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On behalf of the Indic Studies Network, we take great pleasure in inviting you to a seminar on Religion and Violence. This event is being jointly organized by the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), Vidyajyoti and the Indian Social Institute. We look forward to meeting you on 7th evening.
Ashis Nandy is a political psychologist with an enduring involvement with cultures of knowledge and dialogue of civilizations. He retired as a Senior Fellow and Director of the Center for the Study of Developing Societies and is the Chairperson of the Committee for Cultural Choices and Global Futures, both located in Delhi. Nandy has co-authored a number of human rights reports and is active in movements for peace, alternative sciences, technologies and cultural survival. Nandy has been a Woodrow Wilson Fellow at the Wilson Center, Washington, D.C., a Charles Wallace Fellow at the University of Hull, and a Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities, University of Edinburgh. He held the first UNESCO Chair at the Center for European Studies, University of Trier, in 1994. Dhirubhai Sheth is a former Director of CSDS and is currently Honorary Senior Fellow at the CSDS. Professor Sheth has been editor of the journal Alternatives: Global, Local and Political since 1986. He was the founding director of Lokayan - a Project on Development, Decentralization and Democracy (1980-1982) and Chair Person for the terms 1983-95, 1988-90 and 1992-94. He was appointed to the National Commission for Backward Classes as a Social Scientist member (1993-96) and serves as president of Delhi People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL). Father Gispert Sauch is currently the Professor Emeritus at Vidyajyoti, College of Theology. He was born in Spain and came to India in 1949. He joined Vidyajyoti in 1967. His main area of research is the relationship between Christian traditions and Hindu Traditions. J.P.S. Uberoi was educated at the Punjab University, University College London, Manchester University and the Australian National University, Canberra. He retired as Professor of Sociology, Delhi School of Economics, and Delhi University. His doctoral research was on the social organization of the Tajiks of Northern Afghanistan. His research interests include the sociology of modern European culture and the sociology of religion (Sikhism and Islam). Among his many publications are: Ramin Jahanbegloo was born in Tehran, Iran. He received his B.A. and M.A. in Philosophy, History and Political Science and later his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the Sorbonne University. In 1993 he taught at the Academy of Philosophy in Tehran. He has been a researcher at the French Institute for Iranian Studies and a fellow at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard. He was an adjunct professor in political philosophy at the University of Toronto. He currently holds the Rajni Kothari Chair in Democracy at CSDS. Srivatsa Goswami is Head of the Sri Chaitanya Prema Sasthana, Vrindavan Conservation Project and a Trustee of Friends of Vrindavan. Former Visiting Professor of Religious Studies at Harvard University, Srivatsa Goswami, the senior Maharajji's eldest son is the Maharajji-in-waiting at the Radha Raman temple in Vrindavan. He studied philosophy under Professor T.R.P. Moorthy, a Smartha Iyer, who could read primary texts and treatises in Sanskrit.
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