J.P.Naik Memorial Lectures

2011 – onwards

• 27th J.P.Naik Memorial Lecture on Global Reproductive Markets and Reproductive Justice: Borders, Nationalisms and Migration by  Michal Nahman, 17th January, 2020
• 26th J.P.Naik Memorial Lecture on “Beyond “Lean In”: Toward a Feminism for the 99%” by  Nancy Fraser, Loeb Professor, Departments of Philosophy and Politics, New School for Social Research, New York on 22nd March, 2018
• 25th J.P.Naik Memorial Lecture on ‘Equal If Not Superior’: American Missionaries among the Nagas by Geraldine Forbes on 1st March, 2017
• 24th J.P.Naik Memorial Lecture on Education and Girlhood by Prof. Krishna Kumar on 22 April, 2016
• 23rd J.P.Naik Memorial Lecture on Doing Gender, Doing Development: Interrogating Indian State’s attempts at ‘Doing Development’ through Gender by Padmini Swaminathan on 13th August, 2014
• 22nd J.P.Naik Memorial Lecture on Women’s Studies in Academia and Development Discourse by Prof. Maithreyi Krishnaraj on 27 September, 2012
• 21st J.P.Naik Memorial Lecture on Prison Abolition and the Challenges of Feminism by Angela Y. Davis, 4th September, 2011

2001 to 2010

• 20th J.P.Naik Memorial Lecture on Governmentality, Democracy and Capitalist Development: From the Politics of Transition to the Politics of Exclusion by Prof. Kalyan Sanyal on 12th November, 2009
• 19th J.P.Naik Memorial Lecture on Do Women Need Education? Colonial and Contemporary Discourses by Prof. Sabyasachi Bhattacharya, 2008
• 18th J.P.Naik Memorial Lecture on Marriage, Motherhood and Masculinity in the Global Economy: the emerging crisis in social reproduction by Prof. Naila Kabeer, 2007 on 6th February, 2007
• 17th J.P.Naik Memorial Lecture on Selecting Identities from the Past, Prof. Romila Thapar, 2005
• 15th J.P.Naik Memorial Lecture on Memory and Rightlessness by Upendra Baxi on 13 December, 2002
• 14th J.P.Naik Memorial Lecture on Alternative Interpretations of the Ramayana: Views from Below, Nabaneeta Dev Sen, 2001

1982 to 2000

• 11th Towards a Critical Mass: Women in Politics: Hon. Monique Begin, 1998
• 10th J.P.Naik Memorial Lecture on Promises to Keep: Trends in Women’s Studies Worldwide by Dr. Florence Howe, 1995
• 9th J.P.Naik Memorial Lecture on Kinship and Gender in South and Southeast Asia: Patterns and contrasts by Prof. Leela Dube, 1994
• 7th J.P.Naik Memorial Lecture on The Role of Women in a New Health Order by C. Gopalan, CWDS, 1990
• 6th J.P.Naik Memorial Lecture on From a Mans World to a Human World by Justice O. Chinnappa Reddy, CWDS, 1990
• 5th J.P.Naik Memorial Lecture on Education for Women’s Equality by M.S. Gore on 18th February, 1988
• 4th J.P.Naik Memorial Lecture on Women’s Development and Non-aligned Movement by Vida Tomsic, CWDS, 1988
• 3rd J.P.Naik Memorial Lecture on International Women’s Decade: A Balance Sheet by Lucille Mathurin Mair, CWDS, 1984
• 2nd J.P.Naik Memorial Lecture on Some Reflections on Dowry by M.N.Srinivas, CWDS, 1983
• 1st J.P.Naik Memorial Lecture on Role of Education and Research in Enhancing Rural Women’s Income and Household Happiness by M.S. Swaminathan on 11 September, 1982