Lead presentation by Dr. Kacobus Kamfer (Jakkie) Cilliers, a leading scholar of South Africa and presently, Executive Director of the Institute for Security Studies, Pretoria, South Africa
 
Chair: Shri Lalit Mansingh
 
In the next stage of India’s outreach in building international partnerships Africa is a major objective. Building stable and friendly relations with this emerging continent with its large natural and rapidly developing human resources will pay rich dividends. Yet, in spite of our historic ties, there is presently neither much substance in our relations nor understanding of the current state of Africa and its many concerns. On the other hand, China has made many inroads with mixed impact

Screening of a film followed by a discussion

 

Keynote Address: Cristina Albertin, UNODC Representative for South Asia

 

Followed by

Meena (20 min; dvd; English)

Director: Lucy Liu

 

Meena is the true story of a young girl who was rescued from a life of sexual slavery in Bihar. Based on a chapter from the book “Half the Sky” by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, Meena Haseen was eight years old when she was kidnapped by her uncle and sold to a brothel. The film focuses on the life of this brave woman and how she rescued her daughter (also forced into prostitution) from the same brothel

 

Followed by a discussion

The Nehruvian Modern Moment: A view of Delhi's architecture and design - 1947-1985
Speaker: Shri Ram Rahman, photographer
Chair: Ms. Romi Khosla

Presentation on Need for Proposed Museum
The programme will include accounts from eyewitness survivors of the Partition followed by a panel discussion
 
Coordinator: Lady Kishwar Desai
 
The Partition Museum Project is the foundation of an eventual museum dedicated to an event in which over ten millionwere displaced, lost, raped, killed, and forgotten. The Project honours their memories, their loss, their suffering and their stories through collections based in a physical space
 

The Enigmatic Copper Anthropomorph: From Harappa to the Historical
Illustrated lecture by Dr. Sanjay Manjul, Director, Institute of Archaeology

Chair: Dr. Himanshu Prabha Ray
 
A composite copper Anthropomorphic figure along with a copper sword was found by the speaker at the Central Antiquity Section, ASI, Purana Qila in 2005. This composite copper Anthropomorph is a solitary example in the copper hoard depicting a Varah head. The Anthropomorphic figure, its inscription and animal motif that it bears, illustrate the continuity between the Harappan and Early Historical period

Director: Yirmiyan Arthur Yhome who will introduce the film
Screening will be followed by a discussion
Filmed as a personal narrative, This Road I Know traverses the main highway that runs through Nagaland and Manipur states, highlighting the changing experiences on the road over the years and introduces new dimensions and fears. It looks at the complexities of identity while examining the ways violence is used in so many ways. The film also reflects a longing for a home that once was, nostalgia for the lost land of childhood and deep uncertainty about what is to come

By Shalakha Rai from Delhi, disciple of Guru Madhavi Mudgal

Challenges of Democratic State Building in Afghanistan
 
Speakers:   Shri Jayant Prasad, former Indian Ambassador to Afghanistan; Ms  Jyoti Malhotra, senior journalist; and Mr. Omer Sadr, student, South Asian University.
 

CANCELLED

Belgrade Calling
Speaker: H.E. Mr. Vladimir Maric, Ambassador of Serbia
 
Chair: Shri K.V. Rajan
 
A resilient and friendly nation recovers from the turbulence that accompanied the break-up of Yugoslavia, and is crafting a “European” future for itself with a special place for India
 
Second in the series Beyond Borders. The series presents informal, informative but also entertaining (where possible) talk programmes involving other countries and cultures. Organised in collaboration with India Discussion Forum

Passages between Nehru and Gandhi: Contemporary reverberations
Speaker: Dr. Kumkum Sangari, Vilas Professor of English and the Humanities, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee