By TCN News,
New Delhi: Nelson Mandela Centre for Peace & Conflict Resolution, Jamia Millia Islamia is organizing the Fifth Walter Sisulu Memorial Lecture on “Trajectories of Fascism: The Extreme-Right Movements in India and Elsewhere” by Prof Jairus Banaji.
The programme is scheduled to be held on March 18, 2013 at 11.30 AM in Edward Said Hall, Administrative Block, Jamia Millia Islamia.
Prof. Jairus Banaji studied Classic, Ancient History and Modern Philosophy at Oxford in the late sixties and Modern History at Jawaharlal Nehru University in the early seventies. His recent papers include ‘Late Antique Legacies and Muslim Economic Expansion’, in Money, Power and Politics in Early Islamic Syria, ed. John Haldon and ‘The Economic Trajectories of Late Antiquity’, in The Oxford Handbook of Late Antiquity, ed. Scott Johnson.
His most recent book, Theory as History won the Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Prize for 2011. He is affiliated to the Department of Development Studies, SOAS, University of London and currently working on a short book called Marxist Theory and Contemporary Capitalism.
Banaji worked with the independent trade unions in Bombay before returning to do doctoral work at Oxford in the late eighties. He has recently translated Arthur Rosenberg’s Booklet, ‘Fascism as a Mass Movement’, in the journal, Historical Materialism.
The Walter Sisulu Memorial Lectures have been delivered by eminent peace-makers, activists and theorists. The First Lecture was delivered by A.K. Kathrada, a veteran of the South African liberation struggle, on “The Life and Times of Walter Sisulu”.
Asma Jahangir, Human Rights Activist from Pakistan delivered the Second Memorial Lecture on “Honouring the Lawyers’ Movement in Pakistan”. The Theme of the Third Lecture was “Winning and Losing in Gaza: Two wars Not One”, which was delivered by Prof. Richrd Falk, UN Special Rapporteur on Palestine. Noted social activist, Medha Patkar delivered the Fourth Memorial Lecture on the theme, “The State of Democracy and Social Movements in Contemporary India”.