Prof Muchkund Dubey of the Council for Social Development (CSD) will deliver the Nelson Mandela Memorial lecture at the Ravenshaw University here on Thursday as part of an international conference organised by the Political Science Department of the university.
The three-day conference on the theme “Redrawing the Boundaries of International Relations: Going Beyond State and Power” is being organised from Thursday to Saturday. More than 20 internationally reputed political scientists would present their papers on several topics ranging from human rights, global justice, women’s issues, migration and diaspora, environmental politics across the globe, human security, nuclear proliferation and international terrorism.
While university Vice-Chancellor Prof BC Tripathy would inaugurate the conference and preside over the inaugural ceremony, Prof Girijesh Pant would be the chief guest on the inaugural day.
On the same day, Prof Subrat Mitra of the Heidelberg University would deliver the keynote address. Similarly, Prof luis Cabrera of the Birmingham University would deliver the valedictory address on Saturday.