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Mental Health, Spirituality and Well Being – Connectedness Across Life Span

22 October 2019, 05:30 am
Mental Health, Spirituality and Well Being – Connectedness Across Life Span
Programme Type
Discussions
Mental Health, Spirituality and Well Being – Connectedness Across Life Span
 
Speakers: Dr. Raman Kapur, Padma Shri and Chairman, Department of Medical Acupuncture, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital; and
 
Dr. Jitender Nagpal, Chairman, Department of Psychiatry, Mool Chand Hospital
 
 
 
Introduction: Dr. Kapila Vatsyayan, Chairperson, IIC-International Research Division
 
 

Mental Health, Spirituality and Well Being – Connectedness Across Life Span

22 October 2019, 05:30 am
Mental Health, Spirituality and Well Being – Connectedness Across Life Span
Programme Type
Discussions
Mental Health, Spirituality and Well Being – Connectedness Across Life Span
Speakers: Dr. Raman Kapur, Padma Shri and Chairman, Department of Medical Acupuncture, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital; and
Dr. Jitender Nagpal, Chairman, Department of Psychiatry, Mool Chand Hospital
 

GANDHI 150

24 October 2019, 05:30 am
GANDHI 150
Programme Type
Discussions
GANDHI 150
International Seminar on Satyagraha in the 21st Century
 
Plenary Session
GANDHI 150
International Seminar on Satyagraha in the 21st Century
Chair: Prof. Neera Chandhoke, former Professor of Political Science, University of Delhi
 
Martin Luther King Jr. and the Gandhian Legacy of Satyagraha
Speaker: Prof. Ramin Jahanbegloo, Professor & Vice–Dean, Jindal Global Law School and Executive Director, Mahatma Gandhi Centre for Peace, O.P. Jindal Global University
 
Coloured Races and Future of Satyagraha
Speaker: Prof. Vinay Lal, Professor of History and Asian American Studies, University of California, Los Angeles
 
FROM 16:00 TO 17:30
Valedictory Session
Chair: Prof. Muchkund Dubey
 
Valedictory Lecture: Satyagraha and Life Sustenance on Earth
To be delivered by Dr. Vandana Shiva, Environmental Activist and Founder, Navdanya
 

GANDHI 150

23 October 2019, 05:30 am
GANDHI 150
Programme Type
Discussions
GANDHI 150
International Seminar on Satyagraha in the 21st Century
 
From 11:45 to 13:15 
Plenary Session
Chair: Prof. Ashis Nandy, Honorary Fellow, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies
 
The Global Gandhi
Speaker: Prof. Mark Juergensmeyer, Professor, Department of Global Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
 
Satyagraha and Movements for Justice, Peace and Self-Determination in Africa and Latin America
Speaker: Prof. Beatriz Bissio, Professor, Federal University, Rio de Janeiro
 
AT 18:30
Satyagraha in Verse
Moderated by Savita Singh and Ashok Vajpayee
 
(Collaboration: The Raza Foundation)
 

GANDHI 150

22 October 2019, 05:30 am
GANDHI 150
Programme Type
Seminars
GANDHI 150
International Seminar on Satyagraha in the 21st Century: 22 to 24 October 2019
Organised in collaboration with Council for Social Development and others
 
FROM 10:00 TO 12:15 IN THE MULTIPURPOSE HALL
Inauguration
By Shri N.N. Vohra, President, India International Centre
 
Chief Guest: Ms Medha Patkar, Narmada Bachao Andolan, National Alliance for People Movement who will speak on
Satyagraha in Contemporary India: Some Reflections
 
Chair: Prof. Muchkund Dubey, President, Council for Social Development
 
AT 18:30 IN C.D. DESHMUKH AUDITORIUM
Gandhi: Warp and Weft
A solo dance-theatre work celebrating different aspects of Gandhi's Satyagraha
by Geetha Chandran
 

31st Wilhelm von Pochhammer Memorial Lecture

21 October 2019, 05:30 am
31st Wilhelm von Pochhammer Memorial Lecture
Programme Type
Talks
31st Wilhelm von Pochhammer Memorial Lecture
 
Nationalism and Interdependence
Speaker: Shri Niti Desai, well-known economist and former Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations 
 
Chair: Ambassador Ronen Sen, President, Federation of Indo-German Societies in India
 
Economic, ecological, social and cultural interaction and interdependence between individuals and enterprises is cutting across national boundaries at an unprecedented rate. Yet a more vocal nationalism is becoming increasingly the preferred option of the political class in many countries. The lecture will explore where we are going and where we should be headed
 
(Collaboration: Federation of Indo-German Societies in India)
 

Expressions of Muharram

21 October 2019, 05:30 am
Expressions of Muharram
Programme Type
Cultural
 
Expressions of Muharram
A cultural presentation by Saeed Naqvi
Introduction: Saba Naqvi
 
Traditional performers from the Qasbah of Mustafabad will present  Marsiya, Soz, Salaam, Nauha in Hindi/Hindustani, Awadhi and Farsi on The Tragedy of Karbala
 
 

To Mark the 10th Anniversary of the Butterfly Conservatory in Lodhi Garden   Discussion on Butterflies and Environmental Conservation Speakers:

19 October 2019, 05:30 am
To Mark the 10th Anniversary of the Butterfly Conservatory in Lodhi Garden   Discussion on Butterflies and Environmental Conservation Speakers:
Programme Type
Discussions
To Mark the 10th Anniversary of the Butterfly Conservatory in Lodhi Garden
 
Discussion on Butterflies and Environmental Conservation
Speakers: Shri Vijay Dev, IAS, Chief Secretary of Delhi and Chairman, NDMC ; Prof. C.R. Babu, Professor Emeritus, Centre for Environmental Management of Degraded Ecosystems (CEMDE), University of Delhi; and Dr. Surya Prakash, School of Life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University
 
Chair: Suhas Borker, Founder Member, Green Circle of Delhi
 
The Butterfly Conservatory in Lodhi Garden is spread over three acres and was inaugurated on 19 October 2009. It was jointly developed by New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC), Centre for Environmental Management of Degraded Ecosystems (CEMDE), University of Delhi and Green Circle of Delhi to serve as “a wake up tool for environment education”. The Conservatory is currently being revamped under the expertise of Prof. C.R. Babu
 
Please bring a cloth/jute bag to collect a sapling, courtesy Horticulture Department, NDMC, after the meeting
 
(Collaboration: Green Circle of Delhi)
 

South Asian Literature Festival

18 October 2019, 05:30 am
South Asian Literature Festival
Programme Type
Seminars
South Asian Literature Festival: 18 to 20 October 2019
This year’s edition of the festival celebrates eminent senior and young writers from South Asia who have made a difference to our thinking and sensitivity. Marginalised and subaltern writers will be featured as well as story writers, novelists, non-fiction writers and poets who will read passages from their books and poems
 
The sessions on 19 and 20 October 2019 will be held at Academy of Fine Arts and Literature
 
(Collaboration: Foundation of SAARC Writers and Literature, SAARC Apex Body)
 
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