AI and its Impact on Journalism: The Road Ahead

Chair: Harish Khare, President, The Media Foundation

Panelists: Ritu Kapur, Co-founder and Managing Director, Quint Digital Media; Sunil Abraham, Public Policy Director, Meta India and Samarth Bansal, Tech and Media Reporter

Moderator: Karishma Mehrotra, South Asia Correspondent, The Washington Post

OpenAI's Chat GPT has made the technology easily accessible to a vast number of people. However there are growing concerns over how artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to destroy the very nature of journalism

IIC-The Media Foundation Dialogues is a series of conversations that regularly discuss issues challenging the Fourth Estate. Featuring prominent voices and highlighting different perspectives, these interactions are a platform to promote debate, analysis and understanding.

Concert by Ishaan Leonard Rao, young pianist and composer, a prodigious talent in the world of music

The only Indian recipient of the Sony Music Group Global Scholar, Ishaan is currently studying piano under Georgian pianist, Girogi Mikdze at Berklee College of Music, Boston where received the prestigious certificate for ‘outstanding achievement’ by the piano department
 
 

Coordinated by Maj. Gen. (Retd.) Ashok K. Mehta

Whither Pakistan: Trapped in Perpetuating Crisis

Panelists: Amb. Sharat Sabharwal, former Indian High Commissioner to Pakistan; Ms Nirupama Subramanian, Editor, International Affairs, The Indian Express; and Shri Sushant Sareen, Senior Fellow, Observer Research Founation

Chair: Maj. Gen. Ashok K. Mehta

Pakistan’s present polycrises is not its first: but for the first time, the Army has been challenged directly in a civil-military confrontation. The panel will discuss the internal and external fallout of the current crises

From 75 Years of Marg, co-edited by Anita Cherian and Urmimala Sarkar Munsi

Speakers: Anita Cherian, Ambedkar University, Delhi; Urmimala Sarkar Munsi, School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University; and Navtej Singh Johar, artist and Founder, Studio Abhyas

Chair: Urmimala Sarkar Munsi

From its earliest issues, Marg has devoted considerable space to writings on dance. It has played a significant role in the classicization and canonization of forms that are known today as the eight classical dances of India. In a country like India, replete with its complex mesh of histories, living traditions, languages, and regional calendars, these writings have created awareness about traditions and transitions while keeping the aesthetics of presentation as a priority

(Collaboration: Marg Publications)

Klemperer Conducts Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125
(72 min; 1964; dvd; Black & White)

With Agnes Giebel (soprano); Marga Höffgen (contralto); Ernst Haefliger (tenor); Gustav Neidlinger (bass)

New Philharmonia Chorus and New Philharmonia Orchestra
Conductor: Otto Klemperer

A monumental interpretation of Beethoven’s iconic Choral Symphony that concludes with the Ode to Joy, conducted by one of the most towering Beethoven interpreters of his generation. Recorded live at the Royal Albert Hall, London, on 8th November 1964.

Introduced by Sunit Tandon

WEBINAR 

About the book:

This book delves deep into the works of Sri Aurobindo to present a compelling and fascinating collage of his multifaceted and multidimensional genius, who is not only one of the greatest political leaders of modern times but a supreme visionary, thinker par excellence, great scholar and writer, spiritual guide and statesman, and a leader of all humanity. The author presents perspectives on his vast oeuvre as a diatonic and share his exalted dream and aspiration for India and humanity, his horizonless ranges that are their own skylines, his lights, and his snow-capped peaks. It gives a glimpse into Sri Aurobindo’s pragmatic integral philosophy that is unique in being Vedantic in essence yet modern in expression and outlook.

Panelists:

Prof. Anand Kumar, MD, FAMS, Former Prof. & Head, AIIMS

Prof. Makarand R. Paranjape, Indian Novelist, Poet, Prof. of English, Centre for English Studies, JNU (Moderator)

Dr. Deepika Chatterjee, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Gargi College, Delhi University

Dr. Pariksith Singh, CEO, Access Health Care, USA, Poet, Translator & Author of the Book

ZOOM LINK  for participating in the event:
https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_P-na5ubwSw2IoYf8_l3QYQ

Youtube link :
https://youtube.com/live/rx2PaSEBpO8

Panelists: Amb. Amarendra Khatua, former Secretary, Ministry of External Affairs and former Special Envoy to Sudan and South Sudan; and Dr. John Cherian, former Editor, Foreign Policy, the Frontline

Chair: Amb. K.P. Fabian, Professor, Indian Society of International Law

Since the middle of April 2023, the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have been fighting each other with civilians caught in the crossfire. Earlier, the two had collaborated in preventing Sudan from moving towards a democratic destination. It is painfully clear that both sides can do enormous harm to each other and in the process the 46 million Sudanese are the victims. More than a million have been displaced

Spartacus (92 min; dvd)
Ballet by Yuri Grigorovich
With Vladimir Vasiliev, Natalia Bessmertnova, Maris Liepa, Nina Timofeyeva (The Bolshoi Ballet 1977)

Music: Aram Khachaturian 
Conductor: Algis Zhuratis

“The inherent cinematic approach in Grigorovich’s staging of Khachaturian’s score falls perfectly in place. Vladimir Vasiliev, as the slave who leads an unsuccessful revolt against the Romans, dances and acts at a heroic level that is the performance of a lifetime. …. It is also one of the best dance films ever made.” Anna Kisselgoff (The New York Times)

Introduced by Samaresh Chatterji

SCREEING SCHEDULE

WEBINAR 

Bardic Epic to Court Poetry: Theme and Variations

Speaker: Prof. Kesavan Veluthat, formerly, Professor of History, Delhi University, and Director of the Institute for the Study of the Heritage of Coastal Kerala, Kodungallur

Chair: Prof. David Shulman, Renée Lang Professor of Humanistic Studies, Department of Comparative Religion, Hebrew University, Jerusalem

Prof. Kesavan Veluthat has taught at Delhi University, Mangalore University, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris; Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam; and at JNU. He was Director of the Institute for the Study of the Heritage of Coastal Kerala, Kodungallur. His books include, The Political Structure of Early Medieval South India (1993), The Early Medieval in South India (2010), and The Buffalo Century: Vāñcheśvara Dīkṣita’s Mahiṣaśatakam: A Political Satire for All Centuries (2020).

This talk seeks to explain the variations in epic themes when they are reworked in the mahākāvyas (“grand poems”) in Sanskrit. It sees the epics as largely products of a pre-state society and the mahākāvyas, as of a state society. Taking up instances from the Kirātārjunīya, a poem from the 5th century CE, it argues that the mahākāvyas adapted and reused themes from the epics in order to suit the new sensibilities and requirements, which were different from that of a lineage-based chiefdom.

Tenth in a series of lectures organised by IIC-International Research Division with the support of Ministry of External Affairs

Registration link:
https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN__jFJD91lReCmRCrY1ucRWQ
 

The Tiger Poet: New and Selected Poems

By Amit Dahiyabadshah (2021)

The poems in the The Tiger Poet implore with an intimate immediacy beyond the borders of a virus and the country of India. The book brings the low growl of the regal tiger, the defiant cry of long-suffering humanity, and the proud heritage of his farmer-warrior Jat people from mountainous northern India to our wide world in this stunning volume.

Speakers : Shri Murad Ali Baig, Writer and Columnist, Ms Vinita Agrawal, Poet & Editor, Prof. Jaibir Singh Hooda, Prof. of Faculty of Interdisciplinary Studies & Director, UCCE, M. D. University, Rohtak, Dr Priyanka Lamba, Associate Prof ., Dept of English, Dronacharya Govt PG College, Gurugram,Shri Amit Dahiyabadshah, Poet & Author of the Book