About the Speaker: Prof S Irfan Habib is an Indian historian of science, a widely published author, and a public intellectual. He was the Abul Kalam Azad Chair at the National Institute of Educational Planning and Administration (NIEPA), New Delhi. Before joining NIEPA, he was a scientist at the National Institute of Science, Technology and Development Studies (NISTADS), New Delhi.

Books:

• To Make the Deaf Hear: Ideology and Programme of Bhagat Singh and His Comrades,
• Jihad Or Ijtihad: Religious Orthodoxy And Modern Science In Contemporary Islam
• Indian Nationalism: The Essential Writings
• Inquilab: Bhagat Singh on Religion and Revolution
• Domesticating Modern Science: A Social History of Science and Culture in Colonial India

About the Chair: Prof Amar Farooqui was the Professor of History, University of Delhi. He taught history for many years at Hans Raj College, Delhi; and has been a Fellow, at Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi. His publications include Early Social Formations (2002); Smuggling as Subversion: Colonialism, Indian Merchants and the Politics of Opium, 1790-1843 (revised edition, 2005); Opium City: The Making of Early Victorian Bombay (2006); Sindias and the Raj: Princely Gwalior, c. 1800-1850 (2011), and Zafar and the Raj: Anglo-Mughal Delhi, c. 1800-1850 (2013).

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About the Speaker-  Dr S.Y. Quraishi is an Indian civil servant who served as the 17th Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) of India. He has also served as a Secretary in the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports.  He has a PhD in communications and social marketing. He became the first Muslim to be the CEC of India. He demitted office on 10 June 2012. He now pursues his interests in academics by teaching & mentoring at Cluster Innovation Centre, University of Delhi in the capacity of Honorary Professor at the centre. He is also a current member of the International Elections Advisory Council.

Books:

1. The Population Myth: Islam, Family Planning and Politics in India
2. An Undocumented Wonder: The Making of the Great Indian Election
3. Social Marketing for Social Change
4. Old Delhi: Living Traditions
5. Haryana Discovered

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About the Speaker: Prof Sunil Mukhi Honorary Professor Emeritus IISER, Pune. Prof Mukhi has a PhD in theoretical physics, with a specialisation in quantum field theory and supersymmetry, from Stony Brook University, USA.  He held a postdoctoral position at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy and was a faculty member at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Mumbai for 27 years where he held the posts of Senior Professor, Dean, Graduate Studies and Chair, Department of Theoretical Physics, before joining IISER Pune.

Publications:

Meruliya, Viraj, Mukhi, Sunil and Singh, Palash (2021) Poincaré series, 3d Gravity and averages of rational CFT, Journal of High Energy Physics 04 (2021) 267

Mukhi, Sunil and Poddar, Rahul (2021) Universal correlators and novel cosets in 2d RCFT, Journal of High Energy Physics 02 (2021) 158

Mukhi, Sunil, Poddar, Rahul and Singh, Palash (2020) Contour integrals and the modular S-matrix, Journal of High Energy Physics 07 (2020) 045

Chandra, A. Ramesh and Mukhi, Sunil (2019) Towards a classification of two-character rational conformal field theories, Journal of High Energy Physics 04 (2019) 153

Mukhi, Sunil, Murthy, Sameer and Wu, Jie-Qiang (2018) Entanglement, replicas, and thetas, Journal of High Energy Physics 01 (2018) 005

Bagger, Jonathan, Lambert, Neil, Mukhi, Sunil, Papageorgakis, Constantinos (2013) Multiple membranes in M-theory, Physics Reports 527 (2013) 1-100

Mukhi, Sunil and Papageorgakis, Constantinos (2008) M2 to D2, Journal of High Energy Physics 05 (2008) 085

About the Chair: Prof. Furqan Qamar is presently Professor of Management at the Centre for Management Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. He has served as the Secretary-General of the Association of Indian Universities (AIU), the largest and one of the oldest network of universities in the world.  In his illustrious career, Prof. Qamar has held the position of the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Rajasthan and the Central University of Himachal Pradesh. He has also served as Advisor (Education) in the Planning Commission of India.

He authored the book Financial Control In Indian Universities. He has published research articles on Educational Finance, Management and Administration. He is also a columnist in leading newspapers.

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About the Speaker: Prof Thomas Pogge is Leitner Professor of Philosophy and International Affairs and Director of the Global Justice Program, Yale University. He has been a Professor of Political Philosophy at the Centre for Professional Ethics of the University of Central Lancashire, Research Director, Centre for the Study of Mind in Nature, University of Oslo, and Professor of Philosophy and Global Justice, The Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College London.

Publications:

Kant y Rawls: Filosofía práctica contemporánea, Spanish collection of 5 essays translated by Johnny Antonio Dávila, ed.: Johnny Antonio Dávila (Medellín: Editorial Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana 2018).

Principles on Climate Obligations of Enterprises. Was a member of the Expert Group on Global Climate Change Obligations of Enterprises, which drafted these principles and an extensive legal commentary on them. The Expert Group included Brian Preston, Tianbao Qin, James Silk, Jaap Spier, Elisabeth Steiner, Philip Sutherland and Daniël Witte, (The Hague: Eleven International Publishing 2018).

Moral, justicia y derechos humanos, Spanish collection of 3 essays translated by Johnny Antonio Dávila and a conference presentation translated by María Julia Ochoa Jiménez, ed.: Johnny Antonio Dávila (Medellín: Editorial Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana 2017).

Un reparto más justo del planeta, authored with Paula Casal and Hillel Steiner, (Madrid: Editorial Trotta, S.A. 2016) — therein “Propuesta de un Dividendo sobre los recursos naturales” and “Compartir la Tierra con los pobres.”

The Individual Deprivation Measure: A Gender-Sensitive Approach to Poverty Measurement, authored with Scott Wisor, Sharon Bessell, Fatima Castillo, Joanne Crawford, Kieran Donaghue, Janet Hunt, Alison Jaggar, and Amy Liu (Melbourne: The International Women’s Development Agency 2014).

About the Chair: Prof Ashok Acharya is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Delhi. He has a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Toronto. He has also taught at University of Toronto, North-Eastern Hill University, and Utkal University.

Publications:

Editor, Citizenship in a Globalizing World (New Delhi: Pearson, 2012).

Co-editor: An Introduction to Political Theory (New Delhi: Pearson, 2008).

The Centre for Studies of Plural Societies is pleased to invite you to its Book Discussion on ‘The Indian Village: Rural Lives in the 21st Century’. Prof. Surinder S. Jodhka will be speaking on his book. The session will be moderated by Dr Irfanullah Farooqi, Asst. Professor, SAU. The event will take place on October 21, 2023 at 11:30 a.m. (Saturday) in the Conference Room, CSPS Office. We have limited seats, please register to book your spot. Register

About the Speaker:

Prof Surinder S. Jodhka is Professor at  Centre for the Study of Social Systems, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He has been a Visiting Professor (ICCR Chair), University of Lund, Sweden; Visiting Associate Professor, University of Bergen, Norway; Charles Wallace India Trust Fellow at Queens University in Belfast; South Asian Visiting Scholar at University of Oxford; Honorary Visiting Fellow at University of Wisconsin, Madison. He has been awarded ICSSR-Amartya Sen Award for Distinguished Social Scientist (Sociology). Prof. Jodhka has been member of several editorial boards for journals such as Sociology (official journal of the British Sociological Association); Sikh Formations; and Sociological Bulletin, Journal of the Indian Sociological Society. His areas of specialization are Political Sociology; Social and Cultural Identities in contemporary India; Development Studies; Social Stratification; Rural Society and Agrarian Change.

His published books are “The Indian Village: Rural Lives in the 21st Century”, ”Religions, Communities, Development: Changing Contours of Policy and Politics in Contemporary India” (edited with Gurpreet Mahajan): Routledge, New Delhi, 2010; ”Village Society: Culture, Politics and Social Life in Rural India”. Orient Blackswan. Edited, 2012; and ”Changing Caste: Mobility, Ideology, Identity”. Sage Publications, New Delhi. Edited, 2012.

About the book:

‘The Indian Village: Rural Lives in the 21st Century’ by Surinder S. Jodhka explores the evolving nature of villages in India, examining colonial construction, Indian nationalists’ representation, and post-liberalisation nation. The book provides a detailed account of rural lives’ transformation, highlighting the diversity within agrarian and rural realities, and focusing on development and democracy processes in rural areas.

CSPS Aligarh Chapter invites you to a lecture on”Social Science Research and Interdisciplinarity” by Dr Irfanullah Farooqi, South Asian University. The session will be chaired by Dr Shivangini Tandon, Aligarh Muslim University.

The distinguished speakers will be joining us, including:
Prof. Syed Ziaur Rahman (Professor of Pharmacology, J N Medical College, AMU)
Dr. Javed Iqbal Wani ( Senior Assistant Professor, Ambedkar University Delhi)
Mr. Parvez Alam (Assistant Professor, Aligarh Muslim University)

Event details:
Date: 28th Oct 2023
Time: 11:00 AM (IST)
Venue: Ibn Sina Academy of Medieval Medicine and Sciences, Aligarh

Link to register: https://forms.gle/wXjb5jGQLXNqp6Sv8

Centre for Studies of Plural Societies is organising a workshop on “Working Out an Argument” by Dr. Javed Iqbal Wani on 9th November at 6:30 PM. CSPS Aligarh Chapter Interns are advised to take note of it, it is exclusively organised for them.

About the speaker: Dr Javed Wani is a senior assistant professor at Dr B. R. Ambedkar University of Delhi. He is the Honourary Head of Publication and Research at the Center for Studies of Plural Societies. His area of expertise is the History(ies), Culture(s) and politics of South Asia, particularly India. Dr. Wani has authored a book “Sovereign Anxiety: Public Order and the Politics of Control in India, 1915-1955”, published by Cambridge University Press and several papers, news reports, book chapters, and review articles on various political issues.His broad research interests are around issues pertaining to the nature of State, operations of Ideology, terrains of violence and configurations of resistance. Currently interested in issues such as ‘law making and law enforcing’, ‘governmentality’, ‘surveillance’ and ‘state of exception’.

The book discussion will be held on 6th January 2024 at 12:00 PM (IST) at Conference Room, CSPS Office

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About the author:

Professor Neeti Nair, a historian and professor at the University of Virginia, specialises in South Asian history. She teaches courses on topics including the Partition of the Indian subcontinent and blasphemy politics. Prof. Nair is the author of “Hurt Sentiments: Secularism and Belonging in South Asia” and “Changing Homelands: Hindu Politics and the Partition of India.” Additionally, she has edited two special issues of Asian Affairs, including “Ghosts from the Past? Assessing Recent Developments in Religious Freedom in South Asia” and “Citizenship, Belonging, and the Partition of India.” Her research has been supported by prestigious fellowships, and she serves as a non-residential Global Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington DC.

About the chair:

Dr. Mujibur Rehman, a faculty member at Jamia Millia Central University in New Delhi, specialises in identity politics and development politics, with a particular emphasis on the experiences of religious minorities. Notable among his prior publications are “Rise of Saffron Power: Reflections on Indian Politics” (2018) and “Communalism in Postcolonial India: Changing Colors” (2016). Dr. Rehman’s insightful commentary on contemporary issues frequently graces the pages of major Indian newspapers and magazines. His research contributions extend to projects hosted by esteemed institutions such as Princeton University, Columbia University, Sciences Po, University of York, and ICSSR. He completed his graduate studies at the University of Austin, Texas, USA; the University of Heidelberg, Germany, and the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), New Delhi. Presently, he is engaged in his forthcoming book project provisionally titled “Explaining the Muslim Mind.”

Prof. Muqtedar Khan, PhD, from Georgetown University in 2000, brings expertise in Politics of the Middle East and South Asia, Political Islam, Islamic Political Thought, Islam in America, American Foreign Policy in the Muslim World, and Good Governance. With a blend of academic and policy orientation, Dr. Khan served as the founding director of the Islamic Studies Program at the University of Delaware and held positions as Fellow and Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. Notably, he served as the Academic Director of the State Department’s National Security Institute (SUSI) from 2017 to 2019 and as the Academic Director of the State Department’s American Foreign Policy Institute from 2019 to 2021. His latest book, “Islam and Good Governance,” received the 2019 Excellence in Scholarship Award and has been acclaimed by Book Authority. Recent publications include contributions to the Routledge Handbook of Political Islam, Insight Turkey, and Middle East Policy Journal.

About the chair:

Ambassador Ashok Sajjanhar has dedicated over three decades to the Indian Foreign Service, serving in various diplomatic capacities across the globe. He notably held ambassadorial positions in Kazakhstan, Sweden, and Latvia, and has represented India in key diplomatic postings including Washington DC, Brussels, Moscow, Geneva, Tehran, Dhaka, and Bangkok. Ambassador Sajjanhar played a pivotal role in negotiating significant trade agreements such as the India-EU, India-ASEAN, and the India-Thailand Free Trade Agreement during the Uruguay Round of Multilateral Trade Negotiations. Additionally, he has led the National Foundation for Communal Harmony and currently serves as the President of the Institute of Global Studies in New Delhi. An accomplished writer and speaker, Ambassador Sajjanhar offers insightful perspectives on international relations and Indian foreign policy matters.

The lecture will be held on 23 Feb. 2024 at 10:30 PM at Conference Room, CSPS office

About the speaker: A.K. Ramakrishnan is Professor and former Chairperson of the Centre for West Asian Studies, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. He has also been Director of the Human Rights Studies Programme at JNU. Earlier, he was Professor and Director of the Centre for West Asian Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, and Director of the School of International Relations and Politics, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala. He was a Distinguished International Scholar at Bucknell University, Pennsylvania, USA and a Visiting Professor in Allameh Tabatabai University, Tehran, Iran. He was also Erasmus Visiting Professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain and Kaunas Technical University, Kaunas, Lithuania.Areas of his interest include West Asian Studies, Theories of International Relations, Gender and Postcolonialism. He has published widely in English and Malayalam. He has published the book US Perceptions of Iran: Approaches and Policies and co-edited Society and Change in the Contemporary Gulf. His articles and reviews have been published in journals such as International Studies, Scandinavian Journal of Development Alternatives and Area Studies, Millennium: Journal of International Studies, Contemporary South Asia, and Inter-Asia Cultural Studies