| Date | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Thursday, March 24, 2011 | 10:00AM - 12:00PM | Seminar Room 108N, Munk School of Global Affairs 1 Devonshire Place |
A Lecture to mark the publication a special issue of the journal Public Culture: Itineraries of Self-Rule, Essays on the Centenary of Hind Swaraj, edited by Ritu Birla and Faisal Devji.
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Faisal Devji is Reader in Indian History at the University of Oxford. He is the author of Landscapes of the Jihad (Cornell, 2005), and The Terrorist in Search of Humanity (Columbia, 2008), and one forthcoming called The Impossible Indian: Gandhi and the Temptation of Violence (2011).
Ramin Jahanbegloo is Professor of Political Science and Research Fellow in the Centre for Ethics at University of Toronto, and a well-known Iranian-Canadian philosopher. In April 2006, Dr. Jahanbegloo was arrested in Tehran Airport charged with preparing a velvet revolution in Iran. He was placed in solitary confinement for four months and released on bail. In October 2009 he received the Peace Prize from the United Nations Association in Spain for his extensive academic works in promoting dialogue between cultures and his advocacy for non-violence. Among his twenty-five books in English, French and Persian are Gandhi: Aux Sources de la Nonviolence (Felin, 1999), Penser la Nonviolence (UNESCO, 2000).
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