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SOUTH ASIAN WOMEN'S PUBLIC MEETING ON "WOMEN, PEACE AND SECURITY"

Emerging ChallengesNepal: Return of Status Quo Political Forces and Implications for Women's Rights?Afghanistan and Pakistan: Confronting Peace Processes, Which Trade, Human/Women's Rights for PeaceIndia, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh: Extremist and Populist Politics and the Shrinking Space for Tolerance and setback to Women's RightsSri Lanka, Bangladesh and India: Peace Processes and the Continuation of MilitarisationGender and Justice

SOUTH ASIAN WOMEN'S PUBLIC MEETING ON "WOMEN, PEACE AND SECURITY"

- 25th and 26th February 2014The two day programme will examine and review the worsening state of affairs of women's security resulting from the escalation of violence, the increasing militarized response of the state to people's political economic and social struggles, the surge in extremist forces and populist politics; and the shrinking space for democratic rights and specifically women's rights. Organised in collaboration with UN Women; IDRC; and SAFHR Inaugural panel on: Eminent South Asian WomenThe discussion will focus on:Worsening State of Women's Security and Setback to Women's RightsAfghanistan Our Shared FuturesWomen Human Rights Defenders

A Tale of Two Cities: The Literary Heritages of Krakow and Delhi

Speakers:H.E. Prof. Piotr Klodkowski; Mr. Robert Piaskowski, Deputy Director for Programme Planning, Krakow UNESCO City of Literature; Mr. Michal Rusinek and Ms. Urvashi ButaliaChair: Shri Ashok Vajpeyi

BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP

Prof. Surinder S. Jodhka, Centre for the Study of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University; Shri Praful Bidwai, senior journalist; and Shri Roshan Seth, actor will discuss Revolution from Above: India's Future and the Citizen Elite (New Delhi: Rupa, 2013) by Dipankar Gupta

 

Chair: Prof. Madhavan K. Palat

Hindustani Vocal Recital

By Nirmalya Dey, recipient of the Sanskriti - Pt. Vasant Thakar Memorial Fellowship 2014

ART MATTERS

Coping with the UnknownPanelists: Ranbir Kaleka; Shamsur Rahman Faruqi; Sushma Bahl; and Rukmini Bhaya-NairChair: Ashok Vajpeyi

DELHI - CAPTURING WOMEN'S LIVES AND CHANGE IN A CITY IN TRANSITION

 

Women and Performance: Experiences from Delhi

Shubha Mudgal and Moloyshree Hashmi in conversation with Indu Agnihotri

Hindustani Music - Sarod Recital

By Pramantha Mohun Tagore from Kolkata, disciple of Pt. Kamal Mullik

The Sacred India

Speakers: Prof. Axel Michaels, scholar of Indology and Religious Studies, University of Heidelberg; and Shri Amit Pasricha, well-known photographer and one of the foremost names in Panoramic Photography who will be making a slide presentation

 

Chair: Shri Satinder K. Lambah, President, Federation of Indo-German Societies in India

 

Talk based on their award winning book which documents and explains the manifold religious life in India

 

"Consider Yourself at Home": Celebrating Charles Dickens - 21st to 23rd February 2014

Film

Nicholas Nickleby (UK)

(127 min; 2002; dvd; English)

Director: Douglas McGrath

 

Recipient of the Award for Best Acting by an Ensemble, National Board of Review, USA 2002

 

With Jamie Bell; Jim Broadbent; Tom Courtney; Alan Cummings; Edward Fox; Anne Hathaway

 

At 15:00 in Conference Room I

Round table discussion on Dickens and His Afterlives

Panelists: Prof. Regenia Gagnier, Professor, University of Exeter; Prof. Baidik Bhattacharya, Assistant Professor, University of Delhi; and Prof. Sambudha Sen, University of Delhi

 

At 17:30 in the Auditorium

"˜Please Sir, May I Have Some More?' - An Evening with Oliver Twist and Other Worthies

Presented by Aching Shaiza, Mino Maneckshaw, Reuben Israel

Accompanied on the piano by Kyoko Ito

 

Dicken's unromantic portrayal of criminals and their sordid lives is relieved by his tongue-in-cheek humour. The presentation includes readings from the novel and dramatized songs from the 1970s musical using illustrations by George Cruikshank, Dickens' contemporary and the original illustrator of most of his books

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