THE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY LECTURES Is Renewable Energy a Antithesis of the Conventional Sources of Energy?
Is Renewable Energy a Antithesis of the Conventional Sources of Energy?
Speaker: Prof. Viresh Dutta, Centre for Energy Studies, IIT Delhi
Chair: Dr. Bharat Bhargava, Director-General, ONGC Energy Centre
Energy is vital for all human activities and is available in different forms to meet the diverse requirements. The depletion of conventional sources of energy like fossil fuel is giving a sense of urgency to the development of alternate sources of energy. The sources are expected to be renewable to have a long term availability and sustainable so that the associated effects on the environment is minimal. The lecture will focus on different aspects of energy sources and utilization in order to establish what can be the directions needed in the creation of future energy mix
CHANGING ROLE OF CIVIL SERVICES
Civil Services Reforms
Speakers: Lt. Gen Surendra Nath; Shri P.C. Hota, former Chairman, Union Public Services Commission
Chair: Shri S.K. Sarkar, Secretary, Dept. of Personnel and Training, Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions
Constructing Modern Muslim Identities: Islamic Traditions and Modern Imaginaries
Speaker: Prof. Dietrich Jung, Head of Department, Centre for Contemporary Middle East Studies, University of Southern Denmark
Chair: Prof. Gulshan Dietl
Author and editor of ten monographs including: Religion, Politics, and Turkey's EU Accession (ed. with Catherine Raudvere, New York: Palgrave Macmillan 2008); Orientalists, Islamists and the Global Public Sphere: A Genealogy of the Modern Essentialist Image of Islam (Sheffield: Equinox 2011); and The Politics of Modern Muslim Subjectivities: Islam, Youth and Social Activism in the Middle East, together with Marie Juul Petersen and Sara Lei Sparre (New York: Palgrave 2014)