(Sponsored by Syndicate Bank)

19 January 2010@6 pm
Tenth Annual MN Srinivas Memorial Lecture
Speaker: Prof Veena Das, Professor, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Topic:"The Scenic and the Narrative: Anthropology in the Times of Violence"

14 November 2008@6 pm
Ninth M N Srinivas Memorial Lecture
Speaker: Prof Andre Beteille, Former Chairman, Indian Council of Social Science Research, New Delhi
Topic: Sociology and Ideology

27 November 2007@6.30 pm
Eighth M N Srinivas Memorial Lecture
Topic: Caste as Capital: Retelling the Story of Our Modernity
Speaker: Prof Satish Deshpande, Department of Sociology, Delhi School of Economics,Delhi University.

7 November 2006
The Seventh M N Srinivas Memorial Lecture
Speaker: Scarlett Epstein
Title: Back to the Village
Prof. Epstein was one of Professor Srinivas's first doctoral students and has extensively worked in Karnataka's villages.

18 November 2005
The Sixth M N Srinivas Memorial Lecture
Speaker: Prof Rajendra CHENNI
Professor and Head, PG Department of Studies in English Kuvempu University, Shimoga
Title: State and Identity: The Case of Karnataka

16 November 2004
The Fifth M N Srinivas Memorial Lecture
Speaker: Prof J P S Uberoi, Professor of Sociology, University of Delhi
Title: Technology of Obsolescence

28 January 2004
The Fourth M N Srinivas Memorial Lecture
Speaker: Arun Shourie
Honourable Minister of Disinvestment, Communications, Information Technology,     
Government of India
Title: The fate of reforms

17 January 2003
The Third M N Srinivas Memorial Lecture
Speaker: Mr Justice M N Venkatachaliah
Title: Does technology re-invent a purpose in civilization?: Teleology from Bergson to William Halal

3 December 2001
The Second M N Srinivas Memorial
Speaker: Kenneth Keniston,
Andrew W Mellon Professor of Human Development
Programme in Science, Technology and Society, MIT, USA
Title: IT for the common man: Lessons from India

9 January 2001
The First M N Srinivas Memorial Lecture
Speaker:Dr. T N Madan
Institute of Economic Growth, New Delhi
Title:Religion in the contemporary world