Japanese Art through the Ages - II: Stillness in the Japanese Gardens
Illustrated lecture by Ms Anu Jindal, art historian and artist

With an introduction by Prof Anita Sharma, Head, Dept. of East Asian Studies, DU

The second of two lectures introducing Japanese aesthetics

(75 min; 2010; dvd; English subtitles)
Directors: Nandan Saxena and Kavita Bahl

Rajat Kamal Award for Best Investigative Film, 59th National Film Awards 2012; Gold for Best Script awarded by Indian Documentary Film Producers Association 2011

Since 1995, a quarter of a million Indian farmers have committed suicide"”the largest wave of recorded suicides in history. Most of these were cotton farmers from Vidarbha, for whom the escalating cost of seed, fertilizer and pesticide has made farming unsustainable

Release of the book authored by Dr Are Holen and Mr Torbjørn Hobbel

A book reflecting Acem Yoga's principle of rooting physical yoga in non-directed meditation, which studies have shown to reduce fatigue and the impact of stress

Reading the Human Genome
Speaker: Prof Sydney Brenner, Nobel Laureate, and Senior Distinguished Fellow, Crick-Jacobs Center

Chair: Prof M.G.K. Menon, Life Trustee, IIC

CANCELLED

Challenges before Railways: The Way Out
Speaker: Shri Vinay Mittal, Chairperson, Railway Board

Chair: Shri Dinesh Trivedi, M.P. and former Minister of Railways

Curated by Danielle Rocha Athayde

Brasilia is a landmark in the history of cities. It is the only city designed and built taking architectural concepts from the modern movement. Comprising architectural and urban plans, photographs, display windows, projections and a mock-up of the city on a grand scale, the exhibition is also a homage to the dream of Juscelino Kubitscheck, Oscar Niemeyer, Lúcio Costa and thousands of workers

Inauguration by H.E. Mr Carlos Duarte, Ambassador of Brazil, on Thursday, 11th October, at 18:30

Dr Savyasaachi, Dept. of Sociology, Jamia Millia Islamia; Prof Krishna Kumar, Central Institute of Education, DU; and Prof Avijit Pathak, Centre for the Study of Social Systems, JNU, discuss Doing Sociology in India: Genealogies, Locations, and Practices, edited by Prof Sujata Patel (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2011)

Chair: Prof Patricia Uberoi, Vice-Chairperson, Institute of Chinese Studies