Visiting Fellows
The Department regularly invites eminent scholars as part of collaborative activity with students and teachers.
Several scholars have visited the department and have enlightened students, researchers and faculty members.
The visit includes lectures and interactive session with students and research scholars.
Year wise list of Visiting Fellows
2017-18
Dr. Daniel Kent-Carrasco
Post-Doctoral Fellow, UNAM Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (The National Autonomous University of Mexico)
16 May 2018: An Indian Intellectual: Jayaprakash Narayan and his Role in the Cultural Cold War
17 May 2018: "It Began in Mexico": The Beginning of M.N. Roy's Affair with Communism
Dr. Michael Becker
Department of Political Science and Sociology, University of Wurzburg
21 March 2018: Understanding Liberal Democracies: History of Ideas
21 March 2018: Constitutional Democracy in Germany
Dr. N S Gundur
Associate Professor, Department of Studies and Research in English, Tumkur University
6 March 2018: Understanding Modes of Inquiry: Reading Michel Foucault
8 March 2018: In Search of Time for Thinking: Remembering Hannah Arendt
Prof. Tej Pratap Singh
Department of Political Science, Banaras Hindu University
12 March 2018: Left Wing Extremism: A Challenge to National Security
15 March 2018: India-China: Eternal Enemy or Future Ally
Dr. Upendra Choudhury
Director (Research), Indian Council of Social Science Research
5 March 2018: Promoting Democracy: An Indian Perspective
6 March 2018: India’s Development Cooperation with Global South: Recent Trends
Prof. Midatala Rani
University of Mysore and Director, UGC-HRD Centre
04 March 2018: Language Politics in India: Problems and Policies
11 March 2018: Good Governance, Democracy and Development
Prof. D. Jeevan Kumar (Retd)
Department of Political Science, Bangalore University
28 Feb 2018: Gandhi and Development
1 March 2018: Globalization, State and Public Administration: Contemporary Challenges
Prof Emer. Edouard Conte
Bern University, Switzerland, and currently in University of Fribourg
15 Feb 2018: Does mass migration from Africa and West Asia to Europe signal a “refugee crisis” or a new “normality”?’
16 Feb 2018: Systems of Relatedness, Culture, and Vulnerability in Transition: Dalit Life-worlds in Post-liberalised India.’
Prof. Pampa Mukherjee
Punjab University
20 Feb 2018: Uttarakhand’s development dreams and dilemmas in Globalising India
21 Feb 2018: Community rights and statutory laws: politics of forest use in Uttarakhand
Prof. Manish. K. Jha
TISS, Mumbai
16 Feb 2018: Democracy, Dissent and problematic of Popular Politics: Caste in Post-colonial Bihar
21 Feb 2018: Biopolitics and Urban Governmentality in City Space(s)
Dr. Krishna Hombal
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Mysore
1 Feb 2018: Theorizing Disability: A Human Rights Perspective
2 Feb 2018: Globalization and the World Trade Organization: The Discourse of the Bhartiya Janata Party
Prof. S. S. Patagundi
Department of Political Science, Karnatak University, Dharwad
01 Februry 2018: Political Psychology and Narendra Modi’ Foreign Policy Decision Making
31 January 2018: Globalization and Changes in World Politics
Dr. Radhika Govinda
University of Edinburgh, UK
13 December 2018: Decolonizing Knowledge and Democratizing the Curriculum in Feminist Classrooms: A Reflexive Account
9 January 2018: Different Dalit Women Speak Differently: Unravelling, through an Intersectional Lens, Narratives of Agency and Activism from Everyday Life in Rural Uttar Pradesh
Dr. Bhabani Shankar Nayak
Senior Lecturer in Business Strategy, Coventry Business School, Coventry University, UK.
14 December 2017: Bhagavad Gita and Hindu Modes of Capitalist Accumulation in India
15 Dec 2017: Macro Politics of Microfinance: A Study of Fraternal Capitalist Accumulation in Rural Odisha
Prof. Tomas Lindgren
Umea University, Sweden
21 Nov 2017: Democracy, Norms and Institutions
1 Dec 2017: Mechanisms of Religious Radicalization: Pathways to Violence
Prof. Harihar Bhattacharya
Department of Political Science, University of Burdwan
20 September 2017: Democratic Intention and Indian Democracy
21 September 2017: Federalism over Democracy in India: Dialectics of diversity-claims and the equality-claims
Anil Kumar Vaddiraju
Centre for Political Institutions, Governance and Development, Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bengaluru.
19 September 2017: Hannah Arendt and Modernity: Revisiting the work The Human Condition
23 September 2017: E-Governance and Digitisation: Some Reflections and Concerns
Prof. Badri Narayan
G.B. Pant Social Science Institute, Allahabad, UP
13 September 2017: Politics of Dissent and Dissemination: Symbol of Ambedkar in Hindu Region
14 September 2017: Exploring Impossibilities
Prof. G A Wani
UNESCO Madanjeet Singh Institute of Kashmir Studies, University of Kashmir, Srinagar, Kashmir
12 September 2017: Politics of Autonomy in Jammu and Kashmir
16 September 2017: Democracy in South Asia
Dr. Rajesh Komath
Assistant Professor, School of Social Sciences, Mahatma Gandhi University. Kottayam, Kerela
8 September 2017: On Methodologies : What is ‘Social’ in Social Sciences
18 September 2017: Understanding India Democracy: Locating Dalit Lives as Marginal Bodies
Prof. Ashutosh Kumar
Department of Political Science, Punjab University
5 September 2017: Electoral Politics in India Punjab: An Introduction
6 September 2017: Moving Beyond Nation State: Farming State-Level Politics in India
Prof. Shibashis Chatterjee
Department of Political Science, Jadavpur University
1 September 2017: International Relations Theory: An Evolutionary Perspective
4 September 2017: Territoriality and Identity: India’s Imagination of South Asia
Prof. Jagrup Singh Sekhon
Department of Political Science, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar
28 August 2017: Border Citizens: Experiences of Living at the Cutting Edge
30 August 2017: End of Khalistani Movement in Punjab: Some Explanations?
Prof. Samir Kumar Das
Department of Political Science, University of Calcutta, Kolkata
25 August 2017: Irom Sharmila and the Impossibilities of Democratic Struggle
29 August 2017: Women and the Public Sphere in the Post- Colonial Hinterlands
Prof. Thomas Pogge
Yale University, USA
20 July 2017: Foreign Drivers of Domestic Injustices
2016-17
Prof. Eva Maria Belser
Faculty of Law, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
Prof. Prof Nico Steytler
Faculty of Law, University of Western Cape, South Africa
2015-16
Prof. Thomas Pogge
Yale University
Prof Luis Cabrera
Griffith University
Prof. Haig Patapan
School of Government and International Relations, Griffith University
Prof. Leif Wenar
King’s College London
Prof. Rekha Nath
Department of Philosophy, University of Alabama
2014-15
Dr. Wilfried Swenden
University of Edinburgh
Prof. Thomas Pogge
Yale University
Prof Luis Cabrera
Griffith University
Prof. Jay Drydyk
Carleton University
Prof Scott Wisor
Centre for the Study of Global Ethics, University of Birmingham
Prof. Omar Dahbour
Hunter College NewYork
Prof. Tim Hayward
Just World Institute, University of Edinburgh
Prof. Michel Dusche
Manipal Centre for Philosophy and Humanities, Manipal
Prof. Brooke Ackerley
Vanderbilt University
Prof. Christine Keating
Penn University, USA
Prof. Sridhar Venkatapuram
King’s College London
2013-14
Dr. Anand P. Mavalankar
Department of Political Science, The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda
Dr. G. Gopa Kumar
Department of Politics, University of Kerala, Kariavattom
Dr. C. Lakshmanan
Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai
Dr. Chendrayudu
Department of Geography, Sri Venkataswara University, Tirupati
Dr. Shailaja Menon
School of Liberal Studies, Ambedkar University
Dr. Ankur Datta
Department of Sociology, South Asian University
Dr. Bani Prasanna Mishra
Department of Sociology, University of North Bengal
Dr. Mohit Bhattacharya
(Retd.) Department of Political Science, University of Calcutta, Kolkata
2012-13
Dr. Sukalpa Bhattacharjee
Department of English, North – Eastern Hill University, Shillong
Dr. Anirban Das
Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta
Dr. J. Somashekar
Department of Political Science, Sri Krishna Devaraya University
