Asserting Autonomy: Women Academics in Higher Education
Speakers: Prof. Nirmala Jain, former Professor, Dept. of Hindi, University of Delhi; Prof. Mohini Anjum, formerly with the Department of Sociology, Jamia Milia Islamia; and Prof. Romila Thapar, Emeritus Professor, Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University

Moderator: Dr. Indu Agnihotri, Director, CWDS

Second in a new series of discussions initiated to recover Delhi's past, its social life and, the more specifically gendered experiences of its women. While Delhi shall remain the focus, the discussions will encompass a critical phase in the life of the nation. The series will be an interactive sessions between generations of women from different social backgrounds to capture the diversity of experiences as well as trace the socio-cultural roots of the city. Organised in collaboration with Centre for Women's Development Studies

Speaker: Dr. Tarini Bedi, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Chicago

The talk explores the urban taxi as a part of the debate over urban development, urban infrastructures and urban transport policies. Based on ongoing fieldwork with a community of Muslim taxi-drivers (the Chillia) in Mumbai for who taxi-driving is a hereditary profession that relies on kin, ethnic and linguistic networks

An exhibition of photographs from the archives of Canadian National Geographic featuring the Canadian Arctic region
Assembled and curated by the Canadian Museum of Nature

As part of this exhibition, there will be screening of films on Friday, 16th August 2013 at 18:30 in the Auditorium
Lords of the Arctic (52 min; 2003; dvd; English)
Director: Caroline Underwood

The film focuses on the Northern wildlife and its close and tragic relation to climate change, which affects all of the Arctic's fragile ecosystems. A wildlife specialist, the filmmaker uses a global approach in treating her subjects

People of the Ice (52 min; 2003; dvd; English)
Director: Carlos Ferrand

This feature documentary explores the threats of global warming to the Arctic environment that has nurtured the Inuit for 4,000 years. The Inuit have lived in harmony on this frozen landscape for generations. Today, global warming threatens their habitat. As the ice disappears, so does the Inuit culture it is intimately connected to. Will this extraordinarily resilient people be able to adjust to such dramatic change?

CANCELLED

By Kavitha Ramu from Chennai, disciple of Smt K.J. Sarasa

Navigating an Altered Landscape: Finding India's Place in a Changing World
Speaker: Shri Shyam Saran, former Foreign Secretary and presently, Chairman, National Security Advisory Board

Chair: Shri M.K. Rasgotra

Panelists: Dr. Ashoka Mody, Professor of International Economic Relations, Princeton University, USA and formerly with The World Bank-IMF; Dr. Rajiv Kumar, Professor, Centre for Policy Research and formerly Secretary General FICCI; and Dr. Ram Gopal Agarwal, formerly with the IMF and Asian Development Bank and author of Catching Up with China

Chair: Air Marshall (Retd.) Vir Narain, Chairman, Indian Humanist Union

Release and discussion around the book by Kapila Vatsyayan

The book will be released by Dr. Karan Singh, MP, President Indian Council for Cultural Relations

Followed by a panel discussion
Panelists:  Prof. Basudev Chatterji, Chairman, Indian Council of Historical Research;  Prof. Harish Trivedi, former Professor of English, University of Delhi; and Shri Jawhar Sircar, CEO Prasar Bharati

Chair: Dr. Kavita A. Sharma, Director IIC