NEHRU
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INVITES YOU TO PUBLIC EVENTS (2013)
Date, Day & Time
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Type of Programme
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Speaker
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Title
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7 January 2013 Monday
3.00 pm
|
Hindi Lecture
|
Prof.
Sudhir Chandra,
Former Fellow,
NMML.
|
‘Gandhi-aitihasik
punarvyakkhya’
(In Hindi)
|
9 January 2013
Wednesday
3.00 pm
|
Public Lecture
(India and the Wider World Series)
|
Prof. E.
Sridharan,
University of Pennsylvania Institute
for the Advanced Study of India, New Delhi.
|
‘India in the emerging world order:
Rising power or constrained power?’
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11-12 January 2013
Friday-Saturday
9.00 am
|
Conference
|
In
association with Prof. Amiya Sen, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi and Prof. Basudev Chatterji, Indian Council of Historical Research, New Delhi.
Dr. Rosinka Chaudhury, Centre
for Studies in Social Sciences, Kolkata, Prof.
A. Raghuramaraju, University of Hyderabad, Dr. Gangeya Mukherjee, M. Prannath Mahavidyalaya, Mau, Uttar
Pradesh, Prof. Pralay Kanungo,
Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, Prof.
Makarand Paranjape, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, Prof. Bruce Robertson, Johns Hopkins
University, Baltimore, USA, Mr. Peter
Heehs, Independent Researcher, Pondicherry, Prof. Gwilym Beckerlegge, Open University, UK, Dr. Richard Hartz, Independent
Researcher, Pondicherry.
|
‘Swami Vivekananda and
the making of modern India’
|
14 January
2013
Monday
3.00 pm
|
Public Lecture
(Rethinking History Series)
|
Dr.
Suchitra Balasubrahmanyan,
Ambedkar University,
Delhi.
|
‘The myth of the hare and
the hound:
Making sense of history’
|
15 January
2013
Tuesday
3.00 pm
|
Weekly Seminar
|
Dr.
Siddharth Mallavarapu,
South Asian University,
New Delhi.
|
‘Disciplinary histories
of international relations (IR):
Interpreting Indian IR
conservations’
|
16 January 2013
Wednesday
3.00 pm
|
Public Lecture
(India and the Wider World Series)
|
Prof. Rudi
Matthee,
University of Delaware,
USA.
|
‘The decline of Safavid
Iran:
A comparative
perspective’
|
17 January 2013
Thursday
3.00 pm
|
Public Lecture
(India and the Wider World Series)
|
Prof. David
Engerman,
Brandeis
University, Massachusetts, USA and American Institute of Indian Studies,
Gurgaon.
|
‘Development as diplomacy: Superpower competition and the
Nehruvian economy’
|
18-19
January 2013
Friday & Saturday
9.00 am
|
Conference
|
In
association with Mr. Rohit Prakash, Research
Intern, NMML. Mr. Sandeep Chatterjee,
University of Delhi, Delhi, Mr. Sourav
Mahanta, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, Ms. Soma Kishore Parthasarathy, Indian Institute of Technology,
Mumbai, Mr. Sandip Chatterjee,
Gottingen University, Ms. Puja Rani,
Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, Ms.
P. R. Nisha, University of Delhi, Delhi, Mr. Robert Rahman Raman, University of Delhi, Delhi, Mr. Vinay Kumar, Institute for Social
and Economic Change, Bengaluru, Ms. Dwiparna
Chatterjee, Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai.
|
‘Labour and social change
in India’
|
18 January 2013
Friday
3.00 pm
|
Public Lecture
|
Prof. Indrani Chatterjee,
Rutgers University,
USA.
|
‘Monastic
governments, colonial misogyny and the creation of postcolonial ignorance’
|
21 January 2013
Monday
3.00 pm
|
Seminar
(India
and the Wider World Series)
|
Ms. Sreemati Mitter, Doctoral Candidate,
Harvard
University,
USA.
|
‘A history of
money in Palestine:
The case of the
Frozen Bank Accounts 1948’
|
22 January2013
Tuesday
5.00 pm
|
Public Lecture
|
Mr.
Jairam Ramesh,
Minister
of Rural Development,
New Delhi.
|
‘21st century Maoism in India’
|
22 January 2013
Tuesday
3.00 pm
|
Weekly Seminar
|
Dr. Jayeeta Sharma,
University
of Toronto,
Canada.
|
‘Meat, momos, and
butter tea:
The foodways of
Himalayan travel and work
|
29 January 2013
Tuesday
3.00 pm
|
Seminar
(India and the Wider World Series)
|
Prof. Partha Ghosh,
Senior
Fellow,
NMML.
|
‘Making sense of
cross-border migrations in south Asia’
|
30 January 2013
Wednesday
3.00 pm
|
Public Lecture
|
Ms. V. Geetha,
Author
and Independent Researcher,
Chennai.
|
‘Gandhi
and non-violence’
|
31 January 2013
Thursday
3.00 pm
|
Public Lecture
(Rethinking History Series)
|
Prof. Mushirul Hasan,
National
Archives of India,
New
Delhi.
|
‘Road
to freedom:
Prison
and prisoners under the Raj’
|
1-2 February 2013
Friday & Saturday
9.00 am
|
Conference
|
In association with
Prof. Sajal Nag, and Prof. Suryasikha Pathak, Assam
University, Silchar and Prof. Gunnel
Cederlof, Uppsala University, Sweden.
Mr. Phillipe Ramirez, CNRS Paris, Dr.
Jangkhomang Guite, Assam University, Dr. David Zou, University
of Delhi, Delhi, Dr. Rana Behal, University of Delhi, Delhi, Dr.
Jayeeta Sharma, University of Toronto, Canada, Dr. Joy Pachuau,
Jawaharlal Nehru University, Mr. Kaustav Saikia, Gauhati University, Guwahati, Dr.
H. Sudhir Singh, Manipur University, Mr. Santosh Hasnu, University of Delhi, Delhi, Dr. Malem
Ningthouja, Independent Scholar,
New Delhi, Ms. Margaret
Lyngdoh, University of Tartu, Estonia, Mr. C. Lalrozami, Hyderabad Central University, Mr. R.K. Debbarma, Hyderabad Central University.
|
‘Frontier India and the
Northeast’
|
4 February 2013
Monday
3.00 pm
|
Hindi
Lecture
|
Mr. Dunu Roy,
Hazards
Centre,
New
Delhi.
|
‘Itihas,
samaj aur shahar’
(In Hindi)
|
5 February 2013
Tuesday
3.00 pm
|
Weekly
Seminar
|
Dr. Julia Stephens,
Harvard
University,
USA.
|
‘Shumsoonnissa’s
case:
Domesticity,
economy and colonial secularisation’
|
6 February 2013
Wednesday
3.00 pm
|
Public
Lecture
(India
and the Wider World Series)
|
Prof. Rajen Harshe,
South
Asian University,
New
Delhi.
|
‘Revisiting Indo-African
ties in the twenty-first century’
|
7 February 2013
Thursday
3.00 pm
|
Seminar
|
Ms. Priyadarshini Singh,
School
of Oriental and African Studies,
UK.
|
‘Out of the ballot box:
The role of political practices in Indian
nationhood’
|
8 February 2013
Friday
3.00 pm
|
Seminar
|
Dr. Sraman Mukherjee,
Presidency University,
Kolkata.
|
“‘The bones ... are probably of no value ...”
Evaluation of Buddhist relics in
colonial south Asia’
|
11 February 2013
Monday
3.00 pm
|
Public
Lecture
(Science,
Society and Nature Series)
|
Prof. Kathleen D. Morrison,
University of
Chicago,
USA.
|
‘Human face of the land:
Why the past matters for India's
environmental future’
|
12 February 2013
Tuesday
3.00 pm
|
Weekly
Seminar
|
Dr. Prasanta Chakravarty,
University of Delhi,
Delhi.
|
‘Hobbs the heretic’
|
13 February 2013
Wednesday
3.00 pm
|
Seminar
(India
and the Wider World Series)
|
Dr. Vivek Neelakantan,
University
of Sydney,
Australia.
|
‘The Soekarnao Era:
Indonesia in the 1950’s’
|
14 February 2013
Thursday
3.00 pm
|
Public
Lecture
(India
and the Wider World Series)
|
Prof. Varun Sahni,
Jawaharlal
Nehru University,
New
Delhi.
|
‘Problematizing the BRICS:
Southern hemisphere Grandeza, northern hemisphere
geopolitics’
|
18 February 2013
Monday
|
Hindi
Lecture
|
Shri Chandi Prasad Bhatt
Environmentallist and Social
activist, Chamoli, Uttarakhand
|
‘ Himalaya ka Paryavaran evam vikas: Chipko ke
anubhav’
|
19 February 2013
Tuesday
3.00 pm
|
Weekly
Seminar
|
Dr. Vibha Arora,
Indian
Institute of Advanced Studies,
Shimla.
|
‘Gandhigiri in Sikkim’
|
20 February 2013
Wednesday
3.00 pm
|
Public
Lecture
(India
and the Wider World Series)
|
Prof. Ashok Desai,
Business World,
New Delhi.
|
‘A view to the south:
India and the Indian
Ocean’
|
21 February 2013
Thursday
3.00 pm
|
Seminar
|
Ms. Gitanjali Surendran,
Harvard
University,
USA.
|
‘The importance of being modern:
Discussions on Buddhism and modernity in
India c. 1920-1950'
|
21 February 2013
Thursday
3.00 pm
|
Seminar
( Annexe Building)
|
Dr. Christina Twomey,
Univeristy
of Copenhagen,
Denmark.
|
‘Australian responses to the
Indian famine, 1876-8:
Empire, sympathy and
photography’
|
25 February 2013
Monday
3.00 pm
|
Seminar
|
Prof. Ishtiaq Ahmed,
Stockholm
University and Institute of South Asian Studies, National University of
Singapore.
|
‘Partition violence in
Punjab in 1947’
|
26 February 2013
Tuesday
3.00 pm
|
Weekly
Seminar
|
Dr. Kamal Nayan Choubey,
Junior
Fellow,
NMML.
|
‘Law as a site of contestation between state
and margin:
Forest Rights Act and the politics of
marginal society’
|
27 February 2013
Wednesday
3.00 pm
|
Public
Lecture
(India
and the Wider World Series)
|
Prof. Brij Tankha,
Institute of Chinese Studies,
Delhi.
|
‘India and Japan:
Varieties of Asian regionalism’
|
28 Februrary 2013
Thursday
3.00 pm
|
Seminar
|
Dr. Ranjani Mazumdar,
Jawaharlal Nehru University,
New Delhi.
|
‘The
retro turn in Bombay cinema’
|
4 March 2013
Monday
3.00 pm
|
Hindi
Lecture
|
Dr. Shalini Shah,
University
of Delhi, Delhi.
|
‘Ling, samaj aur itihas’
(In Hindi)
|
5 March 2013
Tuesday
3.00 pm
|
Weekly
Seminar
|
Dr. Mekhala Krishnamurthy,
Independent Researcher,
Mumbai.
|
‘Trading crops, cultivating
constituencies:
The political economy of agricultural markets in Madhya
Pradesh’
|
7 March 2013
Thursday
3.00 pm
|
Public
Lecture
|
Prof. Ayesha Kidwai,
Jawaharlal
Nehru University,
New
Delhi.
|
‘The abducted woman in
the house:
A study of the popular
and the parliamentary discussions about their ‘plight’’
|
8 March 2013
Friday
3.00 pm
|
Public
Lecture
|
Ms. Ritu Menon,
Kali
for Women,
New
Delhi.
|
‘Unravelling the personal and the
political:
The autobiographies of Nayantara
Sahgal’
|
11 March 2013
Monday
3.00 pm
|
Public
Lecture
|
Dr. Deepti Priya Mehrotra,
Lady
Shri Ram College for Women,
University
of Delhi,
Delhi.
|
‘Reinventing non-violence:
Ideas and ethics’
|
12 March 2013
Tuesday
3.00 pm
|
Weekly
Seminar
|
Prof. A.R. Vasavi,
Senior
Fellow, NMML.
|
‘Four emblematic figures
and the making of a new India: 1997-2012’
|
13 March 2013
Wednesday
3.00 pm
|
Public
Lecture
(Science,
Society and Nature Series)
|
Prof. J. Srinivasan,
Indian
Institute of Science,
Bengaluru.
|
‘How should India deal
with climate change?’
|
14 March 2013
Thursday
3.00 pm
|
Seminar
|
Dr. Ilyas Husain,
Jamia
Millia Islamia, New Delhi.
|
‘Jawaharlal Nehru and the
language policy of Republican India’
|
15-16 March 2013
Friday-Saturday
9.00 am
|
Conference
|
In association with Dr. Bhangya Bhukya,University of Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh.
Prof. Rahamath Tarikere, Kannada University, Hampi, Dr.
Salma Ahmed Farooqui, Maulana Azad National Urdu University, Hyderabad, Dr. Bina Sengar, Aurangabad University, Aurangabad, Dr. Shaik Mussak Razak, Aurangabad, Dr. Radhika Seshan, Pune University,
Pune, Prof. Atluri Murali,
University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, Dr.
Hilal Ahmed, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi, Prof. I. Thirumali, University of
Delhi, Delhi.
|
‘Rethinking Deccan
history:
Religion and culture through history in
remaking and fashioning regional identities’
|
18-19 March 2013
Monday-Tuesday
9.00 am
|
Conference
|
In association with
Prof. Dipesh Chakravarty, University of Chicago.
|
‘Text, critics and the
world:
Conversations in the
humanities ‘
|
19 March 2013
Tuesday
5.00 pm
|
Seminar
(India and the Wider World Series)
|
Dr. Rohit Negi,
Ambedkar University,
Delhi.
|
‘An African century?
Politics,
geopolitics, and development in contemporary Africa’
|
20 March 2013
Wednesday
3.00 pm
|
Public
Lecture
|
Dr. Faisal Devji,
University of Oxford,
UK.
|
‘Gandhi’
|
21-22 March
2013
Thursday-Friday
9.00 am
|
Conference
|
In association with Dr.
Veena Naregal, Institute of
Economic Growth, Delhi.
Prof. Mushirul Hasan, National Archives of India, New Delhi, Prof. Krishna Kumar, Professor
Emeritus, Central Institute of Education,
Prof. Shahid Amin, University of Delhi, Delhi, Dr. Syeda Hamid, Planning Commission, New Delhi, Prof.
Tapati Guha Thakurta, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Kolkata, Dr. Zafar Ahmed Siddiqi, Aligarh University ,
Dr.
Ravikant,
Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi, Dr. Mahmood Farooqui, Independent Scholar, New Delhi. Dr. Veena Naregal, IEG Chair/Discussants:
Prof. Rustom Bharucha/JNU, Madhav Prasad/EFLU, Hyderabad, Hari
Vasudevan, Kolkata, Lawrence
Liang, ALF/Bangalore, Milind Wakankar/AUD,
Rashmi Bhatnagar, currently
affiliated to DU, Prof. M.S.S. Pandian,
JNU, Prof. Suhas Palshikar, University of Pune, Prof. Aniket Jaaware, University of Pune, Prof. Shivaji Panniker, AUD, Prof.
Anita Rampal, CIE, Delhi, Prof. Nasir Tyabji, Jamia Milia,
Delhi
|
‘Cultural institutions,
knowledge arenas, post–1947:
Revisiting the role of
Maulana Azad’
|
25 March 2013
Monday
3.00 pm
|
Seminar
|
Dr. Soofia Siddique,
St. Stephen’s College,
University of Delhi, Delhi.
|
‘Remembering the Revolt of 1857’
|
26 March 2013
Tuesday
10.00
am
|
Panel Discussion
|
Dr. Inder Malhotra, Former Nehru Fellow and
Eminent Journalist, Dr. Srinath Raghavan,
Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi, Dr. Chandrashekhar Dasgupta, Tata Energy Research
Institute, New Delhi.
|
‘Revisiting the
Bangladesh Liberation war’
|
1 April 2013
Monday
3.00 pm
|
Seminar
|
Dr. Navdeep Mathur,
Indian Institute of Management,
Ahmedabad.
|
‘Remaking the urban state
in India’
|
2 April 2013
Tuesday
3.00 pm
|
Weekly
Seminar
|
Mr. Prasanjeet Tribhuvan,
University
of Delhi,
Delhi.
|
‘On marijuana, police and culture:
Reflections from fieldwork in the Parvati
Valley, Himachal Pradesh’
|
3 April 2013
Wednesday
3.00 pm
|
Public
Lecture
(India and the Wider World Series)
|
Dr. Parul Pandya Dhar,
University of Delhi,
Delhi.
|
‘India and Southeast Asia:
The iconography of early cultural interactions’
|
4 April 2013
Thursday
3.00 pm
|
Public
Lecture
(India
and the Wider World Series)
|
Dr. Najaf Haider,
Jawaharlal Nehru University,
New Delhi.
|
‘India and the Great Divergence’
|
5 April 2013
Friday
3.00 pm
|
Public Lecture
|
Prof. Andre Beteille,
Delhi School of Economics and National
Research Professor,
Government of India.
|
‘Two approaches to the study of society:
Louis Dumont and MN Srinivas’
|
8 April 2013
Monday
3.00 pm
|
Hindi Lecture
|
Dr. Charu Gupta,
University of Delhi, Delhi.
|
‘Dalit itihas’
(In Hindi)
|
9 April 2013
Tuesday
3.00 pm
|
Weekly
Seminar
|
Prof. William Pinch,
Wesleyan University Connecticut,
USA.
|
‘Staging the Mutiny:
Prostitutes and the cantonment bazaar in the
making of 1857’
|
11-12 April 2013
Thursday-Friday
9.00 am
|
Conference
|
In association with Prof. Venkatesh Kumar,
Tata Institute of Social
Sciences,
Mumbai.
|
‘Reforming higher
education:
States’ response to federal changes’
|
15 April 2013
Monday
3.00 pm
|
Public
Lecture
(Interrogating
Social Justice Series)
|
Prof. Valerian Rodrigues,
Jawaharlal Nehru University,
New Delhi.
|
‘The significance of the state in
Ambedkar's thought’
|
16 April 2013
Tuesday
3.00 pm
|
Public
Lecture
(Interrogating
Social Justice Series)
|
Dr. K. Satyanarayana,
The English and Foreign Languages University,
Hyderabad.
|
‘Caste, identity and Dalit movements in
contemporary south India’
|
17 April 2013
Wednesday
3.00pm
|
Public
Lecture
(India
and the Wider World Series)
|
Prof. Susan Pennybacker,
University of North Carolina,
USA.
|
‘Fire by Night, Cloud by Day:
Indians, South Africans and Trinidadians remember
postwar, cold war London’
|
18 April 2013
Thursday
3.00 pm
|
Public
Lecture
(Interrogating
Social Justice Series)
|
Prof. Sharmila Rege,
University of Pune,
Pune.
|
‘Reading B.R. Ambedkar in
the university:
Reflections on
communities of meaning and anti-caste feminist theory’
|
22 April 2013
Monday
3.00 pm
|
Public Lecture
(Science, Society and Nature
Series)
|
Prof. Deepak Kumar,
Jawaharlal
Nehru University,
New
Delhi.
|
‘Science, religion and
society:
Snippets from colonial
India’
|
23 April 2013
Tuesday
3.00 pm
|
Weekly
Seminar
|
Prof. Sunil Kumar,
University of Delhi,
Delhi.
|
‘Deep structures:
The capitals of the Sultans and the riverine
plain of Delhi’
|
25-27-April 2013
Thursday-Saturday
9.00 am
|
Conference
|
In association with Prof. Janaki Nair, Jawaharlal Nehru
University, New Delhi.
|
‘Thinking through the
law:
South Asian histories and
the legal archives’
|
30 April 2013
Tuesday
3.00 pm
|
Weekly
Seminar
|
Dr. Tripta Wahi,
Affiliated Fellow, NMML and
Fellow, Indian Council of Historical Research, New Delhi.
|
‘Irrigation, state and society in pre- colonial India'
|
1 May 2013
Wednesday
3.00 pm
|
Public Lecture
(Science, Society and Nature
Series)
|
Prof. Raman Sukumar,
Indian
Institute of Science,
Bengaluru.
|
‘Elephants, empire and ecology
in ancient India:
Reflections for modern-day
conservation’
|
2 May 2013
Thursday
3.00 pm
|
Seminar
|
Ms. Vrinda Grover,
Fellow, NMML.
|
‘The
colonial origins of statutory immunities and their implications for the fundamental
right to life’
|
3 May 2013
Friday
3.00 pm
|
Public Lecture
(Rethinking History Series)
|
Prof. Rumina Sethi,
Panjab University,
Chandigarh.
|
‘Contentious
histories:
The
case of Raja Rao’s Kanthapura’
|
6 May 2013
Monday
3.00 pm
|
Hindi Lecture
|
Dr. Apoorvanand,
University
of Delhi, Delhi.
|
‘Hindi chintan
kee parampara’
(In Hindi)
|
7 May 2013
Tuesday
3.00 pm
|
Weekly
Seminar
|
Dr. Indira Chakravarthi,
Fellow, NMML.
|
‘Technology, medicine and public health:
The sway of technological determinism’
|
8 May 2013
Wednesday
3.00 pm
|
Public Lecture
(India and the Wider World Series)
|
Sh. Chinmaya Gharekhan,
Eminent Diplomat and Former
Ambassador to the UN,
New Delhi.
|
‘How relevant is the UN today?’
|
9 May 2013
Thursday
3.00 pm
|
Seminar
|
Dr. Kalyani Menon,
DePaul University,
USA.
|
‘Prayer and power in the Sangh Parivar’
|
14 May 2013
Tuesday
3.00 pm
|
Weekly
Seminar
|
Dr. Narendra Shukla,
Junior Fellow, NMML.
|
‘Bharatiya
swatantrata andolan aur pratibandhit sahitya :
Ek adhyayan (1907-1935),
(Proscribed literature and Indian freedom
movement:
A study 1907-1935)’
|
15 May 2013
Wednesday
3.00 pm
|
Public Lecture
(India
and the Wider World Series)
|
Prof. Dev Nathan,
Institute for Human Development,
New Delhi, and Duke
University,
USA.
|
‘India, the emerging powers and the
world economy’
|
21 May 2013
Tuesday
3.00 pm
|
Weekly
Seminar
|
Prof. Udaya Kumar,
Senior Fellow, NMML.
|
‘Petition as historiography:
Dr. Palpu and Kerala's pasts’
|
22 May2013
Wednesday
3.00
pm.
|
Public Lecture
(Science,
Society and Nature Series)
|
Prof. Vishvajit Pandya,
Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of
Information and Communication Technology,
Ahmedabad.
|
‘In Terra Nullius:
The legacies of science and colonialism in the Andaman Islands’
|
24 May 2013
Friday
9.00 am
|
Workshop
|
Dr. Rohan D’Souza,
Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, Dr. Priya Das, Independent Researcher, Mr. Anindya Datta, Doctoral Candidate, Jamia Millia Islamia, New
Delhi, Mr. Amit Aryan, Doctoral Candidate, University of Delhi, Delhi, Ms. Charu Singh, Doctoral Candidate,
Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, Ms.
Shomona Khanna, Advocate and Independent Researcher, New Delhi, Mr. Umesh Srinivasan, Doctoral
Candidate, National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bengaluru, Ms. Aarthi Sridhar, Doctoral Candidate, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New
Delhi, Mr. Saagar Tewari, Doctoral
Candidate, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, Mr. Nachiket Kelkar, Doctoral Candidate, Manipal University,
Manipal.
|
‘Ecology and Society’
|
24 May 2013
Friday
5.00 pm
|
Public Lecture
(Science, Society and Nature
Series)
|
Dr. Harini Nagendra,
Ashoka
Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE),
Bengaluru.
|
‘The challenge of collective
action:
Ecological restoration by
people in forests and cities’
|
28 May 2013
Tuesday
3.00 pm
|
Weekly
Seminar
|
Dr. Malem Ningthouja,
Independent Scholar,
New Delhi.
|
‘The paradox of nationhood:
Holiday politics in
contemporary Manipur’
|
5 June 2013
Wednesday
3.00 pm
|
Hindi Lecture
|
Ms. Malika Virdi,
Former
Sarpanch,
Pithoragarh,
Uttrakhand.
|
‘Jangal aur
jeevan’
(in Hindi)
|
16 July
2013
Tuesday
3.00 pm
|
Weekly
Seminar
|
Dr. Pradeep Sharma,
Junior Fellow,
NMML.
|
‘Shram sangathano mein prakaryatmak rupantaran’ (Functional
transformation in trade unions)
|
17 July
2013
Wednesday
3.00 pm
|
Public Lecture
(Science, Society and Nature
Series)
|
Prof. Madhav Gadgil,
Agharkar Research Institute,
Pune.
|
‘Democracy and ecology in contemporary India’
|
22 July
2013
Monday
3.00 pm
|
Panel Discussion
|
Smt. Mrinal Pandey,
Senior
Journalist and Writer,
Mr. Mahmood
Farooqui, Independent
Scholar, New Delhi.
|
‘1857 – Punaradhyayan’
(in Hindi)
|
23 July
2013
Tuesday
3.00 pm
|
Weekly
Seminar
|
Dr. Meenakshi Bharat,
Sri Venkateswara College,
University of Delhi,
Delhi.
|
‘Troubled testimonies:
Culture in post-terrorist times’
|
24 July
2013
Wednesday
3.00 pm
|
Public Lecture
(Science, Society and Nature
Series)
|
Dr. Sindhu Radhakrishna,
National Institute of Advanced Studies,
Bengaluru.
|
‘Rethinking animal-human boundaries:
Musings of a primatologist’
|
30 July
2013
Tuesday
3.00 pm
|
Weekly
Seminar
|
Dr. Venugopal Maddipati,
Junior Fellow,
NMML.
|
‘Space as effect or space as cause:
Gandhi
and the production of architectural meaning in mid to late twentieth century
India’
|
31 July
2013
Wednesday
3.00 pm
|
Public lecture
(Science, Society and Nature
Series)
|
Dr.
Kartik Shanker,
Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru.
|
‘Wagging the dog:
The use and abuse of science in marine conservation in Orissa’
|
6 August
2013
Tuesday
3.00 pm
|
Weekly
Seminar
|
Prof. Nayanjot Lahiri,
University of Delhi,
Delhi.
|
‘Making heritage matter:
The state of
archaeological conservation in India’
|
7 August
2013
Wednesday
3.00 pm
|
Public Lecture
(Science, Society and Nature
Series)
|
Prof. Ambuj Sagar,
Indian
Institute of Technology,
New
Delhi.
|
‘Knowledge and decision-making
in the climate arena:
National and international
dimensions’
|
12 August 2013
Monday
3.00 pm
|
Panel Discussion
|
Shri Shubranshu Chaudhary,
C. G.
Net Swar, Ghaziabad, Shri Urmilesh, Senior Journalist, New Delhi, Smt.
Vasavi Kero, Member, State Women Commission, Jharkhand.
|
‘Samaj, itihas evam media’
(In Hindi)
|
13 August 2013
Tuesday
3.00 pm
|
Weekly
Seminar
|
Dr. Shalin Jain,
SGTB Khalsa College,
University of Delhi,
Delhi.
|
‘Sectarian
lineages and secular legitimacy:
The case of the
medieval Jain community’
|
14 August 2013
Wednesday
3.00 pm
|
Public Lecture
(Science, Society and Nature
Series)
|
Dr. Ullas
Karanth,
Science-Asia Wildlife Conservation Society and Centre for
Wildlife Studies,
Bengaluru.
|
‘Rescuing nature from growth and
equity’
|
16 August 2013
Friday
9.00 am
|
Workshop
|
In association with Prof. Farhat Hasan, University of Delhi,
Delhi.
|
‘Rewriting Mughal history’
|
20 August 2013
Tuesday
3.00 pm
|
Weekly
Seminar
|
Prof. Ilina Sen,
Senior Fellow, NMML.
|
‘Women and democratic movements in India:
Changing dynamics, altered perspectives’
|
21 August 2013
Wednesday
3.00 pm
|
Public Lecture
(Science, Society and Nature
Series)
|
Dr.
Sagari R. Ramdas,
ANTHRA,
Hyderabad.
|
‘Contested landscapes and
livelihoods:
Interfaces and insights on forests, fields and
grasslands’
|
22 August 2013
Thursday
3.00 pm
|
Public Lecture
|
Prof. Supriya Chaudhuri,
Jadavpur University,
Kolkata.
|
‘Speech and
silence:
The future of the academy'
|
23 August 2013
Friday
9.00 am
|
Workshop
|
In association with Ms. Shilpi Rajpal and Ms. Ranjana Saha, Doctoral Candidates,
University of Delhi, Delhi.
|
‘A social history of
medicine’
|
27 August 2013
Tuesday
3.00 pm
|
Weekly
Seminar
|
Dr. Shubhra Chakrabarti,
Indraprastha College for Women,
University of Delhi,
Delhi.
|
‘Ramdulal Dey
(1752-1852):
A merchant with a
difference in early 19th century Bengal’
|
3 September 2013
Tuesday
3.00 pm
|
Weekly
Seminar
|
Dr. Rana Behal,
Deshbandhu College,
University of Delhi,
Delhi.
|
‘Transforming
agrarian communities of tribals, aboriginals and peasants into coolies:
Assam tea plantations
during colonial rule’
|
4 September 2013
Wednesday
3.00 pm
|
Public Lecture
(Science, Society and Nature
Series)
|
Prof. E.
Somanathan,
Indian
Statistical Institute,
New
Delhi.
|
‘Economics and the crisis of ecology’
|
5 September 2013
Thursday
3.00 pm
|
Public Lecture
|
Prof. Vimala Ramachandran,
National
University of Educational Planning and Administration,
New
Delhi.
|
‘Equity and quality are two sides of the same coin in India’s school
education’
|
9 September2013
Monday
3.00
p.m.
|
Hindi
Lecture
|
Dr. Asmita Kabra,
Ambedkar
University,
Delhi.
|
‘Vikas
visthapan evam vikalp’
(in Hindi)
|
10 September 2013
Tuesday
3.00 pm
|
Weekly
Seminar
|
Prof. Upinder Singh,
University of Delhi,
Delhi.
|
‘Asoka and Kautilya’
|
11 September 2013
Wednesday
3.00 pm
|
Public Lecture
(Science, Society and Nature
Series)
|
Prof. Shiv
Visvanathan,
O.P Jindal Global University, Sonipat, Haryana.
|
‘Impending battles:
Science and democracy’
|
12 September 2013
Thursday
3.00 pm
|
Public Lecture
(India and
the Wider World Series)
|
Mr. T.N. Ninan,
Jawaharlal
Nehru Fellow,
New
Delhi.
|
‘India in a changing Asia’
|
13 September
2013
Friday
3.00 pm
|
Public Lecture
(Rethinking History Series)
|
Prof. Susie Tharu, Eminent Historian and
Former Professor,
University of Hyderabad,
Hyderabad.
|
‘Medicine, health and government in modern
India:
A small history’
|
17 September 2013
Tuesday
3.00 pm
|
Weekly
Seminar
|
Dr. Jaya Tyagi,
Sri Venkateswara College,
University of Delhi,
Delhi.
|
‘Retrieving women's 'agency' from
Puranic traditions:
Representations and re-presentations of women in the Matsyamahāpurāṇa’ |
18 September 2013
Wednesday
3.00 pm
|
Public Lecture
(Science, Society and Nature
Series)
|
Dr.
Aditi Mukherji,
International
Water Management Institute,
New
Delhi.
|
‘An Evergreen Revolution in Eastern India:
Are we on the right track?’
|
24 September 2013
Tuesday
3.00 pm
|
Weekly
Seminar
|
Dr. Ginu Zacharia Oommen,
Junior Fellow,
NMML.
|
‘Gulf
migration and transnational religious networks: Understanding the
new religious movements in Kerala’
|
25 September 2013
Wednesday
3.00 pm
|
Public Lecture
(India
and the Wider World Series)
|
Prof.
Seema Alavi,
University
of Delhi,
Delhi.
|
‘Muslim cosmopolitanism in the Age of Empire’
|
26 September 2013
Thursday
3.00 pm
|
Public Lecture
|
Prof. Gopal Guru,
Jawaharlal Nehru University,
New Delhi.
|
‘Moral significance of justice:
Foregrounding environmentalism in India’
|
27 September
2013
Friday
9.00 am
|
Workshop
|
In association with Dr. Rakhee Kalita,
Fellow, NMML.
|
‘Writing the Northeast:
The poetics and politics
of representation’
|
4 October 2013
Friday
9.00 am
|
Conference
|
In association with Dr. Gopi Sundar, International Crane Foundation and Dr. Vikram Dayal, Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi.
|
‘Lands of plenty, grounds
for change:
Production, economics and
wildlife conservation on agricultural landscapes’
|
4 October 2013
Friday
5.30 pm
|
Public Lecture
(Rethinking History Series)
|
Prof.
Farhat Hasan,
University
of Delhi,
Delhi.
|
‘Nationalism,
nation-building and the historian of Mughal India’
|
9 October 2013
Wednesday
3.00 pm
|
Public Lecture
(Science, Society and Nature
Series)
|
Prof.
C.R. Babu,
Emeritus Professor,
University of Delhi,
Delhi.
|
‘Conservation of nature:
A strategy for human
endurance’
|
10 October 2013
Thursday
3.00 pm
|
Public Lecture
(India
and the Wider World Series)
|
Mr. Nandan Nilekani,
Unique
Identification Authority of India, New Delhi.
|
‘India and the Third
Industrial Revolution’
|
11 October 2013
Friday
3.00 pm
|
Public Lecture
(Rethinking History Series)
|
Prof. A.R. Venkatachalapathy,
Madras
Institute of Development Studies,
Chennai
|
‘From Erode to Volga:
Periyar EVR's European
travels, 1932’
|
14 October 2013
Monday
3.00 pm
|
Seminar
|
Dr. Kama Maclean,
The University of New South
Wales, Sydney, Australia.
|
‘Title to be confirmed’
|
15 October 2013
Tuesday
3.00 pm
|
Weekly
Seminar
|
Dr. Hari Sen,
Ramjas College,
University of Delhi, Delhi.
|
‘Counting people, counting money:
The Bhils in Mewar in the 19th century’
|
17 October 2013
Thursday
3.00 pm
|
Public Lecture
(India and the Wider World Series)
|
Prof. V.C. Bhutani,
Formerly
at University of Delhi,
Delhi.
|
‘The making of the McMahon Line and its fate,
1900-47’
|
21 October 2013
Monday
3.00 pm
|
Hindi Lecture
|
Dr. Anirudh Deshpande,
University
of Delhi,
Delhi.
|
‘Samaj, itihas evam Bharatiya cinema’
(In Hindi)
|
22 October 2013
Tuesday
3.00 pm
|
Weekly
Seminar
|
Dr. Naina Dayal,
St. Stephen’s College,
University of Delhi, Delhi.
|
‘Some sutas
of the Mahabharata’
|
23 October 2013
Wednesday
3.00 pm
|
Public Lecture
(India and the Wider World Series)
|
Prof. Lakshmi Subramanian,
Centre for
Studies in Social Sciences,
Kolkata.
|
‘Greater India or
the global Indian?
Reflections on
the Indian Ocean’
|
24 October 2013
Thursday
3.00 pm
|
Seminar
|
Dr. Shohini Ghosh,
Jamia Millia Islamia,
New Delhi.
|
‘Transfigured landscape: Documentary/cinema and the violence in Kashmir’
|
25 October 2013
Friday
3.00 pm
|
Public Lecture
(Rethinking History Series)
|
Prof. K. Sivaramakrishnan,
Yale University,
USA.
|
‘Meaningful nature in environmental history’
|
28 October 2013
Monday
3.00 pm
|
Seminar
|
Dr. Manisha Priyam,
Gargi College,
University of Delhi,
Delhi.
|
‘Aligning opportunities and
interests:
Teachers, unions, and school
reforms in Andhra and Bihar’
|
29 October 2013
Tuesday
3.00 pm
|
Weekly
Seminar
|
Dr. Parimala V. Rao,
Junior Fellow,
NMML.
|
‘Revisiting Macaulay:
Teachers and students
c. 1835’
|
30 October 2013
Wednesday
3.00 pm
|
Public Lecture
(Science, Society and Nature
Series)
|
Dr. Aparajita
Datta,
Nature Conservation Foundation,
Mysore.
|
‘Conservation
challenges in Northeast India:
Science,
policy, tribal rights and development’
|
31 October 2013
Thursday
3.00 pm
|
Public Lecture
|
Prof. Nivedita Menon,
Jawaharlal Nehru University,
New Delhi.
|
‘The university, transformations and the work
of intellect’
|
1 November
2013
Friday
9.00 am
|
Workshop
|
In association with Dr. Joy Pachuau, Jawaharlal Nehru
University, New Delhi and Prof. Willem
van Schendel, University of Amsterdam,
Netherlands.
|
‘History through photographs: Exploring the
visual landscape of the Northeast India’
|
1 November
2013
Friday
5.00 pm
|
Public
Lecture
(Rethinking
History Series)
|
Dr. Rustom Bharucha,
Ambedkar
University,
Delhi.
|
‘Between history and
performance:
Reflections on the limits of
disciplines’
|
5 November 2013
Tuesday
3.00 pm
|
Weekly
Seminar
|
Dr. Ranjeeta Dutta,
Jamia Millia Islamia,
New Delhi.
|
‘Saints
and sinners:
The Srivaishnava
community and networks of control in the early modern Tamil region’
|
6 November 2013
Wednesday
3.00 pm
|
Public Lecture
(Science, Society and Nature Series)
|
Dr. Rinki
Sarkar,
Independent Researcher and Economist,
New Delhi
|
‘Endangered landscapes, unperturbed response:
Socio-ecological concerns in the western
Himalayas’
|
8 November
2013
Friday
3.00 pm
|
Public
Lecture
(Rethinking
History Series)
|
Prof. Aloka Parasher Sen,
University
of Hyderabad,
Hyderabad.
|
‘The
fragment in history:
Text
object and local history in early India’
|
12 November 2013
Tuesday
3.00pm
|
Weekly
Seminar
|
Prof. MSS Pandian,
Jawaharlal Nehru University,
New Delhi.
|
‘Two
deaths:
Some
reflections on nationalism’
|
13 November 2013
Wednesday
3.00 pm
|
Public Lecture
(Science, Society and Nature
Series)
|
Dr. M. Rajeevan,
Ministry of
Earth Sciences,
New Delhi.
|
‘The changing monsoon and its
manifold implications’
|
15 November
2013
Friday
3.00 pm
|
Public Lecture
(Rethinking History Series)
|
Prof. Mariam Dossal,
Former
Professor, University of Mumbai,
Mumbai.
|
‘Shared
history, shared culture:
Kutch, Sind
and the river Indus’
|
18 November 2013
Monday
3.00 pm
|
Hindi Lecture
|
Prof. Pushpesh Pant,
Former
Professor,
Jawaharlal
Nehru University,
New
Delhi.
|
‘Badaltay
vishva mein Bharat ki bhumika’
(In Hindi)
|
19 November 2013
Tuesday
3.00 pm
|
Weekly
Seminar
|
Prof. Ashok Parthasarathi,
Independent Researcher.
|
‘Indira
Gandhi, science and technology’
|
20 November 2013
Wednesday
3.00 pm
|
Public Lecture
(Science, Society and Nature
Series)
|
Prof.
Jayanta Bandopadhyaya, Formerly at Indian
Institute of
Management
Calcutta (IIMC),
Kolkata.
|
‘The water future of south
Asia:
The option for advancing
ecological engineering’
|
21 November 2013
Thursday
3.00 pm
|
Public Lecture
(India and the Wider World Series)
|
Prof.
Radhika Singha,
Jawaharlal Nehru University,
New Delhi.
|
‘Indian labour and the
geographies of the Great War’
|
26 November 2013
Tuesday
3.00 pm
|
Weekly
Seminar
|
Prof. Malashri Lal,
University of Delhi,
Delhi.
|
‘Fleeting words and imagined bodies:
Oral narratives and women’
|
27 November 2013
Wednesday
3.00 pm
|
Public Lecture
(Science, Society and Nature
Series)
|
Prof. Harsh K. Gupta,
National
Disaster Management Authority,
New Delhi.
|
‘Earthquakes:
How to cope with them’
|
29 November
2013
Friday
3.00 pm
|
Public
Lecture
(Rethinking
History Series)
|
Prof. Kumkum Roy,
Jawaharlal
Nehru University,
New
Delhi.
|
‘On the trail of the Yak tail:
Tangled histories of a symbol of ritual and
power’
|
3 December 2013
Tuesday
3.00 pm
|
Weekly
Seminar
|
Prof. Nasir Tyabji, Former NMML Fellow,
and Former Professor, Independent Researcher
Jamia Millia Islamia,
New Delhi.
|
‘Saving capitalism from the capitalists:
Early post independence travails’
|
4 December 2013
Wednesday
3.00 pm
|
Public Lecture
(Science, Society and Nature
Series)
|
Dr. Pradip Prabhu,
Barefoot
Academy of Governance, Thane.
|
‘Decolonizing the forest:
The new challenges’
|
6 December
2013
Friday
3.00 pm
|
Public
Lecture
(Interrogating
Social Justice Series)
|
Dr. Shyam Babu,
Centre
for Policy Research,
New
Delhi.
|
‘How we failed social justice:
Mismatch of constitutional provisions and
institutional arrangements’
|
10 December 2013
Tuesday
3.00 pm
|
Weekly
Seminar
|
Dr. Himanshu Roy,
Fellow,
NMML.
|
‘Salwa Judum:
Interrogating
the state and the Maoists’
|
13 December
2013
Friday
9.00 am
|
Workshop
|
In association with Dr. Sangeeta Dasgupta,
Jawaharlal
Nehru University,
New
Delhi.
|
‘Reading Adivasi histories’
|
16 December
2013
Monday
3.00 pm
|
Hindi
Lecture
|
Dr. Sanjay Sharma,
Ambedkar
Univesity,
Delhi.
|
‘Khairat, jan-kalyan aur upniveshik rajya:
Uttar Bharat ke akalon ke sandarbh mein’
(In Hindi)
|
17 December 2013
Tuesday
3.00 pm
|
Weekly
Seminar
|
Dr. Smita Mitra,
Delhi College of Arts and
Commerce,
University of Delhi,
Delhi.
|
‘Writing the star:
Popular Bangla cinema (1950-70) and the
archive’
|
18 December 2013
Wednesday
3.00 pm
|
Public Lecture
(Science, Society and Nature
Series)
|
Dr. Uma Ramakrishnan,
Tata
Institute of Fundamental Research,
Bengaluru.
|
‘DNA studies and
evolutionary history:
Why species survival is
more than a game of numbers’
|
20 December
2013
Friday
3.00 pm
|
Public Lecture
(Rethinking History Series)
|
Dr. Prem Chowdhry,
Former Fellow,
NMML.
|
‘On claiming inheritance:
Emerging patterns among
women of Haryana’
|
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