---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Nirmala Institute of Education Goa <nie...@gmail.com> Date: Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 3:40 PM Subject: Fwd: PRESS NOTE To: pinto...@gmail.com
Dear Augusto Please try and give as much publicity as possible regarding Prof. Sudhir Kakar's course which will begin with a Public Lecture on Sept 2, 2013 at 3.30 pm in the Conference Hall at Goa University Thanking you Dr. Rita Paes Course Co-ordinator The Government of Goa has instituted the D. D Kosmabi Chair Visiting Research Professorship in interdisciplinary studies at Goa University .The aim of the chair is to enable the University to invite distinguished persons to work at the University and interact with the students and faculty of the University and affiliated colleges. The Government of Goa, Department of Art and Culture has instituted and funded these chairs. *" SUDHIR KAKAR (born 1938 in Nainital, Uttarakhand, India) is a psychoanalyst, novelist, and a scholar in the fields of cultural psychology and the psychology of religion who lives in Goa, India. Kakar took his Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Gujarat University, his Master’s degree (Diplom-Kaufmann) in business economics from Mannheim in Germany and his doctorate in economics from Vienna before beginning his training in psychoanalysis at the Sigmund-Freud Institute in Frankfurt, Germany in 1971. Between 1966 and 1971, Sudhir Kakar was a Lecturer in General Education at Harvard University, Research Associate at Harvard Business School and Professor of Organizational Behaviour at Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. He has also wormed at Haward, Princton, The Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, Sudhir Kakar’s many honors include the Kardiner Award of Columbia University, Boyer Prize for Psychological Anthropology of the American Anthropological Association, Germany’s Goethe Medal,Rockefeller Residency, McArthur Fellowship, and the Distinguished Service Award of Indo-American Psychiatric Association. He is a member of the International Psychoanalytic Association, New York Academy of Sciences, and Academie Universelle des Cultures, France. As ‘the psychoanalyst of civilizations’, the French weekly Le Nouvel Observateur listed Kakar as one of the world’s 25 major thinkers while the leading German weekly Die Zeit has profiled him as one of the 21 thinkers for the 21st century. His most recent award is the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, the country’s highest civilian honor. A portion of Sudhir Kakar's work involves the relationship between psychoanalysis and mysticism. His analyses of personages include that of Swami Vivekananda in The Inner World (1978 (now in its 16th printing since its first publication). Sudhir Kakar has seventeen books of non-fiction and four of fiction to his credit. Prof. Sudhir Kakar is a psychoanalyst, novelist and scholar in the fields of cultural psychology, and the psychology of religion who lives in Goa. He has received many prestigious awards and is a member of the International Psychoanalytic Association, New York Academy of Sciences, and Academic Universelle des Cultures, France as “The psychoanalyst of civilizations”. He has seventeen books of non-fiction and four of fiction to his credit. " * Prof. Sudhir Kakar’s course will be launched on Monday September 2nd 2013 with a public lecture at 3.30 pm in the Conference Hall at Goa University on “The Elephant or the unconscious mind in everyday life.” The rest of the sessions will be from 3.00 - 5.00 pm at the Senate Hall The Course will consist of 3 modules Module 1. Psychology of Indian Society Module 2. Psychology and Literature Module 3. Psychology and History