WOMEN'S MARCH | GERMAN MOVIE DAY : Hannah Arendt

GERMAN MOVIE DAY
HANNAH ARENDT

Time: 11:30 am
Date: Wednesday, 11 March 2015
Venue: Hamburg Hall, Goethe-Zentrum Hyderabad
Entry : free



About the film:
Biography | Drama
Director: Margarethe von Trotta
Germany (2012)
100 min.

This Women’s March, the Mediathek is pleased to present a film based on Hannah Arendt. The story is a reflective portrait of a brave and determined woman.

A biographical feature film about the philosopher Hannah Arendt (1906-1975), focusing especially on her observations and analysis of Adolf Eichmann’s trial in Jerusalem. Condensed into a dynamically narrated portrait of an exceptional 20th century intellectual, the film also impresses with its intimate portrayal of the New York milieu of German-Jewish immigrants in the early 1960s.


​About Women’s March 2015:
Women’s March is celebrated annually by Goethe-Zentrum Hyderabad to mark the month of the International Women’s Day. Every year we present a programme that highlights women’s issues in an innovative and thought-provoking manner.

WOMEN'S MARCH | TALK | Women & Recent Laws by Kalpana Kannabiran

Goethe-Zentrum Hyderabad is pleased to announce a special talk on the occasion of Women’s March. This month will have a special focus on women as we celebrate WOMEN’S MARCH 2015!

TALK
WOMEN AND RECENT LAWS: FORWARD MARCH
by Kalpana Kannabiran
Director, Council for Social Development

Time: 6:30 pm
Date: Tuesday, 10 March 2015
Venue: Hamburg Hall, Goethe-Zentrum Hyderabad
Entry : free

On the occasion of Women's March, Goethe-Zentrum Hyderabad is pleased to present a talk by Kalpana Kannabiran, on Women and Recent Laws in India. 

Today's India offers a lot of opportunities to women, with women having a voice in everyday life, the business world as well as in political life. However, even though India is moving away from the male dominated culture, discrimination is still highly visible in rural as well as in urban areas, throughout all strata of society. While women are guaranteed equality under the constitution, legal protection has a limited effect, where patriarchal traditions prevail. There still prevails a stark difference in litteracy rates in the country (Men (India): 82.14% ; Women (India): 65.46%  ; Women (AP): 59.7% - 2011 Census of India). Spreading awareness, especially those of women's rights, is the need of the hour if we are to ensure that half our population does not remain oppressed. Sustainable and long-term development is not possible without the participation and empowerment of women. Only if they participate in the economic and societal development, can the full potential of India's society be unfolded.

​About the speaker:
Kalpana Kannabiran is the recipient of the inaugural Amartya Sen Award for Social Scientists, 2012, for her work in Law. She is a sociologist and legal researcher and is currently Director, Council for Social Development, Hyderabad, an autonomous research institute supported by the Indian Council for Social Science Research. She was awarded the VKRV Rao Prize for Social Science Research in the field of Social Aspects of Law by the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) in 2003. She was part of the founding faculty of National Academy of Legal Studies and Research (NALSAR) University of Law where she taught sociology and law for a decade (1999–2009) and is a founder member of Asmita Resource Centre for Women where she has coordinated research and legal outreach for women. Kannabiran has been the general secretary of the Indian Association for Women’s Studies (1998–2000) and is active in the International Sociological Association. She was a member of the Expert Group on the Equal Opportunity Commission, Government of India (2007–2008) and member of the Expert Group on Legal Education Reform in Kerala, Government of Kerala. She has been an activist in the women’s movement since the late 1970s.


​About Women’s March 2015:
Women’s March is celebrated annually by Goethe-Zentrum Hyderabad to mark the month of the International Women’s Day. Every year we present a programme that highlights women’s issues in an innovative and thought-provoking manner.

TALK: Light & life - Real-life applications of photochemistry

LECTURE
LIGHT AND LIFE: REAL LIFE APPLICATIONS OF PHOTOCHEMISTRY
BY PROF. V. RAMAMURTHYDepartment of Chemistry, University of Miami Coral Gables, FL, USA

Time: 3:30 pm
Date: 5 March 2015
Venue: CSIR-IICT Auditorium, Uppal



​About the lecture:
Photochemistry deals with the understanding and utilization of interaction of light with matter. Sun, the ultimate source of light, has been recognized and worshipped by various civilizations as the origin of prosperity for several centuries. Only during the last hundred years has the properties of light and the mechanism of its interaction with molecules and matter been understood and has resulted in its exploitation for the benefit of the society. Thus photochemistry and photophysics play a crucial role in our everyday life, a role not sufficiently recognized by the common person. This talk will provide examples of how ‘interaction of light with matter’ has changed the way we do things during the last five decades.


​About the speaker:
V. Ramamurthy is a a researcher and administrator (department chair, during 2004 to 2014) at University of Miami (2005- till date). He has co-authored a textbook “Modern Molecular Organic Photochemistry” (N. J. Turro,V. Ramamurthy and J. C. Scaiano), which is of significant value to photochemists and physical organic chemists. Ramamurthy has authored 370 scientific publications and co-edited 20 monographs and special issues for various journals.


​About IGNA:
The Indo-German Nachkontakt Association (IGNA) was founded in May 1985 under the umbrella of the then Max Mueller Bhavan, Hyderabad. The objectives of IGNA are to provide a forum and an opportunity to maintain Nachkontakt between returnees who visited Germany under different exchange programs. One of the important activities of IGNA is to organize annual 2-day seminars , which are of great relevance to industrial development and social and cultural needs of India.

WOMEN'S MARCH | SCREENING : Next Generation Short Tiger 2014

Goethe-Zentrum Hyderabad is pleased to announce a special screening this month in collaboration with Documentary Circle and Moving Images. This month our events will have a special focus on women as we celebrate WOMEN’S MARCH 2015!

 

NEXT GENERATION SHORT TIGER 2014

Presented by : SUMANASPATI REDDY
Founder, Documentary Circle of Hyderabad

Time: 6:30 pm
Date: 5 March 2015
Venue: Goethe-Zentrum Hyderabad,
Entry : free

About the Film Festival :
NEXT GENERATION SHORT TIGER 2014, presented by German Films and the German Federal Film Board (FFA), combines the best German shorts under 5 minutes (SHORT TIGER award-winners) and the most remarkable German student shorts under 15 minutes (NEXT GENERATION). NEXT GENERATION SHORT TIGER lets you discover new film trends and young talents early on. You’re invited to a journey through a variety of styles and subjects, explored from perspectives on life that are often thought-provoking and surprising.

About the speaker:
Sumanaspati Reddy is a radio producer, writer, occasional reviewer and photographer. He is part of the small group which has been running the “Documentary Circle of Hyderabad” for the last ten years and trying to spread ‘docu film’ culture in Hyderabad.

About Women’s March 2015:

Women’s March is celebrated annually by Goethe-Zentrum Hyderabad to mark the month of the International Women’s Day. Every year we present a programme that highlights women’s issues in an innovative and thought-provoking manner.

SCREENING SCHEDULE: 

for more details and film summaries, see our facebook event. 

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Germany 2013 | Animation, Experimental | 4 min 21 sec
Directed by: David Gesslbauer, Michael Lange

AN DER TÜR (At the door)
Germany 2013 | Fiction, Drama | 5 min
Directed by: Miriam Bliese

EMIL 

Germany 2013 | AnimaDoc | 5 min
Director, Screenplay, Animation, Producer: Simon Steinhorst

ES GEHT AUCH ANDERS (Another way) 

Germany 2013 | Fiction | 48 sec
Directed by: Jan Heise 

HIDDEN TRACK
Germany 2013 | Animation | 6min 36 sec
Directed by: Elisabeth Zwimpfer

JOB INTERVIEW
Germany 2013 | Fiction | 9min 24 sec
Directed by: Julia Walter

THE STORYTELLER
Germany 2013 | Social Spot |1 min 20 sec
Director: Milan Ruben Kappen 

TEA TIME
Germany 2013 | Animation | 7 min 41 sec
Directed by: Thomas Schienagel, Marie Kister, Marcel Knüdeler, Wilfried Pollan 

WO WIR SIND (Where we are)
Germany 2013 | Fiction | 13min 53sec
Directed by: Ilker Çatak

TALK: Wild Fishing Cat conservation by BSAP

Goethe-Zentrum Hyderabad is pleased to announce the first event in the month of March.

TALK
COMMUNITY-BASED CONSERVATION OF THE ENDANGERED FISHING CAT AND ITS HABITAT
Time: 6:30 pm
Date: 3 March 2015
Venue: Goethe-Zentrum Hyderabad,
Entry : free



About the project:Fishing cats (listed by the IUCN as Endangered since 2008) occur in highly fragmented populations across South and Southeast Asia. Much of their endangerment can be attributed to the drastic degradation and pollution of wetland habitats, conversion of wetlands for aquaculture, and direct persecution by humans. Despite being included in Schedule I of the Indian Wildlife (Protection) Act of 1972, few to no conservation programmes are in practice for the long term protection fishing cats. To date, only a few individual records and small populations of fishing cats are known to occur on the east coast of Central and South India.


In early 2014, with seed funds from the Mohammed bin Zayed Species Conservation Fund, the Small Wild Cat Conservation Alliance and Idea Wild, Ashwin Naidu initiated a community-based fishing cat conservation project in coastal Andhra Pradesh (AP), India. Read more here: www.fishingcat.org



About the speaker:Ashwin Naidu is a co-founder of the Fishing Cat Conservancy. With his research focusing on the use of non-invasive techniques for wild cat conservation and management, Ashwin completed projects on tigers and leopards in south-central India and mountain lions and bobcats in southwestern United States. Ashwin now uses interdisciplinary scientific approaches and public outreach for small wild cat conservation. Ashwin is an invited member of the IUCN Cat Specialist Group, the University of Arizona (UA) Wild Cat Center and the Wild Felid Association.
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About BSAP:
The Birdwatchers’ Society of Andhra Pradesh was founded as a non-governmental organisation in 1980 by a few enthusiasts of Andhra Pradesh with the object of spreading the message of bird conservation; the Society has grown during the years. It organises field trips, lectures, film and slide shows, nature camps, treks, waterfowl counts, bird ringing, etc.
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