| December 2009
Conference and School:
Special Lectures
- The Large Hadron Collider - the World's Largest Microscope by
Professor Rahul Basu,
The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, 14 December 2009.
- The Physicist in Chains by
Professor Biswarup Mukhopadhyaya, Harish Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad, 14 December 2009.
Thursday Seminars:
- The Devas and the Asuras: Interpretative Adventures of Indian Nationalism by Dr. Sanjay Palshikar, Fellow IIAS, 3 December 2009.
November 2009
Conferences,
Seminars and Study Week:
Lecture by Visiting Scholars:
- Ethnicity, Ethnic Conflicts and Terrorism by Professor S.R. Mehta, Former Professor of Sociology, Panjab University, Chandigarh, 3 November 2009.
- Revisiting "Heidegger's Comportment Toward East-West Dialogue" by Professor Archana Barua, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences IIT, Guwahati, 4 November 2009.
Thursday Seminars:
- Not in My Name : Who Benefits from Copyright
? by Dr. Arjun Ghosh, Fellow IIAS, 5 November 2009.
- The Demand for a Separate State as an Identity and
Existence (A Study on the Movement for the Greater Coochbehar
State in North Bengal) by Professor Ichhimuddin Sarkar,
Fellow IIAS, 12 November 2009. Click
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- Verrier Elwin and Gandhi by Professor Shashi
Joshi, Fellow IIAS, 19 November 2009.
- From Temple - State's
Temple Secularization of the State in Medieval Kerala by
Professor P. Narayanan, Fellow IIAS, 26 November 2009.
October 2009
Conferences,
Seminars and Workshops:
Lecture by Visiting Scholars:
- Gendering ‘Transitons’ in History: Some Conceptual Issues by
Professor Uma Chakarvati, Former Professor of History, University of Delhi, 14 October
2009.
- Community Failures by
Professor Errol D' Souza,
IIM, Ahmadabad, 21 October 2009.
- Textual Translations: A Gendered Reading of the Mahabharata by Professor Uma Chakarvati, Former Professor of History, University of Delhi, 22 October 2009.
- The Impossible Exit by Professor Ranabir Samaddar, Director, Mahanirban Kolkata Research Group, Kolkata, 27 October 2009. Click here to read text....
- Democracy and Violence by
Dr. Ramachandra Guha, eminent Historian, Banglore, 28 October 2009.,,
Thursday Seminars:
- Enigmatic Hidimba by Dr. Saroj Thakur, Fellow
IIAS, 1 October 2009.
- Interrogating “The East”,“Culture”
and “Nostalgia” in Abdul Halim Sharar’s
“Lucknow of the Past by Professor C.M.
Naim, National Fellow IIAS, 8 October 2009.
- Tagore ke Rajnitik Upannyas: Bharat ke Yatharth
path ki Sandhan Yatra by Dr. Pramod Kumar, Fellow
IIAS, 15 October 2009.
- Levels of Code Mixing by Professor S.C.
Chaudhary, Fellow IIAS, 29 October 2009.
September 2009
Conferences, Seminars
and Workshops:
- The Muslim League in Barabanki: A Sentimental Suite of Three Scenes by Professor C.M. Naim, National Fellow, 5 September 2009.
- A Discussion on Jaswant Singh's Book Jinnah: India- Partition Independence, 7 September 2009.
- Traning Programme on Library Automation and Networking (IRTPLA), 7-11 September 2009.
- A Study Week on Hindi Ksheter: Aadhunik Sandarbh, 23- 29 September 2009. Click here to read text........
Lectures by Visiting Professors:
- Philosophy as Samvada and Svaraj by Professor Shail Mayaram, CSDS, Delhi, 8 September 2009.
Lectures by Visiting Scholars:
- Poet and Folklorist on Folk Traditions in Ramayana Mahakabya, by Professor Manorama Biswal Mohapatra, Acharya Vihar,Bhubaneswar, 3 September 2009. Click here to read text....
- Happy ever after: Hindi films and the 'happy ending' by Professor Rachel Dwyer, Professor of the Indian Cultures and Cinema, Department of South Asia, SOAS, University of London, Russell Square, London, 11 September 2009. Click here to read text....
- The Aesthetics of Poetic Form by Professor J.N. Patnaik, Baramunda, Bhubaneswar, 18 September 2009. Click here to read text....
- From Pluralism to Diversity: Modulating Conceptions
of Politics and Agency by Professor Sasheej Hegde,
University of Hyderabad, 22- 30 September 2009. Click
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Thursday Seminars:
- Translations of Songs of Avudai Akka by
Dr. Kanchan C.V. Natrajan, Fellow IIAS, 3 September
2009.
- The Open by Dr. Saitya Brata Das, Fellow
IIAS, 10 September 2009.
- Across the Strait: Facets of Portuguese Presence
in South-Eastern India and Ceylon in 16th -17th Centuries
by Dr. Smarika Nawani, Fellow IIAS, 17 September
2009.
- The Biographical Process of A Saint: Ramanuja,
Hagiographies and the Srivaisnava Community by
Ranjeeta Dutta, Fellow IIAS, 24 September 2009.
August 2009
Conferences, Seminars
and Workshops:
Lectures by Visiting Scholars:
- Contextualizing the Kashmir Politics, by Professor Noor Ahmad Baba, Department
of Political Science, University of Kashmir, Srinagar, 10 August 2009 . Click
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- Kashmir Special Status: Myth and Reality, by Professor Noor Ahmad Baba, Department
of Political Science, University of Kashmir, Srinagar 14 August 2009. Click
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- State Nation and Cultural Nation, by Professor
Bharat Wariavwalla, Delhi, 13 August 2009.
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Thursday Seminars:
- Literary Creativity of Punjabi Dalits and its
Exclusion from the Historiographical Praxis by
Dr. Raj Kumar Hans, Fellow IIAS, 6 August 2009.
- A Group Discussion on History and Memory, 20
August 2009.
- Naam Mein Kya Rakha Hai” Navjagran, Renesaan
aur British Oritentilism: Ek Prarambhik Vichar by Professor Vir Bharat Talwar, Fellow IIAS, 27 August
2009.
- Problematizing Exclusion: Issues of Theory and
Policy by Professor D.L.Sheth, National Fellow
IIAS, 28 August 2009. Click
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July 2009
Conferences, Seminars
and Workshops:
- Workshop on Narrating and Translating Women's
Cultural Heritage in Chamba Region of Himachal Pradesh,
in Collaboration with Sahitya Akademi, 2-3 July 2009.Click
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- International Conference on 50 Years
of Indian Television: Contemporary Issues, 14
and 15 July. Click
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- Making Sense of Gujarat by Dr. Raj Kumar
Hans and Dr. Tridip Suhrud, Fellows, 20 July 2009.
Lectures by Visiting Professors:
Lectures by Visiting Scholars:
- Television, Citizenship and Publicness: Re-reading
Doordarshan's History by Sh. Abhijit Roy, Reader
Department of Film Studies, Jadavpur University, Calcutta, 10 July 2009. Click
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- Algebra in Antiquity by Professor G.S.
Pandey, President, Indian Society for History of Mathematics,
Ujjain, 17 July 2009. Click
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Thursday
Seminars:
- Reading Hind Swaraj in two Languages by
Professor Tridip Suhrud, Fellow IIAS, 2 July 2009.
- Talal Asad and the Critique of Liberal Secularism by Dr. Manas Ray, Fellow IIAS, 9 July 2009.
- Tagore and Revolutionary Violence: Why the Sanction
to "burn" is not given by Dr. Gangeya
Mukherji, Fellow IIAS, 16 July 2009. Click
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- Hindi aur Marathi Dalit Rang Manch by Sh.
Mohan Dass Namishray, Fellow IIAS, 23 July 2009.
- Fostering Fealty: Kinship and Clientage by Dr. Balkrishan Shivram, Fellow IIAS, 30 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
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(ii) The Need for "Discovery of India":
Towards an Indian Political Theory of India, 5 June 2009. Click
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(iii) Ambedkar's Method: Towards an Immanent
Critique of Egalitarian .
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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
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- 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
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- One Lecture on Philosophy in Colonial India,
by Professor Sharad Deshpande, University of Pune,
21 May 2009. Click
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- 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
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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
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- Seminar on Violence in the Home, 23-25 April 2009.
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- 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
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- Hindi Before the Nation by Dr. Allison
Busch, Professor of Hindi and Indian Literature, Columbia
University, New York, 21 April 2009. Click
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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
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- 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
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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.
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