AAKASH SINGH RATHORE
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Talks, Lectures​, Conferences, Workshops

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Postclassicisms – “Sympathy”
Workshop in 'Criticism and Theory'
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Jnanapravaha Mumbai


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"Day two began with a paper by Jawaharlal Nehru University’s Aakash Singh Rathore, titled ‘The Absent Centrality of Sympathy to Aristotle’s Ethics: A Reconstruction’. His proposition (and provocation) being the reinstalling of the missing notion of Sungnome — which he understands as practical reasoning, a more intellectual judgement than Sympatheia — dethroning a purely rationalistic understanding of Phronesis by uncovering Sungnome as a necessary factor to it. He argues that Sungnome as cognitive empathy is needed to supplement Phronesis. This is precisely what Eichmann (who presents as completely rational in his adherence to ‘not-illegal’ orders) lacks in Rathore’s reading of Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil." 



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DOES LIBERALISM ALLOW POPULISM?  
LSE South Asia Centre 

20 Jan 2021
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Panelists: Michael Freeden; Harsh Gupta 'Madhusudan' and Rajeev Mantri; Aakash Rathore; Helena Rosenblatt; and Shashi Tharoor. Chair: Nilanjan Sarkar

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'Rethinking Indian Jurisprudence'
The Philosophy Project
​21 November 2020

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Philosophy, Cognition and Writing:
A Talk on the Writing Process
Gargi College, University of Delhi
9 Nov 2020

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Masterclass on An Introduction to the Policy Perspectives of BR Ambedkar
Takshashila Institution
​21 Oct 2020

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Preamble, Ambedkar and
​Philosophical Foundations 

E​​​conomics, L​​​aw and Social Sciences Review - Interview Series

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Annual Model United Nations Conference
BITSMUN Goa
18 Oct 2020

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Ask a Philospher Anything
Centre for Social and Political Research, Jindal School of Liberal Arts & Humanities
30 Sep 2020

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Dr. B.R. Ambedkar and Inclusiveness
Law Essentials
5 Sep 2020



Ambedkar’s Preamble
Dr. B. R. Ambedkar’s Caravan
1 Jun 2020



Dr Ambedkar and the Drafting of Indian Constitution
The Quest SLR
20 Jun 2020



The Future of Democracy
Socio Legal Literary

6 Aug 2020



Books, Language and Recalling During Lockdown
Galp Lok

31 May 2020

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Episode 7, Vaman Matters



St Xavier's College, Mumbai
29 Feb 2020

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Hindu College, University of Delhi

​25 Feb 2020

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Liberty in the Constitution and Preamble

IIITD, 22 Feb 2020

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Decolonizing Jurisprudence

NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad 
Oct 9, 2019

Certain prominent Indian legal theorists including S.N. Dhyani, Upendra Baxi as well as judges such as V. R. Krishna Iyer have argued that jurisprudence, as understood in India, is saturated with Anglo-American legal theories that were cultivated on foreign soil. These concepts and principles emerged from contexts profoundly dissimilar from the Indian one, but they have been superimposed upon Indian academic treatment of the nature of law in India. Does this suggest that Indian jurisprudence needs to be decolonized? If so, what would be the methods adequate to the task?

Decolonizing Jurisprudence:
Contexts and Methods

NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad 
Oct 9, 2019

Workshops on Political Theory,
Social Neuroscience (Cognitive Science, Rationality vs Empathy)
Nationalism, Gandhi & Ambedkar 

The Takshashila Institution
August 2018
'A renewed interest in Ambedkar’s work and fresh interest in political thought.'
~ The Takshashila Institution
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On Concept of Justice and the Preamble of India

University Extension Lecture, Department of Political Science,
​Aligarh Muslim University, 9 April 2019

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2nd Annual Ambedkar Memorial Lecture   
National Law University Odisha, A​​mbedkar Jayanti, 14 April 2019
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MPhil Research Methodology Course, 2019
Centre for English Studies, School of Language, Literature & Culture Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
September 18, 2019



Gandhi's Experiments and Ambedkar's Experiences
Faculty Development Programme on Revisiting Gandhi Today: Questions of Caste, Class, Gender, Religion and Environment, Zakir Husain Delhi College and Mahatma Hansraj Faculty Development Centre (MHRFDC) Hansraj College, University of Delhi
September 19, 2019


Public Lecture on From Fraternity to Maitri: Buddhism and Public Conscience in Dr Ambedkar's Thought

Distinguished Speakers' Lecture Series, Department of Philosophy, Janki Devi Memorial College, University of Delhi
October 1, 2019

National Seminar on The Relevance of Philosophy for Students Today
Ramanujan College, University of Delhi
October 3, 2019

Conference on Political Representation: Caste, Ethnic, Religious Minorities and Women Participation in India
​Indian Institute of Dalit Studies in collaboration with RLS, South Asia 
October 10, 2019, India International Centre


Indians of No Nation 
Seminar on Rethinking Political Realities: Conversations Across Disciplines
Centre for Social and Political Research , Jindal School of Liberal Arts and Humanities, O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonepat
October 11, 2019

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Being Bold
Wilson College, Pennsylvania,USA
​October 28, 2019

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Building Bridges Between Latin American Philosophy and Indian Philosophy
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Jawaharlal Nehru University, 18-20 March 2019

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Keynote Address:
​Dr Ambedkar's Philosophy of History and History of Philosophy


University of Mumbai, 22 March 2019 

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​Masculinity of Gods' Bodies

K J Somaiya Centre for Buddhist Studies, Mumbai
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"The Relevance of Philosophy in Our Time"
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​Centre for Philosophy, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, 8 March 2019


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Penguin authors bring you a beautiful reading of Jawaharlal Nehru’s THE DISCOVERY OF INDIA. In Nehru’s words, “to the past I looked for understanding."

15 August 2020

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Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan Memorial Lecture:
Ethics of Critical Thinking 
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​A New Orientalism? On Knowledge Production in the 21st Century
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Peoples’ Progressive Agenda, Alliance of Equity,
Samruddha Bharat

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International Conference - Quest For Equity
Reclaiming Social Justice: Revisiting Ambedkar
Bengaluru, July 21-23, 2017

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​Papers presented in Conferences/Workshops/Symposia

“Hindu Fundamentalism and Indian Political Philosophy”
Fundamentalism, Radicalism, Extremism
Corvinus University, Budapest, Hungary

“The New Geometry of Geopolitics Post-Secularism”
Vernacularization of the Secular
Wolfson College, Oxford University, Oxford, UK

“Deprovincializing Political Theory”
Social Cohesion/Conflict in a Post-Secular Era
The Van Leer Institute, Jerusalem, Israel

“The Ambiguous Anthropology of Political Liberalism”
Politics and Evil
Lapland University, Finland

“Political Liberalism in a Post-Secular World: On Rawls
​and Habermas”

Cultural Conditions of Secularism
University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

“Theoretical Fault lines and Social Flashpoints: Toward a New Political Theory”
Beyond the Religious, Beyond the Secular? Political Theology and Embedded Religiosity in European Rationalism
University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

“Flatland or Sphereland? The New Geometry of Global Political Theory Post Secularism”
Religion and Politics: Inter-contextual Approaches on India
and Europe

University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

“The Dialectics of Juergen Habermas’ Post-Secular Turn”
Religion and Democracy: Challenges & Prospects
Lutheran Theological University, Budapest, Hungary

“B.R. Ambedkar and the Political Theology of Navayana Buddhism”
Political Theology in the 21st Century?
Corvinus University, Budapest, Hungary

“A Political Theory of Svaraj”
Rethinking Svaraj in Ideas
Manipal University, Manipal

“What is Comparative Political Theory?” & “Gandhi and Ambedkar” & “Thin Swaraj” Workshop entitled Political Theory — Western and Indian
University of Mumbai, Mumbai

“Rethinking the Fundamentalism Project –
Hindu Fundamentalism"

Rethinking the Fundamentalism Project
Oslo University, Norway

“The Commitment to Culture: A Postcolonial Account”
Marxism and post colonialism: Which counterhegemonic narrative for the postcommunist East?
Tranzit.ro, Cluj, Romania

“Dalit Swaraj”
Dalit Theory and Practice
ICPR, Lucknow

“A Theory on Ambedkar's Conversion”
International Seminar on Contemporary Buddhist Philosophy
University of Mumbai

“On the IRNRD”
State of the Emergency Provisions
University of Manchester, UK

Lectures or Presentations at Conferences/Symposia

"Celebrating Dr Ambedkar"
JNU School of Arts & Aesthetics, Delhi

"Contemporary Indian Political Philosophy"
JNU, Centre for Philosophy, Delhi, India

"Freedom of Speech"
IIIT, Delhi, India

"The Epistemology and Methodology of Global Knowledge"
Rutgers University, Newark, USA

“The Use and Abuse of Asian Philosophy”
Stockton College, New Jersey, USA

“The Monstrosity of Buddha? From Zizek to Ambedkar
and Back”

University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

“Occidentalising Gandhi: On the Use and Abuse of Gandhi’s Life and Work in the Writings of John Rawls
Institute of Lifelong Learning & K.M. College, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India

“Wronging Rights? Re-evaluating Slavoj Zizek’s Critique of Human Rights in the light of Post-colonial Theory”
India International Centre, New Delhi, India

“The Romance of Global Justice: From John Rawls to
​Dalit Marxism”

Luiss University, Rome, Italy

“Kojève’s Slaves & Kurosawa’s Farmers”
University of Delhi, New Delhi, India

“On Virtue: Word and Deed: From Plato’s Meno to the Bhagavad Gita”
Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India

“Ambedkar’s Buddhist Marxism and Marxist Buddhism”
Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Institute of Social and Economic Change, University of Bombay, India

“Alexandre Kojève’s Marxist Hegel: From Dialectic to Dualism”
Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India

“Plato’s Dramatic Labyrinth: An Alternative Reading of the Parmenides”
University of Delhi, New Delhi, India
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  • Talks, Lectures​, Conferences, Workshops
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  • The Future of Political Theology
  • From Political Theory to Political Theology
  • Wronging Rights?
  • Global Justice
  • B. R. Ambedkar: The Buddha and His Dhamma
  • Discoursing the Post-Secular
  • Reading Hegel
  • The Complete Indian Wine Guide
  • Buddhism and the Contemporary World
  • India Wins Freedom
  • Eros Turannos
  • Book Series
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