Who Cares? Care Arrangements and Sanitation for the Poor in India, Compared With Europe and China
2015-02-04 18:00 - 19:30 (America/New_York)
This talk will examine the question: why do Indian middle-class citizens seem to have no compelling interest improving sanitation for the poor, despite the fact that their own health is affected due to the close proximity of the poor? By comparing the current conditions of poverty in India and China, presenter Peter van der Veer will examine cultural theories of attitudes towards ‘the dirty outside world’ and will argue that these theories ignore the importance of caste, and especially, untouchability. The New School’s Sanjay Ruparelia will serve as a discussant.

Peter van der Veer is Director at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity in Göttingen and Distinguished University Professor at Utrecht University. He is the author of Gods on Earth (LSE Mongraphs, 1988), Religious Nationalism (University of California Press 1994), Imperial Encounters (Princeton University Press 2001), The Modern Spirit of Asia (Princeton University Press 2014). He is the editor of the new journal, Cultural Diversity in China and is a senior advisor at the India China Institute.

Sanjay Ruparelia is an assistant professor of Politics at The New School for Social Research and a former Fellow at the India China Institute. His areas of research and teaching span democratic theory, comparative politics and political economy of development, primarily in South Asian studies. He is the author of Divided We Govern: The Paradoxes of Power in Contemporary Indian Democracy (Columbia University Press, 2013) and is the coeditor of Understanding India’s New Political Economy: A Great Transformation? (Routledge, 2011).

Event registration for Who Cares? Care Arrangements and Sanitation for the Poor in India, Compared With Europe and China powered by Eventbrite

Handshake 302: Vernacular Geographies of Shenzhen, China
2015-02-19 18:00 - 19:30
In Shenzhen, China, the term “urban village” refers to a vernacular urban typology that has emerged out of village settlements that no longer, or only partially, exist, and continue to expand today. In these dense, urbanized spaces, the preservation of village terminology allows us to explore a vernacular geography of “modernized”, “urbanized”, and “everyday” spaces within a larger discourse about China’s urban growth and Shenzhen’s history, its development trajectories, and governmental interventions in its built environment. This talk focuses on my experience co-curating an experimental art and ethnographic space called the “Handshake 302 Village Hack Residency” that engages the living history of the urban village of Baishizhou and Shenzhen’s history more generally. Handshake 302 exploits the semiotic discrepancies between art space programs and low cost housing to provide an accessible sociology of an urban village. The talk explores how the definition, rezoning, and rebuilding of these neighborhoods simultaneously evaluates the history of urban modernity (and the ordinary people who made it) and posits the city’s future (and the people who are welcome there).

Mary Ann O’Donnell is an anthropologist, urban ethnographer, artist, and educator living in Shenzhen, China, where she is the director of CZC Special Forces, a citizen group that aims to bring Shenzhen’s urbanized villages into public discussions about urban planning and renewal projects. She is also an editor at Architectural Worlds.

Online event registration for Handshake 302: Vernacular Geographies of Shenzhen, China powered by Eventbrite

Asia and Dissent in a Time of Strongman Leaders
2015-02-26 18:00 - 19:30
Watch Here

Please join us for a roundtable discussion with experts on China, India, Japan & Russia.

Moderator:

Jeff Wasserstrom, Chancellor’s professor of History, University of California at Irvine; Author, China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know; Editorial Board Member, Dissent Magazine

Panelists:

Alexis Dudden, Professor of History, University of Connecticut and Contributor, Dissent Magazine

Nina Khrushcheva, Associate Professor and Associate Dean at Milano School of International Affairs, Management and Urban Policy, The New School

Ross Perlin, Author and Contributor, Dissent Magazine

Sanjay Ruparelia, Assistant Professor of Politics, The New School for Social Research and former Fellow, India China Institute

Online Ticketing for Asia and Dissent in a time of Strongman Leaders – Xi, Abe, Modi, Putin powered by Eventbrite

The Lifeworks of Tehching Hsieh (In Chinese)
2015-03-14 15:15 - 17:30
Tehching Hsieh is a noted New York City base performance artist. Hsieh accomplished five One Year Performance from 1978 to 1986 and worked on Thirteen-Year Plan from 1986 to 1999. In his Cage Piece, the artist locked himself in a cage for one year. He was tied to Linda Montano for a year during the Rope Piece. Punched a time clock every hour for a year, his Time Clock Piece has been exhibited in the Guggenheim Museum. Some of his works has been exhibited in the Museum of Modern Art in 2009.

Tehching Hsieh was born in Nan-Chou, Taiwan in 1950. He dropped out high school in 1967 and took up painting. After finishing compulsory military service (1970-73), Hsieh had his first solo show at the gallery of the American News Bureau in Taiwan. Shortly after, Hsieh stopped painting. In 1973 He made a performance action, “Jump Piece”, in which he broke both ankles. He then trained as a seaman, which he used as a means to enter the United States. In July of 1974, Hsieh arrived at a small port near Philadelphia. He was an illegal immigrant in the States for fourteen years until he was granted amnesty in 1988. Starting in the late nineteen seventies, Hsieh made five One Year Performances and a Thirteen Year Plan, inside and outside his studio in New York City. Using long durations, making art and life simultaneous, the first four One Year Performances made Hsieh a regular name in the art scene in New York; the last two pieces, intentionally retreating from the art world, set a tone of sustained invisibility. Since the millennium, released from the restriction of not showing his works during a thirteen-year period, Hsieh has exhibited his work in North and South America, Asia and Europe. Hsieh lives in Brooklyn, New York.

He is most known for six durational performance pieces completed between 1978 and 2000. One Year Performance 1978–1979 (Cage Piece) In this performance, which lasted from 29 September 1978 through 30 September 1979, the artist locked himself in an 11.5-by-9-by-8-foot wooden cage, furnished only with a washbasin, lights, a pail, and a single bed. During the year, he was not allowed to talk, read, write, or listen to radio and TV. A lawyer, Robert Projansky, notarized the entire process and made sure the artist never left the cage during that one year. A friend came daily to deliver food, remove the artist’s waste, and take a single photograph to document the project. In addition, this performance was open to being viewed once or twice a month from 11 am to 5 pm. One Year Performance 1980–1981 (Time Clock Piece) For one year, from 11 April 1980 through 11 April 1981, Hsieh punched a time clock every hour on the hour. Each time he punched the clock, he took a single picture of himself, which together yield a 6-minute movie. He shaved his head before the piece, so his growing hair reflects the passage of time. Documentation of this piece was exhibited at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in 2009, using film, punch cards, and photographs. This work was the first of Hsieh’s ever to be displayed in the UK at the Liverpool Biennial in 2010. One Year Performance 1981–1982 (Outdoor Piece) In his third one-year performance piece, from 26

September 1981 through 26 September 1982, Hsieh spent one year outside, not entering buildings or shelter of any sort, including cars, trains, airplanes, boats, or tents. He moved around New York City with a packbag and a sleeping bag. One Year Performance 1983-1984 (Rope Piece) In this performance, Hsieh and Linda Montano spent one year between 4 July 1983 and 4 July 1984 tied to each other with an 8-foot-long (2.4 m) rope. They had to stay in a same room while not allowed to touch each other until the end of the one year period.Both of them shaved their hair in the beginning of the year, and the performance was notarized initially by Paul Grassfield and later by Pauline Oliveros. One Year Performance 1985–1986 (No Art Piece) For one year, Hsieh did no art, spoke no art, saw no art, read no art, and did not enter any museum or gallery.

Tehching Hsieh 1986–1999 (Thirteen Year Plan) At the beginning of this epic piece, Hsieh declared, “Will make Art during this time. Will not show it publicly.” This plan began on his 36th birthday, 31 December 1986, and lasted until his 49th birthday, 31 December 1999. At the end, on 1 January 2000 he issued his concluding report, “I kept myself alive. I passed the December 31st, 1999.” The report consisted of cutout letters pasted onto a single sheet of paper.

Presented by Chinese Artist Alliance of New York City, The New School India China Institute. Supported by The New School CSSA

Challenges in Balancing Conservation & Development in Eastern Himalaya
2015-04-07 18:00 - 19:30
Join the India China Institute and the Environmental Studies program at The New School for an exciting talk on biodiversity conservation and development issues in the Eastern Himalaya.

“Challenges in Balancing Conservation and Development in Eastern Himalaya, a Biodiversity Hotspot”

A public talk by Ganesan Balachander.Discussion moderated by Timon McPhearson, Assistant Professor of Ecology, The New School.

The Eastern Himalaya is a biodiversity hotspot, with parts of it declared as UNESCO World Natural Heritage Sites (Kaziranga, Khanchendzonga, Manas). Equally rich is the cultural diversity of its multitude ethnic groups. The region is likely to witness rapid economic growth – held back till now due to a long period of neglect, political instability and conflicts – owing to geopolitical considerations (a long disputed border with China), vast potential of hydro electric power for a energy starved country and growing development aspirations of the people. Conventional development models will be unlikely to produce sustained and inclusive growth and are likely to lead to loss of species, water insecurity and continued ethnic conflicts. To address these problems, the major research priorities include:

~ Need for information on occurrence, extent and distribution of species, both faunal and floral~ Modeling to ascertain likely impact of climate change (to prepare for adaptation as well as mitigation)~ The value of ecosystem services and factoring this element in policy making and design of project

The speaker will address these issues through lessons learned over two decades of research activities and projects in the region.

Ganesan Balachander is Director of the Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE), Bangalore. ATREE is recognized as amongst the top 20 environmental think tanks in the world (U-Penn survey). Balachander is also currently a member of the Consortium Board of the CGIAR, a global public sector research organization involved in addressing food insecurity, poverty, malnutrition and ecosystem resilience. Earlier, he was the Representative for South Asia of The Ford Foundation in New Delhi. In a previous career, before he obtained his doctoral degree in Ecology from Rutgers University with a post-doctoral fellowship at Harvard, he was a Vice President at Citibank, New York.

RSVP for the event

New Urban Forms, New Fields of Inquiry Conference: China and India
2015-04-17 - 2015-04-18 | Wollman Hall, 65 West 11th Street Room B500, New York, NY, 10011, USA
New Urban Forms, New Fields of Inquiry: China and India will explore new ways of looking at the interplay of the conceptual and the material in studies of urban India and China. A collaborative and exploratory field-building exercise, this conference will pursue alternatives to theories of social science and design that sometimes draw upon universalist and/or linear assumptions about processes such as capitalism, urbanization, and modernity. Instead, our conference participants, many of whom have engaged in ethnographic, interpretive, or other qualitative approaches to urban forms and processes, will pursue new concepts and expose areas of future inquiry based on their work on urban and urbanized spaces of China and India. ICI believes that a conference engaging scholars committed to theorizing from careful, contextualized studies of Chinese and Indian cities has the potential to create new fields of inquiry. Please check back for updates on logistical information about this conference.
Keynote Speaker:
Terry McGee
Professor, Former DirectorInstitute of Asian ResearchUniversity of British Columbia

Explorations on the Asian Urban Edge
2015-04-17 18:00 - 20:00
The India China Institute is excited to announce a keynote talk by Terence McGee as part of the two-day New Urban Forms, New Fields of Inquiry conference at The New School.

“Explorations on the Asian Urban Edge: Untangling Issues of Comparative Research on Urbanization in China, India and Southeast Asia”

A Public talk by Professor Terence McGee, University of British ColumbiaWelcome remarks by Provost Tim Marshall

April 17th, 6-8pmWollman Hall, 5th floor65 West 11th St., NYThe New School

In the last sixty years, Professor McGee has researched Indian international migration, Malays rural-urban migration to Kuala Lumpur, street vendors in Manila, Jakarta, Bangkok, Penang and Hong Kong. His work has focused on the urban margins of Asian cities located within the diverse trajectories of urbanization in China, India and Southeast Asia. His address will focus on four main questions.

~What is the “urbanization problematique” in the 21st century?~How can context and theory intermesh to reinterpret urbanization at different spatial scales–local, national, regional and global?~What role does the comparative study of urbanization play in understanding urbanization at these various territorial scales?~What are the consequences of strategic research themes for the comparative research on urban China and India?

Terence McGee has conducted research on urbanization and development in Asia for more than fifty years. He is the author of numerous influential books, monographs and articles on urbanization question in Southeast Asia, China and Latin America. He has also led several influential projects on urban development and the effects of environmental change on mega-urban regions. He was Director of the Institute of Asian Research at the University of British Columbia (1978-88, 1993-98) as well as Professor of Geography (1978-2001). He was awarded the distinguished Vautrin Lud International Prize in Geography in 2009 for his contributions to development geography.

RSVP information coming soon

Bron Taylor: Spirituality After Darwin
2015-09-24 18:00 - 19:30
Spirituality After Darwin:

‘Dark Green’ Nature Religion and the Future of Religion and Nature

A public lecture by Professor Bron Taylor. Mark Larrimore, Eugene Lang College Religious Studies program as discussant.

6:00-7:30 pm, Theresa Lang Community Center, 55 W. 13th St., 2nd floor.

Event RSVP

New Religions come and go but some persist and become major global forces. In this presentation Professor Taylor presents evidence that, especially since Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species in 1859, a new, global, earth religion has been rapidly spreading around the world. Whether it involves conventional religious beliefs in non-material divine beings, or is entirely naturalistic and involves no such beliefs, it considers nature to be sacred, imbued with intrinsic value, and worthy of reverent care. Those having affinity with such spirituality generally have strong feelings of belonging to nature, express kinship with non-human organisms, and understand the world to be deeply interconnected. In a recent book Taylor labeled such phenomena ‘dark green religion’, noting that its central ethical priority is to defend the earth’s biocultural diversity. Taylor provides a wide variety of examples of new forms of religious (and religion-resembling) cultural innovation among those promoting such nature spirituality, from individuals (including artists, scientists, filmmakers, photographers, surfers, and environmental activists), to institutions (including museums, schools, and the United Nations). By tracking these, Taylor provides an opportunity to consider what such spirituality may portend for the religious and planetary future.

Speaker Bio:

Bron Taylor is Professor of Religion, Nature, and Environmental Ethics at the University of Florida, and a Carson Fellow of the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society in Munich Germany. His research involves both ethnographic and historical methods, and much of it focuses on grassroots environmental movements, their emotional, spiritual, and moral spiritual dimensions, and their environmental, cultural, and political impacts. He has been involved in a variety of international initiatives promoting the conservation of biological and cultural diversity. His books include Dark Green Religion: Nature Spirituality and the Planetary Future (2010), the award winning Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature (2005), Civil Society in the Age of Monitory Democracy (2013) and Ecological Resistance Movements: the Global Emergence of Radical and Popular Environmentalism (1995), and Avatar and Nature Spirituality (2013). He is also the founder of the International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture, and editor of its affiliated Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture. For more information see www.brontaylor.com.

Refreshments will be provided. Seating is limited. Please RSVP here.

The Global Challenge of Implementing the Urban SDGs w/ Aromar Revi
2015-10-01 18:00 - 20:00
The Global Challenge of Implementing the Urban Sustainable Development Goals

When: Thursday, October 1, 2015; 6:00 – 8:00pmWhere: Hirshon Suite (Room 205) 55 West 13th Street, New York, NY 10011

ICI is hosting Aromar Revi to deliver a special public talk on “The global challenge of implementing the urban SDGs.” Mr Revi will dissect the United Nation’s SDGs, which have been well-crafted to guide the public’s understanding of complex sustainable development challenges, inspire public and private action, promote integrated thinking, and foster accountability.
Aromar Revi is currently the Director of the Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS), a national education institution committed to the equitable, sustainable and efficient transformation of Indian settlements. He is an international practitioner with over thirty years of inter-disciplinary experience. He is a member of the Leadership Council of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN), co-chair of its Urban thematic group, where he leads a global campaign for an urban Sustainable Development Goal (SDG). He is also a past fellow of the India China Institute.
Professor Shagun Mehrotra will serve as a panelist. Mehrota is a Professor of Sustainable Development at The New School and is the founding Director of the Sustainable Development Solutions Center. Professor Mehrotra serves on UNSDSN’s Urban Thematic Group charged by the UN Secretary General as an external advisory group for the post-2015 development agenda. Mehrotra co-directs UCCRN, a global research network of 500 scholars and practitioners based in a 100 cities dedicated to urban climate change research and policymaking.

Refreshments will be served. Please RSVP to reserve a seat.

Dynastic Politics and the Challenges of Democratization in Bangladesh w/ Rounaq Jahan
2015-10-16 16:00 - 18:00
ICI is happy to announce this important talk we are co-sponsoring with the Development Thought and Policy Seminar Series at The New School. The event will take place Oct. 16th from 4-6pm in the University Center, #311.
Please RSVP for the event to development.newschool@gmail.com.
Rounaq Jahan will present her new book Political Parties in Bangladesh: Challenges of Democratization (Prothoma Prokashan, 2015). The book is organized into six broad chapters, covering theoretical explanations of political parties and political development, and with a detailed look at party systems under different regimes during key phases in Bangladesh’s history. Her analysis focuses on major traits of political parties, their organizational structure and leadership dynamics, who supports the parties and intra-party democratic practice, with special attention to local level politics. She concludes this imporant study by offering her key findings from the study and making recommendations on how to address these issues and challenges. Her talk will be based on this latest book. You can read more about her new book here.
Professor Rounaq Jahan is currently a Distinguished Fellow at the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) in Bangladesh.

Stories and Journeys from the Indian Himalayas
2015-12-03 18:00 - 20:00
Stories and Journeys from the Indian Himalayas

December 3, 2015 | 6:00-8:00 pmHirshon Suite (Room 205)55 West 13th St, New York, NY 10011

RSVP Here

Noted Himalayan Anthropologist James Fisher will moderate the conversation.

Husband and wife team, Payson R. Stevens and Kamla K. Kapur will talk on their work in India over the last 12 years living in a remote Himalayan Valley. Payson’s career is multi-faceted with training in art and science. He was an advisor to the Great Himalayan National Park and spearheaded its inscription as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Kamla is a well-known author of three acclaimed books reimagining Indian myths, stories and tales from three main spiritual sources: Hinduism, Sufism, and Sikhism.

They will share their stories and unique creative perspective with Kamla reading from her books and Payson sharing the perspective of an American living in a valley where the old mythic ways still survive. He will also show his experimental videos that focus on India’s sacred sites.

About Payson:

Payson is an award-winning author, artist, filmmaker and digital pioneer with training in science and the arts. His two companies consulted to NASA, the U.S. Geological Survey, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on global change and helped pioneer digital new media. He received the Presidential Design Award from Bill Clinton for these groundbreaking innovations. During the last 14 years he has worked on Himalayan rural community and conservation issues related to the Great Himalayan National Park. He continues to paint and make experimental videos combining poetry and music in compelling mash-ups.

About Kamla:

Kamla was born and raised in India and studied in the U.S. She taught literature, mythology, and creative writing at Grossmont College for 17 years. Many of her poems have been published in prestigious American journals and quarterlies. She is an accomplished playwright with recent performances of her award-winning play, Kaamiya, in Mumbai. Recent books include: The Singing Guru, Pilgrimage to Paradise: Rumi’s Tales from the Silk Road, Ganesha Goes to Lunch. She is currently working on numerous writing projects including the multi-volume, Sikh Saga; Coherences, a novel of contemporary India, and a young-adult fantasy novel, Malini in Whirlwood.

The Colonial Practices of the Postcolonial State: China in Tibet, India in Kashmir w/ Dibyesh Anand
2016-03-31 12:00 - 13:30
The Modern Tibetan Studies Program at Columbia, the India China Institute at the New School, and the Inner Asia Curricular Development Project at Columbia •

The Colonial Practices of the Postcolonial State: China in Tibet, India in Kashmir

Dibyesh Anand

Thursday, March 31

12:00-1:30 pm

SIPA #918, Columbia University

Dibyesh Anand is a Reader (Associate Professor) and Head of Department in International Relations at the University of Westminster in London. He has degrees from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi University, University of Hull and Bristol. He is the author of the monographs Geopolitical Exotica: Tibet in Western Imagination, Tibet: A Victim of Geopolitics, and Hindu Nationalism in India and the Politics of Fear.

Dr. Anand has held visiting positions at the University of California Berkeley, Australian National University, Jawaharlal Nehru University and the Central University of Hyderabad.

Event is free and open to all.

SIPA is by Columbia’s main Morningside campus at 118th and Amsterdam.

No.1 Train to 116th or buses M4, 11, 60, or 104. Map Directions

Nepal: A Year Since The Earthquake
2016-05-06 18:00 - 19:30
A Discussion on International Crisis Group’s Report

Nepal’s Divisive New Constitution: An Existential Crisis

The International Crisis Group, in partnership with India China Institute (ICI), will present its latest report, “Nepal’s Divisive New Constitution: An Existential Crisis.”
The 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.
This 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.

Discussion Panel:

Anagha Neelakantan, International Crisis Group

Anagha 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.

Ashish Pradhan, International Crisis Group

Ashish 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.

Richard Bennett, Amnesty International (formerly with OHCHR-Nepal)

Richard 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.

Rohan Edrisinha, UN Department of Political Affairs (formerly with UNDP in Nepal)

Rohan 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.

Moderated By:

Ashok Gurung, India China Institute

Ashok 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.

Public Talk & Book Launch: China's Future
2016-05-09 18:00 - 20:00
Watch Here

Join India China Institute for a discussion on what the future holds for China with David Shambaugh.

Book Description

China’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.

Will 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?

In 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.

About David Shambaugh

David 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.

Watch the video of David Shambaugh’s talk below.

Global Himalaya and Sustainable Futures
2016-10-11 17:30 - 19:30
Global Himalaya and Sustainable Futures: A Panel Discussion

Tuesday, October 11th | 5:30-7:30pm

Orozco Room (710), 66 W. 12th St. The New School

Join 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.

Featured speakers include:

Dr. Eklabya Sharma, ICIMOD
Prof. Pasang Sherpa, The New School
Prof. Alton Byers, University of Colorado
Ms. Lisabeth Hilton, Founding Director of The Third Pole
Prof. Mark Turin, University of British Columbia

Reflections on the Cultural Revolution: Impact and Legacy of the Cultural Revolution
2016-10-13 16:00 - 17:30
Impact and Legacy of the Cultural RevolutionProfessor Xu Youyu, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and Scholar in Residence, The New School.

Thursday, October 13th, 4:00-5:30 PM80 Fifth Ave (#529), The New School

This 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.
Impact 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?

Colloquium on the Economies and Societies of India and China - Olle Törnquist
2016-10-17 16:00 - 18:00
Olle Törnquist

Can social democracy be reinvented? Insights from Indian and Scandinavian comparisons

Oct 17, 2016 | 4-6pm Orozco Room

In 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.

About the Speaker:

Olle Törnquist

Professor 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).

Colloquium on the Economies and Societies of India and China - Devesh Kapur
2016-11-14 16:00 - 18:00
“The Dilemmas of Higher Education: India in Comparative Perspective”

A Public Talk by Professor Devesh Kapur

Monday, November 14, 2016 | 4:00 – 6:00 pmOrozco Room (#712), 66 West 12th St., NY, NY

In 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.

About the Speaker:

Devesh 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).

Working In Mumbai: The Works of RMA Architects
2016-11-15 17:00 - 18:30
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.

**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.

Colloquium on the Economies and Societies of India and China - Ching Kwan Lee
2016-12-05 16:00 - 18:00
Colloquium on the Economies and Societies of India and China (CESIC)

“Authoritarian Precarization: Mapping the Labor Politics of Recognition, Regulation and Reproduction in China”

A Public Talk by Professor Ching Kwan Lee

Monday, December 5, 2016 | 4:00-6:00 pm Orozco Room (#712) 66 West 12th St., NY, NY

Professor 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.

About the Speaker:

Ching 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).

Kailash Cartographies | Closing Reception & Faculty Talk
2017-03-30 17:00 - 19:30
Sacred Landscapes Talk

Come 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.

5:00-6:00 pm – Gallery Tour and Reception6:00-7:00 pm – Faculty Talk and Presentation

The 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.

Drinks and refreshments will be served. The event is free and will be Live streamed on the official New School channel. Watch it there.

This event is the final event for the Kailash Cartographies exhibition. Learn more about the month-long exhibit here.

A press release about the exhibit can be found here.

About the Exhibit

Kailash 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.

The 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.”

The 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.

Featured 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.

Presented by the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center and the India China Institute.

The Myth and Dilemma of Public (公共 gōng gòng) Design
2017-03-31 18:30 - 20:30
PUBLIC LIVING ENVIRONMENTS: The Myth and Dilemma of Public (公共 gōng gòng) Design

A Lecture by Kin Wai Michael SIU

6:30-8:30 pm | Kellen Auditorium (#101), 66 Fifth Ave., The New School

Kin 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.

RSVP for Event

About the Speaker

Kin 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.

Presented 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.

What Would a UN-Country-City Partnership Look Like? w/ Aromar Revi
2017-09-20 17:30 - 19:00
Preparing the World to Implement the SDG’s:

What would a UN-Country-City Partnership Look Like?

Public talk with former ICI fellow Aromar Revi

Sept 20, 2017 | 5:30-7pm

Dorothy Hirshon Suite (#205), 66 W 12th St, The New School

Join 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.

About the Speaker

Aromar’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.

EMERGING PUBLIC SPACE INOF THE PEARL RIVER DELTA SYMPOSIUM
2017-09-22 00:00
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.

ORGANIZED IN COLLABORATION with the School of Design at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University and with the India China Institute, The New School

SPONSORED BY the School of Design Strategies, Parsons School of Design, Urban @Parsons, and The India China Institute, The New School

CONFERENCE SCHEDULE:
9:00 WELCOME / GENERAL INTRODUCTION:
Tim Marshall, Provost, The New School
Joel Towers, Executive Dean, Parsons School of Design
Ashok Gurung, Director, India China Institute
9:30 SESSION 1
Moderated by Miodrag Mitrasinovic, The New School
Adam Frampton, Columbia University
Georgeen Theodore, NJIT
Jonathan Bach, The New School
Adrian Blackwell, Uof Waterloo
Brian McGrath, The New School
11:30-12:00 PANEL DISCUSSION
moderated by Mark Frazier
12:00-1:00 LUNCH
1:00 SESSION 2
Moderated by Mark Frazier, The New School
David Grahame Shane, Columbia University
Yang Xiaochun and Gao Wenxiu, Shenzhen
University
Tim Simpson, University of Macau
Stefan Al, UPenn
Margaret Crawford, UC Berkeley
3:00-3:30 PANEL DISCUSSION
Moderated by Miodrag Mitrasinovic
3:30-4:00 COFFEE BREAK
4:00-5:00 ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION
Moderated by Tim Jachna, Hong Kong Polytechnic SD

Rebel Retirement Through Informal Exit Networks: Evidence from India w/ Rumela Sen
2017-10-02 16:00 - 18:00
Rebel Retirement Through Informal Exit Networks: Evidence from India
A CESIC Seminar w/
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow Rumela Sen
Oct 2, 20174-6 pm, Orozco Room

Under 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.
The 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.
About the Speaker
Rumela 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.

What Went Wrong With India-China Relations - A Historical Analysis w/ Tansen Sen
2017-10-02 18:30 - 20:00
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.

Live Baccarat Calculations: Macau Machine Gaming and the Production of the Post-Socialist Subject
2017-10-05 17:30 - 19:30 | Klein Conference Room, 66 West 12th Street 5th Floor, New York, NY, 10011, USA
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
RSVP Here:

Welfare, Work, And Poverty: Social Assistance in China W/ Qin Gao
2017-10-12 16:00 - 17:30
Welfare, Work, And Poverty

Talk by Professor Qin Gao

October 12, 2017 | 4:00-5:30 pmHirshon Suite | 55 W 13th St NY New York NY 10011

Welfare, 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.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Qin 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.

LIMITED SEATING

Reversing Roles? Environmental Politics and Policy in China and the US in the Trump and Xi Jingping Era w/ Robert Gottlieb
2017-10-18 18:00 - 20:00
Reversing Roles?

Environmental Politics and Policy in China and the US in the Trump and Xi Jingping Era

A book talk by Professor Robert Gottlieb

October 18, 2017 | 6:00-8:00 pm

Orozco Room (712), 66 W. 12th St

RSVP Now

About the Talk

Has there been a role reversal between the US and China on the environment?

China 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?

The 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.

About the Speaker

Robert 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).

Sponsored by The New School’s interdisciplinary programs in Global Studies, Urban Studies, and Environmental Studies, and the India China Institute.

Reimagining Youth and Politics in India w/Shehla Rashid
2017-10-23 18:30 - 20:00
Reimagining Youth and Politics in India

Talk by Shehla Rashid

October 23, 2017 | 6:30-8:00 pmKellen Auditorium (#101) | 66 Fifth Avenue, NY, The New School

About the Talk

Shehla 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.

A 2016 interview with Rashid for The Wire.

A 2016 video of Rashid giving a speech on campus at JNU.

LIMITED SEATING
