Social Media and the United States Elections 2016
Speaker: Sree Sreenivasan, Chief Digital Officer, New York City and former Chief Digital Officer, Columbia University and the Metrpolitan Museum
 
Chair: Pamela Philipose, currently working on an Indian Council for Social Science Research senior fellowship on social media and Designated Public Editor, The Wire
 
(Collaboration: The Media Foundation)

 

A discussion on the book by Rajeev Kinra

 

Panelists: Professor Harbans Mukhia; Professor Shahid Amin; and Professor Sunil Kumar

 

Chair: Dr. Romila Thapar

 

Release of book:  Dr. Romila Thapar
 

First programme in the Primus Book series, South Asia across Disciplines

Introduction to the series: Professor Muzaffar Alam

 

(Collaboration: Primus Books)

 

Excavating Vadhnagar, An Early Historic Site in Gujarat

Speaker: Dr. Madhulika Samanta, Superintending Archaeologist, Excavation Branch V, Archaeological Survey of India, Vadodara

 

Chair: Shri B.M. Pande

 

Speaker: Prof Sugata Bose, Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History and Affairs at Harvard University 

 

Part of the annual lecture series, Contributions to Contemporary Knowledge Lecture 2016, organised by The South Asian University

 

(Collaboration: The South Asian University and Society and Culture in South Asia, The Journal of Department of Sociology, SAU co-published with Sage – India)

 

INTACH India Heritage Quiz 2016 Delhi  - Inter School Quiz India focuses on Indian Culture and Heritage for students from classes 7 to 10

Conducted by Xpress Minds Entertainment

 

(Collaboration: INTACH)

 

 

The Gene: An Intimate History

By Siddhartha Mukherjee (Gurgaon: Penguin, 2016)

 

Discussants: Dr. S. Swaminathan, Director General, ICMR; Dr. Amit Sharma, International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB); and Ms Subhra Priyadarshini, Nature India

 

Chair: Prof. Seyed Ehtesham Hasnain, Kusuma School of Biological Sciences, IIT

 

A programme of Nritya-bhinaya (Kathak) presented by Uma Sharma and students of Bharatiya Sangeet Sadan

 

The programme will also include the screening of a film, Shree Radha, produced by Uma Sharma

 

(Organised by Bharatiya Sangeet Sadan)

 

An evening of music and dance celebrating Krishna, protector of the environment

 

Keynote presentation by Acharya Shrivatsa Goswami, eminent scholar, Radharamana Mandir, Vrindavan

 

Performance by Rene Singh, well-known sufi singer with Kathak by Shivani Salotra

 

(Collaboration: Guild of Service)

 

By Sougata Ganguly from Kolkata, disciple of the late Sangeetacharya Ajoy Sinha Roy and late Ustad Ali Akbar Khan

 

 

Directed by Noemie Verdon who will introduce the film

Produced by Serabibi Multimedia Association

Moderator: Dr. Himanshu Prabha Ray



 

Filmed in Uzbekistan, Iran and Pakistan during the summer of 2012, the film is about Abu Rayhan Al-Biruni, the Perso-Muslim thinker of Central Asia