From Ashoka to Jayavarman VII - Some Reflections on the Relationship Between Buddhism and the State in India and Southeast Asia

Speaker: Prof. Hermann Kulke, German historian and Indologist

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

Speaker: Prof. John Echeverri-Gent, leading political scientist and Associate Professor, Woodrow Wilson Chair, University of Virginia. His books include The State and the Poor: Public Policy and Political Development in India and the United States (University of California Press, 1993), and Economic Reform in Three Giants: U.S. Foreign Policy and the USSR, China, and India (Transaction, 1990)

A lecture by Shaykh Hisham Kabbani

Introduction: Sadia Dehlvi

A world renowned teacher of the Sufi path, Shaykh Hisham Kabbani serves as a guide and teacher to millions around the world. He has spent his life spreading the teachings of peace, tolerance, respect and love; that are the defining principles of Islamic spirituality

Presented by Keystone State Boychoir, Pennsylvania USA

Music Director: Joseph P. Fitzmartin

The choir founded in 2001 consists of more than 150 young men between the ages of eight and 18 who sing a repertoire ranging from classical to contemporary. The Boychoir is counted among the finest, most successful community - based boychoir choral programmes in the USA

directors: Amy Catlin-Jairazbhoy and Nazir Jairazbhoy

The film will be introduced by Amy Catlin-Jairazbhoy

Screening will be followerd by a discussion

Part of a continuing applied ethnomusicology project,this film explores the sacred the sacred music, dance and rituals of the devidasis and devidasas, woman and man dedicated to the goddess Renuka/yellamma of the Deccan. Narrated in the fictive viose of the Goddness and her son,Parasurama

(Collaboration: Archives and Research Center of Ethnomusicology, American Institute of indian Studies)

Panelists: Prof. Hari Vasudevan, IFPS and Department of History, Calcutta University who is a Russia/CIS specialist; Shri Nandan Unnikrishnan, Observer Research Foundation and leading commentator on CIS affairs; Shri Sudhir Devare, former Director General, ICWA and former Ambassador to the Ukraine; and Shri Pramit Palchaudhury, Foreign Affairs Editor, The Hindustan Times

Chair: Dr. Madhavan Palat, Nehru Memorial Fund and Russia specialist

An exhibition of photographs from the collection of Archaeological Survey of India

Inauguration on 9th December 2013 at 6:30 pm