Category :(Film Screening)

The film screening of the 'Anthropocene Observatory’ was held on 11 April 2014 at CSDS. The observatory is a knowledge station, a constantly expanding reservoir which pursues and documents the thesis of the ‘age of man’ and its.

Category :(Golden Jubilee Lecture)

Meaghan Morris delivered a Golden Jubilee Lecture ‘In Praise of Parochial Blockbusters: Community, Change and Cliché in Trans-local Action Cinema’ on 27 March 2014 at CSDS. The lecture reflected on the transformative power of cinematic

Category :(Golden Jubilee Lecture)

Rashid Khalidi delivered a Golden Jubilee lecture on ‘The Long 20th Century: The View from the Middle East’ on 20 March 2014 at CSDS. The lecture proposed a re-examination of the history of the 20th century in light of a slightly different

Category :(Golden Jubilee Lecture)

Mamadou Diouf delivered a Golden Jubilee lecture on ‘State and Sufi Islam in Senegal: The (Un)Making of the Senegalese Social Contract’ on 21 March 2014 at CSDS. Senegal has been hailed as a model of ‘Good Islam’. The social

Category :(Lecture)

C. M. Naim delivered a talk on ‘Zafar Omar: The Man Who Invented Bahram Daku’ on 12 March 2014 at CSDS. Zafar Omar was among the pioneers of mystery fiction in Urdu, and his book Nili Chhatri (1916) was a huge bestseller