Event

The Nicholson Center is pleased to announce the fifth annual lecture in memory of the life and work of our colleague and friend, Alison Winter, Professor of History and Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science, and the College, Director of the Nicholson Center for British Studies (2013-16)

Gandhi and Late Victorian Radicalism
Classics 110 (1010 East 59th Street)

Karuna Mantena
Professor of Political Science
Columbia University

Introduction by Demetra Kasimis

Karuna Mantena specializes in political theory with research interests in the theory and history of empire, South Asian intellectual history, and postcolonial democracy. Karuna holds a B.Sc.(Economics) in International Relations from the London School of Economics (1995), an M.A. in Ideology and Discourse Analysis from the University of Essex (1996), and a Ph.D. in Government from Harvard University (2004). Her first book, Alibis of Empire: Henry Maine and the Ends of Liberal Imperialism (2010), analyzed the transformation of nineteenth-century British imperial ideology. She is currently finishing a book on M. K. Gandhi and the politics of nonviolence, tentatively titled Gandhi’s Realism: Means and Ends in Politics. She is also co-director of the International Conference for the Study of Political Thought.