This Week's Lectures

This Wednesday (24.9.2008) Ms Sonia Sahoo will give a talk on Linguistics.
On Friday (26.9.2008) Amlan Das Gupta will speak on Walter Benjamin's Theses on History. This is the last lecture in the History segment.
Benjamin's text is available at
http://www.efn.org/~dredmond/ThesesonHistory.html
Please read the text carefully before Friday!

Class on Friday, 19th September 2008

The second lecture of the History component of our General Theory course, entitled "History and Salvation: Saeculum and the City of God" will take place on Friday, 19th September 2008.

The main text, Augustine's City of God, can be found here. The complete URL for the same can be found here.

For further reference and discussion, you could also look at:
RA Markus, Saeculum (CUP:1970)
JGA Pocock, The Machiavellian Moment (PUP: rev. ed. 2003)

No class on Wednesday, 17th Sptember 2008...

...it being a holiday, on account of Vishwakarma puja.

Links

These are links to some of the primary texts for the History component of our General Theory course:
Herodotus, Persian Wars
Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian Wars
Xenophon, Cyropaedia
Cicero, On the Orator

The complete URLs for the above can be found here.

Class on Friday, 12 September 2008

Professor Amlan Das Gupta will take the General Theory class on Friday, 12th September 2008, on History. Consider this confirmed.

Won't we get a stipend for our M Phil course?

Class on Wednesday, 10th September 2008

On Wednesday, 10th September 2008, Professor Sobha Chattopadhyay will take a class on Modernism as part of the General Background series of lectures. This has been confirmed.

No class...

...on Friday, 5th September 2008. Dr. Santanu Biswas will take class on Saturday, 6th September 2008 (at 11:00 a.m.) instead. This has been confirmed.