Dr Ashok Da Ranade Memorial Trust Presents
The 12th Dr Ashok Da Ranade Memorial Lecture
Integrating Arts: Building Education towards Freedom
Speaker: Pankaj Chandra
(Vice-Chancellor of Ahmedabad University and eminent academic.)
Date: November 25, 2023 | Time: 11 AM, Saturday
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Please join us for the 12th Dr Ashok Da Ranade Memorial Lecture, which will feature a talk by Professor Pankaj Chandra, Vice-Chancellor of Ahmedabad University and eminent academic. We will meet online for this lecture.
About the lecture:
Title: Integrating Arts: Building Education towards Freedom
Why does any society want its people to be educated? And what is the role of arts within it? In this day and age of technology, the big question that one grapples with is whether education is making you think and how does one learn to think. We believe that by integrating arts, one is able to view the world more comprehensively, bring extended emotion into education, and build skills that are more diverse to address complex questions. The talk will explore this world of how art is presented in a liberal arts framework and what stands in its way in today’s India.
About the speaker:
Professor Pankaj Chandra is the Vice Chancellor of Ahmedabad University. He was the Director of the IIM Bangalore and Professor of Operations & Technology Management at IIM Ahmedabad. He has been a full-time tenured faculty at McGill University and IIM Ahmedabad and a visiting professor at various universities overseas.
He has served on several committees of Government of India and currently serves on policy committees related to the New Education Policy as well on international Supply Chain Resilience.
Professor Chandra’s research and teaching interests include Manufacturing Management, Supply Chain Coordination, Building Technological Capabilities, and higher education policy. His recent book titled ‘Building Universities that Matter’ studies issues of Governance, Change & Institution Building in Indian Universities. He is involved in building a liberal art driven research University and within it, a School of Performing and Visual Arts.
Warm regards
Trustees
Dr Ashok Da. Ranade Memorial Trust