G.P. : 1912-1995

Release of the book (New Delhi: Academic Foundation, 2018) followed by a discussion

 

Prof. Romila Thapar, eminent historian will release the book

 

Panelists: Shri N. Ram, Editor-in Chief, The Hindu; Prof. Muchkund Dubey, President, Council for Social Development; 

Shri K. Natwar Singh, former Union Cabinet Minister and writer; Shri H.K. Dua, senior journalist; Prof. Ashok Parthasarathi; and Shri Kapila, Academic Institute

 

Moderator: Prof. Sachin Chaturvedi, Director General, Research and Information System for Developing Countries (RIS)

 

 

Narendra Mohan: A Life Time with Poetry

(Kavita-Samagrah: Complete Poems: Two Volumes)

 

Chief Guest: Shri Mukesh Bharadwaj

Chair: Dr. Ram Darsh Mishra

 

Screening of documentary clips

Readings of Poems by Ritu Mehra and Narendra Mohan

 

Launch of the book followed by a discussion

Keynote Speaker: Partap Sehgal

Paper presented by Rekha Sethi

Speakers: Dr. Harsh Naval; Shri Brajendra Tripathi; and Dr. Pawan Mathur

 

(Collaboration: The Poetry Society, India

Technology and Society: Educating Future Leaders and Creating an Informed Citizenry

Speaker: Dr. Venkatesh Narayanmurthi, eminent scientist and acclaimed public policy expert, who is currently Professor of Technology and Public Policy, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard

 

Chair: Shri Shyam Saran, former Foreign Secretary

 

For both future leaders and citizens, there is need to bridge the growing gap between rapid and pervasive advance of technology which is transforming societies we live in and our understanding of this process in all its dimensions. This will be key to addressing the grand challenges confronting humanity in the 21st century

 

Aaj Kavita

Anirudh Umat (Jaipur); Sujata, Rashmi Bhardwaj (Delhi); and Monica Kumar (Chandigarh)

 

(Collaboration: The Raza Foundation)

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