Research Lecture Series

Survey and Characterization of Historic Lakhori Bricks

Speaker: Ms Bhawna Dandona, Conservation Architect, presently Visiting Faculty, School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi

  

 

 

 

Curated by Rajiv Mehrotra

 

Humano: South America, A New Awakening 

(90 min; 2013; dvd; English)

A film by Alan Stivelman 

 

A young man is twenty-five years old and is looking for the reason of his existence, the meaning of life. A camera and a notebook filled with questions are the only items he needs to set off on a journey to the Andes range. With Placido, an Andean paqo (priest), he will be taken on an introspective journey such as has never been documented before

 

 

An exhibition of photographs by Hiranmay Karlekar

 

Preview on Tuesday, 15 December 2015 at 18:30

 

Art Administration and Transformative Governance

Speaker: Dr. Kapila Vatsyayan

 

Speaker: Dr. Ramin Jahanbegloo Associate Professor Noor-York Chair in Islamic Studies York University Toronto-Canada

 

Chair: Dr. Ashis Nandy

 

The historical figure of Socrates as a philosopher-citizen, who stood at odds with the Athenian polis, represents today a valid and relevant nucleus for the ongoing pursuit of dissentful thinking and philosophical interrogation in our world. In a world where philosophical interrogation has given its place to complacency, conformism, intellectual degradation and erosion of values, Socrates is more relevant than at any other time. The lecture suggests that the radical, disobedient and nonviolent Socrates has been in a historical link and affinity with Socrates as a citizen-philosopher. It remains to explain how these two complementary characteristics were transmitted to and underlined by nonviolent reformers and practitioners such as Henry David Thoreau, Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. These thinkers and practitioners of nonviolence laid the foundations for a world where the Socratic philosophy of revolt, against injustice and tyranny, but also in opposition to complacency and conformism, finds its moral and political foundations while remaining an inspiration for the present day gadflies who rightly struggle against the inequalities and injustices and try to break the wall of indifference 

 

 

Functioning in Challenging Times:  Bridging the Expectation-Fulfillment Gap in Library and Information Services

Speaker:  Prof. Subrata Chakraborty,  Former Dean & Director-in-Charge, Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow; Former Director, Jaipuria Institute of Management, Lucknow

 

Chair:  Dr. H. K. Kaul, Director, DELNET

 

 

Skill Development in farm and non-farm sector
 
Keynote Speakers: Dr. Rita Sharma, Former Secretary, M/o Rural Development; and Smt. Gayathri B Kalia,
Chief Operation Officer, DU-GKY, Division, Ministry of Rural Development,

Chair:  Shri MC Verma, Former Technical Advisor UNDP and Secretary to Govt. of India

 

 

 

Prof. Alok Bhalla, former Professor, Department of English, English and Foreign Language University (EFLU), Hyderabad; Prof. Badri Narayan, Centre for the Study of Discrimination and Exclusion (CSDE), School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University; and Dr. Shweta Singh, Assistant Professor, Department of International Relations, Faculty of Social Sciences, South Asian University, New Delhi will discuss A Gypsy in the World of Ideas by Rajen Harshe (New Delhi: Pentagon Press, 2015)

 

Chair: Prof. Harbans Mukhia, formerly Rector and Professor, Centre for Historical Studies, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University