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...
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...
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 soc...
Lydia H. Liu delivered a Golden Jubilee lecture on ‘Shadows of Universalism: The Untold Story of Human Rights Around 1948’ on 19 March 2014 at CSDS. This is the story of how the postwar norms of human rights confronted the classi...
Romila Thapar delivered a golden Jubilee Lecture on ‘Representations of the Past in Early North India’ on 5 March 2014 at CSDS. Societies remember their pasts in diverse ways and their representations take various forms. Among th...
Deepak Nayyar delivered a golden Jubilee lecture on ‘Globalization and Democracy’ at CSDS on 21 February 2014. The lecture focused on the gathering momentum of globalization in the world economy, since 1980, has coincided with th...
Thomas Elsaesser delivered a golden Jubilee lecture on ‘Cinema After Film: On the future of obsolescence of the moving image’ at CSDS on 10 January 2014. The lecture concerns itself with the dynamics and consequences of rapid med...
José Casanova delivered a Golden Jubilee Lecture on 'United States, China, India: Secular States and Regimes of Religious Pluralism' on 6 December 2013 at CSDS. The Lecture focused on three different types of secular state with ve...
Craig Calhoun delivered a golden Jubilee lecture on ‘Does Capitalism Have a Future?’ at CSDS on 7 December 2013. The lecture delved into Capitalism which seems to have survived another deep crisis, though widespread growth has no...
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