Curated by Rajiv Mehrotra

 

22nd Century (60 mins; 2007; dvd; English)

A film written by Michael Chorost

 

What is the world going to be like 30 years from now? Will human life spans increase to 250 years or more? Will personal computers be smarter than the humans who use them? Will machines shrink to a micro-level so small that they can make repairs inside a human cell? 22nd Century is about dramatic changes being made by scientific and technological research conducted in laboratories across the globe today.

 

The pilot episode, World Wide Mind, is about a new theory that suggests in the coming decades all our brains will be wired together just as computers were wired together via the World Wide Web during the 1990s

 

(Collaboration: The Foundation for Universal Responsibility of His Holiness The Dalai Lama)

 

FILM & DISCUSSION  ■ SEMINAR ROOMS II AND  III, KAMALADEVI  COMPLEX AT 18:30

 

A towering figure in Indian literature and an indefatigable champion of Adivasi rights, Mahashweta Devi was one of our renowned public intellectuals

Screening of a film followed by talks

Talking Writing – Four Conversations with Mahashweta Devi: Part I &  Part II (54min; 2004; dvd; English)

Directed by Pushan Kripalani

Naveen Kishore, publisher, Seagull Books in conversation with Mahashweta Devi

 

Talks:

The Artist and the Activist 

Amita Baviskar, sociologist at the Institute of Economic Growth whose research focuses on the cultural politics of environment and development will speak on Mahashweta Devi’s life and work in light of her politics and art

 

The Sounds of Warp and Weft: Listening to texts and after

Rimli Bhattacharya, a comparativist working in literature, performance and the arts will  explore  Mahashweta Devi’s oeuvre as a litterateur

 

Chair: Smt Mrinal Pande, noted journalist and writer

 

 

 

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)