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CONSOLIDATED THREE YEAR REPORT OF THE CENTRE FORCONTEMPORARY STUDIES (2004-2007)Prof. Raghavendra GadagkarChairmanCentre for Contemporary StudiesIndian Institute of ScienceBangaloreTECHNICAL REPORT NO.1JUNE 2007

The Centre for Contemporary Studies was established in the academic year2004-2005 with the aim of beginning to bridge the gap between Science &Society. By organizing a series of seminars, lectures and discussions and bymaintaining a steady stream of visiting scholars, the Centre for ContemporaryStudies is providing opportunities to the scientific community in IISc., toexperience a sample of the best scholarship and creativity outside thetraditional boundaries of natural science.LECTURES DELIVEREDSince its existence, the Centre for Contemporary Studies has orgainsed thefollowing lectures and discussions:86. Three day Workshop on Film AppreciationProf. Arun Gupta, Department of Film & Video, NID, Ahmedabad22 nd –24 June 2007.85. The modernist movement in the Indian LiteratureProf. U.R. Ananthamurthy, Jnanpith Awardee, Sundararajan VisitingProfessor, CCS, IISc.18 April 200784 Book Release Function "VIKRAM SARABHAI - a life"Author: AMRITA SHAH, Book Release byDr. K. Kasturirangan, Member of Parliment (Rajya Sabha) andDirector, National Institute of Advanced StudiesBangalore16 April 200783. The Poetry of AdigaProf. U.R. Ananthamurthy, Jnanpith Awardee, Sundararajan VisitingProfessor, CCS, IISc30 th March 200782. Rights-Based Development: Political Agency and Conflict Resolution,Examples from Yemen, Indonesia and BangladeshDr. Sheena Crawford, CR2 Social Development, Ross-shireUnited Kingdom29th March 200781. Lecture on "W. B. Yeats and IndiaProf. U.R. Ananthamurthy, Jnanpith Awardee, Sundararajan Visiting2

Professor, CCS, IISc15 th March 200780. Facing Two Ways: The Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, AmericanTechnical Assistance and the Indian Computing Community, 1961-1980Prof. Ross Bassett, History of Science and TechnologyUniversity of North Carolina, USA9th March, 200779. Uganda in the 1960s: the rise and fall of a nascent African democracyProf. Ronald Francis Clarke, Insitute for Deelopment Policy andManagement, University of Manchester, UK6th February, 200778. The Public Space and the Intellectual Debates in Contemporary ChinaProf. Wang Hui, School of Humanities and Social SciencesTsinghua University, Beijing, China2nd February, 200777.Three day International Workshop on “Rethinking the IntellectualstFoundations of the 21 Century – From Local Universalism to GlobalContextualism30 January – 1 February 200776. Politics and Fiction in the 1930s in England and its relevance for us inIndia todayProf. U.R. Ananthamurthy, Jnanpith Awardee, Sundararajan VisitingProfessor, CCS, IISc.22 nd January 200775. Homo juridicus: On the Anthropological Function of LawProf. Alain Supiot, University of Nantes and Institut Universitaire deFrance,18 January 200774. Reflections on Five decades of my Writing: with some selected readingsProf. U.R. Ananthamurthy, Jnanpith Awardee, Sundararajan VisitingProfessor, CCS, IISc.17th January 200773. Workshop on “The Visibility of Cultures: Identity, Contact and Circulationin the Indian Ocean”organized by The University of the Witwatersrand and the Centre for theStudy of Culture and Society andco-hosted by the Centre rof Contemporary Studies, Indian Institute ofScience, Bangalore13-14 January 200772. A Thousand Years of Kannada Language and Literature from a3

Practitioner’s viewProf. U.R. Ananthamurthy, Jnanpith Awardee, Sundararajan VisitingProfessor, CCS, IISc.11th January 200771. Public Lecture on "The Differences Between Natural and Social Science:Implications of Fallibility"Mr. George Soros,5th January 200770. Coding Citizenship: of Scientific Rationality and Technological DesignsKakarala Sitharamam, Centre for the Study of Culture and SocietyBangalore18 th November 200669. Science and Technology as Reasons of State and MarketKakarala Sitharamam, Centre for the Study of Culture and SocietyBangalore4 th November 200668. Seminar on Colonialism and Indigenous Knowledge Systems: The Caseof Chinese MedicineShang-Jen Li, Academica Sinica, Taiwan andProf. Chang Che-Chia, Department of Modern History, AcademicaSinica, Taiwan7 November 200667. Critique II: But do anthropos think (love, hate)? Is intentionality (merely)a stance?Dr. Vivek Dhareshwar, Centre for the Study of Culture and SocietyBangalore4 November 200666. The many Indias and a search for a centerProf. U.R. Ananthamurthy, Jnanpith Awardee, Sundararajan VisitingProfessor, CCS, IISc.2 November 200665. There is no better symbol of anthropomorphized computers thanHeuristic Algorithmic (or HAL) of the epic “2001: A Space OdysseyStanley Kubrick (screenplay by Arthur C. Clarke)Vijay Chandru, Chairman & CEO, Strand Life Sciences28th October 2006.64. The Grand Darwinian Dilemma - Why are animals so nice to each other?Prof. Raghavendra Gadagkar, Chairman, Centre for ContemporaryStudies, IISc. Bangalore14 October 200663. International Seminar on “Integrating Society into Science -4

Perspectives from Biology,” 13 October, 2006.62. The concept of "sociality in the social sciencesDr. Satish Despande, Department of Sociality, Delhi University7 October 2006.61. Learning to See II: Technology and the ‘irrational’Dr. Satyajit Mayor, National Centre for Biological ScienceDr. S.V. Srinivas, Centre for the Study of Culture and Society,Bangaloreth6 October 2006.60. Learning to See. Is what is Realistic really Real? The Realism debate byDr. Ashish Rajadhyaksha, Centre for the Study of Culture and Society,Bangalore23 September, 2006.59. Science-as-Knowledge/ science-as-practiceDr. Srikanth Mallavarapu, SUNY, Stony Brook andDr. Asha Achuthan, Centre for the Study of Culture and Society,Bangalore16 September 200658. Latour and CritiqueDr. Srikanth Mallavarapu, SUNY, Stony Brook14 September 2006.57. Examining claims of objectivity in history and anthropologyDr. Rochelle Pinto, Centre for the Study of Culture and Society,Bangalore9th September, 200656. The "Scientific Method"; qualitative and quantitative research practices;role of scientific objectivity and bias; interpretations of research byscientists and the publicDr. Harini Nagendra, Asia Research Coordinator,Center for the Study ofInstitutions, Population, and Environmental Change, Indiana University& Adjunct Fellow, Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and theEnvironment, Bangalore2nd September, 200655. A Film Coding CultureA Series of two films on Bangalore’s Software IndustryJuly Boys and Fun @ SunGautam Sonti in Collaboration with Carol UpadhyaProduced by National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore, IndiaSupported by Indo-Dutch Programme for Alternatives in Development,The Netherlands5

31 August 200654. Two cultures and Two traditions: Old debates and new perspectivesDr. Tejaswini Niranjana, Centre for the Study of Culture and Society,Bangalore26th August, 200653. Two cultures - How the mind of a natural scientist works, for better andworseProf. Raghavendra Gadagkar, Chairman, Centre for ContemporaryStudies, IISc. Bangalore19 August, 200652. Between Living and Thinking: Problems in the InterdisciplinaryProduction of KnowledgeProf. R. Radhakrishnan, University of California, USA25 July, 200651. A Film “Diya” produced by Judith Macdougall, Australian NationalUniversity, Canberra, Australia.13 July 200650. Toward an Indian Theory of the Imagination: The Sixteenth-CenturyBreak-Through in South India.Prof. David Shulman, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel4 July, 200649. The Artificial, the natural and the necessary in Aristotle's Physics IIAbhijeet Bardapurkar, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research,Mumbai22 June, 200648. Public Lecture "Human Dignity in Times of Emergency”Prof. Dr. Dieter Grimm, Rector, Institute for Advanced Study, Berlin,Germany17th April, 200647. Creating the Modern World: The Royal Institution of Great Britain, 1799-2006Dr. Frank A.J.L. James, The Royal Institute, England29th, March, 200646. The British Library and its South Asian TreasuresDr. Penny Brook, The British Library, United Kingdom28 March 2006.45. High Culture from the Commerce of Cotton: The formation of the JohnRylands Library in ManchesterDr. Stella Butler, The University of Manchester, United Kingdom6

27 March 2006.44. Retirement and a Career in Scottish Archives, the Story of DigitalImaging at the National Archives of ScotlandMr. Rob Mildren, The National Archives of Scotland, United Kingdom21 March 2006.43. South Asian Sea-going WatercraftDr. Lotika Varadarajan,2 March, 2006.42. Indigenous Tribes of the Andamans and Nicobars: Pre-Tsunami Life andCultureDr. Lotika Varadarajan,8 March 2006.41. Using a poet's archive to write institutional history: Rabindranath Tagoreand his Visva-BharatiDr. Uma Dasgupta, Centre for the Study of Civilizations, New Delhi28 February 2006.40. Developing Archives of Contemporary ScientistsPeter Harper, Director, University of Bath, United Kingdom13 February 2006.39. Seminar on “The Pursuit and Evaluation of Science – Do we need newparadigms for both?” 2nd February, 2006.38. Reclaiming Scientific TemperDr. Meera Nanda, Templeton Foundation, USA24 Janaury 2006.37. Public Lecture "How the Brain Generates Consciousness"Baroness Susan Greenfield, Director, Royal Institution of Great Britain,United Kingdom9 January 2006.36. A Deeper look at Gandhi, the PhilosopherProf. Akeel Bilgrami, Director, Heyman Centre for the Humanities ,Columbia University, USA9 January 2006.35. The culture of rearing and keeping singing insects in captivity in ancientand modern ChinaDr. Lars Fredriksson, Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities and Art,Sweden15 December 200534. Public Lecture on “Big Bang”Dr. Simon Singh, Journalist and TV producer7

8 th December 200533. Our Common Heritage – New Tourist Nations, Post-Socialist Pedagogy,and the Globalization of Nature in China and RussiaDr. Pal Nyiri, Macquarie University, Sydney14 November 200532. Round Table Discussion on “Gender Issues in Science”Prof. Jean Taylor, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, USA19 October 2005.31. From Body Shops to Showpieces – A History of Indian Software IndustryProf. Ashok V Desai, Consultant Editor, The Telegraph, New Delhi22 September 2005.30. Nationalist Perspective in Scientific and Technical Education in ColonialIndia” Two ApproachesProf. Samir Kumar Saha, Department of Mechanical Engineering,Jadavpur University, Kolkata20 September 2005.29. The Rocky History of Indian TelecommunicationsProf. Ashok V Desai, Consultant Editor, The Telegraph, New Delhi15 September 2005.28. Workshipping at the temple of Science? : Reflections on creating acritical institutional history of science in IndiaDr. Indira Chowdhury, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research,Mumbai16 August 200527. Instructions to the Unconverted: Marie Stopes, Indian Women and themaking of pamplet on Birth Control (1920-1955)Dr. Indira Chowdhury, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research,Mumbai12 August 200526. A Film “She Write” (Tamil movie with English subtitled)Ms. Anjali Monteiro and Mr. K.P.Jayasankar11 August 200525. Science and SocietyProf. Naresh Dadhich, The Inter-University Centre for Astronomy andAstrophysics, Pune13 July 200524. The History of the History of ScienceProf. Dhruv Raina, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi6 July 20058

23. On Crossing Cultural Boundaries: The Scientific Imagination inEighteenth Century Indian and French TraveloguesProf. Dhruv Raina, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi30 June 200522. Politics of Spirituality in O.V.Vijayan’s WorksMr. Thachom Poyil Rajeevan, Editor, Yeti Books, University of Calicut,Kerala24 June 200521. The Changing Environment of Knowledge Production: Musings on theIdea of the UniversityProf. Dhruv Raina, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi16 June 200520. Positive Discrimination: Fact and FallacyProf. V.K. Natraj, Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai13 April 200519. A Film “Photo Wallahs” (co-directed with Judith MacDougall)David MacDougall, The Australian National University, Australia1 April 200518. Two Engineers and My CountryDilip D’Souza, Freelance Writer, Mumbai29 March 200517. The Higher Education and the Concept of UniversityDr.B.Narahari Rao, Department of Philosophy, Universitat desSaarlandes, Germany10 March 200516. The Architecture of Social and Ecological NetworksDr. Ferenc Jordan, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary7 March 200515. Science Radio Broadcast in IndiaShailesh Malode, Science Journalist, All India Radio, Mumbai3 February 200514. Science and Reason in the Age of UnreasonProf. Pervez Amirali Hoodbhoy, Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad,Pakistan25 January 200513. The Changing Nature of Public ScienceProf. Helga Nowotny, Director, Society in Science: The Branco WeissFellowship29 December 20049

12. Constitutionalism, Democracy and the Rule of the Law in IndiaProf. Mahendra P. Singh, Faculty of Law, University of Dehi, Delhi13 December 200411. A Model of Human Rights for IndiaProf. Mahendra P. Singh, Faculty of Law, University of Dehi, Delhi9 December 200410. Jacques Derrida: The Last PhilospherDr. Vivek Dhareshwar, Centre for the Study of Culture and Society,Bangalore29 November 20049. From “Naked Country” to “Garden City”: constructing Bangalore’sLandscapeAnuradha Mathur and Dilip da Cunha, University of Pennsylvania,USA4 November 20048. Amitav GhoshProf. Meenakshi Mukherjee, Professor of English, Jawaharlal NehruUniversity, Delhi27 October 20047. Nation, Novel and History: A Case Study of a Nineteenth CenturyPolymathProf. Meenakshi Mukherjee, Professor of English, Jawaharlal NehruUniversity, Delhi14 October 20046. The Practice and Politics of Literary TranslationProf. Meenakshi Mukherjee, Professor of English, Jawaharlal NehruUniversity, Delhi7 October 20045. A Tour Through the Indian Silent CinemaMr. Ashish Rajadhyaksha, Centre for the Study of Culture and Society,Bangalore30 September 20044. English in an Uneven WorldProf. Meenakshi Mukherjee, Professor of English, Jawaharlal NehruUniversity, Delhi23 September 20043. Indian Novels in English : Then and NowProf. Meenakshi Mukherjee, Professor of English, Jawaharlal NehruUniversity, Delhi16 September 200410

2. Film “The New Boys”David MacDougall, Australian National University, Australia10 September 20041. The Bush Administration and the American Politics of ScienceProf. Sheila Jasanoff, John F. Kennedy School of Government,Harvard University, USA16 August 2004These lectures are well attended by students, staff and faculty of the instituteas well as by a large number of people from the city and each lecture isfollowed by lively discussions confirming the impression that there is widespreadinterest in topics that lie on the border between science and society.Some of the scholars visiting the Centre for Contemporary Studies are hostedthrough the Endowed Sundararajan Visiting Professorship.On 2nd February 2006, an international seminar on “The Pursuit andEvaluation of Science – Do we need new paradigms for both?” wasorganized.A course entitled “Production of Knowledge in the Natural andSocial Sciences” was organized with several guest faculty between 12August 2006 – 2 December 2006. This was organized in collaboration with theCentre for the Study of Culture and Society, Jayanagar, Bangalore. The guestfaculties included :U.R.Ananthamurthy, Tejaswini Niranjana, Harini Nagendra,Rochelle Pinto, Raghavendra Gadagkar, Srikanth Mallavarapu; AshaAchuthan, Ashish Rajadhyaksha, Vivek Dhareshwar, Satyajit Mayor,S.V.Srinivas, Satish Deeshpande, Vijay Chandru and K. Sitaramam.On 13 October 2006, an international seminar entitled “IntegratingSociety into Science – Perspectives from Biology” was organized.11

Visitors to the Centre for Contemporary Studies (2004-till date)68. Ms. Amrita ShahWriter, Editorial Consultant (since 2001) andColumnist, The Indian Express(Duration: 14-17, April 2007)67. Dr. Sheena CrawfordCR2 Social DevelopmentTigh Alir, 11 StrathGairloch, Ross-shire, United Kingdom(Duration: 26-31, March 2007)66. Prof. Ross BassettAssociate Professor of HistoryNorth Carolina State University(Duration: 6 - 11 March, 2007)65. Prof. Ronald Francis ClarkeHonorary Senior FeloowInsitute for Development Policy and ManagementUniversity of Manchester, UK(Duration: 30 January to 8 February 2007)64. Ms. Ivona MalbasicAdministrative DirectorOpen Century Project at the Central European UniversityOpen Society Research Centre, Budapest(Duration: 30 January to 4 February, 2007)63. Dr. Jair KesslerAssistant DirectorRemarque Institute, New York University, USA(Duration: 29 January to 2 February, 2007)62. Prof. Huricihan IslamogluBigazici University, Istanbul(Duration: 29 January to 3 February, 2007)61. Dr. Rajeev BhargavaSenior Fellow & DirectorProgramme of Social & Political TheoryCenter for the Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi(Duration: 29th Janurary to 2 February, 2007)60. Dr. Suresh SharmaProfessorCentre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi(Duration: 29 January to 2 February, 2007)12

59. Dr. Ashok DesaiEditor, The Telegraph(Duration: 29 January to 2 February, 2007)58. Dr. Ashis NandySenior Fellow, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi(Duration: 29 January to 1 February, 2007)57. Dr. Svetoslav BojilovFounder, The The Tipping Point Foundation, Sofia(Duration: 30 January to 3 February, 2007)56. Dr. Wilhelm KrullSecretary General, VolkswagenStiftung(Duration: 30 January to 2 February, 2007)55. Dr. Daniel DorTel Aviv University, Israel(Duration: 29 January to 2 February, 2007)54. Dr. Peter van der VeerProfessor of Comparative Religion at theUniversity of Amsterdam andDirector, Research Centre Religion and Society(Duration: 29 January to 1 February, 2007)53. Prof. Yehuda ElkanaPresident and RectorCentral European UniversityBudapest, Hungary(Duration: 30 January to 2 February, 2007)52. Dr. Ivan KrastevDirector of the Open Century Projectat Central European University and Chairman,Center for Liberal Strategies, Budapest, Hungary(Duration: 30 January to 3 February, 2007)51. Prof. Aziz Al-ZamehCentral European UniversityBudapest, Hungary(Duration: 29 January to 2 February, 2007)50. Prof. Sally HumphreysUniversity of Guelph, Canada(Duration 29 January to 2 February, 2007)49. Prof. Shalini RanderiaUniversity of Zuerich, Switzerland(Duration: 29 January to 2 February, 2007)13

48. Dr. Wang HuiSchool of Humanities and Social SciencesTsinghua University, Beijing, China(Duration: 29 January to 7 February, 2007)47. Dr. Helga NowotnyVice Chair of the EuropeanResearch Council and FellowWissenschaftszentrum Wien, AUSTRIA(Duration: 28 January to 2 February, 2007)46. Dr. Joachim NettelbeckSecretaryWissenschaftskolleg zu BerlinWallotstrasse 19, D-14193, Berlin, Germany(Duration 17 January to 2nd February 2007)45. Prof. U. R. AnanthamurthyJnanpith AwardeeSundararajan Visiting ProfessorCentre for Contemporary StudiesIndian Institute of Science, Bangalore(Duration: 19 October to 18 April 2006)44. Dr. Harini NagendraAsia Research CoordinatorCenter for the Study of Institutions, Population, and Environment,Indiana University696, 15th Cross, J.P. Nagar 2nd Phase, Bangalore((Duration: 12-16, October 2006)43. Iruka OkekeAssistant Professor of MicrobiologyDepartment of BiologyHaverford College, USA(Duration: 12-19, October 2006)42. Giuseppe TestaEuropean Institute of Oncology, Italy(Duration: 12-14, October 2006)41. Thomas PfeifferProgram for Evolutionary DynamicsHarvard University, Cambridge, USA(Duration: 12-14, October 2006)40. Matias PasqualiAGROINNOVA - Università di TorinoVisiting Scientist, Department of Plant PathologyUniversity of Minnesota, USA14

(Duration: 12-14, October 2006)39. Ferenc JordánCollegium BudapestInstitute for Advanced StudyBudapest, Hungary(Duration: 12-21, October 2006)38. Dominic JohnsonSociety of FellowsPrinceton UniversityJoseph Henry HousePrinceton, N.J. 08544, U.S.A.(Duration: 12-14, October 2006)37. Giovanni FrazzettoEuropean Molecular Biology LaboratoryMouse Biology UnitVia Ramarini 32I-00016 Monterotondo (ROMA)Italy (Duration: 12-14, October 2006)36. Prof. Olaf KublerSociety in ScienceThe Branco Weiss FellowshipETH-Zurich, HAACH-8092 Zurich, Switzerland(Duration: 12-16, October, 2006)35. Dr. Branco WeissSociety in ScienceThe Branco Weiss FellowshipETH-Zurich, HAACH-8092 Zurich, Switzerland(Duration: 12-16, October July 2006)34. Ms. Judith MacDougall and Prof. David MacDougallCentre for Cross-Cultural ResearchAustralian National UniversityCanberra ACT 0200, Australia(Duration: 8-15, July 2006)33. Prof. David ShulmanFaculty of HumanitiesInstitute of Asian & African StudiesThe Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel(Duration: 1-7 July, 2006)31. Mr. Abhijeet S BardapurkarHomi Bhabha Centre for Science EducationTata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai(Duration: 19-30 June, 2006)30. Prof. Dr. Dieter GrimmRector, Institute for Advanced Study, Berlin, GermanyMember, Global Law Faculty, New York University15

Former Judge, German Constitutional Court(Duration: 15-23 April, 2006)29. Prof. Dr.Bharat H. DesaiJawaharlal Nehru Chair in International Environmental LawChairman, Centre for International Legal StudiesSchool of International StudiesJawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi(Duration: 12-13, April, 2006)28. Dr. Frank A. J. L. JamesProfessor of the History of ScienceThe Royal Institution, England(Duration: 26-31, March 2006)27. Dr. Penny BookAsia, Pacific & Africa CollectionsThe British Library, United Kingdom(Duration: 27 March - 2 April 2006)26. Dr. Stella ButlerHead of Special Collections and Principal KeeperThe John Rylands University LibraryThe University of Manchester, United Kingdom(Duration: 26 March - 2 April 2006)25. Rob MildrenHead of ICTThe National Archives of ScotlandThomas Thomson House, United Kingdom(Duration: 20-25, March 2006)24. Dr. Lotika VaradarajanDuration (1- 15, March, 2006)23. Dr. Uma DasguptaEditorial FellowCentre for the Study of Civilizations, New Delhi(Duration: 27 February to 3 March, 2006)22. Peter HarperDirectorNational Cataloguing Unit for theArchives of Contemporary Scientists,University of Bath, United Kingdom(Duration: 7-14, February 2006)21. Dr. Subbiah ArunachalamDistinguished Fellow16

M. S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, Chennai(Duration: 2 February, 2006)20. Dr. Joachim NettelbeckSecretary, Wissenschaftskolleg Zu BerlinBerlin, Germany(Duration: 29 January to 5 February, 2006)19. Prof. Dr. Helga NowotnyChair of the European ResearchAdvisory Board and FellowWissenschaftszentrum Wien(Duration: 30 January to 5 February, 2006)18. Dr. Yehuda ElkanaPresident and RectorCentral European UniversityBudapest, Hungary(Duration: 30 January to 5 February, 2006)17. Prof. Carlo RizzutoElettra LaboratorySincrotrone Trieste(Duration: 30 January to 4 February, 2006)16. Dr. Meera NandaResearch FellowTempleton Foundation, USA(Duration: 23-24 January, 2006)15. Pal NyiriLecturer in Anthropology andDirector of the Applied Anthropology ProgrammeMacquarie University, Sydney, AUSTRALIA(Duration: 11-15 November, 2005)14. Prof. Ashok V DesaiSundararajan Visiting ProfessorConsultant Editor, The Telegraph, New Delhi.(Duration: 11 - 23 September, 2005)13. Dr. Indira ChowdhuryOral History ProjectTIFR Archives, National Centre for Biological SciencesUAS, GKVK Campus, BangaloreDuration: 12 - 26 August, 2005)12. Mr. Thachom Poyil RajeevanEditor, Yeti Books & Public Relations Officer17

University of Calicut, Kerala(Duration: 24 June, 2005)11. Dr. Dhruv RainaZakir Husain Centre for Educational StudiesSchool of Social SciencesJawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi(Duration: 10 June - 9 July, 2005)10. Priv.-Doz. Dr. B. Narahari RaoDepartment of Philosophy,Universität des Saarlandes66123 Saarbrücken, Germany(Duration: 10 March, 2005)9. Dr. Mrs. Malathi RamanathanSenior Research FellowIndian Council of Historical Research(Duration: 04 - 09 March, 20 September – 15 October 2005)(Duration: 31 January - 17 February, 18 April – 2 May 2006)8. Dr. Ferenc JordanEcological and Botanical Research InstituteHungarian Academy of SciencesH-2163 Vácrátót, Alkotmány, Hungary(Duration: 04 - 09 March, 2005)7. Prof. Pervez Amirali HoodbhoyProfessor of PhysicsQuaid-e-Azam University, IslamabadPakistan (and)Winner of the UNESCO Kalinga Prize in 2003(Duration: 25 January, 2005)6. Mr. Shailesh Malode201, Vighnahar ApartmentShiwaji Chowk, KulgaonBadlapur (East), Mumbai 421 503(Duration: 10 January - 09 February, 2005)5. Prof. Dr. Helga NowotnyDirector, Society in Science: The Branco Weiss FellowshipChair, European Research Advisory Board (EURAB)Member, European Research Council Expert Group (ERCEG),ETH Zentrum, HAACH - 8092 Zurich, Switzerland(Duration: 28 - 30 December, 2004)4. Prof. Dr. Mahendra P. Singh18

Faculty of LawUniversity of Delhi, Delhi(Duration: 06 - 16 December, 2004)3. Prof. David MacDougallProfessorial FellowCentre for Cross-Cultural ResearchAustralian National UniversityCanberra ACT 0200, Australia(Duration: 10 - 11 September, 2004 & 1 April 2005))2. Prof. Meenakshi MukherjeeSundararajan Visiting ProfessorFormerly, Professor of EnglishJawaharlal Nehru University, DelhiInternational ChairpersonAssociation of Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies(Duration: 01 September - 31 October, 2004)1. Prof. Sheila JasanoffPforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology StudiesJohn F. Kennedy School of GovernmentHarvard University, USA(Duration: 16 - 18 August, 2004)19