DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL WORK

UNIVERSITY OF DELHI
Celebrating 75 years
of Committed Academic Engagement (1946-2020)
(1946

International Webinar
ebinar Series
eries on
GANDHIAN THOUGHTS AN
ANDD SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE
PRACTI

Prof Dennis Dalton

Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Barnard College, Columbia University

Prof Dalton will speak on

Making sense of Non
Non-violence:
violence:
Contemporary Challenges and Gandhian ways
19th September 2020, Saturday, 9.30 p.m.
India is commemorating the 150th birth anniversary of its great leader Mahatma Gandhi.
Gandhi
Gandhi was a visionary who dreamt of a society free of caste, religious, economic and
even gender prejudices and his messages indeed transcend time and space. It is an
occasion to remember them and translate them in our everyday practice.
Social Work draws heavily from Gandhian values and principles. It is time to revisit and
re-emphasise
emphasise these principles. Accordingly, Department of Social Work, University of
Delhi is holding a series of international wwebinars
ebinars on Gandhian Thoughts and Social
Work Pract
Practice during the month of September 2020
2020.. Faculties, researchers and students
of the Departments
Departments of Social Work from India and abroad, members of various NGOs
and all those interested in the theme are invited to participate in these events.
Prof Dalton’
Dalton’s research
search and writings focus on Indian political ideas, principally the
thought and leadership of Mahatma Gandhi, as seen especially in his classic study,
Mahatma Gandhi
Gandhi:: Nonviolent Power in Action (Columbia University Press, 2012); and, in
his edited book Mahatma Gandhi: Selected Political Writings (Hackett, 1996). He received
a Fulbright scholarship for teaching and research in India and Nepal, 1994-1995.
1994 1995.

The link to join the event is https://

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Mr P C Behera Prof Pamela Singla Prof Neera Agnimitra

Organising Secretary Head of the Department Discussant

Webinar Committee
Dr Meenu Anand, Dr Archana Kaushik, Dr A Malathi, Mr Abhishek Thakur
Thakur,, Mr N T Thomas