MONDAY 10

 

CONFERENCE ? SEMINAR ROOMS I TO III, KAMALADEVI COMPLEX  AT 18:00

Inaugural session of 

International Conference on Understanding Africa: Continuity and Change

Introduction to the conference: Ambassador H.H.S. Viswanathan, Coordinator of the Conference, Distinguished Fellow, Observer Research Foundation and former Indian High Commissioner to Nigeria

 

Keynote Address: Ambassador Olabiyi Babalola Joseph Yai, former President, UNESCO Executive Board

 

Chair: Shri N.N. Vohra, President, IIC

 

(Organised by the IIC-International Research Division)  

 

4TH IIC/OPEN HEALTH SYSTEMS COLLOQUIUM

 

Biomedical Data Sciences – New Name with New Opportunities for Change?

Lead presentation by Prof. Philip E. Bourne, Stephenson Dean of the School of Data Science, Professor of Data Science & Professor of Biomedical Engineering, University of Virginia, USA

 

Discussants: Dr. Vijay Bhatkar, Architect of India’s initiative in supercomputing and Chancellor, Nalanda University, Bihar; Dr. B. Jayaram, Professor Emeritus, Supercomputing Facility for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi; Dr. Anand Deshpande, Founder, Chairman & Managing Director, Persistent Systems; and Dr. Jefferey Buchsbaum, Radiation Oncologist and Programme Director, Radiation Research Programme, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda

 

Chair: Dr. Renu Swarup, Secretary, Dept. of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science & Technology

 

Biomedicine, always at the forefront of open data aggregation and reuse, is now being influenced by other fields where the application of data science is rapidly expanding. What are other fields telling us and what do we, scientists, funders and governments need to do differently to instill a cultural change, which is never easy?

 

RIVER DIALOGUES

 

The River and I

Sumana Roy, writer and poet; and Parineeta Dandekar, writer and Associate Coordinator, South Asia Network on Dams, Rivers and People (SANDRIP) in conversation with Kishalay Bhattarcharjee, author and journalist

 

(Collaboration: New Imaginations, Jindal School of Journalism and Communication, O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat)

 

FRIDAY 7

 

PERFORMANCE  ?C.D. DESHMUKH AUDITORIUM AT 18:30

 

Hindustani Vocal Recital

By Pt Bholanath Mishra

Accompanied by Ustad Akhtar Hassan on table and Shri Zakir Dhaulpuri on harmonium 

 

Followed by

Dhrupad Recital

By Ustad Faiyazuddin Wasifuddin  Dagar

Accompanied by Pt. Mohanshyam Sharma on pakhawaj

 

(Collaboration: Dagar Brothers Memorial Trust)

 

Seminar on Pathway to Women in Politics

Panellists: Smt Chitra Mudgal, Hindi writer; Dr Bijaylaxmi Nanda, Principal of Miranda House; Smt Kalpana Sharma, Additional Secretary, Lok Sabha and Ms Neerja Chowdhry, eminent journalist

 

Chief Guest: Dr Heena Vijay Kumar Gavit, Chairperson, Women Empowerment Committee

Awardee, Dayawati Modi Stree Shakti Samman

 

(Collaboration: Stree Shakti)

INTACH–IIC Children’s Film Festival Open Futures: Filmit India

Films made by school children from 42 schools in Delhi on the culture of Delhi

 

(Collaboration: INTACH)

 

Much Ado about Knotting (India)

(56 min; 2012; dvd; Hindi/English)

Directors: Geetika Narang, Anandana Kapur

 

Recipient of the award for Best Film, International Film Festival, Ferizaj, Kosono

 

Born into a society obsessed with marriage, a young girl, a not-so-young man and an NRI couple are compelled by tradition to look for matches via classifieds, matchmaking bureaus and websites. The film is a light-hearted chronicle of the marriage predicament          

 

HEALTHCARE IN INDIA

 

Stroke Awareness

Speaker: Dr. Chandril Chugh, Senior Consultant and Head Interventional Neurology, Max Saket Hospital, Delhi

 

Direction & Editing: Sanjiv Shah who will introduce the film

 

Screening will be followed by a discussion

 

The Constitution of India deems that the right to shelter is a fundamental right. However, there is no law in the country to protect this right. The film is structured around conversations with people: their idea of home, their struggles to find a place to live – those forced to the margins of society, as well as those within the system but unable to find/afford it

 

 

The US-Iran Crisis

 

Panelists: Prof. Gulshan Dietl, former Professor, Centre for West Asian Studies, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University; and Maj. Gen. B.K. Sharma, Director, United Services Institute of India

 

 

 

Chair: Ambassador K.P. Fabian

 

 

 

The ongoing crisis between the US and Iran did bring the world to the brink of a disastrous war in early January 2020. The crisis is not showing any sign of resolution. We shall look into the genesis of the crisis, the dangers it poses to the two countries, the region, the rest of the world, and in particular to India; the role of the external actors and their goals; and how rational diplomacy can help untie this Gordian knot