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SUMMARY:New Urban Forms\, New Fields of Inquiry Conference: China and India
DESCRIPTION: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. \nKeynote Speaker: \nTerry McGee \nProfessor\, Former DirectorInstitute of Asian ResearchUniversity of British Columbia
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/new-urban-forms-new-fields-of-inquiry-conference-china-and-india/
LOCATION:Wollman Hall\, 65 West 11th Street Room B500\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, USA
CATEGORIES:Public Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150407T180000
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SUMMARY:Challenges in Balancing Conservation & Development in Eastern Himalaya
DESCRIPTION: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. \n\n\n\n“Challenges in Balancing Conservation and Development in Eastern Himalaya\, a Biodiversity Hotspot”\n\n\n\nA public talk by Ganesan Balachander.Discussion moderated by Timon McPhearson\, Assistant Professor of Ecology\, The New School. \n\n\n\nThe 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: \n\n\n\n~ 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 \n\n\n\nThe speaker will address these issues through lessons learned over two decades of research activities and projects in the region. \n\n\n\nGanesan 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. \n\n\n\nRSVP for the event
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/challenges-in-balancing-conservation-development-in-eastern-himalaya/
CATEGORIES:Public Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150314T151500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150314T173000
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SUMMARY:The Lifeworks of Tehching Hsieh (In Chinese)
DESCRIPTION: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. \n\n\n\nTehching 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. \n\n\n\nHe 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  \n\n\n\nSeptember 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. \n\n\n\n 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.  \n\n\n\nPresented by Chinese Artist Alliance of New York City\, The New School India China Institute. Supported by The New School CSSA
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/the-lifeworks-of-tehching-hsieh-in-chinese/
CATEGORIES:Public Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150226T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150226T193000
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SUMMARY:Asia and Dissent in a Time of Strongman Leaders
DESCRIPTION:Watch Here\n\n\n\nPlease join us for a roundtable discussion with experts on China\, India\, Japan & Russia. \n\n\n\nModerator: \n\n\n\nJeff 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 \n\n\n\nPanelists: \n\n\n\nAlexis Dudden\, Professor of History\, University of Connecticut and Contributor\, Dissent Magazine \n\n\n\nNina Khrushcheva\, Associate Professor and Associate Dean at Milano School of International Affairs\, Management and Urban Policy\, The New School \n\n\n\nRoss Perlin\, Author and Contributor\, Dissent Magazine \n\n\n\nSanjay Ruparelia\, Assistant Professor of Politics\, The New School for Social Research and former Fellow\, India China Institute \n\n\n\n\nOnline Ticketing for Asia and Dissent in a time of Strongman Leaders – Xi\, Abe\, Modi\, Putin powered by Eventbrite
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/asia-and-dissent-in-a-time-of-strongman-leaders/
CATEGORIES:Public Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150219T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150219T193000
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SUMMARY:Handshake 302: Vernacular Geographies of Shenzhen\, China
DESCRIPTION: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). \n\n\n\nMary 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. \n\n\n\n\nOnline event registration for Handshake 302: Vernacular Geographies of Shenzhen\, China powered by Eventbrite
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/handshake-302-vernacular-geographies-of-shenzhen-china/
CATEGORIES:Public Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150204T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150204T193000
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SUMMARY:Who Cares? Care Arrangements and Sanitation for the Poor in India\, Compared With Europe and China
DESCRIPTION: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. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPeter 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. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSanjay 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). \n  \n \n\n\n\n\n\nEvent registration for Who Cares? Care Arrangements and Sanitation for the Poor in India\, Compared With Europe and China powered by Eventbrite
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/who-cares-care-arrangements-and-sanitation-for-the-poor-in-india-compared-with-europe-and-china/
CATEGORIES:Public Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141222T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141222T160000
DTSTAMP:20260513T054607
CREATED:20200423T172232Z
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SUMMARY:Gods\, Power and Common Folks: City and Religion in Kyoto\, Japan
DESCRIPTION:Social Science Bahainvites you to its \n\n\n\nLecture Series LXXX \n\n\n\nEiko Ikegami \n\n\n\non \n\n\n\nGods\, Power and Common FolksCity and Religion in Kyoto\, Japan \n\n\n\n4 pm • 22 December\, 2014 (Monday) • The City Museum\, Durbar Marg\, Kathmandu \n\n\n\nThis lecture is based on Eiko Ikegami’s research over the last 10 years in Kyoto\, the ancient capital of Japan. Professor Ikegami will invite the audience to the breathtaking sights of Japan’s most famous festival\, Gion Matsuri in Kyoto. The Gion festival has been running for a thousand years on an annual basis. In discussing the history and contemporary practices of the festival\, she will unveil significance that has become embedded in the contemporary landscape and civic culture of Kyoto city. \n\n\n\nDrawing on her historical and ethnographic research\, Professor Ikegami will conjure up the Shinto roots of the festival\, and how it became dedicated to a shrine called Yasaka. She will then point out how the Gion festival is more than just a Shinto festivity. The shrine and festival are deeply connected with the development of Kyoto’s spatial layout and the creation and transformation of what it meant for ancient Kyotoites to identify with their sense of being citizens. Even the development of the world-famous traditional courtesan district\, also called Gion\, is related to the history of the Yasaka shrine. \n\n\n\n* * * \n\n\n\nEiko Ikegami (PhD in Sociology\, Harvard University) is Walter A. Eberstadt Professor of Sociology and History at The New School for Social Research in New York. She is the author of The Taming of the Samurai: Honorific Individualism and the Making of Modern Japan and Bonds of Civility: Aesthetic Networks and Political Origins of Japanese Culture\, which won five book prizes in fields\, including the John Whitney Hall Book Prize from the Association for Asian Studies and the Best Book Award in Cultural Sociology from the American Sociological Association. Her current work on civility and aesthetics\, cultures of Japanese capitalism and public spheres in comparative perspectives through network formation includes visualised interactive communications on the internet. Before coming to The New School\, she held positions with Yale University and Nihon Keizai Shinbun (The Japan Economic Journal) in Tokyo. In 2003\, she was elected to the chair of the Comparative and Historical Sociology section of the American Sociological Association. \n\n\n\nThis lecture is co-organised with the India China Institute at The New School in collaboration with the Central Department of Sociology/Anthropology (Tribhuvan University)\, Lasanaa and The City Museum Kathmandu. \n\n\n\nThis is a public event and admission is free and open to all. Seating is first-come-first-served.Please direct queries to 4472807.
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/gods-power-and-common-folks-city-and-religion-in-kyoto-japan/
CATEGORIES:Public Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141212T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141212T190000
DTSTAMP:20260513T054607
CREATED:20200423T172227Z
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SUMMARY:Fourth Interdisciplinary Symposium for Emerging Scholars on India China Studies: China
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URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/fourth-interdisciplinary-symposium-for-emerging-scholars-on-india-china-studies-china/
CATEGORIES:Emerging Scholars,International Symposium,Public Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141205T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141205T183000
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SUMMARY:The Real Cost of Tea: Modern Day Slavery in Assam's Tea Gardens
DESCRIPTION:  \n  \nThe Real Cost of Tea: Modern-Day Slavery in Assam’s Tea Gardens \n  \nSukti Dhital\, a human rights lawyer and Executive Director of Nazdeek\, a legal capacity organization committed to bringing access to justice closer to marginalized communities in India\, will be sharing stories from the ground on the real cost of India’s tea. Through 360 interactive multi-media\, Sukti will walk the audience through Assam’s tea gardens\, highlighting the substandard conditions these workers labor under.  Even though the tea industry is profitable\, its workers are slowly deteriorating under a modern-day feudalism developed by the British and inherited by today’s tea companies.  Based on Nazdeek’s work in partnering with grassroots activists to advance the rights of workers\, the discussion will center on the need for corporate accountability to address human rights abuses and a holistic approach to strengthen efforts for justice. \n  \nAs covered by leading news outlets such as the New York Times\, the Guardian UK\, Al Jazeera\, BBC and Reuters\, despite producing more than 52% of India’s tea\, workers in Assam are the lowest paid in India’s organized sector. Colonial-era labor structures\, faulty trade union practices and corporate greed are responsible for unjust wages\, which are against the Constitution\, national and international laws. Through the use of national and transnational legal mechanisms\, advocacy campaigns\, and community trainings\, activists and workers are beginning to challenge the colonial structure in Assam. \n  \nPlease join the India China Institute and Nazdeek for an evening to reflect and exchange ideas on how western consumers can join the fight to end modern day feudalism in the gardens. \n  \n-Friday\, December 5\, from 5pm to 6:30 \n  \n-wine/beverages + light snacks served \n  \nwww.nazdeek.org \n  \nwww.facebook.com/nazdeek \n  \ntwitter.com/Nazdeek1 \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/the-real-cost-of-tea-modern-day-slavery-in-assams-tea-gardens/
CATEGORIES:Public Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141017T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141017T133000
DTSTAMP:20260513T054607
CREATED:20200423T172210Z
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SUMMARY:Colloquium on the Economies and Societies of India and China
DESCRIPTION:The India China Institute (ICI) at The New School is launching a new research forum\, the Colloquium on the Economies and Societies of India and China\, to promote the comparative study of the political economies of modern China and India.\n\n\n\nCOSMOPOLITAN CAPITALISM:Local State-Society Relations in China and India\n\n\n\n“State-society relations” typically refers to the relationship between a Weberian nation-state and the citizens residing within its administratively defined and coercively enforced territorial borders. This paper departs from conventional usages of both state and society by focusing on the local state\, on the one hand\, and a less territorialized conception of society\, on the other. Empirically\, the paper demonstrates the logic of this dual definitional stretch of state-society relations by examining different expressions of “cosmopolitan capitalism” in three paired localities in China and India: 1) Zhejiang/Gujarat\, 2) Zhongguancun/Bangalore\, and 3) Guangdong/Kerala.\n\n\n\nPresenter: Kellee TsaiProfessor and Head of the Division of Social Science\, Hong Kong University of Science & TechnologyProfessor of Political Science\, Johns Hopkins University
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/colloquium-on-the-economies-and-societies-of-india-and-china/
CATEGORIES:Public Event (General),Public Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141009T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141009T173000
DTSTAMP:20260513T054607
CREATED:20200423T172328Z
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SUMMARY:The Bullet and the Ballot Box
DESCRIPTION:This is the first in the series of events hosted by the Transregional Center for Democratic Studies that will mark the 25th anniversary of the dismantling of the Communist system in Eastern and Central Europe.  Organized together with the India-China Institute\, The Bullet and the Ballot Box celebrates the new book with the same title by Aditya Adhikari\, recently published by Verso. \n\n\n\nThe Bullet and the Ballot Box will focus on the extraordinary case of Nepal\, where an anti-autocratic movement partially inspired by the fall of the Berlin Wall led to the establishment of a multi-party system in 1990. However\, this was soon followed by a Maoist armed rebellion (1996-2006) that swept the entire countryside. In 2006\, the Maoists joined the political mainstream and multiparty democracy was restored. Following the historic election to the Constituent Assembly in 2008\, the Maoists emerged as the most powerful political force in the country\, and the monarchy was subsequently abolished. The discussion will focus on how Nepal’s Maoists reinterpreted Maoism and successfully translated it into political action at a time when liberal democracy dominated public discourse and communism had lost legitimacy. \n\n\n\nThe panel will be moderated by Elzbieta Matynia-Professor of Sociology and Liberal Studies at The New School and Director of TCDS. Participants will include: \n\n\n\n – Aditya Adhikari\, author of The Bullet and the Ballot Box: The Story of Nepal’s Maoist Revolution (2014) \n\n\n\n – Andrew Arato\,  Dorothy Hart Hirshon Professor of Political and Social Theory in the department of sociology at The New School \n\n\n\n – Tamrat Samuel\, former director of the Asia-Pacific Division of the UN Department of Political Affairs and former Deputy Special Representative of the UN Secretary General for Nepal \n\n\n\n – Ashok Gurung\, ICI Senior Director and Professor of Practice\, Julian J. Studley Graduate Program in International Affairs.
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/the-bullet-and-the-ballot-box/
CATEGORIES:Public Event,Public Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140908T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140908T160000
DTSTAMP:20260513T054607
CREATED:20200423T172214Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210423T084155Z
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SUMMARY:Crisis and Criticism: the Predicament of Global Modernity w/ Arif Dirlik
DESCRIPTION:‘Crisis and Criticism: the Predicament of Global Modernity’ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA public talk by Arif Dirlik\n\n\n\nJoin ICI for an exciting talk by renowned sinologist and social theorist Arif Dirlik.\n\n\n\n“That we are living through a time of unprecedented crisis is widely acknowledged. What is less certain is whether this crisis is one of the crises endemic to the capitalist world system\, an outcome of systemic transformations at work that suggest an impending hegemonic shift (with the People’s Republic of China [PRC] as the up-and-coming claimant)\, or a terminal crisis that signals the collapse of life as we know it as unbridled capitalist development in its various competing versions runs up against the ecological limitations of the earth.”\n\n\n\nArif Dirlik was on the faculty at Duke University and more recently was the Knight Professor of Social Science at the University of Oregon. He has published extensively on the formation of the Chinese Communist Party\, the history of Chinese anarchism\, and post-colonial globalism. Some of his published works include: Revolution and History: Origins of Marxist Historiography in China\, 1919-1937\, University of California Press; Anarchism in the Chinese Revolution\, University of California Press; Postmodernism and China\, Duke University Press; and Global Modernity: Modernity in the Age of Global Capitalism\, Paradigm Press.
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/crisis-and-criticism-the-predicament-of-global-modernity-w-arif-dirlik/
CATEGORIES:Public Event,Public Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140508T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140508T193000
DTSTAMP:20260513T054607
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SUMMARY:India\, China and the Emerging Pattern of Global Transformation
DESCRIPTION:The India China Institute and the Global Studies Program at The New School Presents:\nIndia\, China and the Emerging Pattern of Global Transformation \n\n\n\nA public talk by\nManoranjan Mohanty\nChairperson and Honorary Fellow\, Institute of Chinese Studies\nDistinguished Professor\, Council for Social Development \n\n\n\nThe talk explores the implications of the trends in India-China relations\, their regional and global role and the development experiences of India and China during the past few decades for the emerging scenario of global transformation. Prof. Mohanty argues that the experiences and debates in India and China show a transition in global history from the epoch of the Industrial Revolution to a new period.\nProf. Manoranjan Mohanty is Chairperson and Honorary Fellow\, Institute of Chinese Studies\, Delhi and Distinguished Professor at the Council for Social Development\, New Delhi. A former Professor of Political Science and Director\, Developing Countries Research Centre at the University of Delhi\, he is Editor of Social Change and a former Editor of China Report. His recent publications include Grass-roots Democracy in India and China (Co-ed. 2007)\, India: Social Development Report 2010 (Ed. 2010) \, Weapon of the Oppressed: An Inventory of People’s Rights in India ( Co-author\, 2011)\, Land\, Equity and Democracy ( Co-ed\, 2012)\,The Political Philosophy of Mao Zedong ( 1978\, 2012 ) and Ideology Matters: China from Mao Zedong to Xi Jinping (2014). \n\n\n\nModerator:\nAshok Gurung\nSenior Director\, India China Institute \n\n\n\nDiscussants:\nL.H.M. Ling\nAssociate Dean of Faculty Affairs\, The New School for Public Engagement\nAssociate Professor of International Affairs\, The Milano School \n\n\n\nMark Frazier\nCo-Academic Director\, India China Institute\nProfessor of Politics\, The New School for Social Research \n\n\n\nSanjay Ruparelia\nAssistant Professor of Politics\, The New School for Social Research\nFormer Fellow\, India China Institute
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/india-china-and-the-emerging-pattern-of-global-transformation/
LOCATION:Klein Conference Room\, 66 West 12th Street 5th Floor\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, USA
CATEGORIES:Public Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140507T221500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140507T234500
DTSTAMP:20260513T054607
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SUMMARY:Peronism and Orientalism: The Reconfiguration of Geopolitical Visions in the Early Cold War
DESCRIPTION:This presentation is based on personal writings\, memories\, articles and documents of Argentine diplomats who played a relevant role in foreign relations of Argentina with Asian countries and international organizations between 1945 and 1949. These testimonies reflect the cultural mindsets\, perceptions and ways of understanding East-West relations that shaped Argentina´s geopolitical visions of the postwar order\, at a time in which fundamental transformations in domestic politics were also taking place.Peronism partly opened the gates to a renovation of foreign policy\, reformulating its traditional orientations under the “Third Position” paradigm. However\, its worldview kept some of the traditional and conservative perceptions of ”Orient”. These will become evident in their overt support to Cold War Western anticommunism. \n\n\n\nFabián Bosoer is an Argentine political scientist and journalist. He is a professor of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Tres de Febrero and Latinamerican Social Sciences Faculty (FLACSO). He is a columnist\, editorial writer and Op-Ed editor of the newspaper Clarín\, in Buenos Aires. He has published the books Generals and Ambassadors: A History of the Parallel Diplomacies in Argentina (Vergara\, 2005)\, The Falkland Islands\, The Final Chapter: War and Diplomacy in Argentina (Capital Intellectual-Claves para todos\, 2007)\, Braden vs. Peron: The Hidden History (El Ateneo\, 2011) and Behind Peron: Life and Legend of Admiral Teisaire (Capital Intellectual\, 2013).
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/peronism-and-orientalism-the-reconfiguration-of-geopolitical-visions-in-the-early-cold-war/
CATEGORIES:Public Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140429T223000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140430T000000
DTSTAMP:20260513T054607
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SUMMARY:Understanding Xi Jinping's Grand Reform Strategy
DESCRIPTION:Public discussion presented by: Cui Zhiyuan\, ICI Visiting ScholarProfessor of Public Policy\, Tsinghua University’s School of Public Policy and Management \n\n\n\nTuesday\, April 29th6:30pm – 7:30pm \n\n\n\nThe New School\, Hirshon Suite55 W. 13th St.\, 2nd Floor \n\n\n\nPresentation Description:\n\n\n\nIn the recent Third Plenum of the 18th CCP Party Congress\, Xi proposed a 60 point comprehensive reform plan. It is subject to the competing interpretations within China and abroad. During the talk\, Prof. Cui will propose an interpretation based on the latest developments in the areas of state-owned enterprises\, land trust in rural development\, and the party-state relationship. This may be called the perspective of the Chinese New Left.\n\n\n\nCui Zhiyuan is a Professor at the School of Public Policy and Management\, Tsinghua University\, Beijing. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from University of Chicago in 1995. His selective writings includes: The Dilemma of Invisible Hand Paradigm (Chinese version\, 1999\, Economic Science Publisher\, Beijing); The Second Thought Liberalization Movement and Institutional Innovation (Oxford University Press\, Hong Kong\, 1997)\, Whither China? (Seoul\, 2003) and A Petty Bourgeois Socialism Manifesto (Seoul\,2014). He is a co-author (with Adam Przeworski et al) of Sustainable Democracy  (Cambridge University Press\, 1995) and the editor of Robert Unger’s Politics  (Verso\, 1997). With Huang Ping\, he co-edited  China and Globalization: Washington Consensus\, Beijing Consensus or What? (Beijing\, 2005). He took a leave of absence from Tsinghua University from 2010 to 2011 to work as Assistant Director of State Asset Management Committee of Chongqing Government. \n\n\n\n\nModerator:Sanjay ReddyCo-Academic Director\, India China Institute \nDiscussants:\n\nMark Frazier\nCo-Academic Director\, India China Institute\n\n \n\nCharles Sabel\nMaurice T. Moore Professor of Law and Social Science\, Columbia Law School\n \nVamsi Vakulabharanam\nVisiting Scholar\, India China Institute\nAssociate Professor of Economics\, University of Hyderabad\n \n \n \n \n \n \n  \n  \n \n  \n \n 
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/understanding-xi-jinpings-grand-reform-strategy/
CATEGORIES:Public Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140414T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140414T233000
DTSTAMP:20260513T054607
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SUMMARY:3rd Annual Emerging Scholars Conference
DESCRIPTION:  \n\n\n\nThe Third Interdisciplinary Symposium for Emerging Scholars on India China Studies is part of the India China Institute’s continuing commitment to build a community of scholars who are engaged in research that focuses on new and innovative approaches to understanding India-China relations. The Emerging Scholars program also draws on The New School’s tradition of fostering horizontal and vertical knowledge sharing across disciplines and amongst scholars in different stages of their careers. \n\n\n\nFollowing the symposiums held in China and India in November 2013\, this symposium is the third part of a three-part symposium series. Seven presenters selected from the three countries for this symposium will share their work and participate in multi-disciplinary investigation and deliberation with distinguished scholars. \n\n\n\nPresenters: \n\n\n\nUttam Lal\, Assistant Professor\, Geography & Natural Resources Management\, Sikkim University\, India:
 “Suturing Fragmented Geographies through Fragmented Land Route” \n\n\n\n Ying Su\, PhD Candidate\, Institute of International Studies\, Yunnan University\, China: “Indians’ Attitudes towards English” \n\n\n\nMin Ye\, Assistant Professor\, Department of International Relations\, Boston University: “Institutions\, Diffusion by Diasporas: Foreign Direct Investment in China and India” \n\n\n\nYu Zheng\, Assistant Professor\, Department of Political Science\, University of Connecticut: “Institutions\, Labor Mobility\, and Foreign Direct Investment in China and India” \n\n\n\nNirmola Sharma\, Doctoral Candidate\, East Asian Studies\, University of Delhi\, India: “Compulsions and Contestations of Ideology: The India National Army’s Justification For Collaboration with the Japanese in Occupied China (1942-1945)” \n\n\n\n Yinghong Huang\, Assistant Professor\, Sun Yat-sen University\, China
: “Between Justice and Development: The Mixed Stories of Land acquisition in India and China” \n\n\n\nPrakash Kashwan\, Assistant Professor\, Department of Political Science\, University of Connecticut: 
“Institutional Political Economy of Land Acquisition in India (with a Glance over the Himalayas)” \n\n\n\n PDF: ICC Spring 2014 Agenda  
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/3rd-annual-emerging-scholars-conference-2/
CATEGORIES:Emerging Scholars,International Symposium,Public Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140320T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140320T173000
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SUMMARY:The Religious Revival in Contemporary China: Sociological Perspectives w/ Fan Lizhu & Na Chen
DESCRIPTION:The Religious Revival in Contemporary China: Sociological Perspectives\n\n\n\nThursday\, March 20th\, 11:00am-1:30pmHirshon Suite\, 55 West 13th Street\, 2nd floor \n\n\n\nPresentations:\n\n\n\nUnder Ancestry’s Shadow—The Revival of Family Values and Ancestry Reverence in Southern Zhejiang by Fan Lizhu (Fudan University) \n\n\n\nThe Revival of Confucianism in the Form of a Religion by Na Chen (University of California\, San Diego) \n\n\n\nDr. Fan Lizhu (PhD\, Chinese University of Hong Kong)\, Professor of Sociology at Fudan University in Shanghai\, is one of the pioneers of the study of Chinese popular religion and the teaching of sociology of religion in China. Her ethnographic work focuses on contemporary expressions of traditional Chinese religious heritage. She has published widely in both Chinese and international journals\, and edited several volumes of cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary research. \n\n\n\nDr. Na Chen received his academic degrees from Peking University\, University of Pennsylvania and Temple University. His research interests include sociology of religion and intercultural communication. Over the last fifteen years Dr. Chen has worked both in China (Fudan University) and the United States. He is currently a research associate at the University of California\, San Diego. \n\n\n\nRespondents: \n\n\n\nMark Frazier\, New School for Social Research\, ICI Academic Co-DirectorNeil McGee\, Eugene Lang College/Columbia University \n\n\n\nModerator: \n\n\n\nMark Larrimore\, Eugene Lang College
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/the-religious-revival-in-contemporary-china-sociological-perspectives-w-fan-lizhu-na-chen/
CATEGORIES:Public Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140317T210000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140317T223000
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SUMMARY:Poverty\, Inequality\, and Social Policy in China: Polarization or Harmony? w/ Qin Gao
DESCRIPTION:Poverty\, Inequality\, and Social Policy in China: Polarization or Harmony?\n\n\n\n\n\nPublic talk by Qin Gao\nAssociate Professor at Fordham University’s Graduate School of Social Service\nVisiting Scholar at The India China Institute\n \n\nMonday\, March 17th 5pm – 6:30pm\nTheresa Lang Center\, 55 W. 13th St.\, 2nd Fl.\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nBio: Qin Gao is an Associate Professor at Fordham University Graduate School of Social Service\, a Research Associate at Columbia University Population Center\, and currently a Visiting Scholar at the India China Institute at the New School University. Dr. Gao’s research examines poverty\, income inequality\, social welfare policies\, and family economic and subjective well-being in China and cross-nationally.\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nTalk Synopsis: China has had the world’s greatest poverty reduction during the past 30 years\, yet alongside this remarkable achievement are rapidly growing income inequality and many emerging welfare needs that threat its sustained development and political stability. Is China truly close to eliminating poverty? How unequal is the Chinese society? How have social policies in China evolving and to what extent are they addressing citizens’ welfare needs? When both market and social policy forces are considered\, is China more polarized or harmonized? In this talk\, Dr. Gao will examine these questions building on her extensive research on these topics using both empirical data and critical analysis. We anticipate a stimulating\, interdisciplinary discussion among economists\, political scientists\, sociologists\, anthropologists\, social policy scholars\, and anyone who is interested in China studies or cross-national comparisons.\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nModerator: Mark Frazier\, Co-Academic Director\, India China Institute\n\n\n\nDiscussant: Dr. Carl Riskin\, Distinguished Professor of Economics\, CUNY Queens College\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/poverty-inequality-and-social-policy-in-china-polarization-or-harmony-w-qin-gao/
LOCATION:Theresa Lang Community and Student Center\, 55 West 13th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, USA
CATEGORIES:Public Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140227T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140227T163000
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SUMMARY:Anti-Corruption Movements in China and India - Dissent Magazine + The New Yorker
DESCRIPTION:Anti-Corruption Movements in China and India\n\n\n\nThu\, Feb 27\, 2014 | 3:00-4:30 PM\n\n\n\nJoin the India China Institute for an exciting discussion about anti-corruption movements in China and India. The event will feature Dissent Magazine contributor Mehboob Jeelani\, Dissent Magazine Editorial Member Jeff Wasserstrom\, The New Yorker Contributor Jiayang Fan\, and Jonathan Shainin\, Web editor at The New Yorker. The event will be moderated by ICI Academic Co-Director Mark Frazier. \n\n\n\nThe event is free and open to the public\, but an RSVP is requested. RSVP NOW. Share this with your friends! http://bit.ly/MYcuGu \n\n\n\nDownload Event Poster [PDF] \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMore information on Dissent Magazine and The New Yorker.
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/anti-corruption-movements-in-china-and-india-dissent-magazine-the-new-yorker/
CATEGORIES:Public Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140219T220000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140219T233000
DTSTAMP:20260513T054607
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SUMMARY:Invisible Villages & Flying Monsters: Folktales About Place Among the Tibetans of Geza
DESCRIPTION:Invisible Villages & Flying Monsters:\nFolktales About Place Among the Tibetans of Geza\n \nPublic Talk by Eric Mortensen \nWednesday\, February 19\, 20145-6:30PM55 W. 13th St.\, 2nd Fl.\, Dorothy Hirshon Suite \nThe mountains of Geza are awash in old tales about invisible villages and wild people (Tibetan: nags myi rgod).  This presentation assesses the oral performances of nags myi rgod stories\, with a focus on the specific stories surrounding the flying monster called the myi rgod shung shung.  In the Tibetan communities of Geza Township in rGyalthang (Xianggelila County of Northwest Yunnan Province)\, such stories are tied to the cultural memory of local geography\, including the invisible village of Panlung\, which can be heard but not seen. \nSpecifically\, this project compares twenty six variant nags myi rgod stories and interview information about nags myi rgod collected and digitally recorded on four separate fieldwork trips to the Geza villages of Langdu\, Gönpa\, Geza (brgya rtsa)\, Nagara\, and gter ma rong village in neighboring Dongwang. Although nags myi rgod (& Chinese ye ren) stories are widespread throughout Tibet and the Himalayas\, several of the stories from Geza contain variant descriptions of an invisible village called Panlung. In the stories\, a mushroom gatherer or herder – who was often identified as a relative of the storyteller – would stop in wonder and hear the rushing water and agricultural sounds typical of village life\, but the village could (at least initially) not be seen. Nags myi rgod\, who live in the forests looking down on the bucolic invisible village\, mischievously invert human farming efforts and hunting practices and thereby make the village of Panlung uninhabitable\, even for those lucky enough to breakthrough the invisible meniscus and see or enter the valley with its perfect pasturage and farmland. The stories involve frightful encounters with nags myi rgod\, and longer tales recount how clever hunters or farmers trick the nags myi rgod\, and escape being killed (through being tickled to death\, squeezed\, or pulverized by a nags myi rgod’s armpit stone) or used as a mate. Some families in the region maintain the surname Panlung\, and consider themselves refugees from the invisible village. Panlung\, also known as Zayzong in Nagara (zay zong is near to Bala) and Natöeyong in Dongwang\, appears in many of the stories with the refugee element as the most common theme. \nThe centerpiece of the project is a comparative analysis of the performative function and cultural meaning of the invisible village in story. What does it mean for individuals to be refugees from an invisible dystopian village while facing current cultural\, economic\, and religious repression related to the land itself? In the context of this oral tradition\, why\, when\, by whom\, and to who are these stories of inversion and reversal told? [Degh 1958; Doniger 1998] To what degree are the performances of nags myi rgod tales subversive\, intended for cultural maintenance\, or simply fun for children? How can the variant tales inform upon the interrelated dynamics of place\, identity\, lament\, and memory? [Mueggler\, 2001].  As the myi rgod shung shung story is directly tied to features of the landscape of Geza\, how do the performances of these stories contribute to local identity and inform upon the imagining of inhabitation of wildspace in this rapidly changing region? \nEric Mortensen is currently an Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Guilford College\, located in Greensboro\, NC. He complete his undergraduate studies at Carlton College and had the opportunity to study abroad in Beijing\, Nepal\, India\, and Bhutan. Upon graduating in 1993\, he spent his graduate career at Harvard\, where he studied languages\, anthropology\, religion\, folklore\, and history for ten years. During this time\, he grew to love teaching and Asia\, further fostering an academic interest in Tibetology. These two loves drew him to Guilford and its Religious Studies Department. Although he does not hold a degree in religious studies\, he has made religion his specialty through his focused research on Buddhist religion and culture. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRefreshments will be served. Seating is limited – RSVP is required. RSVP Now. \n\n \nDownload Event Poster [PDF]
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/invisible-villages-flying-monsters-folktales-about-place-among-the-tibetans-of-geza/
CATEGORIES:Public Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131212T210000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20131212T230000
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SUMMARY:The Great Hydraulic Transition: Modern Origins of Land and Rivers in South Asia w/ Prof. Rohan D'Souza
DESCRIPTION:Development\, Though and Policy Lecture Series Presents: \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n       The Great Hydraulic Transition: Modern Origins of Land and Rivers in South Asia \n\n\n\n Presented by: Rohan D’Souza\, Assistant Professor\, Jawaharlal Nehru University\, New Delhi\, India  \n\n\n\n Thursday\, December 12 \n\n\n\n66 West 12th Street\, Room 513 \n\n\n\n4:00 P.M. – 6:00 P.M. \n\n\n\nThis seminar is co-hosted by GPIA and The India China Institute \n\n\n\n      Please RSVP to development.newschool@gmail.com \n\n\n\nDownload event flyer here (PDF) \n\n\n\nAbstract: Most writings on lands and rivers in South Asia have disingenuously accepted the “politics of separations.” Land as property and river as resource\, thus\, are overwhelmingly recognized as distinct conceptual domains. Histories about land settlements\, rent extraction\, the burdens of revenue\, legal ownership\, or the commons have occupied discussions only as the political economy of the soil. Rivers\, on the other hand\, became a technical subject involving infrastructure and the biographies of engineering and control. Professor D’Souza will argue that this politics of separations acquired a defining force in the region only through the course of the long nineteenth century. An amphibian South Asia with its soil-water admixtures actually characterized its environmental and social worlds before being transformed into the reptilian terrain of colonial modernity. \n\n\n\nBio: Dr. Rohan D’Souza is Assistant Professor at the Centre for Studies in Science Policy and the author of Drowned and Dammed: Colonial Capitalism and Flood Control in Eastern India (1803-1946)\, Oxford University Press\, 2006. His edited books include The British Empire and the Natural World: Environmental Encounters in South Asia (Oxford University Press\, 2011) and Environment\, Technology and Development: Critical and Subversive Essays (Orient BlackSwan: Hyderabad\, 2012). His interests and research publications cover themes in environmental history\, environmental politics\, non-traditional security\, sustainable development and modern technology. \n\n\n\nChair: Manjari Mahajan\, Assistant Professor of International Affairs\, New School University \n\n\n\nDiscussants: Nikhil Anand\, Assistant Professor\, Department of Geography\, University of Minnesota and Fellow\, Institute for Advanced Study\, Princeton\, and Vyjayanthi Rao\, Assistant Professor\, Department of Anthropology\, New School University
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/the-great-hydraulic-transition-modern-origins-of-land-and-rivers-in-south-asia-w-prof-rohan-dsouza/
CATEGORIES:Public Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131205T223000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20131206T003000
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SUMMARY:Wronged by Empire: Colonial Memories and Victimhood in India’s and China’s Foreign Policy Today – Manjari Chatterjee Miller
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an exciting talk by author Manjari Chatterjee Miller on her new book Wronged by Empire: Colonial Memories and Victimhood in India’s and China’s Foreign Policy Today. The event will be moderated by Mark Frazier\, Professor of Politics at NSSR and Academic Co-director of ICI. More details to follow. \n\n\n\nRSVP requested for event. RSVP now.\n\n\n\nWronged by Empire breaks new ground by blending this historical phenomenon\, colonialism\, with mixed methods—including archival research\, newspaper data mining\, and a new statistical method of content analysis—to explain the foreign policy choices of India and China: two countries that are continuously discussed but very rarely rigorously compared. By reference to their colonial past\, Manjari Chatterjee Miller explains their puzzling behavior today. For example\, she demonstrates why in important cases (such as India going nuclear in 1998 or China’s fraught relationship with Japan) their foreign policy behavior is not consistent with the security explanations that are dominant in international relations. \n\n\n\nMore broadly\, she argues that the transformative historical experience of a large category of actors—ex-colonies\, who have previously been neglected in the study of international relations—can be used as a method to categorize states in the international system. In the process Miller offers a more inclusive way to analyze states than do traditional theories of international relations\, which usually focus on the material power of states\, meaning inevitably that they mostly discuss the behavior of states that have power enough to matter—in effect Western states. \n\n\n\nManjari Chatterjee Miller is Assistant Professor of International Relations at Boston University.
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/wronged-by-empire-colonial-memories-and-victimhood-in-indias-and-chinas-foreign-policy-today-manjari-chatterjee-miller-2/
CATEGORIES:Public Talks
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SUMMARY:Returning to the History of 19th and Early 20th Century Immigration - Ranabir Samaddar
DESCRIPTION:We are excited to announce an upcoming public talk by Dr. Ranabir Samaddar\, Director of the Calcutta Research Group on “Returning to the History of 19th and Early 20th Century Immigration.” The event will be moderated by Professor Mark Frazier\, Professor of Politics at NSSR and Academic Co-Director of ICI. You can find an outline of Professor Samaddar’s talk below.\n\n\n\nRecent studies on aspects of welfare state and schemes suggest a different way of understanding modern governance in which the study of the nation is not at the centre of political understanding. Instead\, of significance in such studies is the inadequately explored history of governing a mobile\, unruly world of population flows. These works have given us a sense of the hidden histories of conflicts\, of desperate survivals\, and of networks new and old. Studies of hunger in the nineteenth century\, of itinerant movements and preaching\, transportations of coolies\, spread of famines\, shipping of children and adult girls\, trafficking in sex and labour\, and pieces of welfare legislation to cope with this great infamy tell us how actually we have arrived at our own time of subject formation. This is certainly different from conventional nation-centred histories. Working within this new strand of history-writing\, labour historians have tried to recognise the political significance of labour migration in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Their works suggest a different way of writing the history of the nation-form in the last two centuries\, where the extra-nationalist narrative of mobile labour constitutes a different universe. \n\n\n\nThe late nineteenth and early twentieth century was the period of several changing modes of labour process – the slave\, the indentured\, the contract\, and finally the free. These modes historically never appeared as pure types\, because much of the availability of labour depended on labour’s mobility. In fact\, it was largely on the condition of making labour mobile that globalisation would proceed at that time. Transit labour then too\, as it does now\, occupied a crucial place in capitalist production. The late nineteenth and early twentieth century was a period of globalisation when migration controls were put in place. It was in that age that control of mobile bodies began constituting one of the most critical aspects of governance. The emergence of some of the different forms of labour subjectivities marking our world today can be traced back to that time. \n\n\n\n\nDiscussants will include: \nVictoria Hattam\, Professor of Politics at The New School for Social Research\nPaula Banerjee\, Associate Professor\, Dept. of South and Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Calcutta\n \n\n\n\n\nRSVP for the event is requested. Please RSVP here.
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/returning-to-the-history-of-19th-and-early-20th-century-immigration-ranabir-samaddar/
CATEGORIES:Public Talks
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SUMMARY:Migration\, Citizenship\, and Development: Diasporic Membership Policies and Overseas Indians in the United States by Daniel Naujoks
DESCRIPTION:The India China Institute (ICI)\, the Global Studies Program at The New School\, and the International Center for Migration\, Ethnicity\, and Citizenship (ICMEC) proudly present: \n\n\n\nThe Book Launch Event for:\n\n\n\n“Migration\, Citizenship\, and Development: Diasporic Membership Policies and Overseas Indians in the United States”\n\n\n\nby Daniel Naujoks\n\n\n\nTuesday November 12th\, 2o13. \n\n\n\nPlease RSVP for the event. \n\n\n\nYou can view the event program here (PDF). \n\n\n\n“Migration\, Citizenship\, and Development: Diasporic Membership Policies and Overseas Indians in the United States” by Daniel Naujoks
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/migration-citizenship-and-development-diasporic-membership-policies-and-overseas-indians-in-the-united-states-by-daniel-naujoks/
CATEGORIES:Public Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131028T210000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20131028T223000
DTSTAMP:20260513T054608
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SUMMARY:Higher Education in India - Public Talk by Sukhadeo Thorat
DESCRIPTION:Read Professor Thorat’s discussion paper for his talk. Discussion Paper (PDF)
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/higher-education-in-india-public-talk-by-sukhadeo-thorat/
LOCATION:Orozco Room\, The New School\, 66 West 12th Street Room 712\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, USA
CATEGORIES:Public Talks
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20131021T220000
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SUMMARY:The Influence of Critical Theory in China - Talk by Zhong Minghua
DESCRIPTION:India China Institute (ICI) and the Department of Politics at The New School present: \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nThe Influence of Critical Theory in China\n\n\n\nA talk given by Professor Zhong Minghua \n\n\n\nDean of the School of Social Science Education\, Sun Yat-sen University \n\n\n\nModerator:  Professor Mark Frazier\, Professor of Politics and Academic Co-Director\, ICI \n\n\n\nMonday\, October 21st | 4pm – 6pmHirshon Suite | 55 W. 13th St. \n\n\n\nRSVP NOW\n\n\n\nThe Frankfurt School was imported into China in the late 1970s and early 1980s. It was a study that was massively introduced\, translated\, and commented on in the 1990s and accompanied by deeper research after this period. This school of thought\, an important current division of Western Marxism\, had become an essential resource to cope with the problems of China during its era of opening reforms. Today\, the resources of the Frankfurt School are significant to China in building modernity and constructing culture. \n\n\n\nSeating is limited. RSVP is requested. \n\n\n\nRefreshments will be provided.
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/the-influence-of-critical-theory-in-china-talk-by-zhong-minghua/
CATEGORIES:Public Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131018T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20131018T200000
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SUMMARY:China and Global Stability - Talk by Professor Kostas Vergopoulos
DESCRIPTION:The New School for Social Research\, Department of Politics and the India China Institute present:  \n\n\n\nChina and Global Stability\n\n\n\nA special lecture by Prof. Kostas VergopoulosProfessor of Economics\, University of Paris VIII \n\n\n\nIs China driving the world economy out of the current international crisis? Is it a moving force leading to some new international order? Join us for a talk on China as a major economic power in the international community and the future of global stability. \n\n\n\nModerated by Michael Cohen\, GPIA Director. RSVP requested.
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/china-and-global-stability-talk-by-professor-kostas-vergopoulos/
CATEGORIES:Public Talks
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20131014
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20131015
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SUMMARY:International Relations Theory: Views Beyond the West Conference
DESCRIPTION:The Julien J. Studley Fund and the India China Institute present: \n\n\n\nInternational Relations Theory: Views Beyond the West\n\n\n\nMonday 14 OctoberTheresa Lang Community and Student Center (55 W 13th St.) \n\n\n\nThis conference reflects a textbook project for International Relations (IR).  It seeks to amend two main problems in contemporary IR theorizing: \n\n\n\n(1) The widespread division of labor in IR whereby “the West”/“the Center” produces theories deemed universal and “non-Western”/“out-of-Center” scholars serve only as native informants when localities deviate from the status quo. \n\n\n\n(2) The lack of concepts\, debates\, and authors from the Global South that address their issues and challenges\, obligations\, and aspirations. \n\n\n\nThe conference/project does not seek particularism\, but allows for and gives legitimacy to different claims of universalism. We propose\, in short\, to voice other kinds of IR: that is\, how the Global South and the Global North co-make world politics into what it is today. \n\n\n\nStudents of IR from the Global North and Global South will benefit from this conference/project. Global North students will learn why the Global South experiences “the international” differently but also where some important commonalities may lie. Global South students will finally have a text that speaks to them for them\, with concepts and examples that are familiar\, and with their needs taken into consideration. Ultimately\, this conference/project will help all students develop lives and careers in a globalizing context. \n\n\n\nSpeakers and panelists include: \n\n\n\nJulien J. Studley Graduate Program in International Affairs Professor L.H.M. Ling; Payal Banerjee\, Smith College; Navnita Behera\, University of Delhi; Cristina Inoue\, University of Brasília; Nizar Messari\, Al Akhawayn University; Joao Noguira\, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro; Karen Smith\, University of Cape Town; and Arlene Tickner\, Universidad de los Andes. \n\n\n\nFor the full program click here.
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/international-relations-theory-views-beyond-the-west-conference/
LOCATION:Theresa Lang Community and Student Center\, 55 West 13th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, USA
CATEGORIES:Public Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131003T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20131003T220000
DTSTAMP:20260513T054608
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SUMMARY:Chat-n-Chai Fall Event
DESCRIPTION:India China Institute’s Fall Informational and Presentation Session. Come learn about our exploratory travel grants to India and China\, fellowships\, volunteer opportunities\, research assistantships\, public events\, talks\, seminars\, workshops and more! Refreshments will be provided. Seating is limited – please RSVP to indiachina@newschool.edu.
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/chat-n-chai-fall-event/
CATEGORIES:Public Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130926T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130926T123000
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SUMMARY:Lo Sze Ping - "Environmental Challenges and the Growing Citizens Discontent in China"
DESCRIPTION:Public talk by former ICI Fellow and Chinese environmentalist Lo Sze Ping\, “Environmental Challenges and the Growing Citizens Discontent in China.” Lo Sze Ping is a prominent environmentalist in China and has over 20 years of experience in campaigning and advocacy. He is currently the CEO of Greenovation Hub and the founder of Forward Works.
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/lo-sze-ping-environmental-challenges-and-the-growing-citizens-discontent-in-china/
CATEGORIES:Public Talks
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