[Just drawing attention about, this terribly wierd "right of the center" operation based in Belgium with its frontman Balagangadhara is doing its second conference in India. Doing a so called academic event at the Institute for defence studies and analysis speaks for itself. An event best ignored. (see informtion below on the event), --H.K. ]
Rethinking Religion in India II: 'Rethinking Secularism'. The conference will be held from 10 till 13 January 2009 at the Institute for Defence Studies and Analysis (IDSA), New Delhi (Development Enclave 1 near USI, Rao Tularam Marg, Delhi Cantonment, opposite Subroto Park). Registration is still possible via the conference
website: www.cultuurwetenschap.be/conferences/RRI
- The Platform Sessions: a one-on-one debate between Achin
Vanaik with the support of Neera Chandhoke (Delhi University) and
Jakob De Roover with the support of S.N. Balagangadhara (Ghent
University).
- The Roundtable Sessions:
(1) Freedom of Religion and Religious Conversion;
(2) Secularism, Hindutva and the Aryan Invasion Theory; and
(3) Liberal Secularism and Religious Fundamentalism: Opposites or
Alter Egos?
The panel consists of
Ashis Nandy (Centre for the Study of Developing Societies); Dilip
K. Chakrabarty (University of Cambridge); Winnifred F. Sullivan
(State University of New York); Akeel Bilgrami (Columbia
University); Geoffrey Oddie (The University of Sydney); Pratap
Bhanu Mehta (Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi); S.N.
Balagangadhara (Ghent University); Vivek Dhareshwar (Centre for
the Study of Culture and Society), Timothy Fitzgerald (University
of Stirling).
- Parallel Paper sessions:
(1) Rethinking Secularism in India;
(2) Indian Religion and the Issue of Conversion;
(3) The Caste System and Indian Religion;
(4) Colonialism and Religion in India;
(5) Religion and Law in India;
(6) Rethinking Religion in Asia. See
http://www.cultuurwetenschap.be/conferences/RRI/?page=parallelpapersessions1
- "How to...?" workshops:
(1) 'How to teach about the Indian religions and traditions?'
(2) How to Launch and Develop the Academic Study of Religion in
South Asia: Does the University of Dhaka Provide a Model?
(3) Self-Presentation of Hinduism in the Modern Context
(4) Rethinking Values, Well-Being and Faith:
Braiding Psychoanalysis and Social Action.
See
http://www.cultuurwetenschap.be/conferences/RRI/?page=howtoworkshops
For more information, please visit the conference website:
www.cultuurwetenschap.be/conferences/RRI
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