Charlie Hebdo: Looking Beyond the Dilemma of Absolute or Limited Freedom of Expression
Speakers: Dr. Sona Khan, Senior Advocate, Supreme Court and Expert in Islamic Jurisprudence; Shri K.P. Fabian, former Indian Ambassador to Italy and Visiting Professor, The Indian Academy of International Law and Diplomacy;
Mr. Come Carpentier de Gourdon, Convener-Editorial Advisory Board, World Affairs Journal; Shri Harsh Kapoor, Founder Editor, South Asia Citizens Web; and Sister Mary Scaria, Advocate, Supreme Court and Member Congregation of Sisters of Charity of Jesus and Mary
Moderator: Suhas Borker, Convener, Working Group on Alternative Strategies
ENVIRONMENT AND HEALTH PUBLIC LECTURES
Swacch Bharat Mission Overview
Speaker: Dr. Nirod B. Mazumdar, Mission’s Urban Waste Management Expert
Implications on Environment Specifically Rivers
Speaker: Shri Manoj Mishra, Executive Director, PEACE Institute Charitable Trust, and Convenor & Head, Yamuna Jiye Abhiyaan
Chair: Shri Ravi Agarwal
Chair: Shri Ravi Agarwal
An Evening of Argentinian Music
Piano recital by Mariano Vásquez, well known pianist and tango dancer
The artist will present a selection of tango music by well-known Argentinian tango music composers including Astor Piazzolla, Ernesto Poncio, Homero Expósito, Carlos Di Sarli and Atahualpa Yupanqui
UKRAINIAN-RUSSIAN CRISIS AND THREATS TO INTERNATIONAL ORDER AND SECURITY
By H.E. Mme Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga, former President of Latvia
Chair: H.E. Mme Darja Kuret, the Ambassador of Republic of Slovenia
Chair: H.E. Mme Darja Kuret, the Ambassador of Republic of Slovenia
De Sidere 7
A film by Nicolás Grandi and Lata Mani
Introduced by Nicolás Grandi
Screening will be followed by a discussion
About the film
De Sidere 7 is an experimental work that interweaves performance, dance, poetry, storytelling and text to reflect upon aspects of desire. Shot in Bangalore and Delhi, the film scripts the work of five performing artists into a sensorially rich meditation on desire’s vexed status as at once, animating force, object of suspicion and ground of contention. De Sidere 7 is conceived as a video contemplation: a formally plural, multilayered composition intended to be experienced as an integrated whole
Nicolás Grandi is a filmmaker, arts educator, musician and sculptor from Buenos Aires
Lata Mani is a Bangalore based feminist historian and cultural critic
Fundamentally Yours…The Adavus
A presentation on Bharata Natya training with ergonomics in mind
By Mamata Niyogi Nakra, Founder of Kala Bharati (Montreal) who trained under Guru U.S. Krishna Rao and Chandrabhaga Devi and Nicole LaMontagne, classical and contemporary dancer from Montreal
A project that began at Cirque du Soleil, Montreal, as research on the methodology for training Indian Classical dancers, has grown into a deeper study of the fundamental units of Bharata Natya known as the adavus, with an analytical perspective based on the physics of dance. It was observed that for optimum results in dance performance, a methodology has to be developed in which training is imparted with ergonomics in mind. Ergonomics is a science in which things are designed or crafted to achieve the highest level of proficiency with maximum ease in execution or usage.
After the Referendum, is the UK still falling apart?
Speaker : Professor Charlie Jeffery, Professor of Politics and Deputy Vice Chancellor, Edinburgh University
Chair: Professor Roger Jeffery, Professor of Sociology of South Asia, Dean International(India), Director, Edinburgh India Institute
Chair: Professor Roger Jeffery, Professor of Sociology of South Asia, Dean International(India), Director, Edinburgh India Institute
FRONTIERS OF HISTORY
A Whimsical Journey Through India
Illustrated lecture by Malavika Karlekar, author and curator of archival photographs
Chair: Sabeena Gadihoke, Associate Professor, Video and Television Production, AJK MCRC, Jamia Millia Islamia
A whirlwind tour of India using lithographs, aqua tints, photographs and postcards from the 19th century to more recent times
Assam: A Landscape of Neglect (60 min; 2015; dvd; English & with subtitles)
A film by Pankaj Butalia who will introduce the screening
Screening will be followed by a discussion
The story of conflict in Assam continues to befuddle analysts. On the one hand is the struggle of Assamese sovereignty that ULFA is engaged in, and on the other, many smaller conflicts that the various tribes are involved in. The filmmaker travels extensively throughout Assam in an attempt to catch the small stories that we have lost sight of
Sanjoy Hazarika and Roshmi Goswami in a discussion with Pankaj Butalia
Moderator: Monica Banerjee, National Foundation of India
Release of IIC-Asia Project – PRIMUS publication
Essays on the Arabian Nights
Release of the volume by Professor Harish Trivedi, former Professor and Head of the Department of English, University of Delhi
Followed by a panel discussion
Speakers: Dr. Syed Akhtar Husain, Centre for Persian and Central Asian Studies, JNU; Dr. Rizwanur Rahman, Centre for Arabic and African Studies, JNU, Editors of the volume; Professor G.C. Tripathi, Director, B. L. Institute of Indology and Professor Irene J. Winter, William Dorr Boardman Professor Emerita, History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University
Chair: Shri Soli J. Sorabjee, President, IIC