Thursday Seminar 04

SEMINAR

by

Shebonti Ray Dadwal

Research Fellow, IDSA

on

Climate Change:

Does it matter to the West Asian Energy Scenario?

Date: 4 February 2010, Thursday

Venue : Room No.203, SIS

Time: 11 A.M.

All are cordially invited

Seminar Coordinator
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P R Kumaraswamy

Professor P R Kumaraswamy is a student of contemporary developments of the region. He researches, writes and teaches the region and its political and security developments. His new book on India's Israel Policy: From Nonrelations to Friendship would be published by the Columbia University Press in 2010. In December 2009 he began his two-year term as the Chairperson of the CWAS. For the blog containing his writings please click here.

Thursday Seminar 03

CENTRE FOR WEST ASIAN STUDIES(CWAS)

SEMINAR NOTICE

Ph.D. Presentation

By

Kundan Kumar

ASPECTS OF INDIAN MIGRATION AND DIASPORA IN THE GULF COUNTRIES, 1820-1947:

AN INQUIRY INTO THE BRITISH IMPERIAL CONTEXT

Date: 28January 2010, Thursday

Venue : Room No.203, SIS

Time: 11 A.M.

All are cordially invited

Seminar Coordinator

Thursday Seminar 02

Ph D synopsis presentation
by
Priyamvada A Sawant
on
British India’s Policy towards the Persian Gulf with Special Reference to Bahrain, Kuwait and Qatar

Date: 21 January 2010, Thursday
Venue: Room 203, SIS
Time: 11.00 AM


All are cordially invited

Seminar Coordinator

P C Jain

Girijesh Pant

Gulshan Dietl

Professor Gulshan Dietl is at the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She has served as the Chairperson, Centre for West Asian and African Studies and Director, the Gulf Studies Programme at her University. Her areas of teaching and research are domestic developments, foreign policies and security issues in the Gulf and West Asia. She has been a Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence at the Mount Saint Mary College, Newburgh, New York (1993-94), a Guest Research Fellow at the Copenhagen Peace Research Institute (1998-99), a Visiting Professor at the University of Kashmir (2004), a Visiting Professor at the Fondation de la Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, Paris (2008) and a Visiting Professor at the University of Southern Denmark (2010).

Her publications include The Dulles Era: America Enters West Asia (Lancer International, New Delhi, 1985), Through Two Wars and Beyond: A Study of the Gulf Cooperation Council (Lancer Books, New Delhi, 1991), Saudi Arabia: People, Politics and Policies (National Book Trust, New Delhi, 2006), and Contemporary Saudi Arabia and the Emerging Indo-Saudi Relations ( Shipra Publications, New Delhi, 2007; Co-edited). She has contributed book-chapters and articles which have appeared in International Studies, Strategic Analyses, India Quarterly, India International Centre Quarterly, Economic and Political Weekly, Mainstream, Pacific and Asian Journal of Energy, The Hindu, Times of India, South, Arabia, The Middle East, The Middle East International, Orient, Journal of South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, the COPRI Working Paper Series, the Gulf Studies Programme Occasional Papers Series among others.

A K Pasha

Professor Pasha holds M.A. Degrees in Middle Eastern Studies and Political Science from Mysore University; M.Phil and PhD from Jawaharlal Nehru University. He has previously taught at the Centre of West Asian Studies, Aligarh Muslim University, India. He has been a Research Fellow at the Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University, Egypt. He has served as Chairperson, and is now Director, Gulf Studies, at CWAAS, SIS, JNU. He has also been Director, Maulana Azad Centre for Indian Culture, Cairo, Egypt. His research, teaching and writing focused on West Asia and North Africa and he is the author, editor or co-editor of over two dozen books on India, Gulf, West Asia and North Africa. His recent books are Iran, Iraq and the GCC States; India and Turkey; Iraq: Sanctions and Wars; Egypt in a Changing World; Arab-Israeli Peace Process; India, Iran and the GCC States; India and West Asia; India and Oman; Contemporary Gulf; Perspectives on India and the Gulf; India and Kuwait; India: Bahrain and Qatar; and Political Participation in Gulf States. He has contributed research chapters to numerous edited books and his articles have been published in several well known journals. He serves on the editorial boards of many national and international journals including International Studies, Journal of Strategic Studies (Bahrain); Academic Board, Gulf Research Centre, Dubai, UAE and Member International Advisory Board, Alternatives: Turkish Journal of International Relations, Istanbul, Turkey. He is Ex-Chairman, Board of Studies, Center for West Asian Studies, and member, Governing Body of the Chair for Maritime Studies and Research, Calicut University, Kerala; Member, Board of Studies, SIS, JNU; Ex-Member, Board of Studies, Center of West Asian Studies, Aligarh Muslim University; Ex Member, Academic Council, Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi; Member, Board of Studies, Center for West Asian Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi; Executive Committee Member, Indian Association for Central and West Asian Studies, Academy of Third World Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi; Member, Research Board, Centre for Peace Studies, New Delhi; Member, Institute for Defense Studies and Analyses, New Delhi; Ex-Member, Board of Studies, Centre for Minorities and Dalit Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi; Convener, Academic Committee on Central, West Asia and the Balkans, Institute of Objective Studies, New Delhi. He is currently at work on a book, India and the GCC States since 1970.

Thursday Seminar

Pre-Ph D presentation

by

Vrushal T Ghoble

on

India's Policy of Acquiring Oversea Energy Assets:

A study of ONGC Videsh Limited in select West Asian & African Countries

Date: 14 January 2010, Thursday

Venue: Room 203, SIS

Time: 11.00 AM

Seminar Coordinator