ICAS:MP Director, Professor Rupa Viswanath has been appointed as the distinguished Honorary Professor of the Asian University for Women (AUW), an institution that provides access to higher education solely on the basis of merit, regardless of the students income level.
Rupa Viswanath is Professor of Indian Religions at the Centre for Modern Indian Studies at the University of Göttingen, and a Fellow of Lucy Cavendish College at the University of Cambridge. Her research and writing address the practices of secular regimes, histories of slavery in colonial South Asia, the political economy of caste, and the historical dynamics of religious authorities and institutions. Her current research examines how the concept of a democratic “people” emerged in the vernacular in late colonial and postcolonial south India, and the kinds of reconfiguration this required of religious subjects and concepts of society.

The Asian University for Women has organised the 10th Commencement Ceremony, inaugurated by prominent speakers.
Date: January 21, 2023 | 10:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m
Venue: AUW Permanent Campus Site
About the opening:
Ceremony Opening: Dean of Arts and Sciences Dr. Beena Khurana
Address by the Chancellor Cherie Blair, CBE KC
Address by the Chair of AUW Board of Trustees and Honorable Education Minister Dr. Dipu Moni
Address by Special Guest HE Former Prime Minister of Denmark Poul Nyrrup Rasmussen
Video Address by Prime Minister of Bangladesh and AUW Chief Patron the Honorable Sheikh Hasina
Message from Former US Secretary of State the Honorable Hillary Rodham Clinton
Message from AUW Patron & Former US First Lady Laura Bush
Announcement of Distinguished Honorary Professorships
Professor Sunil Amrith, Yale University
Professor Rupa Viswanath, University of Göttingen
Commencement Address
Professor John Sexton, President Emeritus, New York University
Address by the Vice Chancellor Dr. Rubana Huq
Address by AUW Co-Founder and Chair of AUW Support Foundation Mr. Jack Meyer (Hon’2019)
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