18TH GIRI DESHINGKAR MEMORIAL LECTURE

18TH GIRI DESHINGKAR MEMORIAL LECTURE 
In Search of our Inner Hàn Zì: AI for Connecting South Asia’s written languages
Speaker: Peggy Mohan, Professor of linguistics, Howard University, Washington D.C., JNU and Ashoka University, and Mass communications at Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi.

Opening Remarks by Awadhendra Sharan, Director CSDS & Alka Acharya, Director ICS

Welcome Remarks by Snigdha Konar
The lecture explores how India and China developed distinct writing traditions despite underlying linguistic similarities, and how AI translation can serve as an ‘Inner Hàn Zì’, connecting South Asia’s diverse languages at the level of meaning. It examines AI’s potential to overcome linguistic barriers, preserve diversity and make knowledge, particularly in science and technology, accessible to all.
This lecture series is a tribute to the work and contributions of Prof. Giri Deshingkar, China scholar and one of the founders of the Institute of Chinese Studies (ICS), and former Director of the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS)

(Collaboration: Institute of Chinese Studies (ICS); Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS)