Nehru Memorial Museum and Library

cordially invites you to the Weekly Seminar

at 3.00 pm on Tuesday, 20^th January, 2015

in the Seminar Room, First Floor, Library Building

on

‘When Words will not do:

Sinhala Buddhist monks and the possibility of violence’

by

Prof. Pradeep Jeganathan,

Shiv Nadar University,

Noida.

Speaker:

Prof. Pradeep Jeganathan is Professor of Sociology at Shiv Nadar University, Delhi NCR, India. Previously, he held faculty appointments at the University of Minnesota at Minneapolis, the New School for Social Research in New York, the International Centre for Ethnic Studies and the Post Graduate Institute of Archeological Research, at the University of Kelaniya, in Colombo, Sri Lanka.  His research interests range from subaltern nationalism to the emergence of violence and the presence of loss, and the relationship between romantic love and bonds of kinship in lived world.  Books, authored or edited include Living With Death (2007), At the Water';s Edge (2004), Unmaking the Nation (1995|2009) and Subaltern Studies X1 (2001.)