"A critique is not a matter of saying that things are not right as they are. It is a matter of pointing out on what kinds of assumptions, what kinds of familiar, unchallenged, unconsidered modes of thought the practices that we accept rest".

- Michel Foucault “Practicing criticism, or, is it really important to think?”, interview by Didier Eribon, May 30-31, 1981, in Politics, Philosophy, Culture, ed. L. Kriztman (1988), p. 155

Monday, June 20, 2011

ചരിത്രത്തിലെ ചെറുസ്വരങ്ങള്‍ (ജൂലൈ- 2ന് രാവിലെ 10മണിക്ക്)

malabar-prgm

ചരിത്രത്തിലെ ചെറുസ്വരങ്ങള്‍

ഷംഷാദ് ഹുസൈന്‍ Ma La Bar

Thursday, June 2, 2011

objective

Critical Thinking Initiative has been conceived as a common platform of researchers, faculty members and non teaching staff of SSUS. Its prime objective is to facilitate a vibrant research atmosphere paving the way for serious research and knowledge production. Primarily the Initiative will function as a platform for interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research. But this will not result in the exclution of meticulous disciplinary research from the ambit of the Initiative. Original research, discipl;inary or inter-multi disciplinary, which leads to the production of critical knowledge will be the Initiative's desired goal.
The main objective/activity of the Initiative is the presentation of research papers. This will be held in the third or fourth Saturday of every month. There will be at least ten sessions in a year and most of the papers presented in these sessions should be from the members of the Initiative. Apart from this there will be an annual seminar in which ten or fifteen papers may be presented and discussed.