8.00 am to 10.00 am

Breakfast at Ashoka University

11.00 am 

Symposium opening

11.20 am

KEYNOTE ADDRESS
"Is this a thing yet?": Writing Pedagogy in India 

Anannya Dasgupta (Krea University)

12.00 pm 

PANEL DISCUSSION 1

Establishing a space: What are the conditions needed for critical work? 

Chair: Aparna Vaidik (Professor of History, Ashoka University, Sonepat)

• Rohini Sen (Assistant Professor, Jindal Global Law School, Sonepat) 

• Namrata R. Ganneri (Assistant Professor, SNDT College of Arts & SCB College of Commerce & Science for Women, Mumbai) 

• Dakshayini Suresh (Teacher, Sociology and Library, Centre for Learning, Bangalore) 

• Jyoti Parameswaran (Research Scholar, Jain University, Bangalore) 

• Ananya Dasgupta (Critical Writing Faculty, YIF, Ashoka University, Sonepat) and Arunava Banerjee (Senior Coordinator, Breakthrough Trust)

1.45 pm

Lunch

3.00 pm 

PANEL DISCUSSION 2

Teaching by doing: What tools and exercises do we use to cultivate critical reading and writing in our students? 

Chair:  Aditi Sriram  (Associate Professor, Shiv Nadar University, Chennai)

• Neerav Dwivedi (Senior Writing Fellow, Ashoka University)

• Vasudha Katju (Assistant Professor, Kautilya School of Public Policy, GITAM) 

• Rashmi Shaju (Teaching Associate, IIT Gandhinagar)

• Kumud Bhansali (Postdoctoral Researcher, South Asian University-Aarhus University)

• Samiksha Bajpai (Assistant Professor, Shiv Nadar Institute of Eminence, Gautam Buddha Nagar, NOIDA) 

• *Sayantan Datta (Faculty Teaching Associate, Centre for Writing and Pedagogy and Coordinator, Conversation Partner Programme, Krea University, Sri City)
  
  

*This paper will be presented at the top of Day Two, although it is part of the ‘Tools and Provocations’ panel. 

4.45 pm 

PAIRED DISCUSSION 

Giving feedback: How do we negotiate the student-teacher relationship in feedback exercises?  

Moderator: Rashmi Muraleedhar (Writing Instructor, Undergraduate Writing Programme, Ashoka University, Sonipat)

• Sayan Chaudhuri (Critical Writing Faculty, YIF, Ashoka University, Sonepat)

• Neha Mishra (Assistant Professor of Practice, Centre for Writing and Pedagogy, Krea University, Sri City)

5.30 pm

Tea and Coffee Break

6.15 pm

PANEL DISCUSSION 3 

Grappling with language: How do we negotiate the linguistic hierarchies in an ‘English-medium’ classroom?

Chair: Jyotirmoy Talukdar (Senior Writing Fellow, Centre for Writing and Communication, Ashoka University)

• Akanksha Varma and Monal Desai (Teaching Associates, Writing Studio, IIT Gandhinagar)

• Sukhmani Singh (Project Associate, Peepul, Ghaziabad)

• Neelima Menon (Lecturer, Azim Premji University, Bangalore)

• Vrinda Bhatia (PhD scholar, JNU, New Delhi)

• Sarah Talat (Lecturer, Azim Premji University, Bangalore)

8.00 pm

Dinner

8.00 am to 9.15 am

Breakfast at Ashoka University

9.30 am 

* Tools and Provocations Panel: final paper is presented. This is Sayantan Datta’s paper carried forward from Day One. 

9.50 am 

PANEL DISCUSSION 4

Teaching through a subject: How do critical thinking and writing navigate disciplinary frameworks? 

Chair: Krittika Bhattacharjee (Assistant Professor and Head, Undergraduate Writing Programme, Ashoka University, Sonepat)

• Nikhita Thomas (Assistant Professor, St. Joseph’s University, Bangalore) 

• Sumathi N (Assistant Professor, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Bangalore)

• S. Satish Kumar (Visiting Faculty, Ashoka University) 

• Sayantan Datta (Faculty Teaching Associate, Centre for Writing and Pedagogy and Coordinator, Conversation Partner Programme, Krea University, Sri City) and Vivek Tewary (Assistant Professor, School of Interwoven Arts and Sciences, Krea University). 

• Madhura Lohokare (Associate Professor, Centre for Writing Studies, O.P. Jindal Global University)

11.20 am

Tea and Coffee Break

12.30 pm

Special Session
The Afterlife of a Text: Why Loiter in the Classroom

• Arpita Das (Senior Writing Instructor with Undergraduate Writing Programme and Visiting Professor of Creative Writing, Ashoka University, Sonepat)

• Kundan Sen (Writing Instructor, Undergraduate Writing Programme, Ashoka University) 

• Shilpa Phadke (Professor and Dean, School of Media and Cultural Studies, TISS, Mumbai)

12.50 pm

Closing Keynote

Parvati's Diary: The Afterlife of a "Text"

Shilpa Phadke (Professor and Dean, School of Media and Cultural Studies, TISS, Mumbai)

1.30 pm

Announcing the winner(s) of the Sage-Ashoka Award for Critical Writing Pedagogies

Symposium closing

2.00 pm 

Lunch

3.00 pm

Participants depart campus, either by cabs or shuttles