International Talkies

The International Affairs Quiz 2021  was organized by Lyceum, the Postgraduate Students’ Association of the Department of International Studies, Political Science, and History, at Christ Deemed to be University, on 12 November 2021. Being the first event to be conducted in the hybrid mode, the majority of the students attended the event at Room No. 911 of the Central Block, in the Central Campus, between 3pm and 4pm, while the others attended online. There was a commendable audience turnout and a good degree of participation from the students of Master of Arts in International Studies. The event was declared open by Dr. Madhumati Deshpande, the academic coordinator and the Head of the Department. The Master of Ceremonies for the event was Miss. Hanspreet Kaur of 3MAIS, who explained in detail that the competition would have two rounds. The first round entailed a written assessment, with the participants being shown ten questions through a PowerPoint presentation and asked to writ...

  Lyceum, the post-graduate Students’ Association of M.A (international studies) under the Department of International Studies, Political Science and History, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), organised a panel discussion on the topic, ‘Action on Climate Change: Postponement or Anticipation’ on 13 th November 2021. The panel discussion was held in hybrid mode. The event started with a welcome note by Judith Blessy of 3MAIS, followed by an introduction to the event’s judges by Sneha M of 3MAIS. The event was judged by Ms Rashmi BR and Ms Akriti Sharma, both doctoral scholars at the School of Security Studies, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bengaluru. The event proceeded to the panel discussion, which Deeksha Pandey of 3MAIS eloquently moderated. Two panellists spoke on the anticipation of action on Climate Change, while two other panellists discussed the postponement of action on climate change. The first speaker was Priya Shakthi of 1MAIS, who spoke extensively about th...

WORKSHOP AND RESEARCH PAPER PRESENTATION COMPETITION ON INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS IN INDIA   There have been several perspectives on Indian federalism. For instance, it has been called quasi-federal, federalism with unitary features and so on.  However, whether one can bracket the functioning of Indian federalism under a static concept is questionable. Rather, it has proven to be a dynamic concept with tilts in favour of states and centre respectively, according to the nature of power relations that exists between them. For example, while coalition era governments increased the federal tendencies of Indian polity, one can argue that acts like GST have weakened them. Similarly, there have been variations in inter-state relationships. Depending on various political and economic contexts, these relationships have manifested as both acrimonious and friendly, resulting in certain instances xenophobic outbursts, and otherwise fraternal relations. In this ...

The Department of International Studies, History and Political Science, as a part of its Continental Catch monthly webinar series and collaboration with the Singapore University of Social Sciences (SUSS), invited Dr. Omer Ali Saifudeen, Senior Lecturer in School of Humanities and Behavioural Sciences, Singapore University of Social Sciences (SUSS), to address the topic, ‘Ethnic Identities and Terrorism.’, on Monday 8th November 2021, from 3 pm to 4:30 pm. The event began with Dr. Madhumati Deshpande, HOD of the Department of International Studies, History and Political Science, presenting the Welcome speech. The webinar was conducted in hybrid mode, where few students were online and the rest attending the webinar along with the faculty offline. The webinar was very engaging where the speaker used online poll to access our understanding before and after the webinar. It was a thought-provoking seminar, where Dr. Saifudeen broke the stereotypes surrounding identity and its theories. The...

The Model United Nations Society of Department of International Studies, Political Science and History organized an event on the occasion of United Nations Day on 23rd October 2021. It was celebrated with competitions throughout the week like Movie review, Book review, Photography, meme making, and creative writing. The occasion began with the virtual welcome address by Dr Madhumati Deshpande, Co-ordinator, Department of International Studies, Political Science and History followed by the offline address by Dr Jose CC, Pro Vice Chancellor, Christ (Deemed to be university) who spoke about the importance of coming together for prosperity and peacekeeping. The emcees for the day were Komal Salecha and Shrestha Medhi from 2MAIS. The event was then graced by a talk by the chief guest, Mr James George Chacko who is the country programme advisor, East Asia and the Pacific Cluster, Country Office Support and Quality Assurance, UNDP Regional Bureau for Asia and the Pacific. He holds a postg...