Conference: Trauma and Reconciliation – To Remember or to Forget?

A three-day conference to be held from 22 to 24 March 2018

 

Trauma can be described as a paradoxical phenomenon: A recollection that makes itself heard as something that wants to be forgotten, a constant reminder of something that should have sunk into oblivion, but pushes itself to the fore. Curated by Prof. Sudhir Kakar, this conference brings together a series of presentations and lectures by experts from different fields from psychology, psychoanalysis, sociology and medicine. These experts will provide information about current research on the topic and will present case studies from across the world to be able to understand how different societies have sought to deal with the problem of justice and/ or reconciliation. The conference is initiated by Farah Batool and Leonhard Emmerling and organized in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan, New Delhi.

 

ON THURSDAY 22 MARCH 2018 AT 18:00 IN C.D. DESHMUKH AUDITORIUM 

Film: Anatomy of Violence (Canada/India)

(93 min; 2016; dvd; English/Hindi)

Directed by Deepa Mehta

 

ON FRIDAY, 23 AND SATURDAY, 24 MARCH 2018 FROM 10:00 ONWARDS IN SEMINAR ROOMS I TO III, KAMALADEVI COMPLEX

Two days of panel discussions with leading experts

 

For details of the conference schedule, kindly please visit https://www.goethe.de/ins/in/en/ver.cfm.

 

The Communist Party of China in the Post-Mao Era: From Mass to Elite Party

Speaker: Prof. Kjeld Erik Brødsgaard, Professor, Department of International Economics and Management and Director of the China Studies Programme, Copenhagen Business School

 

(Collaboration: Institute of Chinese Studies; and Centre for the Study of Developing Societies)

 

BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP

 

The Wisdom of Vasistha: A Study on Laghu Yoga Vasistha from a Seekers Point of View

By Raghunandan (Delhi: Motilal Banarasidass, 2018)

 

Panelists: Prof. James Larson, Rabindranath Tagore Professor (Emeritus) of Indian Cultures and Civilisation, Indian University, Bloomington and Professor Emeritus, Dept. of Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara; 

Prof. Ram Nath Jha, School of Sanskrit and Indic Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University; and Prof. Jai Kant Sharma, Head of Department (Vyakaran), Lal Bahadur Kendriya Sanskrit Vidyapeeth, Delhi

 

Chair: Dr. Karan Singh, MP

THE IIC  DOUBLE BILL CONCERT 

 

Flute Recital

By Partha Sarkar from Kolkata, disciple of Pt Hariprasad Chaurasia

 

Followed by

 

Hindustani Vocal Recital

By Khushal Sharma from Delhi, disciple of guru  Dr Arindam Mukhopadhyaya 

 

 

 

ART MATTERS

Gulam Mohammed Sheikh in conversation with Geeta Kapur

 

(Collaboration: The Raza Foundation)

 

Iran, the Region, and the US

Speakers: Ambassador Sanjay Singh, former Indian Ambassador to Iran; Shri John Cherian, senior journalist; and Shri Saeed Naqvi, senior journalist, television commentator and interviewer

 

Chair: Ambassador K.P. Fabian

 

 

 

Contribution to Contemporary Knowledge Lecture 2018

 

Race, Empire, Capitalism: Theorizing the Nexus

Speaker: Nancy Fraser, Henry A & Louise Loeb Professor of Political & Social Science, The New School, New York

 

Chair: Ravi Kumar, South Asian University

 

(Collaboration: Faculty of Social Sciences, South Asian University; and Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung – South Asia)

THE IIC  DOUBLE BILL CONCERT 

 

 

 

Kathak Recital

By Bhakti Deshpande from Mumbai, disciple of Pt Birju Maharaj  & Pt Suresh Talwalkar

Followed by

 Henry David Thoreau: A Transcendentalist

A series of discussions with eminent experts from India and abroad. Speakers include Prof. Ruth Vanita, Professor & Director, Global Humanities & Religions, University of Montana; Dr. Rupendra Guha Majumdar, Associate Professor, Dept. of English, University of Delhi; Professor Emeritus Rupin Desai, Dept. of English, University of Delhi; and Professor Emeritus Prashant Sinha, Dept. of English, University of Pune

 

FROM 14:30 TO 16:15 ONWARDS IN C.D. DESHMUKH AUDITORIUM  

In a Dialogue - The Relevance of Civil Disobedience in Contemporary Times

Discussants: Professor Emeritus Anand Kumar, Dept. of Sociology, Jawaharlal Nehru University & Fellow, Indian Institute of Advanced Study; and Prof. Apoorvanand. Dept, of Hindi, University of Delhi

 

Moderator: Prof. Sanjay Kumar Pandey

 

AT 16:15 

Reporting the Conference

 

AT 17:00

Valedictory Address

By Prof. Mrinal Miri, Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha and eminent scholar

 

 

AT 18:30

A Night in Jail (80 min)

A theatrical performance by Chilman

Presented by the students and teachers of Bharti College