This is the inaugural year of the UBC South Asia Research Colloquium, which offers a forum for specialists in South Asia to share their research in front of an interdisciplinary audience. The format will consist of a research presentation of about forty-five minutes followed by questions and comments from the audience for about half an hour.
The third seminar of the South Asia Research Colloquium entitled “Mahatma Gandhi, Richard Gregg and Integral Nonviolence” features speaker Dr. James Tully (Professor Emeritus of Political Science and Law at the University of Victoria).
Date & Time:
Friday, November 25 | 12:30-2:00 PM (PST)
Location:
Room 604 (seminar room), UBC Asian Centre, 1871 West Mall, Vancouver (map here)
The event is open to students and faculty of UBC and other academic institutions.
Registration is required (please find the registration form below).
Guest speaker
James Tully is an emeritus professor of Political Science and Law. After completing his BA at the University of British Columbia and PhD at the University of Cambridge (Trinity College) he taught in the departments of Political Science and Philosophy at McGill University 1977-96 (Chair, Department of Philosophy 1994-6). He was Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science at UVic from 1996-2001 and cross-appointed in Law, Indigenous Governance and Philosophy. In 2001-03 he was the inaugural Henry N.R. Jackman distinguished professor in Philosophical Studies at the University of Toronto in the departments of Philosophy and Political Science and the Faculty of Law. In 2003 he returned to UVic as a distinguished professor. He retired in 2014. As emeritus and adjunct professor he continues his research and work with graduate students.
He is Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and Emeritus Fellow of the Trudeau Foundation. In 2010 he was awarded the Killam Prize in the Humanities for his outstanding contribution to scholarship and Canadian public life. In May 2014, he was awarded the David H. Turpin Gold Medal for Career Achievement in Research.
View the other events in the UBC South Asia Research Colloquium
The Art of Agency in a Self-Effacing Universe, November 4
What is Colonialism? The Meaning of a Twentieth-Century Political Category, October 21
