MUSIC APPRECIATION PROMOTION

 

Music for the Enlightenment: Jean-Philippe Rameau  

This lec-dem by Justin McCarthy  will look into  the composer as both musician and music philosopher, a guided listening experience 

 

Justin McCarthy is a dancer and musician, teaching and performing Bharatanatyam, piano and harpsichord 

 

Illustrated lecture by Smt Jasleen Dhamija, veteran Indian textile art historian, crafts expert and former UN Advisor

 

An Introduction on Carpet Stories – Tribal Carpets from Prominent Waving Regions Outside India

By Danny Mehra

 

Carpet Stories

An exhibition of rare tribal carpets from Persia, Anatolia, the Caucasus, Central Asia and various Kurdish enclaves

From the collection of Danny Mehra

 

Inauguration on Thursday, 17 December 2015 at 18:30

 

Danny Mehra will present a brief talk on Tribal Carpets and conduct a walk-through of the exhibition every day from 17:30 to 18:30

 

As part of this exhibition, there will be talks on:

Saturday 19 December 2015 at 18:30 on the Seminar Rooms II & III, Kamaladevi Complex on

Tribes and Their Weavings from Iran

Illustrated lecture by Smt Jasleen Dhamija, veteran Indian textile art historian, crafts expert and former UN Advisor

 

An Introduction to Carpet Stories – Tribal Carpets from Prominent Weaving Regions Outside India

By Danny Mehra

Beyond Witness: Poetry's Engagement with the Reality

By  Shri Keki N. Daruwalla 

 

Chair:  Shri Ashok Vajpeyi

 

 

 

Research Lecture Series

Survey and Characterization of Historic Lakhori Bricks

Speaker: Ms Bhawna Dandona, Conservation Architect, presently Visiting Faculty, School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi

  

 

 

 

Curated by Rajiv Mehrotra

 

Humano: South America, A New Awakening 

(90 min; 2013; dvd; English)

A film by Alan Stivelman 

 

A young man is twenty-five years old and is looking for the reason of his existence, the meaning of life. A camera and a notebook filled with questions are the only items he needs to set off on a journey to the Andes range. With Placido, an Andean paqo (priest), he will be taken on an introspective journey such as has never been documented before

 

 

An exhibition of photographs by Hiranmay Karlekar

 

Preview on Tuesday, 15 December 2015 at 18:30

 

Art Administration and Transformative Governance

Speaker: Dr. Kapila Vatsyayan

 

Speaker: Dr. Ramin Jahanbegloo Associate Professor Noor-York Chair in Islamic Studies York University Toronto-Canada

 

Chair: Dr. Ashis Nandy

 

The historical figure of Socrates as a philosopher-citizen, who stood at odds with the Athenian polis, represents today a valid and relevant nucleus for the ongoing pursuit of dissentful thinking and philosophical interrogation in our world. In a world where philosophical interrogation has given its place to complacency, conformism, intellectual degradation and erosion of values, Socrates is more relevant than at any other time. The lecture suggests that the radical, disobedient and nonviolent Socrates has been in a historical link and affinity with Socrates as a citizen-philosopher. It remains to explain how these two complementary characteristics were transmitted to and underlined by nonviolent reformers and practitioners such as Henry David Thoreau, Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. These thinkers and practitioners of nonviolence laid the foundations for a world where the Socratic philosophy of revolt, against injustice and tyranny, but also in opposition to complacency and conformism, finds its moral and political foundations while remaining an inspiration for the present day gadflies who rightly struggle against the inequalities and injustices and try to break the wall of indifference