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The Quarterly Newsletter of South Asian University | Volume 3 Issue 4 June 2019

Interactions

SAU-SAGE Author Workshops

New Delhi (Feb, March & May 2019) SAU
Sociology News: The Department of
Sociology facilitated three SAU-Sage
Author Workshops in the Winter 2019
semester. The Sage Author workshops
have been developed by Sage, as part of
its Corporate Social Responsibility
initiative, and aim to work with research
scholarsatuniversitiesacrossthecountry,
helping them to strengthen their writing
capacity, particularly as they seek to
develop and publish their academic work
for public consumption a nd
dissemination. The workshops held at SAU were open to students from the Faculty of Law, Economics,
Sociology and International Relations. Of these, two workshops were aimed specifically at MPhil/PhD
students,whileoneworkshopwasdesignedforMAstudents.

The workshops were conducted by Arpita Das, publisher at Yoda Press, on behalf of Sage, and
coordinated by Dr. Diya Mehra, on behalf of the Department of Sociology. The workshops were entitled:
‘Notetaking for Academic Writing’ (thirty MA students), ‘Structuring your Dissertation’ (twelve
MPhil/PhD students) and ‘Writing as an Academic’ (twelve MPhil/PhD students). All three workshops
wereoversubscribed,withstudentsrequestingthatadditionalworkshopsbeheldinthenearfuture.

Gender Sensitization Committee Event

New Delhi (10.04.2019) SAU News: Pandies Theatre presented
Exploring Gender, an event organized by the SAU Gender
Sensitization Committee, on 10 April 2019 at the SAU campus.
The group presented four pieces of play, each on a distinctive
issueofgenderbiasandchallenges.Committedtostagingplays
relevant to the ethos and time of the current generation,
Pandies Theatre group has a secular, pro-minority agenda and
worksonlyonprojectsthatarebiasedtowardstheseissues.

The group is led by Dr. Sanjay Kumar, who is a practitioner of
activist theatre. As the founding President of Pandies’ Theatre
and the director/chief-facilitator of its productions since 1993,
he has been creating performances with and for the
marginalizedinIndiaforover20years.

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