1. IIC

Mental Health: Perceiving Challenge as Opportunity

Programs - 23rd Feb
Programs - 23rd Feb  
24 August 2020, 05:30 am
Mental Health: Perceiving Challenge as Opportunity
Programme Type
Talks
Mental Health: Perceiving Challenge as Opportunity
Speaker: Dr. Meetu Khosla, Associate Professor, Psychology Department, Daulat Ram College, University of Delhi
 
Moderator: Prof. Chandra Mohan, Chair, ICLA Standing Research Committee for South Asian Literature, Culture and Environment
 
Video recording of a talk on Webinar for IIC

Archaeology and Heritage

Programs - 23rd Feb
Programs - 23rd Feb  
24 August 2020, 05:30 am
Archaeology and Heritage
Programme Type
Talks
Archaeology and Heritage
 
Brescia – A Roman City in Northern Italy
An illustrated lecture by Dr. Francesca Morandini, archaeologist and Director, Santa Giulia Museum in Brescia
 
Dr. Morandini will take viewers on a virtual tour of the Roman city of Brescia, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Founded over 3,200 years ago, Brescia (in antiquity Brixia) has been an important regional centre since pre-Roman times. Its old town contains the best-preserved Roman public buildings in northern Italy and numerous monuments. One of the cities in Italy most severely impacted by the coronavirus pandemic, the talk is also a tribute to the city and its inhabitants
 
An initiative of the Italian Embassy Cultural Centre, New Delhi and Bell’Italia 88
Archaeology and Heritage

Live webcast on 5th IIC/Open Health Systems Colloquium

Programs - 23rd Feb
Programs - 23rd Feb  
21 August 2020, 05:30 am
Live webcast on 5th IIC/Open Health Systems Colloquium
Programme Type
Webcasts
Live webcast on 21st August 2020 at 7:30 pm

Applications of AI in Cancer research – Preparations, Progress and Predictions

By Eric Stahlberg, Ph.D., Director, Biomedical Informatics and Data Science, Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research (FNLCR)

Chair: Prof. Phil Bourne, Stephenson Chair of Data Science and Director of the School of Data Science and Professor, University of Virginia

Eric Stahlberg has played a leadership role in many key partnerships, including a major collaboration between the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the Department of Energy (DOE), USA. Under the Joint Design of Advanced Computing Systems for Cancer (JDACS4C), NCI and DOE are accelerating progress in precision oncology and computing. The collaboration is rooted in three major national initiatives; the Precision Medicine Initiative, the National Strategic Computing Initiative, and the Cancer Moonshot

The Webcast can be accessed on

http://ohsl.us/ohsc5

Pandemic Musings: History, mental health and marginalization

Programs - 23rd Feb  
21 August 2020, 04:00 pm
Pandemic Musings: History, mental health and marginalization
Programme Type
Discussions, Webcasts

On 21st August 2020 from 4 pm to 5 pm

Pandemic Musings: History, mental health and marginalization
A conversation with Alok Sarin, Consultant in Clinical Psychiatrist, Sitaram Bhartia Institute of Science and Research, New Delhi; Sanjeev Jain, Professor in Psychiatry, National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro-Sciences, Bengaluru; Vandana Gopikumar, Founder, The Banyan and BALM, Chennai; Ratnaboli Ray, Founder, Anjali Mental Health Rights Organisation, Kolkata; and Pratima Murthy, Head, Department of Psychiatry, National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro-Sciences, Bengaluru
 
A discussion between mental health professionals, looking at histories of earlier pandemics and disasters, data from the present pandemic and means of societal coping. In this conversation, mental health professionals from across the country bring to the table lenses of mental health and illness, homelessness, care needs and issues of development and disruption. Also explored are possible opportunities for change and the imagining of possible futures keeping in mind the needs of social equity and shared humanity

Please click on the link below to register:
http://webcast.streaminglive.in/iicwebinar3/signup.php

Neighbourhood First Series: After 5 August Elections in Sri Lanka

Programs - 23rd Feb  
19 August 2020, 05:30 pm
Neighbourhood First Series: After 5 August Elections in Sri Lanka
Programme Type
Discussions, Webcasts
Neighbourhood First Series
 
After 5 August Elections in Sri Lanka
Panelists: Jehan Perera, National Peace Council of Sir Lanka; Dr. Gulbin Sultana, Research Analyst, M.P. Institute for Defence Studies & Analyses; and Maj. Gen. (Retd.) Ashok K. Mehta, former Commander, IPKF South Sri Lanka
 
Maj. Gen. Mehta will also moderate the discussion
 
The discussion will present an analysis of the election, its implications for the country and relations with India and the region 

 

 


 

Post Covid-19 Path to Recovery: SADC and India

Programs - 23rd Feb  
17 August 2020, 05:30 pm
Post Covid-19 Path to Recovery: SADC and India
Programme Type
Discussions, Webcasts

To Mark the 40th Anniversary of Southern African Development Community (SADC) 1980-2020

Post Covid-19 Path to Recovery: SADC and India
 
Speakers: H.E. Baraka H. Luvanda, High Commissioner of Tanzania and Chair of the SADC Heads of Mission Group, New Delhi; 
Amb. Shiv Shankar Mukherjee, former Indian High Commissioner to Namibia and South Africa; Prof. Aparajita Biswas, President, African Studies Association of India and former Professor and Director, Centre for African Studies, University of Mumbai; and Prof. Mammo Muchie, Professor, South African Research Chair (SARChi) Innovation Studies, Tshwana University of Technology, Pretoria
 
Moderator: Shri Suhas Borker, Convener, Working Group on Alternative Strategies and Founder Editor, Citizens First TV (CFTV)
 
India and the 16-nation SADC have had strong and deep ties of cooperation in the past and now there is a strong need to further strengthen these ties to support and assist each other in the Post Covid-19 scenario. The post-Covid – 19 path to recovery calls for out of the box strategies to counter the fallout of the economic downturn and to meet the challenge of emergent priorities
 
(Collaboration: Southern African Development Community, Heads of Mission Group, New Delhi; and Working Group on Alternative Strategies)

 

Book Discussion Group How do You know What you Know?

Programs - 23rd Feb  
17 August 2020, 04:00 pm
Book Discussion Group How do You know What you Know?
Programme Type
Discussions, Webcasts

Book Discussion Group

On 17th August 2020 from 4 pm to 5 pm
 
How do You know What you Know?
By Janaki Santoke (New Delhi: Janki Santoke, 2019)
 
Discussants: Shri R. Gopalkrishnan, formerly, Executive Director, Tata Sons and Vice Chairman, Tata Motors (Moderator); and Dr. Janki Santoke, Vedanta scholar and author of the book
 
Chair: Shri Gurcharan Das

Monsoon Festival of Dance Purushaakaram (140 min)

Programs - 23rd Feb
Programs - 23rd Feb  
17 August 2020, 05:30 am
Monsoon Festival of Dance Purushaakaram (140 min)
Programme Type
Cultural
Monsoon Festival of Dance Purushaakaram (140 min)
Bharatanatyam Recitals
By Praveen Kumar from Bangalore, disciple of Guru Smt Narmada and Prof. C.V. Chandrashekar
 
Followed by
By Renjith Babu from Chennai, disciple of Prof. C.V. Chandrashekhar and the Dhananjayans
 
Webcast recording of the IIC programme held on 16 July 2016

Himalayan Biodiversity

Programs - 23rd Feb  
17 August 2020, 05:30 am
Himalayan Biodiversity
Programme Type
Talks, Webcasts
Himalayan Biodiversity
Illustrated lecture by Dr Ajay Singh Rawat, former Professor of History, Kumaon University, and author of Forestry in Central Himalayas and Forest History of Mountainous Regions of the World
 
Followed by a dialogue with Shri Vijay Bhushan, Member of the State Wildlife Board of Himachal Pradesh, and Executive Director, Narain Dharamarth Aushdhalaya Trust, highlighting Dr Rawat's work as environmental activist.
 
Webcast recording of the IIC programme held on 2nd May 2012

 

Major Schools of Indian Philosophy: An Introduction in Six Monthly Lectures Vedanta Today

Programs - 23rd Feb  
30 January 2013, 05:30 am
Major Schools of Indian Philosophy: An Introduction in Six Monthly Lectures Vedanta Today
Programme Type
Talks, Webcasts
Venue
C.D. Deshmukh Auditorium, IIC main building
Major Schools of Indian Philosophy: An Introduction in Six Monthly Lectures
Vedanta Today (45 min)
Speaker: Dr Karan Singh, M.P. 
Chair: Shri Rajiv Mehrotra, Trustee, Foundation for Universal Responsibility of His Holiness the Dalai Lama
 
An overview of the six orthodox schools, with special reference to the Vedas
 
Organised in collaboration with Foundation for Universal Responsibility of His Holiness the Dalai Lama
 
Webcast recording of the programme held on 30th January 2013

 

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