Emerging Carcinogens in an Emerging World
Speaker: Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee, physician, scientist and well-known author
MUSIC APPRECIATION PROMOTION
From the Courtesan to the Heroine: The Female Voice in Hindi Film Songs
Illustrated lecture by Shikha Jhingan, Dept. of Journalism, Lady Shri Ram College, University of Delhi who is a founder member of Media-storm, an independent women’s film making collective. Some of her documentary films include Health Matters, Living Through Performance, Prisoner of Gender and Born to Sing and has co-directed a twelve-part documentary series on Bombay cinema, The Power of the Image
Illustrated lecture by Shikha Jhingan, Dept. of Journalism, Lady Shri Ram College, University of Delhi who is a founder member of Media-storm, an independent women’s film making collective. Some of her documentary films include Health Matters, Living Through Performance, Prisoner of Gender and Born to Sing and has co-directed a twelve-part documentary series on Bombay cinema, The Power of the Image
DELHI – CAPTURING WOMEN’S LIVES AND CHANGE IN A CITY IN TRANSITION
Breaking Into New Fields: Women and Sports in Delhi
Details of the programme to be announced on the website
HEALTHY MEDICINE
Vitamins – Do I need the ‘Multivit’ Supplements?
Keynote speaker: Dr. Naresh Gupta, Director-Professor, Maulana Azad Medical College & Associated Lok Nayak & G.B. Pant Hospitals and Chairman, Advisory Group, Consumers India
Panelists: Dr. N.K. Arora, Executive Director, The INCLEN Trust International; and Dr. Jayashree Gupta, President, Consumers India
Keynote speaker: Dr. Naresh Gupta, Director-Professor, Maulana Azad Medical College & Associated Lok Nayak & G.B. Pant Hospitals and Chairman, Advisory Group, Consumers India
Panelists: Dr. N.K. Arora, Executive Director, The INCLEN Trust International; and Dr. Jayashree Gupta, President, Consumers India
FILMS ON SPIRITUALITY AND FAITH
The Art of Happiness (L’Arte della Felicita; Italy)
(84 min; 2013; dvd; English subtitles)
Director: Alessandro Rak
Recipient of the Young Cinema Award, Venice Film Festival
The adult animated feature The Art of Happiness successfully presents a dramatic family story and its aftermath in the background of a world gone astray. Two brothers. Two continents. Two lives. One single soul. Under a gloomy sky, between apocalyptic premonitions in a Naples at its utmost decay, Sergio, a taxi driver, receives shocking news
Just One Life and Other Stories
Discussion around the new collection of short fiction work by Manju Kak (New Delhi: ImprintOne, 2014)
Speakers: Prof. Zoya Hasan, Jawaharlal Nehru University; Shri Amitabha Bagchi, well-known writer; Smt Kaveree Bamzai, Editor, India Today
Speakers: Prof. Zoya Hasan, Jawaharlal Nehru University; Shri Amitabha Bagchi, well-known writer; Smt Kaveree Bamzai, Editor, India Today
Vijaya-The Victorius – 90 Years On
A multimedia performance of traditional music, poetry and audiovisual screening to commemorate the 90th anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore’s visit to Argentina and his extraordinary meeting with Victoria Ocampo
Directed by Prof. Ananda Gupta
Narrated by Prof. Gustavo Canzobre
Directed by Prof. Ananda Gupta
Narrated by Prof. Gustavo Canzobre
Engaging With Empowerment: What Does it Entail?
A panel discussion with Srilatha Batliwala (AWID); Kalyani Menon-Sen (WFS & Mahila Samakhya, NRG); and others
Reading Contemporary Chinese Art
Illustrated lecture by Prof. Suman Gupta, Professor of Literature and Cultural History, English Department, Faculty of Arts, The Open University, UK
Chair: Prof. Patricia Uberoi, Honorary Fellow & Vice-Chairperson, Institute of Chinese Studies
Chair: Prof. Patricia Uberoi, Honorary Fellow & Vice-Chairperson, Institute of Chinese Studies
Concert – Piano Recital
By Raphael Alexandre Lustchevsky, internationally renowned Polish pianist and Steinway artist