Events
Cosponsors
- Institute for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University
- Office of the EVP
- Dean of Humanities
- Office of the Provost (Barnard)
- Center for Contemporary Critical Thought
- Institute for Research in African-American Studies
- The Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies
- South Asian Institute
Notes
- Free and open to the public
- No registration necessary
- First come, first seated
B. R. Ambedkar is one of Columbia University’s most illustrious alumni, and a political thinker and constitutional lawyer whose thought and activism has shaped the world’s largest democracy.
In 2018, the Inaugural Ambedkar Lectures have been planned as a series of two public events to recognize Ambedkar’s continuing relevance for social justice activism and democratic thought in global frame
Global Ambedkar:
Etienne Balibar (Anniversary Chair Professor, CRMEP and Columbia University)
Nahum Chandler (UC-Irvine)
Gopal Guru (JNU, Editor, Economic and Political Weekly)
Gayatri Spivak (University Professor, Columbia))
Moderated by: Debjani Ganguly (UVa) and Anupama Rao (Barnard, Columbia)