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Academic Events 2009

Seminars, Meetings, Schools, Workshops, Conferences, Colloquium
Seminars
Violence and the Performing Art, 13-14 December 2008
Exploring Non Violence, 20-22 October 2008
Dalit Sahitya ki Avdharna mein Rangmanch, 25-26 September 2008
Flattening Diversity, Educational Planning in India, 29-30 May 2008
Diversities in the Indian Diaspora, Nature Implications and Responses, 7-9 May 2008
Philosophy as Samvad and Swaraj, 28-30 April 2008
Recognising Himalyan Diversity, 18-19 April 2008
Representing Diversity, Ideas and Institutions, 3-4 April 2008 Details...
Treating Diversity, Traditional Medicines in Contemporary India, 15-16 March 2008
Celebrating Diversity, Foods and Flavours, 7-8 March 2008
Troubled Diversity , The Political Process in the North East India, 29 February-2 March 2008 Details...
Managing Diversity, Electoral System and Process in India, 8-9 February 2008
Meetings 
Seventh Meeting on the Field Theoretic Aspects of Gravitation, 15-19 November 2008
Preliminary Meeting on Studying the Mahabharata, 14 July 2008
Tocqueville Project Meeting, 1-2 May 2008
A One-day Meeting to Mark the 60th Anniversary of Gandhi's Assassination, 30 January 2008 Details...
Schools 
Autumn School on Oral as Resource, 1-14 November 2008
Summer School on Research Methodology Analayzing Quantitative Data on Indian Politics, 16-28 June 2008
Workshops 
Cultures of Governance and Resolution of Conflicts: A Euro-Indian Dialogue, 21-22 November 2008

Writing the Future: Celebrating New Writing from the Asia-Pacific, 12-17 October 2008

Conference
Special Economic Zones: Economic and Social Perspective, 18-20 September 2008
Colloquium

One-day Colloquium on Gandhi, Governance and the Corporation, 2nd October 2008

Lectures by Visiting Professors
Professor Suniti Kumar Pathak

(i) Religions, No-Religions and the Buddha’s Middle Path in Indian Sociology 7 November 2008
(ii) Impact of the Buddhist Organisation in Western Societies 12 November 2008
(iii) Buddhist Ethics for the Contemporary better living & Human Harmony 20 November 2008
Professor Saroj Rani

Creative Hands of the Village Folk in Old Punjab 10 November 2008
Professor R.C. Tripathi

(i) Hindu Social Identity and Imagined Past: Rallying for the Construction of Ram Temple at Ayodhya 31 October 2008
(ii) How Do Groups Get Locked Up in Conflict Cycles, 6 November 2008
Professor Vijaya Ramaswamy

(i) Between Textuality and Orality, The Grey Zone of Printed Folk Lore 8 October 2008
(ii) Tragic Widows and Cunning Witches, Representation of Women in Tamil Folklore, 29 October 2008
(iii) Tamil Tales of Taming, Women from the Mahabharata Epic, 29 October 2008

Professor A. R. Vasavi

(i) Pluralising the Sociology of India, 25 June 2008
(ii) School Differentiation: The Reproduction of Hierarchies, Exclusions and Differences, 26 June 2008 Details...

Professor H.Y. Mohan Ram

(i) Culture of Flowers, 4 June 2008
(ii ) Plant Watching,
19 May 2008
(iii) Seeds of Change.
26 May 2008
(iv) Bambo–A Precious Gift of Nature,
28 May 2008

Lectures by Visiting Scholars
Professor Sasheej Hegde

Epics, Ethics and Matilal, 6 October 2008
Professor Jalal Ul Haq

Post-modernity and the Politics of Mysticism, 8 October 2008
Dr. Rudolf C. Heredia

Unravelling the Secular: A Project for Liberation, 17 October 2008

Professor S. Lokanathan

(i) Classical Mechanics as a Model Science, 24 October 2008
(ii) The Rise of Modern Physics and New Challenges
, 24 October 2008

Professor Bhim S. Dahiya

(i) Literature and Theory: A Study in Relationship, 10 September 2008
(ii) New Direction in Higher Education: A Review, 12 September 2008

Shri Prasanna

The Notion of Space and Indian Theatre Design two lectures on 22 and 29 September 2008
Dr. Ananya Vajpeyi

Righteous Republic The Search for an Indian Political Tradition,
6 August 2008
Dr. Sukrita Paul Kumar
Translation as Cultural Dialogue: Challenges in India, 9 July 2008

Professor Shahid Amin

(i) Cooking for a Turkic Brother: Or What the Balladeers still sing in UP about History Muslims and the Gangetic Popular, 12 June 2008

Professor Bijoy H. Bourah

(i) Virtue Ethics as Virtue Metaphysic, 10 June 2008
(ii) Literature, Human Possibilities and the Limits of Languages
, 11 June 2008 Details...  

Special Lecture
His Excellency Dr. David M. Malone, High Commissioner of Canada in India on
Evolving Institutional Architecture for International Relations In The 21st Century with a focus on UN Security Council,
20 May 2008 Details...

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