India’s Policy Towards China in the Changing Global Context

Panelists: Ambassador Shyam Saran, Life Trustee IIC and former Foreign Secretary; Ambassador Shivshankar Menon, Distinguished Fellow, Brookings Institution, and former Foreign Secretary; Ambassador Ashok K. Kantha, Director, Institute of Chinese Studies and former Indian Ambassador to China; and Dr. Jabin T. Jacob, China Analyst and Associate Editor of the academic journal, China Report

 

The panel will explore the changing dynamics of India-China relations in a fluid and uncertain international environment, characterised, inter alia, by intensification of strategic contestation with transition in the balance of power, concerns regarding China’s assertive actions and unpredictability associated with the US President’s policies. Though India-China engagement has a relatively impressive track-record of achievements despite numerous outstanding issues, it is passing through a particularly challenging phase which possibly calls for a new modus vivendi between the two countries

 

Organised as part of AAS- in-Asia

 

(Collaboration: Institute of Chinese Studies)

 

METAMORPHOSES: TALKING TECHNOLOGY

 

Vocabulary of The Digital

Keynote Speaker: Prof. K. Vijay Raghavan, Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India

 

Panelists: Shri Abhishek Pitti, Co-Founder & CEO, Nucleus Vision; Ms Mahima Kaul, Head of India - Public Policy & Government, Twitter; Shri Dhruv Arora, Manager, Digital and Strategic Communications, CPR  and Prof. Gagandeep Kang, Executive Director, Transnational Health Science Technology Institute 

 

The focus will be on the new and sometimes arcane vocabulary associated with the new digital technologies, which only the expert and the initiated understand. Language becomes an instrument of privileging knowledge and limiting understanding. It is important that we de-mystify digital jargon, narrow the gap between technology and its understanding among citizens and societies. An effort will be made to unpack concepts such as algorithms, blockchains, machine-learning, big data and artificial intelligence and explore their impact in different dimensions

 

(Collaboration: Niti Aayog; and Centre for Policy Research)

Guli’s Children (43 min; dvd; 2017; English)

Directed by Joe Thomas Karackattu who will introduce the film

 

Screening will be followed by a discussion

 

 

Calicut (also known as Guli in Chinese) was an important node in the overall links between China and Kerala. The film brings out the cultural-historical ties, the physical artefacts and, most importantly, traces of human genealogy that survive between Kerala and China to this day. Spanning over two years of research, and nearly 20,000 kilometres of fieldwork across India and China, the film is a work of non-fiction

 

Homecoming

Acrylic on canvas – exhibition of paintings by Oinam Dilip from Manipur

 

Preview on Tuesday, 3 July 2018 at 18:30

As Times Change, The Story of an Ahmedabad Business Family: The Sarabhais 1823-1975

Discussion on the book by Professor Aparna Basu 

 

Introductory remarks by Dr. Kapila Vatsyayan, Chairperson, IIC International Research Division

 

Book release by Dr. Ramchandra Guha will be followed by a dialogue with Professor Aparna Basu

Closing remarks by Professor B.N. Goswami

 

(Collaboration: Sarabhai Foundation)

The Relevance of the Cooperative Sector for India: Challenges and Opportunities

Speaker: Shri Rupinder Singh Sodhi, Managing Director of Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation, LTD (AMUL)

 

(Collaboration: Business and Community Foundation)

New Contours of Management: Artificial Intelligence, Interconnected World and Industry 4.0

Speaker: Dr. Jagdish Sheth, Charles H. Kellstadt Professor of Marketing, Goizueta Business School, Emory University, Atlanta, USA

 

(Collaboration: IILM)

The Indo-Pacific Axis: Peace, Cooperation or Conflict

 

Edited by Prof. Baladas Ghoshal and the late Prof. Satish Chandra (New Delhi: Manohar Books, 2018)

 

 

 

The book will be released by Shri M.J. Akbar, Hon. Minister of State for External Affairs

 

Chair: Shri T.N. Chaturvedi, former Governor of Karnataka and Chairman, Society for Indian Ocean Studies

 

 

 

Followed by a panel discussion

 

Panelists: Prof. Brahma Chellaney, Professor of Strategic Studies, Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi; Dr. Gurpreet Khurana, Executive Director, National Maritime Foundation, New Delhi; and Prof. Prabir Dey, Coordinator, India-ASEAN Centre, Research and Information Systems

 

 

 

(Collaboration: The Society for Indian Ocean Studies)

 

Where’s the DNA?

 

Discussion with Tim Schellberg, Founder & President, Gordon Thomas Honeywell-Governmental Affairs (Forensic DNA Law & Policy); Vivek Sood, Senior Advocate, Delhi High Court (Defence Lawyer); Ravi Kant, Advocate, Supreme Court (Victim advocate); and Judge Sanjeev Jain, Member Secretary, Delhi State Legal Service Authority

 

 

 

(Collaboration: Gordon Thomas Honeywell Governmental Affairs; and Ogilvy)

 

 

SUMMER SONATA – A FESTIVAL OF OPERA AND BALLET FILMS

This year the festival presents operas, ballets, a ballet biography and choral works

Curated and introduced by Dr. R.P. Jain

 

Giuseppe Verdi: Requiem Mass

(89 min; 2002; dvd)

With Angela Gheorghiu (soprano); Daniela Barcellona (mezzo-soprano); Roberto Alagna (tenor); Julian Konstantinov (bass)

 

Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

Conductor: Claudio Abbado

 

The Requiem Mass is a musical setting of the Catholic funeral mass for four soloists, double choir and orchestra. It was composed in memory of Alessandro Manzoni, an Italian poet and novelist whom Verdi admired