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Academic Events 2008 - 2009:

Academic Programmes 2009

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 here to read text.......
  • 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 here to read text....


    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 here to read text.....
      • Kashmir Special Status: Myth and Reality, by Professor Noor Ahmad Baba, Department of Political Science, University of Kashmir, Srinagar 14 August 2009. Click here to read text....
      • State Nation and Cultural Nation, by Professor Bharat Wariavwalla, Delhi, 13 August 2009. Click here to read text....


      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 here to read text....

      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 here to read the text .....
      • International Conference on 50 Years of Indian Television: Contemporary Issues, 14 and 15 July. Click here to read the text .....
      • 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 here to read text.....
      • Algebra in Antiquity by Professor G.S. Pandey, President, Indian Society for History of Mathematics, Ujjain, 17 July 2009. Click here to read text.....

      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 here to read text.....
      • 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 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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