Illustrated lecture by Yatindra Mishra, writer, poet, critic and connoisseur of music

 

Chair: Smt. Sunanda Sharma

 

Programme held on 27th February 2013

Talk followed by a film
 

Illustrated lecture by Marina Kaneti, Assistant Professor, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore. Her research explores questions of global governance, diplomacy, and migration. She is currently finalizing a book manuscript on diplomacy, power, and legitimacy in the age of the Belt and Road

 

Introduction: Haojun See
 

Responses to the Chinese Belt Road initiative are often presented as corresponding state-led geopolitical and geocultural reactions. Yet, how are narratives and memories of connectivity activated at the level of local communities? How do local communities (re)construct their sense of identity and connectivity? How do community activities fit into national government agendas for "Heritage" promotion and cultural revival?

 

This talk explores such questions in the context of Indonesia's Spice Route and Global Maritime Fulcrum initiatives

Film: Ternate: Point Zero (7.5 min; English)
For centuries, Europeans imagined Ternate as "Point Zero": the island many died to reach, the place at the heart of a global spice trade. How do people at Point Zero think of their past? At a time when China is intensifying a Silk Road geocultural diplomacy, do local communities still see themselves as the center of the Maritime Silk and Spice Routes? Do they take advantage of the resurgent interest in the maritime past? How do they think of and understand their pre- and post-European heritage? 
 
With these questions in mind, and as part of an overarching journey to understand maritime roots and identities, Marina Kaneti and graduate students from the National University of Singapore, made their way to Ternate in December 2019. This documentary is a first instalment of a "Point Zero" series. It takes a look at local community initiatives - beyond the realm of geopolitics and international diplomacy
 

Speaker: Prof Paul Davies, Regents’ Professor and Director of the Beyond Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science, Co-Director, ASU Cosmology Initiative, and Principal Investigator, Center for the Convergence of Physical Science and Cancer Biology, Arizona State University

 

Chair: Prof M.G.K. Menon, Life Trustee, IIC

 

Cosmologists agree that the universe as we know it began with a big bang about 13.7 billion years ago, but many questions remain. What, if anything, came before the Big Bang? Can a universe appear from nothing? Was the Big Bang also the origin of time and space? Can such an event ever be fully explained scientifically? This lecture will tackle such deep and important topics. It will also review the history of the universe from the first split second to the present epoch, as well as predict the ultimate fate of the cosmos

 

Programme held on 21st December 2012

 

Panelists: Shri Krishen Khanna, eminent painter; Smt Kirti Jain, theatre director; Dr Udayan Vajpeyi, poet; and Ms Aditi Mangaldas, classical dancer 

 

Moderator: Shri Ashok Vajpeyi, Executive Trustee, Raza Foundation 

 

(Collaboration: The Raza Foundation)

 

Programme held on 10th September 2012

 

Speaker: Justice B. N. Srikrishna, former Judge, Supreme Court 

 

Chair: Shri Soli J. Sorabjee, President IIC

 

Programme held on 14th January 2012

 

By Kiran Rajagopalan from Bangalore, disciple of A. Lakshman

 

Followed by 

Manipuri Dance Recital 

By Baisali Sarkar and troupe from Kolkata, disciple of Smt Priti Patel and Smt Sruti Banerjee

 

Programme held on 26th June 2013

 

Speaker: Dr. Shiv Kumar Sarin, senior Professor, Hepatology and Director, Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences

 

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

 

Programme held on 18th November 2019

 

 

(Organised by the Rosalind Wilson Memorial Trust) 

 

Programme held on 28 July 2013

 

Director: Dora Elek