IIC-Bruegel Annual Seminar: 4-5 February 2025

04 February 2025, 10:00 am
IIC-Bruegel Annual Seminar: 4-5 February 2025
Programme Type
Discussions
Venue
Seminar Rooms 1,2,3
End Date
05 February 2025, 03:00 pm

Inaugural Session

Welcome Address: Amb. Shyam Saran, President, IIC
Address by Dr. Jeromin Zettlemeyer, Director, Bruegel

Keynote Address: Dr. S. Jaishankar, Minister for External Affairs, Govt. of India
Chair: Mr. Erkki Liikanen, Chairman, Board of Bruegel

 

On 5 February at 12:30
 

Valedictory Session
Valedictory Address by Shri Suman K. Bery, Vice Chairman, Niti Aayog

(Collaboration: Bruegel)
 

ART MATTERS

24 January 2025, 06:30 pm
ART MATTERS
Programme Type
Talks
Venue
Seminar Rooms 1,2,3

ART MATTERS
 

(Collaboration: The Raza Foundation)
 

Gita practicals for a Better Life

19 January 2025, 11:00 am
Gita practicals for a Better Life
Programme Type
Seminars
Venue
Seminar Rooms 1,2,3

A workshop conducted by noted Yoga Guru, author and speaker, Smt. Bijoylaxmi Hota

In the Bhagwat Gita, Sri Krishna says that life is sorrowful and reveals to Arjuna, the ways to overcome it, Of them, the ones that have been overlooked will be taught in the workshop for better physical, mental, and spiritual health, as well as for faster inner transformation

Members are requested to kindly requested to register their participation in advance on the following email id
iic.programme@gmail.com

COP 29: Progress or Posturing?

03 December 2024, 06:00 pm
COP 29: Progress or Posturing?
Programme Type
Discussions, Webcasts
Venue
Seminar Rooms 1,2,3

The Wins, Woes & What was Missed

Opening Remarks: Amb. Shyam Saran, President, IIC and former Special Envoy and Chief Negotiator on Climate Change

Lead presentation by Dr. Ajay Mathur, energy sector expert and Director General, International Solar Alliance

Panelists: Ms Leena Nandan, Secretary, Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change, Govt. of India; Dr Arunabha Ghosh, Founder-CEO, Council on Energy, Environment and Water;  Mr. Shombi Sharp, UN Resident Coordinator, India; and Ms Sunita Narain, Director General, Centre for Science and Environment and Editor, Down to Earth

Chair: Amb. Shyam Saran

The recently concluded COP 29 was touted as the ‘Finance COP’, with key emphasis on the financial commitments to achieve climate action. This meeting of world leaders and negotiators has yielded substantial advancements, particularly in financial mechanisms to combat climate change, and the outcome has been observed to have several hits and misses.

Building the People’s Library: Public Library Reform in India

07 December 2024, 10:00 am
Building the People’s Library: Public Library Reform in India
Programme Type
Discussions
Venue
Seminar Rooms 1,2,3

Lead presentation by Ms Emily Drabinski, former President, American Library Association

Remarks by Grace Banu

Special Remarks: Shri K.N. Shrivastava, Director, IIC

Panelists: Ms Rituparna; Ms Saba Khan; Ms Banu Priya and Shri Sumit Parewa

Moderator: Shri Jatin Lalit Singh

Panel discussion on Building a Resilient Economy: The Challenges of Inequality

07 December 2024, 05:30 pm
Panel discussion on Building a Resilient Economy: The Challenges of Inequality
Programme Type
Discussions
Venue
Seminar Rooms 1,2,3

Panelists: Stephane Hallegatte, Senior Climate Change Advisor, The World Bank, Washington DC; E. Somanathan, Professor of Economics, Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi; Radhika Khosla, Associate Professor, Smith School of Enterprise and Environment, Oxford University, UK; and Ashwini Deshpande, Professor of Economics, Ashoka University, Sonipat 

Chair: Bina Agarwal, Professor of Development Economics and Environment, University of Manchester, UK and former Director, Institute of Economic Growth (IEG), Delhi

Economic resilience is essential for sustainability.  A resilient economy is one that can recover (even emerge stronger) from shocks, be they economic, climatic, technological, or health-related. The impact of these shocks and recovery from them, however, tends to be unequal for individuals, households, firms and communities; formal and informal sector workers; village and city dwellers; and spatially, due to pre-existing socio-economic inequalities. The policy challenge is to build an economy that is resilient in diverse contexts, and where shocks do not exacerbate inequalities but provide an opportunity to ‘build back better’? A distinguished panel of experts will discuss these key issues, drawing on Indian and global experience. 

(Collaboration: Institute of Economic Growth)
 

IIC/THE MEDIA FOUNDATION DIALOGUES

05 December 2024, 06:30 pm
IIC/THE MEDIA FOUNDATION DIALOGUES
Programme Type
Discussions
Venue
Seminar Rooms 1,2,3

State of Play: How Will the Recent State Elections Impact National Politics?

Speakers: Mahua Moitra, Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha (Trinamool Congress); Priyanka Chaturvedi, Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha (Shiv Sena UBT); Nalin Mehta, Managing Editor, MoneyControl.com and Manoj Jha, Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha (Janata Dal)

Moderator: Bharat Bhushan, journalist and Editor

(Collaboration: The Media Foundation)
 

Alchemy: Contemporary Indian Painting and Miniature Traditions

27 November 2024, 06:30 pm
Alchemy: Contemporary Indian Painting and Miniature Traditions
Programme Type
Discussions
Venue
Seminar Rooms 1,2,3

By Geeti Sen (Mapin Publishing: 2024)

Introduction: Waswo X. Waswo

Dr. Giles Tillotson, cultural historian, Consultant Director, Maharaja Sawai Man Singh II Museum, City Palace, Jaipur and Senior Vice President, DAG, New Delhi In Conversation with Dr. Geeti Sen, art historian, author and professor

The book introduces the work of contemporary Indian artists who have been influenced by miniature traditions of painting. Dr. Sen brings together her two areas of expertise in contemporary art and miniature painting, to introduce an approach that has not been explored before. Icon making forms an indispensable part of the visual language in India. This book selects and focuses on the work of five significant artists: Abanindranath Tagore, Manjit Bawa, Waswo X. Waswo, R. Vijay and Nilima Sheikh. They have resourced and reinvented iconic traditions, with different perspectives and using different techniques.

(Collaboration: Mapin Publishing)

The Syncretic Traditions in the Subcontinent over the Ages: Contemporary Challenges

25 November 2024, 10:00 am
The Syncretic Traditions in the Subcontinent over the Ages: Contemporary Challenges
Programme Type
Seminars
Venue
Seminar Rooms 1,2,3
End Date
26 November 2024, 08:00 pm

Details of the programme

Inaugural Session

Welcome by Shri K.N. Shrivastava, Director, IIC

Introduction: Dr. Jyotsna Singh, Convenor of the Seminar, Director, Dara Shikoh Centre for the Arts

Living Among Many Times and Cultures
Keynote Address by Gulam Mohammed Sheikh, well-known painter and poet

 

(Collaboration: Dara Shikoh Centre for the Arts)
 

THE IIC EXPERIENCE: A FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS – 17TH TO 22ND OCTOBER 2024

19 October 2024, 11:00 am
THE IIC EXPERIENCE: A FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS – 17TH TO 22ND OCTOBER 2024
Programme Type
Cultural
Venue
Seminar Rooms 1,2,3

Poetry – Singing a Nation 

Readings from selected poems composed during the nationalist movement by leading Indian poets – Rabindranath Tagore; Kazi Nazrul Islam; C. Subramania Bharati; Vallathol Narayana Menon; Sarojini Naidu; Jaishankar Prasad; Iqbal; Maithilisharan Gupta; Ramdhari Singh Dinkar and others

Conceptualised by Shri Ashok Vajpeyi

Readings in the original languages by Sujatha Ramanan (Tamil); Ruma Ghosh (Bengali); Dr. Sudha Gopalakrishnan (Malayalam); Sunit Tandon (English); Priyanka Sharma, Anushakti & Mrityunjay Tripathi (Hindi); and Pradeep Tarkash (Urdu)

Moderator: Apoorvanand