IIMB’s Research & Publications office to host seminar on ‘Meritocracy and the Public University’ on March 13
Monday’s talk to be delivered by Delhi University’s Prof. Satish Deshpande
10 March, 2017, Bengaluru: The Office of Research and Publications (R&P) at IIM Bangalore will be hosting a research seminar on ‘Meritocracy and the Public University’, on March 13 (Monday), 2017, from 2:30 pm, at Classroom P22. The talk will be delivered by Professor Satish Deshpande, Department of Sociology, University of Delhi. This talk will present excerpts from a forthcoming book on the sociology of meritocracy in India.
Professor Deshpande’s research interests include caste and class inequalities, contemporary social theory, politics and history of the social sciences and south-south interactions. He is the author of Contemporary India: A Sociological View (2003) and (with Ghanshyam Shah, Harsh Mander, Sukhadeo Thorat and Amita Baviskar) Untouchability in Rural India (2006).
Suggested background reading: http://www.epw.in/system/files/pdf/2013_48/15/Caste_and_Castelessness.pdf
Topic: Meritocracy and the Public University
Speaker: Prof. Satish Deshpande, Department of Sociology, University of Delhi
Date: Monday, March 13, 2017
Time: 2.30 pm onwards
Venue: Classroom P22
IIMB’s Research & Publications office to host seminar on ‘Meritocracy and the Public University’ on March 13
Monday’s talk to be delivered by Delhi University’s Prof. Satish Deshpande
10 March, 2017, Bengaluru: The Office of Research and Publications (R&P) at IIM Bangalore will be hosting a research seminar on ‘Meritocracy and the Public University’, on March 13 (Monday), 2017, from 2:30 pm, at Classroom P22. The talk will be delivered by Professor Satish Deshpande, Department of Sociology, University of Delhi. This talk will present excerpts from a forthcoming book on the sociology of meritocracy in India.
Professor Deshpande’s research interests include caste and class inequalities, contemporary social theory, politics and history of the social sciences and south-south interactions. He is the author of Contemporary India: A Sociological View (2003) and (with Ghanshyam Shah, Harsh Mander, Sukhadeo Thorat and Amita Baviskar) Untouchability in Rural India (2006).
Suggested background reading: http://www.epw.in/system/files/pdf/2013_48/15/Caste_and_Castelessness.pdf
Topic: Meritocracy and the Public University
Speaker: Prof. Satish Deshpande, Department of Sociology, University of Delhi
Date: Monday, March 13, 2017
Time: 2.30 pm onwards
Venue: Classroom P22