By TCN News,
New Delhi: The Gulf Studies Programme in India Arab Cultural Centre of Jamia Millia Islamia is going to organize a three-day Gulf Studies Seminar from January 29 to 31.
The seminar is designed to address some of the key issues which are very relevant to a nuanced understanding of the region; its history, society, politics and international setting, from multi-disciplinary vantage points and bring together scholars with diverse spectrum of perspectives from across the world.
Another key objective of the seminar is to explore growing synergy between India and the Gulf States as both the regions share considerable symmetry in the perception of regional and global economic and political issues.
The seminar will be formally inaugurated by Ambassador C.R. Gharekhan, Former Assistant Secretary General, the UN & Special Envoy of the Prime Minister for West Asia and Middle East Peace Process on January 29 at the FTK-Centre for Information Technology seminar hall. The inaugural session will be chaired by Najeeb Jung, Vice-Chancellor of the university.
Prof. Tim Niblock, Gulf Studies, University of Exeter will be the Keynote Speaker and he will be delivering a lecture on “Shift to the East? Gulf Responses to a Transformed Global Order and a Divisive Regional Environment”.
On this occasion, a Photo Exhibition called “Gulfscapes” will also be inaugurated in the Exhibition Hall of the India Arab Cultural Centre at the university. The exhibition will be inaugurated by HE Sami Mohammad Al-Sulaiman, Ambassador of the State of Kuwait in India.
In the three-day seminar more than 25 papers are expected to be presented on the themes of the seminar by senior national-international faculty members, research scholars of various colleges/universities. The venue for the paper presentation is the Conference Hall of India Arab Culture Centre.
The Valedictory Session is scheduled to be held on January 31, 2013 at 4.30 PM which will be attended by Sara Akbar, Petroleum Studies Expert, Kuwait, Dr. Obaid Saeed Al-Shaqsee, Head, Department of Information, Sultan Qadoos University, Muscat among others.