Aaj Kavita
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?
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
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
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
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
ART MATTERS
Gulam Mohammed Sheikh in conversation with Geeta Kapur
(Collaboration: The Raza Foundation)
Iran, the Region, and the US
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
From Lithuania to Santiniketan: Schlomith Flaum and Rabindranath Tagore
From Lithuania to Santiniketan: Schlomith Flaum and Rabindranath Tagore
A presentation and discussion around the new book
Speakers: Dr. Shimon Lev, author, writer, researcher and author of Soulmates: The Story of Mahatma Gandhi and Hermann Kallenbach (2012); Prof. Radha Chakravarty, writer, critic & translator, co-editor of The Essential Tagore; Faina Kukliansky, Chair of the Lithuanian Jewish Community; and Sharon Lowen, well-known Odissi dancer
Welcome address: H.E. Mr. Daniel Carmon, Ambassador of Israel; and H.E. Mr. Laimonas Talat-Kelpša, Ambassador of Lithuania
Moderator: Dr. Vidya Shankar Aiyar, media expert and independent analyst
Schlomith Flaum (1893 – 1963) was an educator and kindergarten teacher, who during her extensive travels to the Middle East, Europe, North America, South Africa and Asia, mainly focused on studying modern methods of education for young children. Her journeys led her to meeting many important and exceptional personalities, however, it was the Rabindranath Tagore who became the most important and influential figure in her life. Her stay of almost two years in India and Santiniketan saw her deeply involved in the world of creativity and intellectual thinking and devoted most of her publications to Tagore.
Unfortunately, Schlomith Flaum’s name is probably known today only by a few scholars around the world. Her accounts have been recently published in English and gives a vivid, first-hand account of Tagore, Santiniketan and Visva Bharati. She emerges as an exceptional woman of Jewish Lithuanian origin who discovered her “true identity” as an “Asiatic” during her stay with Tagore and Santiniketan
(Collaboration: Embassy of Lithuania; Embassy of Israel)
Contribution to Contemporary Knowledge Lecture 2018
Contribution to Contemporary Knowledge Lecture 2018
Race, Empire, Capitalism: Theorizing the Nexus
Speaker: Nancy Fraser, Henry A & Louise Loeb Professor of Political & Social Science, The New School, New York
Chair: Ravi Kumar, South Asian University
(Collaboration: Faculty of Social Sciences, South Asian University; and Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung – South Asia)
THE IIC DOUBLE BILL CONCERT
THE IIC DOUBLE BILL CONCERT
Kathak Recital
By Bhakti Deshpande from Mumbai, disciple of Pt Birju Maharaj & Pt Suresh Talwalkar
Followed by
Mohiniattam Recital
By Keertana Vasavan from Delhi, disciple of Guru Bharati Shivaji and Dr Jayaprabha Menon