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Academic Events

Thirteenth Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan Memorial Lecture on The Intellectual and Society: Role and Responsibility by His Excellency Shri M. Hamid Ansari, the Vice-President of India, 16 April 2009. Click here to read the text…….
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July 2009

Conferences, Seminars and Workshops:

Lectures by Visiting Scholars:

  • Democracy and Violence: In South Asia and Beyond, by Professor Ramachandra Guha, Eminent Historian and Writer, Bangalore. Click here to read text ......
  • Television, Citizenship and Publicness: Re-reading Doordarshan's History by Dr. Abhijit Roy, Reader Department of Film Studies, Jadavpur University, Calcutta. Click here to read text.....
  • Algebra in Antiquity by Professor G.S. Pandey, President, Indian Society for History of Mathematics, Ujjain.
  • The Impossible Exit by Professor Ranabir Samaddar, Director, Mahanirban Kolkata Research Group, Kolkata. Click here to read text....
  • Two Lectures by: Professor Noor Ahmad Baba, Department of Political Science, University of Kashmir, Srinagar:

Thursday Seminars:

  • Reading Hind Swaraj in two Languages by Professor Tridip Suhrud, Fellow IIAS, 2 July 2009.

June 2009

Summer School and Workshop:

  • Summer School on Research Methodology: Analyzing Quantitative Data on Indian Politics in collaboration with CSDS at IIAS Shimla, 15 to 27 June 2009.
  • Seminar on Thinking Democracy, 24-26 June 2009. Cancelled

Lectures by Visiting Professors:

Three Lectures By: Professor Arun Patnaik, Department of Political Science, University of Hyderabad:

(i) A Critique of Crony Secularism in India: Towards Rebuilding India after Mumbai 26/11, 3 June 2009. Click here to read the text.....
(ii) The Need for "Discovery of India": Towards an Indian Political Theory of India, 5 June 2009. Click here to read the text.....
 (iii) Ambedkar's Method: Towards an Immanent Critique of Egalitarian . Click here to read the text.....

Thursday Seminars:

  • Traditional Wisdom of Plants consumed by Man as subsidiary food in the Himalayas by Dr. B.D.Sharma, Fellow IIAS, 4 June 2009.
  • Hindi Dalit Sahitya Ka Samajik Pacshh: Vishesh Sandharbh Tatkalin Dalit Sahitya by Dr. Sheoraj Singh, Fellow IIAS, 11 June 2009.
  • Poltical Praxis of Gandhian 'Basic' Education and Post-Colonial Ripples, 1904-1964 by Dr. Joseph Bara, Fellow IIAS, 18 June 2009.
  • Women in Popular Theatre: Nautanki and Tamasha by Dr. Lata Singh, Fellow IIAS, 25 June 2009.)

May 2009

Conferences, Seminars, Workshops and Meetings:
  • Conference on Commemorating Hind Swaraj in collaboration with CSDS, at IIC New Delhi, 16-19 May 2009. Click here to read the text.....
  • Customary Governance and Democracy-Building Exploring the Linkages (Expert Consultation Meeting) in collaboration with International IDEA, Stromsborg, Stockholm, at IIAS Shimla, 22-23 May 2009.
  • Workshop on Miniature Paintings, 26-31 May 2009.

Lectures by Visiting Scholars:

  • Three Lectures on Is Modern Cosmology a Scientific Theory? by Professor Jayant V. Narlikar, Former Director, Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astro-Physics, Pune, 25 and 29 May 2009. Click here to read the text .....
  • One Lecture on Philosophy in Colonial India, by Professor Sharad Deshpande, University of Pune, 21 May 2009. Click here to read the text........

  • Two Lectures on (i) Subcontinental Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Citizenship in Overseas Contexts and (ii) Contemporary Religious Conversions in Tamil Nadu: Meenakshipurm and Beyond by Professor M.A. Kalam, Department of Anthropology, University of Madras, 22 and 23 May 2009. Click here to read the text .....

Thursday Seminars:

  • The Language of Literature by Professor Bhalchandra Nemade, Fellow IIAS, 7 May 2009
  • Molecular Epidemiology of Parasitics in HIV/AIDS Patients of North East India, by Professor L.A. Anand, Fellow IIAS, 14 May 2009
  • Revisiting the CFSI: Santosh Sivan's Malli (1998), by Dr. Ajanta Sircar, Fellow IIAS, 21 May 2009

April 2009

Conferences, Seminars and Workshops:

  • Workshop on Charting the Future of the Classics in India, 25-26 April 2009. Click here to read the text.....
  • Seminar on Violence in the Home, 23-25 April 2009. Click here to read the text.....
  • Seminar on Cultural Flows Across the Western Himalaya, in collaboration with the University of Vienna, at IIAS Shimla, 15-18 April 2009.
Lectures by Visiting Professors:
  • Crisis In the Classics? by Professor Sheldon Pollock, The William B. Ransford Professor of Sanskrit and Indian Studies, Columbia University, New York and General Editor of Clay Sanskrit Library, 25 April 2009. Click here to read the text.....
  • Hindi Before the Nation by Dr. Allison Busch, Professor of Hindi and Indian Literature, Columbia University, New York, 21 April 2009. Click here to read the text .....
Lectures by Visiting Scholars:
  • Philosophy, Education and the Arts, by Professor Mrinal Miri, Former Vice Chancellor, North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong, 17 April 2009
  • Some Aspects of V.R.Shinde's Thought by Professor Ram Bapat, Former Professor of Poltical Science, University of Pune, 27 April 2009
Thursday Seminars:
  • Postcolonial Theory: Promise and Performance by Professor Satish C. Aikant, Fellow IIAS, 9 April 2009
  • The Artist, Obscenity and Freedom of Expression by Professor Peter Ronald deSouza, Director, IIAS, 23 April 2009
  • Conceptualization of the Social in Colonial North India: A Conceptual Historical Analysis of Hindi Vernacular Discourse by Dr. Mohinder Singh, Fellow IIAS, 30 April 2009

March 2009

Conferences, Seminars and Workshops:

  • Seminar on The Construction of the Idea of Evil, in collaboration with ICSSR-NERC, at Kohima, 31 March-1 April 2009. Click here to read the text .....
  • Workshop on National Integration and Identity Violence, in collaboration with ICPR, New Delhi at Shillong, 20-23 March 2009
  • Seminar on The Dynamics of Culture, Society and Identity: Emerging Literature from North-East India, at Aizal, 10-11 March 2009. Click here to read the text .....

January 2009

  • Winter School on: Classroom Introduction to Philosophy: Understanding the Nature of Reality, Knowledge and Value, in collaboration with IIT Guwahati, at Guwahati, 30 December-10 January 2009. Click here to read the text .....

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October 2009

Conferences, Seminars and Workshops:

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