Public Lecture on Civil Wars: A History in Ideas
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| CPR is pleased to invite you to a Public Lecture on Civil Wars: A History in Ideas
Monday, 16 January 2017, 3:00 – 5:00 p.m.
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| Speaker: David Armitage Chair: Pratap Bhanu Mehta |
| Multipurpose Hall, Kamladevi Complex, India International Centre |
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| Image: Book Cover |
For much of recorded history, the most frequent, horrific, destructive and yet strangely overshadowed form of collective human violence has been civil war. It has shattered communities and scarred imaginations as much as it has shaped nations and staged pivotal moments in world history. Nor has such carnage been confined to the distant past: in the last fifty years almost half the world’s countries, especially its poorest, have suffered civil war, with their impact being estimated at about $100 billion per annum, or roughly twice what is spent annually on aid to developing countries. Civil war is also big business. Economists, political scientists, aid agencies, development strategists and governments put major resources into examining the factors that cause civil war, what determines its intensity and duration, how civil wars end, and why they seem so often to recur. In other words it is a global scourge and one that shows no signs of disappearing any time soon.
David Armitage is one of the most distinguished historians of our time. Armitage is the Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History and former Chair of the Department of History at Harvard University, where he teaches intellectual history and international history. He is also an Affiliated Professor in the Harvard Department of Government, an Affiliated Faculty Member at Harvard Law School, an Honorary Fellow of St Catharine’s College, Cambridge, and an Honorary Professor of History at the University of Sydney.
David Armitage is the author or editor of sixteen books, among them The Ideological Origins of the British Empire (2000), which won the Longman/History Today Book of the Year Award, The Declaration of Independence: A Global History (2007), which was chosen as a Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year, Foundations of Modern International Thought (2013) and The History Manifesto (co-auth., 2014), a New Statesman Book of the Year. His latest book, Civil Wars: A History in Ideas, will appear in early 2017.
Please join us for tea at 2.30 p.m. RSVP at president.cpr@cprindia.org
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PGTI Qualifying School 2017 begins in Ahmedabad on January 10
Ahmedabad, January 9, 2017: The Professional Golf Tour of India’s (PGTI) Qualifying School for 2017 will be held at the Kensville Golf & Country Club, Ahmedabad, from January 10 – 20, 2017.
The First Stage of the Qualifying School will comprise of two 36-hole events – Pre Qualifying I and Pre Qualifying II. While Pre Qualifying I will be staged on January 10 – 11, Pre Qualifying II takes place on January 13 – 14.
The top 37 players and ties from the field of 117 at Pre Qualifying I will make it to the Final Stage. Similarly, the top 36 and ties out of a field of 115 at Pre Qualifying II will make it to the Final Stage.
The qualifiers from the First Stage will join the 47 exempt players in the Final Stage which is scheduled to be held from January 17 – 20. The 72-hole Final Stage event will feature a field of 120 players.
The top 80 and ties will make the halfway cut after two rounds of the Final Stage. At the end of the Final Stage, the top 39 players and ties will earn their full cards for the 2017 PGTI season.
The Final Stage offers a total prize purse of Rs. 5 lakh.
Iran Ex President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani dead
Iran Ex Peesident Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani dies at the age of 82. He was an infulencal politician leader.he stepped down 1997.he was next to Aytolla Al Kohemni. He will be buried on Tuesday. He was the chairman of the Expediency Discernment Council of Iran from 1989 until his death. He was also the fourth president of Iran from 3 August 1989 until 3 August 1997. He was the head of the Assembly of Experts from 2007 until 2011 when he decided not to nominate himself for the post.
During the Iran–Iraq War Rafsanjani was the de facto commander-in-chief of the Iranian military. Rafsanjani was elected chairman of the Iranian parliament in 1980 and served until 1989. He played an important role in the choice of Ali Khamenei as Supreme Leader Rafsanjani became president of Iran after winning 1989 election. He served another term by winning election in 1993. In 2005 election he ran for a third term in office, placing first in the first round of elections but ultimately losing to rival Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in the run-off. He and his familly came under fire from conservatives for their support of Mir-Hossein Mousavi who led protests in 2009.
Rafsanjani has been described as having been a pragmatic Islamic conservative.He supported a free market position domestically, favoring privatization of state-owned industries and a moderate position internationally, seeking to avoid conflict with the United States and the West. He was also founder and one of the Board of Trustees of Azad University.
La La Land, which, in a record-breaking sweep
Damien Chazelle’s La La Land, which, in a record-breaking sweep, won Globes in all the seven categories it had been nominated: best motion picture, musical-comedy; best director and screenplay, Damien Chazelle; best actress, musical-comedy, Emma Stone; best actor, musical-comedy, Ryan Gosling (who visibly blushed when his name was announced, to the delight of audiences near and far); best original song, “City of Stars”, and best original score, Justin Hurwitz.
On the drama front the voters widened their choices. Director Barry Jenkins’ Moonlight won as best motion picture- drama (and was greeted by a standing ovation by the International Ballroom), but saw one of his strongest categories – best supporting actors, in which both Mahershala Ali and Naomie Harris were favorites- go to other talent: Aaron Taylor-Johnson for Nocturnal Animals and Viola Davis for Fences. Favorite Casey Affleck took the Golden Globe for best actor-drama for his work in Manchester By The Sea, with Paul Verhoeven’s controversial Elle making a strong showing with two wins – best foreign language film and best actress-drama for Isabelle Huppert, who beat local faves Natalie Portman and Amy Adams. Zootopia won in the animated feature category.
On recognizing upcoming talent and trend, the 2017 Globes showered awards on FX’s Atlanta – best series, musical or comedy, and best actor in a TV series, musical-comedy for Donald Glover. Netflix’s newcomer The Crown beat a lot of heavy contenders, nabbing Globes for best series-drama and best actress in a drama series for Claire Foy, with Billy Bob Thornton taking the acting Globe in the category for another new series, Amazon’s Goliath. AMC’s limited series The Night Manager took almost all Globes in its category – with kudos to Tom Hiddleston and supporting actors Hugh Laurie and Olivia Colman – with The People Vs OJ Simpson taking the rest: best limited series and best actress/limited series for Sarah Paulson.
Amidst all the festivities our recipient of this year’s Cecil B. deMille Award, Meryl Streep – introduced by Viola Davis with an eloquent, poignant speech about her multiple powers of observation and creation- took upon her to remind the gilded audience of what lies ahead. Streep’s passionate speech lambasted Donald Trump and its supporters and urged the creative community to band together to preserve freedom. In an elegant gesture, Streep reminded all of the need to support a free press – “they will need us, and we certainly need them.” Finally, in a voice overcome by emotion, Streep recalled her friend, “Princess Leia “, and one of her favorite sayings: “take your broken heart and make it into art.”
5.8 Magnitude quake hit vshakes Northern Canada
A magnitude 5.8 earthquake struck in Nunavut territory in far northern Canada, the US Geological Survey reported. The quake, originally measured at magnitude 6.4, hit at a depth of 19 km and was centered 89 km southeast of Resolute in the thinly populated territory, the USGS said.
Mulayam Singh Yadav faction likely to meet EC today
The ruling Samajwadi Party of Uttar Pradesh seems to be heading towards a vertical split as party patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav has refused to accept Akhilesh Yadav as president of the party.
Mulayam Singh declared on Sunday that he continued to be the president of Samajwadi Party and described the national convention ‘illegitimate’ called on January lst by his son Akhilesh Yadav and his supporters. Mulayam claimed that the signatures of support from MLAs given by the Akhilesh camp to the Election Commission had no value as they ceased to be legislators after the model code of conduct came into force on January 4 with the announcement of the poll schedule. The Mulayam faction is all set to meet Election Commission panel in Delhi to make its claim over party and the symbol cycle.
AIR correspondent reports that with time running out and the Election Commission set to pronounce its verdict on respective claims by the Mulayam and Akhilesh factions to SP’s ‘cycle’ symbol, it could well lead to a quadrangular contest in the coming polls, leaving the two party factions to fight it out with BJP and Mayawati’s BSP.
Congress and the Akhilesh camp have already expressed their intent to tie up. The Mulayam camp is set to meet the EC today to question the genuineness of the affidavits submitted to the EC by his cousin Ram Gopal, the general secretary of the rival camp. Amar Singh also alleged that the signatures of support from MLAs and party office bearers, given to the EC by Ram Gopal, were forged and their authenticity was suspect.
UK ended 2016 as the strongest of the world’s advanced economies.
Whatever happened to the Brexit slowdown? The UK ended 2016 as the strongest of the world’s advanced economies.
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