Heritage and Democracy: IIC-ICOMOS Public Outreach Discussion
 
Protecting and Interpreting Cultural Heritage in the Age of Digital Empowerment
 
Speakers: Dr. Kailash Rao, Professor MIT, Manipal: Architectural Heritage through emerging Digital Technologies


Ms Ujwala Menon, Conservation Architect, AKTC: A Case Study of Khan-i-Khanan’s Tomb


Dr. Ajay Khare/Vishakha Kawathakar, Professors, SPA, Bhopal: Mapping Traditional Knowledge Systems of Bhumija Temples


Dr. Shikha Jain, Conservation Architect, DRONAH


Dr. Oriel Prizeman, Conservation University, Cardiff University: Digital Tools for Cultural Heritage Practice in India


Emergent Technology Film- CIMS Lab, Carleton University, Ottawa
Panel Discussion moderated by Shalini Dasgupta
Giles Tillotson, Radhika Dhumal, Ratish Nanda, Aishwarya Tipnis
 
 (Collaboration: International Council on Monuments and Sites)

 

(Collaboration: International Council on Monuments and Sites)

 

 

 

State of Governance

Speaker: Dr. Vishvanath Pai Panandiker

Chair: Shri H.K. Dua
 

(Collaboration: Pai Panandikar Trust)

 

 

 

Akhiyon ke Jharoke Se – An Experiment with Visual Poetry

By Rama Pande

 

Chair: Dr. Bal Swaroop Rahi

 

(Collaboration: The Poetry Society, India)

 

 

 

 

Jungwa- The Broken Balance (52 min; 2012; dvd; English subtitles)

Directed by Stanzin Dorjai Gya, award winning film maker from Ladakh who will introduce the film 

Co-Directed by Christine Mordelet

 

Screening will be followed by a discussion

 

Screened at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris (COP 21), this critically acclaimed film explores the relationship between Buddhism and the environment. Jungwa draws upon unique footage from the 2010 flash floods, one of the worst natural disasters to befall Ladakh in living memory. Concerned about the increasing disruption of balance between human beings and their environment exacerbated by climate change, Stanzin Gya, explores the spiritual link that always connected people with nature. Through the film, Stanzin leads us to meet Ladakhis from all walks of life, from shepherds and villagers to experts in climatology or solar energy

 

 

 

 

 

Chetna - An Insight into Consciousness

Presentation of two dance choreographies in Bharatanatyam and contemporary styles: Mrigtrishna choreographed by Aparajita Sarma and Pritpal Singh and Jai Ganesh concept and choreography by Guru Smt Kanaka Sudhakar

 

Mrigtrishna probes into the endless chase of mirages in life and Jai Ganesh will present mythological stories of animals to promote prevention of cruelty towards them 

 

Artists: Aparajita Sarma, Rashmi Mohan, Sandhya Hari, Arti Raman, Upasana Gagneja, Tanya Gambhir and Anusha Ramachandran

 

 

 

 

 

Europe’s India: Words, People, Empires, 1500-1800

By Sanjay Subrahmanyam (London: Harvard University Press, 2017)

 

Panelists: Prof. Kavita Singh, School of Arts & Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University; Dr. Rahul Govind, Assistant Professor, History Department, University of Delhi; and Prof. Denys P. Leighton, School of Liberal Studies, Ambedkar University

 

Chair: Prof. Sunil Kumar, History Department, University of Delhi

 

 

(60 min; 2017; dvd; English)

A film by Meera Dewan who will introduce the film

Produced by Films Division of India

 

Screening will be followed by A Conversation between Kuldip Nayar and Seema Mustafa

 

An advance preview in celebration of Nayar Sahib’s 95th birthday. With extracts and insights from Kildip Nayar’s memory bank: politics, partition, prose, poetry – in his own words. This documentary biopic tributes the life, the times and dreams of post-Independent India’s beloved chronicler and conscience-keeper

 

 

 

 Conflicts, Post Conflicts and Peoples’ Memory

 

 

Any crisis in any society leaves behind a huge burden of memory and a general mass of people as the main actors/sufferers during the crisis and survivors of the same have to carry this burden on their mind for a long period of time. This is true of the post Nazi period and survivors of the holocaust in Germany, as is true of the post-Civil War Spain, the post dictatorship Latin America or closer home the aftermath of the partition. Society in general and writers, poets, artists, filmmakers in particular negotiate the situation in a special manner. On the other hand in the post-conflict situation the State/Government sets a different agenda. If the peoples’ endeavor is to resist the forgetting, a democratic State that takes over the state power after the crisis aims at having a calm and quiet atmosphere by using such methods as pact of Silence or of forgiving and forgetting.

 

 

 

The series will include talks, discussions and will also look at texts (fiction/nonfiction), films, paintings and other art production  

 

 

 

The panel discussion on 20 September will focus specifically on Post Dictatorship Latin America and Post Partition and Post 1984 Sikh Riots situation

 

 

 

Series Coordinator: Prof. Vibha Maurya who will give an introduction

 

 

 

Panelists: Vijaya Venkataram, Associate Professor, Hispanic Studies, Delhi University will speak on The Question of Memory and Post Memory in Post Dictatorship Latin America 

 

 

 

Krishnan Unni, Assistant Professor, Department of English, Deshbandhu College will speak on Memory and Time as manifested in Literatures

 

 

 

Balwant Kaur, Assistant Professor, Department of Hindi, Miranda House will speak on Journey through Memory and Post Memory from 1947 to 1984 

 

 

 

(Collaboration: Department of Germanic and Romance Studies, University of Delhi)

 

 

 

Concert 

By Varsovia Piano Trio – Ewa Skardowska on piano; Adam Zarzycki on violin; and Piotr Hausenplas on cello

 

The artists will present music by Polish composers of the 1st half of XX century in a programme of works by Ludomir Ró?ycki, Karol Szymanowski, Andrzej Panufnik, and Grzegorz Fitelberg

 

(Collaboration: Polish Institute, New Delhi)