Visiting Scholars from 2016 onwards
Sr. No. | Name | Bio | Title of Lecture |
1 | Shri P. Sainath | Eminent journalist & Former Rural Affairs Editor of The Hindu |
Rural India — a living journal, a breathing archive (The everyday lives of everyday people) (08 April 2016) |
2 | Professor Ananta Kumar Giri | Professor Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai |
With and Beyond Epistemologies from the South: Ontological Epistemology of Participation, Multi-topial Hermeneutics and the Contemporary Challenges of Planetary Realizations (09 May 2016) |
3 | Professor Roy W. PERRETT | Professor of Philosophy, University of Hawai'i at Manoa | "Memory, Doubt and the Self" (20 May 2016) |
4 | Professor Anirban Chakraborti | Professor and Dean, School of Computational & Integrative Sciences Coordinator, Mathematical & Computational Empowerment Cell Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi |
Physicists’ Approach to Studying Socio-Economic Inequalities: Can Humans be Modelled as Atoms?" on 25 May 2016. |
5 | Professor Sreekala M. Nair | Head Department of Philosophy Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit Kalady, Kerala |
Releasing Theology from Epistemological Barriers: A Postmodern Narrative” on 19 August, 2016 |
6 | Professor Narayani Gupta | Professor (retired), Department of History and Culture, Jamia Millia Islamia University, New Delhi | The Hall of Nations as a Metaphor for our sense of History'. |
7 | Professor Uma Chakravarti | Miranda House, the premier women's college in Delhi University | “The Feminist Turn in Documentary Cinema: An Audio Visual Presentation” on 18 October 2016 |
8 | Shri Makarand Sathe | Renowned Marathi Playwright and Theatre Historian | “Political and Social Aspects of Theatre during 19th Century Colonial Rule- With reference to Marathi Theatre” on 15 November 2016 |
9 | Dr. Nalini Persram | Associate Professor Department of Social Science, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies Centre for Research on Latin American and the Caribbean Kaneff Tower York University Canada |
"Thought Through Motility: Phenomenological and Somatic Studios of the Conceptual” on 17 March 2017 |
10. | Dr. Kathryn Hardy | Andrew W. Mellon Fellow, Modeling Interdisciplinary Inquiry Interdisciplinary Project in the Humanities Washington University in St. Louis USA. |
“Sounding Out the Crowd: Cinematic Signs and Embodied Politics in “Regional” Mumbai” on 05 May 2017 |
11. | Dr. Elizabeth Wilson | Visiting Faculty, Rutgers Law School Fulbright-Nehru Senior Scholar, Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi |
“Be the Change: Gandhi and Human Rights” on 21 June 2017 |
12. | Professor Dinesh Prasad Saklani | Professor Department History, Ancient Indian History, Culture & Archaeology Institution HNB Garhwal University, Srinagar, |
Valmiki Ramayana & Gender Issue- Case of Sita” on 28 July 2017. |
13. | Professor Shekhar Pathak | Formerly Professor of History, Kumaon University, Nainital; Senior Fellow, Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi; Fellow, Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla and Editor, PAHAR |
CHIPKO ANDOLAN: AN EVALUATION Leadership, Organization and Participation(14 September 2017) |
14. | Shri Makarand Sathe | Renowned Marathi Playwright and Theatre Historian | Nationalism and Cultural Freedom” on 06 October 2017 |
15. | Mr. Anant Mahapatra | The Renaissance Man of Odia Theatre | Odia Theatre through Decades” on 12 October 2017 |
16. | Professor Gérard Huet | Emeritus Professor INRIA, Paris, France |
“The Sanskrit Heritage Platform” on 26 October 2017 |
17. | Dr. Judith Misrahi-Barak | Associate Professor, University Paul Valéry Montpellier 3, France | Indentureship, Caste and the Crossing of the Kala Pani” on 07 March 2018 |
18. | Dr. Alexander F. Scott | Scott Research Group Bloomington Indiana, USA |
“Economic Development and Indian Self-Determination: Cultural, Developmental, and Neurobiological Implications of India’s Cultural Shift toward a Nuclear Family Norm” on 10 April 2018 |
19. | Professor Nandini C. Singh | Additional Professor National Brain Research Centre, Manesar |
The Reading Brain” on 23rd April, 2018 |
20. | Professor Jagbir Singh | Vice-Chancellor Central University of Punjab |
“Inter-faith Dialogue and the Discourse of Guru Granth Sahib” on 18 May 2018 |
21. | Dr. Surjeet Singh Lee | Former Professor & Head, Department of Anthropological Linguistics and Punjab University | “The Jangams: An Oral Epic in the Shaivite Tradition” on 21 May 2018 |
22. | Shri Mohit Bhardwaj | The Oral Veda Tradition” on 22 May 2018 | |
23. | Carmel Christy K.J. | Assistant Professor Department of Journalism Kamala Nehru College University of Delhi |
“The life of Caste, Gender and the Body: Boundaries of knowing” on 06th June 2018 |
24. | Ms. Neela Bhagat | Renowned performer of Kathak Style of dance | “Musical Ethos: Traditional and Contemporary” on 31 August 2018 |
25. | Professor V.N. Jha | Former Director Centre of Advanced Study in Sanskrit University of Pune |
Classical Indian Theories of Error (25 September 2018) |
26. | Dr. Lakshmi Subramanian | Former Professor of History Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta IUC Associate in the Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, Shimla |
“Articulating an Aesthetics: for Indian classical music in the 20th century: Revising the “theory-practice binary” on 05th October 2018 |
27. | Professor Vasanthi Srinivasan | Department of Political Science University of Hyderabad Gachi Bowli Campus Hyderabad |
“Friendship and Prudence: Insights from the Pancatantra” on 16th November, 2018 |
28. | Professor Shailendra Raj Mehta | President and Director and Distinguished Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, MICA Shela, Ahmedabad |
“Freedom of Speech, Inquiry and Religion in India and in the West” on 06 December 2018 |
29. | Professor Margaret Mills Harper | University of Limerick, Ireland | "Yeats's Expansive Vision” (25th Feb. 2019) |
30. | Professor Ben Levitas | Goldsmiths University of London | Ireland, Theatre and Modernity: From Salome to 2016 (25th Feb. 2019) |
31. | Professor Sean G. Valentine | University of Barcelona | |
32. | Professor Dhananjay Singh | Centre for English Studies School of Language, Literature and Culture Studies Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi |
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33. | Dr. Rahul Chaturvedi | Assistant Professor, Department of English, BHU, Varanasi | "Mental Health and Literature: Towards a Poetics of Medical Humanities” on 25th March 2019 |
34. | Professor Pradeep Trikha | Professor and Head, Department of English, Mohanlal Sukhadia University, Udaipur. | Diverse Voices & Alternative Traditions: Rajasthani Tales as Artifacts” on 26th March 2019 |
35. | Ms. Smita Barooah Sanyal |
Mental health therapist specializing in addictions. Author of “Understanding Addictions” (Roli Books, 2012) |
‘Youth and Addictions’ on 2nd April 2019 |
36. | Dr. Gopal Krishan Shah | Assistant Professor University of Delhi |
Performed and delivered a lecture on “Time theory in Indian Raga System” on 08th April, 2019 |
37. | Dr. Ashima Sood | Fellow, Centre for Learning and Management Practice Indian School of Business Hyderabad |
Speculative Urbanization in India? (30th April 2019) |
38. | Dr. Nandini Bhattacharyya Panda | Guest faculty at Women's Studies Research Centre, University of Calcutta & Senior Fellow, Nehru Memorial Museum and Library |
“COLONIZATION OF ‘LAW’ IN NORTHEAST INDIA: TRADITION, CUSTOM, AND THE EMPIRE on 14 May 2019 |
39. | Dr. Jayanta Dutta | National Post-Doctoral Fellowship (NPDF) Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Mohali |
• The Evolution of our Universe from Big Bang (an introduction to the First Source of light in the Universe)(17 May, 2019) |
40. | Professor Gita Dharampal | retired Head, History Dept., SAI, Heidelberg University, Germany) Dean of Research (Honorary Position) Gandhi Research Foundation Gandhi Teerth, Jalgaon |
• Mahatma Gandhi and Islam: A relationship defined by Affinity, Fascination, Crisis and Rupture (27 May, 2019) |
41. | Dr. Veena R. Howard | Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, California State University, Fresno | • Queen Gāndhārī’s Mapping the Battlefield through the “Divine Eye:” Shifting the Gaze from Masculine Virility to Feminine Vulnerability (31 May, 2019) |
42. | Professor Anup Kumar, Ph.D. | Director Journalism and Promotional Communication, School of Communication Cleveland State University Cleveland, OH 44115 |
Populism as a Political Practice: It is not Content, but Repertoire that Unites Shades of Populism on 5 July 2019. |
43. | Dr. V.J. VARGHESE | Assistant Professor Department of History University of Hyderabad Hyderabad |
Making and Unmaking of a Kutiyettakkaran: Cultural Representations and the Migrant Subjectivity in Kerala on 17th July 2019 |
44. | Shri Arun Anand, Sandipan Deb and Prafulla Ketkar | Journalists, Columnists. | Panel Discussion on Media and the Nation |
45. | Dr. Kamal Nayan Choubey | Assistant Professor Department of Political Science Dyal Singh College Delhi University |
The Forest, Tribal Life and Intricate Legal Structure: From Subjecthood to Quest for Justice and Citizenship Rights” on 5th August 2019 |
46. | Shri Siddhartha | Founder, Peepal Tree, Fireflies Intercultural Centre | Eco-spirituality, Food sovereignty and Social justice' on 16th August 2019 |
47. | Professor Nachiketa Tiwari | Professor Department of Mechanical Engineering at Indian Institute of Kanpur |
MATHEMATICAL RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN PANINI’S CONSONANTS on 13th September 2019 |
48. | Shri Ayon Maharaj | Department of Philosophy, Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Educational and Research Institute, Belur | “Swami Vivekananda’s Reconceptualization of Advaita Vedānta in the Light of Sri Ramakrishna” |
49. | Professor Ananta Giri | Professor Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai |
“Social Sciences and the Regional Imagination of India: Social Theory, Asian Dialogues and Planetary Conversations" |