Conference Room III (Ground Floor) IIC Annexe KK Birla Lane, Max Mueller Marg New Delhi 110003

(near Lodhi Garden, Gate No. 2) Siddhartha Hall Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan 3, Kasturba Gandhi Marg New Delhi 110001 For further information please contact +91 11 23471100 ext. 292 or mail to programm2@delhi.goethe.org

Contemporary Flows. Fluid Times

YAMUNA . ELBE

Supported by Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development

Saturday, December 11
Conference Room III IIC Annexe SESSION 1 (with tea break)

Sunday, December 12
Siddhartha Hall Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan SESSION 3 (with tea break)

10:00 am
Inauguration Robin Mallick (Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan) Julia Dautel (City of Hamburg, Department of International Culture Exchange, Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg) short presentation of Alumni Portal Deutschland http://www.alumniportal-deutschland.org/

10:00 am - 1:00 pm
Reclaiming the river - Poetics/Politics Chair Sheba Chhachhi (Artist) Sohail Hashmi (Water Historian) Prof. Amita Bhavaskar (Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi University) Navjot Altaf (Artist) Periphery Collective (Artists) Vivan Sundaram (Artist)

10:20 am
Introduction to the seminar Ravi Agarwal (Artist and Environmentalist)

1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Lunch will be served SESSION 4 (with tea break)

10:30 am 1:30 pm
A 'view' of the river Technology/Ecology Chair Prof. Shekhar Singh (Coordinator, National Campaign for Right to Information) Dr. Regina Dube (Senior Advisor and Head, Sustainable Urban Habitat, GTZ, India) R.K. Garg (Member Planning, Delhi Jal Board) Manoj Mishra (Coordinator, Jamunaji Jiye Abhiyan) Atul Bhalla (Artist)

2:00 pm 5:00 pm
The Future of the river - Free/Bound Chair Ravi Agarwal (Artist and Environmentalist) Raqs Media Collective (Artist) Till Krause (Artist and Curator) Himanshu Thakkar (Water activist)

YAMUNA.ELBE
Contemporary flows, fluid times
Two rivers, two cities but an interconnected future. River ecologies have been cradles of civilization and some of the most vibrant cities in the world lie along them. Today as local interconnectivities become more global, contesting views of the river, predicated on technology and capital have emerged. Rivers are increasingly seen as mere water channels, or even real estate. New threats of climate change have complicated the challenge. Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan is hosting a 2 day seminar on rivers. The event is an attempt to rethink of the river as an 'ecology,' using not only science and technology, but also the poetics of our imaginaries.

1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Lunch will be served SESSION 2 (with tea break)

6:00 pm
Cocktail Reception Siddhartha Hall, Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan

2:30 pm 5:30 pm
The River and the City Separate/Connected Chair Prof. K.T. Ravindran (Chair Delhi Urban Arts Commission and Urban Planner) Prof. Shashank Shekhar (Department of Geology, Delhi University) Dr. Elisabeth Klocke (Department of Urban Development and Environment, Hamburg) Sheba Chhachhi (Artist) Amar Kanwar (Artist)