DISCUSSION ? SEMINAR ROOMS II & III, KAMALADEVI COMPLEX AT 18:30

 

A discussion on Too Many Men, Too Few Women: Social Consequences of Gender Imbalance in India and China, edited by Ravinder Kaur

 

Speakers: Professor K.S. James, Jawaharlal Nehru University; Professor Mohan Rao, Jawaharlal Nehru University; and Professor Ravinder Kaur, IIT, Delhi

 

Chair: Prof. Patricia Uberoi

 

(Collaboration: Orient Blackswan)

 

 

By Officina Zoe', a well–known musical group of "pizzica tarantata", an exciting rhythm from Salento Area in the deepest south of Italy

 

Since 1993 Officina Zoé has one of the groups to propose with most strength the musical traditions of the Salento area, especially the pizzica, that is the ancestral rhythm of Salento soul: exciting and touching, therapeutic and hilarious. From immemorial time pizzica explodes in its absorbing hypnotic expression. A frenzy that induces dance and obsessive movement, so much so that it was used in the past as a trance vehicle or even as a therapeutic source. One of the stronger elements in the musical rebirth of the whole of Southern Italy

 

(Collaboration: Italian Embassy Cultural Centre)

 

 

TALK & EXHIBITION ? ART GALLERY, KAMALADEVI COMPLEX FROM 18:00

 

Lecture and demonstration by Dr. Kyoko Horie, Executive Director, Research Institute for the Traditional Art of Japan and an expert on different aspects of Japanese culture

 

Dr. Horie will be accompanied by other masters – Takahiko Hachida, Keiko Shimizu, Tatsuya Hayakawa, Hisako Fujimori, Midori Sasajima, Keiko Ajima, Setsuko Tomimoto and Katsue Fukutani 

 

Exhibition: Cherry Blossoms and Tale of Genji

Picture scrolls and calligraphy works by modern calligraphy masters

 

(Collaboration: Embassy of Japan)

 

 

 

Nation, Ethnicity and the Conflict in Afghanistan

By Raghav Sharma (London: Routledge, 2017)

 

Discussants: Shri Shakti Sinha, Director, Nehru Memorial Museum & Library; Prof. Ajay Darshan Behera, Jamia Millia Islamia University; and Ambassador Vivek Katju, former Indian Ambassador to Afghanistan, Myanmar and Thailand

 

Chair: Ambassador T.C.A. Rangachari, former Indian Ambassador to Algeria, France and Germany

 

 

 

 

Open Futures- Filmit India

The best films will be screened from the Helen Hamlyn Trust Filmit programme that involves 30 schools from Delhi to make films on the culture of Delhi.  The aim of the project is to promote understanding, care and concern for their heritage amongst schoolchildren

 

(Collaboration: Heritage Education and Communication Service, INTACH)

 

 

Hindustani Vocal – Khayal

By Pt. Naresh Malhotra

Accompanied by Ustad Akhtar Hussain (tabla); and Paromita Mukherjee (harmonium)

 

Followed by

Dhrupad Recital

By Ustad Faiyazuddin Wasifuddin Dagar

Accompanied by Pt. Mohanshyam Sharma on pakhawaj

 

(Collaboration: Dagar Brothers Memorial Trust)

 

 

By Chetan Joshi  from Delhi, disciple of the late Pt Bholanath Prasanna and late Pt Raghunath Seth

 

 

 

 

 

Retrieval of Indian Antiquities from Abroad

Speaker: Dr. D.N. Dimri, Director (Antiquities and Publications), Archaeological Survey of India

 

Chair: Shri B.M. Pande

 

 

 

Directed by Avijit Mukul Kishore & Rohan Shivkumar who will introduce the film

Produced by Films Division

 

Screening will be followed by a discussion with Prof. Shohini Ghosh, MCRC, Jamia Millia Islamia

 

Nostalgia for the Future is an experimental film essay that explores the conception of the body of the citizen, the nation and the home in modern India. The film is a journey through four distinct imaginations of homes and bodies across examples of buildings built over a century – Laxmi Vilas Palace in Baroda; Villa Shodhan in Ahmedabad; the Sabarmati Ashram; and public housing in post-independence Delhi