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Humanities

Dean: Prof Sangeetha Menon

The School of Humanities is engaged in research in the broad areas of philosophy, psychology, literature, fine arts, and culture. Research in the School currently focuses on philosophical foundations of sciences; cognitive sciences; scientific and philosophical studies of consciousness; Indian psychology and philosophy; history and philosophy of biology; archaeometalurgy and analysis of ancient metals; and translations of literary classics in Kannada into English.

OPPORTUNITY

Post-doctoral Fellow Position (Philosophy in Action)(Last Date to Apply: 30 June 2018) New!

Aditi Kathpalia	B. V. Sreekantan	Ekta Gupta
Krupa Rajangam	Kuili Suganya	M.B.Rajani
Malavika Kapur	Meera Kumar	Naresh Keerthi
Niharika Sharma	Nitesh. S. Anchan	Nithin Nagaraj
S. Ranganathan	S. Settar	Samiksha Bajpai
Sangeetha Menon	Shankar R	Sharada Srinivasan
Shatarupa Bhata...	Siddharth S	Sisir Roy
Smriti Haricharan	Srikumar M. Menon	Sumithra Sunder
Sundar Sarukkai	Varun S Bhatta	Venkatesh K.N.
Vijayashree C S

Current Programmes

Past Programme

J, S.Kiran Redd & Roy, S., 2019. The Difference in Traditional and Contemporary Meditative Pathways. Prabuddha Bharat.
Settar, S., 2018. Prakruta Jagadvalaya: convergence of Prakrit, Kannada and Sanskrit languages, Bengaluru: Abhinava. Available at: https://www.sapnaonline.com/books/prakruta-jagadvalaya-settar-s-1234096862-5551234096864?position=1&searchString=prakruta%20jagadvalaya.
Kapur, M., 2018. What's the Hurry? Let Children be Children, New Delhi: Vitasta Publishing Pvt. Ltd. Available at: https://www.amazon.in/Whats-Hurry-Let-Children-Children/dp/9386473305/ref=sr_1_2/260-5084081-4272248?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1534398046&sr=1-2&refinements=p_27%3AMalavika+Kapur.
Roy, S., 2018. Quantum Entanglement and the Philosophy of Relations: Jaina Perspective. In Jain Philosophy: a scientific approach to reality. Jain Philosophy: a scientific approach to reality. Ladnun: Bhagawan Mahavira International Research Center.
Rajani, M.B. & Das, S., 2018. Archaeological Remains at Nalanda: A Spatial Comparison of Nineteenth Century Observations and the Protected World Heritage Site. In Records, Recoveries, Remnants and Inter-Asian Interconnections: Decoding Cultural Heritage. Records, Recoveries, Remnants and Inter-Asian Interconnections: Decoding Cultural Heritage. Singapore: ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute. Available at: https://bookshop.iseas.edu.sg/publication/2305.
Kapur, M., 2018. Childcare in the Indigenous Health Systems in India from the Perspectives of Developmental and Health Psychology. In Psychosocial Interventions for Health and Well-Being. Psychosocial Interventions for Health and Well-Being. Springer, pp. 125-136. Available at: https://www.springer.com/in/book/9788132237808.
Menon, S.M., 2018. Megaliths: New perspectives for future studies. In Beyond stones and more stones. Beyond stones and more stones. Bengaluru: Mythic Society, pp. 208-256.
Chippali, M. & Sarukkai, S., 2018. Conceptual Priority of Translation over Language. In A Multilingual Nation: Translation and Language Dynamic in India. A Multilingual Nation: Translation and Language Dynamic in India. New Delhi: OUP, pp. 309-324. Available at: https://india.oup.com/product/a-multilingual-nation-9780199478774.
Sarukkai, S., 2018. Ekalavya and the Possibility of Learning. In Exploring Agency in the Mahabharata: Ethical and Political Dimensions of Dharma. Exploring Agency in the Mahabharata: Ethical and Political Dimensions of Dharma. Routledge India, pp. 179-194. Available at: https://www.routledge.com/Exploring-Agency-in-the-Mahabharata-Ethical-and-Political-Dimensions-of/Bhattacharya-Dalmiya-Mukherji/p/book/9781138709201.
Murthi, K.R.Sridhara & Kadusrinivas Rao, M., 2018. In Emerging EO Newspace Global Markets - Challenges for Indian Remote Sensing Systems. In 69th International Astronautical Congress (IAC). 69th International Astronautical Congress (IAC). October 2018. Bremen, Germany: International Astronautical Congress (IAC).
Kadusrinivas Rao, M. et al., 2018. How Farmers Benefit from Integration of EO, Meteorological, Positioning and Field Data in an Analytics Engine – The AGRI-GIS Example of S Odisha, India. In 69th International Astronautical Congress (IAC). 69th International Astronautical Congress (IAC). October 2018. Bremen, Germany: International Astronautical Congress (IAC).
Thakur, H., 2018. Buddhism, donors and donations at Sannati (3rd century BC- 3rd century AD) – an archaeo-material perspective. In International Conference on the Growth and Development of Indian Culture: Historical and Literary Perspectives (Pre-historic Period-12th C CE.) . International Conference on the Growth and Development of Indian Culture: Historical and Literary Perspectives (Pre-historic Period-12th C CE.) . 29-6 to 1-7-2018. Bengaluru: Dr. S.R. Rao Memorial foundation for Indian Archaeology, Art and Culture.
Menon, S.M., 2018. From megaliths to temples: Astronomy in the lithic record of South India. 9th International Conference on Oriental Astronomy, Growth and Development of Astronomy and Astrophysics in India and the Asia-Pacific Region, p.241‒258.
Majumdar, S. & Roy, S., 2018. Relevance of Quantum Mechanics in Bacterial Communication . NeuroQuantology, 16(3). Available at: https://www.neuroquantology.com/index.php/journal/article/view/1057/929.
Thakur, H., 2018. Role of Geography in sustenance of Pre-historic Settlements in Karnataka, India. Annals of the National Association of Geographers, India (NAGI), 38(1), pp.72-88.

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