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PodQueueSpinozaRoundtable discussion with Akeel Bilgrami, Jonathan Israel, Steven Nadler, Joel Whitebook, and Catherine Wilson.2025-06-072h 15
BIC TALKS354. Gandhi, the PhilosopherIn Gandhi’s Integrity: Thinking Radically with Gandhi on Religion, Caste, Capital, Liberalism, Science, and Culture (forthcoming Columbia University Press), Akeel Bilgrami presents an account of the many aspects of Gandhi’s thought in a framework that integrates his resistance against imperialism with his critique of capitalist modernity, raising fundamental questions about how we should understand the relevance of these ideas for our own time and concerns. This is a panel discussion with Akeel Bilgrami (Author), Chandan Gowda (RK Hegde Chair Professor, ISEC) and Rajeev Kadambi (Associate Professor, OP Jindal Global University) moderated by Vishnupad (Dean, ESLA, SRM Univ...2025-04-0448 min
Five QuestionsAkeel BilgramiI ask the philosopher Akeel Bilgrami five questions about himself.
Akeel Bilgrami is the Sidney Morgenbesser Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University. He is the author of “Belief and Meaning” (1992), “Self-Knowledge and Resentment” (2006), and “Secularism, Identity, and Enchantment” (2014).2022-06-1431 min
Asian Studies CentreReflections on Gandhi’s Anti-ModernismAkeel Bilgrami (Columbia University) speaks at the Oxford South Asian Intellectual History Seminar on 7 March 2022. Akeel Bilgrami got a B.A in English Literature from Elphinstone College, Bombay University and went to Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar where he read Philosophy, Politics, and Economics. He has a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Chicago. He is the Sidney Morgenbesser Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University, where he is also a Professor on the Committee on Global Thought. He has been the Director of the Heyman Centre for the Humanities as well as the South Asian Institute at Columbia...2022-03-1154 min
The Cosmopolitan#11 In Conversation with Professor Akeel Bilgrami: Gandhi, Modernity, and the Cultural Commons Podcast: In Conversation with Jack JacobsEpisode: #11 In Conversation with Professor Akeel Bilgrami: Gandhi, Modernity, and the Cultural CommonsPub date: 2022-02-18Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationWhat is the Cultural Commons? Is there a tradition that links Burke with Nietzsche? What about Burke and Gandhi? What was Gandhi's critique of modernity? And what was Burke's, too, of Capital? Is there an Indian secularism? In this conversation it is my honour to speak with Professor Akeel Bilgrami about his past and present work in...2022-03-011h 25
Beaconsfield#11 In Conversation with Professor Akeel Bilgrami: Gandhi, Modernity, and the Cultural CommonsWhat is the Cultural Commons? Is there a tradition that links Burke with Nietzsche? What about Burke and Gandhi? What was Gandhi's critique of modernity? And what was Burke's, too, of Capital? Is there an Indian secularism? In this conversation it is my honour to speak with Professor Akeel Bilgrami about his past and present work in philosophy, political economy, and intellectual history.
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Philosophy Talk Starters177: Gandhi as a PhilosopherMore at http://philosophytalk.org/shows/gandhi-philosopher.
Gandhi is famous as the leader of the movement for Indian independence, which he based on his philosophy of non-violence, an important influence on Martin Luther King Jr. Gandhi's ideas and the effects of his leadership continue to influence the world and its leaders. What was the philosophical basis these ideas? Is non-violence a strategy for a certain purpose, or the basis for a way of life? Ken and John welcome Akeel Bilgrami, Director of the Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University and author of "Gandhi, the Philosopher."2021-09-2610 min
Dare to know! | Philosophy PodcastUnderstanding Noam Chomsky #12: What Kind of Creatures Are We? (with Carol Rovane & Akeel Bilgrami)This conversation is part of the 'Understanding Noam Chomsky' Series ('Dare to know!' Philosophy Podcast). Today we are joined by two guests, Carol Rovane & Akeel Bilgrami, both Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University. Professor Rovane current research focuses on several interrelated topics: the first person, personal identity, relativism, the foundations of value, group vs. individual responsibility, and some new problems for liberal theory. She is the author of the books: ‘The Bounds of Agency: An Essay in Revisionary Metaphysics’ and ‘The Metaphysics and Ethics of Relativism’. Professor Bilgrami has two relatively independent sets of intellec...2021-04-241h 04
Research Bytes PodcastInfosys Prize 2020 – Humanities – Special episode with Prof Deshpande and Prof BilgramiThe Infosys Prize endeavours to elevate the prestige of science and research in India and inspire young Indians to choose a vocation in research. The award is given annually to honour outstanding achievements of contemporary researchers and scientists across six categories: Engineering and Computer Sciences, Humanities, Life Sciences, Mathematical Sciences, Physical Sciences, and Social Sciences, each carrying a prize of a gold medal, a citation and a purse of USD 100,000 (or its equivalent in Rupees). The prize purse is tax-free in the hands of winners in India. This year the prizes were announced in December 2020.2021-02-2639 min
Think About ItFree Speech 3: Akeel Bilgrami--Does Social Justice Need Free Speech?Does social justice need free speech? Akeel Bilgrami, Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University talks about the shifting approaches to free speech in progressive activism on campus and the culturalization of the politics of equality. Professor Bilgrami is the author of Beyond the Secular West (2016), and the co-edited the collection Who’s Afraid of Academic Freedom? (2014). He is also co-editor of Who’s Afraid of Academic Freedom?Uli Baer teaches literature and photography as University Professor at New York University. A recipient of Guggenheim, Getty and Humboldt awards, in addition to hosting "Speaking of…” he hosts (with Caroline W...2018-10-0849 minAsian Studies CentreLiberty, Equality, and AlienationAkeel Bilgrami speaks at St Antony's College on 8 June 20182018-06-201h 16Asian Studies CentrePopulism as a Global Form: A Roundtable ConversationAkeel Bilgrami (Columbia), Shruti Kapila (Cambridge) and Saeed Naqvi (Foreign Correspondent and Author) speak in Oxford on 2 June 20172018-03-271h 19
ホンタナ「旅をする木」星野道夫大変お待たせしました！今年の一発目は自然写真家、星野道夫のエッセイ集からスタートします。没後二十年特集のテレビ番組「旅をする"本"」をきっかけにタナカはこの本を手にしてみたのですが、もっと早く読んでおきたかった…！と激しく後悔しました。探検家、写真家、研究者など、命を見つめ続ける人々がその最前線に持って行った本作。奇妙な偶然でつながったこの本の旅路は、まさに命のつながりの不思議さを体現しているのかもしれません。
13:01〜 解説の解説 Akeel Bilgrami「Gandhi, the Philosopher」
31:20〜 紹介回
（このエピソードを聴く）2018-01-2949 min
SynTalk#TAAF (The Alienation And Freedom) --- SynTalkAre you free if thoughts just occur to you? Is alienation – as loss of a sense of belonging and subjectivity – a phenomenon of modernity? Is freedom contra-causal and spontaneous? Is it truly in human nature to be free? Are people ‘already’ free? Do you exercise your freedom in the Market? Is all of production voluntary? Is production a form of fulfillment? Is leisure (without work), then, a threat to freedom? Are you overworked and overspent? Are your desires yours? Are we accumulating ‘garbage’? Why don’t consumers go on strike? Are we biologically and socially constrained? Is there a connection between langua...2017-12-091h 18
Why We ArgueIdentity and Democracy with Akeel Bilgrami Akeel Bilgrami is Sidney Morgenbesser Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University, and a member of Columbia’s Committee on Global Thought. Bilgrami’s research spans issues in Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Language, Moral Philosophy, and Political Philosophy. His most recent book is titled Secularism, Identity, and Enchantment (Harvard 2014). And he is the author of the forthcoming book, What is a Muslim? (Princeton UP).The "Why We Argue" podcast is produced by the Humanities Institute at the University of Connecticut as part of the Humility and Conviction in Public Life project. Learn more about your ad...2017-06-1532 min
Microphilosophy with Julian BagginiSelf East and West (Part 1)The first of three podcasts on conceptions of self, East and West, looks at how the self needs to be cultivated. With Akeel Bilgrami, Thomas Kasulis and Edward Slingerland. Produced in association with the Berggruen Institute's Philosophy and Culture Centre. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2015-10-1922 min
Littérature : conférences audioRencontre avec Sanjay Subrahmanyam, historien et Akeel BilgramiRencontre avec Sanjay Subrahmanyam, historien et Akeel Bilgrami, professeur de philosophie à l'Université Columbia dans le cadre du Festival des écrivains du monde.
anjay Subrahmanyam parle plusieurs langues et vit entre la France, où il occupe la chaire d'Histoire globale de la première modernité au Collège de France, et les États-Unis, où il est professeur et occupe la chaire Irving et Jean Stone en sciences sociales à UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles). Sa recherche se concentre sur l'Inde du Sud, l'empire moghol et l'époque moderne en Europe ou, comme il la surnomme, « l'époque moderne en Eurasie ».
La BnF et la Colu...2015-05-0400 min
Littérature : conférences vidéoRencontre avec Sanjay Subrahmanyam, historien et Akeel BilgramiRencontre avec Sanjay Subrahmanyam, historien et Akeel Bilgrami, professeur de philosophie à l'Université Columbia dans le cadre du Festival des écrivains du monde.
anjay Subrahmanyam parle plusieurs langues et vit entre la France, où il occupe la chaire d'Histoire globale de la première modernité au Collège de France, et les États-Unis, où il est professeur et occupe la chaire Irving et Jean Stone en sciences sociales à UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles). Sa recherche se concentre sur l'Inde du Sud, l'empire moghol et l'époque moderne en Europe ou, comme il la surnomme, « l'époque moderne en Eurasie ».
La BnF et la Colu...2015-05-0400 min
Faculty of Law general media'The Edge: borders and boundaries' & Q&A - SOAS Cambridge Speaker Series: Richard Sennett (audio)Speaker: Professor Richard Sennett is Centennial Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics (LSE) and University Professor of the Humanities at New York University (NYU) (www.richardsennett.com). His work explores how individuals and groups make social and cultural sense of material facts -- about the cities in which they live and about the labour they do. He focuses on how people can become competent interpreters of their own experience, despite the obstacles society may put in their way. His research entails ethnography, history, and social theory. Most recently, Professor Sennett has explored more positive aspects of labor...2015-03-101h 24
Faculty of Law general media'At the systematic edge: Where our conceptual categories no longer work' - SOAS Cambridge Speaker Series: Saskia Sassen (audio)Speaker: Saskia Sassen is Professor, Columbia University and co-chairs its Committee on Global Thought. Her new book is Expulsions: When complexity produces elementary brutalities. (Harvard University Press 2014).
The new speaker series brings together film-makers, writers, journalists and academics to tell stories about law, politics, gender and development in the global south, and the 'south in the north'. Confirmed speakers include: Jose Antonio Ocampo (economics); Rajeev Bhargava (political theory); Akeel Bilgrami (philosophy); Partha Chatterjee (political theory/history); Ken Loach (filmmaker), Saskia Sassen (sociology), and Richard Sennett (sociology).
After an extremely successful inaugural season, the series continues this term with a focus...2015-02-1656 min
Filosofiska rummetUtblick: En besjälad värld för den rationella människanLars Mogensen har intervjuat filosofiprofessorn Akeel Bilgrami i New York, och samtalar också med etikforskaren Ann Heberlein och sociologen Bo Isenberg. Lyssna på alla avsnitt i Sveriges Radio Play. I västerlandet hyllar vi det förnuft och den rationalitet som upplysningen gett oss. De flesta i Sverige föredrar naturvetenskapliga förklaringar. Big bang snarare än Adam och Eva.
Men om vi följer förnuftets väg fullt ut och inte längre kan tillerkänna naturen egna värden utan bara ser den som en resurs i människans tjänst – gick vi d...2014-12-2839 min
Moral Sciences ClubValue, Agency and DesireA talk given by Akeel Bilgrami (Columbia) at the Moral Sciences Club on 14th October 2014.2014-10-2129 min
Faculty of Law general media'Why does liberalism find it so hard to cope with identity?': Akeel BilgramiAkeel Bilgrami (Sidney Morganbesser Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University) will be speaking on the topic: 'Why does liberalism find it so hard to cope with identity?' at 5.30pm on October 13 in LG17 at the Law Faculty - drawing on his recent book 'Secularism, Identity, and Enchantment'.
More information on the speaker is available at: http://philosophy.columbia.edu/directories/faculty/akeel-bilgrami2014-10-141h 10![CHIASMOS: The University of Chicago International and Area Studies Multimedia Outreach Source [video]](http://chiasmos.uchicago.edu/chiasmosPodcastLogo_05_144.jpg)
CHIASMOS: The University of Chicago International and Area Studies Multimedia Outreach Source [video]"In Defense of Academic Freedom" (video)The growing evidence of outside interference in the hiring process at universities and the recent tenure denials at DePaul University, has prompted leading scholars across the nation to begin to speak out in defense of academic freedom. The DePaul University Academic Freedom Committee, Verso Books, and Diskord Journal sponsored a public symposium chaired by Tariq Ali, editor of Verso Books and New Left Review, and featuring: Akeel Bilgrami (Columbia University), Noam Chomsky (MIT), Tony Judt (NYU), John Mearsheimer (University of Chicago), Norman Finkelstein (formerly of DePaul University), Neve Gordon (Ben-Gurion University), Mehrene Larudee (DePaul University) and Evan Lorendo (DePaul Academic...2007-10-124h 02CHIASMOS: The University of Chicago International and Area Studies Multimedia Outreach Source [audio]"In Defense of Academic Freedom"A two session symposium on academic freedom chaired by Tariq Ali. The growing evidence of outside interference in the hiring process at universities and the recent tenure denials at DePaul University, has prompted leading scholars across the nation to begin to speak out in defense of academic freedom. The DePaul University Academic Freedom Committee, Verso Books, and Diskord Journal sponsored a public symposium chaired by Tariq Ali, editor of Verso Books and New Left Review, and featuring: Akeel Bilgrami (Columbia University), Noam Chomsky (MIT), Tony Judt (NYU), John Mearsheimer (University of Chicago), Norman Finkelstein (formerly of DePaul University), Neve Gordon...2007-10-124h 02