Speaker: Dr. Ajai Sahni, Executive Director, Institute for Conflict Management, South Asia Terrorism Portal, Khalistan Extremism Monitor and Editor, South Asia Intelligence Review

Chair: Cmde. C. Uday Bhaskar, Director, Society for Policy Studies

(Collaboration: Society for Policy Studies)
 

A Historical view of Vindhyan Rock Art and its Significance
Illustrated lecture by Dr. Ajay Pratap, Senior Professor and former Head of the Dept. of History, Banaras Hindu University

Chair: Shri B.M. Pande

The lecture introduces the idea of rock paintings being not simply archaeological but also historical source material. This, it is argued, is because rock paintings continued to be the main means of symbolic recording of things and events, well-after scripts and writing came in being. The main common purpose of painting on rocks from prehistory to history, seems to be ‘remembering’, ‘commemorating’ and ‘memorializing’. The painted spaces constitutes socially and cognitively charged material which by means of being contemporary to the times of their creation is open to historical interpretation. 

Concert

by IDR - Italian Doc Remix with Franceso Pellegrino (vocal); Marco Cappelli (classical guitar, electric guitar and mandolin); Roberto Schiano (trombone); and Jime Pugliese (drums and marimba)

Love Songs is a portfolio of love songs in Neapolitan language sung by tenor Francesco Pellegrino. All the songs, re-interpreted, are from the antique, classic and contemporary traditions of Naples

(Collaboration: Embassy of Italy)

An Evening of Poetry

With poets – Naval Shukla (Raipur); Meenakshi Misra (Gurugram); Ashutosh Dube (Indore); and Prabhat Milind (Jamalpur) who will read from their original work

Moderator: Ashok Vajpeyi

(Collaboration: The Raza Foundation)
 

Kathak Recital By Arti Shrivastava Gedam from Delhi, disciple of Guru Smt Prerna Shrimali

At 19:00
Odissi Recital

By Sangini Kumar from Delhi, disciple of Guru Smt Kiran Segal

Workshop: Looking at me through you: 22 to 24 September 2022

An experiential learning module on Looking at Contemporary Art –Together

Curated by Learning through Arts, Narrative and Discourse (LAND)
Facilitated by Dr. Shobita Punja and Kriti Sood

A three-day module consisting of a 2 hour session each day to introduce an experiential learning programme on ‘Looking at Contemporary Art – Together’. The three interactive sessions over three days focuses on contemporary art from India and the world. Each session introduces a selection of art works that have been curated on themes to address the diversity of culture and community, the shifting political debate around self and environment, the collective representation of different voices and the uniqueness of individuals

Registration is mandatory. Members are requested to please register their participation to the workshop in advance. Kindly please send us an email confirming your participation on iic.programme@gmail.com

For more details of the workshop, kindly please check the IIC website, www.iicdelhi.in
 

An exhibition of a selection of the best photographs taken by Indian visitors to Japan submitted as part of the past five editions of Click! Japan Photo Contest. The photographs cover a range of subjects from traditional Japanese architecture including temples and shrines, people and landscape.

The exhibition will also include a section on History of Japan – India and a screening of short documentaries on Japanese culture, crafts, shrines and temples

Inauguration by Smt Meenakshi Lekhi, Hon’ble Minister of State for External Affairs and Culture on Tuesday, 20 September 2022 at 15:00

Organised as part of the ongoing commemorative events to mark the 70th Anniversary of the establishment of India-Japan Diplomatic Relations 

(Collaboration: Embassy of Japan)

WORKSHOP & PERFORMANCE ■ CONFERENCE ROOM II AND C.D. DESHMUSH AUDITORIUM  11:00 TO 13:00 & 18:30
From 11:00 to 13:00 in Conference Room II

To be conducted by Dr. Shubha Chaudhuri, Associate Director General (Academic), Archives and Research Centre for Ethnomusicology, American Institute of Indian Studies  (AIIS)

The documentation of performing arts and other forms of Intangible Cultural Heritage in India has gained momentum since the 1980s. Today it is not only documentation that we are concerned with, but the digitization of existing documentation, to revisit these is the light of current trends, and can be used to revitalize traditions in addition to providing scholarly access. The symposium will examine these issues in the light of a project carried out between the AIIS Archives and Research Center for Ethnomusicology and Rupayan Sansthan through which approximately 1000 hours of audio recordings of the 1980s to 2003 were digitized and detailed metadata was created. Based on the collection of the well-known scholar and activist Komal Kothari, the project has involved members of the community and those who were involved in the recordings. The discussion will present a brief description of the recordings, providing an overview of the range of genres.

Speakers will include Kuldeep Kothari, Secretary, Rupayan Sansthan; and Madan Meena, researcher and scholar who was involved in the documentation during this period; and members of the musician community who will share their views about what digitization and renewed access to their recordings means to them

At 18:30 in C.D. Deshmukh Auditorium
The Sacred Secular

An evening of sacred music forms of Western Rajasthan, selected to represent devotional traditions of saint poets, performed by various communities. These include Meera, Kabir, Raidas and other saint poets, also include bhajans sung by Langas, Manganiar, Meghwal and Jogi communities.

The artists include: Multan Khan Manganiar, Sardar Khan Langa, Bhalluram and Ragunath Meghwal, Babunath and Raghunath of the Mewati Jogis.

Accompanied by Kutla Khan on the dholak; and Khete Khan on the khartal. Other instruments include the Sindhi sarangi and Bhapang

(Collaboration: Archives and Archives and Research Centre for Ethnomusicology, American Institute of Indian Studies ; and with the support of the Modern Endangered Archives Program, University of California)

Edited by Sukrita Paul Kumar and Vinita Agrawal 
 

 The Yearbook of Indian Poetry in English is a series of anthologies published every year, of English poem written by Indian poets and the Indian diaspora. This edition of the Yearbook is also embedded with concerted poems on imperialism, gender (as always!), mental health, childhood traumas, upbringing, Earth, climate change, birds, mining, racism, sensuality and spirituality. 

Speakers : Sh. Mustansir Dalvi, Poet, Translator & Editor; Ms. Shilpa D. Thapliyal, Poet & Author ; Sh. Satya Dash, Poet ; Prof. Sukrita Paul Kumar, Poet, Critic, Academic & Editor of the book and Ms. Vinita Agrawal,  Editor, Curator &   Editor of the book
                     
               
                                              
                      
Registration Link
 

Data: New Oil and Privacy Rights

Panelists: Ambar Sinha, Advocate and Senior Fellow, Mozilla Foundation; Nikhil Pahwa, journalist and Founder, MediaNama;  Mansi Kedia, Research Fellow, ICRIER;  Sreenidhi Srinivasan, Partner, Ikigai Law; and Rama Vedashree, Chief Executive Officer, Data Security Council of India

Moderator: Apar Gupta, Advocate/ED, Internet Freedom Foundation

The discussion will present an overview of the policy developments on data governance and protection in India and also focus on a broad overview of global developments that are emerging from influential jurisdiction such as EU, the United States and the United Kingdom. The will also examine the motivations and interests on what a data protection law in India may look like, if any; what can be anticipated in the future and the risks and opportunities that it offers