[Reader-list] Giorgio Agamben Lecture at CSDS

[Ravi Sundaram]

The Centre for the Study of Developing Societies 
(CSDS)cordially invites you to the 11th B.N. Ganguli Memorial Lecture

The Power and the Glory by Professor Giorgio Agamben

Thursday 11th January 2007. 5:30 p.m., 29 Rajpur Road Delhi-110054

Professor Mrinal Miri will chair the Session


Please join us for tea 5 p.m.
R.S.V.P (regrets only
Tel.: 23942199  Fax: 23943450
E-Mail: riyal at csdsdelhi.org




B.N.Ganguli Memorial Lectures are instituted in 
memory of the distinguished 
economist-intellectual Professor B.N.Ganguli, 
former Chair CSDS Board of Governors. Earlier 
speakers in the series include Professors Charles 
Taylor, Rodolfo Stavenhagen, Raimundo Panikkar, 
Bhikhu Parekh, Ernest Gellner, Ali Mazrui, 
Roberto Unger, Michael Walzer, John Keane and Amit Bhaduri.


Giorgio Agamben, renowned philosopher, engages in 
particular with language and social conflicts, 
teaches at the Università IUAV di Venezia, 
Collège International de Philosophie, Paris. 
Among his books are: Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power 
and Bare Life, Remnants of Auschwitz: The Witness 
and the Archive and The Open: Man and Animal. His 
most recent works are: State of Exception, and 
The Time that Remains: A Commentary on the Letter to the Romans.

Mrinal Miri, eminent philosopher, former Director 
Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla & 
Chair Indian Council of Philosophical Research. 
Among his books are: Philosophy of 
Psychoanalysis, Tribal India: Continuity and 
Change and Five Essays on Kant. His most recent 
book is Identity and the Moral Life.