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A series of workshops on the
ideas of G. W. F. Hegel, Walter Benjamin and Giorgio Agamben from 21 August
to 25 September, 2006, was conducted by the late Dr. Paul Fletcher, fellow of JNIAS.
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History of Religions' (a Seminar to mark the
centenary of Mircea Eliade held from 08 to 10 October 2007) in collaboration
with the Embassy of Romania in India, the UGC Academic Staff College, JNU and
Nehru Museum and Library, New Delhi.
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'The Relief and
Rehabilitation Policy of the Govt. of India'
(the first National Policy
Dialogue, held on 19 November 2007) in collaboration with the national
Forum for Policy Dialogue and the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New
Delhi.
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'Cities in Medieval India
(1200-1800)' an
International Seminar held on 06 and 07 March 2008) in collaboration with
the Centre for Historical Studies, SSS, JNU and the Academic Staff
College, JNU.
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The Fellows participated in
an International Seminar on 'Mahatma Gandhi and the Quest for a Just
Society' held on 30 & 31 January 2008 at the Nehru Memorial Museum and
Library. A dinner-get-together was held jointly with the N.M.M.L. on 31st January
2008 at the Institute to enable the Fellows to informally meet the
participants of the Seminar as well as the concerned faculty members of
the University. The get-together also provided an opportunity for the
Fellows to meet the Vice-Chancellor, Rectors and other senior members of
the University.
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Greek Legacy In Medieval &
Modern India– A Workshop organized by
Dr. Vasileios Syros, Fellow of the Institute, on 14th August 2008.
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In October, 2008, a month
long workshop/training programme on "Early Iconography with a
special focus on the Art and Archaeology of Central Asia and Gandhara", was conducted
in collaboration with the School of Arts and Aesthetics, JNU and the
Department of Art History, Vienna University.
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Discover The British
Library – A
Session with Graham Shaw, Head of Asia, Pacific and Africa
Collections, Penny Brook, Head of India Office Records, and others
from the British Library, organized at the Institute on 19 November 2008
from 10.30 AM to 1.00 PM.
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King’s College Colloquiom was organized at the
Institute. The Speakers at the Colloquium included Prof. Richard Drayton,
Rhodes Professor of Imperial History, Dr. Jon Wilson and Dr. Nandini
Chatterjee, all from the Department of History, King’s College, London.
This was held on 19 November 2008 from 2 PM to 5 PM.
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Nation-Building In Asia,
Panel No. 4 of the 20th Conference of International Association of
Historians of Asia was organized at the Institute and chaired by Prof.
Aditya Mukherjee, Director, JNIAS over three days, 15-17 November 2008.
EVENTS (organized at JNIAS)
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The Dynamics of
Religious Pluralism – Conflicts, Assimilation and
Innovation in Pre-Modern India – A Workshop was organized on
18-19 February 2009. The Workshop was coordinated by Prof. Christine
Chojnacki, JNIAS Fellow, and Dr. Najaf Haider of the Centre for Historical
Studies, JNU.
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Cities in Medieval
India, 1200-1800, A two-day Seminar was organized in
collaboration with the Centre for Historical Studies on 5-6 March 2009.
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Developing a
Cultural Political Economy: Connecting Discourses and Materialities
– A Lecture by Dr. Ngai Ling Sum, JNIAS Fellow, was organized in
collaboration with the Nehru Memorial Museum & Library on 02 April
2009.
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What Made Humans
Modern? A Look at Human Evolution Through the Eyes of a Science Journalist – A Talk by Dr. Michael Boultor, renowned Science Journalist, was
organized in association with Prof. R. Ramaswamy, School of Physical
Sciences, JNU, on 03 April 2009.
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The Return of the
National State in the Global Crises – Jawaharlal Nehru
Memorial Foundation Day Lecture by Prof. Robert Douglass Jessop, JNIAS
Fellow, was organized in collaboration with the NMML at the Teen Murti
House, on 06 April 2009.
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The Rhythm of Speech – A Talk by Prof. Dafydd Gibbon, former JNIAS Fellow, was organized in
association with Prof. P.K.S. Pandey, Centre of Linguistics, JNU, on 08
April 2009.
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Troubling the Family – A two-day Interdisciplinary Workshop on Investments and Consequences
to the Family as a system of Cultural Production, was organized in
collaboration with the NMML on 15-16 April 2009. The Workshop was co-ordinated
by Dr. Allaine Cerwonka, JNIAS Fellow, and Dr. R. Mahalaxmi, Centre for
Historical Studies, JNU.
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‘How Economists
Underdeveloped The Third World’ A Seminar by Dr. Olutayo
Adesina, JNIAS Fellow, was organized in collaboration with the UGC
Academic Staff College, JNU, on 28 July 2009.
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‘Did European
intellectuals build a common cultural space in Early Modern Europe?’ A Talk given by Prof. Jean Boutier, JNIAS Fellow, at the NMML on 24
August 2009.
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‘Traditionalism and
Modernism in the 20th Century Romanian Society and Culture’ A Lecture delivered by Prof. Stefan Borbely, JNIAS Fellow, at the School of Languages, JNU, on 25 August 2009.
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‘Romanian
Society Today: A Post-Totalitarian Perspective’ A Lecture Delivered by Prof. Stefan Borbely, JNIAS Fellow, at the Academic Staff
College, JNU, on 26 August 2009.
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‘Representing
Europe: Cartography and Political Symbols, from the Middle Ages to the
Enlightenment’ A Seminar by Prof. Jean Boutier, JNIAS Fellow,
was organized in collaboration with the Centre for Historical Studies, JNU,
on 26 August 2009.
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‘Do We Need
Historian’s Expertise and Historical Knowledge for Contemporary Policies’? A day-long International Workshop
was organized at the JNIAS on 28 August 2009. The Workshop was
coordinated by Prof. Jean Boutier and Dr. Michael Dusche, JNIAS Fellows.
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‘South Asian Economy
and Environment’ – A two-day Indo-Japanese Workshop was
organized by the JNIAS in collaboration with the Tokyo University, Japan,
and Nehru Memorial Museum and Library on 5-6 September 2009.
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‘God
and Globalization in India: The Emergence of the State-Temple-Corporate
Complex’ Professor Meera Nanda, JNIAS Fellow, at the JNIAS
Fellows’ colloquium on 04 November 2009.
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‘Keynes and the
Current Economic Crisis’ Prof. Maria Christina Marcuzzo,
JNIAS Fellow, at the JNIAS Fellows’ colloquium on 11 November 2009.
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‘Roger Bacon
Comparative Theory of Religions’ Dr. Antti Ruotsala, JNIAS
Fellow, at the JNIAS Fellows’ colloquium on 18 November 2009.
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‘Re-thinking
Economic Ideas in the Context of Current Global Crisis’
A
one- day Workshop was organized by the JNIAS on 27 November 2009. The Workshop was inaugurated by the Vice-Chancellor. The Workshop
was co- ordinated by Prof. Sunanda Sen.
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Intertextuality: A
Colloquium on Transcultural and Intermedial Influence – A
day-long Colloquium was organized by the JNIAS in collaboration with the
French Embassy, New Delhi, on 10 December 2009. The Colloquium was
coordinated by Prof. Marta Dvorak, JNIAS Fellow, and Prof. GJV Prasad,
Chairperson, Centre of English Studies, SLL&CS, JNU.
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The Transformation
of the International Order of Asia in the 1950s and 1960s – An
Indo-Japanese Workshop was organized by the JNIAS in collaboration with
Osaka University, Japan, on 28 December 2009. The Workshop was attended
by six scholars from Japanese universities, JNIAS fellows and several
distinguished scholars from various departments of JNU. All the Japanese
scholars presented papers at the Workshop.
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Lord Cornwallis: the
Making of a Colonial Icon –Prof. Brian Roger Tomlinson, JNIAS
fellow, at the JNIAS Fellows’ colloquium on
21 January 2010.
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Orient-Occident
Interactions – A joint conference with scholars from University
of Warwick and JNIAS/JNU was held on 25 January 2010. Early this year
JNIAS had organized a meeting with the delegation from the University of
Warwick as a follow up to the MoU that had been signed between the two
universities. One of the activities that had been announced at that
meeting was a joint seminar/conference on the theme ‘Orient-Occident
Interactions’ in the hope that it will lead to a larger research
collaboration on this subject.
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Dimensions of
Secularism and Revolt: Loss of Belief in the Past, Changing Ideas
of Nature, and the Return of History – Dr. Tadd Graham Fernee,
JNIAS fellow, at the JNIAS Fellows’ colloquium on 04 February 2010.
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‘If There is a
Paradise on Earth, it is Here’: Urban Ethnography in Indo-
Persian Poetic and Historical Texts - Dr. Sunil Sharma, JNIAS
fellow, at the JNIAS Fellows’ colloquium on 11 February 2010.
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Appropriating the
Past: Language, Archaeology, and Ideology in South Asia and the
Diaspora –Prof. Hans Henrich Hock, JNIAS Fellow at the JNIAS
Fellows’ colloquium on 25 February 2010.
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Bioethics and
Biomedicine: Understanding Local and Global Interactions –Dr.
Silke Schicktanz, JNIAS Fellow at the JNIAS Fellows’ colloquium on 04 March 2010.
EVENTS (JNIAS Fellows invited to speak at the JNU level)
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The Mandela Decade
in South Africa: the Grand Compromise, the Transition in South Africa and
its Dicontents – Distinguished Lecture by Prof. Ari
Sitas, JNIAS Fellow, was at the JNU Distinguished Lecture series on 11
December 2008.
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From the Knowledge
Based Economy to a Wisdom Based Society –Distinguished Lecture
by Prof. Robert Douglass Jessop, JNIAS Fellow, at the JNU Distinguished
Lecture series on 30 April 2009.
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The Aryan Invasion
Controversy: Linguistic, Archaeological, and Genetic Perspectives – Distinguished Lecture by Prof. Hans Henrich Hock, JNIAS Fellow, at the
JNU Distinguished Lecture series on 15 March 2010.
(Several JNIAS Fellows have been invited at
numerous occasions to speak within and outside the JNU)
