Speaker: Shri A.G.K. Menon, architect and Convener, INTACH Delhi Chapter

 

Chair: Shri K. T. Ravindran

 

The term ‘architectural heritage of India’ generally refers to buildings over a hundred years old. This overlooks many significant buildings built during the last century, particularly the extraordinary architecture of post - independence. This lacuna was highlighted recently during the failed attempts to conserve the Hall of Nations at Pragati Maidan, New Delhi. The talk will focus on the need to conserve exemplary examples of modern architecture along with ancient ones and discuss the issues involved

 

(Collaboration: INTACH, Delhi Chapter)

 

 

Curated by Rajiv Mehrotra

 

The Long Search V

Presented by Ronald Eyre

 

Buddhism: The Land of the Disappearing Buddha – Japan (52 min; English; dvd)

If the Buddha of India met the Buddha of Japan, would they recognize each other? To find out, this film talks to the staff in a Tokyo restaurant who keep regular Zen meditation schedules as part of their job, then on to the classical Zen calligraphy, sword fighting, archery and tea ceremony

 

African Religions: Zulu Lion (51 min; English; dvd)

Film on the Zulu Independent Churches in South Africa. When Christian missionaries took the Gospel to Africa they also tried to suppress African religion and subvert African culture with their own. But since World War I, and with increasing vigour in the last 20 years, Africans have been rediscovering their lost religious identity and have been forming independent churches with their own festivals, prophets and rituals and greater or lesser devotion to Christ

 

(Collaboration: Foundation for Universal Responsibility of His Holiness the Dalai Lama)

 

 

Speaker: Dr. Yaaminey Mubayi, Historian and Social Development Professional with research and field experience in the sector of Cultural Heritage and Sustainable Development.  Author of “Altar of Power - The Temple and the State in the Land of Jagannatha” (2005)

 

Chair: Dr. Jutta Jain Neubauer

 

 

By Preeti Banerjee from Bangalore, disciple of Guru Sharmila Mukherjee and Smt Arpita Venkatesh 

 

 

 

A Quiz programme on Indian Culture and Heritage for students from schools in Delhi and the NCR

 

(Collaboration: INTACH)

 

 

SYMPOSIUM ?ANNEXE LECTURE ROOM II FROM 14:00 TO 18:00

International Symposium on Ties That Bind – Ikat: Past, Present, Future

 

Session I – Ikat Usage, Tradition and Beyond

Iban Textiles of Sarawak - Edric Ong, Advisor, WCC-APR

Legacy of Narda Capuyan in Reviving Cordillera Ikat of Philippines - Lucia Catanes, Ikat Master Weaver

Calligraphic Ikats of Odisha - Sarat Chandra Patra, Master Weaver in conversation with Gunjan Jain, Designer

 

Chair: Khun Surapee Rojanavongse, Advisor, WCC-APR

 

Session II – Innovating Within Traditions

The Warp Zone – Contemporary Ikats of Española - Amanda Speer & Dain Daller, Weavers, New Mexico, USA

Indian Ikats in Fashion - Dr. Vandana Bhandari, Professor, NIFT, New Delhi

Telia Rumal and Beyond - Gajam Govardhan, Padmashree and Master Weaver in conversation with Ritu Sethi, Chairperson, CRT

 

Chair: Dr. Ghada Hijjawi-Qaddumi, President, WCC-APR

 

Wrap-up – Jasleen Dhamija, Textile Art Historian and Edric Ong

 

(Collaboration: World Crafts Council; World Crafts Council: Asia-Pacific Region [WCC-APR]; and Craft Revival Trust)

 

 

Intimacy Undone: Marriage, Divorce and Family Law in India

By Malavika Rajkotia (New Delhi: Speaking Tiger, 2017)

 

Panelists: Ms Indira Jai Singh, Advocate, Supreme Court of India; Justice Shri Ravindra Bhat, High Court of Delhi; and Shri Prosenjeet Banerjee, Advocate

 

Chair: Shri Soli J. Sorabjee, former Attorney General

 

FRIDAY 1 TO 8 

 

 

 

A multimedia exhibition that highlights unheard voices – the story of a woman still living in a refugee camp; how a city-wide Bachelors degree examination was put on hold due to a referendum in Sylhet; how two brothers travelled from Travancore State to the North-West Frontier Province for work and were stranded there at Partition, are some of the narratives. Narratives often not considered as part of popular imagination, the exhibition marries notions of history, memory, longing and belonging 

 

Curated by Aanchal Malhotra, The 1947 Partition Archives

 

 

   Chair:    Amb. Shyam Saran, Former Foreign Secretary

                And Governing Council Member, ICS

Speaker: Michael Krepon

             Co-Founder 

             The Stimson Centre

 

About the Speaker

Michael Krepon co-founded the Stimson Center in 1989, a nonpartisan policy research centre working to solve the world’s greatest threats to security and prosperity. He served as Stimson’s President and CEO until 2000, and continues to direct Stimson’s programming on nuclear and space issues. He was appointed the University of Virginia’s Diplomat Scholar, where he taught from 2001-2010. He is the author and editor of twenty-one books, most recently The Lure and Pitfalls of MIRVs: From the First to the Second Nuclear Age. He worked previously at the Carnegie Endowment, the State Department’s Arms Control and Disarmament Agency during the Carter Administration, and on Capitol Hill. He received the Carnegie Endowment’s Thérèse  Delpech Memorial Award in 2015 for lifetime achievement in non-governmental work to reduce nuclear dangers.

The talk will focus on US foreign policy under Trump and US-China relations.

 

Discussion ■ C.D. Deshmukh Auditorium from 10:00 to 13:00 and Conference Room II from 14:00 to 18:00

 

 

Celebrating Diversity

 

Release of new volumes of The People’s Linguistic Survey of India

 

 

 

Followed by talks and discussions

 

 

 

(Organised by IIC-International Research Division; and The People’s Linguistic Survey of India)