TALK "Nation, Institutions and Excellence: A Short History of Indian University in the Twentieth Century" by Professor Rakesh Batabyal at Main Building, India International Centre (IIC), Lodhi Estate > 6:30pm on 15th November 2016

Professor Rakesh Batabyal

Time : 6:30 pm Add to Calendar 15/11/2016 18:30 15/11/2016 20:00 Asia/Kolkata TALK "Nation, Institutions and Excellence: A Short History of Indian University in the Twentieth Century" by Professor Rakesh Batabyal Event Page : http://www.delhievents.com/2016/11/talk-nation-institutions-and-excellence.html Seminar Rooms - 1, 2 & 3, Kamaladevi Complex, Main Building, India International Centre (IIC), 40 Max Mueller Marg, Lodhi Estate, New Delhi-110003 DD/MM/YYYY

Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served Basis)

Venue : Seminar Rooms - 1, 2 & 3, Kamaladevi Complex, Main Building, India International Centre (IIC), 40 Max Mueller Marg, Lodhi Estate, New Delhi-110003
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Event Description : TALK "Nation, Institutions and Excellence:  A Short History of Indian University in the Twentieth Century" by Professor Rakesh Batabyal, Associate  Professor, Centre for Media Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University

Jawaharlal Nehru University, known popularly as JNU, is one of india's premier institutions of higher learning. Rakesh Batabyal in this LILA PRISM Lecture explores the life of an Indian university, from its conception  to the period when the institution was entering its phase of major transition. He brings to life the intricate web of relationship between the founding principles of a university, contemporary politics and society, and the historical trajectories of indian intellectual and institutional lives.

Speaker : One of the leading historians of contemporary India, Rakesh Batabyal teaches history and theory of media at the Centre for Media Studies in the School of Social Science, Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi. Rakesh Batabyal’s books Communalism in Bengal: From Famine to Noakhali (1943-47), Sage ( 2005); The Penguin Book of Modern Indian Speeches Penguin (2007) and JNU the Making of A University, HarperCollins, ( 2014) have been widely used and discussed. He was the Inaugural India Chair Professor,Tokyo University in 2010 and has been working on the issues of Media, Nationalism and the idea of well being in India and Eastern Europe.
His other recent works includes India in the normative universe  ( Does Fairness Matter’,  Brookings Institution, Washington D.C, 2010); Hindu Communal Challenge, 1964-84 ( Centnerary History of Indian National Congress, Vol.V, ed. By Aditya Mukherjee, Academic Foundation, 2011), ‘Gender, State and Women’s Activism’, in Gender and Contemporary Activism, Marta Warat, ed. Jagellolian University, Poland, 2011); Contemporary History of Comumunication,  (Kolkata, 2013) Batabyal tries to link contemporary indian history to the intricacies of global poltics and history is also reflective of in his recent engagment in teaching History of Media in 19th and 20th century India.

Chair: Dr. Rupamajari Ghosh, Vice-Chancellor, Shiv Nadar University
Rupamanjari Ghosh (Chair) is a researcher, teacher, orator and an academic administrator par excellence. Professor Ghosh has B.Sc.(Physics honors) and M.Sc.(Physics) degrees from the University of Calcutta, and a very well-recognized Ph.D. from the University of Rochester, NY, where she worked as a Rush Rhees Fellow, chosen for “outstanding scholarly ability and the promise of exceptional contributions to scholarship and teaching.” Her research interests are in Experimental and Theoretical Quantum Optics, Laser Physics, Nonlinear Optics, and Quantum Information. Her pioneering work with Prof. L. Mandel on two-photon interference (using the nonlinear optical process of spontaneous parametric down-conversion) has yielded a new direction in quantum optics and quantum information, in the creation and use of a source of entangled photon pairs, and of single photons, at the forefront of research today. Professor Ghosh is a former Dean, School of Physical Sciences at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, where she had held many other important academic and administrative positions. She has held several Visiting Faculty / Scientist positions on invitation abroad, and delivered numerous invited research seminars in India and abroad. Recipient of the Stree Shakti Science Samman for her “original contribution to Science”, she serves as an expert in crucial DST (Government of India) committees in Physical Sciences, and in many Central and State universities and institutes. She has also served as the Chief Advisor for the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) Science textbooks for Classes IX and X, developed afresh under the National Curriculum Framework-2005. She is currently the Vice-Chancellor of Shiv Nadar University from 1 February 2016.

As part of 'Institution as Abhyas' series. 

Collaboration: Lila Foundation for Translocal Initiatives

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