India China Institute

Jai Bhim Comrade: Film Screening and Conversation with Anand Patwardhan, India's Leading Documentary Filmmaker
2013-03-13 18:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York)
India China Institute and School of Media Studies at The New School invite you to a screening of the award-winning film, Jai Bhim Comrade,and a conversation with Anand Patwardhan. Nidhi Srinivas (Associate Professor of Nonprofit Management at Milano, The New School) will chair a discussion following the event. Sumita Chakravarty (Associate Professor of Culture and Media, The New School) and Toral Gajarawala (Assitant Professor of English at NYU, and an expert on Dalit issues) will serve as discussants.

About Jai Bhim Comrade

For thousands of years India’s Dalits were abhorred as “untouchables” denied education and treated as bonded labor. By 1923 Bhimrao Ambedkar broke the taboo, won doctorates abroad and fought for the emancipation of his people. He drafted India’s Constitution, led his followers to discard Hinduism for Buddhism. His legend still spreads through poetry and song.

In 1997 a statue of Dr. Ambedkar in a Dalit colony in Mumbai was desecrated with footwear. As angry residents gathered, police opened fire killing 10. Vilas Ghogre, a leftist poet, hung himself in protest.

Jai Bhim Comrade, shot over 14 years, follows the poetry and music of people like Vilas and marks a subaltern tradition of reason that from the days of the Buddha, has fought superstition and religious bigotry.

Reviews of the film are available on the film’s website.

Anand PatwardhanAnand Patwardhan is India’s leading documentary filmmaker. For over four decades his investigative documentaries have charted life in modern India, from the nature of its economic development to the power of nationalism and religious fundamentalism, and the struggles by the poor and the marginalized for justice. It has taken legal action, including a decision by India’s Supreme Court, to prevent successive Indian governments from censoring his films and blocking them from being screened.

Everyday Religion and Sustainable Environments in the Himalaya
2013-03-07 - 2013-03-08
Conference Program

Revealed: Himalayan Meltdown
2013-03-06 18:00 - 20:00
Revealed: Himalayan Meltdown Film Screening

When: March 6, 2013, 6-8pmWhere: Theresa Lang Center, 55 W 13th St., 2nd Fl.Food and refreshments will be provided

In the prelude to the Everyday Religion and Sustainable Environments in the Himalaya conference (March 7-8), the India China Institute invites you to join us for the screening of Revealed: Himalayan Meltdown, an award-winning documentary co-produced by the UN Development Programme, Discovery Asia, and Arrowhead Films. The film explores the impact of the glacial ice melt on communities in Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India and Nepal, and illustrates how the affected communities are adapting and preparing for the inevitable changes in the Himalayan glaciers.Following the film screening, a discussion and Q&A session will be held with Cherie Hart, the Executive Producer and UNDP Regional Communications Advisor (Thailand), Anil Chitrakar, Chairperson of the Himalayan Climate Initiative, and Li Bo, ICI Fellow and environmental consultant.

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About the panelists

Anil Chitrakar, Chairperson of the Himalayan Climate Initiative, is a social entrepreneur from Nepal. Trained as an engineer and energy planner at the University of Rajasthan (India) and the University of Pennsylvania (USA), Anil started his career as an energy engineer and continues to work on designing and spreading renewable energy solutions across Nepal. He has received the Ashoka fellowship, and more recently the Silicon Valley Tech Award for his work. Anil is also engaged in recovering and restoring the built and living heritage in the Kathmandu valley and across Nepal, particularly Lumbini. Anil was part of the team that implemented the National Conservation Strategy for Nepal, preserving its globally unique natural endowment. Anil has also managed venture funds for environmental groups all over Nepal. In 1993 he was one of the 100 “Global Leaders for Tomorrow” awardees at the World Economic Forum in Davos.

Cherie Hart has more than 25 years experience in media and communications. Her area of expertise is in development writing and reporting. Her professional background extends to television, radio and print reporting from more than 50 developing countries. Ms. Hart is currently the UNDP Regional Communications Advisor in Bangkok, where she collaborates with UNDP Country Offices to promote development work through media in the Asia and Pacific region. She has been Executive Producer of three Discovery Channel documentaries on low-cost solutions to global disaster-related challenges. Himalayan Meltdown recently won the Platinum Prize for Best Documentary at the Worldfest Film Festival.

Li Bo currently serves as the Secretary General of Friends of Nature, the oldest environmental NGO in China. He was also a former India China Institute Fellow (2008-2010). In addition he is a consultant with the Stockholm Environmental Institute-Asia (SEI-Asia) in Bangkok, a research associate at the Center for Human and Economics Development Studies at Peking University, and an adjunct researcher of environmentaljustice at the Institute of Environmental Laws at Zhongnan University of Economics and Law in Wuhan, Central China. As a fellow, Li explored the extent to which democratic decision making at the grassroots level is conducive to strong local stewardship of natural resource management and sustainable livelihoods.

India China Interactions: Second Interdisciplinary Symposium for Emerging Scholars on India China Studies
2013-03-06 08:30 - 17:00
Please note that this event is by invitation only. Please contact indiachina@newschool.edu if you would like to attend. Due to space limitations we are unable to accommodate all requests.

The Second Interdisciplinary Symposium for Emerging Scholars on India China Studies is part of ICI’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. Presenters selected for this symposium share a broad interest in India-China relations in a globalizing world. Held in conjunction with India China Institute’s major spring 2013 conference, Everyday Religion and Sustainable Environments in the Himalaya, the symposium will provide a platform for a select group of early career scholars from India, China, and the United States to present their work and to participate in multi-disciplinary investigation and deliberation with distinguished scholars.

When discussing the work of each of the presenters, we hope to identify relevant methodological and substantive questions, and where possible answers, through a productive confrontation of diverse disciplinary perspectives. Relevant cross-cutting themes will include that of the role to be played by received and privileged spatial and institutional frames, such as that of the nation-state, in scholarly analyses within the field, and that of how to relate historical and contemporary concerns while avoiding anachronistic fallacies.We hope that the symposium will provide a milestone in the intellectual definition and institutional development of the field, enhance the sense of community within it, and help to foster more productive directions for teaching and scholarship.

Preliminary Symposium Agenda

Economic Development and Inequality: What Can the Asian Experience Teach Us?
2013-02-27 18:00 - 19:30
A lecture by Vamsi VakulabharanamSchool of Economics, University of Hyderabad, India

Moderated by Mark Frazier, Professor of Politics, NSSR, and ICI Academic Co-director

Discussants: Carl Riskin, Professor of Economics, Columbia Universityand Sanjay Reddy, Professor of Economics, NSSR, and ICI Academic Co-director

Development and Inequality: What can the Asian Experience Teach Us?

The Asian experience of growth from the 1950s until now has had some of the most profound transformational effects on the global economy. The well-known East Asian Miracle, and the closely following miracles of China and India have had dramatic effects on the structures of global production as well as on global measures of poverty and inequality. Perhaps less explored are the very divergent natures of their take-offs. In the first wave of Asian growth, some Asian economies (such as Japan and the ‘Tiger’ economies) experienced a relatively equal early capitalist growth/development process between 1950s and 1980. Subsequent growth however became much more unequal. In the second wave of growth in countries such as China and India, early capitalist growth/development since 1980 is associated with a sharp increase in inequality. How might one understand these different phenomena, given that there is no clear standard economic theory that provides an explanation? In this paper, I propose an explanation that draws from local political and economic structures of these economies and the deeper changes in global economy since 1980s. I seek to re-incorporate political economy insights to obtain a more holistic understanding of Asian growth and its effects on the global economy. In analyzing Asian economies, the shift in regimes of global and local capitalisms, and the implications for a deeper understanding of the relation between development and inequality are brought into sharp focus.

About Vamsi Vakulabharanam

Vamsi Vakulabharanam is an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Hyderabad in India. He is currently a grantee at the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET) working on a project titled, ‘Economic Development and Inequality: What Can the Asian Experience Teach Us?’ He was also a Fellow of the India China Institute of the New School between 2008 and 2010. He obtained his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2004. He taught at the City University of New York between 2004 and 2008. He has focused his research on inequality in contemporary Asian economies including, India and China. He has written on globalization and agrarian change in India, and income/consumption and wealth inequality in China and India during the period of economic reforms. He has also worked on patterns of workforce development in China during the last decade. He has published his work in academic journals, including World Development, Development and Change, Journal of Peasant Studies, Journal of Development Studies, Review of Radical Political Economics, Economic and Political Weekly, and Ethics and Economics, and has chapters in multiple books.

Trauma & Dissociation
2013-02-26 18:00 - 19:30
Trauma & Dissociation: 9/11 and the two faces of violence in the India/Pakistan partition

While the scope of destruction of 9/11 and of the India/Pakistan Partition in 1946-48 can hardly be compared, they nevertheless have in common trauma and dissociation. In 9/11 both therapists and patients were equally affected. Dr. Alan Roland, psychoanalyst, will speak both of his own reactions and those of his patients, how current trauma arouses past traumas, and how paranoid anxieties are aroused in many people. He will give specific examples of both.

While reams have been written about Partition, not until the 1990s has there been systematic study of the psychological effects of the two to three million killed in communal riots, 16-18 million refugees, 100,000 women raped, and 30,000 women abducted to be married by the other side. The aftermath of Partition violence is still causing tremendous tensions and conflicts between India and Pakistan.

Building on the work of Jayanti Basu, a Kolcata psychoanalyst, Dr. Roland will cite case material from two kinds of violence: 1) interviews with two brothers and their wives, the former as boys having been on a train from Pakistan where only 250 out of 5,000 persons survived a massacre, and 2) patients of families who were able to leave the Punjab well before widespread violence occurred. The differences in repercussions are dramatic but both categories were deeply affected. The familial effects of trauma of South Asians will be contrasted with the more individualistic emphasis on trauma in the United States after 9/11.

About Alan RolandAlan Roland, Ph.D., is a practicing psychoanalyst on the Faculty and Board of Directors of the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis. He has written three books on Asians and Asian Americans, including the latest one, Journeys to Foreign Selves: Asians and Asian Americans in a Global Era (Oxford University Press). He has also participated in Ashis Nandy’s research project on interviewing Victims and Perpetrators of Partition Violence.

The New Silk Road is Made of Iron and Steel
2012-12-11 17:00 - 19:00

Innovations in Himalayan Water Policy and Sustainable Water Futures of China and India
2012-12-04 18:00 - 20:00

The Environment in China and India: Histories and Innovations
2012-11-30 - 2012-12-01
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Conference Agenda:Friday, Nov. 30, 20123:00 – 4:00pm | Opening Registration4:00 – 4:15pm | WelcomeAshok Gurung, Senior Director, India China InstituteRon Kassimir, Associate Provost For Research And Special Projects4:15 – 6:45pm | Session I – Ecology

Chair: Mark Frazier, ICI Academic Director

Panelists:Kamaljit Bawa – University of Massachusetts – “India, China and the Environment”Steward Pickett – Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies – “Meaning, Model, and Metaphor in Ecological Science as Tools for Interacting with Innovators”Lu Zhi – Peking University – “Integrating Science and Traditional Culture into Conservation Policies on the Tibetan Plateau”

Discussants: Jayanta Bandyopadhyay, Timon McPhearson

Saturday, Dec. 1, 20129:30 – 10:00am | Continental Breakfast10:00 – 12:30pm | Session II – History

Chair: Sanjay Reddy, ICI Academic Director

Panelists:Ranjan Chakrabarti – Vidyasagar University – “Writing Environmental History of Asia: Climate, Water and the Issue of Sustainability”Judith Shapiro – American University – “Nature-Conquest in Revolutionary China: Lessons for China’s Search for Sustainability”Donald Hughes – University of Denver -“Environmental History in China and India”

Discussants: David Ludden, Li Bo

12:30 – 2:00pm | Lunch Break2:00 – 4:30pm | Session III – Innovations

Chair: Brian McGrath – The New School

Panelists:Jayanta Bandyopadhyay – Indian Institute of Management – “Situating Social Innovation for Sustainable Environments”Sanjay Chaturvedi – Panjab University – “Struggles for Innovation: The Chipko Movement in Retrospect”Shikui Dong – Beijing Normal University – “Adaptive Management for Sustainable Resource Use”Victoria Marshall – The New School – “Designing Urban Environmental Activism”Nidhi Srinivas – The New School – “Politics of Innovation: Cases from India and China”

Discussants: Michele Kahane, Guobin Yang4:30 – 5:00 PM | Closing RemarksAshok Gurung, Senior Director, India China InstituteMichael Cohen, Director, Graduate Program in International Affairs (GPIA)

From 1950’s Great Leap to 2000’s Scientific Development: Dynamics in Chinese Environment Governance
2012-11-16 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker: Dr. Shikui Dong, India China Institute Fellow, and Professor, School of Environment, Beijing Normal University,China

Who is Xi? The Knowns and Unknowns of China's Political Future
2012-11-14 18:00 - 20:00
Who is Xi?A Chinese critic recently observed of the political elite, “Those who are sharp and independent-minded will be eliminated by the system, and the most obedient ones, the ones without edges, will get promoted.”

Xi Jinping will be promoted to the top leadership position of the Chinese Communist Party at its 18th Party Congress, set to begin on November 8. This leadership succession, which last took place in 2002, puts Xi as “first among equals” in a collective leadership group comprising the Politburo and its Standing Committee–also to be unveiled at the Party Congress.

Xi Jinping’s recent speeches have been used by analysts to make a wide range of conflicting claims about China’s future. This lecture takes the occasion of the leadership transition to reflect on the study of Chinese politics and the sources of what has been termed “depoliticization,” or the suppression of competition and debate among China’s political elite. It is argued that this depoliticization is a relatively recent phenomenon, and a return to earlier party traditions of debate and deliberation is much needed to revitalize politics and public policy. This scenario is more likely than conventional claims that China is in some imagined “transition” toward democratization or other forms of regime transformation.

About Mark FrazierMark Frazier teaches and writes about the political economy of China. In the Fall of 2012, he joined The New School as Academic Co-director and Endowed Professor at the India China Institute and Professor at the Department of Politics. To his new role, Frazier brings two decades of research on political economy and labor politics in China and on Chinese-Indian relations. Frazier, who most recently was Associate Professor and Chair of the Department in International and Area Studies at the University of Oklahoma, earned his Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Socialist Insecurity: Pensions and the Politics of Uneven Development in China (Cornell, 2010) and The Making of the Chinese Industrial Workplace: State, Revolution and Labor Management (Cambridge, 2002). His recent research examines the politics of labor and social policies in China.

Geopolitics of Climate Change: China and India in the Arctic
2012-10-23 12:00 - 15:00
Speaker: Sanjay Chaturvedi, a Fellow at India China Institute, The New School, and a Professor of Political Science at Panjab University, Chandigarh, India.

Description: In steadily proliferating popular, academic and official narratives of anthropogenic global warming, the Circumpolar Arctic, marked by the imagery of ‘diminishing ice’, ‘opening sea routes’ and ‘dwindling’ number of polar bears, has come to geopolitically embody somewhat abstract category of ‘climate change’. As geopolitical tectonic plates continue to shift in the post-cold war international system, and new alliances/alignments come to the fore, Asia’s rise (especially with regard to China and India) is likely to impact the theory and practices of Arctic governance in hitherto unanticipated ways. Both China and India – appropriately called “planetary powers” by some (in view of the global ecological impact and fallout of their fast-growing economies) – look able and determined to act as mapmakers and world orderers in their own right The very fact that the material andthe symbolic rise of Asia is tempered with the uncertainties associated with the era of climate change and scarcities (goods, resources and a clean environment) might further complicate the geopolitical discourse of Arctic “exceptionalism” and question at the same time increasingly untenable inside/outside geographies of cooperation centered on the Circumpolar Arctic.

New Chinese Documentaries: The Memory Project
2012-10-19 19:00 - 22:00

Social Innovation: Does it Matter? Cases from India and China
2012-10-18 18:00 - 20:00
Discussions of contemporary development policy are increasingly in registers of social, political and ecological crisis. How are citizens using social innovation to tackle the development-related problems within their localities? This lecture juxtaposes the claims of social innovation literature with civil society response to ecosystem degradation in Udaipur, Rajasthan, and Baoshan, China. It also raises questions of the value of US-centric concepts of social innovation, the nature of professional competence needed, and the politics of the complex negotiations through which social innovation is achieved.

Chat n' Chai - Student Fellows Presentations
2012-10-04 17:00 - 19:00
Ford Foundation and Starr Foundation fellows will present their field research that they conducted this summer in India and China. This is a great opportunity for The New School students to learn about opportunities at the ICI.

Mumbai's Barefoot Researchers
2012-09-24 17:00 - 19:00
Speaker: Anita Patil-Deshmukh, Senior Director of PUKAR.

Based upon the seminal essay by Professor Arjun Appadurai, “Right to Research”, PUKAR ( Partners for Urban Knowledge, Action & Research) has developed a very unique methodology of community based participatory research where the youth from the community are empowered with the knowledge and skills of doing social science research that they use as a tool for an alternative pedagogy, advocacy, intervention and transformation. They become learners and the producers of new urban knowledge that is located in their community and embedded in their aspirations, concerns, curiosity and experiential learning. This has lead to creating a successful model of collaboration between a world-renowned academic institution, a small research collective and a deeply marginalized community in Mumbai. This model is scalable and replicable in any marginalized community globally.

Subaltern Urbanization in India
2012-09-12 17:00 - 19:00
India China Institute in partnership with the Graduate Program in International Affairs and the Global Studies Program at The New School invites to a public talk on Subaltern Urbanization in India by Partha Mukhopadhyay, Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Policy Research and an ICI Fellow.

India’s urbanisation is following at least two concomitant paths; first, a traditional metro-centric agglomeration process driven partly by the movement of people and second a process of ‘subaltern urbanisation’, involving, inter alia, the transformation of places, which are dispersed across the country, a process that can be usefully compared with in-situ urbanization in China. Subaltern urbanisation refers to the growth of such settlements that are independent of the metropolis and autonomous in their interactions with other settlements, local and global. Analyzing conventional and new data sources “against the grain”, we claim that there are many such economically vital smaller settlements in India, contrary to perceptions that India’s urbanisation is slow, that its smaller settlements are stagnant and its cities are not productive. Instead of basing policy on illusions of control, it is necessary to try and understand how agents construct this world, if we are to comprehend the ongoing Indian transformation.

Event Resources: Partha Mukhopadhyay’s Presentation

CFP: Second Annual Interdisciplinary Emerging Scholars Symposium on India China Studies
2012-08-07
Paper Proposals are only being accepted for Peking University. Those proposals are due 9/15/20122-3 November 2012, University of Delhi, New Delhi
9-10 November 2012, Peking University, Beijing
16 – 17 November 2012, The New School, New York City
The Emerging Scholars Symposium is a unique initiative designed to provide a platform for researchers pursuing an advanced degree in MPhil/PhD work and young scholars who received their PhDs within the last 5 years, to present their ongoing research. Advanced Master’s degree students from professional fields such as law, design, and architecture are also welcome to apply. We look forward to creative interventions from any discipline, methodology, or combination thereof that address any aspect of China’s and India’s economic, social, cultural, and political development.
The symposium is a part of ICI’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. For eight years ICI has provided a space for the establishment and strengthening of scholarly networks for emerging scholars of India and China who wish to share their research and explore opportunities for advancing individual and collaborative scholarship. 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.
Please email proposals to indiachina@newschool.edu.

Conspiracy, Fear and Hope of Federalism in Nepal
2012-05-11 17:30 - 19:30
India China Institute invites you to join us at a special public talk. The public event titled: Conspiracy, Fear and Hope of Federalism in Nepal” will feature two speakers: Prashant Jha and Anagha Neelakantan.Brief Bios of the Speakers: Prashant Jha is the Nepal correspondent of The Hindu newspaper and a political writer for The Kathmandu Post. He was a weekly columnist for Nepali Times between 2007 and early 2011. His areas of interest include Nepal’s political transition, the transformation of the Maoists, the Madhesi Movement, and India-Nepal relations. Anagha Neelakantan is a Senior Analyst with International Crisis Group. She covers Nepal’s peace process from various angles, including security sector and Maoist army issues, constitution drafting, identity politics, national political dynamics, international engagement and human rights issues. Anagha has worked in Nepal for over a decade, including as editor of Nepali Times and with the political office of the United Nations Mission in Nepa

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India China Conversations | Prosperity amidst Poverty & Inequality
2012-04-28
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India China Conversations | Emerging Scholars Symposium
2012-04-27 09:30 - 15:30
India China Institute invites you to India China Conversations: The Inaugural Symposium for Emerging Scholars. This is an initiative to recognize and encourage young scholars of exceptional caliber, primarily those currently pursuing their PhDs or advanced graduate studies and those who had their Ph.D. conferred on them within the last five years, who are working on India and China.

China and India in the ASEAN Nexus | Prasenjit Duara
2012-04-26
Prasenjit Duara is a historian of Asia in the twentieth century. Duara was professor and chairman of the History department at the University of Chicago. Duara has spoken as a keynote lecturer or distinguished speaker at over 65 institutions around the world since 1996. His most recent work is The Global and the Regional in China’s Nation-Formation (Routledge 2009). His work has been widely translated into Chinese, Japanese and Korean.Video recording of the speechPresentation by Prasenjit Duara

Music: India in the Caribbean
2012-04-23
“Jahaji Music: India in the Caribbean” A Film Screening and Discussion with Surbahi Sharma Monday, April 23, 2012 – 6:00PM From the mid-19th century, Indian laborers arrived in the Caribbean on boats, bringing a few belongings and their music with them, launching the beginnings of a remarkable cultural practice. This documentary by award-winning director, Surabhi Sharma, follows pop/rock/Indian/fusion recording artist Remo Fernandes as he travels to the Islands to discover the rhythms of India and find potential musical collaborators while weaving a story of memory, identity, and creativity. It is an attempt to make meaning of aspects of contemporary culture in Trinidad and Jamaica even as it is a witness to the nature of possibilities of artistic collaboration.

This feature-length screening will be followed by a discussion with Surabhi Sharma, an independent filmmaker whose work explores a range of subjects from music and identity to labor and globalization and women’s health. Her films have been screened at festivals throughout the world and have received awards at Film South Asia (Nepal); Karchi Film Festival (Pakistan); The Festival of Three Continents (Argentina); Eco-cinema (Greece); and India Documentary Producers’ Association among others. Sharma will also discuss her current work-in-progress, “Bidesia in Bambai,” which focuses on Bhojpuri migrants in Mumbai and themes of migration, music and mobile phones.

Sponsored by Global Studies at The New School in partnership with the India-China Institute, the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, and the Department of Anthropology at The New School for Social Research.

The Political Struggles and Economic Futures in India and China
2012-04-12 18:15 - 19:45
When: Thursday, April 12, 6:15-7:45pm

India China Institute (ICI) and Global Studies program invite you to a public discussion on The Political Struggles and Economic Futures in India and China.The event will be moderated by Prem Shankar Jha, ICI visiting fellow and noted analyst and commentator, and former editor of and contributor to The Hindu,The Hindustan Times, and The Economic Times. In addition to moderating, Prem will discuss the “Politics of Economic Reforms in India and China.”

Distinguished discussants include Andrew Nathan, chair of the steering committee of the Center for the Study of Human Rights and chair of the Morningside Institutional Review Board (IRB) at Columbia. His teaching and research interests include Chinese politics and foreign policy, the comparative study of political participation and political culture, and human rights. Robert Jenkins, the other discussant, is a professor of Political Science at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, The City University of New York. He is also the Associate Director of the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies at CUNY.

Andrew Nathan’s discussion, “The Bo Xilai Affair and Beyond”, will focus on Bo Xilai, one of the most important and talked about politicians in China who has recently been removed from his post as the secretary of Chongqing.

Robert Jenkin’s discussion, “Legislating Accountability: Rights and Reform in Contemporary India” , will be focused on current human rights issues in India.

Refreshments will be provided.

Dr. Deepak Nayyar Lecture
2012-04-10 16:00 - 17:45
Paradox of Rapid Growth and Persistent Poverty: India and China
Dr. Deepak Nayyar, distinguished University Professor of Economics at The New School for Social Reearch and Professor of Economics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India, will deliver a lecture titled “Paradox of Rapid Growth and Persistent Poverty: India and China”.

Earlier in his career, Dr. Nayyar taught economics at the University of Oxford, the University of Sussex and the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta. He also served as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Delhi from 2000 to 2005.

Where: Free admission.

The Politics of Deepening Economic Reform and the Role of the State in China
2012-03-29 17:00 - 19:00
Please join Jean-Francois Huchet of INALCO-Langues’ University in Paris and India China Institute for this event.

While calls in favor of a deepening of economic reforms are increasing both in China and abroad, it is still unclear what will be the content of the economic program of the new team of leaders who will succeed the current CCP leadership next October. Although most of these economic reforms needed to pursue a more balanced growth have been clearly identified (see for example the recent report China 2030 signed jointly by the World Bank and the Development Centre of the State Council), the political conditions for their implementation are still far from being met. Indeed, many of these economic reforms, if they were implemented, would require an evolution of the political framework set by Deng Xiaoping in 1992. Specifically, these reforms would require profound changes of state action in the economy, particularly on issues of public sector, fiscal policies at local government level and the sharing of wealth between capital and labor.

Dressing in a Dangerous World
2012-03-29 13:30 - 2012-03-30 18:00
Dressing in a Dangerous World: Fashion & Politics Workshop

Please join our faculty fellow Dr. LHM Ling and Dr. Hazel Clark on Thursday, March 29 1:30 to 6pm for a workshop on fashion and politics. Below is a short overview of speakers: Introduction – Dr. Hazel Clark, research chair of Fashion, Parsons the New School for Design Being Fab in a Dangerous World – Dr. Andreas Behnke, director of Studies, MA in International Relations Programme, Department of Politics and International Relations, The University of Reading, U.K. Geopolitical Couture Corporealities: Fashion as a Site of Revolution(s) – Dr. Anna M. Agathangelou, associate professor, Department of Political Science and School of Women’s Studies, York University, Toronto, Canada. Anorexia Nervosa Interruptus: Global Fashion for the Local Body – Dr. LHM Ling, associate professor, Graduate Program for International Affairs, The New School for Public Engagement Fashion Statements – Dr. Linda Bishai, senior program officer, Academy for International Conflict Management and Peacebuilding, United States Institute of Peace, Washington, D.C. Veil Dressing & the Gender Geopolitics of ‘What (not) to Wear’ – Dr. Marianne Franklin, associate professor and director of the Global Media & Transnational Communications, Goldsmiths, University of London.

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Lived Religion
2012-02-23
Lang’s Religious Studies program hosted a round table on lived religion, one of the most exciting frontiers of current research and reflection.

Barbra Clayton reported on her field work with a Canadian forestry community seeking to live out a Buddhist environmentalism. Jeffrey Israel explored the importance of humor to lived Jewish ethics in America. And faculty member Mark Larrimore presented examples of creativity and compromise from queer Christian experience in New York City.

Free admission.

India Conversations | Beijing
2012-02-18
India Conversations: Inaugural Interdisciplinary Symposium For Emerging Scholars

On February 18, 2012 an Inaugural Symposium for Emerging Scholars took place in Beijing, China. It was organized by India China Institute, The New School, New York and Institute of Economics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, in cooperation with Horizon Research and Consultancy Group, Beijing. The symposiums was an opportunity for young scholars from around China to share and discuss their work on India, its relations with China, and even on larger South-East Asia issues.

List of presenters by session

Session I – India, China, U.S. relations – Zhang Kuo (School of International Studies, JNU); Li Min (Yunnan Academy of Social Sciences and Nanjing University); Yang Xiaoping (Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies and Fudan University).

Session II – History and Literature – Zhang Jiamei (Depart of South Asia Studies, Peking University); Zeng Qiong (Tianjin Foreign Studies University).

Session III – Economics and Law – Ka-kin Cheuk (Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford); Li Lairu (Yunnan University and CASS); Guo Yukuan (China Research Center for Public Policy).

Session IV – Geopolitical Perspectives – Deng Lan (Center for Trade and Industrial Cooperation Studies, Institute for South Asian Studies, Yunnan Academy of Social Sciences); Song Haixiao (School of International Relations, People’s University).

ERSEH Yale Himalaya Initiative Seminar Series | Spring 2012
2012-01-31
On January 31, 2012, Ashok Gurung and Georgina Drew, the Senior Director of the India China Institute and ICI’s postdoc, will convene a session on ERSEH themes at Yale University with scholars interested in religious studies, environment, and the Himalaya. They will present the problems that motivate the research, the gap in the scholarship that the project helps to address, and the possibilities for future research that it presents. They will also open up to the floor to an equal or greater period of discussion for scholars to respond, give suggestions, and share works-in-progress. The discussion will create a space for knowledge sharing and critical inquiry on new approaches to the study of religion and ecology in regions such as the Himalaya”
