Building Histories: The Archival And Affective Lives Of Five Monuments In Modern Delhi

Speaker: Dr. Mrinalini Rajagopalan, Assistant Professor, Department of the History of Art and Architecture, University of Pittsburgh

 

The talk looks at innovative accounts of five medieval monuments in Delhi - the Red Fort, Rasul Numa Dargah, Jama Masjid, Purana Qila, and the Qutb complex – tracing their modern lives from the nineteenth century into the twentieth

 

 

 

By the Duo Attademo Gramaglia – Luigi Attademo (guitar) and Simone Gramaglia (viola)

 

The artist will present a concert of works by Franz Schubert and Niccolo Paganini

 

 (Collaboration: Italian Embassy Cultural Centre)

 

 

 

Sudarshan Shetty in conversation with Sharmistha Mohanty 

 

(Collaboration: Raza Foundation)

 

 

 

 

India’s Wars: A Military History, 1947-1971

By Arjun Subramaniam (Noida: HarperCollins, 2016)

 

Discussants: Lt. Gen. (Retd.) Syed Ata Hasnain, PVSM, UYSM, AVSM, SM and Bar; Shri Sandeep Unnithan, Executive Editor, India Today;  and Mr. Dhruva Jaishankar, Fellow, Brookings India

 

 

 

A collection of photographs by Madhu Pandit from Chandigarh

 

Inauguration by Sanjay Bhattacharya on Tuesday, 11th April 2017 at 18:30

 

 

Presented by the Terra Guitar Quartet – Xavier Jara from USA; Jihyung Park from South Korea; Pedro Rocha from Brazil; and Madhavan Somanathan from India

 

The artists will present a concert of works by Vivaldi, Dyens, Bellinati, Brower, Rimsky-Korsakov and Knippel

 

(Collaboration: Delhi Music Society)

 

 

 

Dv?ravat? Buddhist Art and Culture of Thailand: Between Tradition and Innovation

Speaker: Mr. Nicolas Revire

 

Chair: Dr. Himanshu Prabha Ray

 

 

 

 

 

Facts and Fiction: The Myth of Suvannabh?mi and the Advent of Buddhism in Mainland Southeast Asia 

Speaker: Mr. Nicolas Revire, lecturer in French at the Faculty of Liberal Arts, Thammasat University (Bangkok, Thailand) since 2003. He has completed a doctoral degree at the Université Paris 3-Sorbonne nouvelle in France. He specializes in the Buddhist art and archaeology of South and Southeast Asia with a research focus on pre-modern Thailand. He is general editor of a collective volume titled Before Siam: Essays in Art and Archaeology (Bangkok, 2014)

 

Chair: Dr. Himanshu Prabha Ray

 

 

 

 

Why and How to Replace vilayati keekar with Native Trees in the Delhi Ecosystem?

Lead presentation: Prof. C.R. Babu, Professor Emeritus, Centre for Environmental Management of Degraded Ecosystems (CEMDE), School of Environmental Studies, University of Delhi

Discussants: Dr. M. Shah Hussain, Scientist-in-Charge, Aravalli Biodiversity Park; and Dr. Faiyaz A. Khudsar, Scientist-in-Charge, Yamuna Biodiversity Park

 Chair: Suhas Borker, founder  Member, Green Circle of Delhi

In the early 1920s the British brought to Delhi, many tree species that were native to Mexico and which monopolised sunlight and water – virtually killing any competition from native trees. Now a 100 years later, ecologists and botanists have been working hard to find ways to remove one such tree species – vilayati keeker (prosopis juliflora), which has killed almost all other native trees in the forest and wiped out biodiversity in the Ridge area. The Ridge area is spread over an area of 7,777 hectares and more than 80 per cent land is covered by vilayati keekar. Even the 90 acres of Lodhi Garden has a proliferation of this species

The discussion commemorates 25 years of the Green Circle of Delhi

 

 

 

 

Temsuyanger Longkumer, London based multimedia artist from Nagaland will exhibit his latest time based work, and a group of portraits from the series Superstars, Portraits of Remarkable People I have Met

 

Preview on Friday, 7th April 2017 at 18:30