[Urbanstudy] Reminder: NIAS Public Lecture - Thursday 11 August 6.00 pm - G. Balachandran, 'Nailing a Crisis Lacking a Name: Politics of Knowledge and Policy in the Global Economic Crisis'

[Carol Upadhya]

Dear friends and colleagues,

Prof G Balachandran, currently a Visiting Professor at NIAS, will deliver a
public lecture on the politics of knowledge in the global financial crisis,
on Thursday, August 11 at 6.00 p.m. Do hope you can make it.

Please to circulate this mail further.

Best wishes,

Carol


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*National Institute of Advanced Studies *

*Indian Institute of Science Campus, **Bangalore 560 012***

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*invites you to a *

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  *Public Lecture***

 *(as a part of the Ninth Annual NIAS-DST Training Programme **on
Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Science and Technology Course)*

on



*Nailing a Crisis Lacking a Name:  Politics of Knowledge and *

*Policy in the Global Economic Crisis, c. 2007-2011*

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*by*

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*Prof. G. Balachandran*

*Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies*

*Geneva, Switzerland*



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*Thursday, 11 August, 2011 at 6.00 pm*

*at JRD Tata Auditorium, NIAS, IISc Campus, Bangalore 560 012*



*Prof. Carol Upadhya*

*Chairperson*

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*Coffee/Tea at 5.30 pm*



*Abstract*: This lecture is framed by three sets of connected reflections on
the politics of economic and policy knowledge in the current crisis. It
first addresses the elusiveness of this crisis, as a totality, to
conventional scientific imagination. Then it explores disagreements over the
crisis’s nature, timeline, causes, and possible solutions to understand why
some elements of the crisis seem better understood than others, while
efforts to tackle the crisis as a whole have been beset by long periods of
paralysis. Finally it discusses the implications of this for our
understanding of the politics of social knowledge, generally, as well as of
representation and public policy.



*About the Speaker:*

G. Balachandran is Professor of International History and Politics at the
Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID), Geneva.
His research and publication interests broadly encompass financial, labour,
and intellectual history. His most recent work is *Globalizing Labour? Asian
Seafarers and World Shipping, c. 1870-1945* (forthcoming, 2012).



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*All are welcome*





*For further details, please contact Dr. M.G. Narasimhan <
narasimhanmarehalli at gmail.com> *





K S Rama Krishna

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N.I.A.S., I.I.Sc Campus
Bangalore 560012
Ph:   2218 5000
Fax: 2218 5028
Email: niasoff at gmail.com



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Carol Upadhya
Professor
School of Social Sciences
National Institute of Advanced Studies
Indian Institute of Science Campus
Bangalore 560012
India

office:  +91 80 2218 5000/ 5141 (ext)
cell:      +91(0) 97408 50141

carol at nias.iisc.ernet.in
carol.upadhya at gmail.com

Programme Co-Director, *Provincial Globalisation: The Impact of Reverse
Transnational Flows in India's Regional Towns
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*http://www.nias.res.in/research-schools-socialsciences-provincial.php*
*http://www.provglo.org/*
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