Visiting Professors
The IIAS has a scheme of Visiting Professors under which eminent scholars are invited by the Governing Body of the Institute for a maximum period of one month to deliver three lectures on a theme of their choice which are published by the Institute. Besides, they also use the library of the Institute and interact with the Fellows and Associates of the Inter-University Centre for Humanities and Social Sciences.
A Visiting Professor is entitled to reimbursement of travel expenses (port of their journey within India and back) (port of their journey in India and back), local hospitality and an honorarium of Rs. 4000/- per lecture. The Visiting Professor would, however, have to make the manuscript of the lectures available to the Institute which would be published as part of lecture series.
Visiting Professors from 2016 onwards
The Institute invites senior academicians to Shimla for a period of one month during which they deliver 2-3 lectures and submit the manuscript of the same. A detailed CV along with abstracts of proposed lectures is to be emailed to aro@iias.ac.in.
| Sr. No. | Name | Bio | Title of Lecture |
| 1. | Professor Sridhar Rajeswaran | Visiting Professor in Humanities Centre for Excellence in Basic Sciences, University of Mumbai Mumbai 400098 And Honorary Director Centre for Advanced Studies in India (CASII), Gujarat |
W.B.Yeats a Dialectic of Desire and Nation: The Body of a Woman and the Lie of the Land (06 May 2016) Girish Karnad: Beginnings, Ends and New Beginnings” on 12 May 2016 Earth 1947 through the Fish-Eye: Imaging the Landscape of Memory" on 23 May 2016 |
| 2. | Professor Pulapre Balakrishnan | Director (Economist) Centre for Developing Studies |
Markets, Growth and Social Justice: Twenty Five Years of Economic Reforms” on 09 June 2016 Rights and Capabilities: A Reflection on Democracy and Development in India” on 16 June 2016 Knowing where you come from: the economy of early independent India revisited on 23 June 2016 |
| 3. | Professor Udayon Misra | Former Professor and Head of the Department of English, Dilbrugarh University, Assam Former National Fellow, IIAS |
Re-Defining the Indian Nation: The Northeast Experience-I” on 06 September 2016 “Re-Defining the Indian Nation: The Northeast Experience-II” on 20 September 2016. “Re-Defining the Indian Nation: The Northeast Experience-III” on 26 September 2016. |
| 4. | Shri Keki N. Daruwalla | Indian Police Service in 1958 Padma Shree Awardees |
1. “Historical Fiction: Negotiating the Personal and the Historical” on 06 June 2017 2. Neutral Space? Politics and Poetry on 15 June 2017 |
| 5. | Professor Jean-Luc Racine | Emeritus Senior CNRS Fellow Centre for South Asian Studies School for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences Paris |
“India and the World, 1991-2013” on 03 August 2017 India's "soft power” cultural diplomacy and civil society on 09 August 2017 "A New Normal? The “Modi-Fiction” of India on 18 August 2017 |
| 6. | Professor Ashok Modak | National Professor, Trustee, ICCR |
• Veer Savarkar-worthy successor of Swami Vivekanand” on 05th June 2018 • Hijacking of Vivekananda’s Views (15 June 2018) • Russian’s interest in the Life and mission of Swami Vivekananda (22 June 2018) |
| 7. | Professor S. Kodandaraman | Professor of Civil Engineering, Pondicherry Engineering College | A Preamble to Vedanta Darsana on 07 September 2018 “The Concept of Advaita Philosophy” on 11 September 2018 |
| 8. | Professor Priyambada Sarkar | Department of Philosophy University of Calcutta |
Spirituality beyond Religion: Rabindranath Tagore and Ludwig Wittgenstein “Spirituality and Religion: the Narrative of Ludwig Wittgenstein, a so-called ‘Jew’” on 06 November 2018 |
| 9. | Professor Sudhir Chandra | Renowned Historian and Gandhian Scholar | • Rejection of the India of Gandhi’s Dream (29th March 2019) • Partition and its Aftermath (3rd April 2019) • Non-violence: The Impossible Possibility of an Urgent Imperative (9thApril 2019) |
| 10. | Professor Leena Abraham | Centre for Studies in Sociology of Education Tata Institute of Social Sciences Deonar, Mumbai 400 088 |
• Feminization of a Medical Field: Developments in Twentieth Century Ayurveda (16th April 2019) • Towards a Cosmopolitan Ayurveda Contributions of Women Ayurveda Physicians (26th April 2019) • Globalization of a Regional Medicine: Developments in Ayurveda in Kerala (3rd May 2019) |
| 11. | Professor Ambikadutt Sharma | Department of Philosophy H.S. Gaur Central University Sagar, M.P. |
. Bhartiya manas ka vi-opniveshikaran: pramanik sanskritatma ke pratyabhigyan ki karyayojana (10th, 14th & 19th June, 2019) |
| 12. | Professor H.R. Meera | NIAS, Bangalore | • Relevance of Vyañjanā in Contemporary Linguistic Studies (18 November 2019) • The Spectrum of Non-literal usages as seen in Śāstraic Framework (22 November 2019) • Context and Vyañjanā” (03 December 2019 ) |
| 13. | Prof. Dr. Harald Wiese | Lehrstuhl für Mikroökonomik Universität Leipzig Postfach |
Pre-modern Indian perspectives on giving, gifting, and sacrifices: the king (16 March 2020) |
| 14. | Prof. Madan Mohan Goel | Vice-Chancellor(Three Times) Propounder Needonomics School of Thought and superannuated Professor of Economics, Kurukshetra University |
Gita inspired Needonomics for Global Economy(16 May, 2025) |
| 14. | Prof. Ravi Ranjan | Fellow, Rajya Sabha, Parliament of India Professor, Dept. of Political Science Zakir Husain Delhi College, Delhi University J L Nehru Marg, New Delhi 110002 |
Conceptualization of Human Dignity in Indian Political Tradition: Searching a Theoretical Perspective |