TOPIC |
SPEAKER |
VENUE |
DATE & TIME |
Ethical Issues in the Mahabharata |
Trichur S Rukmani Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Concordia University, Montreal |
10th Floor Auditorium, Pixel A, Azim Premji University |
November 26, 2015, 2.00pm – 3.30pm |
Panel Discussion on Listening to Children’s Voices: An Agenda of Caring |
Shantha Sinha, Harsh Mander and S. Anandalakshmy Moderator: Rohit Dhankar |
Seminar Hall, 10th Floor, Pixel A, Azim Premji University |
November 20, 2015, 3.30pm – 5.30pm |
Reading Indian History (with Reference to Tipu Sultan) |
S Settar Visiting Professor, School of Humanities, NIAS, Bengaluru |
10th Floor Auditorium, Pixel A, Azim Premji University |
November 19, 2015, 2.00pm – 3.30pm |
Conservation, Crop-loss and Coffee: The Adverse Effects of Banning Customary Practices in an Indian Tiger Reserve |
Nitin D. Rai Fellow, ATREE, Bengaluru |
10th Floor Auditorium, Pixel A, Azim Premji University |
November 12, 2015, 2.00pm – 3.30pm |
Panel Discussion on: August 2015 Accord between the Government and the Nationalist Socialist Council of Nagaland |
Khekiye Sema Consultative Member, ACAUT Pradip Phanjoubam Editor, Imphal Free Press Theja Therieh President, Chakhesang Hoho, Kohima & Chairman, Media Cell, Nagaland Tribes Council Anil Sethi Professor, Azim Premji University, Bengaluru |
Seminar Hall, 10th Floor, Pixel A, Azim Premji University |
October 30, 2015, 2.00pm – 4.30pm |
Understanding Soft and Hard Irrationalism (Annual lecture in memory of Narendra Dabholkar) |
Gopal Guru Professor, Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi |
10th Floor Auditorium, Pixel A , Azim Premji University |
October 29, 2015, 2.00pm – 3.30pm |
Interaction with Dr. Ramachandra Guha |
Dr. Ramachandra Guha |
10th Floor Auditorium, Pixel A, Azim Premji University |
October 15, 2015, 10.00am – 12.00noon |
Thinking afresh toward a Swaraj for Health: Strengthening Democracy, Strengthening Health Care |
Madhulika Banerjee Professor of Political Science, University of Delhi |
10th Floor Auditorium, Pixel A, Azim Premji University |
October 15, 2015, 2.00pm – 3.30pm |
Global Knowledge, Local Insights: Contestations
around Maternal Health in India |
Jashodhara Dasgupta Senior Advisor, SAHAYOG, Lucknow |
10th Floor Auditorium, Pixel A, Azim Premji University |
October 8, 2015, 2.00pm – 3.30pm |
Challenges of Educational Provision for the Marginalized |
Praveen Kumar (IPS), Secretary, Telangana Social Welfare Residential Educational Institutions Society |
10th Floor Seminar Hall, Pixel A, Azim Premji University |
August 27, 2015, 11.00am – 12.30pm |
Sadvaidyasala: 100 Years of a Healthcare Organization |
B.V. Sreekantan, Visiting Professor, NIAS Rajesh Sreenivsan, Director, Sadvaidyashala |
10th Floor Auditorium, Pixel A, Azim Premji University |
August 27, 2015, 2.00pm – 3.30pm |
Hindu Nationalism in Power: Paradoxes and Possibilities |
Ashutosh Varshney, Director, Brown-India Initiative, Sol Goldman Professor of International Studies and the Social Sciences & Professor of Political Science, Brown University (USA) |
10th Floor Auditorium, Pixel A, Azim Premji University |
August 21, 2015, 2.30pm – 4.00pm |
Himalaya Environment and Development: Experiences of the ‘Chipko’ Movement |
Chandi Prasad Bhatt |
Seminar Hall, 10th Floor, Pixel A, Azim Premji University |
August 14, 2015, 3.30pm |
Faculty Seminar: People, Princes and Purifiers: The Holi Festival in Nineteenth-and-Early-Twentieth-Century Punjab |
Anil Sethi |
Seminar Hall, 10th Floor, Pixel A, Azim Premji University |
September 9, 2015, 11.00am – 12.30pm |
Poverty and the Quest for Life: Spiritual and Material Striving in Rural India |
Bhrigupati Singh Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Brown University, USA |
10th Floor Auditorium, Pixel A, Azim Premji University |
August 13, 2015, 2.30pm – 4.00pm |
Faculty Seminar: Theorising the Informal Sector in India |
Rahul De Azim Premji University |
Somapura Campus, Azim Premji University |
August 5, 2015, 11.001m – 12.30pm |
Faculty Seminar: Double Discrimination: Dalit Women’s Education in Modern Maharashtra |
Dr. Shailaja Paik |
618, 6th Floor, Pixel B, Azim Premji University |
July 29, 2015, 2.00pm – 3.30pm |
The Education of Desire in Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics |
Roopen Majithia Professor of Philosophy, Mount Allison University, Canada |
10th Floor Auditorium, Pixel A, Azim Premji University |
July 30, 2015, 2.00pm – 3.30pm |
The Functioning of the Indian Parliament |
M R Madhavan Co-Founder and President, PRS Legislative Research, New Delhi |
10th Floor Auditorium, Pixel A, Azim Premji University |
July 16, 2015, 2.00pm – 3.30pm |
Faculty Seminar: The Passionate Journeys of the Gods: Towards an Anthropology of Wonder |
Tulasi Srinivas Associate Professor of Anthropology at Emerson College in Boston |
Activity Room, First Floor, Pixel B, Azim Premji University |
July 23, 2015, 2.00pm – 3.30pm |
The Theory and Practice of Nonviolence in Building Social Movements |
C P V Rajagopal President and Founder-Member, Ekta Parishad |
10th Floor Auditorium, Pixel A, Azim Premji University |
July 23, 2015, 2.00pm – 3.30pm |
Metabolism as Metaphor: Imagining an Ecology of Labour |
Purnendu Kavoori Professor, Azim Premji University |
10th Floor Auditorium, Pixel A, Azim Premji University |
July 22, 2015, 2.30pm – 4.00pm |
Economic Survey of India 2014-15: Growth Theory and Policy |
Alex M. Thomas |
Activity Room, First Floor, Pixel B, Azim Premji University |
May 11, 2015, 9.30am – 11.00am |
NAMES ARE FOR OTHER PEOPLE’S LANGUAGE: REVISITING LANGUAGE
AND TRANSLATION IN INDIA |
Rita Kothari, Associate Professor, Humanities, Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar |
10th Floor Auditorium, Pixel A, Azim Premji University |
April 30, 2015, 2.00pm – 3.30pm |
Development Paradigms: Challenges and the Way Out |
Medha Patkar, Narmada Bachao Andolan and National Alliance of People's Movements |
10th Floor Auditorium, Pixel A, Azim Premji University |
April 28, 2015, 4.00pm – 6.00pm |
Quality Learning: Its Science and Critical Theory |
Rajan Gurukkal, Soundararajan Chair Visiting Professor, Centre for Contemporary Studies, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru |
10th Floor Auditorium, Pixel A, Azim Premji University |
April 23, 2015, 2.00pm – 3.30pm |
Governing Monsoon Landscapes: The East India Company’s Expansion on Its North-Eastern Frontier in the Early 19th Century |
Gunnel Cederlöf, Professor of History, Uppsala University and Research Fellow, KTH/Royal Institute of Technology |
10th Floor Auditorium, Pixel A, Azim Premji University |
April 16, 2015, 2.00pm – 3.30pm |
The Ideas and Practices of the Dalit Movement in Karnataka |
Du Saraswathi |
10th Floor Auditorium, Pixel A, Azim Premji University |
April 14, 2015, 3.00pm – 5.00pm |
The Functioning of the Indian Parliament |
M.R. Madhavan, President, PRS Legislative Research, New Delhi
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10th Floor Auditorium, Pixel A, Azim Premji University |
April 9, 2015, 2.00pm – 3.30pm |
Rethinking Development |
Dr. Atul Sood
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Room No. 514, Pixel B, Azim Premji University |
April 6, 2015, 2.30pm – 4.00pm |
The National Green Tribunal of India: Emerging Socio-Legal Perspectives |
Rita Brara, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Delhi School of Economics. |
10th Floor Auditorium, Pixel A, Azim Premji University |
April 2, 2015, 2.00pm – 3.30pm |
The Political Ecology of Palk Bay Fisheries: Geographies of Capital, Fisher Conflict, Ethnicity and Nation-State |
Ajit Menon, Associate Professor, Madras Institute of Development Studies. |
10th Floor Auditorium, Pixel A, Azim Premji University |
March 26, 2015, 2.00pm – 3.30pm |
Martyrdom Day Special Lecture :
Relevance of Bhagat Singh’s Ideas in Our Times |
Prof Chaman Lal, Former Chairperson of Centre of Indian Languages in Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. |
10th Floor Auditorium, Pixel A, Azim Premji University |
March 23, 2015, 2.00pm – 3.30pm |
On Philosophy and Economics |
Frank Thomson,, Lecturer Emeritus, University of Michigan |
10th Floor Auditorium, Pixel A, Azim Premji University |
March 19, 2015, 2.00pm – 3.30pm |
Can India’s Welfare Programmes be Reversed? : Reflections on the Politics of Public Services in India |
Vivek Srinivasan, Academic Research & Program Manager, Liberation Technology, Stanford University. |
10th Floor Auditorium, Pixel A, Azim Premji University |
March 5, 2015, 2.00pm – 3.30pm |
The Post-Language Human Imagination |
Ganesh Devy, Professor, Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, Gandhinagar, and Founder-Director, Bhasha Research and Publication Centre, Vadodara, Gujarat, India. |
10th Floor Auditorium, Pixel A, Azim Premji University |
February 26, 2015, 2.00pm – 3.30pm |
Radical Ecological Democracy: Towards a Sustainable and Equitable Future |
Ashish Kothari, Founder Member, Kalpavriksh, Pune |
10th Floor Auditorium, Pixel A, Azim Premji University |
February 19, 2015, 2.00pm – 3.30pm |
Revisiting transfer of learning in Mathematics: insights from an urban low-income settlement |
Arindam Bose |
10th Floor Auditorium, Pixel A, Azim Premji University |
February 18, 2015, 11.00am – 12.30pm |
What is Wrong with the Media and What Can Be Done About it |
Hartosh Singh BalPolitical Editor, The Caravan Magazine |
10th Floor Auditorium, Pixel A, Azim Premji University |
February 6, 2015, 2.00pm – 3.30pm |
Revisiting Caste, Re-imagining India |
Surinder S Jodhka, Professor, Centre for the Study of Social Systems, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi |
10th Floor Auditorium, Pixel A, Azim Premji University |
February 5, 2015, 2.00pm – 3.30pm |
Globalization, Higher Education and Inclusive Development: Redefining the Policy Paradox |
Sangeeta Kamat, Associate Professor in Education Policy Studies, University of Massachusetts at Amherst |
10th Floor Auditorium, Pixel A, Azim Premji University |
January 29, 2015, 2.00pm – 3.30pm |
Stranger than fiction: The true story of the Indigenous Cotton Textile Industry of India (ICTI) |
Uzramma, Decentralized Cotton Yarn Trust, Hyderabad |
10th Floor Auditorium, Pixel A, Azim Premji University |
January 22, 2015, 2.00pm – 3.30pm |
Reflections on Urban Ecologies: Governance of Land, Water and Informal Settlements in Chennai |
Karen Coelho
| 10th Floor Auditorium, Pixel A, Azim Premji University |
January 20, 2015, 2.00pm – 3.30pm |
Art in Education |
Catherine Z. Elgin, Professor of the Philosophy of Education, Graduate School of Education, Harvard University, USA |
10th Floor Auditorium, Pixel A, Azim Premji University |
January 16, 2015, 4.00pm – 5.30pm |
A Dialogue on Framing Sustainability from the South |
Marcel Burstzyn, Professor,Universidade De Brasilia, Brazil
Ruth DeFries, Professor, Columbia University, USA
Sally Duncan , Director,OSU Policy Analysis Laboratory, Oregon State University, USA |
Room No 616, Pixel B, Azim Premji University |
January 14, 2015, 2.30pm – 4.30pm |