HYBRID SEMINAR
 

Welcome and Introductory Remarks by 
Prof Nitish Naik, Professor, All India Institute of Medical Sciences

The panel discussion would consist of a round of talks by the following speakers:

Air Pollution and Health Effects- Context Setting by Prof D Prabhakaran, Vice President (Research and Policy) & Director, Centre for Control of Chronic Conditions, PHFI 

Fine Particles in our Air: Their Health Impacts and Role in Virus Transmission by Prof George Thurston, Professor, Department of Environmental Medicine and Department of Population Health, New York University (NYU) (Online)

PM Toxicity: Particle Composition and Toxicity are influenced by particle size, urban versus rural sources and season by Prof Terry Gordon, Professor, Department of Environmental Medicine, NYU (Online) 

Size, Composition and Influence of aerosols on health - perspectives from    India by Dr. Gazala Habib, Associate Professor, IIT-Delhi

The talks will be followed by a panel discussion :
Panelists: Prof R Guleria, Indian pulmonologist and director of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences; Prof Balram Bhargava, Secretary, Department of Health Research, (Ministry of Health & Family Welfare), GOI & Director General, Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR); Prof Rajesh Vedanthan, MD, MPH Director, Section for Global Health Associate Professor, Departments of Population Health and Medicine (NYU)

Concluding Remarks by Prof Nitish Naik, Professor, All India Institute of Medical Sciences

Registration Link :

https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_-AYZPbUiSb65dBJQFLodFQ

(Collaboration: Public Health Foundation of India)

Monday, 13 June 2022 at 6.30 pm    BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP

Edited by Anvita Abbi and Kapila Vatsyayan (Om Books International: 2022)

Moderator: Dr. Sudha Gopalakrishnan, Executive Director, IIC-International Research Division

Discussants: Prof. Anvita Abbi, Linguist, Scholar & Author of the book ; Prof. Ayesha Kidwai, Professor, Centre of Linguistics, J.N.U.; Prof. Sukrita Paul Kumar, Poet, Critic & Academic ; Prof. S. Imtiaz Hasnain, Professor, Sociolinguistics. Aligarh Muslim University

Registration Link   

PIANO EXTRAVAGANZA
(100 min; 2004; dvd; English subtitles)

With Leif Ove Andsnes, Nicolas Angelich, Martha Argerich, Emmanuel Ax, Claude Frank, Evgeny Kissin, Lang Lang, James Levine, Mikhail Pletnev, Staffan Scheja.
Birthday Festival Orchestra

Every year, the idyllic village of Verbier in the Swiss Alps plays host to the international music elite. To celebrate the Verbier Festival & Academy’s tenth birthday in 2003, 23 fabulous soloists came together to honour this special spirit of Verbier with this exciting once-in-a-lifetime extravaganza of star pianists and as many as 8 pianos. Featuring music by Mozart, Smetana, Bach, Rossini, Wagner, Arthur Benjamin, Gottschalk, Rimsky-Korsakov and others.

Introduced by Sunit Tandon

Maritime Trade of the Harappans – Evidences at Dholavira

Illustrated lecture by Dr. V.N. Prabhakar, archaeologist and Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar

Chair: Shri B.M. Pande

Conducted by Smt Bijoylaxmi Hota 

Aimed specifically at children, this workshop will include practices of Hatha Yoga, Tantra Yoga and Nada Yoga to strengthen their eyes, lungs and nervous system; relax their body and mind; and clear their psyche

At 18:45
Dietary and Other Advice

At 19:00
Mantra Yoga
This session is open to both children and adults

At 19:30
Yogic Consultation

Members and their families are requested to please register their participation in either or both sets of workshops in advance. Kindly please send us an email confirming your participation on iicprogrammeassist@gmail.com

To be conducted by Smt Bijoylaxmi Hota, well-known Yoga Guru and author of several books on Yoga

Two years of the pandemic has increased the stress levels for most people and this needs to be released and the damage caused by it to the system repaired sooner than later, as stress leads to almost all other ailments. The Yoga workshops to be conducted by Smt Bijoylaxmi Hota is an attempt to undo some of the damage.

Yoga Workshop for Adults – Hatha Yoga

To be conducted by Smt Bijoylaxmi Hota

Apart from Hatha Yoga, the workshop will include various destressing techniques, including Raja Yoga, Mantra Yoga, and Tantra Yoga. 

At 19:15
Yoga for Super Immunity

Launch of the new book by Bijolaxmi Hota (Rupa Publishers: 2022)

Followed by a discussion with: Shri V. Srinivas, Secretary, Dept. of Public Reforms and Grievances (DARPG) & Dept. of Pensions and Pensioners Welfare (DOPPW); Smt Rupinder Brar, Additional Director General, Tourism; Shri Nagesh Singh, Chief of Protocol, Ministry of External Affairs; and Shri Sanjeeb K. Mishra, Secretary-cum-COE, National Recruitment Agency (NRA)