Session 1: 12.00-1.30 pm
Community and the Nation-State: A historical overview

• A. Raghuramaraju, Professor, Hyderabad University
  
• Salil Misra, Professor, Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi
  
• Madan Gopal Singh, Senior Fellow, Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi

Session 2 2.30 pm - 4.30 pm
The Silences: In literature and cinema

• K. Bikram Singh, Filmmaker, New Delhi
  
• Atul Tiwari, Script Writer, Mumbai
  
• Ravikant, Professor, Center for the Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi

Screening
5pm: Ira Madiyama (The August Sun) / Prasanna Vhitanage

8pm: Tamas / Govind Nihalani

Session 3: 10 - 11.30 am
Different aspects of communal violence: Deep structures and open manifestations.

• Tanvir Mokammel, Filmmaker, Bangladesh
  
• Prasanna Vithanage, Filmmaker, Sri Lanka
  
• Govind Nihalani, Filmmaker, India

Session 4: 12-1.30 pm
The other side of Madness: Abiding communitarian tendencies and the efforts towards peace.

• Ajay Bharadwaj, Filmmaker, New Delhi
  
• Anirudh Deshpande, Professor, Delhi University, New Delhi
  
• Salima Hashmi, Painter,Writer & Anti-Nuclear Activist, Pakistan

Session 5: 2.30-4.30 pm
The breaking of silences and recent films

• Ira Bhaskar, Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru Uniservity, New Delhi
  
• John Hood, Film Scholar, Australia/ India
  
• Shama Zaidi, Script Writer, Mumbai

Screening:
5 pm: Rabba Hun Kee Kariye / Ajay Bharadwaj

6 pm: I live in Behrampada / Madhusree Dutta

8 pm Tarpan / K. Bikram Singh

Session 6: 10 am- 11.30 am
Enduring myths and icons of communalism

• Deepak Mehta, Professor, Delhi University
  
• Mohd. Arshad, Independent researcher & filmmaker, New Delhi
  
• Madhusree Dutta, Filmmaker, Mumbai
  
• Jyotirmaya Sharma, Professor, Hyderabad University

Screening
12 pm: Garam Hawa / M.S. Sathyu

3 pm: Promised Land / Tanvir Mokammel

6 pm: Amu / Shonali Bose