Workshop Session I: Re-examining the ‘Indianization’ Legacy in History and Archaeology
To be conducted in hybrid mode

Chair: Prof. Anjana Sharma, University of Delhi

Presentations:

The Diversity of Cultural Sharing Between Indonesia and South Asia
Presentation by Dr. Wayan Jarrah Sastrawan, Research Fellow, École Française d’Extrême-Orient (Paris) at present in Jakarta

Colonising the El dorado: The Vo-Canh inscription, R.C. Majumdar, and the Making of Greater India
Presentation by Dr. Ashish Kumar, Assistant Professor, Punjab University, Chandigarh

At 16:00
Workshop Session II: Of Continuities and Ruptures
To be conducted in hybrid mode

Chair: Prof. Kishor K. Basa, Chairperson, National Monuments Authority

Presentations:
Indianization, Indigenization and Maritime Archaeology: What can shipwrecks tell us?
Presentation by Dr. Stephen Murphy, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London

A Continuity of Rupture: The Periods of ‘Hindu-Buddha’ and ‘Islam’ in Indonesia’s Art History and Archaeology and Their Epistemic Implications
Presentation by Mr. Panggah Ardiyansyah, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London

Musical Exchanges between India and Southeast Asia: A Reappraisal
Presentation by Dr. Arsenio Nicolas, College of Music, Mahasarakham University, Thailand

Webinar on 9 February 2023 at 18:30
 

Indian Sailors on Socotra – The Inscriptions and Drawings of Cave HOQ

Speaker: Prof. Ingo Strauch, Professor for Sanskrit and Buddhist Studies, University of Lausanne who is the Editor of Foreign Sailors on Socotra. The inscriptions and drawings from the Cave Hoq, 2012. His current research focusses on early Buddhist manuscripts from Gandhara and Buddhist epigraphy in Brahmi and Kharosthi script

Chair: Mr. Ajay Yadav, former Additional Director General, Archaeological Survey of India

The ‘Indianization’ Debate: Historical Connections between South and Southeast Asia

Chair: Shri Shyam Saran, President, IIC

Panellists: 

Maritime Cultural Heritage: From Nationalism to Trans-nationalism
By Prof. Himanshu Prabha Ray, archaeologist and maritime historian

Indian Nationalist readings of Southeast Asian History
By Prof. Madhavan K. Palat, historian of Modern Europe and India 

The Impact of the Greater India Society on post-Independence Foreign Policy Initiatives
By Amb. T.C.A. Raghavan, diplomat and historian and former Director-General, Indian Council of World Affairs

A prelude to the two-day workshop on ‘Shared Cultural Heritage across the Indian Ocean’, the panel discussion will provide a backdrop to the wider issues of early cultural relations between India and Southeast Asia.
 

Carnatic Vocal Recital

By Sudha Raghuraman
Accompanied by G. Raghuraman (flute); and M.V. Chandra Shekar (mridangam)

Followed by
Dhrupad Recital

By Ustad Faiyazuddin Wasifuddin Dagar
Accompanied by Pt. Mohanshyam Sharma on pakhawaj

(Collaboration: Dagar Brothers Memorial Trust)
 

Talk and an interactive session with Mr. John Keay FRGS, British historian, journalist and radio presenter and author of several books on India, the Far East and China with a particular focus on colonisation. Mr. Keay will speak on his recently published book of the same title

Chair: Prof. Siddiq Wahid, Distinguished Professor and Senior Fellow, International Relations and Governance Studies, Shiv Nadar University

(Collaboration: Shiv Nadar University)

Warm Encounters at the Freezing North

Welcome Address: Geshe Dorji Damdul, Director, Tibet House

Lead presentation by Prof. Savita Kerkar, Senior Professor and Dean, School of Biological Sciences of Biotechnology, Goa University

Chair: Prof. Vivek Suneja, former Pro-Vice-Chancellor, University of Delhi and presently Head & Dean, Faculty of Management Studies, University of Delhi

Prof. Kerkar will speak about her experiences during two Arctic Expeditions in 2009 and in 2019 as part of the Indian Arctic Expeditions. The challenges of working in Ny-Alesund in Norway at the Indian Station; the coal mines in Kongsfjorden, a habitable inlet among the glaciers in the Arctic; the flora and fauna, and the tribes that thrive in extreme conditions in the poles; and how mankind is so dependent on the marine ecosystem without realising its significance.

(Collaboration: Tibet House)

Why Should Countries Invest in Science?

Speaker: Dr. V. Ramakrishnan, structural biologist and co-recipient of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry 

Chair: Shri K. N. Shrivastava, Director, IIC

Ecology of Climate Change: Policy Framework

Welcome: Shri Suresh K. Goel, former Director General, Indian Council of Cultural Relations
Introductory Remarks: Shri Prabhat Kumar, President, IC Center for Governance

Keynote Speaker: Shri Shyam Saran, President, IIC

(Collaboration: IC Centre for Governance)
 

Illustrated lecture by Manu P. Sobti, prolific architectural historian and urban interlocutor of the Global South, International Engagement Director and Senior Lecturer, University of Queensland’s School of Architecture

Chair: Prof. Jyoti Pandey Sharma, Professor of Architecture, School of Planning and Architecture, Delhi

Between 1952-1965, Le Corbusier’s lesser-known cousin Pierre Jeanneret served as the collaborating Senior Architect on the monumental Chandigarh Capital Project in northern India. In its unprecedented usage of the Pierre Jeanneret Fonds at the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) Archives in Montreal, this presentation explores Jeanneret’s engagements with the idyllic Punjab countryside and Chandigarh hinterland. Jeanneret’s recordings and musings were then undeniable reassertion of the complex human and landscape palimpsest that had and would experience inevitable (and substantial) erasure, while a new city emerged from these untidy ruins
 

Hindustani Violin Recital

By  Durga Sharma from Bangalore, disciple of  Vidushi Madhuram Krishnam  & Pt. Shailendra Janardan
Accompanist: Manoj Patidar on tabla

At 19:00
Hindustani Vocal Recital

By Vishwas Shirgaonkar from Pune, disciple of  Pt. Ratnakar Pai; Pt. Anandrao Limaye and Pt. Yeshwantbuwa Joshi

Accompanists: Kaustuv Swain on tabla; and Mausam on harmonium  

Children’s cultural film festival, a screening of films on heritage made by children across different schools in Delhi

(Collaboration: Intach)