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The National Seminar on Living Well: Grounding Positive Psychology in Practice was held on January 20, 2014. 35 participants consisting of postgraduate students, research scholars, teaching faculty and practitioners took part in the seminar. The proceedings for the day began with the welcome address by Dr. Tony Sam George, Head of the Department of Psychology. He contextualized the seminar by introducing the participants to the different paradigms in psychology and the need for positive psychology. Following this, Dr. Anil Joseph Pinto, Registrar of Christ University emphasised on the available literature in the field as the starting point for psychological concepts. He also mentioned the multidisciplinary nature of Psychology and the need to strengthen it by introducing a spiritual component into the field. The keynote address was delivered by Dr. Navin Kumar, Associate Professor, University of Delhi.   His talk centred around the influence of mass media on y...

The Department of Sociology, Christ University in collaboration with Institute for Social and Economic Change (ISEC), Bangalore organized a two day national seminar on 12 and 13 March 2014, on the theme ‘Poverty and social exclusion in India: Need for paradigm shift towards an inclusive society’. It was funded by Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR), New Delhi. The seminar aimed at enabling dialogues on the conceptualization of poverty and social exclusion in India. It was attended by several     academicians, faculty and research scholars, policy planners, officials, representatives of civil society, NGOs, media, social and development practitioners from Bangalore and all across India.   Various aspects of poverty and social exclusion, especially the multidimensionality with respect to its intersection with social, economic and political exclusion were presented and discussed in this seminar.   We hope that the deliberations and discussions ...