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Date: February 20, 2019
Find out more »‘Complicating the ‘Muslim ghetto’ in urban India’
Date: 20th February, 2019 (Wednesday) Time: 1:30 PM - 2:45 PM Venue: AC 01 TR 101 Abstract: Many scholars have argued that discrimination against Muslims is widespread in urban Indian housing markets, fueled by histories of communal violence, and leading to permanent 'ghettoization'. This perspective is supported by sound ethnographic evidence in many places, but has been hard to substantiate in quantitative ways for lack of appropriately fine grained demographic data. My paper resolves this problem by exploiting the religious connotations of…
Find out more »Economics Weekly Seminar: Karna Basu
Title: Commitment as extortion? Speaker: Karna Basu, Hunter College (CUNY) Wednesday, February 20, 1:30 - 2:40pm AC 02 LR 105 Abstract: Hyperbolic discounters value commitment contracts. The amount a consumer is willing to pay for commitment depends not just on what she would consume in autarky; it also depends on the commitment contract she would sign tomorrow, which itself might depend on the contract she would sign the next day, and so on. I formulate the consumer's outside option as a compound of potential…
Find out more »Moral Leadership
Name of the speaker: Jacqueline Novogratz Designation: Founder and CEO, Acumen Date: 20 February Time: 1:30-2:30 pm Venue: AC 02- LT 110 "The challenges we need to overcome in the coming century- from poverty and global warming to terrorism and ethnic strife- are both familiar and daunting. They are not necessarily bigger than those of the last century, but they have a different character. They involve more complex webs of networks and power relationships, they are embedded in systems providing great benefits to some, and they are…
Find out more »It is Time to Rewrite History
Date: 20 February 2019 Time: 1:40-2:50 PM Venue: Ashoka University, Sonipat Speaker: Narayani Gupta, Jamia Millia Islamia (Retired)
Find out more »Do people matter in Security discourses?
Date: 21st February, 2019 Time: 1:45 PM-2:45 PM Venue: AC 01 LR 103 Nature of Event: Guest Session Name of Speaker: Prof. Anuradha Chenoy Designation: Retd. Professor and Dean, School of International Studies, JNU Title: Do people matter in Security discourses?
Find out more »Comedic Visions: Interrogating Humor and Satire
Date: February 21 Time: 6 PM to 7.30 PM It is a panel discussion around unpacking and deconstructing the political identity through the literary genre of satire.
Find out more »Ashoka Business Conclave 2019
Date: 22nd February Venue: Ashoka University The Ashoka Business Conclave 2019 (ABC 2019), Ashoka University’s annual flagship event is organized by the Ashoka Business, Consulting, and Investment Club. It provides a platform for students to explore the intersection of liberal arts and business. The Conclave had a successful debut last year, where we had four eminent speakers, including Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus and participants from over 10+ colleges. ABC 2019, being held on the 22nd of February, 2019 aims to…
Find out more »The Ecological Challenge and India’s Leadership Role
Date: 22nd February, 2019 Time: 1:45 PM-2:45 PM Venue: AC 02 LT 109 Nature of Event: Guest Session Name of Speaker: Amb. Shyam Saran Designation: Former Foreign Secretary and Chairman National Security Advisory Board Title: The Ecological Challenge and India's Leadership Role
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