Author: Balaji

Department of Languages oragnised a One Day Faculty Development Programme on 13^th of November 2019 from 10 A.M. to 5 P.M. The Dean of School of English Language Education, EFL University Hyderabad, Dr. Sudhakar Venukapalli was the resource person. He addressed the department and delivered a talk on the topic ‘Lacan, Language and Education’.

Dr. Sudhakar elaborated the theories of Psychoanalysis postulated by Jacques Lacan. He explained how the theories of Lacan differ from the Freudian notion of Psychoanalysis and how the linguistic aspects are incorporated into the Lacanian notions. The semiotics and the functioning of the human mind was dexterously brought into the forefront by the resource person. His discussion- based talk shed light into various aspects of education where the Lacanian concepts came in play. Through the Lacanian lens he viewed the real, imaginary and symbolic order and placed them in the context of education. How reflective practices in teaching can be aided if we look through the lens of Lacan was one of the major concepts evolved from the discussion.

In the post-lunch session, Sigmund Freud’s theories were discussed. The faculty members of the department made outstanding contribution to the discussion by bringing in their experiences as well as case studies. With this session the programme extended its scope beyond educational purposes and involved important sensitive societal aspects which could be viewed and explained in terms of Freudian theories.

A day of brainstorming, effective and fruitful discussion and dissemination of knowledge came to an end by the evening with a formal vote of thanks by the Head of the Department and with a group photo session. Dr. Karthika V.K. co-ordinated the programme.

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A three-day workshop on ‘Gender, Power, and Sexuality – Rights and Responsibilities’ was conducted from 18^th-20th November 2019 at VIT-AP School of Business.

Three days workshop was organized for BBA 2^nd year students on ‘Gender, Power, and Sexuality – Rights and Responsibilities’ from 18^th-20^th November 2019 at VIT-AP School of Business. Students were oriented on different topics such as Gender and Sexuality, Demystifying Sexuality, Gender Equity and Equality, Child Sexual Abuse, Sexual assault, changing perceptions, Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace.

The workshop was facilitated by Dr. Sangeeta Saksena, Co-founder of enfold and Dr. Sheela Jayanath, consultant from Enfold organization based in Bangalore”.

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Dhwani, the Theatre and Fine Arts Club, of VIT-AP, co-ordinated by Dr. Karthika V.K. , oragnised a one-day workshop for the children of the University’s adopted school Z.P. High School, Inavolu on 14^th October 2019. The aim of this social outreach programme titled Each One Teach One was to connect the campus to the ground realities of the society and to inculcate a sense of social responsibility among the budding engineers of this prestigious institution. At the same time, the mission was also to benefit the school children by providing them with a set of dramaturgical and creative input which would cultivate and enhance their interpersonal and artistic skills. The students of VIT-AP under the captaincy of their club co-ordinator Dr. Karthika V.K. , worked effectively for a day with a set of activities which were properly planned and executed. They began the session with a warm-up aerobic session, which was followed by a number of other activities which included theatre games, language games, painting, teaching first aid, and origami. The VIT-AP students worked as tutors and mentors with various groups of children. Through this session the children at Z.P. school got a great exposure to many talents which they perceived hitherto as inaccessible. There was a mini exhibition of the art work done by the students in the afternoon. One of the university students Cyril said that he learned to awaken everyone and himself to have a concern for the poor and he marginalized students. “I learned to respect what they have and share our resources with them. I understood that we need to lift others up with us when we try to rise high”, he said.

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During the conference, Dr. S. Srinivas Kumar Vice Chancellor JNTU Anantapuram, Dr. Ganapati Panda from IIT Bhubaneswar, Dr. Bhansidhar Mahji from IIITDM Kancheepuram were present in the inauguration ceremony. The Dean for School of Computer Science and Engineering delivered the vote of thanks. Dr. Ganapati Panda delivered a keynote address on “Recent Advances in Intelligent Systems, Machine Learning and Data Analytics”. He covered the techniques for data analysis, characterizing missing data, filters, noise reduction, clustering, classification, neural nets, deep learning and cognitive radio. He indicated number of numerous research problems during his lecture. Dr. S Srinivas Kumar introduced computer graphics, pattern recognition, computer vision, image processing and gave research insights in blind image processing, steganalysis, image inpainting, image segmentation, image enhancement and image cryptanalysis in his keynote address. He encouraged the participants in doing effective research. In the afternoon Dr. Banshidhar Majhi in his key note address introduced the need of medical image processing, techniques in acquisition, preprocessing, segmentation techniques for pathology detection using images. The second day of the conference started with a motivating keynote speech of Dr. D. P. Kothari, ex-vice chancellor of VIT, who gave a good insight into recent trends in various research areas in computer science and engineering. He emphasized about IoT and the integration of technology with society. It was followed by the keynote speech of Dr. E. Srinivas Reddy, Principal, ANU, who delivered talk on “Insight into machine learning” with various real life applications of machine learning.

For the two-day conference 5 keynotes were included and 23 papers with high quality were selected. The papers will be published in Taylor and Fransis proceeding and few of the selected papers, in its extended versions will be published in Scopus journal.

The conference was chaired by Dr. Anupama and Dr. Soubhagya from School of Computer Science and Engineering, VIT – AP.

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