Neo-liberalism, Secularism, and the Future of the Left

Thursday, April 1st, 2010, 9:30am to 5:00pm
Heyman Center for the Humanities

The most prominent politicians and intellectuals of the left in India will gather to discuss the role of the left in the future of a globalized India.

Speakers include Prabhat Patnaik, (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, and Planning Board of the Indian state of Kerala), Sitaram Yechury (author of Saffron Brigade and columnist with Hindustan Times), C.P. Chandrasekhar (Jawaharlal Nehru University and co-author of Crisis as Conquest: Learning from East Asia), Jayati Ghosh (Jawaharlal Nehru University), Javeed Alam (author of Domination and Dissent, Who wants Democracy?), Sanjay Reddy (Barnard College and SIPA), Arjun Jayadev (University of Massachusetts), Anush Kapadia (Columbia University), and Akeel Bilgrami (Heyman Center for the Humanities, Columbia University).

Co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Democracy, Toleration and Religion (CDTR), the Heyman Center for the Humanities, and the Committee on Global Thought.