MEDIATION, MOVEMENTS AND MEMORIES: THE 8TH IAWRT ASIAN WOMEN'S FILM FESTIVAL
A festival of films exploring issues and ideas shaping Asian identities and experiences, of which many are being screened for the first time in Asia

Monday 5
SEMINAR? ??CONFERENCE ROOM-II, 10:00-17:30
Representing Children's Worlds: Gender, Media and Society
The seminar will explore the normative constructions and ideas of childhood and their representations in a range of contexts such as the media, conflict with authorities and armed conflict, and children's own expressions in the written and visual media. Speakers include Deepa Srinivas, Asha Singh, Nandini Chandra, Radha Misra, Dilnaz Boga, Shobna Sonpar, Deep Purkayastha and Kamla Bhasin

AUDITORIUM
18:00 
INAUGURATION OF FESTIVAL
18:30
Autumn Adiago (70 min; 2010; Japan)
Director: Tsuki Inoue
A nun who has just turned 40 becomes aware of her grief over her sexuality and starts to question how she lives. She struggles, suffers, and tries to find her identity
Followed by a discussion with the filmmaker

Round Table on The Naga Insurgency and the Future of the Talks

Participants: Shri P.C. Haldar, Interlocutor for Assam, former Chief of Intelligence Bureau; Shri  E.N. Rammohan, Member, National Security Council, former Director-General, Border Security Force and Shri Gopal Pillai

Moderator: Shri B.G. Verghese, Senior Journalist

Dealing with Diversity: Comparative Reflections between Europe, Austria and India

Speaker: Dr Anil Bhatti

Chair: Ms Viktoria Maria Wagner, Director, Austrian Cultural Forum

This lecture will examine how pluriculturalism is reflected in literary texts and translations, and also in the development of cityscapes and cultural memory

Kathak Recital

By Swati Wangoo Tiwari from Delhi, disciple of Smt Geetanjali Lal

Santoor Recital
By Pandit Shivkumar Sharma
Accompanied by Yogesh Samsi on the tabla and Takahiro Arai on the tanpura

Among Indian classical musicians, Pandit Shivkumar Sharma's eminence rests on his achievement in bringing to the world concert stage the santoor, a folk instrument from Kashmir used to accompany Sufi music. His extensive repertoire includes ragas that deal with divine and secular love in its various manifestations"”unrequited as well as happy. The 100-string santoor is played with a pair of wooden strikers which produce delicate yet lively sounds reminiscent of the piano and the harp. Pandit Shivkumar can make the santoor sound hauntingly beautiful, "˜something like a whisper and a cascade of a waterfall. It creates romantic and pensive moods.' Among other awards, Pandit Shivkumar has won the Padma Vibhushan and the highest award at Reza Shah Pehlvi's Shiraz Festival of Santoors

The European Union in a Changing World

Speaker: H.E. Mr. Herman Van Rompuy, President of the European Council