Narayanan lectures
The Narayanan Lectures are among the major public lectures within ANU. They honour a past-President of India, Dr K R Narayanan. Each year this oration has been delivered by a major public figure. The list of distinguished speakers includes Dr Raja J. Chelliah, Professor Jagdish Bhagwati, Professor U R Rao, Mr P. Chidambaram, Dr C. Rangarajan, Professor Lord Meghnad Desai, Professor Pranab Bardhan, Dr Vijay Kelkar, Professor M S Swaminathan, Dr K. Kasturirangan, Dr R. Pachauri, Ms Sunita Narain, Professor Roddam Narasimha and Mr Montek S. Ahluwalia.
We would like to thank the Australia-India Council, the Australian Bureau of Statistics, Network Economics Consulting Group, the College of Asia and the Pacific and College of Business and Economics at ANU, as well as the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR), for their generous financial support of these lectures.
Bound copies of the Narayanan lectures can be purchased from ANU E Press.
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2012 - ASARC Presents the 2012 K R Narayanan Oration | |
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Lecturer: | Dr Kaushik Basu |
Date: | 1/6/12 |
Time: | 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm |
Location: | Seminar Room 1.04, Coombs Extension, ANU |
2011 - India and the Global Financial Crisis - What Have we Learnt? | |
Lecturer: | Dr D. Subbarao, Governor of the Reserve Bank of India |
Date: | 23/6/11 |
Time: | 5.20pm - 6.40pm |
Location: | Manning Clark Theatre 1, Building 26A, Union Court, ANU |
2010 - India's Prospects In The Post-Crisis World | |
Lecturer: | Mr Montek S. Ahluwalia, Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission of India |
Date: | 29/11/10 |
Time: | 5:30pm - 6:30pm |
Location: | Hedley-Bull Theatre 1 |
2009 - Rocket Science, Other Science: A Trajectory of Indian Science & Technology from the 20th to the 21st Century | |
Lecturer: | Prof Roddam Narasimha, Chairman, Engineering Mechanics Unit Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, India |
Date: | 2/11/09 |
Time: | 5:30pm - 6:30pm |
Location: | APCD Theatre 1, Hedley Bull Bldg, ANU |
2008 - Why Environmentalism Needs Equity: Learning from the environmentalism of the poor to build our common future | |
Lecturer: | Ms Sunita Narain, Director of the Centre for Science & Environment, Director of the Society for Environmental Communications and publisher of the fortnightly magazine Down to Earth |
Date: | 16/9/08 |
Time: | 5:30pm - 6:30 pm |
Location: | APCD Theatre 1.29, Hedley Bull Building, ANU |
2007 - Coping with Climate Change: Is Development in India and the World Sustainable? | |
Lecturer: | Dr Rajendra Pachauri, Director-General of The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), India. |
Date: | 8/8/07 |
Time: | 5:30pm - 6:30pm |
Location: | Law Sparke Helmore Theatre 2 |
2006 - India's Space Enterprise - A Case Study in Strategic Thinking and Planning | |
Lecturer: | Dr K. Kasturirangan |
Date: | 20/7/06 |
Time: | 5:30pm - 6:30pm |
Location: | Common Room, University House |
2005 - Science and Shaping Our Agricultural Future | |
Lecturer: | Professor M.S. Swaminathan |
Date: | 27/9/05 |
Time: | 5:30pm - 6:30pm |
Location: | Common Room, University House, ANU |
2004 - India: On the growth turnpike | |
Lecturer: | Dr Vijay Kelkar, Adviser to the Minister of Finance, Government of India |
Date: | 27/4/04 |
Time: | 5:30pm - 6:30pm |
Location: | Common Room, University House |
2003 - Political Economy and Governance Issues in Indian Economic Reform | |
Lecturer: | Professor Pranab Bardhan, Department of Economics, University of California at Berkeley. |
Date: | 25/3/03 |
Time: | 5:30pm - 6:30pm |
Location: | Law Lecture Theatre |
2002 - Democracy and Development: India 1947-2002 | |
Lecturer: | Lord Meghnad Desai, Professor of Economics at London School of Economics (LSE) and Director of the Centre for the Study of Global Governance, LSE. |
Date: | 5/12/02 |
Time: | 5:30pm - 6:30pm |
Location: | Law Lecture Theatre |
2001 - Monetary Policy in a Developing country: The Case of India | |
Lecturer: | Dr C. Rangarajan, Governor of Andhra Pradesh, India, and one of India's most distinguished economists. |
Date: | 16/8/01 |
Time: | 5:30pm - 6:30pm |
Location: | |
1999 - Stronger Branches, Deeper Roots: The Democratisation of India's Economic Reforms | |
Lecturer: | Mr P. Chidambaram, Former Finance Minister, Government of India. |
Date: | 2/10/99 |
Time: | 5:30pm - 6:30pm |
Location: | |
1996 - India: Retrospect and Prospect | |
Lecturer: | Professor Jagdish Bhagwati, Arthur Lehman Professor of Economics and Political Science, Columbia University, New York. |
Date: | 28/7/96 |
Time: | 5:30pm - 6:30pm |
Location: | |
1995 - Space Technology for Sustainable Development in Asia | |
Lecturer: | Professor U. R. Rao, member, Space Commission and Dr Vikram Sarabhai Distinguished Professor. |
Date: | 14/9/95 |
Time: | 5:30pm - 6:30pm |
Location: | |
1994 - Reforming the Tax Base for Economic Development | |
Lecturer: | Dr Raja J Chelliah, Minister of State and Fiscal Adviser to the Government of India. |
Date: | 23/6/94 |
Time: | 5:30pm - 6:30pm |
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