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Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2021 14:08:27
From: Susmitha Shyamsundar [athena at vitap.ac.in]
Subject: Sciences in the Post-COVID World

 
Reimagining the Paradigm of Humanities and Social Sciences in the Post-COVID World 
Short Title: ATHENA 

Date: 11-Dec-2021 - 13-Dec-2021 
Location: Vijayawada, India 
Contact: Susmitha Shyamsundar 
Contact Email: athena at vitap.ac.in 
Meeting URL: https://vitap.ac.in/athena-an-annual-international-conference-11-13-december-2021/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Applied Linguistics; Cognitive Science; Discipline of Linguistics; Sociolinguistics 

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Meeting Description: 

In March 2020, almost a year and half ago, the spread of COVID-19 forced the
world to a standstill. Our initial days were spent fervently learning about
the virus and the ways to protect ourselves. Simultaneously, we witnessed the
ravages of misinformation (conspiracy theories, anti-vax, anti-mask movements,
etc.) and resulting violence against health-care workers. Moreover, the rise
of unemployment and the subsequent increase in economic disparity forced us to
confront issues such as the re-emergence of racism, communalism, domestic
violence, systemic brutality against marginalized communities, mass migration
of laborers, challenges of working from remote locations and the burnout
induced by the collapse of boundaries between personal and professional lives,
among others. These severe economic upheavals and struggles for livelihood
were accompanied by the overwhelming task of documenting, understanding, and
coping with isolation, grief, and loss amidst unrelenting tragedy. On the
academic front, educational institutes were forced to function online and
shift to hybrid modes of teaching, learning, and research. Apart from
drastically altering the classroom experience for both students and teachers,
Zoom, Google, and MS Teams Classrooms ensured an overall increase in
audio-visual learning. A learner-centric approach combined with creative and
innovative teaching practices have facilitated the effectiveness of online
teaching-learning experiences. However, it cannot be forgotten that in a
country where seamless internet connectivity is a luxury available to only a
limited portion of the nation’s populace, continuous education has been the
privilege of only a few. Owing to economic constraints, we have witnessed a
significant increase in student enrollment in government schools, but the
effectiveness of the learning environment remains unknown. In the light of the
Government of India’s rollout of its new National Education Policy (NEP) which
promises to usher in radical changes towards the country’s educational
approach, the need to contemplate on the future of educational practices,
especially with the benefit of hindsight (post-pandemic), assumes utmost
urgency. This conference aims to bring together academicians, researchers,
policy makers and activists to share their experience and knowledge gained
from the pandemic. By collating their perspectives, we intend to weigh and
consider the lessons that the pandemic has to offer us and re-imagine the ways
in which disciplines such as the Humanities and the Social Sciences can
respond to these unprecedented times. We hope that these discussions and
deliberations will create a space to test novel and inclusive methodologies of
research, teaching, and practice keeping in mind the paradigm shifts and
challenges that the pandemic has thrust upon us.

Sub-themes:

Socio-cultural Anthropology and the Pandemic [Migration, Digital Media and
Misinformation, Public Health]
Pedagogical Changes Due to the Pandemic [Language Teaching & Assessment
(English and Foreign languages), Syllabus Design, Hybrid Learning, Inclusive
Education]
Performative Arts During the Pandemic [Online Concerts, Online Collaborative
Performances]
Pandemic and the Politics of Gender [Work-Life Balance in WFH scenarios,
Sexual and Gender-Based violence during the Pandemic]
Pandemic Narratives [Life Writing, Digital Mourning, Illness Narratives,
Collective Memory, Politics of Care and Aging]
NEP 2020 and the Future of the Education Policy
Changes in Research Methodologies and Data Collection Methods During the
Pandemic
Reconfiguration of Development Studies and Social Work due to COVID-19
 






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