Fwd: Please publicize: ISAS Event Sunday, Mar 13 @ 4 PM: Nobel laureate Amartya Sen in conversation with UCB Professor of Economics, Pranab Bardhan: The Chowdhury Center Distinguished Lecture for 2016

[Berkeley Chapter, Asha for Education]

Dear all,

We would like to invite you all to a conversation with Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen on Sunday March 13th, being put on by the Institute of South Asia Studies at UC Berkeley. The details for the event are below and seating is free, first come first serve. 

We hope to see you there!

Sun, 

​Mar 13

, 2016

Nobel laureate Amartya Sen in conversation with UCB Professor of Economics, Pranab Bardhan: The Chowdhury Center Distinguished Lecture for 2016

Institute for South Asia Studies 10 Stephens Hall ​, ​ Berkeley Like us on FACEBOOK Follow us on TWITTER PARKING INFORMATION

Lecture | March 13 | 4-6 p.m. |  The Sanctuary, First Presbyterian Church, 2407 Dana St, Berkeley, CA | Note change in location Location: 2407 Dana St, Berkeley, CA Speaker: Amartya Sen, Nobel Laureate; Professor of Economics and Philosophy at Harvard University Speaker/Performer: Pranab Bardhan, Professor of Graduate School at the Department of Economics, UC Berkeley Sponsors: The Subir and Malini Chowdhury Center for Bangladesh Studies, Institute for South Asia Studies, Human Rights Center, IAS Teaching Program (IASTP),Department of Political Science, Public Health, School of, Department of Economics, Goldman School of Public Policy, Miller Institute for Global Legal Challenges and the Law, UC Berkeley School of Law, Department of South & Southeast Asian Studies, Catherine and William L. Magistretti Chair in South and Southeast Asian Studies, Master of Development Practice, Center of Evaluation for Global Action The Subir & Malini Chowdhury Center for Bangladesh Studies at UC Berkeley is honored to welcome Nobel laureate, Prof. Amartya Sen to Berkeley.  Amartya Sen is a highly acclaimed economist, writer and philosopher who was awarded the 1998 Nobel prize for his contributions to welfare economics. Regarded as one of the world's foremost thinkers, Professor Sen was featured on Time Magazine’s list of ‘World's 50 Most Influential People Who Matter’ and was named the ‘Third Most Influential Thought Leader of 2014” by Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute. Professor Sen helped create the United Nations Human Development Index and is best known for his work on famine, poverty and the role of freedom as a means for development. He was the first person to measure gendercide and in 1990, determined that an astonishing 100 million women were demographically “missing” in the world due to vicious discriminatory practices. Amartya Sen has long championed education for girls and economic empowerment of women – as both a moral right and a tool for development. A leading intellectual, Sen’s books have been translated into more than thirty languages across the world. Some of his more noteworthy publications include, ‘Development as Freedom’, ‘Poverty and Famines: An Essay on Entitlements and Deprivation’, ‘On Economic Inequality’, ‘Inequality Reexamined’, and 'The Idea of Justice.' Currently the Thomas W. Lamont University Professor and Professor of Economics and Philosophy at Harvard University, Sen has also worked as a Professor at the London School of Economics and at The University of Oxford. His research has encompassed economic theory, ethics and political philosophy, welfare economics, development economics, public health, and gender studies.  Amartya Sen has won an array of laurels including the Bharat Ratna (India); Commandeur de la Legion d'Honneur (France); the National Humanities Medal (USA); Ordem do Merito Cientifico (Brazil); Honorary Companion of Honour (UK); Aztec Eagle (Mexico); Edinburgh Medal (UK); the George Marshall Award (USA); the Eisenhauer Medal (USA); and the Nobel Prize in Economics. Pranab Bardhan is Professor of Graduate School at the Department of Economics, University of California, Berkeley. Educated in Presidency College, Calcutta and Cambridge University, UK, he has been at the faculty at MIT, Delhi School of Economics, and Indian Statistical Institute, before coming to Berkeley. He has been a visiting professor at London School of Economics, Trinity College, Cambridge, and University of Siena, Italy. He was the Chief Editor of the Journal of Development Economics for 1985-2003. His research interests include political economy and institutional economics of development, agrarian institutions in India, and issues of international trade and globalization. A part of his work is in the interdisciplinary area of economics, political science and social anthropology. He has authored 13 books (including Awakening Giants, Feet of Clay: Assessing the Economic Rise of China and India, and Scarcity, Conflicts, and Cooperation) and more than 150 journal articles, and edited 12 books (including Globalization and Egalitarian Redistribution, and Conversations between Economists and Anthropologists). Read more about Prof. Bardhan here Established in 2013 with a generous gift from the Subir & Malini Chowdhury Center for Bangladesh Studies at UC Berkeley champions the study of Bangladesh’s cultures, peoples and history. The first of its kind in the US, the Center’s mission is to create an innovative model combining research, scholarships, the promotion of art and culture, and the building of ties between institutions in Bangladesh and the University of California. Special thanks to the following for helping us publicize the event: Institute for International Studies, the Blum Center for Developing Economies, The Front Page at UC Berkeley, Asha For Education (Berkeley), and the International House.