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Dr. John Kershaw
President, SICI
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As our Canadian members prepare for the end of fall term and upcoming Christmas break, I hope we all can look forward to the New Year. Twenty twenty-one has been another year profoundly impacted by COVID. Once again many of SICI’s programmes and activities were placed on hold due to international travel restrictions; however, many new virtual programmes continued to keep us engaged. The India office organized a number of virtual webinars over the year that were very well attended. I hope we can continue to host webinars this coming year, and into the future, because these webinars provide an opportunity to engage a wider cross-section of our members. That said, it is encouraging to hear of many members’ plans for mobility in 2022. I know I personally look forward to re-establishing the personal connections.
The Fall has been busy for both offices. The India office has continued their outreach to members and Indian State governments. The Canadian Office has been revitalized and are busy reaching out to Canadian members and Canadian Provinces. The Canadian Office hosted Mr. Manish Gupta, Consul General, Consulate General of India, Vancouver recently. It was my pleasure to join that event virtually along with the other Canadian Executive Council members. It was also a pleasure to host Ms. Apoorva Srivastava, Consul General, Consulate General of India, Toronto, and His Excellency Ajay Bisaria, High Commissioner of India to Canada at the University of New Brunswick (UNB) along with a delegation of NASSCOM business executives. Another fall highlight was the signing of the MOU between SICI and the Province of Saskatchewan, renewing the close commitment to bilateral collaboration that SICI has long shared with the Province of Saskatchewan. The virtual signing event was very well attended by both Canadian and Indian Council Members. Similar initiatives with Alberta, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia are in progress. We will be looking to all council members to help us in engaging State and Provincial governments in the coming year.
I look to 2022 as another positive year for SICI. Our industrial outreach committees will be formalized and activated, and our new member engagement “Mapping and Matching” events will start. Please be sure to encourage participation in these events by faculty from your institutions. I hope to be able to personally visit some of our Canadian members and look forward to a trip to India sometime before the end of my term as President. Take care, keep healthy, and look forward to the opportunities the New Year brings.
Thank you!
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"Partition Stories from Canada" -
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On October 20, 2021, the Centre for Canadian Studies, Maharaja Sayajirao University (MSU) Baroda and SICI jointly organized a webinar on "Partition Stories from Canada". Prof. Nandi Bhatia, Department of English and Writing Studies, University of Western Ontario, Canada, delivered special address during the webinar and shared stories from the partition era of India.
Since its inception in 1982, the Centre for Canadian Studies at MS University Baroda has been active in facilitating teaching, learning, research and other academic activities in the multidisciplinary fields of Canadian Studies. The Centre has garnered support from SICI for many years in fostering research that is bi-national in character. In addition, the Centre also published reputed journals on Canadian studies for several years.
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Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) Signing between Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute and the Ministry of Advanced Education, Government of Saskatchewan
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Above (top row): H.E. Ajay Bisaria, High Commissioner of India to Canada, Honourable Gene Makowsky, Minister of Advanced Education,
Govt of Saskatchewan and Dr. John Kershaw, President, SICI
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The Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signing ceremony between SICI and the Ministry of Advanced Education, Government of Saskatchewan took place on November 2, 2021, at the High Commission of Canada in New Delhi from India side. From Canada side, the attendees participated at the Govt of Saskatchewan office. Virtually the ceremony was attended by H.E. Ajay Bisaria, High Commissioner of India to Canada, member institutions of SICI in India and Canada, officials of the governments of India and Canada, its allied bodies and many other distinguished guests and friends of SICI from both the countries. The MOU was signed virtually by The Honourable Gene Makowsky, Minister of Advanced Education, Govt of Saskatchewan and Dr. John Kershaw, President, SICI. The MOU marks a milestone in enhancing cooperation and strengthening ties between educational institutions in India and Saskatchewan through research & the movement of students & academics between the two jurisdictions.
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Building Partnerships @SICI - The University of New Brunswick
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H.E. Ajay Bisaria (left) with Dr. John Kershaw (right), President, SICI
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On November 21, 2021, H.E. Ajay Bisaria and Ms. Apoorva Srivastava, Consul General of India in Toronto visited University of New Brunswick's (UNB) Fredericton Campus and met with Dr. Paul Mazerolle, President & Vice-Chancellor, UNB, and Dr. John Kershaw, President, SICI, and Assistant Vice-President Academic (Partnerships), University of New Brunswick. The High Commissioner's visit was dotted with meetings throughout the day with discussions primarily focussed at India-Canada issues, global affairs and the ongoing activities at SICI in its India and Canada offices. During the same visit, a NASSCOM SME delegation also paid visit to the UNB campus where Dr. Kershaw interacted with the delegates and introduced them to SICI and highlighted opportunities of potential collaboration with the Institute.
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Left image, (third from left): Dr. Paul Mazerolle, President & Vice-Chancellor, UNB,
with H.E. Ajay Bisaria and Ms. Apoorva Srivastava;
Right image: Dr. John Kershaw delivering his address at an interactive session welcoming NASSCOM SME delegates from India
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Building Partnerships @SICI - Government of Kerala
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from left: Dr. R. Bindu, Minister of Higher Education, Govt of Kerala, Dr. Prachi Kaul and Dr. B. Hariharan, Vice-President/President Elect, SICI
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On November 22, 2021, Dr. Prachi Kaul and Dr. B. Hariharan had the opportunity to meet with Dr. R. Bindu, Minister of Higher Education, Government of Kerala at Kerala House, the official mission of Government of Kerala at New Delhi. Dr. Kaul and Dr. Hariharan discussed about opportunities of collaboration between the state of Kerala & SICI by facilitating Community colleges & Polytechnics, sharing of best practices from both the ends, skill development of scholars, collaboration in emerging technologies, Machine Learning, with Canadian institutions of higher learning & excellence. They also deliberated on opportunities and possible engagements between institutions from the state of Kerala and Canada with a focus on women's empowerment & cultural exchange.
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Building Partnerships @SICI - MOU Signing between
IIT Tirupati and Dalhousie University, Canada
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MOU Signing between IIT Tirupati & Dalhousie University, Canada
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It was yet another red-letter day on November 24 when SICI's esteemed member institutions, Dalhousie University, Canada and IIT Tirupati signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to work jointly in the areas of Food Technology & Precision Agriculture. Both the institutions noted and recognised SICI's crucial role in facilitating this collaboration which is all set to open new doors of opportunities for scholars in India and Canada. The MOU was signed digitally between Dr. S. Gumma, IIT Tirupati and Dr. Matthew Hebb, Vice-President, Government & Global Relations, Dalhousie University. Dr. Prachi Kaul while congratulating both the parties during her address, mentioned that she is truly delighted to see a great partnership developing due to everyone's sincere efforts towards making it happen. She also said that this achievement further confirms SICI's important role in building institutional linkages in the India-Canada bilateral corridor.
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Heartiest congratulations to Prof. Sudhir K Jain, Vice-Chancellor, Banaras Hindu University (BHU) and former Director, IIT Gandhinagar, on being conferred the prestigious Padma Shri by the Honourable President of India Shri Ram Nath Kovind for his distinguished contributions to earthquake, engineering education, research and practice with a focus on needs of India & other developing countries.
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The Center for International Relations and Strategic Studies (CIRSS), IMPRI Impact and Policy Research Institute, New Delhi hosted a Special Lecture, "Liberal International Order and Global Disorders: Understanding the Past for Imagining Alternative Futures". The speakers were Prof. Meenal Shrivastava, Athabasca University, Canada, Prof. Ashok Acharya, University of Delhi and Dr. Priya Mirza, Zakir Husain College, University of Delhi.
Watch recording here !
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Prof. Hugo Germain, University of Quebec at Trois-Rivières, Canada, was hosted by Prof. Harsh Chauhan at IIT Roorkee who has an ongoing research collaboration with him. Prof Germain also interacted with Dean, Prof. P. Arumugam and other officials of International Relations office to discuss opportunities of collaborations in the form of executing MoU and developing Joint Degree programs between the two institutes.
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Dr. Prachi Kaul and Profs. Amit Kumar and Cen Huang of University of Alberta (UA) participated in the online workshop organized by International Relations of IIT Roorkee on Nov 2, 2021. The speakers from SICI and UA were invited to deliver lectures on joint/dual doctoral degree programmes between Canadian and Indian institutes.
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On October 30, 2021, a virtual conference on Interdisciplinary Perspectives into the Issues of Women Migrant Workers and Laws in India was organized by the Legal Centre for Women’s Welfare (LCWW), Tamil Nadu National Law University, Tiruchirappalli (TNNLU).
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Tezpur University collaborates with the University of Toronto
The Department of Social Work, Tezpur University has collaborated with the University of Toronto in designing a course on the 'Interdisciplinary Approaches to Nutrition" under the aegis of a project with Dr. Jayeeta Sharma, Associate Professor of History, University of Toronto. Dr. Sharma was the reviewer for the course “Political economy of Agriculture, Food and Poverty". Subsequently Dr. Sharma partnered with faculty members from the Department of Social Work and Department of Sociology, Tezpur University on a collaboration to work on "Resilient Urban Communities & Local Food Systems after COVID-19: Developing Knowledge Partnerships Beyond the Pandemic". The partnership has just been initiated and is in the process of being further enhanced.
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Review of Hybrid 1D/2D Photocatalysts for Light-Harvesting Applications - Ahmad Nawaz, Shaghayegh Goudarzi, M. Amin Asghari, Saravanan Pichiah, Gurpreet Singh Selopal, Federico Rosei, Zhiming M. Wang and Hadis Zarrin; Shastri Research Student Fellowship (SRSF) 2019-20
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Culture, Context and Aging of Older Indians: Narratives from India and Beyond - Dr. Jagriti Gangopadhyay; Shastri Publication Grant (SPG) 2020-21
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Resistorless Memristor Emulator Using CFTA and Its Experimental Verification -
Sagar Surendra Prasad, Prashant Kumar and Rajeev Kumar Ranjan; Shastri Institutional Collaborative Research Grant (SICRG) 2020-21
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Mem-Elements Emulator Design with Experimental Validation and Its Application -
Niranjan Raj, Rajeev Kumar Ranjan, Fabian Khateb and Montree Kumngern; Shastri Institutional Collaborative Research Grant (SICRG) 2020-21
- Design of Active PWM Control Driver Circuit for Torquer System Using CCII - Vijay Kumar Verma and Rajeev Kumar Ranjan; Shastri Institutional Collaborative Research Grant (SICRG) 2020-21
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Coverage analysis of intelligent reflecting surface systems in Rayleigh fading - Dahlia Devapriya, P. Sudharsan and C. Tellambura; Shastri Institutional Collaborative Research Grant (SICRG) 2020-21
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- Online Workshop on Teaching & Practicing Marketing Research Organized by Centre for Marketing in Emerging Economies, Indian Institute of Management Lucknow-Noida campus
December 17-19, 2021
- Book launch of "Culture, Context and Aging of Older Indians: Narratives from India and Beyond", authored by Dr. Jagriti Gangopadhyay
December 15, 2021 | 6:30 PM (IST) via Zoom Webinar
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