Place

6-Jan-12

Friday

Public Lecture

3:00 p.m.

Mr. Shyam Saran, Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi

'India's Climate Change Strategy after Durban'

Seminar Room

9-Jan-12

Monday

Public Lecture

3:00 p.m.

Prof. Kathleen D. Morrison, University of Chicago, USA

‘Archaeology of Forest and Field in South India: Past practices, contemporary consequences’

Seminar Room

10-Jan-12

Tuesday

Weekly Seminar

3:00 p.m.

Dr. V.K. Jain, Motilal Nehru College, University of Delhi

'Profiling Trade and Trade Networks in the economy of early medieval India'

Seminar Room

11-Jan-12

Wednesday

Seminar

3:00 p.m.

Prof. Linda Mahood, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada

'Eglantyne Jebb and the writing of the Declaration of the Rights of the Child'

Seminar Room

12-Jan-12

Thursday

Public Lecture

3:00 p.m.

Prof. Ananya Jahanara Kabir, Leeds University

'Village Communities and Sacred Groves: Tacitus in British India'

Seminar Room

13-Jan-12

Friday

Seminar

3:00 p.m.

Dr. Ruby Lal, Emory University, Atlanta, USA

'In Pursuit of Playfulness: girlchild/woman in the colonial encounter, 1800-1900'

Seminar Room

14-Jan-12

Saturday

Workshop

9:00 a.m.

Dr. Anirudh Deshpande, University of Delhi.

'New Perspectives on Indian Military History'

Seminar Room

16-Jan-12

Monday

Public Lecture

3:00 p.m.

Dr. Uma Chakravarty, Eminent Historian and Author, Retired Associate Professor in History, Miranda House, University of Delhi

'Film: 'A Quiet Little Entry' and Discussion'

Seminar Room

17-Jan-12

Tuesday

Weekly Seminar

3:00 p.m.

Dr. Santosh Kumar Rai, Sri Guru Teg Bahadur Khalsa College, University of Delhi

'Community as Capital: A production-network in the early 20th century handloom industry of the United Provinces'

Seminar Room

20-22-Jan-12

Friday to Sunday

Workshop

9:30 a.m.

Dr. G. Arunima, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, and in association with scholars from The University of the Western Cape, South Africa, The University of Fort Hare, South Africa, The American University of Cairo, The University of Minnesota, USA.

‘Love and Revolution’

Seminar Room

23-Jan-12

Monday

Public Lecture

3:00 p.m.

Dr. Rohini Hensman, Author and Independent Scholar

'Workers, Unions and the Left: Responding to the Global Crisis'

Seminar Room

25-Jan-12

Wednesday

Seminar

3:00 p.m.

Prof. Gunnel Cederlof, Uppsala University, Sweden

'Climate, Commerce and Bureaucracy: Founding an Empire on India’s Northeastern Frontiers'

Seminar Room

27-Jan-12

Friday

Public Lecture

3:00 p.m.

Professor Thomas Trautmann, University of Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

‘Does India have history? Does history have India?’

Seminar Room

30-Jan-12

Monday

Public Lecture

3:00 p.m.

Prof. Tridip Suhrud, Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, Gandhi Nagar, Gujarat

'Emptied of all love:
Gandhiji on 30th January 1948'

Seminar Room

31-Jan-12

Tuesday

Weekly Seminar

3:00 p.m.

Prof. Badri Narayan, Govind Ballabh Pant Social Science Institute, Allahabad

'Story of Recovering: Lost histories of Dalits and marginals'

Seminar Room

3-Feb-12

Friday

Public Lecture

3:00 p.m.

Professor Shekhar Pathak, Former Fellow, NMML and Editor, Pahar, Nainital, Uttarakhand

‘History and the Himalaya’

Seminar Room

7-Feb- 12

Tuesday

Weekly Seminar

3:00 p.m.

Dr. Ajay Gudavarthy, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

'Can we De-Stigmatise Reservations in India?'

Seminar Room

10-Feb-12

Friday

Public Lecture

3:00 p.m.

Professor Heather Goodall, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia

‘Geographies of Memory: Oral history and contested rivers in Australia’

Seminar Room

11-Feb-12

Saturday

Workshop

9:30 a.m.

Dr. Rashmi Sadana, Independent Researcher and Author.

‘Writing the City: Narrative form and researching the everyday’

Seminar Room

11-Feb-12

Saturday

Group Interaction

3:00 p.m.

Prof. Susan Vishwanathan, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

'The alternative schooling networks and the Right to Education'

Annexe 2nd floor

14-Feb-12

Tuesday

Weekly Seminar

3:00 p.m.

Dr. Surajit Mazumdar, Ambedkar University, Delhi

'Import-Substituting Industrialization and the Rise of New Business Groups in India: The case of Reliance'

Seminar Room

15-Feb-12

Wednesday

Seminar

3:00 p.m.

Dr. Bhukya Bhangya, University of Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh

'Colonialism and its Nomads in South India'

Seminar Room

16-Feb-12

Thursday

Public Lecture

3:00 p.m.

Dr. Ornit Shani, Department of Asian Studies, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel

‘Democratizing Citizenship in India:
The Making of the First Election’

Seminar Room

17-Feb-12

Friday

Seminar

3:00 p.m.

Dr. Annu Jalais, London School of Economics

‘On Rivers and Holy Shrines:
The Bangladesh-Paschimbanga borderlands 60 years after the Partition of Bengal’

Seminar Room

21-Feb-12

Tuesday

Weekly Seminar

3:00 p.m.

Prof. Sunita Zaidi, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi

'Reason and Rationality: Gleanings from Jahangir’s lifestyle'

Seminar Room

23-Feb-12

Thursday

Panel Discussion

3:00 p.m.

Prof. Robin Jeffrey (National University of Singapore), Suvojit Bagchi (Senior Journalist), Prakash Singh (Former IPS Officer) and Sumanta Banerjee (Reputed author and veteran journalist).

'Maoism in 21st Century India: Fresh Perspectives'

Seminar Room

25-Feb-12

Saturday

Panel Discussion

3:00 p.m.

Dr Anshu Malhotra, University of Delhi and Dr Farina Mir, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA, Dr. Yogesh Snehi, Ambedkar University, Delhi, Dr. Raziuddin Aquil, Department of History, University of Delhi, Prof. Chetan Singh, Himachal University

‘Regional Histories: A perspective from Punjab and the North West’

Seminar Room

28-Feb-12

Tuesday

Weekly Seminar

3:00 p.m.

Mr. Mahesh Gopalan, Doctoral Candidate, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

'The Protestant Missionary Enterprise in Early Eighteenth Century Madras: Strategies, Dilemmas, Debates'

Seminar Room

2-Mar-12

Friday

Public Lecture

3:00 p.m.

 Dr. Amita Baviskar, Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi

‘Good to Eat, Good to Think: Changing food practices in India’

Seminar Room

6-Mar-12

Tuesday

Weekly Seminar

3:00 p.m.

Dr. Navroz Dubash, Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi

'From Norm Taker to Norm Maker? Indian Energy Governance in Global context'

Seminar Room

13-Mar-12

Tuesday

Weekly Seminar

3:00 p.m.

Dr. Farhana Ibrahim, Indian Inistute of Technology, Delhi

'Culture, Performance and Transgression on the Margins: A reflection on the making of Gujarat'

Seminar Room

14-15-Mar-12

Wednesday & Thursday

Workshop

9:30 a.m.

Professor Raman Mahadevan, Institute of Development Alternatives, Chennai.

‘Rethinking Economic History: Circulation, exchange and enterprise in India’

Seminar Room

16-Mar-12

Friday

Public Lecture

3:00 p.m.

Prof. Ashwini Deshpande, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi

‘Grammar of Caste: Economic discrimination in contemporary India’

Seminar Room

20-Mar-12

Tuesday

Weekly Seminar

3:00 p.m.

Dr. Vasudha Pande, Institute of Life Long Learning, University of Delhi

'Some Aspects of Environmental Histories of Uttrakhand'

Seminar Room

21-Mar-12

Wednesday

3:00 p.m.

Dr. Ravinder Kaur, Associate Professor, University of Copenhagen

'Nations's two bodies: Rethinking the idea of new India and its other'

Seminar Room

23-Mar-12

Friday

Panel Discussion

3:00 p.m.

Prof. Deepak Pental, University of Delhi, Prof. Ashok Gulati, Chairman, APCCC, Dr. Himanshu Prabha Ray, Jawaharlal Nehru University

'Agriculture in India'

Seminar Room

27-Mar-12

Tuesday

Weekly Seminar

3:00 p.m.

Dr. Vibha Joshi, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Goettinegn, Germany

'The Reverberative Nature of the Global Network of Christianity: The Naga of North East India'

2nd floor, Annexe Building

27-28-Mar-12

Tuesday & Wednesday

Conference

9:00 a.m.

In association with the Ministry of Culture

'A Symposium: The re-emergence of Delhi as capital'

Seminar Room

2-Apr-12

Monday

Public Lecture

3:00 p.m.

Prof. Rila Mukherjee, Institute de Chandernagor, West Bengal

'Pelagic Passageways: Introducing the northern Bay of Bengal as Regional Unit'

Seminar Room

3-Apr-12

Tuesday

Weekly Seminar

3:00 p.m.

Dr. Aparna Balachandran, University of Delhi

'Christian Encounters: Religion, caste and the city in colonial South India'

Seminar Room

9-Apr-12

Monday

Public Lecture

3:00 p.m.

Dr. Shobhita Punja, National Culture Fund, New Delhi

‘Saving our Cultural Heritage: The challenge, the promise and the potential’

Seminar Room

10-Apr-12

Tuesday

Weekly Seminar

3:00 p.m.

Dr. Jayabrata Sarkar, Deshbandhu College, University of Delhi

'Dialectics of Dalit Politics: The rhetorical discourse of the Bahujan Samaj Party'

Seminar Room

13-Apr-12

Friday

Panel Discussion

3:00 p.m.

Dr. L.R.S. Lakshmi (University of Delhi), Dr. Zarine Ahmad (Centre for Social Sciences and Humanities) and Dr. Sayeeda Hameed (Former Fellow, NMML and Member, Planning Commission)

'Indian Muslims: Cultures, societies, economies'

Seminar Room

16-Apr-12

Monday

Public Lecture

3:00 p.m.

Prof. P.K. Datta, University of Delhi

'A programme for cosmopolitan habitation:
the vissictitudes of Viswa Bharati in the twentieth century'

Seminar Room

17-Apr-12

Tuesday

Weekly Seminar

3:00 p.m.

Dr. Ataullah, Zakir Husain College, University of Delhi

'Delhi through the Eyes of Indo-Persian Travellers: A comparison of two 18th century travelogues'

Seminar Room

24-Apr-12

Tuesday

Weekly Seminar

3:00 p.m.

Dr. Sudha Vasan, Dept. of Sociology, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi

'Growing up at the Border: Youth culture and identity in Ladakh'

Seminar Room

26-27-Apr-12

Thursday & Friday

Workshop

9:30 a.m.

Prof. Ambuj Sagar, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi and Dr. Jahnavi Phalkey, King’s India Institute, King’s College, London, U.K.

‘Mapping the Innovation Landscape: History and policy studies of Science and Technology in India’

Seminar Room

30-Apr-12

Monday

Public Lecture

3:00 p.m.

Prof. Harbans Mukhiya, Jawaharlal Nehru University

'Alternative modernity, alternatives to modernity, multiple modernities – what else?'

Seminar Room

5-May-12

Saturday

Workshop

9:30 a.m.

Dr. Mayank Kumar (Junior Fellow, NMML), Prof. Aloka Parasher-Sen (University of Hyderabad), Mr. Pratay Nath (JNU, Doctoral Student), Ms. Shibani Bose (DU, Doctoral Student), Ms. Mata Ratnam (Johns Hopkins, Doctoral Students), Mr. Riyaz Ahmad (Doctoral Student, Manipal)

'Environments and Histories'

Seminar Room

8-May-12

Tuesday

Weekly Seminar

3:00 p.m.

Dr. Rinku Lamba, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

'Delinking 'Nation' and 'State': A case for democratic Law-governed orders?'

Seminar Room

15-May-12

Tuesday

Panel Discussion

3:00 p.m.

Dr. Sangeeta Dasgupta (Jawaharlal Nehru Univeristy), Mr. Chandra Bhushan Singh (Centre for Science and Environment), Dr. Ghazala Shahabuddin (Ambedkar University of Delhi) and Dr. Kamal Chaubey (Dayal Singh College, University of Delhi).

'Forest Polities, Forest Ecologies:
Legacies and challenges'

Seminar Room

22-May-12

Tuesday

Weekly Seminar

3:00 p.m.

Dr. Devesh Vijay, Zakir Hussain College, University of Delhi

'Structure and Mobility inside a Delhi Slum'

Seminar Room

25-May-12

Friday

Panel Discussion

3:00 p.m.

Prof. Farhat Hasan (University of Delhi), Dr. Tripta Wahi (Formerly, Hindu College, University of Delhi), Dr. Najaf Haider (Jawaharlal Nehru University) and Ms. Anubhuti Maurya (Doctoral Candidate, Jawaharlal Nehru University)

'Rethinking Mughal Historiography'

Seminar Room

5-Jun-12

Tuesday

Weekly Seminar

3:00 p.m.

Mr. J. Daniel Elam, Rhetoric and Public Culture Program, Centre for Global Culture and Communication Fulbright-Nehru Researcher, Northwestern University

'The anticolonial ethics of Lala Har Dayal’s hints for self culture'

Seminar Room

7-8-Jun-12

Thursday & Friday

Workshop

9:30 a.m.

Prof Venkatesh Kumar, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai.

‘Reforming Higher Education: States' Response to Federal Changes’

Seminar Room

12-Jun-12

Tuesday

Weekly Seminar

3:00 p.m.

Dr. Christu Doss, Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Fund

'Imperial missions, cultural confrontations and the making of Hindu-Christian dialogue in South India in the twentieth century'

Seminar Room

29-Jun-12

Friday

Public Lecture

3:00 p.m.

Prof. A.K. Verma, Department of Political Science Christ Church College, Kanpur

'Politics and Society in U.P.'

Seminar Room

10-Jul-12

Tuesday

Weekly Seminar

3:00 p.m.

Dr. Raja Sekhar Vundru, IAS, Joint Secretary, Pharmaceuticals, Shahstri Bhawan, New Delhi

'Political Representation : Dr.Ambedkar and the Electoral System'

Seminar Room

13-Jul-12

Friday

Public Lecture

3:00 p.m.

Prof. Jyotirmaya Sharma, Department of Political Science, University of Hyderabad, Gachibowli, Hyderabad - 500 046

'The creation of Hinduism as a Religion'

Seminar Room

17-Jul-12

Tuesday

Weekly Seminar

3:00 p.m.

Mr. Kaustabh Deka, Doctoral Candidate, Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

'From Movements to Accords and beyond:
The critical role of student organisations in the formation and performance of identity in Assam'

Seminar Room

24-Jul-12

Tuesday

Weekly Seminar

3:00 p.m.

Dr. Pankaj Jha, Lady Shri Ram College of Commerce, University of Delhi

‘Articulating Power in 15th Century Mithila:
Conceptions of gender, caste, ethnicity and state in Vidyapati’s compositions’

Seminar Room

27-Jul-12

Friday

Public Lecture

3:00 p.m.

Prof. Darshini Mahadevia, CEPT University, Ahmedabad

'Growth Engine vs Inclusive Development: The Experiences and Dilemmas of Urbanisation in India'

Seminar Room

31-Jul-12

Tuesday

Weekly Seminar

3:00 p.m.

Dr. Yengkhom Jilangamba, Centre for the Studies of Developing Societies (CSDS), Delhi

‘Territorialising the Kabaw valley:
British colonial mediation between Manipur and Burma in the early nineteenth century’

Seminar Room

4-Aug-12

Saturday

Public Lecture

3:00 p.m.

Mr. Subir Bhaumik, Editor Seven Sisters Post and Author, Guwahati

'Flower garden and fluid corridor : A new look at India’s northeast'

Seminar Room

7-Aug-12

Tuesday

Weekly Seminar

3:00 p.m.

Prof. Nandita Sahai, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

'A Caste in Transition: Sunars in early modern Rajasthan'

Seminar Room

14-Aug-12

Tuesday

Weekly Seminar

3:00 p.m.

Dr. Arup Ranjan Banerji, Department of History, University of Delhi

‘Shikapuri bankers and Powinda traders in Afghan and Uzbek lands in the nineteenth century’

Seminar Room

16-18-Aug-12

Thursday to Saturday

Workshop

9:30 a.m.

Marg Humanities (Dr. Brinda Bose and Dr. Prasanta Chankravary, University of Delhi)

‘The Humanities in Ferment: Strategizing for our Times’

Seminar Room

21-Aug-12

Tuesday

Weekly Seminar

3:00 p.m.

Dr. Manjeet Baruah, School of Translation Studies and Training, Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi

'‘Maping Cross roads:
Assamese and narrative practices in the Brahmaputra Vally'

Seminar Room

22-Aug-12

Wednesday

Panel Discussion

3:00 p.m.

Prof. Priyaleen Singh, (School of Planning and Architecture), Prof. Nayanjot Lahiri (Department of History, University of Delhi), Dr. Meghna Krishnadas (National Centre for Biological Sciences), Mr. Ravi Agarwal (Toxics Link).

‘Conserving Heritage, Natural and Monumental’

Seminar Room

24-25-Aug-12

Friday & Saturday

Workshop

9:30 a.m.

Prof Sunil Khilnani, King’s India Institute, King’s College, London, UK.

’Making Sense of Contemporary India’

Seminar Room

28-Aug-12

Tuesday

Weekly Seminar

3:00 p.m.

Dr. Rashmi Pant, I.P. College, University of Delhi

‘Contesting patriliny:
Affection, obligation and emotion in the formation of peasant house holds Garwal, 1850-1950’

Seminar Room

31-Aug-12

Friday

Public Lecture

3:00 p.m.

Prof. Sujata Patel, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad

'Colonial Episteme and the Framing of Modern Sociological Traditions’'

Seminar Room

4-Sep-12

Tuesday

Weekly Seminar

3:00 p.m.

Dr. Vijayalakshmi Balakrishnan, Independent Scholar

'From the Margins: The child-state relationship revisited'

Seminar Room

11-Sep-12

Tuesday

Weekly Seminar

3:00 p.m.

Dr. Rammathot Khongreiwo, Lakshmibai College, University of Delhi

Title to be confirmed

Seminar Room

14-Sep-12

Friday

Seminar

3:00 p.m.

Dr. Sneh Mahajan, I.P. College, University of Delhi

‘Colony’s resources, imperial designs:
Defending the Indian empire’

Seminar Room

18-Sep-12

Tuesday

Weekly Seminar

3:00 p.m.

Dr. Vinay Kumar Gupta, Archaeological Survey of India, Delhi

'An Archaeological Perspective of the Early Settlement of Mathura'

Seminar Room

25-Sep-12

Tuesday

Weekly Seminar

3:00 p.m.

Prof. Amar Farooqui, Department of History, University of Delhi

'Limits of Colonial Authority:
The Imperial Palace in Anglo-Mughal Delhi'

Seminar Room

16-Oct-12

Tuesday

Weekly Seminar

3:00 p.m.

Dr. Malvika Maheshwari, Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi

Title to be confirmed

Seminar Room

30-Oct-12

Tuesday

Weekly Seminar

3:00 p.m.

Dr. Shashank Shekhar Sinha, Independent Scholar

'Adivasis and Witch hunting in Colonial Chotanagpur'

Seminar Room

6-Nov-12

Tuesday

Weekly Seminar

3:00 p.m.

Dr. Pallavi Chakravarty, Delhi University

'Post-Partition Refugee Rehabilitation in India with Special Reference to Bengal, 1947-71'

Seminar Room

23-Nov-12

Friday

Seminar

3:00 p.m.

Prof. Arupjyoti Saikia, Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati

'Rivers and Flood-Plain: Landscape and Identity in the Brahmaputra Basin'

Seminar Room

6-8-Dec-12

Thursday to Saturday

Workshop

9:30 a.m.

Prof. Madhavan Palat, JNMF and Prof. Himanshu Prabha Ray, Centre for Historical Studies, JNU

'Negotiating space in the medieval World'

Seminar Room