Tech.,
(IIT Madras Students) ₹ 2000/- for Ph.D., (IIT Madras Students) ₹
2000/- for Students from other IITs and other Colleges ₹ 3000/-
faculty, professionals and other interested people (Course fee
covers Registration, Study Materials and Faculty Lectures for all
five days.) Supported by: Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio, USA Kenyon
Review, Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio, USA Office of Dean Students,
IIT Madras, Chennai, India Office of Alumni & Corporate
Relations, IIT Madras, Chennai, India Office of Global Engagement,
IIT Madras, Chennai, India Department of Humanities and Social
Sciences, IIT Madras, Chennai, India Department of Physics, IIT
Madras, Chennai, India
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Coordinators from Kenyon College: Wendy Singer is an historian
of South Asia, whose
research focuses, primarily, on the period after 1947. Her
current
projects connect the history of the anti-colonial movement to
the
development of the post-independence state. At the moment
she
is finishing an essay, “Women in the State: Elected women
and
the Challenge of Politics in the 1950s,” which is part of a
collaborative project on Feminism and Nationalism in India. A
highlight of this
collaboration was a conference in September of 2018 at Cambridge
University. In
addition, she is co-editing a volume on India’s multi-language
policies and
particularly the variation in language politics across states.
Finally, and
connectedly, she is writing a monograph on the history of
"Reservations," India
policy, somewhat like affirmative action, that provides
designated seats in
Parliament, state legislatures and other institutions for
under-represented groups.
The research for this book was sponsored by a Fulbright-Nehru
Senior Research
Grant. All three projects point to the organic and changing
nature of Indian
democracy, which was designed to emphasize its inclusiveness of
various
constituents and stake-holders within Indian society and, in so
doing, provide
potential lessons for the rest of the world.
David Lynn is Editor Emeritus of the Kenyon Review, an
international journal of literature, culture, and the arts,
which he
edited from 1994-2020. He is also professor of English and
Special Assistant to the President of Kenyon College. In 1990,
he
founded the KR Young Writers Program and, in 1997, the KR
Writers Workshop. His collection, Children of God: New and
Selected Stories,
appeared in 2019. One of its stories, "Divergence," won an O.
Henry Award. David
Lynn is also the author of Wrestling with Gabriel, a novel, and
two earlier collections
of stories, Year of Fire and Fortune Telling, as well as a
critical study, The Hero's
Tale: Narrators in the Early Modern Novel. His stories and
essays have appeared in
magazines and journals in America, England, India, and
Australia. David Lynn
lives in Gambier, Ohio with his wife, Wendy Singer, a
distinguished historian of
India.
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About the Faculty conducting the Writing Workshop:
In addition to many short stories, Nancy Zafris has published
four books of fiction: The People I Know (U of Georgia Press),
winner of the Flannery O’Connor award for short fiction and the
Ohioana Library Association award for best book of fiction; The
Metal Shredders (Blue Hen/Penguin Putnam), a NY Times Notable book,
Lucky Strike (Unbridled Books), and Home Jar (U of Northern
Illinois), a collection of short stories named one of the year’s
ten best books by Minneapolis Star Tribune. She has been awarded
two National Endowment for the Arts grants (their maximum) and also
served as a panelist for them. She was the fiction editor of the
Kenyon Review for nine years, followed by eight years as series
editor of the Flannery O’Connor award for short fiction. She has
recently completed a new book as well as a young adult novel.
Chris Gillen is Professor of Biology at Kenyon College. His
research group has received funding from the National Science
Foundation and National Institutes of Health to study salt and
water balance in insect model systems using molecular and
physiological approaches. He is the author of two books:
Reading
Primary Literature (Pearson, 2007) and Hidden Mechanics of
Exercise: Molecules that Move Us (Harvard University Press, 2014).
Gillen directs the Science and Nature Writing program at Kenyon. He
has developed and taught writing workshops for a variety of
audiences, including the Kenyon Review Young Science Writers
workshop for high school students. He is a winner of Kenyon's
Trustee Teaching Excellence Award and the Society of Integrative
and Comparative Biology’s M. Patricia Morse Award for Excellence
and Innovation in Science Education.
Geeta Kothari is the nonfiction editor of The Kenyon Review. She
is a two-time recipient of the fellowship in literature from the
Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and the editor of ‘Did My Mama
Like to Dance?’ and Other Stories about Mothers and Daughters. Her
fiction and nonfiction have appeared in various journals and
anthologies, including the Kenyon Review, the Massachusetts
Review, Fourth Genre, and Best American Essays. In 2004, she
received the David and Tina Bellet Award for Teaching Excellence.
In addition to teaching in the undergraduate curriculum, Geeta
Kothari also directs the Writing Center.
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Robert Mauck is a Professor of Biology at Kenyon College and
former Director of the Bowdoin College Scientific Station at Kent
Island. His research pursues questions of life-history evolution,
physiological ecology, climate change, and behavior in a long-lived
seabird, Leach's storm-petrel, a species he has studied for
nearly
30 years. Author of numerous scientific papers, he has taught
Science Writing at Kenyon College and is a past winner of Kenyon's
Trustee Teaching Excellence Award. He had a full life before
joining academia, during which his writing appeared in National
Wildlife Magazine, the Anchorage Daily News.
Yutan Getzler earned a doctorate from Cornell University in
2004. Since that time, his scholarship at Kenyon College has
focused on homogeneous catalysis and sustainable polymer chemistry.
His work at Kenyon has been supported by the ACS-PRF, published in
Nature Reviews Materials, Macromolecules, and
Acta Crystallographica, and presented at ACS meetings and the
Polymers Gordon Research Conference.
Geetha Iyer received an MFA in Creative Writing &
Environment from Iowa State University in 2014. Her publications
include work in Orion, Gulf Coast, The Account, The Massachusetts
Review, Electric Literature, and National Geographic. Her writing
has received the O. Henry Award, the
James Wright Poetry Award, the Calvino Prize, and the Gulf Coast
Fiction Prize. She is the 2020-2022 Mellon Science and Nature
Writing Fellow at Kenyon College, where she writes and teaches
about intersections between the sciences and the arts through
ecocritical and postcolonial lenses.
Arunn Narasimhan received his Ph.D. in Heat Transfer with minors
in Manufacturing and Biology in 2002 from the Department of
Mechanical Engineering of the Southern Methodist University, USA.
Before joining IIT Madras, he was a staff engineer in the
Micro-lithography division of FSI International, Allen, TX,
USA.
Arunn Narasimhan has written and published two social novels in
Tamil language. America Desi (2015), his first novel, recounts the
coming of age experience for a boy from the deeply conservative
South Indian small town travelling to the USA for the first time
pursuing higher studies. His second novel Achchuvai Perinum (2016)
ruminates on and marshals the theme of past lovers now in separate
relationships
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kindling their old flame. He has also written popular science
books in Tamil language. The book Nano introduces Nano-technology
in a themed essay collection format while the book Do Aliens Exist
expounds the scientific search for extra-terrestrial intelligence
elaborating on technical themes like Fermi’s paradox, Kardashov
scale and SETI in simple language. Two other essay collections What
is the Shape of the Earth and Why do Toucans have Large Beaks
traverse the terrain of science in all its glory and candour.
He has also written elaborate expository essays for online
magazine on Carnatic and classical music and has contributed essays
to newspapers like The Hindu. He has been a music critic of the
December Madras Music Season for newspapers including The Hindu and
Dinamalar for the past few years. He was a Carnatic music guitarist
of the fusion band Srishti.
He has also given several invited bi-lingual talks popularising
science at various universities and schools and has appeared on TV
shows. His other hobbies include reading, world movies and western
classical music.
Email: [email protected] Web: https://home.iitm.ac.in/arunn
Personal (Tamil): https://arunn.me
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