A Short History of How Jazz Became an Indian Music
01 June 2020, 05:30 am
A Short History of How Jazz Became an Indian Music
Programme Type
Films and Exhibitions
Presentation by Shri Naresh Fernandes, author of the book, The Taj Mahal Foxtrot: The story of Bombay's Jazz Age
Introduction: Ms Shubha Chaudhuri
From the accounts of most standard jazz histories, it took the genius of American saxophonist, John Coltrane to demonstrate in the 1960s how jazz could enrich itself by seeking inspiration in Hindustani classical music. But the reality is more complex. From the 1940s, a passionate group of Indian jazz musicians had been attempting to find an Indian way to play jazz, both in art music and in popular music. The presentation will use audio clips and photographs to trace the journey of jazz from New Orleans to New Delhi, exploring how an American transplant became a vibrant Indian hybrid in the fertile soil of the subcontinent
Talk held on 26 November 2014 as part of the exhibition Jazz in India on view from 26 to 30 November 2014
Introduction: Ms Shubha Chaudhuri
From the accounts of most standard jazz histories, it took the genius of American saxophonist, John Coltrane to demonstrate in the 1960s how jazz could enrich itself by seeking inspiration in Hindustani classical music. But the reality is more complex. From the 1940s, a passionate group of Indian jazz musicians had been attempting to find an Indian way to play jazz, both in art music and in popular music. The presentation will use audio clips and photographs to trace the journey of jazz from New Orleans to New Delhi, exploring how an American transplant became a vibrant Indian hybrid in the fertile soil of the subcontinent
Talk held on 26 November 2014 as part of the exhibition Jazz in India on view from 26 to 30 November 2014
A Hindu King in a Cosmopolitan World
01 June 2020, 05:30 am
A Hindu King in a Cosmopolitan World
Programme Type
Talks
Discussion around the new book RAYA - Krishnadevaraya of Vijayanagara
by Srinivas Reddy (New Delhi: Juggernaut Books, 2020)
Professor Srinivas Reddy, Visiting Assistant Professor, Brown University Guest Professor, IIT Gandhinagar in conversation with William Dalrymple, well-known author, and historian
Zoom recording of the IIC talk and conversation held on 27th May 2020
by Srinivas Reddy (New Delhi: Juggernaut Books, 2020)
Professor Srinivas Reddy, Visiting Assistant Professor, Brown University Guest Professor, IIT Gandhinagar in conversation with William Dalrymple, well-known author, and historian
Zoom recording of the IIC talk and conversation held on 27th May 2020
To Mark World Environment Day on 5th June 2020
01 June 2020, 05:30 am
To Mark World Environment Day on 5th June 2020
Programme Type
Talks
Post Covid-19: Future of Biodiversity
Speakers: Prof. V.S. Verma, former Member, Central Electricity Regulatory Commission and Member Planning, Central Electricity Authority; and Dr. Malti Goel, President, Climate Change Research Institute and former Scientist ‘G’ and Emeritus Scientist, Ministry of Science & Technology
Corona virus crisis is reshaping our world. World Environment Day, which falls on 5th June, aims to create awareness about Biodiversity, as a theme of the year. This year the Environment Day campaign marks society’s unified and digital response to our environmental crisis. The Climate Change Research Institute in association with IIC presents a discourse on global pandemic Covid-19 on this World Environment Day, on how biodiversity and covid-19 are linked, the challenges we face and how we can safeguard it post covid-19
Speakers: Prof. V.S. Verma, former Member, Central Electricity Regulatory Commission and Member Planning, Central Electricity Authority; and Dr. Malti Goel, President, Climate Change Research Institute and former Scientist ‘G’ and Emeritus Scientist, Ministry of Science & Technology
Corona virus crisis is reshaping our world. World Environment Day, which falls on 5th June, aims to create awareness about Biodiversity, as a theme of the year. This year the Environment Day campaign marks society’s unified and digital response to our environmental crisis. The Climate Change Research Institute in association with IIC presents a discourse on global pandemic Covid-19 on this World Environment Day, on how biodiversity and covid-19 are linked, the challenges we face and how we can safeguard it post covid-19
Yadgar Wa Jashn i Manto A Greater Story Writer Than God
25 May 2020, 05:30 am
Yadgar Wa Jashn i Manto A Greater Story Writer Than God
Programme Type
Talks
Speakers: Shri Shamim Hanafi; Dr. Rakshanda Jalil; Dr. Alok Sarin; and Ms. Urvashi Butalia
Chair: Prof. Shahid Amin
Followed by
The Dastaan of Manto
Presented by Mahmood Farooqui and Danish Husain
Programme presented on 11th May 2014
Soul of Japan - Shamisen and Nagauta
25 May 2020, 05:30 am
Soul of Japan - Shamisen and Nagauta
Concert presented by Baisho Matsumoto (shamisen) with Yoshimi Fujimoto (vocals), Akira Nishizaki (dance) and Kyoko Hibiki (drums), four Japanese masters in traditional dance, drums, folksong and the shamisen will present the versatile dance and music traditions of Japan
Collaboration: The Japan Foundation
Programme held on 14th February 2013
Unity and Diversity of India - A Genomic Reconstruction from Ancestral Footfalls
25 May 2020, 05:30 am
Unity and Diversity of India - A Genomic Reconstruction from Ancestral Footfalls
Programme Type
Talks
Speaker: Dr Partha P. Majumder, Director, National Institute of Biomedical Genomics
Chair: Prof Samir K. Brahmachari, Secretary, Dept. of Scientific and Industrial Research, Govt. of India, and Director General, CSIR
Programme held on 1st December 2012
Point Zero?: Geographies of Heritage on the Maritime Spice Routes
25 May 2020, 05:30 am
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?
Point Zero?: Geographies of Heritage on the Maritime Spice Routes
Programme Type
Film Club
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
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
Golden Jubilee Lectures Origin of the Universe
18 May 2020, 05:30 am
Golden Jubilee Lectures Origin of the Universe
Programme Type
Talks
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
