January 2010

• Seminar on Issues In Resource Conflicts In Eastern India, 22-23 January 2010. More. . . .

February 2010

• Winter School on Community, Tribes and Modernity, 22 February-4 March 2010. More. . . .
• New Issues in Studies in Forced Migration, at Guwahati, 12-13 February 2010. More. . . .
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March 2010

• Critical Studies in Politics, 4-6 March 2010. More. . . .
• Seminar on Society and Literature: Interdisciplinary Transactions, in Collaboration with ICSSR, NERC, Shillong at Shillong, 16-18 March 2010. More. . . .
• Fourteenth Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan Memorial Lecture on Knowledge: Fluid Cultures, Frozen Structures by Dr. Kapila Vatsyayan, 19 March 2010 at IIC, New Delhi.
• Seminar on Democracy, Identity and Group Rights, 22-23 March 2010. More. . .

Special Lecture

• From Slavery to Freedom in the South of Brazil by Professor Henrique Espada Lima, Department of History, Federal University of Santa Catarina, 26 March 2010.

Thursday Seminars:

•   Philosophy of Integration and Reconciliation: A Study of the Political Thought, its Context, and the Form of its Presentation, in Gandhi and Tagore by Dr. Gangeya Mukherji, Fellow IIAS, 25 March 2010.

April 2010

• Spring School on Mahabharata, 14-28 April 2010. More. . . .

• Auspicious Beginnings or Philosophy in a Nutshell: An Introduction to Kashmir Shaivism through its mangalaslokas by Professor Bettina Baumer, Director, Abhinavagupta Research Library, Varanasi, 22 April 2010.
• Trika and Trinity: Towards a Dialogue in Depth between Kashmir Shaivism and Christianity by Professor Bettina Baumer, Director, Abhinavagupta Research Library, Varanasi, 30 April 2010.

Thursday Seminars:

•  Postcolonial Indian Literature: Toward a Critical Framework by Professor Satish C. Aikant, Fellow IIAS, 1 Apirl 2010.
• Non-linguistic and Linguistic, Oral and Written by Professor B.V. Nemade, Fellow IIAS, 8 Apirl 2010.
• Translation and Study of Avudai Akka’s Songs: An Examination of Religious and Philosophical Views of the 18th Century Woman sage of Tamil Nadu, by Dr. Kanchana Natarajan, Fellow IIAS, 15 April 2010.

May 2010

• Conference on History and Memory, 18-20 May 2010. More. . . .  

Thursday Seminars:

• The Coming Time the Ethics of Redemption and the Promise of Time by Dr. Saitya Brata Das, Fellow IIAS, 6 May 2010.
• Institutions of Maritime Empire: The Portuguese in Coastal Southeast India and Ceylon in 16th and 17th Centuries by Dr. Smarika Nawani, 13 May 2010.

Lectures by Visiting Professor:

• The Coming Time the Ethics of Redemption and the Promise of Time by Dr. Saitya Brata Das, Fellow IIAS, 6 May 2010.
• Institutions of Maritime Empire: The Portuguese in Coastal Southeast India and Ceylon in 16th and 17th Centuries by Dr. Smarika Nawani, 13 May 2010.
  
  

June 2010

• Study Week on 'Exploring Gender, Redefining the Field: Feminist Journeys in the Social Sciences, Humanities and the Arts', 1-5 June 2010. More. . . .

Lectures by Visiting Professors:

• ‘Reflections on Poetic Process' by Professor Meena Alexander, Distinguished Professor of English at the City University of New York, 8 June 2010.
• 'The Lesson and Relevance of the Bodhisattva Ideal' by Professor Pabitrakumar Roy Central University of Tibetan Studies, Sarnath, Varanasi, 9 June 2010.
• ‘Ethics of Pride: Apropos Bodhicaryavatara and the Imitation of Christ’ by Professor Pabitrakumar Roy, Central University of Tibetan Studies, Sarnath, Varanasi 14 June 2010
• ‘Dangerous Fortunes: Financial Crisis in World-Historical Perspective’ by Professor Ravi Arvind Palat, Department of Sociology, State University of New York, Binghamton, New York, 15 June 2010.
‘Emotions and the Buddhist Images of Human Perfection by Professor Pabitrakumar Roy, Central University of Tibetan Studies, Sarnath, Varanasi, 25 June 2010.
'Convergence Before Divergence? Euro-centrism and Alternate Patterns of Historical Change' by Professor Ravi Arvind Palat, Department of Sociology, State University of New York, Binghamton, New York, 28 June 2010.

Lectures by Visiting Scholars:

• ‘The Ethics of Citizen Agency’ by Professor Bijoy H. Boruah, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, 18 June 2010.
• ‘From Physics to History & the Novel’ by Dr. M G Vassanji, Toronto, Canada, 21 June 2010.

Lectures by Guest Scholars:

• ‘The "V Factor": Distribution, Timing, and Correlates of the Great Indian Growth Turnaround’ by Dr. Chetan Ghate, 29 June 2010.

Thursday Seminars:

• 'Maharashtriya Navjagaran Mein Nirantarta' by Professor Virbharat Talwar, Fellow IIAS, 3 June 2010.
• ‘One Grammar or Many Grammars’ by Professor Shreesh Chaudhary, Fellow IIAS, 17 June 2010.
• ‘Asuras across Centuries’ by Professor Sanjay Palshikar, Fellow IIAS, 24 June 2010.

July 2010

Special Lecture

• The Challenges of Democratic Consolidation in Bangladesh by Professor Rounaq Jahan and Professor Rehman Sobhan, Centre for Policy Dialogue, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 28 July 2010.

Study Week:

• Study Week on 'Indian Logic and Epistemology', 2-12 July 2010. More. . .
• Study Week on 'Dalit Challenges and Disciplinary Practices', 19- 25 July 2010. More...

Lectures by Visiting Scholars:

• ‘Socio-Political Dimensions of Football Writing’ by Professor B.N. Patnaik, 7 July 2010.
• ‘Lakshmi Purana as a Protest Text’ by Professor B.N. Patnaik, 9 July 2010.
• 'Translation as an Inter-Cultural Dialogue' by Dr. N. K. Bhattacharjee, New Delhi, 16 July 2010.

Lectures by National Fellows:

• ‘Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Historian of Decline and Prophet of Resurrection’ by Professor Madhavan Palat, National Fellow IIAS, 14 July 2010.

Thursday Seminars:

• ‘Suicides and the Predicament of Rural India’ by Professor A. R. Vasavi, Fellow, IIAS, 1 July 2010.
• 'Religion of Filling the Belly': Ascendancy of the Economic in Hindi Vernacular (1870-1908), by Dr. Mohinder Singh, Fellow, IIAS, 8 July 2010.
• 'The Making of a Canon: Ramanuja in the Srivaisnava textual tradition (11th to 13th century AD) , by Dr. Ranjeeta Dutta, Fellow, IIAS, 22 July 2010.
• 'Finding a Voice Re-inscription of Hidimba in Contemporary Indian Literature, Tribal Literature and Folk Tales' by Dr. Saroj Thakur, Fellow, IIAS, 29 July 2010.

August 2010

Workshop and Conference:

• Painting Workshop: Artists at IIAS, 9-14 August 2010.
• Conference on 'Utpaladeva, Philosopher of Recognition', 20- 21 August 2010. More.. .

Lecture by National Fellows:

• 'Growth, Governance, and Human Devolpment' by Professor Ghanshyam Shah, National Fellow IIAS, 4 August 2010.

Lecture by Visiting Professor:

• 'Orality and Writing in Pre-Modern India' by Professor RaffaeleTorella, Chair of Sanskrit, Facoltà di Studi Orientali, Università di Roma 'La Sapienza', Rome, Italy, 20 August 2010.

Thursday Seminars:

• 'History of Dalit Literary Movement in the Punjab and its Marginalization in the Historiographical Praxis' by Professor Raj Kumar Hans, Fellow IIAS, 5 August 2010.
• 'Discourse of Nationalism and Novel (with special reference to ‘Gora’ and ‘Rangbhumi’)' by Dr. Pramod Kumar, Fellow IIAS, 12 August 2010.
• 'Religious Crossing and Boundaries: Gandhi, Dinabandhu Andrews and Din Sevek Elwin' by Dr. Shashi Joshi, Fellow IIAS, 19 August 2010.
• 'The Concept of God and Modes of Knowledge Transmission in the Akan Spiritual Tradition and Advaita Vedanta: A Comparative Study' by Dr. Veena Sharma, Fellow IIAS, 25 August 2010.
• 'Changing Face of Medieval Temple Tripunithura: A Case Study' by Dr. P.Narayanan, Fellow IIAS, 26 August 2010.