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

 

An exhibition of photographs by Ajit Rana 

 

Inauguration by Shri Kishan Rana and Col. Jugraj S. Kanhai on Tuesday, 23 August 2016 at 18:30

FOCUS SRI LANKA: CONTEMPORARY VIEWS

 

FILM

Let Her Cry (Sri Lanka)

(105 min; 2016; dvd; English subtitles)

A film by Ashok Handagama

 

A university professor appears to be having an affair with a young female student; his behavior threatening the carefully established routine of his middle class family

 

WEDNESDAY 24 TO 30

 

EXHIBITION  ? ANNEXE ART GALLERY, 11:00 TO 19:00

People & Landscapes of the Living Deserts of Rajasthan and Ladakh

An exhibition of photographs by Ajit Rana 

 

Inauguration by Shri Kishan Rana and Col. Jugraj S. Kanhai on Tuesday, 23 August 2016 at 18:30

 

FOCUS SRI LANKA: CONTEMPORARY VIEWS

 

DISCUSSION

Violence and the Burden of Memory in Sinhala Consciousness

Panelists: Dr. Jagath Weerasinghe, Postgraduate Institute of Archaeology, Colombo and Senior Artist; Prof. Roma Chatterjee, Department of Sociology, University of Delhi; Dr. Dev Pathak ,Department of Sociology, South Asian University; Dr. Susan Visvanathan, Centre for the Study of Social Systems, Jawaharlal Nehru University; Prof. Pradeep Jaganathan, Graduate Studies Advisor, Shiv Nadar University

 

With Prof. Sasanka Perera, Department of Sociology,  South Asian University

 

Chair: Dr. Ravi Kumar, South Asian University

 

Post-1980s Sri Lanka has been wracked by decades of civil war and political violence. This has caused deaths and destructions of considerable magnitude. Some of this violence and their consequences have been documented while many remain undocumented. How is such extraordinary institutionalized violence remembered? This discussion based on Prof Sasanka Perera’s recent book, Violence and the Burden of Memory in Sinhala Consciousness (2016) delves into the details of violence, and more importantly the memories associated with this violence. While there may be manifold attempts to erase, there are also many evocative recapitulations and representations, merging political and personal, ordinary and extraordinary, civil and artistic which negotiate with the burden of memory. 

 

 (Collaboration: Orient Blackswan)