Trans/forming Cultures Annual Public Lecture
Professor Ashis Nandy
Fellow, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi
Chairperson, Committee for Cultural Choices and Global Futures, Delhi
Professor Ashis Nandy visited Australia as the guest of the UTS Key University Research Centre in Communication and Culture, Transforming Cultures.
He presented the 2nd Transforming Cultures Annual Lecture, on the 12th September 2006, 6:30, entitled
"The Return of the Sacred, the Language of Religion and the Fear of Democracy in a Post-Secular World". An audio file of the lecture will be available soon through the Trans/forming Cultures eAR.
He also conducted workshops for postgraduate students.
Brief biography:
Professor Nandy has had a long and prolific career illuminating an extraordinary number of subjects. He lists his research interests as: "political psychology, mass violence, cultures and politics of knowledge, utopias and visions", but he has also written on the history of science and technology, the nature of the post-colonial state, alternatives to 'development', alternate politics, the role of religion in society and the game of cricket in India. His works have been translated into Chinese, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malayalam, Polish, Russian, and Spanish (not to mention most of the languages of the Indian subcontinent).
The Intimate Enemy: Loss and Recovery of Self Under Colonialism (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1983, paperback, 1988).
The Savage Freud and Other Essays in Possible and Retrievable Selves (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1995, and Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1995).
Time Warps: The Insistent Politics of Silent and Evasive Pasts (New Delhi: Permanent Black, London: C. Hurst and Co., New York: Rutgers University Press, 2002).
The Future of Knowledge and Culture; A Twenty-First Century Dictionary (ed. with Vinay Lal), (New Delhi: Penguin, 2005).
He has also produced a truly enormous number of articles and guest lectures.
Ashis Nandy is a major world thinker with unusual and stimulating perspectives on many topics.
The opportunity to attend his public lecture and to interact with him through the postgraduate workshops should not be missed.
For any further enquiries, please contact: Transforming.Cultures@uts.edu.au
