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Talks@CSCS 2009-2010

• Anant Maringanti

Suicide as provocation:Reflecting on affect, populism and engaged scholarship in Telengana

• BookPort and the Center for the Study of Culture and Society (CSCS) will hold a book launch of Ashish Rajyadaksha’s Indian Cinema in the Time of Celluloid - From Bollywood to the Emergency and S.V Srinivas’s Megastar - Chiranjeevi and Telugu Cinema after

Discussion with and presentations by Theodor Bhaskaran, V.C. Harris, Lawrence Liang, M.K Raghavendra and Sushma Veerappa will follow.

• DISCUSSION: By Professor S. Sarukkai (Oct 21 10 am to 1 pm)

Topic: Defining Science, Relation between Science and Language, and the Indian Rational Tradition; http://www.nias.res.in/faculty-sarukkai.php

• Discussion on the play Cophenhagen

Discussants: Prof. Sundar Sarukkai (NIAS) and Prakash Belawadi (Director, Copenhagen) Sept 16th, 10am to 1pm Venue: Seminar Room, CSCS

• Dr Purnima Mankekar

"Affective Publics: Identity, Temporality, and Race in the Aftermath of September 11, 2001"

• Dr.Pratima Prasad

Title: From Resistance to Restraint: How French Romantics Reinvented the American Indian

• Dr.R.Srivatsan

"Seva as a historical universal: The ethical and political touchstone of Indian planning and development".

• Open Defence and Viva Voce Examination

Ph.D student:Mr.Dunkin Jalki;External Examiner:Prof.S.N.Balagangadhara

• Open Defence and Viva Voce Examination

Ph.D.Student: Ms.Asha Achuthan;External Examiner: Prof.Sanil.V

• Open Defence and Viva Voce Examination

Ph.D Student-Ms.Sufiya Pathan External Examiner-Prof.Sasheej Hegde

• Prof. L. S. Shashidhara, IISER (Pune)

Will be delivering a public talk titled "Behavioural Adaptations and Evolution"; at CSCS, March 11, 2010, 3pm to 5:30pm

• Prof.Raghavendra Gadagkar

"Interrogating an Insect Society"

• Prof.Sanil.V

"On the Eve of Colonialism:Philosophy and the Question of Historical Context"

• Professor Bruno Bachimont

'Formal Signs and Numerical Computation' (The talk will be followed by a discussion on the integration of Natural and Human Science, and technology)

• Rewriting Choreography: Unfaithful and Deterritorialized Translations

Sandra Chatterjee and Cynthia Lee

• Roos Gerritsen

"Cut the Cutout Culture!": Chennai's Unanticipated City and the Politics of Spectacle

• Separation and Integration of the Natural and Human Sciences in the Field of Higher Education: Considerations

Speaker:Prof.Sasheej Hegde and Discussant:Prof.Vivek Dhareshwar

• Singing the Classical Voicing the Modern

A Public discussion between Amanda J .Weidman:Carnatic violinist, Anthropologist and Author with Dr. Tejaswini Niranjana,Cultural Theorist, Dr. P.Radhika, Cultural Historian and Ranjini Krishnan,Ph.D Scholar, CSCS

• Speaker: Prof. Yudhishthir Raj Isar

'The Cultures and Globalization Series: challenges and perspectives'.(CIDASIA Occasional Lecture)

• Talk by Abhijnan Rej

What Vivekananda told Dr. Strangelove

• Talk by Neela Bhattacharya Saxena

Neither Theos Nor Logos: Indic Mother God Beyond Ontology

• Talk by Prof. Franson Manjali on 'Varities of Meaning' Oct 22 from 3 pm

• Talk by Sharachchandra Lele

The Ethical Breadth of Environmentalism