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SUMMARY:A People's Constitution: The Everyday Life of Law in the Indian Republic.
DESCRIPTION:The India China Institute is proud to present “A People’s Constitution: The Everyday Life of Law in the Indian Republic”\, a talk with author\, lawyer\, and Yale professor Rohit De on his book\, A People’s Constitution. \n\n\n\n“What difference did the enactment of the the Indian constitution make on everyday lives of its citizens? It has long been contended that the Indian Constitution of 1950\, a document in English created by elite consensus\, has had little influence on India’s greater population. Drawing upon the previously unexplored records of the Supreme Court of India\, A People’s Constitution upends this narrative and shows how the Constitution actually transformed the daily lives of citizens in profound and lasting ways. This remarkable legal process was led by individuals on the margins of society\, and Rohit De looks at how drinkers\, smugglers\, petty vendors\, butchers\, and prostitutes—all despised minorities—shaped the constitutional culture. \n\n\n\nThe Constitution came alive in the popular imagination so much that ordinary people attributed meaning to its existence\, took recourse to it\, and argued with it. Focusing on the use of constitutional remedies by citizens against new state regulations seeking to reshape the society and economy\, De illustrates how laws and policies were frequently undone or renegotiated from below using the state’s own procedures. De examines four important cases that set legal precedents: a Parsi journalist’s contestation of new alcohol prohibition laws\, Marwari petty traders’ challenge to the system of commodity control\, Muslim butchers’ petition against cow protection laws\, and sex workers’ battle to protect their right to practice prostitution.” \n\n\n\nThe Author: \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRohit De is lawyer and an Assistant Professor of History at Yale University.  Prior to Yale\, he was a Mellon Research Fellow at the Centre for History and Economics at the University of Cambridge. He has worked with Chief Justice K.G Balakrishnan of the Supreme Court of India and worked on constitutional reform projects in Sri Lanka and Nepal. He is currently working on a history of civil liberties arising out of Asia and Africa post WW2 and mediated through Indian diasporic lawyers.
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/a-peoples-constitution-the-everyday-life-of-law-in-the-indian-republic/
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Public Event,Public Event (General),Public Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181102T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181102T180000
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SUMMARY:Airing Grievances and the Atmospherics of Chinese Legal Reform - Julie Chu
DESCRIPTION:The India China Institute (ICI) at The New School is pleased to announce another event as part of our ongoing Colloquium on the Economies and Societies of India and China (CESIC). \n\n\n\nAiring Grievances and the Atmospherics of Chinese Legal Reform\n\n\n\nProfessor Julie Chu\, University of Chicago \n\n\n\nFriday\, Nov 2\, 2018 (4:00-6:00 pm) | Orozco Room (#712)\, 66 W. 12th St. \n\n\n\nRSVP Now \n\n\n\nAbout the Talk \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis talk considers the ways in which legal reform unfolds as a palpable\, if vague\, “change in the air” in new zones of urban revitalization and port development in contemporary China. Drawing from various examples of air’s tactile circulation through the rezoned areas of coastal Fuzhou (e.g.\, the free trade port area\, the touristic city center)\, I show how redevelopment as filtered through “the rule of law” still politically and literally stinks for those caught up in its environs. But against instrumental readings of the dysfunctions and failures of China’s recent legal reforms\, my aim is to explore how “the law” actually works through its very malfunctions and spread of bad airs to shape a distinctive atmospherics of protest in citizen-state encounters; this includes gathering unlikely allies together under a shared cloud of political disaffection and procedural noise to ponder the revolutionary and everyday possibilities of social change beyond the governing logics of “reform.” \n\n\n\nAbout the Speaker \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJulie Y. Chu is a sociocultural anthropologist with interests in mobility and migration\, economy and value\, ritual life\, material culture\, media and technology\, and state regulatory regimes. Her book\, Cosmologies of Credit: Transnational Mobility and the Politics of Destination in China (Duke University Press\, 2010)\, received the 2011 Sharon Stephens Prize from the American Ethnological Society and the 2012 Clifford Geertz Prize from the Society for the Anthropology of Religion. Her current writing project is entitled The Hinge of Time: Infrastructure and Chronopolitics at China’s Global Edge. Based on three years of fieldwork largely among Chinese customs inspectors and transnational migrant couriers\, this work will analyze the various infrastructures in place (legal-rational\, financial\, cosmic\, piratical) for managing the temporal intensities and rhythms of people and things on the move between Southern China and the United States. A graduate of NYU’s Program in Culture and Media\, she is also currently completing video projects related to her fieldwork as well as developing a new ethnographic focus on Chinese soundscapes\, especially in relation to the changing qualities and valuations of the Chinese concept of renao (热闹\, a bustling scene\, social liveliness or\, literally\, “heat and noise”). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSelected Publications\n\n\n\nn.d.\nThe Hinge of Time: Infrastructure and Chronopolitics at China’s Global Edge (book manuscript in progress). \n\n\n\nn.d.\nLeaving Longyan\, ethnographic film in production. \n\n\n\nn.d.\nDebt\, Theft and the Calculus of Fortune (in preparation for publication). \n\n\n\nn.d.\nSchlock Value: Or\, How Some Chinese Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Politics of Fiasco (in preparation for journal submission). \n\n\n\n2017\nRisk\, Fate\, Fortune: The Lives and Times of Customs Inspectors in Southern China. Cambridge University Press. \n\n\n\n2016\nBoxed In: Human Cargo and the Dis/comforts of Moving Strangers. International Journal of Politics\, Culture & Society. \n\n\n\n2014\nWhen Infrastructures Attack: The Workings of Disrepair in China. American Ethnologist 14 (2): 351-367. \n\n\n\n2011\nThe Noise of Data: Comments on Ewald’s “After Risk.” Carceral Notebooks 7 (2011): 109-118. \n\n\n\n2010\nCosmologies of Credit: Transnational Mobility and the Politics of Destination in China. Duke University Press. \n\n\n\n2010\nThe Attraction of Numbers: Accounting for Ritual Expenditures in Fuzhou\, China. Anthropological Theory\, 10 (1-2): 132-142. \n\n\n\n2009\nDeparting China: Identification Papers and the Pursuit of Burial Rights in Fuzhou. In Sabine Berking and Magdalena Zolkos\, eds.\, Between Life and Death; Governing Populations in the Era of Human Rights. Frankfurt: Peter Lang. \n\n\n\n2007\nEquation Fixations: On the Whole and the Sum of Dollars in Foreign Exchange. In A. Truitt & S. Senders\, eds.\, Money: Ethnographic Encounters. Oxford: Berg Publishers. \n\n\n\n2006\nTo Be ‘Emplaced’: Fuzhounese Migration and the Politics of Destination. Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power. 13(3): 395-425. \n\n\n\n2001\nWhen Alan Turning Was a Computer: Notes on the Rise and Decline of Punch Card Technologies. Connect: art.politics.theory.practice 1(2). \n\n\n\n2000 Meet Halo Halo\, a 28-minute video documentary produced and directed.
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/airing-grievances-and-the-atmospherics-of-chinese-legal-reform-julie-chu/
CATEGORIES:CESIC Talk,Public Event,Public Talks
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SUMMARY:India China Day 2018
DESCRIPTION:Come check out the India China Institute’s India China Day!
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/india-china-day-2018/
LOCATION:Lang Cafe\, 65 West 11th Street First Fl.\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, USA
CATEGORIES:Exhibit,Fellowship,Grants & Awards,Public Event,Public Event (General),Public Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180504T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180504T180000
DTSTAMP:20260513T020702
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SUMMARY:High-Speed Urbanization and the “Over-sized Cities” in Contemporary China
DESCRIPTION:  \n  \nHigh-Speed Urbanization and the “Over-sized Cities” in Contemporary China\n  \nMay 4\, 2018 | 4:00-6:00 pmStarr Foundation Hall | 63 Fifth Ave\, NY\, The New School \n  \nA Public Talk with Zhe Sun\, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics(S.U.F.E) \n  \nAbout the Talk \n  \nThe urbanization rate in China has passed 50% since 2011 and will reach 60% by the year 2020. However\, the image of “rural China” stays as a stereotype for a long time. \n  \nThis talk is aimed to help understand China in urban condition. It will start from the process of high-speed urbanization in the first decade of 21st century. Then it will demonstrate the high- density situation in three megacities: Beijing\, Shanghai and Guangzhou. Finally\, it will emphasize the current u-turn of urban policy from social inclusion to social exclusion in the so-called “over-sized” cities and point out the latest inequality issues in the case of Shanghai. \n  \nAbout the Speaker \n  \nDr. Zhe SUN is an assistant researcher in the department of economic sociology at Shanghai University of Finance and Economics(S.U.F.E). He achieved his PhD in E.N.S Paris-Saclay with a French dissertation on the housing market and homeowner society in Shanghai. Now he is studying the rental housing market\, tenants groups as well as other relevant urban issues such as the informal economy\, gentrification and gated-community etc. \n  \nThis event is organized by the India China Institute and co-sponsored by The New School’s Global Studies Program and Environmental Studies Program. \n  \nLIMITED SEATING \n  \n\n\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/high-speed-urbanization-and-the-over-sized-cities-in-contemporary-china/
LOCATION:Wolff Conference Room\, 6 East 16th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, USA
CATEGORIES:Public Event,Public Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180423T160000
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SUMMARY:The Promise of Making: Desiring Alternatives and Hacking Entrepreneurial Living in China
DESCRIPTION:Since 2014\, a series of Western media outlets from the Wired UK over the Economist to Forbes has begun to celebrate the city of Shenzhen in the South of China as a rising hub of innovation\, a so-called “Hollywood for Makers” and “Silicon Valley of Hardware.” These media stories took up an idea that open source hardware advocates had been promoting for several years: that the city of Shenzhen had become crucial for the realization of one of the key promises of the maker movement\, i.e. to prototype concrete alternatives to the pitfalls of the information society and contemporary capitalism. Just a couple years earlier\, Shenzhen was largely known as a place of copycats and fakes that lacked creativity where ideas created elsewhere were simply executed and mass produced. What happened within the timespan of only a few years that changed Shenzhen’s image from demonstrating China’s continuous lag in technology innovation towards a place where alternatives to neoliberal capitalism could be prototyped?In this talk\, Silvia Lindtner presents excerpts from her forthcoming book “The Promise of Making”\, unpacking the historical contingencies of this transformation of Shenzhen\, and with it China\, in the global tech imaginary. Drawing from more than seven years of ethnographic research\, she shows how the displacement of techno-optimistic onto Shenzhen unfolded through and alongside the emergence of “making” as a mode of intervention in the status-quo by hacking not only machines but also markets and work itself. Shenzhen\, as the speaker shows\, was rendered by open source hardware advocates\, venture capitalists\, avant-garde designers\, and Chinese politicians and state actors alike as a laboratory to prototype what she calls “entrepreneurial living\,” i.e. a naturalization of experimentation as a mode of “living on” amidst a pervasive economization of life. While making reformulated a key neoliberal logic of self-economization as a story of empowerment by promising to include ever more people in its call for self-transformation into human capital\, Shenzhen came to be seen as the place to accomplish this upgrade of the self and to regain a sense of control amidst anxieties over the economic and environmental crisis. \n\n\n\nSilvia Lindtner is an assistant professor at the University of Michigan in the School of Information\, with a courtesy appointment in the Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design. Lindtner’s research and teaching interests include innovation and technology entrepreneurship\, making and hacking cultures\, shifts in digital work\, labor\, industry\, policy\, and governance. This work unfolds through a deep engagement with issues of gender\, inequality\, and enactments of masculinity in engineering and computer science fields\, politics and transnational imaginaries of design\, contemporary political economy\, and processes of economization. Lindtner draws from more than eight years of multi-sited ethnographic research\, with a particular focus on China’s shifting role in transnational and global tech production alongside research alongside research in the United States\, Taiwan\, and Africa. \n\n\n\nLIMITED SEATING
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/the-promise-of-making-desiring-alternatives-and-hacking-entrepreneurial-living-in-china/
CATEGORIES:Public Event,Public Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180409T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180409T200000
DTSTAMP:20260513T020702
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SUMMARY:Global Asia and Postcolonial Predicaments: How to Historicize the Rohingya Crisis
DESCRIPTION:The horrors suffered by Rohingyas in Myanmar today – which now appear ever more frequently and graphically in the news — represent one brutal extremity of a kind of victimization that haunts countless people whose only crime is living in old spaces of human mobility that modern empires carved into national territories. Methodological nationalism justifies their precarity with histories that provide charters for national belonging\, tying citizens firmly to specific places inside national borders. In a world covered by nations\, human rights depend on that belonging. Old spaces of mobility can thus become perilous homelands where nations produce minorities as aliens eligible for marginalization\, exclusion\, and expulsion. Histories of mobile social space may implicitly disenfranchise their residents\, but we need those histories to escape methodological nationalism and explore interactions of mobility and territoriality that generate globalization\, at many levels of scale. All these post-colonial predicaments challenge any history of the Rohingya crisis\, which I approach here through local histories of Global Asia around the Bay of Bengal.The “Carol Breckenridge Memorial Lecture Series in South Asian History” is an annual lecture by a distinguished scholar in the field of South Asian history and society\, broadly defined. It was established with the generous support of Professor Arjun Appadurai\, the former Provost of The New School. The lecture series has featured diverse vantage points on South Asian history and different generations of scholars\, including Sir Christopher Bayly\, Gayatri Spivak\, Dipesh Chakrabarty\, Faisal Devji\, and Ritu Birla. \n\n\n\nDavid Ludden is Professor and Chair in the Department of History at New York University. He received his Ph.D. in History from the University of Pennsylvania\, in 1978\, and served on the Penn faculty from 1981 until 2007\, when he came to NYU. He has directed South Asia programs at Penn\, the Social Science Research Council\, the Fulbright Senior Scholars program (CIES)\, and NYU. He served as President of the Association for Asian Studies in 2002-3. His research focuses on very long-term histories of globalization in Asia\, particularly as they concern trajectories of capitalist economic development\, spatial inequity\, natural environments\, and changing material conditions in everyday life. \n\n\n\nLIMITED SEATING
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/global-asia-and-postcolonial-predicaments-how-to-historicize-the-rohingya-crisis/
LOCATION:Klein Conference Room\, 66 West 12th Street 5th Floor\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, USA
CATEGORIES:Public Event,Public Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180405T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180405T190000
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SUMMARY:The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor: Prospects\, Perceptions\, and Potential Implications for India and the US
DESCRIPTION:The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is a $62 billion infrastructure project associated with Beijing’s broader Belt and Road Initiative. It entails new roads\, power plants\, and ports across Pakistan as part of China’s global effort to facilitate access to markets far and wide. CPEC has the potential to bring major benefits to Pakistan’s economy\, but because of security and financial issues\, it is also fraught with risk. This lecture will examine CPEC’s prospects; discuss how it is perceived in Pakistan\, China\, India\, and the US; and consider its strategic implications for both New Delhi and Washington. \n\n\n\nMichael Kugelman is the Asia Program Deputy Director and Senior Associate for South Asia at the Woodrow Wilson Center\, where he is responsible for research\, programming\, and publications on the region. His main speciality is Pakistan\, India\, and Afghanistan and U.S. relations with each of them. Kugelman writes monthly columns for Foreign Policy’s South Asia Channel and monthly commentaries for War on the Rocks. He also contributes regular pieces to the Wall Street Journal’s Think Tank blog. He has published op-eds and commentaries in the New York Times\, Los Angeles Times\, Politico\, CNN.com\, Bloomberg View\, The Diplomat\, Al Jazeera\, and The National Interest\, among others. \n\n\n\nLIMITED SEATING
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/the-china-pakistan-economic-corridor-prospects-perceptions-and-potential-implications-for-india-and-the-us/
LOCATION:Klein Conference Room\, 66 West 12th Street 5th Floor\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, USA
CATEGORIES:Public Event,Public Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180402T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180402T190000
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SUMMARY:Xi Jinping and China's Success Trap
DESCRIPTION:Drawing on Professor Mohanty’s more than three decades of research\, this talk will focus on how China’s “reform and open door” policy evolved and helped achieve tremendous economic success. Professor Mohanty will also examine how this policy has generated serious social and environmental problems. \n\n\n\nIn his recent book\, ‘China’s Transformation: The Success Story and the Success Trap’\, Mohanty argues that the consequences of this story of success and growth are so strong that it has been difficult for China to change its main development path and to achieve a desirable level of equity and sustainability. Professor Mohanty describes this as the “success trap” that China is currently grappling with. \n\n\n\nThis event is organized by the India China Institute and co-sponsored by the Global Studies Program at The New School \n\n\n\nLIMITED SEATING
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/xi-jinping-and-chinas-success-trap/
CATEGORIES:Public Event,Public Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180305T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180305T180000
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SUMMARY:Agrarian Elites in Urban Real Estate: Urban and Land Transformations along New Economic Corridors in Liberalizing India
DESCRIPTION:  \n  \nProfessor Sai Balakrishnan will be exploring the narrative movements of urbanization in contemporary India from megacities to the contested geographies along new economic corridors. As policymakers search for new market-oriented means for the transfer of land from agrarian constituencies to infrastructural promoters and urban developers\, the re-allocation of property control is erupting into volatile land-based social conflicts. Professor Balakrishnan puts forward the argument that some of India’s most decisive conflicts over its urban futures will unfold in these corridor regions where electorally strong agrarian propertied classes are coming into direct encounters with financially powerful incoming urban firms. She calls for new theories of land and urbanization that are capable of incorporating within them the agrarian political economy. Through focusing on the agrarian to urban land-use change along India’s first economic corridor\, the Mumbai-Pune Expressway\, she articulates how diverse agrarian property regimes shape the trajectories of contemporary urbanization in liberalizing India.An India China Institute public event. RSVP here to register for the event. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/agrarian-elites-in-urban-real-estate-urban-and-land-transformations-along-new-economic-corridors-in-liberalizing-india/
CATEGORIES:Public Event,Public Event (General),Public Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171204T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171204T180000
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SUMMARY:The 19th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party and the Futures of Chinese Politics
DESCRIPTION:The 19th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party and the Futures of Chinese Politics\n\n\n\nDecember 4\, 2017 | 4:00-6:00 pmOrozco Room (712) | 66 W. 12th St\, NY\, The New School \n\n\n\nA Public Talk with Andrew Nathan Columbia University | Hua Ze China Rights in Action | L.H.M. Ling The New School | Mark Frazier The New School | Xu Youyu Chinese Academy of Social Sciences | Zha Jianying Writer \n\n\n\nAbout the Talk \n\n\n\nAs the now undisputed\, strong leader of modern China\, Xi Jinping is uniquely positioned to determine China’s future. Through his emphasis on the ‘Belt and Road’ Initiative\, (BRI)\, Xi demonstrates his intention for China to shape the contours of global affairs as well. \n\n\n\nAt the 19th Party Congress\, Xi Jinping’s ideas on China’s development and role in global affairs were incorporated in the Party’s Constitution. With only five years in office\, Xi has attained a level of personalized power and authority not seen in China in decades. But will Xi’s supremacy go unchallenged in the future? What are the prospects for political change in China under Xi’s self-stated “New Era of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics”. A panel of China experts will discuss these and related questions about China following the 19th Party Congress. \n\n\n\nAbout the Book \n\n\n\nThis panel on China’s multiple political futures is being held in connection with the recent publication of To Build a Free China: A Citizen’s Journey (Lynne Rienner Publishers\, 2017) by Xu Zhiyong\, a former ICI fellow\, and translated by Joshua Rosenzweig and Yaxue Cao. \n\n\n\nDr. Xu is a prominent legal scholar\, civil rights lawyer\, activist\, and founder of the New Citizens’ Movement. He was named one of Asia Weekly’s People of the Year in 2005 and one of the Southern People’s Weekly Top Ten Young Leaders of China in 2006. He was an ICI Fellow from 2008 to 2010. Professor Andrew Nathan\, who wrote the introduction of the book\, will share his thoughts and insights on the specific questions explored by Xu Zhiyong. \n\n\n\nThis event is organized in partnership with Columbia University’s Weatherhead East Asian Institute and co-sponsored by The New School’s Global Studies Program and the Julien J. Studley Graduate Program in International Affairs.
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/the-19th-congress-of-the-chinese-communist-party-and-the-futures-of-chinese-politics/
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Public Event,Public Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171103T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171103T180000
DTSTAMP:20260513T020702
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SUMMARY:Media Politics in China: Improvising Power Under Authoritarianism
DESCRIPTION:Media Politics in China: Improvising Power Under Authoritarianism\n\n\n\nA CESIC Talk with Maria Repnikova\n\n\n\nNovember 3\, 2017 | 4:00-6:00 pmKlein Conference Room (#501) | 66 W. 12th St\, NY\, The New School \n\n\n\nAbout the Talk \n\n\n\nWho watches over the party-state? In her new book\, Maria Repnikova reveals the webs of an uneasy partnership between critical journalists and the state in China. More than merely a passive mouthpiece or a dissident voice\, the media in China also plays a critical oversight role\, one more frequently associated with liberal democracies than with authoritarian systems. Chinese central officials cautiously endorse media supervision as a feedback mechanism\, as journalists carve out space for critical reporting by positioning themselves as aiding the agenda of the central state. Drawing on rare access in the field\, Media Politics in China examines the process of guarded improvisation that has definedthis volatile partnership over the past decade on a routine basis and in the aftermath of major crisis events. Combined with a comparative analysis of media politics in the Soviet Union and contemporary Russia\, the book highlights the distinctiveness of Chinese journalist-state relations\, as well as the renewed pressures facing them in the Xi era. \n\n\n\nAbout the Speaker \n\n\n\nDr. Maria Repnikova is a scholar of global communication\, with a comparative focus on China and Russia. Her research examines the processes of political resistance and persuasion in illiberal political contexts\, drawing on ethnographic research approaches and extensive time in the field. Maria holds a doctorate from the University of Oxford\, where she was a Rhodes Scholar. \n\n\n\nLIMITED SEATING 
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/media-politics-in-china-improvising-power-under-authoritarianism/
CATEGORIES:Public Event,Public Talks
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SUMMARY:Religious Change and Disturbed Religious Ecosystems in Jiangsu\, China w/ Robert Weller
DESCRIPTION:Religious Change and Disturbed Religious Ecosystems in Jiangsu\, China \n \n \nTalk by Professor Robert Weller\n \nOctober 26\, 2017 | 4:00-6:00 pmOrozco Room (#712) | 66 W. 12th St\, NY\, The New School \n \nAbout the Talk \n \nRapid urban expansion in wealthy parts of China has led to the resettlement of many villagers into high-rise buildings\, making earlier forms of material and cultural life impossible.  At the same time\, large-scale urban reconstruction has displaced many old city neighborhoods.  One result is that the territorially-based religion described in much of the anthropological and historical literature has become increasingly untenable as the entire ecosystem surrounding it has grown unstable. This talk examines what appears to be an especially creative zone for religious innovation:  the expanding urban edge.  The cases come from various cities in southern Jiangsu and focus on ghost attacks\, a spirit medium network\, and innovations in the forms and objects of temple worship. Theoretically\, the paper thinks about ecosystems in the broadest sense of complexly articulated systems\, without assuming a divide between nature and culture. \n \nAbout the Speaker \n \nRobert Weller is Professor of Anthropology & Director of Graduate Studies at Boston University. Weller’s work concentrates on China and Taiwan in comparative perspective. His actual research topics\, however\, are eclectic—running from ghosts to politics\, rebellions to landscape paintings. Perhaps what unites everything is an interest in finding the limits to authority in all its settings. His publications include Unities and Diversities in Chinese Religion (1987)\,  Resistance\, Chaos\, and Control in China: Taiping Rebels\, Taiwanese Ghosts and Tiananmen (1994)\, Alternate Civilities: Chinese Culture and the Prospects for Democracy (1999)\, Discovering Nature: Globalization and Environmental Culture in China and Taiwan (2006)\, and Ritual and Its Consequences: An Essay on the Limits of Sincerity (2008). \n \nLIMITED SEATING 
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/religious-change-and-disturbed-religious-ecosystems-in-jiangsu-china-w-robert-weller/
CATEGORIES:Public Event,Public Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171023T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171023T200000
DTSTAMP:20260513T020702
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SUMMARY:Reimagining Youth and Politics in India w/Shehla Rashid
DESCRIPTION:Reimagining Youth and Politics in India\n\n\n\nTalk by Shehla Rashid\n\n\n\nOctober 23\, 2017 | 6:30-8:00 pmKellen Auditorium (#101) | 66 Fifth Avenue\, NY\, The New School \n\n\n\nAbout the Talk \n\n\n\nShehla Rashid represents one of the most important voices in the anti-fascist struggles in India. She was the Vice President of the Jawaharlal Nehru University Student Union and a member of the All India Student Association. She is currently finishing a MPhil in Law and Governance at JNU. \n\n\n\nA 2016 interview with Rashid for The Wire. \n\n\n\nA 2016 video of Rashid giving a speech on campus at JNU. \n\n\n\nLIMITED SEATING 
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/reimagining-youth-and-politics-in-india-w-shehla-rashid/
CATEGORIES:Public Event,Public Event (General),Public Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171018T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171018T200000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20260107T105512Z
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SUMMARY:Reversing Roles? Environmental Politics and Policy in China and the US in the Trump and Xi Jingping Era w/ Robert Gottlieb
DESCRIPTION:  \n  \nReversing Roles?\n  \nEnvironmental Politics and Policy in China and the US in the Trump and Xi Jingping Era\n  \nA book talk by Professor Robert Gottlieb \n  \nOctober 18\, 2017 | 6:00-8:00 pm \n  \nOrozco Room (712)\, 66 W. 12th St \n  \nRSVP Now \n  \nAbout the Talk \n  \nHas there been a role reversal between the US and China on the environment? \n  \nChina has long been considered an environmental outlier — horrendous smog episodes\, water unfit to drink and even to irrigate\, huge increases in the number of cars on the road\, a global leader in the use of pesticides\, a major coal producer and importer\, a reluctant participant in global climate negotiations until recently\, and more. The US\, until November 9\, had been seen as at least modestly responsive to environmental concerns. Now with Donald Trump and Scott Pruitt ensconced in Washington seeking to systematically dismantle the environmental policy system in contrast to the passage of environmental legislation and a new role around climate change in China\, the roles do seem to be reversing. Is that an accurate view? \n  \nThe answer is yes and no. The talk will compare current US and China environmental approaches in such areas as air pollution\, transportation\, and food as well as climate change\, and the interplay between national and local or regional government policies and their implementation. It will point to the role of social movements and popular protests to help us understand what has changed and why. And it will look at the structural barriers for change: the nature of China’s embrace of marketization\, developmentalism\, and urbanization on the one hand\, and the continuing power of the fossil fuel industry and other environmentally problematic industry forces in the U.S. to shape or at least block policies. \n  \nAbout the Speaker \n  \nRobert Gottlieb is Emeritus Professor at Occidental College and founder and former executive director of the Urban & Environmental Policy Institute. He is the author or co-author of more than a dozen books; his most recent book\, co-authored with Simon Ng\, is Global Cities: Urban Environments in Los Angeles\, Hong Kong\, and China (MIT Press). \n  \nSponsored by The New School’s interdisciplinary programs in Global Studies\, Urban Studies\, and Environmental Studies\, and the India China Institute. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/reversing-roles-environmental-politics-and-policy-in-china-and-the-us-in-the-trump-and-xi-jingping-era-w-robert-gottlieb/
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Public Event,Public Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171012T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171012T173000
DTSTAMP:20260513T020702
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SUMMARY:Welfare\, Work\, And Poverty: Social Assistance in China W/ Qin Gao
DESCRIPTION:Welfare\, Work\, And Poverty\n\n\n\nTalk by Professor Qin Gao\n\n\n\nOctober 12\, 2017 | 4:00-5:30 pmHirshon Suite | 55 W 13th St NY New York NY 10011 \n\n\n\nWelfare\, Work\, and Poverty\, Professor Qin Gao’s new book\,  provides the first systematic and comprehensive evaluation of the impacts and effectiveness of China’s primary social assistance program — Minimum Livelihood Guarantee\, or Dibao — since its inception in 1993. Dibao serves the dual function of providing a basic safety net for the poor and maintaining social and political stability. Despite currently being the world’s largest welfare program in terms of population coverage\, evidence on Dibao’s performance has been lacking. This book offers important new empirical evidence and draws policy lessons that are timely and useful for both China and beyond. Welfare\, Work\, and Poverty is essential reading for political scientists\, economists\, sociologists\, public policy researchers\, and social workers interested in learning about and understanding contemporary China. \n\n\n\nABOUT THE SPEAKER \n\n\n\nQin Gao is a professor at the Columbia School of Social Work (CSSW)\, a faculty affiliate of the Columbia Population Research Center and of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute\, and the director of Columbia University’s China Center for Social Policy. She is also an Academic Board Member of the China Institute for Income Distribution at Beijing Normal University and a Public Intellectual Fellow of the National Committee on United States-China Relations. Before joining the CSSW faculty\, she was a professor and the Coordinator of International Initiatives at Fordham University’s Graduate School of Social Service. Dr. Gao’s current research examines the following topics: 1) the Chinese welfare state in transition: size\, structure\, and redistributive effects; 2) effectiveness and impacts of dibao\, China’s primary social assistance program\, and other anti-poverty policies and programs; 3) gender inequality in time use in China and beyond; 4) social protection for rural-to-urban migrants in China and Asian American immigrants; and 5) cross-national comparative social policies and programs. Dr. Gao’s work has been supported by multiple national and international funding sources such as the National Social Science Fund of China\, UNICEF\, and the World Bank. \n\n\n\nLIMITED SEATING
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/welfare-work-and-poverty-social-assistance-in-china-w-qin-gao/
CATEGORIES:Public Event,Public Event (General),Public Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171005T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171005T193000
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SUMMARY:Live Baccarat Calculations: Macau Machine Gaming and the Production of the Post-Socialist Subject
DESCRIPTION:Following Portugal’s return of Macau to the People’s Republic of China in 1999\, the local government liberalized the city’s 150-year-old casino monopoly concession and invited participation by select foreign gaming companies. Over the following decade these companies produced a phantasmagoric Macau cityscape comprised of enormous integrated casino resorts such as the Venetian\, Parisian\, Wynn\, MGM\, and City of Dreams. As a result\, tiny Macau is now the world’s most lucrative site of casino gaming\, and is visited by more than 30 million tourists per year. The majority of Macau’s casino revenues are derived from Chinese high-rollers who gamble in private VIP rooms. However\, due to a recent slowdown of China’s economy\, as well as a central government crackdown on corruption and tightening of illicit cross-border financial flows\, Macau’s VIP gambling revenues have decreased significantly. Therefore\, Macau’s gaming operators are seeking to diversify the industry and to target Chinese ‘mass market’ tourists. This paper analyzes an electronic casino game called LIVE Baccarat\, which was specifically created for the Macau market and designed to appeal to ordinary Chinese gamblers. Drawing on the work of Michel Callon and Michel Foucault\, I explore the ways in which the LIVE Baccarat gaming machine ‘economizes’ the casino game of baccarat by introducing novel betting functions which require gamblers to engage in various forms of financial calculation. LIVE Baccarat may be understood as an apparatus\, or dispositif\, of subjection of a Chinese ‘mass market’ gambler – an individuated\, speculating\, calculating\, and risk-taking subject\, and a form of ‘human capital’ that Foucault might call an ‘entrepreneur of the self’. This nascent Chinese economic subject is not only important to Macau’s gaming industry\, but to post-socialist market reforms in the PRC\, and perhaps ultimately to the sustainability of global capitalism.This is an India China Institute event\, co-sponsored by the School of Design Strategies\, Parsons School of Design\, and the Global Studies Program\, The New School \nRSVP Here:  
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/live-baccarat-calculations-macau-machine-gaming-and-the-production-of-the-post-socialist-subject/
LOCATION:Klein Conference Room\, 66 West 12th Street 5th Floor\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, USA
CATEGORIES:Public Event,Public Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171002T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171002T200000
DTSTAMP:20260513T020702
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SUMMARY:What Went Wrong With India-China Relations - A Historical Analysis w/ Tansen Sen
DESCRIPTION:Tansen Sen is Director of the Center for Global Asia; Professor of History\, NYU Shanghai; Global Network Professor\, NYU. He received his MA from Peking University and Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania.Prof. Sen specializes in Asian history and religions and has special scholarly interests in India-China interactions\, Indian Ocean connections\, and Buddhism. He is the author of Buddhism\, Diplomacy\, and Trade: The Realignment of Sino-Indian Relations\, 600-1400 (2003; 2016) and India\, China\, and the World: A Connected History (2017). He published numerous articles.
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/what-went-wrong-with-india-china-relations-a-historical-analysis-w-tansen-sen/
CATEGORIES:Public Talks
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171002T180000
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SUMMARY:Rebel Retirement Through Informal Exit Networks: Evidence from India w/ Rumela Sen
DESCRIPTION:Rebel Retirement Through Informal Exit Networks: Evidence from India\nA CESIC Seminar w/\nPost-Doctoral Research Fellow Rumela Sen\nOct 2\, 20174-6 pm\, Orozco Room\n  \nUnder what conditions do insurgents give up arms and return to the same political processes that they had once sought to overthrow? A lot has been written on why men and women rebel. But we know very little about how rebels quit. In this paper I show that rebels quit through informal exit networks that thrive in the underbelly of grassroots associations of civic participation. They are made up of ordinary people in conflict zones who live their everyday lives one foot in democracy and one foot in insurgency. \nThe empirical puzzle for this study is drawn from the ongoing Maoist insurgency in India that has claimed 6\,760 lives in the last ten years and has been acknowledged as the biggest internal security threat that the country has ever faced. Despite comparable conflict intensity (measured in terms of incidents and casualties) and unified command structure of the rebel organization\, retirement is exceptionally high in the south and very low in the north. Further\, both in the north and in the south\, rebel retirement is concentrated in some districts and not others. \nAbout the Speaker \nRumela Sen is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Political Science at Columbia University.  She studied Comparative Politics in the Department of Government at Cornell University. Her current research focuses on rebel retirement and reintegration with empirical evidence drawn primarily from South Asia.
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/rebel-retirement-through-informal-exit-networks-evidence-from-india-w-rumela-sen/
CATEGORIES:Public Event,Public Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170922T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170922T000000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20210412T090710Z
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SUMMARY:EMERGING PUBLIC SPACE IN\OF THE PEARL RIVER DELTA SYMPOSIUM
DESCRIPTION:The purpose of the symposium is to discuss variations of the concept of urban public space and multiplicities of public spatial practice that have emerged in the context of the Pearl River Delta’s rapid urban development in the last forty years. We are particularly interested in exploring characteristics that make the public space and socio-spatial practices in this region distinct from urban development in China and East Asia in general\, as well as searching for research practices and points of view that are currently emerging or have been under-explored in this context.The symposium brings together fourteen participants who will present different perspectives on this expansive theme from the fields of urbanism\, architecture\, planning\, sociology\, and politics both academics and professional practitioners. The talks will be informative in reporting on findings from current research and practice\, and are aimed at constituting a series of provocations about the innovative ways of framing and conceptualizing public space inof Pearl River Delta. \n\n\n\nORGANIZED IN COLLABORATION with the School of Design at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University and with the India China Institute\, The New School \n\n\n\nSPONSORED BY the School of Design Strategies\, Parsons School of Design\, Urban @Parsons\, and The India China Institute\, The New School \n\n\n\n\nCONFERENCE SCHEDULE: \n9:00 WELCOME / GENERAL INTRODUCTION: \nTim Marshall\, Provost\, The New School \nJoel Towers\, Executive Dean\, Parsons School of Design \nAshok Gurung\, Director\, India China Institute \n9:30 SESSION 1 \nModerated by Miodrag Mitrasinovic\, The New School \nAdam Frampton\, Columbia University \nGeorgeen Theodore\, NJIT \nJonathan Bach\, The New School \nAdrian Blackwell\, Uof Waterloo \nBrian McGrath\, The New School \n11:30-12:00 PANEL DISCUSSION \nmoderated by Mark Frazier \n12:00-1:00 LUNCH \n1:00 SESSION 2 \nModerated by Mark Frazier\, The New School \nDavid Grahame Shane\, Columbia University \nYang Xiaochun and Gao Wenxiu\, Shenzhen \nUniversity \nTim Simpson\, University of Macau \n Stefan Al\, UPenn \nMargaret Crawford\, UC Berkeley \n3:00-3:30 PANEL DISCUSSION \nModerated by Miodrag Mitrasinovic \n3:30-4:00 COFFEE BREAK \n4:00-5:00 ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION \nModerated by Tim Jachna\, Hong Kong Polytechnic SD
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/emerging-public-space-inof-the-pearl-river-delta-symposium/
CATEGORIES:International Symposium,Public Event,Public Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170920T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170920T190000
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SUMMARY:What Would a UN-Country-City Partnership Look Like? w/ Aromar Revi
DESCRIPTION:Preparing the World to Implement the SDG’s:\n\n\n\nWhat would a UN-Country-City Partnership Look Like?\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nPublic talk with former ICI fellow Aromar Revi\n\n\n\nSept 20\, 2017 | 5:30-7pm\n\n\n\nDorothy Hirshon Suite (#205)\, 66 W 12th St\, The New School\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin us in welcoming Aromar Revi\, a former ICI fellow\, for a talk on preparing the world to implement the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).  He is a global expert on Sustainable Development; Co-Chair of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN)\, from where he helped lead a successful global campaign for an urban Sustainable Development Goal (SDG 11) as part of the UN’s 2030 development agenda\, which brought major global urban institutions and over 300 cities and organisations together. He has the distinction of addressing the UN General Assembly twice on the theme of sustainable cities\, in 2014 and 2017. \n\n\n\nAbout the Speaker \n\n\n\nAromar’s policy\, practice and research work lie at the interface of sustainability and climate science; and the emerging discipline of ‘urban science’\, that he is helping define internationally. He is a member of the UCL-Nature Sustainability Expert Panel on urban research and global sustainability. In 2016\, UNSDSN & the SDG Academy launched the first 75-session global Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on Sustainable Cities & SDG 11\, curated by him featuring 30 of the world’s leading urbanists. 10\,000 participants from 110 countries have registered for this.
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/what-would-a-un-country-city-partnership-look-like-w-aromar-revi/
CATEGORIES:Public Event,Public Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170331T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170331T203000
DTSTAMP:20260513T020702
CREATED:20200423T172335Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210412T094100Z
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SUMMARY:The Myth and Dilemma of Public (公共 gōng gòng) Design
DESCRIPTION:PUBLIC LIVING ENVIRONMENTS: The Myth and Dilemma of Public (公共 gōng gòng) Design\n\n\n\nA Lecture by Kin Wai Michael SIU\n\n\n\n6:30-8:30 pm | Kellen Auditorium (#101)\, 66 Fifth Ave.\, The New School\n\n\n\nKin Wai Michael SIU will discuss the term “public” from the perspective of its more complex Chinese language equivalent—公共 (gōng gòng)\, examining how the interpretation of these constituent terms influences the design of public spaces. He will suggest that\, for design researchers and practitioners\, a re-thinking of the relationship between gōng and gòng can result in better public living environments. \n\n\n\nRSVP for Event \n\n\n\nAbout the Speaker \n\n\n\nKin Wai Michael SIU is Chair Professor of Public Design and Leader of the Public Design Lab at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. His research areas include public design\, user reception\, inclusive design\, and social innovation. In addition to publishing widely\, he holds over 50 US and international patents and design registrations\, and has received numerous invention and design awards. \n\n\n\nPresented by School of Design Strategies\, Parsons. The Stephan Weiss Lecture Series is made possible by an endowment established by The Karan-Weiss Foundation\, Donna Karan\, Gabrielle Karan\, Corey Weiss\, and Lisa Weiss. The spring 2017 Stephan Weiss Lecture is co-sponsored by India China Institute.
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/the-myth-and-dilemma-of-public-gong-gong-design/
CATEGORIES:Public Event (General),Public Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170330T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170330T193000
DTSTAMP:20260513T020702
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SUMMARY:Kailash Cartographies | Closing Reception & Faculty Talk
DESCRIPTION:Sacred Landscapes Talk\n\n\n\nCome listen as New School faculty members and ICI staff share their insights from fieldwork in India\, Nepal and Tibet as part of a three-year Sacred Himalaya Initiative focused on religion\, ecology and culture in the Himalayas. Faculty involved with ICI’s research project–Rafi Youatt (NSSR)\, Mark Larrimore (Lang)\, Nitin Sawhney (Media Studies) and Sreshta Rit Premnath (Parsons)–will talk about their experiences traveling in these sacred landscapes and how this work has influenced their own artistic and academic practices as well as their teaching. A photo presentation highlighting some of the key areas from the field research will be featured. \n\n\n\n5:00-6:00 pm – Gallery Tour and Reception6:00-7:00 pm – Faculty Talk and Presentation \n\n\n\nThe opening reception and gallery tour will take place in the Aronson Gallery\, 66 Fifth Ave. The talk will take place next door in the Kellen Auditorium. \n\n\n\nDrinks and refreshments will be served. The event is free and will be Live streamed on the official New School channel. Watch it there. \n\n\n\nThis event is the final event for the Kailash Cartographies exhibition. Learn more about the month-long exhibit here. \n\n\n\nA press release about the exhibit can be found here. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Exhibit\n\n\n\nKailash Cartographies is an exhibition of artists from India\, China\, Nepal\, and the US exploring conceptions of sacred geography\, particularly in the Himalayas.  Devotees encounter the sacred through ritual\, art\, and acts of pilgrimage and circumambulation of mountains and temples.  The artists in the exhibition pose questions about the nature of both the sacred and the secular by drawing on the points of connection with landscapes and lived worlds. The photographs\, videos\, works on paper and installations\, deploy cartographic modes that are both personal and political. \n\n\n\nThe title of the exhibition refers to Mount Kailash\, the symbolic center of the Buddhist and Bön cosmos and the seat of Shiva for Hindus. Although associated with a multiplicity of geographical sites and religious representations\, its earthly manifestation is most often located in Tibet. “It is the simultaneously singular and plural aspect of this sacred geography that caught our imagination\,” said Sreshta Rit Premnath\, curator of the exhibition and participating artist. “Every gesture within such a geography is both specifically located yet can be powerfully invoked elsewhere.” \n\n\n\nThe exhibition emerges from a three-year research project of The New School’s India China Institute focused on Sacred Landscapes and Sustainable Futures in the Himalayas.  In conjunction with this endeavor\, a group of artists initiated creative explorations during 2015-2016.  Many of the works in this exhibition were the direct result of a creative workshop convened in Kathmandu in March 2016. The exhibit is part of ICI’s ongoing Sacred Himalaya Initiative research project focused on Mount Kailash in Tibet. \n\n\n\nFeatured artists are Atul Bhalla\, Kevin Bubriski\, Vibha Galhotra\, Sreshta Rit Premnath\, Ashmina Ranjit\, Nitin Sawhney\, Radhika Subramaniam\, Charwei Tsai & Tsering Tashi Gyalthang\, Zheng Bo & Jiang Chao and Qiu Zhijie. \n\n\n\nPresented by the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center and the India China Institute.
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/kailash-cartographies-closing-reception-faculty-talk/
CATEGORIES:Exhibit,Public Event (General),Public Talks
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SUMMARY:Colloquium on the Economies and Societies of India and China - Ching Kwan Lee
DESCRIPTION:Colloquium on the Economies and Societies of India and China (CESIC) \n\n\n\n“Authoritarian Precarization: Mapping the Labor Politics of Recognition\, Regulation and Reproduction in China”\n\n\n\nA Public Talk by Professor Ching Kwan Lee\n\n\n\nMonday\, December 5\, 2016 | 4:00-6:00 pm Orozco Room (#712) 66 West 12th St.\, NY\, NY \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nProfessor Lee’s talk will analyze the making of precarity in China and identify the various contested terrains constitutive of its politics. For each of the three periods of Chinese development since the Communist Revolution\, viz. the Mao era of state socialism 1949-1979\, the high-growth reform era 1980-2010\, and the current period of crisis and restructuring since around 2010\, she will discuss the changing forms and meanings of labor precarity\, their political economic drivers\, and the shifting and uneven capacity of popular struggling for the recognition\, regulation and reproduction of labor.\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nAbout the Speaker:\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nChing Kwan Lee is Professor of Sociology at UCLA. She received her PhD from the University of California at Berkeley. She was a Fellow with the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University (2013-14) and was awarded a National Science Foundation Grant (2010-2013). She was awarded the 2008 Sociology of Labor Book Award by the American Sociological Association (Labor and Labor Movement Section) for her book Against the Law: Labor Protests in China’s Rustbelt and Sunbelt (UC Press\, 2007). Her books include Re-envisioning the Chinese Revolution: Politics and Poetics of Collective Memory in Reform China (Stanford University Press\, 2007\, edited with Guobin Yang) and Working in China: Ethnographies of Labor and Workplace Transformation (Routledge 2007\, edited).\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/colloquium-on-the-economies-and-societies-of-india-and-china-ching-kwan-lee/
CATEGORIES:Public Event (General),Public Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161115T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161115T183000
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SUMMARY:Working In Mumbai: The Works of RMA Architects
DESCRIPTION:Architects working in India are dealing with a range of social\, cultural and economic phenomena that are rapidly molding the built environment there. Rahul Mehrotra\, founding principal of RMA Architects\, will discuss his firm’s unique multidisciplinary approach to working in Mumbai and responding to that city’s kinetic and complex milieu.This event will also be livestreamed. Click here to view. \n\n\n\n**The Stephen Weiss Lecture Series is made possible by an endowment established by The Karan-Weiss Foundation\, Donna Karan\, Gabrielle Karan\, Corey Weiss\, and Lisa Weiss. The Fall 2016 Stephan Weiss Lecture is co-sponsored by The New School’s India-China Institute and Parsons’ School of Design Strategies.
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/working-in-mumbai-the-works-of-rma-architects/
CATEGORIES:Public Event,Public Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161114T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161114T180000
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SUMMARY:Colloquium on the Economies and Societies of India and China - Devesh Kapur
DESCRIPTION: “The Dilemmas of Higher Education: India in Comparative Perspective”\n\n\n\nA Public Talk by Professor Devesh Kapur\n\n\n\nMonday\, November 14\, 2016 | 4:00 – 6:00 pmOrozco Room (#712)\, 66 West 12th St.\, NY\, NY \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn the last two decades the expansion of higher education in India has been the most rapid in human history after that of China. The talk will first document the characteristics of growth and change in higher education in India. It will then address the tensions among the core goals of growth\, access\, cost and quality and the paradox of large skill premiums despite massive increases in supply even as underemployment among the college educated has been rising. Finally\, the talk will examine the political economy of higher education in India\, and why there has been so little change in the regulation of higher education and the governance of higher education institutions – and its consequences. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Speaker: \n\n\n\nDevesh Kapur was appointed Director of the Center for the Advanced Study of India in 2006. He is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania and holds the Madan Lal Sobti Chair for the Study of Contemporary India. Prior to arriving at Penn\, Professor Kapur was Associate Professor of Government at the University of Texas at Austin\, and before that the Frederick Danziger Associate Professor of Government at Harvard. His research focuses on human capital\, national and international public institutions\, and the ways in which local-global linkages\, especially international migration\, and international institutions\, affect political and economic change in developing countries\, especially India. He is the author of Diaspora\, Democracy and Development: The Impact of International Migration from India on India (Princeton University Press\, 2010).
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/colloquium-on-the-economies-and-societies-of-india-and-china-devesh-kapur/
CATEGORIES:Public Event (General),Public Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161017T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161017T180000
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SUMMARY:Colloquium on the Economies and Societies of India and China - Olle Törnquist
DESCRIPTION:Olle Törnquist\n\n\n\nCan social democracy be reinvented? Insights from Indian and Scandinavian comparisons\n\n\n\nOct 17\, 2016 | 4-6pm Orozco Room\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn the age of market driven globalisation\, social democracy is hard pressed. Can it be reinvented? Scholars on Scandinavia and India are just out with a joint book that is the first to compare experiences in the South and the North. Having identified the universal processes of social democracy and analysed Indian experiences by asking questions from Scandinavia\, and vice versa\,  they arrive at four general conclusions. One\, the development strategy from the 1930s remain tenable\, but it is missing a fundamental pillar in the form of comprehensive industrialisation and relatively coherent labour movement and modernisation oriented employers. The conditions for social growth pacts are poor in countries like India. Two\, however\, these conditions can be improved by transformative politics. Several additional historical factors in the rise of social democracy remain valid in the South too. Three\, renewal in the South calls for reversed priorities. Struggles for welfare state\, decent conditions at work and representation of the most vital interests in public policy making and administration must come ahead of social growth pacts. A number of experiences suggest that this may not be impossible. Four\, it should be in the enlightened self-interest of social democracy in countries like Sweden and Norway to support such processes. \n\n\n\nAbout the Speaker: \n\n\n\nOlle Törnquist\n\n\n\nProfessor of Political Science and Development Research\, University of Oslo\, Olle has written widely on radical politics\, development and democratization. In addition to parts of India\, especially Kerala\, his main empirical focus since the 1970s is Indonesia\, where he also co-directs research with scholarly activists. His recent books are Assessing Dynamics of Democratisation (Palgrave\, 2013) and the anthologies (with co-editors) Democratisation in the Global South (Palgrave\, 2013) and Reclaiming the State: Overcoming Problems of Democracy in Post-Soeharto Indonesia (PolGo; PCD 2015).
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/colloquium-on-the-economies-and-societies-of-india-and-china-olle-tornquist/
CATEGORIES:Public Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161013T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161013T173000
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SUMMARY:Reflections on the Cultural Revolution: Impact and Legacy of the Cultural Revolution
DESCRIPTION:Impact and Legacy of the Cultural RevolutionProfessor Xu Youyu\, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and Scholar in Residence\, The New School. \n \nThursday\, October 13th\, 4:00-5:30 PM80 Fifth Ave (#529)\, The New School \n \n\n\n\n \nThis year marks the 50th anniversary of the launching of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. The “cultural” revolution was full of violence and suppression\, and shrouded in conspiracy. It stunned the world and lasted 10 years. However\, the topic has been a taboo in discourse and academic studies in China. The seminar series\, attempting to address some of the crucial questions concerning the movement\, is comprised of four parts\, with each part focusing on a different theme. The speaker will deal with key controversies surrounding each theme and develop his own positions. \nImpact and Legacy of the Cultural Revolution: Was the Cultural Revolution a period of great democracy or anti-democracy? Why do Mao’s former loyal followers fight for democracy? Do Chinese today condemn the Cultural Revolution\, or view it with some nostalgia?
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/reflections-on-the-cultural-revolution-impact-and-legacy-of-the-cultural-revolution/
CATEGORIES:Public Event,Public Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161011T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161011T193000
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SUMMARY:Global Himalaya and Sustainable Futures
DESCRIPTION:Global Himalaya and Sustainable Futures: A Panel Discussion\n\n\n\nTuesday\, October 11th | 5:30-7:30pm \n\n\n\nOrozco Room (710)\, 66 W. 12th St. The New School \n\n\n\nJoin the India China Institute and the Himalayan Universities Consortium for an engaging panel discussion on the state of the Himalayas and questions of sustainable futures in the region. Panelists will present their insights and experiences from working in the region\, and their thoughts on the future of the Himalayas from both a regional and global perspective. An RSVP is required for this event. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFeatured speakers include: \n\n\n\n\nDr. Eklabya Sharma\, ICIMOD\nProf. Pasang Sherpa\, The New School\nProf. Alton Byers\, University of Colorado\nMs. Lisabeth Hilton\, Founding Director of The Third Pole\nProf. Mark Turin\, University of British Columbia
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/global-himalaya-and-sustainable-futures/
CATEGORIES:Public Event,Public Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160509T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160509T200000
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SUMMARY:Public Talk & Book Launch: China's Future
DESCRIPTION:Watch Here\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin India China Institute for a discussion on what the future holds for China with David Shambaugh. \n\n\n\nBook Description \n\n\n\nChina’s future is arguably the most consequential question in global affairs. Having enjoyed unprecedented levels of growth\, China is at a critical juncture in the development of its economy\, society\, polity\, national security\, and international relations. The direction the nation takes at this turning point will determine whether it stalls or continues to develop and prosper. \n\n\n\nWill China be successful in implementing a new wave of transformational reforms that could last decades and make it the world’s leading superpower? Or will its leaders shy away from the drastic changes required because the regime’s power is at risk? If so\, will that lead to prolonged stagnation or even regime collapse? Might China move down a more liberal or even democratic path? Or will China instead emerge as a hard\, authoritarian and aggressive superstate? \n\n\n\nIn this new book\, David Shambaugh argues that these potential pathways are all possibilities – but they depend on key decisions yet to be made by China’s leaders\, different pressures from within Chinese society\, as well as actions taken by other nations. Assessing these scenarios and their implications\, he offers a thoughtful and clear study of China’s future for all those seeking to understand the country’s likely trajectory over the coming decade and beyond. \n\n\n\nAbout David Shambaugh \n\n\n\nDavid Shambaugh is is an internationally recognized authority and author on contemporary China and the international relations of Asia\, with a strong interest in the European Union and transatlantic issues. He is currently the Director of the China Policy Program and a Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at George Washington University. Professor Shambaugh is a prolific author\, having published more than 30 books and 300 articles. \n\n\n\nWatch the video of David Shambaugh’s talk below.
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/public-talk-book-launch-chinas-future/
CATEGORIES:Public Event,Public Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160506T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160506T193000
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SUMMARY:Nepal: A Year Since The Earthquake
DESCRIPTION:A Discussion on International Crisis Group’s Report\n\n\n\nNepal’s Divisive New Constitution: An Existential Crisis\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe International Crisis Group\, in partnership with India China Institute (ICI)\, will present its latest report\, “Nepal’s Divisive New Constitution: An Existential Crisis.” \nThe earthquakes that rocked Nepal in Spring 2015 were followed by a period of political instability linked to a contentious constitution-writing process. Since the constitution was passed last September amid deadly protests\, the country’s ethnic\, social and political fractures have only deepened. Meanwhile\, earthquake relief efforts have also been hampered by political infighting and corruption. \nThis special event aims to reframe the arguments regarding Nepal’s current political situation and move the discourse in a more productive direction. Panelists will examine the political\, legal\, and human rights challenges ahead\, and recommend options for the international community to engage constructively to prevent further instability. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nDiscussion Panel: \n\n\n\nAnagha Neelakantan\, International Crisis Group \n\n\n\nAnagha Neelakantan is Crisis Group’s Deputy Asia Program Director\, assisting the Program Director in leading research\, analysis\, policy prescription and advocacy activities of the Asia Program\, overseeing and managing field staff\, while ensuring timely communications between field and headquarters\, spread across three sub-regional projects: South Asia\, Southeast Asia and Northeast Asia. Anagha follows in particular political transitions including peace processes\, ethnic and other entrenched violent social conflicts\, constitution-making\, human rights\, demobilisation and security sector reform\, governance issues\, India’s foreign policy and the role of geopolitics in conflict resolution. Anagha worked in Nepal from 2000-2013\, as Crisis Group’s senior analyst for Nepal\, an analyst with the United Nations Mission in Nepal\, and as executive editor of the Nepali Times weekly. In 2014\, she worked in Myanmar with the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue. \n\n\n\nAshish Pradhan\, International Crisis Group \n\n\n\nAshish Pradhan is Crisis Group’s UN Advocacy and Research Analyst and is based in New York where he supports the organisation’s advocacy at the United Nations. He assists in providing detailed analyses of developments at the Security Council to ensure adequate reflection of UN perspectives in Crisis Group publications. He also supports advocacy with UN officials\, NGOs\, and diplomats from a variety of UN member-states on country-specific crises and policy issues covered by Crisis Group. And he conducts research on thematic issues covered in Crisis Group reports\, including on jihadi militancy in South Asia. He previously worked for Crisis Group’s Kathmandu office from 2010-2013 while analyzing Nepal’s peace and constitution-writing processes with a particular focus on identity politics\, minority rights\, and the federalism debate. \n\n\n\nRichard Bennett\, Amnesty International (formerly with OHCHR-Nepal) \n\n\n\nRichard Bennett joined Amnesty International in March 2014 as Asia-Pacific Director and from July 2015 has been Head of Amnesty’s New York Office. Previously he served with the United Nations in senior human rights posts\, heading the human rights components of peacekeeping operations in Sierra Leone\, Timor-Leste\, Afghanistan and South Sudan. From 2007 to 2010 Richard was the Representative of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in Nepal. He has also been Chief of Staff for the Secretary-General’s Panel of Experts on Sri Lanka and Special Adviser to the Assistant Secretary General for Human Rights in New York. A citizen of New Zealand and the UK\, Richard worked for a decade at the NZ Human Rights Commission before joining the UN. \n\n\n\nRohan Edrisinha\, UN Department of Political Affairs (formerly with UNDP in Nepal) \n\n\n\nRohan Edrisinha is a Senior Political Officer and Constitutional Advisor in the Policy and Mediation Division of the Department of Political Affairs of the U.N. He taught at the Faculty of Law\, University of Colombo from 1986 to 2011. He served as the constitutional advisor to UNDP Nepal and the head of its constitution support programme from 2011 to 2014. In 2015\, he functioned as an independent consultant on constitutional reform and federalism in Myanmar\, and as a governance advisor to UNDP Sri Lanka. He taught at the Faculty of Law\, University of the Witwatersrand\, South Africa\, in 1995 and was a visiting fellow at Harvard University (2005) and the University of Toronto (2009). He was a founder Director and Head of the Legal and Constitutional Unit of the Centre for Policy Alternatives (CPA)\, Sri Lanka\, from 1996 to 2010. \n\n\n\nModerated By: \n\n\n\nAshok Gurung\, India China Institute \n\n\n\nAshok Gurung is the senior director of the India China Institute (ICI) and is Professor of Practice in the Julien J. Studley Graduate Program in International Affairs at The New School.  A founding director of ICI\, he is responsible for establishing and the overall development\, management\, and coordination of ICI programs and projects in India\, China\, and the United States. A native of Nepal\, he has taught several courses on development management\, political and social issues in Nepal at the New School. Ashok has over twenty years of international development experience as an educator\, researcher\, manager\, grant-maker\, policy analyst\, activist and training facilitator with civil society groups\, academic institutions\, foundations and multi-lateral organizations\, and governments worldwide. Among various roles\, he was the program officer for the International Fellowships Program\, the largest global leadership initiative ($280 million) of the Ford Foundation.
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/nepal-a-year-since-the-earthquake/
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