13.

Lecture on "The Changing Nature of Public Science"

by:

Prof. Dr. Helga Nowotny
Chair, European Research Advisory Board (EURAB)
Director, Society in Science: The Branco Weiss Fellowship
Member, European Research Council Expert Group (ERCEG)
Zürich, Switzerland

27th December 2004, Wednesday, 4:00 P.M., Centre for Contemporary Studies (Former CTS Building), Seminar Hall, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore - 560 012.

12.

Lecture on "Constitutionalism, Democracy and the Rule of the Law in India"

by:

Prof. Dr. Mahendra P. Singh
Faculty of Law
University of Delhi
Delhi 110007

13th December 2004, Monday, 5:30 P.M., Centre for Contemporary Studies (Former CTS Building) Seminar Hall, Indian Institute of Science,

Bangalore - 560 012.

11.

Lecture on "A Model of Human Rights for India"

by:

Prof. Dr. Mahendra P. Singh
Faculty of Law
University of Delhi
Delhi 110007

9th December 2004, Thursday, 4:00 P.M., Centre for Contemporary Studies (Former CTS Building), Seminar Hall, Indian Institute of Science,

Bangalore - 560 012.

10.

Lecture on "Jacques Derrida: The Last Philosopher"

by:

Dr Vivek Dhareshwar
Director and Senior Fellow
Centre for the Study of Culture and Society
Bangalore

29th November 2004, Monday, 4:00 P.M., Former Centre for Theoretical Studies, Seminar Hall, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore - 560 012.

9.

Lecture on "From 'Naked Country' to 'Garden City': Constructing Bangalore's Landscape"

by:

Anuradha Mathur and Dilip da Cunha
University of Pennsylvania, USA and
Parsons School of Design, New York, USA

4th November 2004, Thursday, 4:00 P.M., Choksi Hall, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore - 560 012.

8.

Lecture on "Amitav Ghosh"

by:

Prof. Meenakshi Mukherjee
Sundararajan Visiting Professor
Formerly, Professor of English
Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi
International Chairperson
Association of Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies

27th October 2004, Wednesday, 4:00 P.M., Former Centre for Theoretical Studies, Seminar Hall, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore - 560 012.

7.

Lecture on "Nation, Novel and History: A Case Study of a Nineteenth Century Polymath

by:

Prof. Meenakshi Mukherjee
Sundararajan Visiting Professor
Formerly, Professor of English
Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi
International Chairperson
Association of Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies

R.C. Dutt (Romesh Chunder Dutt 1848-1909) packed in one lifetime at least five distinguished careers - civil servant, economic historian, outstanding novelist in Bangla, translator of Sanskrit classics into English, Professor of Indian history and culture at London University and financial advisor to Sayajirao Gaekwad of Baroda. He was also the President of Indian National Congress and a relentless critic of British taxation and famine control policies. This paper attempts an assessment of this man, setting him against the background of colonial history and focusing on his imaginative construction of India as a nation.

14th October 2004, Thursday, 4:00 P.M., Choksi Hall, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore - 560 012.

6.

Lecture on "The Practice and Politics of Literary Translation"

by:

Prof. Meenakshi Mukherjee
Sundararajan Visiting Professor
Formerly, Professor of English
Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi
International Chairperson
Association of Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies

5.

A Tour Through the Indian Silent Cinema

Screening of excerpts of rare silents from the Indian film. Out of approximately 1300 Indian films made in the silent era (between 1912-1931) only about 10 hours of silent cinema survives. This talk describes the history of the period along with clips from silent films.

by:

Mr. Ashish Rajadhyaksha
Senior Fellow
Centre for the Study of Culture and Society
Bangalore - 11, India

30th September 2004, Thursday, 6:00 P.M., Department of Physics Seminar Hall Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore - 560 012.

4.

Lecture on "English in an Uneven World"

The attempt will be to look at the effects of globalization in the fields of language and literature in India and initiate a discussion on the changing relationship between English and other languages.

by:

Prof. Meenakshi Mukherjee
Sundararajan Visiting Professor
Formerly, Professor of English
Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi
International Chairperson
Association of Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies

23rd September 2004, Thrusday, 4:00 P.M., Former Centre for Theoretical Studies, Seminar Hall
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore - 560 012.

3.

Lecture on "Indian Novels in English: Then and Now"

by:

Prof. Meenakshi Mukherjee
Sundararajan Visiting Professor
Formerly, Professor of English
Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi
International Chairperson
Association of Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies

16th September 2004, Thrusday, 4:00 P.M., Former Centre for Theoretical Studies, Seminar Hall
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore - 560 012.

2.

Screening of Film "The New Boys"

by the well-known ethnographic filmmaker:

David MacDougall
Professorial Fellow
Centre for Cross-Cultural Research
Australian National University
Canberra, Australia

10th September 2004, Friday,5:00 P.M., Department of Physics, Seminar Hall
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore - 560 012.

1.

Lecture on "The Bush Administration and the American Politics Of Science"

by:

Prof. Sheila Jasanoff
Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies
John F. Kennedy School of Government
Harvard University, USA

16th August 2004, Monday, 3:30 P.M., Former Centre for Theoretical Studies, Seminar Hall
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore - 560 012.