Draft NEP 2019: Can India Become a Leader in Higher Education?

Speaker: Prof. Vinod Kumar Singh, Professor of Chemistry, IIT Kanpur. A recipient of several awards and honours such as Swarnajayanti Fellowship Award, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize and the Padma Shri, he has been elected as a Fellow of academies including The World Academy of Sciences 

Chair: Prof. Anita Rampal, Faculty of Education, University of Delhi

 

No country can become a developed one without a strong education system. The new draft education policy (NEP) is in the right direction for making us a global leader. Can just a policy on paper bring such a change? The answer can be yes and no. The talk will elaborate how we can come on the world map of higher education system

 

Book Discussion Group

 

 

 

Africa in World Affairs: Politics of Imperialism, the Cold War and Globalisation

 

By Rajen Harshe (Oxon, Routledge, 2019)

 

 

 

Discussants: Ambassador Virendra Gupta, former Indian High Commissioner to Tanzania; Prof. Ajay Dubey, Centre for African Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University; and Ambassador Rajiv Bhatia, Distinguished Fellow, Foreign Policy Studies Programme, Gateway House

 

 

 

Chair: Ambassador Sudhir Devare, former Director General, Indian Council of World Affair

 

 

(Collaboration: Toxics Link)

Prof. M.G.K. Menon Memorial Lecture 2019

 

Can India become a Global Leader in Science?

Speaker: Prof. C.N.R. Rao, Linus Pauling Research Professor and Honorary President of the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), Bangalore, and former Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Council to the Prime Minister of India

 

Chair: Shri N.N. Vohra, President, IIC

Tibet and the Himalayan Borderlands

Panelists: Prof. Mahendra P. Lama, Professor, Centre for South Asian Studies, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University; Prof. Nimmi Kurian, Centre for Policy Research; and Prof. Vasudha Pande, Lady Shri Ram College

 

Moderator: Prof. Sangeeta Thapliyal, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University

 

The panelists will discuss communities and trade across the borders. How did the closure of the borders affect communities’ lives? A few trade routes have been opened between Tibet and the Indian and Nepal Himalayas. The panel will examine how this impacts on the people and their local and national economies

 

Punya Tithi – Spiritual Merit through the Lens of Dance

Manis of Odissi in the tradition of Guru Kelucharan Mohapatra, Padma Vibhushan

 

Guru Kelucharan Mohapatra’s choreographies as well as those of his disciple, Smt Sharon Lowen’s will be presented 

Gandhi Aur Mrityu

Speaker: Dr. Kumar Prashant

 

Chair: Shri Ashok Vajpeyi

 

(Collaboration: The Raza Foundation

Experiencing the Goddesses – The Trail of the Yoginis

Discussion around the new book co-authored by Nilima Chitgopekar; Janet Chawla; Seema Kohli; Anamika Roy; and Stella Dupuis (New Delhi: Aryan Books International, 2019)

 

Introduction: Stella Dupuis, co-author of the book

In Conversation: Madhu Khanna and Vidya Rao will be in conversation with the authors

Social and Gender Audits in Higher Education

Lead presentation by Dr. Kristy Kelly, Professor, Columbia University and Drexel University, USA. An expert on gender and international education and uses gender and education as critical lenses to examine social change

 

Speakers: Prof. Poonam Batra, Professor of Education, University of Delhi; Prof, Krishna Menon, Professor and Dean, School of Human Studies, Ambedkar University, Delhi; Prof. Sanjay Srivastava, Institute of Economic Growth, University of Delhi (tbc); Prof. Rukmini Sen, Professor, School of Liberal Studies, Ambedkar University; Dr. Bulbul Dhar James, Associate Professor, Dept. of Political Science, Jamia Millia Islamia; and Dr. Shweta Singh, Senior Assistant Professor, Dept. of International Studies, South Asian University

 

(Collaboration: Wiscomp)