“AGE CANNOT WITHER…” SHAKESPEARE 400

Films

Much Ado About Nothing (UK/USA)

(111 min; 1993; dvd; English)

Director: Kenneth Branagh

With Kenneth Branagh, Emma Thompson, Keanu Reeves

Multiple award winner including Best Actress Award, Evening Standard British Film Awards 1994; Guild Film Awards – Silver for Foreign Film, Guild of German Art House Cinema 1994; ALFS Award for British Producer of the Year, London Critics Circle Film Awards 1994; NBR Award for Top Ten Films, National Board of Review, USA 1993; among others

Sunshine and laughter, and merrymakers on a hillside sprinkled with flowers. In the opening scene of Much Ado About Nothing, Kenneth Branagh insists on the tone the movie will take: These are healthy, joyful young people whose high spirits will survive anything, even the dark double-crosses of Shakespeare's plot

At 14:00

Richard III (USA/UK)

(104 min; 1995; dvd; English)

Director: Richard Loncraine

With Ian Mckellan, Annette Bening, Jim Broadbent

Multiple award winner including Bafta Film Award for Best Production Design and Best Costume Design, Bafta Awards 1997; Silver Berlin Bear for Best Director, Berlin International Film Festival 1996; European Film Award for European Actor of the Year, European Film Awards 1996; among others

Was ever there a villain such as Richard the Third? Murderer of his brother Henry VI; of Prince Edward; later of Edward's wife Anne; of his own brother Clarence; of Anne's brother Rivers; of his henchmen Grey and Vaughn; of Lord Hastings; his own two young nephews; of Lady Anne; and finally his long-loyal retainer Buckingham. All had to make way for Richard's overwhelming ambition to rise to the throne. All died in vain, as Richard was unmounted in battle and uttered the famous cry: "A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse!"

 

(Courtesy British Council Division)

 

At 17:00

The Abiding Appeal of Shakespeare: Some Considerations beyond the Pragmatic

Speaker: Professor Shirshendu Chakrabarti, Department of English, University of Delhi

Chair: Professor R.W. Desai

 

Exhibition: Archival Photographs from Shakespearean adaptations produced by National School of Drama

 

READINGS /CONCERT  C D DESHMUKH AUDITORIUM AT 18:30

Sonnets: Recitation and Song

Recitations: Sunit Tandon; Sabina Mehta Jaitly; Shormistha Panja; and Anhad  Anand

Songs: Justin McCarthy (harpsichord) and Sunanda Rao Erdem and others (vocal)

 

Coordinator: Bhaskar Ghose

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

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)

 

 

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

 

 

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

 

 

 

Marcello Nardis (tenor) and Roberto Prosseda (piano)

 

The programme includes: Arias by Rossini, Bellini, Donizetti, Verdi, Puccini and Mascagni

 

(Collaboration: Italian Embassy Cultural Centre)

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)

 

 

 

 

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