Leading historians and academicians to participate in the seminar being held as part of NMI’s Silver Jubilee functions
New Delhi, Jan 6: As part of its Silver Jubilee celebrations, National Museum Institute (NMI) will organize a three-day seminar on "Cross Cultural Knowledge Exchange in Antiquity”, beginning here tomorrow, which provides a platform for leading historians and academicians from India and abroad to exchange ideas on the interactions between Greece, Iran, India and China in antiquity.
The seminar is being jointly organised by the Centre for Community Knowledge, Ambedkar University, Delhi; Indian National Science Academy (INSA), Delhi; and the NMI. The theme examines aspects of cooperation and mutual interplay between cultures, with a view to develop a unified perspective.
Dr Lotika Varadarajan, eminent Academic and Tagore scholar, is the Principal Investigator and Seminar Coordinator, and the Centre for Community Knowledge, Ambedkar University, is the main organiser.
Dr Venu Vasudevan, Vice Chancellor of NMI, said the historical encounters among ancient Indians, Iranians, Greeks and Chinese during 5 BCE to 5 CE had left a rich trail of literary, archaeological, epigraphic and numismatic evidence that show that knowledge transfer can be documented in the pre-literate past.
“The seminar will give an opportunity to the participants to come out with scholarly presentations and lectures to look at the subject in a refreshing manner,” noted Dr Vasudevan, who is also Director General of National Museum.
Dr Bipin Kumar Thakur, Registrar, NMI, said the academic initiative would promote a unified perspective and help further collaboration of the discourse among ancient Indian, Iranian, Chinese and Greek studies as also in the study of a shared ancient cultural-cum-technological heritage of the modern world.
The inaugural day of the seminar, to be held in the Conference Room of NMI, will view the past through presentations on a range of issues, such as Medicine, Mathematics and Astronomy, Trade Routes, Technology and Material Cultures, Epigraphy, Linguistics and Numismatics, Knowledge Systems, Ideologies of faith and Culture, Tradition and Transmission.
Two keynote lectures will be delivered by Dr. Daryoosh Akbarzadeh, Professor, Iranian Studies, Teheran, and Dr. U P Arora, Professor, Greek Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, respectively.
A number of presentations will be made at the seminar by academicians and historians. They include Prof. Ranbir Chakravarti (Situating a Buddhist Avadana Tale: South Asia’s links to West and Central Asia and the Eastern Mediterranean during 1-3 C.E.; Dr He Zhang (The Significance of Hindu Iconography and Khotan-Saka Scripts in the Carpets of Tarim) and Prof. Naman Ahuja (The British Museum Hāritī: Towards Understanding Trans-culturalism in Gandhara).
The second day of the seminar will be held at the Ambedkar University while the proceedings of the concluding day (Jan. 9) will be hosted by Indian National Science Academy.
On Day 2, Dr K K Chakravarty, Chairman, Lalit Kala Academy, New Delhi will deliver the keynote lecture while Dr Kishor K Basa, Dr. Up Arora, Prof. Li Shuicheng and Dr Azadeh Heidarpour will make presentations.
Video presentations will be made by Dr. Colin Renfrew (Prehistoric Antecedents of the Silk Road); Katyaoun Fekripour (The Mythical Creatures in Iranian and Indian Art) and Mr. Shambwatitya Ghosh (From Mitra to Surya: Forms of Sun Worship).
The Valedictory Session at INSA will be addressed by Mr. Surajit Sarkar, Dr Azadeh Heidarpour and Dr Lotika Varadarajan, Seminar Coordinator.
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