Global Political Thought
Perspectives from South Asia and the Middle East
October 5, 2017
Wilson 142
9.15am: Welcome and Introduction
Debjani Ganguly
9.30am-10.30am
Dilip Menon, University of the Witswatersrand
“Colonial Cosmopolitanisms, Literary Modernism and Deep History: The Essays of Kesari Balakrishna Pillai”
10.30am-11.00am: Coffee
11.00am-12.00pm
Aditya Nigam, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi
“Ambedkar, Micropower and Marxism”
12.00-1.00pm
Aishwary Kumar, Stanford University
“A War without End: Ambedkar and the Dispositif of Cruelty.”
1.00pm-2.00pm: Lunch
2.00pm-3.00pm
Murad Idris, University of Virginia
“Luthers of the Orient: Colonists, Reformers, and Tactical Identifications”
3.00pm-4.00pm
Marwa Elshakry, Columbia University
“In Search of a Golden Age: Universal Histories of Science, Islam and the Arabs.”
4.00pm-4.30pm: coffee
4.30pm-5.30pm
Prathama Banerjee, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi
“Equality: Ontology of an Idea”
5.30pm-6.00pm: Concluding Remarks