“AGE CANNOT WITHER…” SHAKESPEARE 400: 8 and 9 December 2016

08 December 2016, 05:30 am
“AGE CANNOT WITHER…” SHAKESPEARE 400: 8 and 9 December 2016
Programme Type
Festivals
 
 
Film
Hamlet (UK/USA)
(242 min; 1996; dvd; English) 
Director: Kenneth Branagh
With Kenneth Branagh, Julie Christie, Derek Jacobi
Recipient of the Empire Award for Best Actress, Empire Awards, UK 1998; Special Jury Award, Evening Standard British Film Awards 1998; and Best Cinematography Awards, British Society of Cinematographers 1997
With his Hamlet, Ken Branagh presents as uncompromised and unabridged version of Shakespeare's best-known tragedy as humanly possible
(Courtesy: British Council Division)
 
At 15:00
Quiz Programme
“Lend me your ears” : An Open Quiz on Shakespeare, his life and works
The life, works and neologisms of Shakespeare as well as the endless literature and media responses that these have spawned lend themselves to a delightful collection of trivia.
The Shakespeare quiz is a celebration of the quirky and the quotable about the Bard.
Seema Chari, author, polyglot and anchor, will quiz Shakespeare enthusiasts of all persuasions about the life and times of the greatest English dramatist of all time
Organised by Xpress Minds Edutainment Pvt. Ltd. 
 
 
At 18:00
Adapting Shakespeare to the Indian Stage
A discussion coordinated by Professor Tripurari Sharma, National School of Drama and Professor Shormistha Panja, University of Delhi
Speakers: Prof. Tripurari Sharma, Raj Bisaria, K. Rajendran and others
Exhibition: Archival Photographs from Shakespearean adaptations produced by National School of Drama

A Moveable Feast

08 December 2016, 05:30 am
A Moveable Feast
 
 
 
 
An exhibition of paintings by Sipra Dattagupta from Kolkata
 
Inauguration on Wednesday, 7 December at 18:30 by Mr. M. Jean-Yves Coquelin, Deputy Cultural Counsellor, Embassy of France and Deputy Director, Institut  Française India
 

BRICS: Challenges and Perspectives of an Alternative Vision

07 December 2016, 05:30 am
BRICS: Challenges and Perspectives of an Alternative Vision
Programme Type
Talks
 
Speaker: Professor Francesco Brunello Zanitti, Scientific Director Institute for Advanced Studies in Geopolitics and Auxiliary Sciences, Rome
 
Chair: Ambassador Arun K. Singh, former Indian Ambassador

iSculpt

07 December 2016, 05:30 am
iSculpt
 
 
 
 
Installations and Sculptures
Curator: Uma Nair
 
Participating artists: Arun Pandit, Atul Sinha, Madhab Das, Mukesh Sharma, Neeraj Gupta, Puneet Kaushik, Sanjay Bhattacharyya, Simran Lamba, Tapas Biswas and Vineet Kacker
 
Inauguration on 6th December at 17:00
Chief Guest: Shri Najeeb Jung, Lt. Governor of Delhi
 
(Collaboration: Delhi Art Society)

MUSIC APPRECIATION PROMOTION

06 December 2016, 05:30 am
MUSIC APPRECIATION PROMOTION
Programme Type
Talks
 
 
Classical Christmas!
An Illustrated lecture by Dr P
unita G. Singh 
 
The evening will celebrate the advent of Christmas with a sampling of compositions from the repertoire of western classical music 
 
Gregorian, Medieval and Renaissance pieces; works by the great Baroque masters Corelli, Vivaldi, Bach and Handel; music by Classical and Romantic composers Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms, Berlioz, Liszt, Chopin and Tchaikovsky; and even the Moderns—Debussy, Ives, Stravinsky and Schoenberg — add to the resounding sound of Christmas 
 
Punita Singh is a musicologist, linguist, acoustician, editor and educator based in New Del

Modernisms in South Asia

06 December 2016, 05:30 am
Modernisms in South Asia
Programme Type
Talks
 
 
Speaker: Prof. Saurabh Dube, Research Professor in History, Centre for Asian and African Studies, El Colegio de México

Chair: Shri Navtej Singh Johar
 
The talk will explore the terms of modernism (s) on the Indian subcontinent focusing first on critical modernist moments, cutting across aesthetic forms and the twentieth century in South Asia
 

Concert: Opera Duo

05 December 2016, 05:30 am
Concert: Opera Duo
Programme Type
Cultural
 
 
Marcello Nardis (tenor) and Roberto Prosseda (piano)
 
The programme includes: Arias by Rossini, Bellini, Donizetti, Verdi, Puccini and Mascagni
 
(Collaboration: Italian Embassy Cultural Centre)

State of the Indian Economy

05 December 2016, 05:30 am
State of the Indian Economy
Programme Type
Discussions
MONDAY 5
 
DISCUSSION  ? CONFERENCE ROOM I AT 18:00
 
Speakers: Dr Jayan Jose Thomas, Associate Professor of Economics, IIT Delhi; Dr. Kaustav Banerjee, Assistant Professor, Centre for the Study of Discrimination and Exclusion, JNU; Dr. Ajay Dandekar, Director, School of Humanities and Social Sciences and Centre for Public Affairs and Critical Theory, Shiv Nadar University; Prof. Surajit Mazumdar, Professor of Economics, JNU; Prof. Partha  Sen, former Professor of Economics, Delhi School of Economics; Prof. R. Kavita Rao, Professor, National Institute of Public Finance and Policy and Dr. Reetika Khera, Associate Professor of Economics, IIT Delhi
 
Introduction: Suhas Borker, Convener, Working Group on Alternative Strategies
 
(Collaboration: Working Group on Alternative Strategies)

BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP

02 December 2016, 05:30 am
BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP
Programme Type
Discussions
 
 
 
 
Labour in Global Value Chains in Asia
Edited by Dev Nathan, Meenu Tewari and Sandip Sarkar (New Delhi: Cambridge University Press, 2016)
 
Discussants: Ms Renana  Jhabvala, Chairperson, SEWA Bharat; Mr. Sher Verick, Deputy Director, International Labour Organisation, New Delhi; and Dr. Saon Ray, Fellow, ICRIER
 
Chair: Prof. Deepak Nayyar, Emeritus Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University and formerly Vice Chancellor, University of Delhi

QUOTES FROM THE EARTH: A FESTIVAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL FILMS

03 December 2016, 05:30 am
QUOTES FROM THE EARTH: A FESTIVAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL FILMS
Programme Type
Festivals
 
 
From 09:45 – 10:30 – Cultural Performance
 
From 10:30 to 13:50
Making an Ancient Forest (52 min; 2015; English) – director: Rita Schlamberger
A study on the incredible recovery of the Kalkalpen National Park’s forests in Austria
 
Kaziranga (15 min; 2015; English) – director: Mariah Wilson
The battle between poachers and conservationists in the last stronghold of the endangered Indian Rhino
 
Scavenging Dreams (28 min; 2008; English subtitles) – directors: Jasmine K. Roy & Avinash Roy
The lives of children working as rag-pickers in Delhi
 
The Man who Dwarfed the Mountains (59 min; 2015; English) – directors: Ruchi Srivastava & Sumit Khanna
On the life of Chandi Prasad Bhatt, the first modern environmentalist of India
 
Kiska Jungle, Kiska Mangal? (Whose Forest is It Anyway?; 21 min; 2015; English subtitles) 
Directors: Aditi Saraswat, Akshay Panse, Rameshwar Jirwankar, Sujata Sarkar & Tanvi Khemani
The encroachment of Mumbai government in the forest of Aarey Milk colony
 
From 14:30 onwards
Nagaland is Changing (27 min; 2015; English) – director: Gurmeet  Sapal
A study of the tenuous relationship between man and nature in Nagaland
 
Dongar Dei Paribi Nahin (I cannot give you my forest; 45 min; 2014; English subtitles)
Directors: Nandan Saxena & Kavita Bahl
National award winning film on the mindless destruction of Niyamgiri forest in the name of development
 
Missing (14 min; 2015; English subtitles) – director: Krishnendu Bose
The film follows rural Indian women in their daily fight against climate change impacts
 
Valiya Chirakulla Pakshikal (Birds with large wings; 113 min; 2015; English subtitles)
Director: Dr. Biju
Through the eyes of a fictional photographer, the film portrays the consequences of a highly toxic pesticide Endosulfan on the people and environment in Kasaragod, Kerala