CJLS Lectures Series titled,  Epistemic Echoes: Unveiling ‘Minor Knowledges.’ Series, 2024-25 hosted by the Centre for Justice Law and Society (CJLS), Jindal Global Law School.
 
2024 marked 15 years of the Centre for Justice, Law, and Society (CJLS). As we reflect on our journey over the past decade and a half, CJLS is delighted to convene a year long series of lectures and conversation series from Fall 2024 through Spring 2025, titled Epistemic Echoes: Unveiling ‘Minor Knowledges.’
 
In Fall 2024, the Centre hosted five lectures from August to November.  In the Spring semester, we have 4 lectures planned. 
 
The second lecture in this series will be held on Tuesday, February 25th  by Dr. Y.S. Alone
 
Title of the lecture: Rightfulness, Protected Ignorance and Cultural Psychosis
Time:  3:30 PM – 4:30 PM
Venue: Imaginarium, Ground Floor of the FOB
 
About the Speaker : Dr. Y.S. Alone 
Born in 1963, Professor (Dr.) Y.S. Alone, studied BFA (Drawing & Painting) from Nagpur, and M.A. (Fine) Art History, at the Faculty Of Fine Arts, M.S. University, Baroda. He was completed his M.Phil and Ph.D. at the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Currently, Dr.  Alone is working as a Professor in the School of Arts and Aesthetics, at Jawahrlal Nehru University. Previously he worked at the Department of Archaeology, Deccan College Post Graduate Research Institute (Deemed University) Pune and at the Department of Fine Arts Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra.
 
He has published several research papers in journals and has authored chapters in edited volumes on Ancient Indian Art, criticism of Walter Spink, Ajanta caves and Buddhist caves in western India. He has also engaged with the critique of modern Indian art, and popular neo-Buddhist visual culture. Dr. Alone has also researched on the interpretative framework of Dr. Ambedkar, and has involved himself in writing art exhibition catalogues as a point of departure to critique the idea of meta-narratives modernity as tracing the difference. His research encompasses ancient Indian art, Buddhist art, modern Indian art, popular visual culture, Neo-Buddhist visual culture, philosophy, and social sciences. He is currently engaged in the conceptual exploration of 'protected ignorance'.

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