Events at the Centre for Contemporary Studies in 2012
Events in 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015
| 261. | The Centre for Contemporary Studies, Indian Institute
of Science (URL: http://ces.iisc.ac.in/hpg/ragh/ccs/Welcome.html) |
 Click here for Photo Gallery |
Invites you to a talk on "The usefulness
of seemingly useless knowledge"  |
||
| Speaker: Professor Helga Nowotny President, European Research Council WWTF Vienna Science and Technology Fund |
||
The quest for useful
knowledge has been an integral part of the Baconian Programme since
the beginning of modern science. But what was considered useful knowledge’
in the 17th century and how to obtain it, differs substantially from
what many funding agencies today expect researchers to deliver when
competing for funding. I argue that what is considered useful –
and hence the uses of knowledge – often has yet to emerge: new
uses and users are co-invented. This makes it necessary to create autonomous
spaces in which seemingly useless knowledge can be produced and flourish,
while making sure that the transformative power of knowledge is recognized
and put to use for the good of society. |
||
| Thursday, 20th Dec’12;
Time: 4:00 pm Venue: CCS Seminar Hall, IISc, Bangalore 12 Tea/Coffee will be served at 3:30 pm |
||
| Podcast (audio recording) of the talk is available in mp3 format (92 Mb). (For more podcasts please click here...) | ||
| 260. | The Centre for Contemporary Studies,
Indian Institute of Science (URL: http://ces.iisc.ac.in/hpg/ragh/ccs/Welcome.html) |
|
Invites you to A Lecture Series on the
Practitioner’s Approach, Screening "Inside
Job" |
 Click here for Photo Gallery |
|
| Production of Knowledge in the Arts Centre for Contemporary Studies, IISc, Bangalore Co-hosted by Concern |
||
The documentary film offers
the possibility of bringing complex issues to life. To explore the form,
CCS invites you to a Special Screening of Inside Job, a 2010 documentary
film about the late-2000s financial crisis. |
||
| Directed by Charles Ferguson
Narrated by Matt Damon |
||
Inside Job
provides a comprehensive analysis of the global financial crisis
of 2008, which cost over $20 trillion, caused millions of people to
lose their jobs and homes in the worst recession since the Great Depression
and nearly resulted in a global financial collapse. Through exhaustive
research and extensive interviews with key financial insiders, politicians,
journalists, and academics, the film traces the rise of a rogue industry
which has corrupted politics, regulation, and academia. It was made
on location in the United States, Iceland, England, France, Singapore,
and China |
||
The screening will
be followed by a Question & Answer session with Srinivas
Raghavendra, Associate Director for Research, Whitaker Institute,
National University of Ireland, Galway |
||
| Wednesday, December 19, 2012;
Time: 4 p.m. Venue: CCS Premises, IISc Tea/Coffee will be served |
||
| Podcast (audio recording) of the talk is available in mp3 format (134 Mb). (For more podcasts please click here...) | ||
| 259. | The Centre for Contemporary Studies,
Indian Institute of Science (URL: http://ces.iisc.ac.in/hpg/ragh/ccs/Welcome.html) |
|
| Invites you to 'A Lecture Series on the Practitioner’s
Approach Lecture 7, Production of Knowledge in the Arts', Centre for Contemporary Studies, IISc, Bangalore |
 Click here for Photo Gallery |
|
| Prakash Belawadi | ||
| FIXING CLIVE in HISTORY | ||
Abstract:
The idea of the play in Kannada, 'Namma Robert Clive' (Our Robert Clive),
was first based on the notion that the colonisation of India began with
the defining epoch: June 23, 1757, The Battle of Plassey; and that the
improbable and tragic Robert Clive was the master of the events that
unfolded before and after this moment of history. But the research that
this ambitious play entailed threw up other characters of history that
actually set up many epochs of colonisation. It showed that colonisation
was not the proposed project, but rather the setting up of stable regimes
to sustain uninterrupted trade. And the real authors of the latter project
were not really the British, but Indian money lenders who worked tax
policies, money transfers and succession plots to maintain governance
to further profits. The play that finally emerged was the convergence
of purpose for the money lenders and Company’s private trade and
the symmetry of conflict with the rulers – the London establishment
for the Company’s employees and the Indian nawabs and subedars
for the Jagat Seths...... |
||
Prakash
Belawadi is a columnist and writer/director for the stage,
television and films. He is the founder of the Centre for Film and Drama,
now under the Suchitra Cinema and Cultural Academy, which conducts courses
in filmmaking and acting and organises screenings, shows and seminars
on aspects of media and issues of current interest. His debut feature
'STUMBLE' won the National Award for Best Feature in the English language
(2003). He has won other awards for his work on the stage and screen
and recently received the Karnataka Nataka Academy award (2012) for
his contribution to the English and Kannada language theatre. |
||
| Saturday, December 15, 2012;
Time: 2 p.m. Venue: CCS Premises, IISc Tea/Coffee will be served |
||
| Podcast (audio recording) of the talk is available in mp3 format (133 Mb). (For more podcasts please click here...) | ||
| 258. | The Centre for Contemporary Studies,
Indian Institute of Science (URL: http://ces.iisc.ac.in/hpg/ragh/ccs/Welcome.html) |
|
| Invites you to 'A Lecture Series on the Practitioner’s
Approach Lecture 6, Production of Knowledge in the Arts', Centre for Contemporary Studies, IISc, Bangalore |
 Click here for Photo Gallery |
|
| Session 1 :Clare Arni | ||
| Disappearing Professions In Urban India &
Street Space, Bangalore |
||
Clare Arni
is a photographer based in Bangalore. Her work encompasses architecture,
travel, social documentary and cultural heritage. She has been published
by leading British book publishers Phaidon, Thames and Hudson and Dorling
Kindersley. She has also contributed to magazines like Abitare (Italy)
Tatler, Conde Nast (UK) Wallpaper, The WSJ and Harvard Design magazine
as well as many Indian magazines. Her work has been exhibited at the Essl Museum, Vienna Austria, Grosvenor Vadehra, London, Bose Pacia, New York, Berkeley Art museum, California and is in the permanent collections of the Saatchi Gallery, London, and Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. |
||
 Click here for Photo Gallery |
||
| Session 2 : Navroze Contractor | ||
Film Screening “Jharu-Katha”
He is a major contributor to the international documentary scene, being associated with legendary films such as Ballad of Pabu by George Luneau , Dreams of the Dragon’s Children by Pierre Hoffmann, Are you listening? by Martha Stewart, and the Last House in Bombay by Luke Jennings. |
||
His Indian documentaries
include All in the Family by Ketan Mehta and Something like a War by
Deepa Dhanraj. He has conducted photography and film workshops all over
India and at Pomona State University, California, USA and at the University
of the Andes at Merida, Venezuela. He has had several one-man shows
of his still photographs; his photographs of jazz musicians are in the
collection of the Smithsonian Museum. |
||
| Saturday, December 8, 2012; Time:
2 p.m. Venue: CCS Premises, IISc Tea/Coffee will be served at 3 p.m |
||
| Podcast (audio recording) of the talk is available in mp3 format (154 Mb). (For more podcasts please click here...) | ||
| 257. | The Centre for Contemporary Studies,
Indian Institute of Science (URL: http://ces.iisc.ac.in/hpg/ragh/ccs/Welcome.html) |
|
| Invites you to 'A Lecture Series on the Practitioner’s
Approach Lecture 5, Production of Knowledge in the Arts', Centre for Contemporary Studies, IISc, Bangalore |
 Click here for Photo Gallery |
|
| Padmini Chettur | ||
| Researching The Body | ||
Abstract:
After training in Bharata Natyam and a Chemistry degree, I
re-engaged with dance through the work of Chandralekha. Her systematic
deconstruction of the form and her constant, meticulous attention to
line were the starting point of my own research from the mid nineties
onwards. When I use the word 'research' regarding my own practice, I
refer mostly to a daily investigation into the body, the way it moves
and its larger relationship with space, time and the bodies around it.
It is also through the setting up of boundaries and parameters that
I construct my choreographic work, always relying more on 'random processes',
than on whimsical choices. Through a viewing and analysis of past work
I will attempt to trace the trajectory of my own creative processes.
And discuss the notions of continuity and identity that surround my
work. |
||
About the
Speaker: Padmini Chettur has been trained in Bharata Natyam
under Pandanallur Subbaraya Pillai in Chennai and started performing
with the Chandralekha group in 1991. In her career spreading over two
decades, she has performed and choreographed numerous solo and group
events in India and abroad including ‘Beautiful Thing’,
‘Paperdoll’, ‘Pushed’, ‘Fragility’,
‘A Segment of a Solo’, ‘Soliloquy’, ‘Brown’
and ‘Unsung’. She has also conducted a workshop at the 2007
Asian Dance Conference (Tokyo). |
||
| Saturday, December 1, 2012; Time:
2 p.m. Venue: CCS Premises, IISc Tea/Coffee will be served |
||
| Podcast (audio recording) of the talk is available in mp3 format (112 Mb). (For more podcasts please click here...) | ||
| 256. | The Centre for Contemporary Studies,
Indian Institute of Science (URL: http://ces.iisc.ac.in/hpg/ragh/ccs/Welcome.html) |
|
| Invites you to 'A Lecture Series on the Practitioner’s
Approach Lecture 4, Production of Knowledge in the Arts', Centre for Contemporary Studies, IISc, Bangalore |
 Click here for Photo Gallery |
|
| Rajat Kapoor | ||
| SPEAKING CINEMATICALLY | ||
Rajat Kapoor
is an actor, writer and director. Born in Delhi in 1961, Rajat decided,
as a young teenager, that he wanted to become a filmmaker and went on
to join the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) in Pune. His first 26 minute non-feature documentary, Tarana (1994), won the National Award. He also won the National Award for his short film, Hypnothesis (1996), and for Raghu Romeo (2003) in the Best Feature Film in Hindi section. His other directorial ventures include Private Detective: Two Plus Two Plus One (1997), Mixed Doubles (2006), Mithya (2008) and Fatso (2012). He has written, directed and appeared in many popular and critically acclaimed films including Dil Chahta Hai, Corporate, Bheja Fry, and Muhammad Ali Jinnah in a UK television film The Last Days Of The Raj in 2007. He is also a founding member of the leading theatre group, Chingari. |
||
| Thursday, November 29, 2012;
Time: 12 p.m. Venue: CCS Premises, IISc Tea/Coffee will be served at 11.30 a.m |
||
| Podcast (audio recording) of the talk is available in mp3 format (77.5 Mb). (For more podcasts please click here...) | ||
| 255. | The Centre for Contemporary Studies,
Indian Institute of Science (URL: http://ces.iisc.ac.in/hpg/ragh/ccs/Welcome.html) |
|
| Invites you to 'A Lecture Series on the Practitioner’s
Approach Lecture 3, Production of Knowledge in the Arts', Centre for Contemporary Studies, IISc, Bangalore |
 Click here for Photo Gallery |
|
| Kabir Mohanty | ||
| Song for an ancient land— a practitioner’s reflections on the moving image today | ||
Abstract:
In a recent conversation with the great novelist, Laszlo Krasznahorkai,
Sharmistha Mohanty and I asked him, “How do you see the novel
being practiced in the world today. Do you think it is worn out, tired?
Krasznahorkai replied, “The old genres of literature are not in
crisis. We are in crisis. The old forms are wonderful. In old Greece
there were artists, poets, playwrights, philosophers. They used wonderful
forms. These forms were never in crisis. The hexameter is wonderful,
in the 5th century and in the 21st.” The Danube flowed outside, Krasznahorkai’s person left me quietened, yet rattled with his profound artistic quest. ………. In this diaristic talk I shall invoke what we filmmakers have been thinking today. How have I worked on Song for an ancient land for the last ten years? How do we know film today? Most of the talk will be focused on the impulses, possibly their reasons, their whys. I shall screen as well the second part of Song for an ancient land, 59 minutes, a video work in four parts, each close to an hour long. |
||
About the
Speaker: Kabir Mohanty’s films and videos have been screened
at festivals in Amsterdam, Brussels, Chicago, and Oberhausen. He has
received the Fond Sud Award from the Ministry of External Affairs, France
and the Hubert Bals Fund Award from the International Film Festival
Rotterdam. Mohanty has had solo exhibitions at GallerySKE, Bangalore
and at Chatterjee and Lal, Mumbai. Most recently his work was shown
at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Being Singular Plural,
March 1 to June 6, 2012. |
||
| Saturday, 24th November 2012;
Time: 2 p.m. Venue: CCS Premises, IISc Tea/Coffee will be served |
||
| Podcast (audio recording) of the talk is available in mp3 format (97.5 Mb). (For more podcasts please click here...) | ||
| 254. | The Centre for Contemporary Studies,
Indian Institute of Science (URL: http://ces.iisc.ac.in/hpg/ragh/ccs/Welcome.html) |
|
| Invites you to 'A Lecture Series on the Practitioner’s
Approach Lecture 2, Production of Knowledge in the Arts', Centre for Contemporary Studies, IISc, Bangalore |
 Click here for Photo Gallery |
|
| Sharmistha Mohanty | ||
| Topic: Forming Fiction | ||
Abstract:
Sharmistha Mohanty is remarkable above all for her determination
to shift narrative away from the easy urgencies of Western fiction towards
a text that hovers between the contemplative and the hypnotic, sculpting
extended landscapes of feeling from the quiet friction between realism
and myth. To read Five Movements in Praise is like coming across an
animal of a new species, but one that immediately appears to be in tune
with its environment.---Tim Parks Mohanty will talk about the elements that were seeds for her forthcoming work of fiction, Five Movements in Praise. These are disparate elements, the distant past next to the immediate present, images contiguous with text, storytelling along with the exploration of a dense, poetic prose, subterranean connections merging with narrative ones. Pahari paintings become fictional landscapes, the Ajanta and Ellora caves are the monumental past as well as sites for present violence. Mohanty will try to uncover the process of making a work which is not held together by narrative, but other wider, more tenuous, and vulnerable connections. |
||
About the
Speaker: Sharmistha Mohanty is the author of two previous works
of fiction, Book One, and New Life, and the forthcoming Five Movements
in Praise. She has also translated a selection of Tagore’s fiction,
Broken Nest and Other Stories. Mohanty is the founder-editor of the online literature journal Almost Island, www.almostisland.com., and the initiator of the Almost Island Dialogues, an annual international writers meet held in New Delhi. She is on the International Faculty of the Creative Writing MFA at the City University of Hong Kong. |
||
| Thursday, 22nd November 2012;
Time: 4 p.m. Venue: CCS Premises, IISc Tea/Coffee will be served at 3:30 pm |
||
| Podcast (audio recording) of the talk is available in mp3 format (79 Mb). (For more podcasts please click here...) | ||
| 253. | The Centre for Contemporary Studies,
Indian Institute of Science (URL: http://ces.iisc.ac.in/hpg/ragh/ccs/Welcome.html) |
|
| Invites you to 'A Lecture Series on the Practitioner’s
Approach Lecture 1, Production of Knowledge in the Arts', Centre for Contemporary Studies, IISc, Bangalore |
 Click here for Photo Gallery |
|
| Rajeev Raja | ||
| Topic: Musical Musings | ||
An interactive session
where music is used both as an analogy and a stimulus to creativity.
This would convey how music has the power to break through our rational,
logical, analytical brain and touch our emotional brain. |
||
Rajeev Raja, one
of India’s most exciting jazz and fusion flautists plays the silver
flute (also called a key flute) and the bamboo flute with equal ease.
A student of Carnatic music and jazz, Rajeev’s playing has a unique
blend of Indian and Western elements. He has played with musicians like
Shankar Mahadevan, Taufiq Quereshi, Ehsaan Noorani and Leslie Lewis.
He is currently collaborating with Indian Ocean guitarist Susmit Sen.
Rajeev also has his own band, the ‘Rajeev Raja Combine’. Till recently Rajeev Raja was National Creative Director of DDB Mudra and is the brain behind all the Volkswagen advertising campaigns in India. He has just started a new sonic branding firm called BrandMusiq which brings together his passion for music and his understanding of brands. |
||
| Saturday, 17th November 2012;
Time: 2 p.m. Venue: CCS Premises, IISc Tea/Coffee will be served |
||
| Podcast (audio recording) of the talk is available in mp3 format (92.4 Mb). (For more podcasts please click here...) | ||
| 252. | The Centre for Contemporary Studies,
Indian Institute of Science (URL: http://ces.iisc.ac.in/hpg/ragh/ccs/Welcome.html) |
|
| Invites you to the fourth edition of the Mini Course/Lecture series on "From Design to Marble: Making the Parthenon in Athens" |
 Click here for Photo Gallery |
|
| Production of Knowledge: A Comparison of Natural and Human Sciences (Module IX) Co-hosted by: Centre for Contemporary Studies, IISc, Bangalore & Centre for the Study of Culture and Society, Bangalore |
||
| Speaker: Prof. Rolf Schneider Professor for Classical Archaeology, Institut für Klassische Archäologie Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich,Germany |
||
Abstract:
The Parthenon set up on top of the acropolis of Athens (447
to 432 B.C.) became the most famous temple of the ancient civilisations
of Greece and Rome. Built entirely in Penteli marble the temple is distinguished
by exceptional design, unrivalled workmanship, unique visual narratives
and many puzzling questions. In my seminar I will first outline the
preconditions and infrastructure needed to build this temple. Then I
will show step by step the main stages of creating such extremely complex
architecture. In doing so I will discuss exemplarily potentials, problems,
and limitations Classical archaeologists face in their endeavor to produce
knowledge. Best comprehensive overview: Panayaotis TOURNIKIOTIS (ed.), The Parthenon and its impact in modern times. Athens: 1994. |
||
| Saturday, 3rd November 2012;
Time: 2 p.m. Venue: CCS Premises, IISc Tea/Coffee will be served at 3:30 pm |
||
| Podcast (audio recording) of the talk is available in mp3 format (164 Mb). (For more podcasts please click here...) | ||
| 251. | The Centre for Contemporary Studies,
Indian Institute of Science (URL: http://ces.iisc.ac.in/hpg/ragh/ccs/Welcome.html) |
|
| Invites you to a talk on: "Reading classical
art and archaeology today" |
 Click here for Photo Gallery |
|
| Speaker: Prof. Rolf Schneider Professor for Classical Archaeology, Institut für Klassische Archäologie Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich,Germany |
||
| Venue: CCS Seminar Hall, IISc, Bangalore
12 Wednesday, 31st Oct’2012; Time: 4:00 pm Tea/Coffee will be served at 3:30 pm |
||
| Abstract: The reception of classical, i.e. Greek and Roman art played a crucial role in the making of modern Europe. This statement raises questions. What kind of subject is it? Why is it significant today? What does it mean to me? And what do I feel I have contributed to it? At the heart of classical art and archaeology is the study not of the written but the material evidence produced and employed by the Mediterranean cultures of ancient Greece and Rome such as: infrastructure, cities, architecture and graves; sculpture, paintings and mosaics; pots, gems and jewellery; ships, vehicles and military equipment; furniture and objects of daily life. I intend to accentuate in my lecture what classical art and archaeology offer humanities and life sciences today. | ||
| Podcast (audio recording) of the talk is available in mp3 format (95.2 Mb). (For more podcasts please click here...) | ||
| 250. | The Centre for Contemporary Studies,
Indian Institute of Science (URL: http://ces.iisc.ac.in/hpg/ragh/ccs/Welcome.html) |
|
| Invites you to the fourth edition of the Mini Course/Lecture series on "Geology of Morals and the Politics of Nature" |
 Click here for Photo Gallery |
|
| Production of Knowledge: A Comparison of Natural and Human Sciences (Module VIII) Co-hosted by: Centre for Contemporary Studies, IISc, Bangalore & Centre for the Study of Culture and Society, Bangalore |
||
| Speaker: Rohan D'Souza Centre For Studies in Science Policy, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University |
||
Abstract:
As the philosopher Mark Sagoff pithily puts it “Nature has no
essence but a history”. The belief of climax ecology that ecosystems
invariably hurtle towards some sort of stable equilibrium has, in fact,
been long abandoned. But to accept that nature has no direction, no
purpose nor a determined goal opens up a new world of challenges in
the manner in which we continue to conceptualize models for preservation,
conservation or even the idea of stewardship. What becomes of the fate of the modern environmental subject in the era of “discordant harmonies” and global warming? How is environmental politics to be pursued if the planet is fragile and in irredeemable ecological flux? In this talk, I will discuss a few Western thinkers — Delueze, Guttari and Latour —as they grapple with the tensions between nature and culture. Is nature at all a basis for cultural politics? |
||
| Saturday, 20th October 2012;
Time: 2 p.m. Venue: CCS Premises, IISc Tea/Coffee will be served at 3:30 pm |
||
| Podcast (audio recording) of the talk is available in mp3 format (98.6 Mb). (For more podcasts please click here...) | ||
| 249. | The Centre for Contemporary Studies,
Indian Institute of Science (URL: http://ces.iisc.ac.in/hpg/ragh/ccs/Welcome.html) |
|
| Invites you to the fourth edition of the Mini Course/Lecture series on "Singular and Universal: The Strange Knowledge We Gain in Talking about Literature" |
Cancelled |
|
| Production of Knowledge: A Comparison of Natural and Human Sciences (Module VII) Co-hosted by: Centre for Contemporary Studies, IISc, Bangalore & Centre for the Study of Culture and Society, Bangalore |
||
| Speaker: Michel Chaouli Associate Professor of German, Indiana University, USA |
||
Abstract:
Why do many of us feel compelled to talk about the stories and books
we read (or the movies we see, the music we hear, ...)? Why not just
enjoy the book (movie, music, ...) and leave it at that? What do the
vast machineries of literary criticism and scholarship accomplish? I
suggest that, despite what they may claim, they do not mainly provide
us with a body evidence leading to arguments and thence to knowledge;
they are as a rule not modes of reasoning consonant with scientific
standards. Instead, the best writing about literature—about art
in general—provides us with a glimpse of a singular experience.
Because of its singularity, this experience does not and cannot accord
with scientific standards of repeatability, quantification, and control—in
short of objectivity. Yet this does not mean that talking about art
is a matter of mere opinion. To make sense of how something utterly
singular can still make a claim to universality I suggest the idea of
aesthetic reasoning, a mode of thinking and writing that I try to describe
and understand. |
||
| Saturday, 13th October 2012;
Time: 2 p.m. Venue: CCS Premises, IISc Tea/Coffee will be served at 3:30 pm |
||
| 248. | The Centre for Contemporary Studies,
Indian Institute of Science (URL: http://ces.iisc.ac.in/hpg/ragh/ccs/Welcome.html) |
|
Invites you to a talk on "The Problem
of Subjectivity and Objectivity in the Study of Religion" |
 Click here for Photo Gallery |
|
| Speaker: Susan Visvanathan Professor of Sociology, Centre for the Study of Social Systems, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi |
||
| Venue: CCS Seminar Hall, IISc, Bangalore
12 Monday, 8th Oct’2012; Time: 4:00 pm Tea/Coffee will be served at 3:30 pm |
||
Abstract:
The talk is concerned with the problem of Subjectivity and
Objectivity in Social Sciences. It essentially looks at the way in which
field workers (sociologists, social anthropologists etc.) make a difference
to the field of the study by posing problems for their respondents.
Their interactions make them catalysts or problems in the milieu in
which they work. By their concerns they pose new questions to the informants
who may well be problematised in their work and life by the intruder's
demands. Prof. Visvanathan is the author of The Christians of Kerala (Oxford 1993), An Ethnography of Mysticism (IIAS 1998), Structure and Transformation: Theory and Society in India (Oxford 2001), Friendship, Interiority and Mysticism:Essays in Dialogue( Orient Blackswan 2007), The Children of Nature: The Life and Legacy of Ramana Maharshi (Roli 2010) and Reading Marx Weber and Durkheim Today (Palmleaf 2012). She is a well known writer of fiction where obscure problems in Sociology are further handled through narrative.Her novels are Something Barely Remembered (2000), The Visiting Moon (2002), Phosphorus and Stone ( 2007), The Seine at Noon (2007), and Nelycynda and other Stories (2012).She has been a Fellow at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, Delhi and at the Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, Shimla. She was a Charles Wallace Fellow to Queens University, Belfast 1997. She was Visiting Professor to the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, Paris (2004) , Universite Paris 13 (2011) and to Freie University, Berlin (2011). |
||
| Podcast (audio recording) of the talk is available in mp3 format (129 Mb). (For more podcasts please click here...) | ||
| 247. | The Centre for Contemporary Studies,
Indian Institute of Science (URL: http://ces.iisc.ac.in/hpg/ragh/ccs/Welcome.html) |
|
| Invites you to the fourth edition of the Mini Course/Lecture
series on "Problems for Contemporary Psychology: The Indiscipline
of a Discipline" |
 Click here for Photo Gallery |
|
| Production of Knowledge: A Comparison of Natural and Human Sciences (Module VI) Co-hosted by: Centre for Contemporary Studies, IISc, Bangalore & Centre for the Study of Culture and Society, Bangalore |
||
| Instructor: Anup Dhar Associate Professor, School of Human Studies, Ambedkar University, Delhi |
||
Abstract:
This talk takes off from my own experiences in the mental health clinic
in the 1990s. It is shaped by my discomfort with what was happening
in the clinic: the simple cause-effect analysis of the medical perspective,
the absent connection with larger historico-cultural questions, the
turning away from the language of unreason, the bracketing of distress
in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual and the insensitivity of clinical
practice. It is necessitated by the felt need to rethink on my part,
a rethinking that is still incomplete and hence ongoing. It asks: what
are the problems that haunt contemporary psychology in India? The problem
is perhaps two-fold: one, stemming from the urge to "Be like Others".
This urge is marked by medical/anatomical and psychiatric/nosological
models of doing psychology. The other, stemming from the urge to "Being
Oneself". This urge is marked by a turn to ‘Indian Psychology’.
The indiscipline of the discipline of psychology is thus represented
on the one hand in a non-reflective turn to the natural sciences and
on the other in an equally problematic turn to the ‘culture question’
or to the 'Indian'. |
||
| Friday, 5th October 2012; Time:
2 p.m. (Please note the lecture has been re-scheduled to Friday on account of Karnataka bandh on Saturday) Venue: CCS Premises, IISc Tea/Coffee will be served at 3:30 pm |
||
| Podcast (audio recording) of the talk is available in mp3 format (152 Mb). (For more podcasts please click here...) | ||
| 246. | The Centre for Contemporary Studies,
Indian Institute of Science (URL: http://ces.iisc.ac.in/hpg/ragh/ccs/Welcome.html) |
|
| Invites you to the fourth edition of the Mini Course/Lecture
series on "Understanding Human Problem Solving Using Network
Analysis" |
 Click here for Photo Gallery |
|
| Production of Knowledge: A Comparison of Natural and Human Sciences (Module V) Co-hosted by: Centre for Contemporary Studies, IISc, Bangalore & Centre for the Study of Culture and Society, Bangalore |
||
| Instructor: Sudarshan Iyengar Indian Statistical Institute, Chennai |
||
Abstract:
While a familiar proverb says - a friend in need is a friend
in deed, the 'science of networks' has a lot more to add: "Friends
of friends play a significant role in your life and are as important
as your friends". This subject which goes by the name network science
is a study of interacting entities, e.g., friendship networks, network
of proteins, network of connected computers, information networks, terrorist
networks; to name a few. A topic that was solely of interest to sociologists,
has from the past 15 years permeated into several other branches of
pure and applied science, the main reason for this being the advancement
in information processing and information accumulation techniques in
the recent years which has enabled one to garner 'big data'. In the first session, we shall start with a historical note on the subject and discuss 5 great ideas that have raised the brows of researchers across several disciplines. We will discuss on the questions asked, the objections raised and the methodologies practised in this subject. In the second session, we will tour through an application of networks in understanding human problem solving techniques. We shall see, how a simple word game called the 'wordladders' invented by Lewis Carroll comes in as a framework to dissect and understand the human problem solving strategies. The talk will be self-contained and assumes no mathematical pre-requisites. |
||
| Saturday, 29th September 2012;
Time: 2 p.m. Venue: CCS Premises, IISc Tea/Coffee will be served at 3:30 pm |
||
| Podcast (audio recording) of the talk is available in mp3 format (128 Mb). (For more podcasts please click here...) | ||
| 245. | The Centre for Contemporary Studies,
Indian Institute of Science (URL: http://ces.iisc.ac.in/hpg/ragh/ccs/Welcome.html) |
|
| Invites you to the fourth edition of the Mini Course/Lecture
series on "Between the devil of “women's knowledges”
& the deep sea of “women's experience”:
lessons for a feminist epistemology" |
 Click here for Photo Gallery |
|
| Production of Knowledge: A Comparison of Natural and Human Sciences (Module IV) Co-hosted by: Centre for Contemporary Studies, IISc, Bangalore & Centre for the Study of Culture and Society, Bangalore |
||
Instructor: Asha Achuthan
Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai |
||
Abstract:
It has been feminist political common sense to acknowledge
a commonality of experiences among women, and to make such experience
exclusive and unique to women as a constituency. In this frame, there
is no attempt to claim epistemological status for such experience, rather
activating it to critique existing knowledge systems. The space of feminist epistemology, on the other hand, has been trying to articulate different models of knowledge than the propositional – models of relatedness, care, situatedness. This space does not wish to give up on objectivity but rather revise its parameters. This session will explore the somewhat obscure field of ecofeminism and the somewhat over-examined context of childbirth to illustrate these positions, and to ask the question of what might be connections between these two. |
||
| Recommended readings: Vrinda Dalmiya and Linda Alcoff. 1993. "Are "Old Wives' Tales" Justified?" in Feminist Epistemologies. Eds. Linda Alcoff and Elizabeth Potter. Routledge. Lorraine Code. 1988. “Experience, Knowledge and Responsibility”, in Feminist Perspectives in Philosophy, eds. Morwena Griffiths and Margaret Whitford. Donna Haraway. "Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective", in Feminist Studies, Vol. 14, No. 3 (Autumn, 1988), pp. 575-599. |
||
| Saturday, 22nd September 2012;
Time: 2 p.m. Venue: CCS Premises, IISc Tea/Coffee will be served at 3:30 pm |
||
| Podcast (audio recording) of the talk is available in mp3 format (151 Mb). (For more podcasts please click here...) | ||
| 244. | The Centre for Contemporary Studies,
Indian Institute of Science (URL: http://ces.iisc.ac.in/hpg/ragh/ccs/Welcome.html) |
|
| Invites you to the fourth edition of the Mini Course/Lecture series on "Conflicts between General Laws and Religious Norms" |
 Click here for Photo Gallery |
|
| Production of Knowledge: A Comparison of Natural and Human Sciences (Module III) Co-hosted by: Centre for Contemporary Studies, IISc, Bangalore & Centre for the Study of Culture and Society, Bangalore |
||
| Instructor: Dieter Grimm Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Institute for Advanced Study, Berlin |
||
The more multicultural
societies become the more frequently does it happen that the requirements
of religious beliefs collide with the general legal norms of a country.
Many societies are torn back and forth between tolerance of any religiously
motivated behavior on the one hand and a desire for assimilation of
religious minorities on the other. The disputes increasingly concern
the courts and legal solutions of the problems have to be found. The
lecture will try to develop a typology of such conflicts and to suggest
guidelines for an accommodation of the various rights and interests
involved. |
||
| Saturday, 15th September 2012;
Time: 2 p.m. Venue: CCS Premises, IISc Tea/Coffee will be served at 3:30 pm |
||
| Podcast (audio recording) of the talk is available in mp3 format (183 Mb). (For more podcasts please click here...) | ||
| 243. | The Centre for Contemporary Studies,
Indian Institute of Science (URL: http://ces.iisc.ac.in/hpg/ragh/ccs/Welcome.html) |
|
Invites you to a lecture titled: "Human
Dignity – a Paradigm of |
 Click here for Photo Gallery |
|
| Speaker: Dieter Grimm Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Institute for Advanced Study, Berlin |
||
| Thursday, 13th September 2012; Time: 4 p.m. Venue: CCS Premises, IISc Tea/Coffee will be served at 3:30 pm |
||
Abstract:
Dignity is an old philosophical and legal notion. But only
recently did it acquire constitutional recognition. In the founding
documents of modern constitutionalism one would not find it. It needed
the atrocities committed by various totalitarian political systems in
the 20th century to create the desire for a paramount principle on which
the relationship between public authority and the individual could be
based. Today the protection of human dignity is a centerpiece of constitutions
and human rights documents. But what exactly does it mean and how does
it operate? These are contested questions which the lecture will try
to clarify. |
||
About the
speaker: Dieter Grimm teaches constitutional law at Humboldt
University of Berlin and at Yale Law School. He is also a Permanent
Fellow and former Director of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (Institute
for Advanced Study). From 1987 to 1999 he served as a Justice of the
Federal Constitutional Court of Germany. He holds law degrees from the
University of Frankfurt and a Master of Laws from Harvard as well as
honorary doctoral degrees from Toronto and Goettingen. He is a member
of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften and the Academia
Europaea and an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and
Sciences. |
||
| Podcast (audio recording) of the talk is available in mp3 format (116 Mb). (For more podcasts please click here...) | ||
| 242. | The Centre for Contemporary Studies,
Indian Institute of Science (URL: http://ces.iisc.ac.in/hpg/ragh/ccs/Welcome.html) |
|
| Invites you to the Mini Course/Lecture series on
"Science, History and the History of Science"
|
 Click here for Photo Gallery |
|
| "Production of Knowledge: A Comparison of Natural
and Human Sciences (Module II)" Co-hosted by: Centre for Contemporary Studies, IISc, Bangalore & Centre for the Study of Culture and Society, Bangalore |
||
| Instructor : Jahnavi Phalkey King’s college, London |
||
What is the History
of Science the History of? The historian of early modern science Peter
Dear explored this question in the same year (2005) as another historian
of science, John Heilbron, gave two lectures at the University of Barcelona
on “Science as the Subject of History” and “History
as a Collaborator of Science”. These are but characteristic of
the questions historians of science have routinely raised at professional
fora: the disciplinary mandate of the history of science is far from
settled and the debate has been renewed, again, more recently in dialogue
with sociologists and philosophers of science. History of science is
a young discipline and has worked between the two bodies of knowledge
(“history” and the “sciences”) beginning in
the early twentieth century. My talk will offer an overview on the development
of the discipline, especially the contested processes of constructing
the object of its study. I would like to further discuss the implications
of this process for the specificities of writing histories of twentieth
century science in India. |
||
| Saturday, 8th September 2012;
Time: 2 p.m. Venue: CCS Premises, IISc (Former JNCASR, Next to the Health Centre) |
||
| Podcast (audio recording) of the talk is available in mp3 format (169 Mb). (For more podcasts please click here...) | ||
| 241. | The Centre for Contemporary Studies,
Indian Institute of Science (URL: http://ces.iisc.ac.in/hpg/ragh/ccs/Welcome.html) |
|
| Invites you to course/ lecture series Inauguration
Of The Fourth Edition Of The Mini Course/Lecture series
|
 Click here for Photo Gallery |
|
| "Production of Knowledge in the Natural and
Human Sciences (Module I) " Co-hosted by: Centre for Contemporary Studies, IISc, Bangalore & Centre for the Study of Culture and Society, Bangalore |
||
| Introduction & Welcome: Raghavendra Gadagkar, Chairman, CCS-IISc |
||
| Inaugural Address: Theodore Baskaran Noted Environmentalist & Film Historian, Bangalore |
||
| Tea/Coffee and Snacks (at about 3:00 pm) | ||
| Instructor : Tejaswini Niranjana Lead Researcher - Higher Education Innovation & Research Applications, Senior Fellow - CSCS "Music in the Balance: Language and Modernity in Dharwad" |
||
My talk, which examines
the social role of Hindustani music in the Dharwad-Hubli region, situates
the early 20th century emergence and proliferation of Hindustani sangeet
in this region against and within the debates on language that were
central to cultural transformation in that area. The language terrain
on which such contestations were mounted is not amenable to easy understanding,
either then or now. What was the problem of Kannada and more broadly
the language question in the mid- to late 19th and early 20th centuries
in the region known in the official British records as the Southern
Maratha Country? What might have been the role of vocal music in negotiating
the language conflict? I will focus on musical contestations that also
manifest themselves as a tussle over linguistic dominance. My method
of argumentation will be to focus on anecdote, and try to make it yield
– through close ‘reading’ – a sense of the range
of questions thrown up by the music-language conjuncture. |
||
| Saturday, 1st September 2012;
Time: 2 p.m. Venue: CCS Premises, IISc (Former JNCASR, Next to the Health Centre) |
||
| Podcast (audio recording) of the talk is available in mp3 format (146 Mb). (For more podcasts please click here...) | ||
| 240. | The Centre for Contemporary Studies,
Indian Institute of Science (URL: http://ces.iisc.ac.in/hpg/ragh/ccs/Welcome.html) |
|
| Invites you to course/ lecture series "Large-Scale
Economics: Epochs, Economies And Empires" |
 Click here for Photo Gallery |
|
| Instructor: Dr. Ashok Desai Consultant Editor, The Telegraph, New Delhi and Sundararajan Visiting Professor at CCS, IISc |
||
Day and Date: Saturday, 25th August 2012 Venue: CCS Seminar Hall, IISc Tea/Coffee will be served at 3:30 pm, |
||
Lecture 7: Angus Maddison Here I shall talk about Angus Maddison, who started mining the OECD statistics in the 1960s, and progressed over the next half century to speculations about the development of the world economy over 3000 years. |
||
Lecture 8: Personal Escapades In this last lecture, I shall talk about my own small-scale adventures – comparison of Akbar’s India with ours, and prediction of India’s rise as a novice superpower. |
||
| Podcast (audio recording) of the talk is available in mp3 format (139 Mb). (For more podcasts please click here...) | ||
| 239. | The Centre for Contemporary Studies,
Indian Institute of Science (URL: http://ces.iisc.ac.in/hpg/ragh/ccs/Welcome.html) |
|
| Invites you to course/ lecture series "Large-Scale
Economics: Epochs, Economies And Empires" |
 Click here for Photo Gallery |
|
| Instructor: Dr. Ashok Desai Consultant Editor, The Telegraph, New Delhi and Sundararajan Visiting Professor at CCS, IISc |
||
Day and Date: Saturday, 18th August 2012 Venue: CCS Seminar Hall, IISc Tea/Coffee will be served at 3:30 pm, |
||
Lecture 5: THE THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK Abstract: Here I shall talk about the theoretical framework of macroeconomics that began to emerge with the debates on trade cycles at the turn of the 19th century, which drew in continental economists like Spiethoff, Wicksell and Schumpeter, and was systematized by John Maynard Keynes. |
||
Lecture 6: COLIN CLARK Abstract: I shall then turn to the pioneer of macro-measurement, Colin Clark, who collected national statistics and used them to speculate about the Conditions of Economic Progress |
||
| Podcast (audio recording) of the talk is available in mp3 format (160 Mb). (For more podcasts please click here...) | ||
| 238. | The Centre for Contemporary Studies,
Indian Institute of Science (URL: http://ces.iisc.ac.in/hpg/ragh/ccs/Welcome.html) |
|
Invites you to a talk on: Colonialism,
Nationalism, Globalization and Kiran Desai's The Inheritance of Loss
|
 Click here for Photo Gallery |
|
| Speaker: Yumna Siddiqi Associate Professor of English English Department, Axinn Center Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT 05753, USA |
||
Date & time: Thursday,
16th August 2012; Time: 4:00 pm Venue: CCS Seminar Hall, IISc, Bangalore 12 All are cordially invited |
||
Abstract:
Propelled by the vicissitudes of capitalism, imperialism, and
ethnic and national conflict, migrants have transported their lives
across vast distancing and life-altering borders, and set up afresh.
Many scholars celebrate the migrant as a paradigmatic figure of modernity
who eschews roots and embraces cultural hybridity and a fluid identity.
These celebratory views of migration and diaspora elide the vast differences
between the experiences of bourgeois and subaltern migrants. For the
latter, migration can mean a constriction of experience by legal and
cultural borders and boundaries, extreme alienation, exploitation, immiseration,
and violence. To tell the story of subaltern migrants is to trace the
links between imperialism, capitalism, and migration. I explore these
links in relation to Kiran Desai’s novel The Inheritance of Loss. |
||
| 237. | The Centre for Contemporary Studies,
Indian Institute of Science (URL: http://ces.iisc.ac.in/hpg/ragh/ccs/Welcome.html) |
|
| Invites you to course/ lecture series "Large-Scale
Economics: Epochs, Economies And Empires" |
 Click here for Photo Gallery |
|
| Instructor: Dr. Ashok Desai Consultant Editor, The Telegraph, New Delhi and Sundararajan Visiting Professor at CCS, IISc |
||
Day and Date: Saturday, 11th August 2012 Venue: CCS Seminar Hall, IISc Tea/Coffee will be served at 3:30 pm, |
||
Lecture 3: ADAM SMITH Abstract:Here I shall talk about Adam Smith, whose The Wealth of Nations, which came out in 1776, introduced a system into the debate and provided the framework for discussions in the following century. |
||
Lecture 4:THE
NINETEENTH CENTURY
Abstract: In this lecture, I will talk about the spate of treatises on political economy that erupted in the nineteenth century and their writers – Malthus, Ricardo, Bagehot, Nassau Senior, Cairns, Edgeworth etc. |
||
| 236. | The Centre for Contemporary Studies,
Indian Institute of Science (URL: http://ces.iisc.ac.in/hpg/ragh/ccs/Welcome.html) |
|
| Invites you to a talk on: "Science in
concept and in practice" |
 Click here for Photo Gallery |
|
| Speaker:Prof. James Hunt Department of Entomology, North Carolina State University |
||
| Date & time: Thursday, 9th August 2012;
Time: 4:00 pm Venue: CCS Seminar Hall, IISc, Bangalore
12 All are cordially invited |
||
| Is “the scientific method” real or only a Platonic ideal? Karl Popper’s criterion of falsification formalized the scientific method, but examples will illustrate how knowledge was obtained in a scientific manner as long ago as ancient Greece. The criterion of falsification makes clear the difference between the “hard” sciences of chemistry and physics and the “soft” science of biology. Some disciplines within biology are susceptible to teleology, which is never acceptable in scientific analyses. Thomas Kuhn’s model of a paradigm shift conceptualizes a pattern of change in major hypotheses in science. Kuhn’s model can also serve to show that science sometimes proceeds not so much by application of the scientific method as within a context of constraints, possibilities, peer pressures, and fads. Examples will illustrate these perspectives on science and the scientific method. |
||
| 235. | The Centre for Contemporary Studies,
Indian Institute of Science (URL: http://ces.iisc.ac.in/hpg/ragh/ccs/Welcome.html) |
|
Invites you to a series of talks in the course "Large-Scale Economics: Epochs, Economies And Empires"
|
 Click here for Photo Gallery |
|
| Instructor:
Dr. Ashok Desai Consultant Editor, The Telegraph, New Delhi and Sundararajan Visiting Professor at CCS, IISc |
||
Day and Date: Saturday, 4th August 2012 Venue: CCS Seminar Hall, IISc
|
||
| Lecture 1: The Beginnings
The discovery of the Cape route to the Indian Ocean
gave Europe much cheaper access to oriental luxuries, such as spices
and textiles. But it also unleashed fierce rivalry amongst West European
powers, in which access to capital and mastery of shipbuilding and armaments
were crucial. The emergence of these new macroeconomic problems let
loose a chaotic economic debate in England; this was the origin of today’s
economics. In this initial lecture, I shall talk about the debate.
Readings: Barbon, N. (1690) A Discourse of Trade. Printed by Tho. Milbourn for the Author, London Bauer, S. Nicholas Barbon : biography Bonar, J. (1896) Locke on Currency. Palgrave Dictionary of Political Economy; edited by Henry Higgs, volume 2, , Macmillan and co., limited, London D'Avenant, C. (1697) An Essay on the East-India Trade. Digges, D. (1615) The defence of trade : in a letter to Sir Thomas Smith, knight, gouernour of the East-India Companie, etc. Printed by William Stansby for Iohn Barnes ..., London Gentleman, T. (1664) England’s way to win wealth. Printed by J.G. for Thomas Clark, and are to be sold at his Shop at the South entrance of the Royal Exchange, London Hale,M. (1683) A Discourse Touching Provision for the Poor. Printed for William Shrowsbery, at the Bible in Duke-Lane, London Harrington, J. (1656) The Commonwealth of Oceana. Printed for D. Pakeman, London Hull, C. H. (1900) Petty's place in the history of economic theory. Quarterly Journal of Economics Locke, J. (1691) Some Considerations of the
Consequences of the Lowering of Interest and the Raising the Value
of Money. Printed for Awnsham and John Churchill, at the Black Swan
in Pater-Noster-Row, London McCulloch, J.R. (1856) A select collection of early. English tracts on commerce, from the originals of Mun, Roberts, North, and others. Printed for the Political economy club, London Merchant, E.M. (1623) The circle of commerce, or, The ballance of trade in defence of free trade. Printed by John Dawson for Nicholas Bourne ..., London Mill, J.S., and Laughlin, J. L. (1885) Principles Of Political Economy. D. Appleton and Company, New York Misselden, E. (1622) Free trade; or, the meanes to make trade florish. Wherein the causes of the decay of trade in this kingdom are discovered. Printed by John Legatt, for Simon Waterson, dwelling in Paules Church-yard at the Signe of the Crowne, London Mun, T. (1664) England’s treasure by foreign trade. Printed by J.G. for Thomas Clark, and are to be sold at his Shop at the South entrance of the Royal Exchange, London North, D. (1691) Discourses Upon Trade; Principally Directed to the Cases of the Interest, Coynage, Clipping, Increase of Money. Printed for Tho. Basset, at the George in Fleet Street, London Petty, W. (1662) Treatise of taxes & contributions. Printed for N. Brooke, at the Angel in Cornhill, London Petty, W. (1682) Quantulumcunque concerning Money Petty, W. (1690) Political Arithmetick; Phoenix in St. Paul's Church-yard Roberts, L. (1641) The treasure of traffike. Or, A discourse of foreign trade. Printed by E. P. for N. Bourne, London Stephen, L., and Lee, S. Eds.(1888) Davenant, Charles : biography. Stephen's Dictionary of National Biography , London Vaughan, R. (1675) A Discourse of Coin and Coinage. Printed by T. Dawks, for T. Basset, London |
||
| Podcast (audio recording) of the talk is available in mp3 format (163 Mb). (For more podcasts please click here...) | ||
| 234. | The Centre for Contemporary Studies,
Indian Institute of Science (URL: http://ces.iisc.ac.in/hpg/ragh/ccs/Welcome.html) |
|
| Invites you to a "Is the State responsible
for high employment?" |
 Click here for Photo Gallery |
|
| Speaker: Prof. Amit Bhaduri Professor Emeritus, Centre for Economic Studies and Planning Jawaharlal Nehru University School of Social Sciences, New Delhi |
||
Date & time: Thursday,
19th July 2012; Time: 4:00 pm
Venue: CCS Seminar Hall, IISc, Bangalore 12 (Note: We have shifted to the former JNCASR, near the Health Centre) All are cordially invited |
||
Abstract:
The relation between the market and the economic policy is assumed according
to ideological inclinations. This lecture explains, without jargon,
how to understand this relationship. The lecture will also explore what
has changed in the realm of economic policy making in India and the
why it has changed. |
||
About
the Speaker: Amit Bhaduri is a distinguished
economic theorist renowned for his compelling ideas and analysis. He
has been a consistent critic of mainstream neoclassical economic theory.
He has made valuable contributions in several important fields including
capital and growth theory, Keynesian and Post-Keynesian macroeconomics
and development economics. He is currently internationally selected
professor in Pavia University, Italy and visiting professor in the Council
for Social Development, New Delhi.
Website: http://amitbhaduri.weebly.com/ |
||
| Podcast (audio recording) of the talk is available in mp3 format (71.3 Mb). (For more podcasts please click here...) | ||
| 233. | The Centre for Contemporary Studies,
Indian Institute of Science (URL: http://ces.iisc.ac.in/hpg/ragh/ccs/Welcome.html) |
|
| Invites you to a one day workshop on “Contemporary
Indian Economy” |
 Click here for Photo Gallery |
|
| Organised by CCS & Concern | ||
| Date & time:Tuesday, 17th July, 2012 Venue: CCS Seminar Hall, IISc, Bangalore 12 (Note: We have shifted to the former JNCASR, near the Health Centre) |
||
| 9:00 Inauguration Govindan Rangarajan Professor, Department of Mathematics, IISc 9:10 Session I: Financial Globalization and Indian Economy 9:10-9:50 Ritajyoti Bandyopadhyay “Provisioning Indian Cities: Speculations on the question of FDI in Calcutta’s wholesale-retail network” 9:50-10:30 Jafar K “Informal Finance: Possibilities of alternatives” 10:30-10:45 Coffee break 10:45-11:25 Shiv Sethi “Calorie consumption debate and Poverty in India” 11:25-12:05 Amit Bhaduri “Global Financial Crisis and Indian Economy” 12:05-12.20 Wrap up Session I – Comments 12:20 Lunch break (We kindly request the participants to make their own arrangement for lunch) 1:30 Session II: Political Institutions and the Indian Economy 1:30-2:10 Usha Ramanathan “The politics of the law on `eminent domain', land acquisition and `land titling`” 2:10-2:50 H. Vasu “Changing Political Economy of Rural Karnataka” 2:50-3:30 Partho Sarothi Ray “Political Geography of SEZs in India” 3:30-3:45 Wrap up Session II - Comments 3:45-4.00 Coffee break 4.00-5:00 Session III: Political Economy of Development Chair Uday Balakrishnan Partho Sarothi Ray, Madhu Bhaduri, Usha Ramanathan, Amit Bhaduri 5.00 Ashok Krishnan Way forward and concluding remarks |
||
| Podcast (audio recording) of the talk is available in mp3 format (325 Mb). (For more podcasts please click here...) | ||
| 232. | The Centre for Contemporary Studies,
Indian Institute of Science (URL: http://ces.iisc.ac.in/hpg/ragh/ccs/Welcome.html) |
|
| Invites you to a talk on "Syrian Christian
History Inscribed on Palm" |
 Click here for Photo Gallery |
|
| Speaker: Fr. Ignatius Payyappilly Archivist Archdiocese of Ernakulam, Kerala |
||
Date & time:Thursday, 24th
May 2012; Time: 4:00 pm All are cordially invited |
||
Abstract: The Syrian
Christian palm-leaves and inscriptions of Kerala are one among the least
exploited primary sources in history writing and academic inquiry in
Kerala. Its in-depth study will open up new areas in the history of
the Christian Community. Although there are a good number of research
studies on the history of the St. Thomas Christians, there is a lacunae
in the study based on the palm leaves of this community. Such studies
have now beginning to be undertaken. life. The micro history formulated
from these primary sources can contribute to the development of comprehensive
history of Kerala. |
||
About the Author: Fr Ignatius Payyappilly, a Catholic priest, is an Archivist working in the Archdiocesan Archives of the Archdiocese of Ernakulam-Angamaly, Kerala since 2001. He collaborates with Archives and Publication Cell of IISc as a consultant since May 2011. He helps both public and private organizations as a consultant to build up Archives and Records management. He is a trained Archivist with a Masters in Archives and Records Management from the University of Liverpool, UK. He is the founding Director of the Archdiocesan Archive as well as the Catholic Art Museum at Ernakulam. He is one of the founding members and secretary of the Association for Preserving Saint Thomas Christian Heritage which has digitized almost 10 TB images of the old records and documents of the Saint Thomas Christian tradition to make it available to the scholars and researchers. |
||
| Podcast (audio recording) of the talk is available in mp3 format (110 Mb). (For more podcasts please click here...) | ||
| 231. | The Centre for Contemporary Studies,
Indian Institute of Science (URL: http://ces.iisc.ac.in/hpg/ragh/ccs/Welcome.html) |
|
| Invites you to the talk on "Critical
Historiography of Science" |
 Click here for Photo Gallery |
|
| Speaker:Prof.
Rajan Gurukkal Vice-Chancellor Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam |
||
Date & time:Thursday, 19th
April 2012; Time: 4:00 pm All are cordially invited |
||
Abstract:
Historiography of science deals with the methodological history of doing
history of science. The lecture seeks to examine the evolution of methods
and perspectives of conceiving history of science over the years. The
focus is on the science-history’s transition from the chronological
sequential narrative mode to the social systemic sequential explanatory
mode. Against the background of the changing nature, structure and dynamic of knowledge production in time, the lecture seeks to reflect on what is critical historiography of science and how do we respond to the following questions: What is the character of evidence for doing history of science and how does it influence the domain of knowledge production? What is the role of the historian or his/her explanatory frameworks in understanding history of science? Does empiricism constitute history of science as a new epistemology? |
||
| Podcast (audio recording) of the talk is available in mp3 format (111 Mb). (For more podcasts please click here...) | ||
| 230. | The Centre for Contemporary Studies,
Indian Institute of Science (URL: http://ces.iisc.ac.in/hpg/ragh/ccs/Welcome.html) |
|
Invites you to the talk on "A Snap Shot of The
Post Pol Pot Society In Cambodia Today"
|
 Click here for Photo Gallery |
|
Speaker: M.
P. Joseph (Menacherry Paul Joseph) |
||
Date & time:Thursday, 29th
March 2012; Time: 4:00 pm All are cordially invited |
||
Abstract: Year Zero, Nineteen Seventy Five marked the beginning of the Cambodian genocide that in less than 4 years killed 2 of its 12 million people. In pursuit of a Communist Utopia, Pol Pot thus wiped out a whole generation of educated young men and women, who had they lived, would have been in their 40s and 50’s today. Cambodia has since moved on from Khmer Rouge’s ultimate Communism to an extreme form of Gold Digger’s market economy. Cambodia is booming today. There are more Land Cruisers, Hummers and Humvees on Phnom Penh’s roads than perhaps any-where else in the world. But Cambodia’s modern Post Pol Pot Society has something intrinsic missing. While State and Society encourages culture and instills pride in Khmer history and arts amongst its youngsters, the State is not a substitute for father’s guidance or a mother’s example and advice nor can Society instill family values. Only a parent can pass on family values, ethics and morals to the next generation. By wiping out a whole parental generation which could have passed on the Khmer value system to today’s generation, Pol Pot created an inter-generational disconnect for today’s youth. By killing off a generation, Pol Pot has created a moral vacuum in today’s youth. Cambodia Post Pol Pot Society is adrift today, without ethics and values, adrift in an amoral world. No moral compass exists to determine right and wrong. No ethical load-stone or compass differentiates ethical from the unethical. Money and success are the only values worth pursuing. Right is determined by Success. The wealthy cannot be wrong. A car can knock down a motorcyclist and speed away. A crowd will collect to stare at the victim of an accident, but will not step in to help. The exalted concept of Karma as we know in India has been converted in Post Pol Pot Cambodia into a justification for greed, an amoral pursuit of wealth and a disdain for life. The poor deserve to be poor, for poverty is the punishment for past sins. Wealth, wrongly begotten is a reward for your past good and therefore perfectly good and legal. The victim of an accident through that agonizing death lives out the penance of his past sins. You are not helping him by helping him. |
||
| Podcast (audio recording) of the talk is available in mp3 format (91.9 Mb). (For more podcasts please click here...) | ||
| 229. | The Centre for Contemporary Studies,
Indian Institute of Science (URL: http://ces.iisc.ac.in/hpg/ragh/ccs/Welcome.html) |
|
Invites you to
the talk on "Music revivals
– Major and Minor: Studying the
Politics of Performance in Modern South India" |
 Click here for Photo Gallery |
|
| Speaker: Prof.
Lakshmi Subramaniam Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Kolkata |
||
Date & time:Thursday, 22nd
March 2012; Time: 4:00 pm All are cordially invited |
||
Abstract: This paper is in part, an attempt to revisit the Tamil music revival movement, namely the Tamil Isai Iyakkam in order to be able to demonstrate what an investigation of cultural practices holds for understanding power structures and their semiotics. In attempting this, the paper acknowledges the potential that the writing of new social and cultural history has had for studying aural practices that have been at least in the South Asian context understudied as well as for understanding social relations in general that develop around the production and consumption of cultural practices like music. Studying the aural field in southern India through the lens of revival movements, I will suggest, enables us to understand the overtly political nature of the cultural agenda of the revivalists. It also enables us to access regimes of listening and pleasure and thereby, to unpack the construction and transmission of meaning attached to cultural practices like music even while recognizing that music has its own distinct register and language. I will thus argue that music revivals and the construction of a discourse around them came to have a very special affective signification in southern India largely through networks of print and performance that helped produce different communities of listeners some of whom were more effective in deploying retrospective fantasies to structure their subjectivities. The emphasis is not on or at least exclusively on the voice of the subaltern here, it is more directly engaged with looking at practices and the embedded politics in the articulation of cultural practices fashioned around material structures. |
||
| Podcast (audio recording) of the talk is available in mp3 format (82 Mb). (For more podcasts please click here...) | ||
| 228. | The Centre for Contemporary Studies,
Indian Institute of Science (URL: http://ces.iisc.ac.in/hpg/ragh/ccs/Welcome.html) |
 Click here for Photo Gallery |
Invites you to
the talk on "Re-imaging space technology:
Encounters with Chandrayaan-1 through art-practice perspectives" |
||
Speaker: Joanna
Griffin |
||
Date & time:
Thursday, 15th March 2012; Time: 4:00 pm All are cordially invited |
||
Abstract: The presentation will unravel the fragmentary nature of space enterprises as they are experienced outside of the space agency organisation, with particular reference to the determining influence of images and imaginaries. The research presented draws primarily on an artist-led project called Moon Vehicle, based out of Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology, which aimed to make evident the cultural dimensions of Chandrayaan-1’s mission to the Moon. This project brought together the communities of Srishti and ISRO through education/art practice projects which then filtered out into the city of Bangalore in a variety of unpredictable ways.
|
||
| Podcast (audio recording) of the talk is available in mp3 format (85.3 Mb). (For more podcasts please click here...) | ||
| 227. | The Centre for Contemporary Studies, Indian Institute
of Science (URL: http://ces.iisc.ac.in/hpg/ragh/ccs/Welcome.html) |
 Click here for Photo Gallery |
Invites you to the talk on "Dismal Science of Economic Austerity: Metaphors, Models and Policies" |
||
Speaker: Dr. Srinivasa
Raghavendra |
||
Date & time:
Thursday, 8th March 2012; Time: 4:00 pm All are cordially invited |
||
|
Abstract: Austerity seems to be the only solution offered by the IMF, European Central Bank and European Commission (the ‘Troika’) to the member states of the European Union to overcome the ongoing economic crisis. The economic scientific logic that underlies these austerity policies is based on a belief that the austerity policies will help the economies to revert to their long-term growth rates. The speaker will discuss how the economic science that underpins the current policy disposition offered a diametrically opposite policy prescription in the 1930s when the world economies faced a similar situation, and will contextualize such a shift in the scientific view from the perspective of the evolution of economic theory in the post-war era. |
|
| Podcast (audio recording) of the talk is available in mp3 format (86.5 Mb). (For more podcasts please click here...) | ||
| 226. |
The Centre for Contemporary Studies, Indian Institute
of Science (URL: http://ces.iisc.ac.in/hpg/ragh/ccs/Welcome.html) |
 Click here for Photo Gallery |
Invites you to a talk on "Gender differences in local residents' relationships with protected areas in Asia" |
||
Speaker: Dr. Teri Allendorf |
||
Date & time:
Thursday, 2nd Feb 2012; Time: 4:00 pm All are cordially invited |
||
Abstract: Although participation and inclusion are considered critical to successful conservation of protected areas, women are often underrepresented in park-people studies. In this presentation, we examine differences between women's and men's attitudes and perceptions toward protected areas in Nepal, Myanmar, and China. These examples highlight the important role that gender can play in park-people relationships and demonstrates the need to explicitly recognize and analyze gender in human-environment relationships. Using social role theory, we discuss the different ways that gender roles impact attitudes toward the environment in general and protected areas in particular. We conclude with some lessons for creating more gender-sensitive approaches to conservation in order to engage women in conservation. |
||
About the Speaker: Dr. Teri Allendorf is a conservation biologist working on human dimensions of biodiversity conservation, including park-people relationships, community-based conservation, and biodiversity values and attitudes. She is an Honorary Fellow in the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies and the Land Tenure Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a research associate with the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute. She has also been a member of USAID’s Biodiversity Team and a Peace Corps Volunteer in Nepal. |
||
| Podcast (audio recording) of the talk is available in mp3 format (56.7 Mb). (For more podcasts please click here...) | ||
| 225. | The Centre for Contemporary Studies, Indian Institute
of Science (URL: http://ces.iisc.ac.in/hpg/ragh/ccs/Welcome.html) |
 Click here for Photo Gallery |
Invites you to a talk on "India's High Economic Growth: Is the Solution the Problem?" |
||
Speaker: Prof.
Amit Bhaduri |
||
Date & time:
Tuesday, 31st Jan 2012; Time: 4:00 pm All are cordially invited |
||
Since early 1990s India has experienced
unprecedented high growth and yet, most indices about the economic well
being of the majority of our citizens indicate they are no better off.
The economy is doing well but not not the people! This talk would explain
without obscure economic jargon why this is happening. This understanding
is essential for all concerned citizens who would collectively decide
the future course of our economic social and political development. About the speaker:Amit Bhaduri is a distinguished economic theorist renowned for his compelling ideas and analysis. He has been a consistent critic of mainstream neoclassical economic theory. He has made valuable contributions in several important fields including capital and growth theory, Keynesian and Post-Keynesian macroeconomics and development economics. He is currently internationally selected professor in Pavia University, Italy and visiting professor in the Council for Social Development, New Delhi. |
||
| Podcast (audio recording) of the talk is available in mp3 format (92.9 Mb). (For more podcasts please click here...) | ||
| 224. | Workshop organised by Central
University of Tamilnadu (CUTN), |
|
| Dates: January 27-28th
January, 2012 Venue: CCS, IISc, Bangalore 12. |
||
January 27, 2012 |
||
Session I: 10.20 – 11.30
|
||
Session II: 12.15 –
1.30 pm |
||
| Session III: 2.30 –
4.00 pm |
||
Session IV: 4 – 5.30
pm |
||
January 28, 2012 |
||
1 – 2 pm: Lunch Break |
||
| 223. | The Centre for Contemporary Studies, Indian Institute
of Science (URL: http://ces.iisc.ac.in/hpg/ragh/ccs/Welcome.html) |
 Click here for Photo Gallery |
Invites you to a talk on "Social
Sciences: The Missing Beacon of India" |
||
| Speaker: Rama Bijapurkar |
||
Date & time:
Wednesday, 25th Jan 2012; Time: 4:00 pm All are cordially invited |
||
About the speaker: Rama Bijapurkar is a well respected and recognised thought leader in business strategy and India’s Consumer Economy. She has her own consulting practice, and serves or has served on the boards of several of India’s leading companies including Infosys, Bharat Petroleum, Mahindra Financial, ICICI Prudential Life Insurance, Axis Bank, Titan Industries etc. She is a visiting faculty at IIM Ahmedabad, her alma
mater and also serves on its board of governors. |
||
| Podcast (audio recording) of the talk is available in mp3 format (75.8 Mb). (For more podcasts please click here...) | ||
| 222. | The Centre for Contemporary Studies, Indian Institute
of Science (URL: http://ces.iisc.ac.in/hpg/ragh/ccs/Welcome.html) |
 Click here for Photo Gallery |
Invites you to a release of the
book "The
Story of Asia’s Elephants" |
||
| Prof.
P. Balaram, Director,
IISc, will preside and release the book Theodore Baskaran the noted environmentalist and film historian will speak on the occasion Prof. R. Sukumar will read excerpts from his book |
||
Date & time: Tuesday, 17th January'12, Time: 4:00
p.m. |
||
All are cordially invited |
||
Note: Tata Book House has offered a special discounted price for the book at the venue |
||
About the book: This book is an ecological and cultural history of the Asian elephant and is the first single volume to comprehensively cover the history of Asia’s elephants, profusely illustrated with images of the elephant in art from ancient to contemporary times, offering new interpretations, and drawing upon a wide range of literary texts. The volume begins with an account of the ancient origins of the Asian elephant and its possible relationship with early humans, leading eventually to its taming between 4,500 and 5,000 years ago in the Harappan period. Subsequent chapters trace the story of the elephant under the major religious establishments – Vedic, Buddhist and Jain, post-1st century Hindu, and Islamic – of the Indian subcontinent and beyond.
|
||
| Podcast (audio recording) of the talk is available in mp3 format (41.5 Mb). (For more podcasts please click here...) | ||
| 221. | The Centre for Contemporary Studies, Indian Institute
of Science & Higher Education Innovation and Research Applications
|
 Click here for Photo Gallery |
| Invites you to a play titled "Copenhagen" | ||
Designed and Directed: Prakash Belawadi, Suchitra Production, Bangalore |
||
Date & Time: Friday,
13th January 2012 at 6.30 p.m. |
||
All are cordially invited |
||
Centre for Contemporary Studies in collaboration with the Higher Education Innovation and Research Applications Programme of the Centre for the Study of Culture and Society is engaged in a Curriculum Development initiative with a view to assembling new courses at PG and UG level that could take forward the dialogue between natural and social sciences-humanities. One of the components of this curricular innovation is to explore the use of theatre for the teaching of science. As an initial step in this direction, CCS invites the Suchitra Production to stage Michael Frayn’s play ‘Copenhagen’ designed and directed by noted journalist and theatre person Prakash Belawadi. |
||
| 220. | The Centre for Contemporary Studies,
Indian Institute of Science |
 Click here for Photo Gallery |
Invites you to
a talk on 'Roll of Honour' |
||
Speaker: |
||
Date & time:
12th January 2012, Time: 4:00 p.m. |
||
All are cordially invited |
||
About the book: In the year 1984, Appu is studying in a military school in Punjab. He dreams of joining the Army, thus fulfilling the tradition of honour and loyalty that has earned his community, the Sikhs, respect from the whole country. In June the Indian Army attacks the Golden Temple in Amritsar. This is a story of how Appu’s loyalties split and how he deals with the assassination of Mrs Gandhi, the riots, and his own fears. Aman’s second book of fiction, Roll of Honour, will be out by mid-year from Rupa and Co. |
||
About the speaker: Amandeep Sandhu was born in Rourkela and has lived in Orissa, Uttrakhand, Punjab, Chattisgarh, Andhra Pradesh, and Karnataka. He has a Masters in English Literature from the University of Hyderabad and is currently settled in the National Capital Region. He has worked as a farm-hand, woolen-garment seller, shop assistant, tuition master, teacher, journalist with The Economic Times, as a technical writer with Novell Inc, Oracle Corporation, and now Cadence Design Systems. 'Literature, for me, is an understanding of the essential human struggle to become complete. I write to understand myself and my world, and to sleep peacefully. Sepia Leaves is my first work of fiction.' |
||
Podcast (audio recording) of the talk is available in mp3 format (87.7 Mb). (For more podcasts please click here...) |
||
| 219. | Curriculum Development Workshop for Integrated Science Education Organised by: Higher Education Innovation & Research Applications
(HEIRA) & |
|
Venue: Centre for
Contemporary Studies (CCS), Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
|
||
| Schedule: 3rd January 2012 | ||
| Opening Session 10.00 am to 11.30
am Introduction to the “Integrated Science Education” work on different sites: Prof. Raghavendra Gadagkar, Centre for Contemporary Studies (CCS), Dr. Tejaswini Niranjana, Higher Education Innovation and Research Applications (HEIRA), Dr. Anup Dhar, Ambedkar University and Dr. Asha Achuthan, Tata Institute of Social Science |
||
| Tea Break 11.30 am to11.45 am | ||
| Session I: 11.45 am to 1 pm Discussion of the Central University Jharkhand project with reference to the What is Science course: Dr. K.Sridhar, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research and Dr. Anup Dhar, Ambedkar University. |
||
| Lunch Break: 1 pm to 2 pm | ||
| Session II: 2 pm to 5 pm Discussion of each proposed course. Course instructors will present an outline, possible readings, etc. |
||
| Tea Break 3.45 pm to 4.00 pm | ||
| Schedule: 4th January 2012 | ||
Session
III: 10 am to 11.30 am Summarising the challenges so far: Dr. Tejaswini Niranjana, Higher Education Innovation and Research Applications (HEIRA) and Dr. Anup Dhar, Ambedkar University. |
||
| Tea Break 11.30 am to 11.45 am | ||
| Session IV: 11.45 am to 1 pm
Responses from resource persons. |
||
| Lunch Break 1 pm to 2pm | ||
| Session V: 2 pm to 5 pm
Taking the project into other locations; discussion of where, how etc. |
||
| Tea Break 3.45 pm to 4.00 pm | ||
Events in 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015