FRONTIERS OF HISTORY

 

Amala Shankar: Documenting a Dance Legacy

Speaker: Prof. Urmimala Sarkar Munsi, Associate Professor, School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University who teaches Dance Studies and Documentations of Living Traditions. She is a dance/choreographer trained at the Uday Shanakr India Culture Centre, Kolkata and continues her work as a choreographer; and is President of World Dance Alliance Asia Pacific

 

Chair: Rani Ray

 

As a tribute to an extraordinary teacher on her centenary year, this presentation hopes to focus on Smt Amala Shankar’s view of her own art practice, her role as a teacher, and her contribution towards developing a pedagogy out of late dance maestro Uday Shankar’s dance making process

 

Linhas Soltas – Drawings on Paper

By Cecilia Costa from Portugal

 

Preview on Thursday, 7 March 2019 at 18:30

 

Linhas soltas or scattered lines is a series of drawings on paper that engages with the line - elastic, ambiguous, labyrinthic and manipulative, to make the work come alive. In all the drawings there is a constant and common threat to reveal the identity of the portrait model

 

(Collaboration: Portuguese Embassy Cultural Centre)

Celebrating Indian Women in Science: An Incredible Journey
 

The exhibition celebrates women who have been part of Indian science from the late 19th century to the present day. The exhibition reflects on the journey of women scientists as a part of the scientific community in India. Focusing on their inspiration, experience and contribution to science through photographs and text to tell the stories of these women scientists to acknowledge women’s scientific achievements

 

Inauguration by Shri N.N. Vohra, President, IIC and Dr. Renu Swarup, Secretary, DBT on Thursday, 7 March 2019 at 16:00

 

(Collaboration: Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science & Technology, Govt. of India)

 

GANDHI MATTERS

 

Gandhi aur Vibhajan

Speaker: Sudhir Chandra

 

(Collaboration: The Raza Foundation)

 

Sculpt for Delhi II
 

An exhibition of installations and sculptures

Curated by Naresh Kapuria

 

Participating artists Naresh Kapuria, Bipasa Sen Gupta, Anjali Khosa Kaul, Asurvedh, Shovin Bhattacharjee, Suresh Kumar, O.P. Khare, Sangeeta Gupta, Farhat Jamshed, Neeraj Gupta, Shreedhar Mukul Panwar, Kavita Nayyar, Ved Nayyar, Madhab Das, Bhola Kumar

 

Inauguration by Shri Anil Baijal, Lt. Governor of Delhi on Tuesday, 5 March 2019 at 18:00

 

(Collaboration: Delhi Arts Society)

 

The Cancer Knowledge Alliance: Applying Pioneering 21st Century Data Science to Transform Cancer Research and Care
 

Speaker: Dr. Ken Buetow, Professor, School of Life Sciences at Arizona State University’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Director of the Computational Sciences and Informatics Program, Complex Adaptive Systems, Arizona State University; Associate Director, Center for Evolution and Medicine; and Director, Bioinformatics and Data Management, National Biomarker Development Alliance. A human genetics and genomics researcher who leverages Data Science to understand complex traits such as cancer, liver disease and obesity, Dr. Buetow uses novel “Big Data” infrastructure to manage large biomedical data sets and to uncover the underlying information architecture traits with the goal of finding novel way to prevent and treat diseases  

 

Chair: 

 

A new series of lectures organised in collaboration with Open Health Systems Laboratory that seeks to bring together thought leaders to present and discuss issues of life sciences in an effort to provoke innovative and holistic thinking that could lead to a paradigm shift

 

To Mark International Women’s Day 2019

 

The 15th IAWRT Asian Women’s Film Festival: 5 to 7 March 2019

The 15th edition of the festival brings together a collection of over 50 films from 20 countries, directed by women filmmakers of Asian origin. The festival includes animated films, students’ films and experimental films and curated segments on Childhood, Female gaze, Seven Sisters and Soundphiles. Highlights of the festival include a special country focus on Georgia and an art installation embodying the female storyteller, the Bioscopwaali

 

Organised in collaboration with International Association of Women in Radio &Television, India Chapter; National Foundation for India; Oxfam India; Tech Mahindra Foundation; Goethe Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan; Friedrich Ebert Stiftung; UN Women; Georgia National Film Center; Embassy of Israel; Cinestaan; and others

 

Screenings will be held in the Auditorium on 5, 6 and 7 March 2019 from 09:30 onwards. Filmmakers from India, Georgia, Israel, Bangladesh, Turkey and Sweden will be present to join in post-screening discussions 

 

For detail screening schedule, kindly please log onto www.iawrtindia.blogspot.in and www.iicdelhi.in

 

Yoga in the 21st Century: The BARPS Method

Illustrated lecture by Navtej Singh Johar

 

BARPS method is a five-step, self-regulatory practice involving bracing, aligning, rotation, poise and stretch. The BARPS method is a means to insulate the practice of asana from the ideas of Yoga that abound today, and steer the focus back upon the body which is innately intelligent and is endowed with supreme sensitivity and integrity. 

 

Navtej Johar will offer an introductory talk on the BARPS method that he has devised over years of practice, learning and teaching 

 

(Collaboration: Studio Abhyas)

 

Hindustani Vocal Music

By Pt. Sanjeev Abhyankar

 

In memory of Shri Vasant Sathe

 

(Collaboration: Sarvajanik Utsav Samiti, New Delhi)

 

Colloquium on Speaking for Myself: An Anthology of Asian Women’s Writing
 

Edited by Sukrita Paul Kumar & Malashri Lal, published by Penguin India and IIC-Asia Project; original edition 2009; new expanded edition 2018, with an additional section on ‘Beyond Borders’

 

Inaugural Session

Chair: Dr. Kapila Vatsyayan, Chairperson, IIC-International Research Division

Introduction: Prof. Sukrita Paul Kumar, Poet, critic and academician; and Prof. Malashri Lal, formerly Professor, Department of English and Dean, Academic Activities and Projects, University of Delhi

 

Release of the volume and address by the Chief Guest Dr. Kavita A. Sharma, President, South Asia University and former Director, India International Centre

 

Session I: 15:00 to 16:00 – The Changing Values of Women of Asia

Chair: Prof. Radha Chakravarty, Professor of Comparative Literature and Translation Studies, Ambedkar University

 

Speakers: Prof. Smita Agarwal, Director, Centre for Women’s Studies, University of Allahabad; and Prof. Savita Singh, School of Gender and Development Studies, IGNOU

 

Session II: 16:30 to 17:30 – Women Across Borders

Chair: Prof. Meenakshi Gopinath, former Principal, Lady Shri Ram College 

 

Speakers: Ms. Zeina Hashem Beck, Lebanese poet, winner of 2016 May Saton New Hampshire Poetry Prize; and Ms Urvashi Butalia, Founder, Zubaan Publishing

 

 

At 18:30 in C.D. Deshmukh Auditorium

Poetry Reading Session

Keki N. Daruwalla, Zeina Hashem Beck, Smith Agrawal, Savita Singh, H. K. Kaul, Sukrita Paul Kumar and others will participate

 

(Organised by the IIC-International Research Division)