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

Jogen Chowdhury, artist, will speak on: ‘My Journey as an Artist’. In the lecture, the artist will take us through the many defining phases of his career and share key insights. 

Jogen Chowdhury was born in 1939 in Faridpur, undivided Bengal (present day Bangladesh). Chowdhury studied at the Government College of Art and Crafts, Kolkata and École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris. His early studies of human figures transformed into a distinctive style. 

Chowdhury has exhibited widely across the world. He has received many awards and was a nominated member of the Rajya Sabha. 

He is professor emeritus at Kala-Bhavan, Santiniketan. He currently lives and works in Calcutta and Santiniketan. 

Zoom Registration: https://zoom.us/j/81546775805

Meeting ID: 815 4677 5805

(Collaboration: J.D. Centre of Art)

Prof. Apoorvanand and Dr Ananya Vajpeyi In Conversation with Suhas Borker

Prof. Apoorvanand is Professor of Hindi, University of Delhi. He is also a regular columnist and political commentator.
Dr Ananya Vajpeyi is Fellow and Associate Professor, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies. She works at the intersection of intellectual history, political theory and critical philology.

Suhas Borker is Convener Jan Prasar and Editor, Citizens First TV (CFTV)

This conversation marks the 32nd Anniversary of the Presidential Assent to the Prasar Bharati Act, 1990 and is the 29th discussion in the annual series.

(Collaboration: Jan Prasar)
 

An exhibition of historical drawings by Polish children in 1946 which records their experiences during World War II and the German occupation of 1939-1945 which have been preserved at the Central Archives of Modern Records in Warsaw, Poland, and in the Ministry of Education from 1945-1966.

The exhibition also included contemporary drawings of Ukrainian children, related to the current war, collected on the Mom, I See War portal

Inauguration by Mr. Ivan Konovalov, Chargé d’Affaires, Embassy of Ukraine on Friday, 9 September 2022 at 18.30

(Collaboration: Polish Institute, New Delhi; and Embassy of Ukraine)