Night of Ideas – Closer

Date/Time
Date(s) - 28/01/2021
6:30 pm - 7:30 pm

Categories


Webinar – New Solidarities in times of Pandemic | Night of Ideas

Date January 28, 2021
Time 6:30 pm IST
Platform Facebook Live: https://www.facebook.com/alliancefrdelhi
Zoom Webinar: https://zoom.us/j/99623566182

The Night of Ideas – celebrates the movement of ideas between countries and cultures, disciplines and generations. Every year it is an opportunity to discover the latest knowledge, listen to those who are driving ideas in every field and discuss the key issues of our times.

In a reflection of the fluid nature of ideas, all forms of the event are welcome from conferences to theatre, performances, screenings, concerts, etc. and all locations from the most prestigious to the most unusual are invited to join the party by proposing their original interpretation of the proposed theme.

As the night sweeps across the globe, the Night of Ideas will be broadcast on social networks making the Night of Ideas a global event.

This year, the sixth Night of Ideas will take place on January 28, 2021. Around the theme of “Close”, it will bring together personalities from all walks of life – research, art, journalism, activism – invited to debate in the event’s partner venues on five continents: from Tokyo to Los Angeles via Delhi, Abidjan, Ankara, London, St Petersburg and Buenos Aires. All places of culture and knowledge are invited to propose their projects for the Night of Ideas: bookshops, associations, universities, NGOs, schools, museums, cinemas, libraries and many others.

To be a part of this festivity, Alliance Francaise de Delhi will be organizing a round-table on the given theme “Close” focusing on one of its subject matter “New Solidarities” with the following prestigious panellists:-

  1. Ashok Vajpeyi:- Ashok Vajpeyi is an Indian poet in Hindi, essayist, literary-cultural critic, apart from being a noted cultural and arts administrator, and a former civil servant. He was chairman of Lalit Kala Academy, India’s National Academy of Arts, Ministry of Culture, Govt of India, 2008–2011. He has published over 23 books of poetry, criticism and art, and was awarded the Sahitya Academy Award, India’s National Academy of Letters, in 1994 for his poetry collection, Kahin Nahin Wahin. Besides the poetry, he has also published works on literary and art criticism.
  2. Savita Singh:- Prof. Savita Singh is a Political theorist and an eminent Feminist poetProfessor in the School of Gender and Development Studies, IGNOU. She joined the School in 2009 as its first director. Currently, she coordinates the PhD Programme in Gender and Development Studies and Master’s in Gender and Development Studies in the School. She did her M.A and M Phil from Delhi University, following which she went to McGill University, Montreal, for higher studies. She wrote her PhD thesis on “Discourse of Modernity in India: A Hermeneutical Study” and earned her degree from Delhi University. (Read more in her bio-note)

She has received many awards and fellowships for her work in both areas of her interest: Kirti Samman, Hindi academy for Apne Jaisa Jeevan, Raza Award for “Nind Thi Aur Raat Thi”, Hindi Akademy’s (Delhi) highest award for poetry, Kavya Samman and Mahadevi Verma Poetry Samman, Rajbhasha Parishad, Government of Bihar). She received a Foundation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (FMSH, Paris), a Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship to work on Krishna Sobti’s two novels, Mitro Marjani and Ai Ladk in 2016. She received and completed a research project on “Working Women’s Hostel” Ministry of Women and Child Development, GOI,( 2011-2014).

Her areas of academic interest are Feminist Theory, Epistemology, Aesthetics and Gender and labour.

  1. Ramin Jehanbegloo:- Ramin Jahanbegloo is a well-known Iranian-Canadian philosopher. He received his B.A. and M.A. in Philosophy, History and Political Science and later his PhD in Philosophy from the Sorbonne University. In 1993 he taught at the Academy of Philosophy in Tehran. He has been a researcher at the French Institute for Iranian Studies and a fellow at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University. Ramin Jahanbegloo taught in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto from 1997-2001. He later served as the head of the Department of Contemporary Studies of the Cultural Research Centre in Tehran. In 2006-07, he was Rajni Kothari Professor of Democracy at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies in New Delhi, India. In April 2006 Dr Jahanbegloo was arrested in Tehran Airport charged with preparing a velvet revolution in Iran. He was placed in solitary confinement for four months and released on bail. He is presently a Professor of Political Science and a Research Fellow in the Centre for Ethics at the University of Toronto and a board member of PEN Canada. In October 2009 Jahanbegloo became the winner of the Peace Prize from the United Nations Association in Spain for his extensive academic works in promoting dialogue between cultures and his advocacy for non-violence.
  2. Marilia Mello Pisani is Professor of Philosophy and Researcher at the Federal University of ABC, in São Paulo, Brazil. Her philosophical research was on Herbert Marcuse’s thinking, from psychoanalysis to the technology debate. Currently, she works with research in education and ecology, poetry and philosophy, articulating narrative and experience to develop forms of philosophical writing based on practical experience with caring for the Earth and with multispecies Beings.