Keynote Lectues by Professor Rajeev Bhargava: July 29- August 1

[NALSAR Lecture Series on Constitutionalism]

Dear all,

I hope this email finds you well.

This is to bring to your kind notice that the NALSAR Lecture Series on Constitutionalism shall be hosting Prof Rajeev Bhargava as the Keynote Speaker for the Lecture Series since the topics on which he will be speaking covers the larger theme that has spanned across the lectures over the past two years. 

Prof Bhargava shall be taking four lectures across four days. The schedule can be found as follows:

1. July 29th, 2024, 5:15 PM, SAARC Law Centre/R.N Jhunjhunwala Hall,    NALSAR- "What is Theory and why do we need it?"
2. July 30th, 2024, 5:15 PM, SAARC Law Centre, NALSAR- "Constitutional Secularism-I"
3. July 31st, 2024, 5:15 PM, SAARC Law Centre, NALSAR- "Constitutional Secularism-II"
4. August 1st, 2024, 11:15 AM, SAARC Law Centre, NALSAR- "The Roots of India's Plural Democracy"

Rajeev Bhargava is a renowned Political Theorist and has been at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies since 2005 and is currently the honorary fellow and director of  Parekh Institute of Indian Thought.  He has been a Professor at the Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi (1980-2005), and between 2001 and 2005 was Head, Department of Political Science, University of Delhi. Bhargava did his BA in economics from the University of Delhi, and MPhil and DPhil from Oxford University. He has also been a Fellow at Harvard University, University of Bristol, Institute of Advanced Studies, Jerusalem, Wissenschaftskolleg, Berlin, and the Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna. He has also been Distinguished Resident Scholar, Institute for Religion, Culture and Public Life, Columbia University, and Asia Chair at Sciences Po, Paris. He is Honorary Fellow, Balliol College, Oxford and currently a Professorial Fellow at the Institute of social justice, ACU, Sydney.

Prof Bhargava’s publications include Individualism in Social Science (1992), What is Political Theory and Why Do We Need It? (2010) and The Promise of India’s Secular Democracy (2010). His edited works are Secularism and Its Critics (1998) and Politics and Ethics of the Indian Constitution (2008). Bhargava is on the advisory board of several national and international institutions and was a consultant for the UNDP report on cultural liberty. His recent works include, Between Hope and Despair, Politics and Ethics of the Indian Constitution and Reimagining Indian Secularism.  

For the people attending online, you may join the lecture by scanning the QR Code as given in the posters, or can directly join through this link. It is requested to join through the institutional email address since that does not require permission to join.

We would also request those who have not connected with the Lecture Series over its social media to do so. Link to the Instagram handle can be found here.

We hope that these lectures will turn out to be engaging and would request you all to attend in large numbers.

Thank you

Kind Regards,

Ayush Bajpai & Gangavath Ekitha

On behalf of

Organising Committee,

NALSAR Lecture Series on Constitutionalism

NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad

'Justice City', Shameerpet, Medchal District,

Telangana - 500101