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Fifth Anniversary Celebration of the University of Chicago Center in Delhi

Program

Friday, November 1, 2019

9:00am

Registration

10:00am

Welcoming Remarks

Bala Srinivasan, Executive Vice President of Science, Innovation, and Strategy; Deputy Provost; Chief International Officer, The University of Chicago

10:10am

Opening Remarks

Daniel Diermeier, Provost, The University of Chicago

10:20am

Panel: Research to Scale-up: Engaging Indian Public Policy

Nishant Agrawal, Professor of Surgery; Section Chief, Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery; Director, Head and Neck Surgical Oncology, UChicago Medicine
Michael Greenstone, Milton Friedman Distinguished Service Professor in Economics, the College, and the Harris School; Director, Becker Friedman Institute for Economics; Director, Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago; Director, Tata Center for Development at the University of Chicago, The University of Chicago
Sudhir Nair, Professor, Surgical Oncology, Tata Memorial Centre in Mumbai 
Ganesh Neelam, Head, Innovations and Technology, Tata Trusts; Director, The Foundation for Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship 
A.K. Rastogi, Chairman, Jharkhand State Pollution Control Board
Faye D'Souza, Senior Television Journalist and Anchor, Mirror Now

11:30am

Break

11:50am

Panel: Cultural Past and Public Life

Sudha Gopalakrishnan, Vice President, Sahapedia 
Tapati Guha-Thakurta, Professor of History, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta
David Levin, Addie Clark Harding Professor in Germanic Studies, Cinema and Media Studies, Theater and Performance, and the College; Chair, Committee on Theater and Performance; Senior Advisor to the Provost for the Arts, The University of Chicago
Gary Tubb, Anupama and Guru Ramakrishnan Professor, Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations; Former Faculty Director, University of Chicago Center in Delhi, The University of Chicago
Dipesh Chakrabarty, Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor of History, South Asian Languages and Civilizations, and the College;Faculty Director, University of Chicago Center in Delhi, The University of Chicago

1:00pm

Lunch

2:20pm

Panel: Early Childhood Education 

Rukmini Banerji, CEO, Pratham 
Susan Levine, Rebecca Anne Boylan Professor in Education and Society; Co-Director, Center for Early Childhood Research; Inaugural Faculty Director, Science of Learning Center, The University of Chicago
Amukta Mahapatra, Founder and Director, SchoolScape Centre for Educators 
Luis Miranda, Chairman, Centre for Civil SocietyFounder, IDFC Private Equity; Trustee, The University of Chicago Trust

3:30pm

Panel: Collaboration in Science

Supratik Guha, Senior Scientist; Senior Advisor, Physical Sciences and Engineering, Argonne National Laboratory; Professor, Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, The University of Chicago
Yamuna Krishnan, Professor of Chemistry, The University of Chicago
Sandeep Verma, Secretary, Science, and Engineering Research Board; Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur 
Ka Yee Christina Lee, Professor of Chemistry, the James Franck Institute, Institute for Biophysical Dynamics and the College; Vice Provost for Research; Chair, Hong Kong Faculty Advisory Board, The University of Chicago

4:40pm

Break

5:00pm

Panel: Liberal Arts Education

Pankaj Chandra, Vice Chancellor, Ahmedabad University
Daniel Diermeier, Provost, The University of Chicago
Partha Chatterjee, Dean of International Partnerships; Professor and Head, Department of Economics, Shiv Nadar University 
Bala Srinivasan, Executive Vice President of Science, Innovation, and Strategy; Deputy Provost; Chief International Officer, The University of Chicago

6:10pm

Closing Remarks

Dipesh Chakrabarty, Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor of History, South Asian Languages and Civilizations, and the College; Faculty Director, University of Chicago Center in Delhi, The University of Chicago

6:30pm

Reception

7:30pm

Event Concludes

Parking Information

Parking: Paid parking is available at DLF Capitol Point Building.

Public Transportation: Rajiv Chowk (exit gate number 7) and Shivaji Stadium (airport express line) are within walking distance of the Center