Funded Research Projects

Programmatic agenda Anusūcī

Day 1
Time Sub theme
Upaviṣaya 		Speaker
Vaktā
8:15 - 9:20 Hours Registration
Paṃjīkaraṇa
9:25 - 10:00 Hours Welcome address
Svāgata bhāṣaṇa 		Prof. Kamal Lochan Panigrahi
Blessing
aśīrvacana 		Smt. Parvathy Baul
Prof. Santosh Shukla
Lamp Lighting and Prayer ( dīpa prajvalan evaṃ stuti ) Invited Speakers and Dignitaries; Pranamya Bhat (stuti)
Inauguration address (udghāṭana bhāṣaṇa) Prof. Virendra Kumar Tewari
Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
Launch of the CoE-IKS 2024 Calendar: चरन् वै मधु विन्दति by Honourable Director, IIT Kharagpur Prof. Mahesh K | Prof. Dipesh V Katira
Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
10:05 - 10:35 Hours Project context - Emerging inter-disciplinary models based on the study of niṣkāma sevā (selfless social service) in different Indic schools of thought Prof. Richa Chopra
Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
10:40 - 11:10 Hours niṣkāma sevā (selfless social service) in Different Schools of Indic Thought: Alternate Models for Mainstream Social Work Prof. Dhananjay Singh
Indian Council of Social Science Research, Delhi		 Key note address

Spirituality and social work: Global trends
11:15 - 11:45 Hours #1: The need for spirituality in social work: From academia to case studies Padmabhushan Prof. Kapil Kapoor
Formerly -Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla 		Special address

TEA BREAK 11:50 - 12:10 Hours

12:15 - 13:25 Hours #2: Spirituality in mainstream social work: understanding Shri Shrivatsa Goswami
Acharya, Radha Raman Temple, Vrindavan 		Panel discussion
Prof. Pamela Singla
Dept. of Social Work, University of Delhi
Shri. Raghava Krishna (Moderator)
Founder and CEO Brhat Culture Creative LLP

LUNCH 13:30 - 14:55 Hours

Lunch & guided tour to Bhārata tirtha , CoE - IKS (for speakers)
CoE-IKS visit (for speakers) - Facilitated by Prof. Dipesh Vinod Katira

Indic conceptualizations of spirituality: Micro- oriented spiritual enculturation
to macro-oriented altruistic demonstrations
15:00 - 15:30 Hours # 3: Micro- oriented spiritual enculturation advaita vedānta Swami Shastrajnananda
Ramakrishna Mission Ashrama, Narendrapur		 Featured talk
15:35 - 16:05 Hours # 4: Macro- oriented altruistic demonstrations gaudīya vaiṣṇavism Dr Lila Purushottam Das (Prof. Laxmidhar Behera)
Indian Institute of Technology, Mandi

TEA BREAK & POSTER PRESENTATION
sphoraka - patrāya prastutikā 16:10 - 17:10 Hours

Cultural program sāṃskṛtika kāryakrama at S N Bose auditorium

17:30 : 19:00 Hours Indian classical music Mrs. Deepali Sandeep Kulkarni
Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
Tabla sangat Prof. Dipesh Vinod Katira
Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
nṛtya sevā Mr. Sunil Sunkara
Founder, NataRavi Dance Academic Head, World Forum For Art and Culture

Day 2
Time Sub theme
upaviṣaya 		Speaker
vaktā
6:30 - 7:15 Hours yoga sādhana RS Deepak Khurana
Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
9:00 - 9:30 Hours Registration paṃjīkaraṇa

Postulates of niṣkāma sevā from various Indic schools of thoughts:
Sanātana dharma, Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism
9:30 - 10:00 Hours #5 niṣkāma sevā: ṣāstric worldview Prof. K. Ramasubramanian
Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay 		Featured talk
10:05 - 10:35 Hours #6 sanātana dharma (sahajiyā Vaiṣṇavism) Smt. Parvathy Baul
Baul Sampradāya

TEA BREAK 10:40 - 11:00 Hours

11:05 - 11:35 Hours # 7 Buddhism Prof. Geshe Ngawang Samten la
The Central Institute for Higher Tibetan Studies, Varanasi 		Featured talk
11:40 - 12:10 Hours # 8: Jainism Prof. Santosh Kumar Shukla
School of Sanskrit and Indic Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
12:15 - 12:45 Hours # 9: Sikhism Prof. Jagbir Singh
Central University of Punjab, Bathinda

Lunch & CoE-IKS Visit (for delegates) 12:50 - 14:10 Hours

CoE-IKS Visit (for delegates) by Prof. Jayashree Gajjam
14:45 - 15:15 Hours niṣkāma sevā in contemporary times Prof. Anil Sahasrabudhe
National Educational Technology Forum, Delhi 		Special session

Elements from various Indic schools of thoughts to reconstruct models of spiritually
inclined social work interventions
15:20 - 16:45 Hours # 10: Elements from various Indic schools of thought to reconstruct models of spiritually inclined social work interventions Prof. Kapil Kapoor
Formerly -Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla 		Panel discussion
Prof. Geshe Ngawang Samten la
The Central Institute for Higher Tibetan Studies, Varanasi
Prof. K. Ramasubramanian
Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
Prof. Kalpana Sarathy
Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Guwahati
Sh. Raghava Krishna (Moderator)
Founder and CEO Brhat Culture Creative LLP

TEA BREAK 16:45 - 17:05 Hours

Relevance and future research directions
17:10 - 18:00 Hours # 11: Towards a new curriculum; Spiritual foundation of social work education: The way forward Prof. K. Ramasubramanian
Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay 		Panel discussion
Prof. Pamela Singla
Dept. of Social Work, University of Delhi
Prof. Anil Sahasrabudhe
National Educational Technology Forum, Delhi
Prof. Richa Chopra (Moderator)
Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
18:05 - 18:30 Hours Valedictory ceremony & best posters awards Prof. Virendra Kumar Tewari (Valedictory address)
Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
18:35 - 18:40 Hours Vote of thanks Prof. Richa Chopra
Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
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*Subject to last minute change.
**The alignment of the sessions to "Viṣaya evaṃ Upaviṣaya" is broad-based & for the purpose of an overall structure.