15/09/2017
Shape Your Thought Club Proudly Presents, A talk by Prof.Aloka Parasher Sen, Department of History, University of Hyderabad, on "Challenges in Heritage Conservation" at CIS, on 16th September, 2017, i.e., Saturday, at 11:00 AM.
ALL ARE INVITED. For more details contact Hadia Ahsan or Rose Maria Joseph or call us on 8977431609.
ALOKA PARASHER-SEN did her B.A. (History Honors) [1973] from Lady Shri Ram College, Delhi University and her M.A. [1974] and Ph.D. [1978] from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. She is currently Professor, Department of History University of Hyderabad where she has been teaching since 1979. She was Head of the Department of History at the University of Hyderabad during 1998 - 2001.
Among her several academic assignments abroad, she was DAAD Fellow at the Sudasien Institut, Universitat Heidelberg in 1986 and Visiting Professor and Fulbright Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley in 1992. She has delivered invited lectures and presented papers at Conferences in Canada, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, UK and the USA
She was awarded the Career Award in Social Sciences and Humanities for Young Scientists the University Grants Commission, New Delhi during 1989-1991 and nominated Member Indian Council for Historical Research, New Delhi by the Government of India during 1994-97. She has also been nominated as expert to serve on Academic Bodies of various Universities and Research Institutions. Currently she is nominated Member of the National Commission/Research Council for History of Science (2007-2009), Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi.
She serves on the Editorial Board on the Journal of Deccan Studies brought out by the Centre of Deccan Studies, Hyderabad. Currently she is Partner, heading the Andhra Pradesh team, in a major Ford Foundation funded Project in collaboration with the French Institute Pondicherry on making a Digital Atlas of South India.
Her major publications are in the main area of her interest in social history, namely, early Indian attitudes towards foreigners, tribes and excluded castes. Her other work is on different aspects of the social, economic, cultural and religious history and archaeology of the Deccan. She has extensively written articles, research monographs and encyclopedic entries on these special areas of her interest.