"Meaningful Nature in Environmental History" a talk by Prof. K. Sivaramakrishnan at Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg > 3pm on 25th October 2013
Time : 3:00 pm 
Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served basis)
Place : Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Nehru Memorial Museum & Library (NMML), Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg, New Delhi
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Event Description : The Nehru Memorial Museum and Library cordially invites you to a Public Lecture (in the ‘Rethinking History’ Series) on ‘Meaningful Nature in Environmental History’ by Prof. K. Sivaramakrishnan, Yale University, USA
Abstract : This essay considers the question of how moral and ethical worlds are formed and change as people interact with or imagine the landscapes in which they live. This question, the speaker believes, has been largely ignored in the study of environmental history in India. Scholars in disciplines other than history have paid more attention to ethical and religious ideas about landscape and nature. The speaker argues, in what follows, the ethics of nature are developed in historical processes of community formation and identity or self-making. Historical perspectives on these topics are useful and necessary, even as a careful examination of how affect, worship, and ethics shape attitudes to being in particular landscapes can enrich the understanding of meaningful relations to landscape and nature in environmental history. The argument is developed by a close examination of a handful of recent studies that have provided an empirical basis for this synthesis, review, and conceptual elaboration of religious ethics of nature in India. Along the way the article considers the formation of ethical ideas and practical values for nature in realms of worship, natural resources management, rural development, as well as science, policy and legal issues relating to nature conservation in India.
Speaker : Prof. Kalyanakrishnan Sivaramakrishnan is Dinakar Singh Professor of India and South Asian Studies, Professor of Anthropology and Forestry and Environmental Studies and Director of Undergraduate Studies at the Yale University, USA. His recent publication includes: Ecologies of Urbanism in India: Metropolitan Civility and Sustainablity, Rademacher, A & Sivaramakrishnan, K. eds.
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Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served basis)
Place : Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Nehru Memorial Museum & Library (NMML), Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg, New Delhi
Venue Info : Events | About | Map | Nearest Metro Station - 'Race Course(Yellow Line)'
Event Description : The Nehru Memorial Museum and Library cordially invites you to a Public Lecture (in the ‘Rethinking History’ Series) on ‘Meaningful Nature in Environmental History’ by Prof. K. Sivaramakrishnan, Yale University, USA
Abstract : This essay considers the question of how moral and ethical worlds are formed and change as people interact with or imagine the landscapes in which they live. This question, the speaker believes, has been largely ignored in the study of environmental history in India. Scholars in disciplines other than history have paid more attention to ethical and religious ideas about landscape and nature. The speaker argues, in what follows, the ethics of nature are developed in historical processes of community formation and identity or self-making. Historical perspectives on these topics are useful and necessary, even as a careful examination of how affect, worship, and ethics shape attitudes to being in particular landscapes can enrich the understanding of meaningful relations to landscape and nature in environmental history. The argument is developed by a close examination of a handful of recent studies that have provided an empirical basis for this synthesis, review, and conceptual elaboration of religious ethics of nature in India. Along the way the article considers the formation of ethical ideas and practical values for nature in realms of worship, natural resources management, rural development, as well as science, policy and legal issues relating to nature conservation in India.
Speaker : Prof. Kalyanakrishnan Sivaramakrishnan is Dinakar Singh Professor of India and South Asian Studies, Professor of Anthropology and Forestry and Environmental Studies and Director of Undergraduate Studies at the Yale University, USA. His recent publication includes: Ecologies of Urbanism in India: Metropolitan Civility and Sustainablity, Rademacher, A & Sivaramakrishnan, K. eds.
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"Meaningful Nature in Environmental History" a talk by Prof. K. Sivaramakrishnan at Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg > 3pm on 25th October 2013
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