Experiencing the Goddesses – The Trail of the Yoginis

Discussion around the new book co-authored by Nilima Chitgopekar; Janet Chawla; Seema Kohli; Anamika Roy; and Stella Dupuis (New Delhi: Aryan Books International, 2019)

 

Introduction: Stella Dupuis, co-author of the book

In Conversation: Madhu Khanna and Vidya Rao will be in conversation with the authors

Social and Gender Audits in Higher Education

Lead presentation by Dr. Kristy Kelly, Professor, Columbia University and Drexel University, USA. An expert on gender and international education and uses gender and education as critical lenses to examine social change

 

Speakers: Prof. Poonam Batra, Professor of Education, University of Delhi; Prof, Krishna Menon, Professor and Dean, School of Human Studies, Ambedkar University, Delhi; Prof. Sanjay Srivastava, Institute of Economic Growth, University of Delhi (tbc); Prof. Rukmini Sen, Professor, School of Liberal Studies, Ambedkar University; Dr. Bulbul Dhar James, Associate Professor, Dept. of Political Science, Jamia Millia Islamia; and Dr. Shweta Singh, Senior Assistant Professor, Dept. of International Studies, South Asian University

 

(Collaboration: Wiscomp)

 

 

HEALTHCARE IN INDIA

 

Crucial Gaps in Delivering Health Care – What’s Done? What’s Ignored?

Speaker: Smt Shailaja Chandra, former Secretary, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, and former Chief Secretary, Delhi

 

Discussants: Ms K. Sujatha Rao, former Health Secretary, Govt. of India; and Dr. Anand Krishnan, Professor, Centre for Community Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi

 

Chair: Prof. K. Srinath Reddy, President, Public Health Foundation of India

24TH PREM BHATIA MEMORIAL LECTURE 2019

 

India’s Contemporary Security Challenges

Speaker; Admiral Arun Prakash (Retd.), former Chief of Naval Staff

Chair: Ambassador G. Parthasarathy

 

(Collaboration: Prem Bhatia Memorial Trust)

Aaj Kavita

Poets – Arun Dev (Bijnor), Savita Singh (Delhi), Soni Pandey (Azamgarh), and Pranjal Dhar (Delhi)

 

(Collaboration: The Raza Foundation)

 

A Brief History of Musical Time

A classical voice and piano recital featuring iconic arias from different operas and periods of music history

Ashwati Parameshwar, Soprano

Dinaibo Rentta, Pianist

Koothu (53 min; 2018; dvd; English and with subtitles)

Director: Sandhya Kumar

Film courtesy: Public Service Broadcasting Trust

 

 The art and politics of Koothu, a living theatre tradition from Tamil Nadu.  Performed as an all-night play that recreates tales from the Indian epics, it is closely connected with the caste and ritual practices of the village people. The film looks at these practices, and the performance aesthetics and perspectives of the art form, through the works of two contemporary theatre companies, led by P. Rajagopal and  Sambandhan Thambiran

 

 

An exhibition of photographs by Bindi Sheth on children with special needs 

 

Inauguration by Ms Poonam Natarajan, Founder Chairperson, Vidya Sagar, Chennai on Thursday, 1st August 2019 at 17:30

 

(Collaboration: Prabhat Education Foundation)

WOMEN IN SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

 

Friends, heroes, scientists, women

Inaugural lecture by Dr. Gagandeep Kang, acclaimed biologist and Executive Director, Translational Health Science and Technology Institute; and the first Indian woman to be inducted as the Fellow of Royal Societies (FRS), London 2019 

 

Opening Remarks: Prof. K. Vijayaraghavan, Principal Scientific Adviser, Government of India

Chair: Shri Shyam Saran, Life Trustee, IIC

 

A tiny fraction of Indian women born to relative privilege have taken up the space they deserve in many fields. But even in this thin sliver of society where women are educated and have some degree of autonomy, stereotypes limit, not entry, but progression of women in science. My encounters and relationships with women who support, inspire, challenge and stand by me are central to my life and work. Demonstration of professional competence and our cultural constructs appear at odds, and I have been fortunate having many women and some men who believe that women can and will get things done.

 

First in a new series of lectures organised in collaboration with Office of the Principal Scientific Adviser, Government of India and Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. The year-long series of lectures and panel discussions hopes to inspire budding and aspiring women scientists, doctors, and engineers and also to discuss key issues relating to the inclusion and advancement of women in science, medicine and engineering

 

Restorative Justice in Prisons

 

Speaker: Dr. Upneet Lalli, Deputy Director, Institute of Correctional Administration, Chandigarh

 

 

 

Chair: Shri P.S. Bawa, former Director General of Police

 

 

 

Dr. Lalli is a Doctorate in Psychology and has been closely associated with policy making related to prisons and custodial justice issues. She has worked towards increasing knowledge about new laws amongst criminal justice functionaries, as well as bringing about attitudinal change with particular focus on treatment of offenders and motivating prison staff to take initiatives in prison reforms