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BEYOND BORDERS: IIC-NFI LECTURE SERIES

 

Hospitable Jurisprudence in Inhospitable Times

Speaker: Lawrence Liang, Dean, School of Law, Governance and Citizenship, Ambedkar University and co-founder of Alternative Law Forum, Bangalore

 

Introduction: Dr. Monica Banerjee, Director NFI

Moderator: Kishalay Bhattacharjee, Associate Professor, O P Jindal Global University, Sonepat, Haryana

 

The Muslim ban promulgated by the Trump administration and the stance of the Indian government towards the Rohingyas are kindred instances of the challenge we face. If the law has been inherently spatial and territorial, where then do turn to if we are to articulate a radical politics of belonging - Is the Kantian ideal of a cosmopolitan right to hospitality a solution or only a bigger problem in neo liberal times? In this talk which is by way of a set of exploratory wanderings, Lawrence Liang will set up a few problems of thinking of the overlap between law, hostility and hospitality

 

(Collaboration: National Foundation for India)

 

 

 

 

Spiritual Ecology Lecture

Ecology in the Information Age: Negotiating the Unknown 

Speaker: Shri Sopan Joshi, , journalist for more than two decades, has travelled to several parts of India and the world, researching on environment, agriculture, water management, forestry and livestock, among things. He also writes on sports, adventure and travel occasionally. His first book, titled 'Jal Thal Mal', was published in July 2016; it explores the science and history of sanitation with a social and environmental perspective. In recent months, he's been preparing children's books on Mahatma Gandhi. Born in Indore, Joshi grew up in Delhi, obtaining a master’s degree in English literature from the University of Delhi in 1996. 

 

(Collaboration: Tibet House)

 

 

 

Aaj Kavita

Anamika (Delhi), Sangeeta Gundecha (Bhopal), Baabusha Kohli (Jabalpur) and Lovely Goswami (Bengaluru)

 

(Collaboration: The Raza Foundation)

 

 

Last Girl First: National Conference Against Child Labour and Sexual Exploitation

Keynote Speaker: Ms Catherine MacKinnon a lawyer, teacher, writer, and activist on sex equality issues domestically and internationally; Elizabeth A. Long Professor of Law at Michigan Law and the long-term James Barr Ames Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School; widely published in many languages, her dozen books include Sexual Harassment of Working Women (1979), Feminism Unmodified (1987), Toward a Feminist Theory of the State (1989), Only Words (1993), Women's Lives, Men's Laws (2005), Are Women Human? (2006), and her casebook Sex Equality (2001/2007;  also works with Equality Now, an international NGO promoting sex equality, and the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women (CATW)

 

(Collaboration: Aapne Aap Worldwide)

 

 

Between prefixes and suffixes: Problematising the Moral Code in Indian Aesthetics

A lecture by Navtej Johar (as part of the Abhyas Lecture Series) 

 

The lecture will challenge the predominantly linear and moral convention of the Bhava-Rasa theory by locating in it the possibilities of abstraction and viewing it within the realms of Linguistics and Poetics

 

(Collaboration: Studio Abhyas)

 

 

BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP

 

Indira: India’s Most Powerful Prime Minister

By Sagarika Ghose (New Delhi: Juggernaut, 2017)

 

Panelists: Shri Manish Tiwari, former Union Minister and lawyer; Ms Nalini Singh, journalist, MD of TV Live India Pvt.; and 

Dr. Seshadari Chari, journalist, political, strategic and foreign policy analyst

 

Chair: Shri Wajahat Habibullah, former Chairperson, National Commission for Minorities

 

 

Hindustani Vocal Recital

By Purna Chandra Chakravarty from Dhanbad, Bihar, disciple of Pt. Ajoy Chakraborty and Pt. Samaresh Choudhury