Events Archives
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Talk on ‘Community Participation in Heritage Management: Desirability, Possibilities, and Perils’ by Mr. K. Jayakumar
Date: 23rd October 2021
Time: 6.30 pm IST
Live Streaming: YouTube
(No registration is required for the event.)It gives me great pleasure to invite you to the online talk with Mr. K. Jayakumar. The link for the lecture is provided below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tyecsIpNJ4
K. Jayakumar is a former Chief Secretary, Government of Kerala and founding Vice-Chancellor of Malayalam University. He has represented India in the UNESCO Convention on Cultural Diversity and has been a sensitive cultural administrator. He is a poet, writer, artist and a translator. He has authored 45 books and writes poetry in both Malayalam and English. Presently, he is the President of the Poetry Society (India).
The talk will focus on how to win the willing cooperation and ownership of the community in heritage conservation. There are behavioural as well as ideological blockades that have to be necessarily negotiated for sustainable conservation of heritage. The talk tries to explore the dimensions of this challenge.
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The Twelfth Pupul Jayakar Memorial Lecture: The Idea of Bharat – A History of a Civilisational Identity by Mr. Sanjeev Sanyal
Date: 18th April, 2022
Venue: Auditorium, Alliance Francaise de Delhi
72, Lodhi Estate, New DelhiTime: 6.30 pm IST
Live streaming:
YouTube link: https://youtu.be/VL0y_uG8OtoWe are delighted to invite you for the annual Pupul Jayakar Memorial Lecture on 18th April, 2022 at 72, Lodhi Estate, New Delhi. There is no registration for the event.
The colonial idea that India is just a collage of unconnected people is still commonly mentioned. However, the idea of Bharat Varsha is a very old one that is found repeatedly in our ancient texts. What is the origin of the idea? How did it evolve? The lecture will look at the primary evidence of how our civilization’s identity evolved.
Sanjeev Sanyal, an economist & writer is currently a member of the Economic Advisory Council of the Prime Minister, and Secretary to Government of India.
He served as the Principal Economic Adviser to the Finance Minister for five years, till February 2022. He has represented India at many international forums such as OECD and G7, and was the Co-Chair of the G20’s Framework Working Group.Prior to joining the Government, he spent over two decades in financial markets and was the Global Strategist and Managing Director at the Deutsche Bank. He is a history aficionado and has done extensive primary research on the subject enabling him to write several bestselling books including Land of the Seven Rivers, The Ocean of Churn, India in the Age of Ideas, and The Indian Renaissance. He has also published over two hundred articles and columns in leading nationals apart from co-authoring and editing six Economic Surveys of the Government of India between 2017 and 2022.
Please join us for tea at 6.00 pm before the lecture.
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Talk on ‘Yoga Cikitsa’ by Apoorva Jalan
Date: 21st June 2022
Time: 12.30 pm IST
Live Streaming: YouTube
(No registration is required for the event.)It gives me great pleasure to invite you to the online talk with Ms. Apoorva Jalan on the International Yoga Day. Please find the link below
The last 2 years have been difficult to say the least. We have all gone through tremendous stress, pain, fear and loss. This has certainly left its imprints on us, our physical and mental health. Join us for a simple Yoga Cikitsa (therapy) session which aims to help us find some healing for the body and mind, release pent up stress, and find new energies and enthusiasm for the way ahead.
Session will contain simple body-breath-mind practices.
Apoorva gave up her career as a marketing executive in New York City to move back to India in 2005 to pursue her passion for Yoga. She has trained and worked extensively in the tradition of Krisnamacharya for more than a decade now. She teaches yoga with the intention of helping people experience personal transformation and growth through simple practices.
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Talk on How Diseases Shaped History by Pranay Lal
Date: 31st July 2022
Time: 6.30 pm IST
Live Streaming: YouTube
(No registration is required for the event.)It gives me great pleasure to invite you to the online talk with Pranay Lal. Please find the link below
Diseases and epidemics have been a recurrent aspect of life on the subcontinent. However, the impact of diseases is not the same across populations, or regions. Every disease affects different populations differently. Fevers have killed invaders and deterred travelers. They have affected trade, agriculture, and the state of empires.
Pranay Lal will closely examine the role of diseases and their impact on the subcontinent’s history in this talk. He is a biochemist by training and works for a non-profit organization on public health. He has been a caricaturist for newspapers, an animator for an advertising agency and an environmental campaigner. His first book, Indica – A Deep Natural History of the Indian Subcontinent was published by Allen Lane in December 2016. His latest book Invisible Empire: The Natural History of Viruses was published by Viking in October 2021
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Lecture I – Terracotta Tales and Terracotta Trajectories by Dr. Deeksha Bhardwaj
We invite you to the first lecture on Terracotta Series – Terracotta Tales and Terracotta Trajectories by Dr. Deeksha Bhardwaj on 21st November, 2022 at 4.30pm at INTACH Multipurpose Hall.
It will also be streamed live on YouTube. The link for it is given below.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCj1-0tkkVfVRtak5B4LrvJA
Dr. Bhardwaj’s presentation will try to unfold the history of the production and usage of terracotta images in India from the earliest times to the turn of the 2nd millennium CE. Besides pottery, terracotta items form a sizeable portion of the archaeological assemblage of sites, excavated and explored. Terracotta was moulded in both, utilitarian and non-utilitarian forms, and in its anthropomorphic representation became emblematic for the visual culture of the site it was retrieved from. Covering the ancient past of the subcontinent, and focusing largely on undivided north India, the presentation will indicate patterns of production and usage, and the multiplicity of meanings that can be gleaned, especially in the absence of stratified contexts. The ubiquity of terracottas has perhaps inured us to their various possibilities, and the talk will attempt to showcase just that, even if as an exemplar.
Dr. Bhardwaj is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at Gargi College, Delhi University, and has two decades of teaching experience and taught a wide range of papers on Indian and world history. Her area of specialization is archaeology and ancient Indian history. She participated in the excavation of the early historic site of Kadebakele in Karnataka. Her published work includes articles in the Time-chart History of India, Archaeology as History, edited by H.P. Ray and C. Sinopoli, and chapters in the study material for School of Open Learning (SOL), Institute of Life Long Learning (ILLL) and Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU).
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Lecture II – Terracotta Temples of Bengal: History, Evolution and Influences by Partha Ranjan Das
We invite you to the second lecture on Terracotta Series – Terracotta Temples of Bengal: History, Evolution and Influences by Partha Ranjan Das on 22nd November, 2022 at 4.30pm at INTACH Multipurpose Hall.
It will also be streamed live on YouTube. The link for it is given below.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCj1-0tkkVfVRtak5B4LrvJA
The talk will explore the medium of terracotta in the temple architecture of Bengal with its history, evolution and influences.
Mr. Das is a member of Indian Heritage Cities Network Foundation, West Bengal Heritage Commission, and Centre for Archaeological Studies and Training, Easter India. He is a Principal Consultant to West Bengal Housing Infrastructure Development Corporation Ltd. and Advisor to National Institute of Advanced Studies in Architecture. Mr. Das is a recipient of the Fulbright Scholarship in 1991 and an Associate Member of the Indian Institute of Architects.
