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Upcoming events

Ayn Rand at 100 - Book Launch
Delhi - August 16th, 2006
Mumbai - August 17th, 2006
Chennai - August 18th, 2006

Past events

Literature on Liberty at Calcutta Book Fair
January 26 to February 6, 2005,

Julian Simon Memorial Lecture 2004
by Ken Schoolland
New Delhi
January 10, 2005



Julian L. Simon Memorial Lecture
3 December 2002:
"Feeding People, Generating Income, Protecting the Environment: The Role of Technology in Agriculture"

21 October 2002
2pm, India International Centre

Fuelling Progress, Not Poverty: Real Solutions to Climate Change and Development

A seminar for media persons and policymakers to address important issues in the climate change debate

Liberty Institute @
World Summit for Sustainable Development
August-September 2002

28 August 2002:
'Bullshit Award for Sustaining Poverty' Awarded to Vandana Shiva

picture of award

Farmers join street hawkers in Johannesburg to
march for freedom to trade

Read the farmers' memorandum

Activities and articles from the WSSD


March 25, 2002 Press conference
Set the Indian farmer free!

(press release)
3 pm, Press Club of India, Rafi Marg, across the street from Krisihi Bhavan.

invitation
(new) Behind all the fluff: Clearing the air on Bt Cotton
(new) See pictures from event

March 27, 2002: Strategies to Control Malaria: The Role of Public and Private Participation
A roundtable for stakeholders to discuss how to control and eradicate malaria

March 30, 2002: Intellectual Property and India: Protecting knowledge, promoting innovation
A workshop for journalists organised by Liberty Institute, New Delhi, and International Policy Network, London
workshop invitation
workshop programme

February 2002

Liberty Institute and International Policy Network at the Delhi Book Fair
28 January - 4 February, 2002, 11am-8pm
Stall No. 336, Hall No. 9, Pragati Maidan

Saturday, 2 February 2002, 3:00pm
A panel discussion on Law as a constraint: The need to reform the law-making process
Summary of proceedings

Wednesday, 6 February 2002, 10:00am - 3:00pm
Preparing for the World Summit on Sustainable Development

Annual Julian L. Simon Memorial Lecture
summary of lecture (pdf)

January 2002

Mont Pelerin Society, Special Asian Regional Meeting in Goa, Jan 27-30, jointly organised by Liberty Institute and Centre for Civil Society, New Delhi
www.mpsgoa.org

Mont Pelerin Society website:
www.montpelerin.org

 

December 2001
December 2: Global Walk for Capitalism
Delhi participates in the global Walk for Capitalism!
Flier (pdf) Flier (text)

Pictures from the Delhi Walk for Capitalism

Links to media coverage -
McDonalds and a drummer boy: Rewarding entrepreneurship is an intriguing concept for Indians

Financial Express Dec. 3

Giving globalisation a boost - Hindustan Times

October 2001
pictures from seminars
October 10: Globalisation: An opportunity to empower the people, and free the economy
October 11: Why India Needs Intellectual Property Protection
October 11: Product patents will benefit India, says author of new book, Ideal Matter: Globalisation and the intellectual property debate. press release
book cover (pdf)

October 12: The New WTO Round: Is free trade fair trade?


September 2001
Which Labour? Whose Standard? The role of free trade in empowering labour
(presentation and graphs) by Barun Mitra

July 2001
Seminar: Anti-Dumping Measures: A Critical Evaluation by Nilanjan Banik
Co-sponsored by the Liberty Institute and the Rajiv Ghandi Institute for Contemporary Studies
Time to Dump Anti-Dumping Measures (summary of paper)

June 4: Lecture by Mark Skousen


May 2001
May 11: Centre for Civil Society & Liberty Institute present a dialogue on Sustainable Development: The Role of Corporations

Panel: Arun Vishwanath, Proctor & Gamble (India), Bombay
Barun Mitra, Liberty Institute, New Delhi
Harpreet Singh Kandra, Tata Energy Research Institute, New Delhi
Chair: Dilip Biswas, Central Pollution Control Board, Govt. of India

May 2: Liberty Institute receives Sir Anthony Fisher Memorial Award for Population: The Ultimate Resource.

April 2001
Liberty Institute announces the fourth all-Indian The Fountainhead Essay Competition for high school students. In May 2001 we initiated the first Atlas Shrugged Essay Competition for college and university students. Read the essays from last year's contest winners.

April 21-22: With Sauvik Chakraverti, seminar on population, at Doon School and Lal Bahadur Shastri Academy in Dehradun.

April 25: Globalisation - GMOs in question, International seminar in Paris

March 2001

Liberty Institute celebrated its fifth anniversary with a series of events in the month of March.

Private Inititiatives in Education: Bridging the knowledge divide
Date: March 5, 2001
Speakers: Prof. James Tooley, Dr. Parth Shah, Dr. Sugata Mitra, Mr. Shashank Vira, Mr. Sauvik Chakraverti, Dinesh Singh Chair: Mr. Gurcharan Das.

The Politics of Health Care: Good intentions are not enough
Date: March 6, 10.30 AM
Speakers: Dr. Roger Bate, Dr. Anil Patel, Dr Parth Shah
Chair: Mr. Swaminathan S. A. Ayiar

Intellectual Property: In Need of Protection
Date: March 7, 2001, 2.30 PM
Speakers: Mr. Julian Morris, Prof. Anil Gupta, Mr. Barun Mitra,
Chair: Mr. Bibek Debroy

Liberty Retreat: A gathering of friends and associates of Liberty Institute, at Samode Palace, Rajasthan, March 9-11, 2001, to discuss the past and the present of free market ideas, and to chart a future course for the Institute.

Liberty Institute published two studies in March 2001: The Enterprise of Education: Challenges and Opportunities for India, by James Tooley, and When Politics Kills: Malaria and the DDT Story by Dr. Roger Bate and Richard Tren.

December 2000

Deepak Lal delivered our 2000 Julian Simon memorial lecture.

 

 

 

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