Gananath Obeyesekere delivered a Golden Jubilee Lecture on 'A Still-born Cosmopolitanism: Buddhists, Catholics, and other strange beings in the Kandyan Kingdom, 1591-1739' on 8 November 2013 at CSDS.
The Golden Jubilee Lecture by Sudhir Kakar on ‘The Complementarity of Civilizations: Rabindranath Tagore Revisited’ was held on 7 November 2013 at CSDS. Rabindranath Tagore sojourn in England as an 18-year old marked the beginning of a.
A Symposium on Gananath Obeyesekere’s book 'The Awakened Ones: Phenomenology of Visionary Experience' was held on 5 November 2013 at India International Centre. The speakers were Gananath Obeyesekere,
The film screening of 'Tracing the Arc and A Million Steps': a film by Pankaj Butalia was held on 24 October 2013 at CSDS. The Great Arc was a phenomenal achievement of applied science in British India between 1802 and 1843. It was an..
Arjun Appadurai delivered the Golden Jubilee Lecture on Deep Modernization, Imperialism and the European Enlightenment at CSDS on 21 January 2013. This lecture seeks to explain why, in the very period in which Europe was defining and exporting its...