06.30.06
Posted in Uncategorized at 7:48 am by Jon Silpayamanant
So KRRISH is playing at the Georgetown in town (has been for a week now and was actually premiered the day of its release at the local IMAX where Superman Returns: An IMAX 3D Experience is supposed to be playing) and I really want to see it (even if I haven’t seen Koi…Mil Gaya yet).
Ironically, since we’ve all heard the urban legends (or might have experienced personally) of children putting on towels and jumping off furniture or rooftops so they (or we as the case may be) can “fly like Superman,” it seems that KRRISH can have the same effect. Ugh.
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06.28.06
Posted in Uncategorized at 7:15 am by Jon Silpayamanant
I’m speechless…
http://www2.b3ta.com/spidermanwillmakeyougay/
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Posted in Uncategorized at 1:03 am by Jon Silpayamanant
First day of class on “Japanese Animation.” 3:30-5:30 p.m. today through Friday. $126-132. Indianapolis Art Center, 820 East 67th Street, Indianapolis. Information and registration, 317:255-2464. Instructor: Kris Mobley. “Youth and teen class, ages 12-16. “From Tatsunoko Productions’ ‘Speed racer of the 1960s’ to Joe Madureira’s recent Fusion style pencils in ‘The Uncanny X-Men’, Manga has come a long way in America. Come and learn the fascinating history and current significance of this popular comics genre, then take part in the tradition. Emphasizing Manga character design and drawing technique, this course also serves as an excellent introduction to this surprisingly disciplined art form.”
http://www.indplsartcenter.org/
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06.25.06
Posted in Uncategorized at 12:14 pm by Jon Silpayamanant
“Noble Thoughts Come from All Directions”
An Appreciation of the Scholarship of Professor Durganand Sinha
John W. Berry
John W. Berry is Emeritus Professor, Department of Psychology, Queen’s University, Ontario, Canada.
Abstract:
Professor Durganand Sinha was a cross–cultural psychologist with wide–ranging interests and yet firmly rooted in the culture of India. He was the chief proponent of the ecocultural framework which considers human diversity (both cultural and psychological) to be a set of collective and individual adaptations to the given context. From this perspective, it is considered that individuals are born into some extant set of social and cultural arrangements, and that their constant interaction with their ecological surroundings leads to both psychological and cultural changes. Sinha maintained a delicate balance between the cross–cultural comparative and the culturally–rooted character of psychology in his work. Sinha’s scholarship was fundamentally driven by social concerns, both within India and outside.
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06.18.06
Posted in Uncategorized at 12:21 pm by Jon Silpayamanant
On the Indigenization of Psychology in India: Its Unique Form and Progress
John Adair
University of Manitoba
My social studies of science approach over the past several years (Adair, Puhan & Vohra, 1993; Adair, Pandey, Begum, Puhan, & Vohra, 1995) has addressed the question: How does a basically North American (US) discipline of psychology get imported, implanted as an academic discipline, and indigenized (or made culturally appropriate) and developed within quite different cultures around the world into a mature discipline contributing to the understanding and resolution of social issues within each country? In short, this program of research has attempted to discern through empirical study across cultures the manner in which an imported psychology is shaped into a discipline that fits so well to the new culture that it may appear as if it was indigenous. In a fully-realized indigenous psychology the theories, concepts, research problems, hypotheses, methods, and measures emanate from, adequately represent, and the results of the research reflect back upon the cultural context in which behavior is observed, rather than coming from and addressing a foreign research literature. Through longitudinal content analyses of published research, biblio-metric analyses, interviews and surveys of researchers in several countries my colleagues and I have developed an empirical base from which to make a number of observations about the indigenization process.
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So KRRISH is playing at the Georgetown in town (has been for a week now and was actually premiered the day of its release at the local IMAX where Superman Returns: An IMAX 3D Experience is supposed to be playing) and I really want to see it (even if I haven’t seen Koi…Mil Gaya yet).