Objects: Identities: Meanings

Insider Perspectives on Material Cultures from North East India

 

Exhibition based on a series of field research projects conducted by members of the North East Forum (NEF), Ambedkar University, Delhi between 2012-2014. The research objective used material artefacts to arrive at an insider perspective on how communities from North East India negotiate cultural transformation. Narratives collected describe the processes by which some elements of a culture survive, while others become insignificant. The materials in the exhibition are used by the following communities – Bodos (Assam), Khasi (Meghalaya), Mao Naga (Manipur), Meitei (Manipur), Rongmei Naga (Manipur) and Sumi (Nagaland)

 

Items on display for the exhibition include textile materials, clothing used for different occasions, pottery, photographs and video

 

Inauguration on Friday, 15th September 2017 at 18:30

 

On Monday 18 September 2017 at 18:30 – there will be a presentation by the researchers

 

(Collaboration: Centre for Community Knowledge, Ambedkar University)

 

 

A Phoenix from the Ashes: The Destruction and Reconstruction of Warsaw 1939-1955

The exhibition revisits one of the most critical chapters in the history of Poland, the destruction of the capital city of Warsaw by German troops and the inspiring reconstruction of the city after World War II. World War II and the Warsaw Uprising of 1944 in particular, left the city with almost nothing to define its identity. Warsaw, the centre of cultural, political and social life, almost ceased to exist. But like a phoenix rising from the ashes, Warsaw was rebuilt and gradually brought back to life. This unique and pioneering nature of the reconstruction of the city was given its due recognition when Warsaw’s Old Town was included in the UNESCO World Heritage list in 1980.

 

Inauguration by Dr. Pawe? Ukielski, Deputy Director of the Warsaw Rising Museum on Tuesday, 19th September 2017 at 18:00

 

Following the inauguration there will be a lecture and film screening in the Lecture Room II adjoining the Art Gallery at 18:30

 

Warsaw Rising 1944 – Battle for Freedom

Talk by Dr. Pawe? Ukielski

 

Film – A Brave Bunch. The Uprising Through Children’s Eyes (Fajna Ferajna; Poland) 

(30 min; 2015; dvd; English subtitles)

Director: Tomasz Stankiewicz 

 

When the Warsaw Uprising started in 1944, thousands of children were living in the city. A Brave Bunch is about those who survived

 

 

Hindustani Vocal Dhrupad Recital
by  
Sumeet Anand Pandey from Delhi
Disciple of Guru Pandit Abhay Narayan Mallick
 

 

MARITIME ASIA: DIPLOMACY AND CULTURAL HERITAGE

 

China's 'Maritime Silk Route Diplomacy': Does it Matter?

Speaker: Professor Himanshu Prabha Ray, historian and Member, Board, Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies; Routledge Series Editor, Archaeology and Religion in South Asia; Hony. Professor, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich

 

Asia's Renaissance: Rekindling the Learning Culture in Monsoon Asia

Speaker: Dr. Iwan Pranoto, Cultural Counsellor, Embassy of Indonesia and a mathematician of some eminence.

 

Chair: Ambassador Yogendra Kumar

 

 

Buddha At Work
 

Dr. Bibek Debroy, Member, Niti Aayog and Ms Sairee Chahal, Founder, Sheroes,
in conversation with  Geetanjali Pandit on her new book, Buddha at Work  (New Delhi: Hachette India, 2017)