Beyond Borders: IIC-NFI Lecture Series

 

Ancient Assam – Looking Back, Looking Forward

Speaker: Prof. Nayanjot Lahiri, Professor of History, Ashoka University, Sonepat, Haryana and recipient of the Infosys Prize in Humanities - Archaeology for 2013. Her most recent book Ashoka in Ancient India won the John F. Richards prize of the American Historical Association for the best book in South Asian History for 2015

 

Introduction: Dr. Monica Banerjee, Director NFI

Moderator: Kishalay Bhattacharjee, Associate Professor, O P Jindal Global University, Sonepat, Haryana

 

Nayanjot Lahiri began her research journey in Assam in the 1980s by looking at the epigraphs of ancient Assam. Published as Pre-Ahom Assam (1991), the book analyzed the physical and human landscapes immortalized in those epigraphs as also the links of Assam beyond the borders of the Brahmaputra valley. In this lecture, Lahiri returns to her research roots to offer some thoughts on ancient Assam, and about future research in that direction

 

(Collaboration: National Foundation for India)

 

DURGABAI DESHMUKH MEMORIAL LECTURE 2017

 

The Moral Economy of the Elite and Why they Can’t Confront the Inequality that is Our Greatest Crisis 

Speaker: P. Sainath

 

(Collaboration: Council for Social Development)

 

The Jain Philosophy of Death

A discussion on two books by S. Settar, Emeritus Professor, National Institute of Advanced Studies: Inviting Death: Historical Experiments on Sepulchral Hill and Pursuing Death: Philosophy and Practice of Voluntary Termination of Life (Primus Books, 2017)

 

Release of books by Dr. Abhishek Manu Singhvi

 

Followed by:

 

The author in conversation with Dr. Sudhamahi Regunathan and Dr. Abhishek Manu Singhvi

 

(Collaboration: Primus Books)

 

  

 

 

Release of Dr. H. K. Kaul’s book Encounters with People and the Angels of Hope: Poems 

By Dr. Karan Singh, M.P.

Prof.  Riyaz Punjabi, Former Vice Chancellor, University of Kashmirwill speak on the book

Sunit Tandon and Dr.Lavlin Thadani will read poems from the book

 

Chair: Dr. Karan Singh

 

(Collaboration: The Poetry Society, India)

 

 

ART MATTERS

Malavika Sarukkai in conversation with Sudha Gopalakrishnan

 

(Collaboration: Raza Foundation)

 

 

Nadopasana – Carnatic Classical Vocal Recital

By Guruvayoor Dr. T.V. Manikandan

 

Accompanists: Adarsh M. Nair (vocal support & tanpura); Delhi R. Sridhar (violin); and Kumbakonam N. Padmanabhan (mridangam)

 

(Collaboration: Gurukulam Foundation)

 

BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP

 

Two books by Audrey Truschke will be discussed - Aurangzeb: The Man and The Myth (New Delhi: Sage, 2017) and Culture of Encounters: Sanskrit at the Mughal Court (Gurgaon: Allen Lane, 2016)

 

Discussants: Prof. Farhat Hasan, University of Delhi; Prof. Sunil Kumar, University of Delhi; and Prof. Najaf Haider, Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University

 

Chair: Prof. Upinder Singh, University of Delhi

 

Piano Recital

By Apurva Devarajan

 

Apurva was selected Young Musician of the Year, 2016 by the Olga and Jules Craen Foundation and NCPA, Mumbai

 

(Collaboration: The Olga and Jules Craen Foundation; and Delhi Music Society)

 

Buddhist Landscape of Varanasi: An Archaeological Perspective

Speaker: Prof. Vidula Jayaswal , Prof. R. C. Sharma Chair, Jnana Pravaha, Varanasi

 

Chair: Dr.(Mrs) Himanshu Prabha Ray

 

 

INDIAN ARCHAEOLOGY: TWO LECTURES ON VARANASI: 10 &11 July 2017

 

Archaeology of  Varanasi

Speaker: Prof. Vidula Jayaswal , Prof. R. C. Sharma Chair, Jnana Pravaha, Varanasi

 

Chair :Shri B.M. Pande