Seminars/Conferences/Workshops:
national and international seminars
In order to provide an opportunity for scholars to express their views and interact with other scholars, ICPR organizes both national and international seminars every year on a variety of themes and topics in philosophy and interdisciplinary studies. It also gives grant to philosophy departments of Indian universities and research institutions to organize seminars/symposia/ workshops/dialogues etc. The Council has linked up its publication programmes with the seminars in such a manner that all important papers presented can be published by the Council, if found suitable. It may be mentioned that some of the very outstanding papers of the seminars are published in the Council’s journal viz., JICPR. Every year the Council receives a large number of requests from the universities, research organizations for partial assistance for organizing seminars and ICPR supports 25 to 50 such seminars annually.
Recent seminars Conferences & Workshops :
An eleven day Workshop on Trika Philosophy was organized
by Professor Navjeevan Rastogi, a well-known
scholar of Kashmir Saivism who had suggested to the
Council the need for arranging a workshop of this
kind. The
Manipal Centre for Philosophy and Humanities (MCPH)
organized the SIXTH SUMMER SCHOOL on “Philosophy for the Social Sciences and the Humanities”
The Sixth Summer School on Philosophy for the Humanities and the Social Sciences, supported by the Indian Council for Philosophical Research, was held from July 4, 2011 to July 15, 2011, in the Manipal Centre for Philosophy and Humanities, Manipal University. Professor Sunder Sarukkai was the director of the programme. The Summer School had a different focus theme for all the sessions – ‘Banality of Evil.’ The theme ‘Banality of Evil’ was chosen with a view to providing the participants with perspectives on larger problems faced by the society today.
The Research Project Committee of ICPR resolved
to request the Chairman of ICPR to organize a
consultation meeting with 15-20 scholars, particularly
active teachers of Philosophy in the country, as soon
as possible to know about the problems confronting
the departments of philosophy and suggest ways of
encouragement for the study of philosophy in the
Universities and colleges of the country. Accordingly,
a Workshop was convened at the India International
Centre on August 11, 2011 to deliberate on the above
issue. The workshop was chaired by Professor K.
Ramakrishna Rao and philosophy teachers from
different parts of the country participated. The
participants included Professors Sangeetha Memon,
Archana Boruah, B.K. Agarwala, Mangala Chinchore,
A.D. Sharma, Sauravpran Goswami, K.R. Rajani, Asha
Maudgil, Asha Mukherjee and others.
In order to augment the activities at the Academic Centre, Lucknow and attract readers to the ICPR Academic Centre Library, it was decided to have a fortnightly meet in the form of a study-circle. The proposal was mooted by Professor Rajendra Prasad and Professor Rakesh Chandra volunteered to coordinate the activities of the Study-circle. With the approval of the Research Project Committee of ICPR, Prof. G. Mishra, Member Secretary, addressing the gathering the first such meet was organized on 20th August 2011 with Professor Prasad presiding over the Study Circle.
International Symposium on ‘Emerging Trends in Bioethics: Indian Context and Perspectives’ Held at Little Flower seminary, Chennai, T.N.
The three day symposium on ‘Emerging Trends in Bioethics: Indian Context and Perspectives’, organized to mark the Golden Jubilee of Little Flower Seminary, on January 8-10, 2011, drew experts from Philosophy, Medicine and related disciplines. They said that technological advancements had thrown up a host of ethical questions which are to be resolved afresh. Dr. K. Ramakrishna Rao, Chairman of the Indian Council of Philosophical Research, who inaugurated the symposium, said that the issues of bioethics posed huge challenges to philosophy and in order to resolve hem, philosophers and bioethicists needed to go beyond mere reasoning.
The increasing relevance of bioethics in the context of
Endosulfan use, genetically modified food, euthanasia,
cloning and surrogate motherhood, etc., were underscored
by all speakers at the international symposium.
It was organized under the aegis of Indian Council of
Philosophical Research (lCPR) and Indian Institute
of Science and Religion (ISR), Pune.
A Seminar on the theme of ‘Self and the Other’ was
organized by the Department of Humanities and Social
Sciences, IIT-Bombay from the 18th of January 2011
to the 22nd of January, 2011. The Seminar was funded
by the Indian Council of Philosophical Research
National Seminar on “The Text and Its Interpretation:
Indian Philosophical Context” Organized by the Department
of Philosophy and Religion, Banaras Hindu University
A three day National Seminar on “The Text and Its Interpretation: Indian Philosophical Context” was organized by the Department of Philosophy and Religion, Banaras Hindu University on 11- 13th January-2011 to discuss issues like what is the Text and how it serves as light or knowledge and in what circumstance Interpre tations serve as guide in the matter of understanding of the text and deciding them as good or bad.
An ICPR-sponsored national seminar on the above
topic was inaugurated by Dr. V.T. Sebastian, Professor
of Philosophy, Punjab University. Dr. Sebastian highlighted
the need of introducing Philosophy in higher
education sector. He explained and analyzed different
aspects of Philosophy and its applied area. Moreover,
he emphasized the area of Logic and reasoning as
an essential tool for all thinking activities.
