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Making of a School of Architecture: Akbar & Fathpur Sikri by Syed Ali Nadeem Rezavi, Department of History, Presidency University, Kolkata, held on 23.11.2023
Making of a School of Architecture: Akbar & Fathpur Sikri by Syed Ali Nadeem Rezavi 10th Distinguished Lecture on Indian History, Department of History, Presidency University, Kolkata, held on 23.11.2023.
07/12/2021
Department of History, Presidency University, Kolkata
cordially invites you to the 6th lecture under its Distinguished Lecture Series: "Indian Caste System: A Short History"
By
Professor Irfan Habib
Professor Emeritus, Centre of Advanced Study, Department of History, Aligarh Muslim University
on
Friday, 10 December 2021 at 4 pm (IST)
Meeting ID: KKS SGTU IVM (https://meet.google.com/kks-sgtu-ivm)
The lecture will be streamed live on the official page (https://www.facebook.com/departmentofhistoryPUOfficial) of the Department of History, Presidency University, Kolkata.
14/11/2021
Department of History, Presidency University, Kolkata cordially invites you to Kuruvila Zachariah Memorial Lecture 2021
“Mahabharata, The Hindu Great Epic Translated in Persian as Razmnama, and Illustrated for a Muslim King, Emperor Akbar”
by
Professor Asok K. Das (Former DirectorMaharja Sawai Man Singh II Museum, Jaipur)
on
23 November 2021 at 4 pm (IST)
Google Meet joining info
Video call link: https://meet.google.com/exv-jwhu-twu
23/10/2021
Reminder:
The Department of History, Presidency University (Kolkata) takes great pleasure in inviting you to the Second presentation in its Annual Satadru Sen Memorial Lecture.
Our speaker will be Professor Himanshu Prabha Ray and the title of her presentation is:
"Decolonising Maritime Heritage in Monsoon Asia".
Date and time of the lecture: Wednesday, 27 October 2021 from 10 am (IST)
Google Meet link: https://meet.google.com/omm-hapi-nbh
28/05/2021
Professor Dina M. Siddiqi will speak on: "Haunted by Ekattur: Gender, Nation and Islam in Bangladesh" in the Department of History's Web Lectures Series (Lecture No. 4).
Google Meet Link: https://meet.google.com/xeo-dccj-ans
Date and time of the lecture: Thursday, 3 June 2021, from· 5:30 – 7:30pm IST (8:00 - 10:00 am in New York)
We look forward to having you join us.
About the speaker:
Professor Dina M. Siddiqi is a Clinical Associate Professor in the Faculty of Global Liberal Studies at New York University. Her research, grounded in the study of Bangladesh, joins development studies, transnational feminist theory, and the anthropology of Islam and human rights. She has published extensively on supply chain capitalism and the global garment industry on gender justice and Muslim women, and the cultural politics of nationalism. Her publications are available at https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Dina-Siddiqi. Professor Siddiqi is on the advisory board of Dialectical Anthropology, and serves on the editorial board of Routledge’s Women in Asia Publication Series. She sits on the Executive Committee of the American Institute of Bangladesh Studies (AIBS); is on the Advisory Committees of the Saida Waheed Gender Initiative, Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) and of the South Asian feminist network SANGAT. She has frequently collaborated with Bangladeshi human rights organizations including Ain o Salish Kendra, Nagorik Uddyog, and Bangladesh Legal and Services Trust (BLAST).
21/05/2021
Dear Friends,
The Department of History, Presidency University, cordially invites you to a presentation in its "Web Lecture Series" by Professor Francesca Orsini titled "Beyond the Two Shores: Indian Magazines and World Literature between Decolonisation and the Cold War".
Friday, May 28 2021; 4:30 – 6:30pm
Google Meet joining info
Video call link: https://meet.google.com/vrz-biub-oek
We look forward to having you join us.
Prof. Francis Robinson, "On How Since 1800 Islamic Societies have been built from below"
Web Lecture Series 2: Department of History, Presidency University, Kolkata
23/04/2021
Dear Friends,
The Department of History, Presidency University, cordially invites you to a presentation in its "Web Lecture Series" by Professor Francis Robinson titled "On How Since 1800 Islamic Societies have been built from below".
Francis Robinson is Professor of the History of South Asia, Royal Holloway, University of London. His research interests lie in the history of the Islamic world since the eighteenth century. He has particular interests in religious change, learned and holy men and Islam in South Asia. He has published 14 books on aspects of of the Muslim world. Key publications include: Jamal Mian: The Life of Jamaluddin Abdul Wahab of Farangi Mahall, 1919-2012 (Karachi: Oxford University Press, 2018; New Delhi: Primus, 2020); Ulama of Farangi Mahall and Islamic Culture in South Asia (New Delhi: Permanent Black, 2001) etc.
Wednesday, May 19 · 5:30 – 7:30pm (IST)
Google Meet joining info
Video call link: https://meet.google.com/nmm-staw-fei
We look forward to having you join us.
Topic: "The Premodern Past of the Indian Ocean World Lit Up by Indic Inscriptions"
26/02/2021
Interested students and colleagues from Kolkata are invited to join
Dr. Hiralall Chopra Memorial Lecture organized by Iran Society, Kolkata
on 6th March 2021 at 6 pm.
Topic: " Indo-Islamic Architecture and Iranian Influence"
26/02/2021
Web-Lecture Series: 1st
By Professor Ranabir Chakravarti
(Retired)Professor of Ancient History
Centre for Historical Studies, JNU
Topic: “ The Premodern Past of the Indian Ocean World Lit Up by Indic Inscriptions”
4th March: 4:30 pm (IST)
Join with Google Meet:
https://meet.google.com/hfb-kfqp-ozj