CPS organises the Annual Nirman Foundation Lecture by Lisa Wedeen

CENTRE FOR POLITICAL STUDIES
SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES, JNU

organising

THE ANNUAL NIRMAN FOUNDATION LECTURE

on

Theorizing the Present: Ideology, Conspiracy, and the Freedom to Lie

by

Lisa Wedeen

Time: 03: 00 to 5: 00 pm (IST)
Date: 11th March 2024
Venue: LECTURE HALL-II, CONVENTION CENTRE , JNU

Lisa Wedeen is the Mary R. Morton Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science and the College, Director of the Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory, and Associate Faculty in Anthropology at the University of Chicago. She is the recipient of the David Collier Mid-Career Achievement Award and an NSF fellowship.

The Nirman Foundation with a lifetime endowment from Professor Bhikhu Parekh has been supporting many programmes in the Centre for Political Studies. It is committed to providing scholarships to MA students and support for an annual lecture and research workshops for faculty and students. One of the programmes under this endowment allows for a lecture series for faculty and students to meet and learn from distinguished scholars. In the past, the following scholars have given the Nirman Foundation Lecture: Madhav Menon (2004), Lloyd and Susanne Rudolph (2007), Upendra Baxi (2008), Marc Galanter (2009), Partha Chatterjee (2010),
Charles Taylor (2011), Chetan Bhatt(2012), Sudipta Kaviraj (2014), Arindam Chakrabarti (2015), V. Geetha (2016), Usha Ramanathan (2017), Rajeev Bhargava(2018), Prasenjit Duara (2019), Leela Fernandes (2020), Arjun Appadurai (2021), and Christophe Jaffrelot (2023).