Zentrum Moderner Orient Berlin (ZMO) and the Embassy of India, Berlin invite to the international workshop "Indians in Berlin during the First Half of the 20th Century: Activities and Encounters in Politics, Culture, Science and Education"
Date: 20-21 May 2014
Venue:
May 20th: Embassy of India, Tiergartenstraße 17, 10785 Berlin
May 21st: Zentrum Moderner Orient, Kirchweg 33, 14129 Berlin
Contacts:
Saravanan Ganesan
Culture and Education Wing
Embassy of India
Tel: +49-30-25795402
Email: office.culture@indianembassy.de
Heike Liebau
ZMO Berlin
Tel: +49 30–80307 226
Email: Heike.Liebau@zmo.de
20.05.(Embassy of India, Berlin)
14.00-14.30
Welcome
Mr. Ajit Gupte, Deputy Chief of Mission
Prof. Dr. Ulrike Freitag, Director of ZMO
Session 1 Chair:
H. S.Shiva Prakash (Indian Embassy, Berlin)
14.30-15.15
Nirode K. Barooah (Cologne): The Indian Independence Committee and Indian Revolutionaries in Berlin
15.15-16.00
Martin Kämpchen (Santiniketan): Rabindranath Tagore’s Visits to Berlin in the 1920s
16.00.16.30
Break
Session 2
Chair: Heike Liebau (ZMO, Berlin)
16.30-17.15
Joachim Oesterheld (Berlin): Indian Students in Berlin
18.00-19.30
Film screening and discussion: “The Halfmoon Files” by Philip Scheffner
19.30
Reception at the Indian Embassy
21.05. (Zentrum Moderner Orient)
Session 3
Chair: Joachim Oesterheld (Berlin)
9.30-10.15
Heike Liebau (Berlin): The Kheiri brothers in Berlin 1914-1930.
10.15-11.00
Gerdien Jonker (Berlin/Erlangen): Mission as adaptive globalisation. Ahmadiyya missionaries in inter-war Berlin
11.00-11.30
Break
Session 4
Chair: Saravanan Ganesan (Indian Embassy, Berlin)
11.30-12.15
Sobhanlal Datta Gupta (Kolkata): Berlin ́s role for the emerging communist movement in India in the 1920s and 1930s. M.N Roy
12.15-13.00
Ali Raza (Berlin): Radical Spaces, Spatial Imaginations and the Politics of Revolution
13.00-14.00
Lunch
Session 5
Chair: Nils Riecken (ZMO, Berlin)
14.00-14.45
Dhruv Raina (Delhi): Encounters in Science
14.45-15.30
Tilak Sareen (Delhi): Subhas Chandra Bose and his days in Berlin
15.30-15.45
Concluding remarks
16.30
Exhibition “The making of” by Britta Lange and Philip Scheffner, Tieranatomisches Theater, Charité, Berlin; guided tour by Britta Lange
http://www.zmo.de/veranstaltungen/2014/Indians%20in%20Berlin%20programme%2005_05...
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