Speaker: Bhikhu Parekh, Emeritus Professor at the University of Hull and the University of Westminster; Title: “Is Gandhi Still Relevant?”
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Speaker: Douglas Allen, Professor and Former Chair, Department of Philosophy, University of Maine, USA; Title: ‘Gandhi and Terrorism Today’
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Speaker: Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Albert Guérard Professor in Literature, Stanford University; Title: ‘“Prose of the World”: Denis Diderot and a Different Epistemological Configuration Coming from the Eighteenth Century’
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Speaker: Faisal Devji, University Reader in Modern South Asian History and Director, St, Antony’s College Asian Studies Centre, Oxford University; Title: ‘The Inheritance of ISIS’
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Speaker: S, Shankar, Professor of English, University of Hawaii at Mãnoa; Title: ‘Literature of the World: An Inquiry into the Possibilities for Literary Study in a Globalizing Context’
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Speaker: Ashis Nandy, Distinguished Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies and Chairperson of the Committee for Cultural Choices and Global Futures, New Delhi; Title: ‘Alternative Cosmopolitanism: Living with Radical Diversities and the Right to Be Oneself ’
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Speaker: Paul Arthur, Professor of Digital Humanities; Director, Digital Humanities Researcher Group, School of Humanities and Communication Arts, Western Sydney University, Australia; Title: ‘Digital Humanities and the Future of Biographical Research’
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Speaker: R, Radhakrishnan, Chancellor’s Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of California, Irvine; Title: ‘The Many and the One: Phenomenology and Politics’
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Speaker: Madabusi Santanam Raghunathan, Head of the National Centre for Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay and Fellow of the Royal Society of the Third World Academy of Sciences and of American Mathematical Society; Title: ‘Mathematics: Art That would Rather Be Science’
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Speaker: Janice Misurell Mitchell, Composer, Flutist and Vocal Artist and Faculty at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago; Title: ‘After the History: Poem, Politics, Performance’
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