Humanism in Different Religions
Speaker : Shri Arif Mohammed Khan, former Minister and author of Text and Context: Quran and Contemporary Challenges (Rupa, 2010)
(Collaboration: Indian Humanist Union)
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HUMANISM IN DIFFERENT RELIGIONS
Speaker: Shri Arif Mohammed Khan, former Minister and auhtor of Text and Context: Quran and Contemporary challenges (Rupa, 2010)
Collaboration: Indian Humanist Union
Speaker: Shri Arif Mohammed Khan, former Minister and auhtor of Text and Context: Quran and Contemporary challenges (Rupa, 2010)
Collaboration: Indian Humanist Union
A panel discussion around the book, Violent Conjunctures in Democratic India by Prof. Amrita Basu
Amrita Basu is a Professor in the Political Science at Amherst College, USA
Panelists: Dipankar Gupta, Professor at Shiv Nadar University and Director, Centre for Public Affairs and Critical Theory; Niraja Gopal Jayal, Professor, Centre for the Study of Law and Governance, Jawaharlal Nehru University; Zoya Hasan, Professor Emeritus, Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University; Amrita Basu, Professor of Political Science and Sexuality, Women's and Gender Studies, Amherst College
Panelists: Dipankar Gupta, Professor at Shiv Nadar University and Director, Centre for Public Affairs and Critical Theory; Niraja Gopal Jayal, Professor, Centre for the Study of Law and Governance, Jawaharlal Nehru University; Zoya Hasan, Professor Emeritus, Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University; Amrita Basu, Professor of Political Science and Sexuality, Women's and Gender Studies, Amherst College
Music Appreciation Promotion
Music Appreciation Promotion
Balamurali Krishna – Myriad Facets of the Maverick Genius
Presentation by G. Ravi Kiran
Chair: Usha RK, Arts Consultant
The presentation will focus on the greatest and most prolific Carnatic musician and composer of this century
G Ravi Kiran, a noted Carnatic musician from Chennai is a senior disciple of Shri TM Krishna and Shri RK Srikantan
Balamurali Krishna – Myriad Facets of the Maverick Genius
Presentation by G. Ravi Kiran
Chair: Usha RK, Arts Consultant
The presentation will focus on the greatest and most prolific Carnatic musician and composer of this century
G Ravi Kiran, a noted Carnatic musician from Chennai is a senior disciple of Shri TM Krishna and Shri RK Srikantan
Papa Hemmingway in Cuba
Papa Hemmingway in Cuba
(110 min; 2015; dvd; English)
Director: Bob Yari
Winner of the Jury Prize for Best Narrative Film, Key West Film Festival 2015; and Jury Award for Best World Feature, Sonoma International Film Festival 2016
Based on a true story about the relationship between Miami journalist, Denne Bart Petitclerc and Ernest Hemmingway. Set during the Cuban revolution, the film was shot on location in Havana and inside Hemmingway’s estate, Finca Vigia. It is the first Hollywood film to be shot in Cuba since 1959
Reminiscences of Bharat Bhawan
Reminiscences of Bharat Bhawan
Speaker: Shri Ashok Vajpeyi
Reimagining ‘New Democracy’, Rethinking Radical Politics
Speaker: Bernard D’Mello
Two books by Randhir Singh will also be released on the occasion by Aakar books - Selected writings of Randhir Singh and Rahon ki Dhool Hindi translation of a collection of Punjabi poems by Randhir Singh (First published in 1950)
Introduced by Manager Pandey and Harjinder Singh Laltu
Chair: Uma Chakravarty
(Collaboration: Gursharan Singh Yaadgar Trust)
BEYOND BORDERS: IIC-NFI LECTURE SERIES
North East and Act East
Speaker: Ambassador Gautam Mukhopadhaya, former Indian Ambassador to Afghanistan and Myanmar
Moderator: Shri Kishalay Bhattacharjee
South Asia and South East Asia between themselves comprise two of the most populous regions of the world. The region is fractious and studies on it are primarily driven by disasters and conflict. India’s Northeast is one such are until not long back marginal to Indian history, that has been caught in the throes of imperial expansion, nationalism, partition, isolation and dependence in the 20th century. This series of lectures organised in collaboration with the National Foundation of India (NFI) and curated by journalist and author, Kishalay Bhattacharjee, hopes to shed light on the people and places that are caught in these larger forces and bridge at least some gaps in understanding between and within the two regions
Assessing China's Future
Speaker: Prof David Shambaugh. Professor of political science and international affairs at the George Washington University in Washington DC, as well as a non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution
(Collaboration: Institute of Chinese Studies)
On the occasion of the Second World Congress against the sexual exploitation of Women and Girls
09:30 - 12:00
Plenary : Launch of a global coalition of trade unions standing together against commercial sexual exploitation
13:00-15:00
Plenary: Assessing the best legislative frameworks to end commercial sexual
(Collaboration: Apne Aap Women Worldwide)