LILA PRISM lecture "Physical Traditions as Continuity" a talk by Navtej Johar at Seminar Hall No. II & III, Kamladevi Block, Main Building, India International Centre (IIC), Lodhi Estate > 6:30pm to 8pm on 18th September 2014
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Venue : Seminar Hall No. II & III Kamladevi Block, Main Building, India International Centre (IIC), 40 Max Mueller Marg, Lodhi Estate, New Delhi-110003
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Event Description : LILA PRISM lecture "Physical Traditions as Continuity" a talk by Navtej Johar.
Abstract : This presentation shall attempt to trace the spiritual practices that involve the body, i.e. yoga, dhyana, plus all the arts, to the materialist philosophy of Samkhya, insightful on two accounts – its careful steering clear of any doctrine, and its sophisticated process of distilling matter into spirit. Spirituality, as real and profound an experience it may be, has never been an innocent affair. Thus, apart from specifically the yogic practice, I will also dwell upon the imperceptible manipulation and perhaps deliberate obfuscation of the radical idea – the spiritual possibilities of the purely, physical body – through the interlacing of prevalent mainstream doctrines into its central argument. The paper will also talk of the paradigm shift in the history of spirituality where dukkha is replaced by sukha as a means of attaining higher spiritual aims.
Bio of the speaker : Navtej Johar is a Bharatanatyam dancer, choreographer and a yoga exponent. Founder of Studio Abhyas, New Delhi, a nonprofit organisation dedicated to yoga, dance-theater, urban activism and the care of stray animals, he trained in Bharatanatyam at Kalakshetra, studied yoga at the Krishnamacharya Yoga Mandiram, Chennai, and critical-studies at the Department of Performance Studies, NYU. Johar’s work draws on plural vocabularies of Bharatanatyam, yoga and physical theater, and seeks to examine the physical, aesthetic and spiritual traditions of India within the discourse of its multiple nationalisms. A recipient of the Charles Wallace and the Times of India Fellowships, he is currently a fellow at the “Interweaving Performance Cultures,” International Research Center, at Freie University, Berlin.
Bio of the Chair: Uma Chakravarti, independent historian, will chair the session and moderate the discussion. She is a Professor of History, having taught at Miranda House College for Women, Delhi University for 42 years. She writes on gender and caste in India, and her publications includeRewriting History. The Life and Times of Pandita Ramabai (New Delhi, Kali for Women, 1998).
LILA PRISM lecture "Physical Traditions as Continuity" a talk by Navtej Johar at Seminar Hall No. II & III, Kamladevi Block, Main Building, India International Centre (IIC), Lodhi Estate > 6:30pm to 8pm on 18th September 2014
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