The Manipal Centre for Humanities meets the Centre for South Asian Studies

Join us for the panel discussion featuring Nikhil Govind, Jagriti Gangopadhyay, Mohamed Shafeeq Karinkurayil, and Gayathri Prabhu from the Manipal Centre for Humanities.

 

The Manipal Centre for Humanities is one of two Centres of Excellence under the Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE)--MAHE itself was one of the six original Institutes of Eminence recognized by the Government of India in 2018. Over the last decade, the Manipal Centre for Humanities has helped pioneer in India a strong multi-disciplinary, research-driven, and India-relevant approach to undergraduate and graduate education. Its faculty are internationally recognized in three key disciplines--literature, sociology and history--and many of its students and alumni are at the forefront of South Asia research in India, Europe and North America.

 

This is the first of a series of encounters, planned for the coming years, in which research and teaching institutions in South Asia represented by their faculty will be invited by the Centre for South Asian Studies to present their work, discuss shared interests, and meet and exchange as collectives dealing with the same global challenges.

 

Panelists' Bios:

 

Jagriti Gangopadhyay is currently an Assistant Professor at the Manipal Centre for Humanities. She did her PhD from the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar. Recently she was awarded the Shastri Publication Grant by the Shastri Indo Canadian Institute for her monograph titled Culture, Context and Aging of Older Indians: Narratives from India and Beyond, published by Springer. This year she co-edited a book titled Eldercare Issues in China and India, published by Routledge: UK. Her work analyzes the intersections between health, cultural practices, laws, and policies among older adults.

 

Nikhil Govind joined the Manipal Centre for Humanities after completing his doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley. His research interests include modern Indian literature and film. He is the author of Between Love and Freedom: The Revolutionary in the Hindi Novel (Routledge, 2014), Inlays of Subjectivity: Affect and Action in Modern Indian Literature (Oxford, 2019), (with Gayathri Prabhu), Shadow Craft: Visual Aesthetics of Black and White Hindi Cinema (Bloomsbury Academic, 2021), and The Moral Imagination of the Mahabharata (Bloomsbury Academic, 2022). He has been Head of the Manipal Centre of Humanities since 2015.

 

Mohamed Shafeeq Karinkurayil is interested in the cultural dimensions of the migration to the Arabian Gulf from the south Indian state of Kerala. His papers on various aspects of the cultures of Gulf migration have appeared on various platforms including academic journals. Shafeeq received his PhD in Cultural Studies from the English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad.

 

Gayathri Prabhu is Associate Professor at the Manipal Centre for Humanities and holds a doctoral degree in English from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She is the author of four novels, a memoir and a novella in prose poetry. She is also the co-author (with Nikhil Govind) of Shadow Craft: Visual Aesthetics of Black and White Hindi Cinema (Bloomsbury Academic, 2021). She works with mental health advocacy and is the Coordinator of the Student Support Centre, a psychotherapy service for students in Manipal.