Programme Details

A two-day symposium organised in collaboration with Ashoka University and the New York University, Shanghai

Inaugural Session

Welcome Remarks: Amb. Shyam Saran, President, IIC

Introduction to the Conference: Prof. Tansen Sen, Director, Center for Global Asia, Professor of History at NYU Shanghai, and  Associate Professor of History in the Department of History at NYU

Lead presentation by Amb. Yashvardhan Sinha, former Indian High Commissioner to UK and Sri Lanka

Panelists: Shri Aditya Gowdara Shivamurthy, Associate Fellow, Strategic Studies Programme, Observer Research Foundation; Vice Admiral (Retd.) Shekhar Sinha, PVSM, AVSM, former Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Western Command and Chief of Integrated Defence Staff; and Dr. Gulbin Sultana, Associate Fellow, South Asia Centre, Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses 

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

Wednesday 25

Discussion ■ Conference Room II from 15:00 to 17:15

Connecting Economies, Empowering Women: Regional Connectivity and Cooperation in South Asia

Opening Remarks: Dr. Meenakshi Gopinath, Founder-Director, Women in Security and Conflict Management and Peace and Life Trustee, IIC 

Session 1: Breaking Barriers: Views from Women Changemakers

Speakers: Dhashma Karunaratne, Chief Commercial Officer, Colombo West International Terminal; Kiran Gupta, Chief Executive, Tata Power Distribution Limited; Chaitaly Mehta, President, Women’s Wing, Federation of Freight Forwarders Association of India; and Damchae Dem, Founder, Bhutan Association of Women Entrepreneurs 

Moderator: Cecile Fruman, Director, South Asia Regional Integration, The World Bank

Session 2: Women Economic Empowerment via Regional Efforts

Speakers: Carly Partridge, Minister-Counsellor, Australian High Commission; Susan Ferguson, Country Representative, UN Women, India; Rekha Raikar Kumar, Member, Finance, Land Ports Authority of India; and Constantino Xavier, Senior Fellow, Centre for Social and Economic Progress

Moderator: Mandakini Kaul, Regional Coordinator, South Asia Regional Integration, The World Bank

(Collaboration: The World Bank)

India International Centre and Lodhi Gardens: A Perspective
(with fresh inputs from Joseph Allen Stein’s Estate)

Lead presentation by Ravi Kaimal, architect, Founding Partner KCA, Co-Founder, Citizens Alliance

Discussants: Ram Rahman, well-known photographer, author and curator; Prof. Manoj Mathur, School of Planning & Architecture, New Delhi; and others

Coordinator and Moderator: Anuj Srivastava, architect, writer and photographer

An iconic institution and building next to Lodhi Gardens, IIC. It is the first of several buildings to be designed in this precinct by the architect, Joseph Allen Stein leading to the area euphemistically known to some as “Steinabad”. Architect Ravi Kaimal will discuss the background, context and process of creating this institution and its design, which further influenced the landscape of Lodhi Gardens and other areas

Ukraine, Gaza, Taiwan…A World at War
By Ajay Singh (Pentagon Press: 2024)

Discussants: Lt. Gen. Syed Ata Hasnain (Retd.), PVSM, UYSM, AVSM, SM, VSM and former General Officer Commanding, 15 Corps (Srinagar) & Military Secretary; Amb. Anil Trigunayat, Distinguished Fellow, Vivekananda International Foundation and former Ambassador to Jordan, Libya and Malta; Ms Joyeeta Basu, Editor, The Sunday Guardian; and Col. (retd.) Ajay Singh, former Indian Army Officer and author of the book

Technology and Society: Hierarchies and Contestations
 

Inaugural session panel discussion: Technology of Future and Future of Humanity
Coordinator: Savita Singh

Speakers: Andrew Feenberg, American philosopher, Canada Research Chair in the Philosophy of Technology, School of Communication, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver; Douglas Kellner who works at the intersection of "third-generation" critical theory, George Kneller Chair in the Philosophy of Education, the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles; Andrew T. Lamas who teaches urban studies and critical theory at the University of Pennsylvania; Immaculada Kangussu, Faculty, Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto, Brazil; T.K. Naveen, Associate Professor (Multi. Disc.), Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT-Delhi; Anita Gurumurthy, Executive Director and Senior Fellow (Research & Policy Engagement), IT For Change; Ashok Vajpeyi, Hindi-language poet, essayist, literary-cultural critic, noted cultural and arts administrator, and a former civil servant; Manoranjan Mohanty, well-known political scientist, China scholar, and Distinguished Professor, Council for Social Development; Savita Singh,  Professor and Director, School of Gender and Development, India Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), Delhi; and Manindra Nath Thakur, Associate Professor, Centre for Political Studies, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University

Chair: Manoranjan Mohanty

For details of the Colloquium, kindly please visit: https://fcsr.in

(Collaboration: Association of Creative Theory & Foundation for Creative Social Research; International Herbert Marcuse Society, USA; The Raza Foundation; and Shanti Sahyog)
 

Panelists: Prof. Siddhartha Mitra, Jadavpur University; Prof. Shreekant Gupta, Delhi School of Economic, University of Delhi; Prof. Surajit Mazumdar, Jawaharlal Nehru University; and Dr. M. Zakaria Siddiqui, Jamia Millia Islamia

Chair: Prof. Partha Sen, Delhi School of Economics

Organised by the IIC Sectoral Policy Group on Economics

The Routledge Companion to Indian Ethics: Women, Justice, Bioethics and Ecology

Edited by Purushottama Bilimoria & Amy Rayner (Routledge India: 2024)

Discussants: Prof. Arvind Sharma, Birks Professor of Comparative Religion, Faculty of Religious Studies, McGill University, Canada; Hon’ble Justice Ms Nagma Khan, Additional Civil Judge (Senior Division), Firozabad; Prof. Shashiprabha Kumar, Chairperson, Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, Shimla; Dr. Manindra Nath Thakur, Centre for Political Studies, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University; and Prof. Purushottama Bilimoria, Distinguished Professor of Law and International Philosophy, O. P. Jindal Global University, Visiting Professor, Ashoka University,  Principal Fellow, University of Melbourne and Co-Editor of the book

Moderator: Prof. Savita Singh, School of Gender and Development Studies, Indira Gandhi National Open University

Is the Legal Guarantee of MSP the Next Big Idea in Agriculture?

Panelists: Prof. Himanshu, Associate Professor, Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University; Shri Ajay Vir Jakhar, Chairman, Bharat Krishak Samaj; Shri Harish Damodaran, National Editor (Rural Affairs and Agriculture Editor), The Indian Express; and Shri Kiran Kumar Vissa, National co-convener,  Alliance for Sustainable & Holistic Agriculture (ASHA) 

Chair: Shri Siraj Hussain, former Union Agriculture Secretary
Moderator: Shri Pravesh Sharma, IAS (Retd.), former MD, SFAC (Small Farmers’ Agri-Business Consortium)

Sarod Vividha – two  stylistic traditions of Maihar and Shahjahanpur gharana of sarod 

An Illustrated presentation by Pt. Prabhat Kumar and Dr. Chandrima Majumdar

Pt. Prabhat Kumar is a senior disciple of Vidushi Sharan Rani of Maihar gharana; and Dr. Chandrima Majumdar is a disciple of Pt. Narendra Nath Dhar of Shahjahanpur gharana 

The speakers will speak and illustrate the distinct stylistic traditions of the two gharanas.