16:00
At Workshop 
Conducted by Prof. Balázs Varga, Associate Professor, Film Studies at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary

At 18:30 
Preparations to be Together for an Unknown Period of Time 
(Felkészülés meghatározatlan ideig tartó együttlétre)
(95 min; 2020; dvd; Hungarian with English subtitles)
Director: Lili Horvát

Multiple award winner including Golden Hugo, New Director’s Competition, Chicago International Film Festival 2020; Dublin Film Critic’s Award for Best Director, Dublin International Film Festival 2021; Best Actress Award, Golden Spike Award for Best Film & Pilar Miró Award for Best New Director, Valladolid International Film Festival 2020; among others

Márta Vizy is a 39-year-old Hungarian neurosurgeon who returns to Budapest for a romantic rendezvous at the Liberty Bridge with János, a fellow doctor…

At 16:00
Workshop 
Conducted by Prof. Balázs Varga, Associate Professor, Film Studies at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary

At 18:30 
Body and Soul (Testről és lélekről)
(116 min; 2017; dvd; Hungarian with English subtitles)
Director: Ildikó Enyedi

Multiple award winner including FIPRESCI Prize, Competition, Golden Berlin Bear for Best Film, Prize of the Ecumenical Jury & Reader Jury of the "Berliner Morgenpost" Awards, Berlin International Film Festival 2017; Awards for Best Actress, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Supporting Actress & Grand Prize for Best Film Awards, Hungarian Film Week 2018; Sydney Film Prize for Best Film, Sydney Film Festival 2018; among others

Hungarian auteur Ildiko Enyedi returns with a strangely hypnotic and unique love story with Body and Soul.
 

WORKSHOP & FESTIVAL 

A festival of award-winning contemporary films by Women Directors from Hungary. The festival includes a Film Workshop conducted by Prof. Balázs Varga, Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE University), Budapest. Organised in collaboration with Department of Slavonic and Finno-Ugrian Studies, University of Delhi; and Hungarian Information and Cultural Centre.

At 16:00
Workshop 
Conducted by Prof. Balázs Varga, Associate Professor, Film Studies at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary. He writes and lectures on modern and contemporary Hungarian cinema, contemporary European cinema, production studies, popular cinemas and documentaries. He is a founding editor of Metropolis, a scholarly journal on film theory and history based in Budapest. 

At 18:30 
One Day (Egy nap)
(99 min; 2018; dvd; Hungarian with English subtitles)
Director: Zsófia Szilágyi

Multiple award winner including FIPRESCI Prize, Director’s Fortnight, Cannes Film Festival 2018; Best Actress Award, International Competition, Cairo International Film Festival 2018; Awards for Best Actress & Best Screenplay, Hungarian Film Week 2019; among others

This intense, intimate debut film shows 36 hours in a disintegrating marriage from the point of view of the stressed-out wife.
 

Illustrated lecture by Dr. Anu Gupta Jindal, artist, curator and scholar

Chair: Dr. Srikanth Kondapalli, Dean, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University

With inputs by Dr. Kusum Ansal, Ikebana Practitioner and author

Japan and India have a long and rich history, heritage and culture. The two countries are indelibly linked historically through Buddhism. In modern times, much progress has been made in deepening and strengthening ties in many areas – politics, strategic partnerships, economy and trade, grants assistance, science and technology, urban planning, and in the field of art and culture. The talk will discuss the cultural interactions between Japan and India and prospects in the future which can percolate into multiple advantageous areas.

Dr Anu Jindal, artist, scholar & curator holds a Ph.D. in Japanese Art History from the National Museum Institute, New Delhi. As a Japan Foundation Fellow she studied at Doshisha University, Kyoto. For a year she worked as Visiting Research Professor at the International Research Centre for Japanese Studies, Kyoto, Japan. For three decades she has been involved with Japanese studies, with many presentations, teaching modules and publications. Her admiration of Japanese culture reflects in her artistic oeuvre too, through inspiration and influences from Japanese art & ethos.

To be delivered by Hon’ble Shri Arif Mohammed Khan, Governor of Kerala

Welcome Address: Shri Prabhat Kumar, President, IC Centre for Governance

Presidential Address: Shri Harivansh, Deputy Chairman, Rajya Sabha

(Collaboration: I.C. Centre for Governance)
 

Ismat Chughtai’s short stories

Reprised by Sunil Mehra in Dastongoi
 
Sunil Mehra reprises Chughtai’s bittersweet stories of marriage, fidelity and sexual liberation
 

An exhibition of paintings, mixed media on paper 
By Madan Meena

The exhibition is a visual expression of an artists’ journey as he carefully makes connections with the world around him through his imagery. 

Opening of the exhibition on Friday, 28 October 2022 at 18:30 by Malvika Singh, publisher of Seminar magazine

Speaker: Prof. Matthew S.Hull, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan
Discussants: Prof. Deepak Mehta, Professor, Sociology and Anthropology, Ashoka University, Sonepat

Chair: Prof. Rita Brara, Editor, Contributions to Indian Sociology, Senior Fellow, Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi and Visiting Professor, Ashoka University, Sonepat

The CIS-IEG-SAGE Annual Lecture 2022
 
In 2013, the Indian state of Punjab contracted with a corporation to operate a new police phone helpline. The corporation call centre not only took complaints, but also monitored, directed, and reported police responses to them. An original provision of the Indian Code of Criminal Procedure, maintained since 1861, requires that oral testimony of complainants must be ‘reduced to writing’ by an authorised official. This requirement has been strained by the integration of corporate call centre customer service practices into the Punjab State police procedures. Audio recordings and database text records of complaints have only some of the features of writing and are not produced by a government officer. Nevertheless, the composite records generated by the call takers through corporate customer service software form the basis of quasi-official police proceedings. We can see in this arrangement two parallel tensions: first, a tension between two forms of human and technological mediation—the paper-based records of police and the call centre voice and database records; second, a tension between two conceptualisations of a political subject within bureaucratic procedures: one requiring representation by another authorised person and the other able to present him or herself.

(Collaboration: Contributions to Indian Sociology; Institute of Economic Growth; and SAGE)

(31 min; 2019; English)
Directors: Dr. SinhaRaja Tammita-Delgoda, Hiranya Malwatta 

Introduction: Shri Benoy K. Behl

Recipient of the Best Short Documentary Film Award, Mokkho International Film Festival, Pondicherry 2021; Best Short Documentary, Rome International Movie Awards 2022; Short Film Award, Mumbai International Film Festival 2022; Best Documentary Short Film Award, International Motion Picture Festival of India 2022

Dr. SinhaRaja Tammita-Delgoda will briefly introduce the film, highlighting the link between history, culture and the environment, a story which has several parallels with the history of India

Screening will be followed by a discussion

In Search of the Malwatu Oya is a journey to the heart of an ancient civilization. Starting from the holy mountain of Ritigala, Malwatu River, the second longest river (102 miles) in Sri Lanka, flows across the face of the Raja Rata (Land of the Kings) to enter the Bay of Mannar of the Indian Ocean. The most historic river basin in Sri Lanka, called Malwatu Oya in the native language, the River of Flower Gardens, lies at the very heart of the beginning of Sri Lanka’s ancient civilization.

Jashn e Rampur marks the culmination of the project ‘Forgotten Food: Culinary Memory, Local Heritage and Lost Agricultural Varieties in India’ (2019-2022) funded by Global Challenges Research Fund through the Arts and Humanities Research Council in UK and executed under the aegis of University of Sheffield. The day long festival focuses on the culinary heritage of Rampur with talks, discussions, film screening and performance

SCHEDULE:

From 10:00 to 11:45
Welcome Address: Principal Janki Devi Memorial College, University of Delhi

The Journey of the Project Forgotten Food
Prof. Siobhan Lambert-Hurley, Project Principal Investigator and Professor of Global History, University of Sheffield, UK  ; Dr. Tarana Hussain Khan, Project Consultant; and Dr. Saumya Gupta, Project Co-Investigator and Associate Professor, Janki Devi Memorial College, University of Delhi;

Heritage Foods of Rampur: From Translation to Revival
Rana Safvi, Project Collaborator in conversation with Dr. Jayeeta Sharma, Project Partner Lead, Culinaria Research Center, University of Toronto; Dr. Tarana Hussain Khan; Sadaf Hussain, Project Collaborator; and Shri Birendra Sandhu, Benazir Farms, Rampur

From 12:15 to 13:15
Collecting Oral Histories in Covid Times

Prof. Siobhan Lambert-Hurley in conversation with Dr. Saumya Gupta and her students

From 14:30 to 16:00
Film: Dastarkhwan e Rampur: A Culinary Journey
Yousuf Saeed, filmmaker, Project Collaborator in conversation with Samina Naqvi, Project Collaborator followed by screening of the film

From 16:30 to 17:30 in Multipurpose Hall
Degh to Dastarkhwan: Qissas and Recipes from Rampur
By Tarana Hussain Khan (Penguin: 2022)

Launch of the book followed by an in-conversation 

Dr. Tarana Hussain Khan in conversation with Prof. Pushpesh Pant, historian and writer

From 15:30 -18:30 in the Multipurpose Hall

Desi Delicacies: Food Writing from Muslim South Asia
Rana Safvi, Anoothi Vishal and Prof. Siobhan Lambert-Hurley in conversation with Prof. Claire Chambers, Project Co-Investigator and Professor of Global Literature, University of York, UK

At 18:45
Jashn e Benazir
Rekhtigoi performance by Dastango Fouzia and Dastango Saneya
Introduction: Dr. Tarana Hussain Khan

(Collaboration: Team Forgotten Foods)