India China Institute

The Politics of Art and Media in Nepal
2011-04-30 16:30 - 18:00 (America/New_York)

Sri Lanka: Remaking Society, Sri Lanka Graduate Student Conference
2011-03-24 - 2011-03-25
Supported by the American Institute for Sri Lankan Studies, the conference will look at Sri Lanka’s (contemporary and historical) variegated social formations and their processes, flux, renewals, and aphasias.

Friday, March 25, 2011 9.30am – 6.00pm, Room D1103, 6E 16th Street, The New School

9:30 – 10:00am Welcome and Introductory

Remarks: Sharika Thiranagama, New School for Social Research

10:00 – 12:00pm Panel 1: Remaking Society, Remaking Scholarship

Discussant: Vasuki Nesiah, New York University

Vivian Y. Choi: “Anticipatory States: Life ‘After’ Disaster in Sri Lanka”

Nalika Gajaweera: “Doing Good for the Nation: Religion and NGO Development Work in Sri Lanka”

Kaori Hatsumi: “The Long-Term Consequences of the Relocation and Isolation of a Fishing Community Due to Civil War in Northern Sri Lanka”

1:30 – 3:00pm Panel 2: Schooling Aspirations

Discussant: Daniel Bass, Lynn University

Bernardo Brown: “When School Doesn’t Help: The Decline of Education Amongst Sri Lankan Migrant Workers to Italy”

Rachel Cole: “How do School Quality Inputs Impact Families’ Decisions About After-School Tutoring in Sri Lanka?”

Ahalya Satkunaratnam: “Teaching Dance, Teaching Difference: Aesthetics and Public Education in Sri Lanka”

3:30 – 6:00pm Panel 3: Common Places

Discussant: Sonali Perera, Hunter College

Nethra Samarawickrema: “Unfreezing the Fort: Place-making by Muslim Residents in the Fort of Galle in Sri Lanka”

Kanchuka Dharmasiri: “Everything You Can Sell: An Exploration of the Wayside and Open Theatre’s Performances in Public Spaces”

Prabha Manuratne: “Violent Places: Landscapes of Violence in No More Tears, Sister and the Music of Ajith Kumarasiri”

Assessing the Economic Rise of China and India
2011-03-10 16:00 - 20:00
The India China Institute invites you to attend Assessing the Economic Rise of China and India, a talk by Pranab K. Bardhan.

The rate and pattern of growth in China and India over the last quarter century will be analyzed with a special focus on poverty, inequality, environmental fallout, and other political economy issues regarding the nature of capitalist development and those of governance and accountability. The talk will draw upon Pranab K. Bardhan’s recent book, Awakening Giants, Feet of Clay: Assessing the Economic Rise of China and India.

Pranab Bardhan, a Cambridge University PhD, has been at Berkeley since 1977, following teaching appointments at MIT and the Delhi School of Economics. He was the chief editor of the Journal of Development Economics for 1985-2003. He was the co-chair of the MacArthur Foundation-funded Network on the Effects of Inequality on Economic Performance for 1996-2007. He held the Distinguished Fulbright Siena Chair at the University of Siena, Italy in 2008-9. He is the BP Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics for 2010 and 2011. He is the author of 12 books and more than 150 journal articles, and the editor of 12 other books. He has done theoretical and field studies research on rural institutions in poor countries, on political economy of development policies, and on international trade. A part of his work is in the interdisciplinary area of economics, political science, and social anthropology. His current research involves theoretical and empirical work on decentralized governance, and the political economy of development in China and India.”

Khalid Malik: Understanding China in Africa
2011-03-04 18:00 - 20:00

Crossing Civilizational Boundaries
2011-02-17 18:00 - 20:00
Discussants: Oz Frankel, Sanjay Ruparelia and Jianying Zha.

Co-sponsored by the Committee on Historical Studies and the Department of Sociology at The New School.

Madame Nirupama Rao: "The Prospects and Challenges of India China Interactions in the 21st Century"
2011-02-12 15:30 - 17:00
Nirupama Rao “The Prospects and Challenges of India China Interactions in the 21st Century”

Nirupama Menon Rao is an Indian Foreign Service officer currently serving as Foreign Secretary of India. She previously served as Minister of Press Affairs in Washington, Deputy Chief of Mission in Moscow, Joint Secretary (East Asia), the first woman spokesperson of the External Affairs Ministry, Chief of Personnel, Ambassador to Peru, High Commissioner to Sri Lanka, and as the Ambassador to China. She is also a poet and has written a book of poetry entitled Rain Rising. Her poems have been translated into Chinese and Russian. She is also an accomplished singer and pianist.

Co-sponsored by the Graduate Program in International Affairs. This event is free and open to the public and will be followed by a reception.

– Video of the Event– Media Coverage

Presentation on Water Harvesting in Rajasthan
2011-02-04 14:30 - 16:30
Nidhi Srinivas gave a presentation on Water harvesting in Rajasthan as part of the Water (Dis)courses event at the Graduate Program in International Affairs.Faculty members from across The New School presented on a variety of topics, focusing on the different forms of representation of water and water-related issues. Each presentation was in a modified PechaKucha style, meaning each faculty member had a maximum of 5 minutes to make their points before the next presenter’s slides started. It was a new format for most of the faculty, and they did an amazing job. The range of topics presented, and the names of faculty presenters, are detailed below:– Victoria Vesna “New School Waterbodies”– Brian McGrath “Shifting from the sanitary to the sustainable city: the Viele map of Manhattan”– Victoria Marshall “Ritual + Weather: A rooftop garden at The New School”– Philip Silva “Mob Geographies: Crashing the Gateway of New York/New Jersey waterfronts”– Mara Haseltine “Science, art and environmentalism: Oysters”– Jean Gardner “You + Water: pedagogy and environmental/sustainability crises”– Rob Buchanan “‘Sponge park’ for storm water mitigation at the Brooklyn Navy Yard”– Paul Ryan “Water”, a short film– Haodong Wu “Reflections in the Water”, a musical performance from Images, Book I by Claude Debussy– Jackie Brookner “Biosculptures/The Art of Water Remediation”– Lisa Bjorkman “Seven Methods of Water Access in Mumbai”– Nidhi Srinivas “Water harvesting in Rajasthan”– Antina von Schnitzler “Soweto Water Wars”– Tom O’Donnell “Venezuela most polluted lake, Lake Maracaibo: Oil Under Water”– Katayoun Chamany “Health and the environment: Cholera”

For more information email waterdiscourses@gmail.com or visit http://waterdiscourses.wordpress.com/

– Water harvesting in Rajasthan PPT

Challenges of Emerging Communities: Report Launch and Conversation about the Growing Nepali-speaking Community
2010-12-08 16:00 - 18:00
Adhikaar’s research team recently completed the first comprehensive demographic and needs assessment study of the Nepali-speaking community, one of the newest and fastest growing group in New York City. The report, “Snapshots of the Nepali-speaking Community in New York City: Demographics and Challenges”, captures the struggles of this emerging community as it seeks to grow roots in a new home.

About Adhikaar: Adhikaar for Human Rights and Social Justice is a New York based non-profit organization that works with Nepali-speaking communities to promote human rights and social justice for all. Adhikaar focuses works with marginalized groups, women, and youth to promote workers’ rights, access to affordable healthcare, immigrant rights, and youth leadership. However, due to the lack of resources available to Nepali-speaking communities, Adhikaar also serves as an information hotline and provides referrals and assistance, including translation and interpretation, on different issues confronted by our community members.

For more information visit http://www.adhikaar.org/. “

China's Two Mega-Event Moments: The 2008 Beijing Games and 2010 Shanghai Expo in Historical and Comparative Perspective
2010-12-02 18:00 - 20:00
This illustrated talk will focus on the meaning of China’s first Olympics and first World’s Fair as spectacles and effort to “rebrand” the PRC as a thoroughly modern country with state-of-the-art urban centers. To place them in perspective, the presenter will look backwards to the mega-events held in the United States and Japan when they were rising rapidly in the global economic hierarchy and across the Himalayas to India, where the Commonwealth Games are taking place this year in Delhi. The presenter will draw on his personal experiences touring the Shanghai Expo, which he stopped in at three times over the summer, and spending time in Delhi, which he will visit for the first time this October, right after the Commonwealth Games have ended.

Speaker Bio: Jeffrey Wasserstrom is a Professor of History and Chair of the Department at the University of California, Irvine, and the Editor of the Journal of Asian Studies. His commentaries and reviews have appeared in a wide variety of newspapers, magazines and blogs, including Outlook India, the Nation, New Left Review, the World Policy Journal, the Asian edition of the Wall Street Journal, and both Time and Newsweek. His latest book, published earlier this year by Oxford University Press, is China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know.

Re-connecting Bengal and China: The Old and New Linkages between India and China
2010-11-18 19:30 - 20:30
The Panel Discussion will focus on recent discourses that have been developed in West Bengal on the problematic of India China relations, essentially highlighting how a whole set of new initiatives are being discussed to develop linkages between West Bengal and south-west china which would initially benefit the eastern subregion of India but ultimately both India and China would benefit as a whole from the exercise.

Speaker: Suranjan Das, Vice-Chancellor, University of Calcutta, India & Member of Indian Council of Historical Research, Government of India.

Discussant: Tansen Sen, Associate Professor, CUNY

Moving Out Living In
2010-10-27 18:00 - 20:00
India China Institute invites you to join us for a special presentation by Zhang Hai, an adjunct professor at Parson’s, The New School for Design.

The real cases of housing and urban developments in Shenzhen and Shanghai offered opportunities and context to better understand how cities and people in China adapt to rapid urban growth beyond China’s impressive growth figures and statistics. The presentation will consist of a series of award-winning photographs, short films and voices of various parties including the Chinese residents, the government officials, the real estate developers, the designers and the scholars. It is a bottom-up approach to put the people into the forefront of the discussion, and yet with a very close connection with the land-use policies, economic and political measures. More importantly, it is an attempt to evoke a more balanced debate on this highly concerning issue. Moving-Out and Living-in is a part of the research project – NEW DEMAND FOR PEOPLE’S HOUSING IN CHINA – conducted in Shenzhen and Shanghai, China in 2009 and 2010.”

The Inaugural ERSEH Workshop: October 24-28, 2010
2010-10-24 - 2010-10-28
The official launch of ERSEH took place at a 5-day workshop in Kathmandu, Nepal (October 24-28, 2010). Thirty scholars and experts from India, China, Nepal, Bhutan, and United States, representing the disciplines of religious studies, environmental studies, international affairs, and Himalayan studies, collaboratively developed the foundational research questions, established project goals, and, began to build a community of experts to explore new perspectives in religion, sustainability, and their policy implications. Faculty members from The New School — Ashok Gurung, L.H.M. Ling, Cameron Tonkinwise, Mark Larrimore, and Sara Winter — make up the core members of ERSEH. They led small group discussions on the themes of: – Dynamics of local knowledge and practices – Urbanization/migration/globalization) – Mapping continuities and changes in sacred conceptions of the environment Culminating with a range of interpretations and perspectives, the workshop was a strong starting point to grapple with the complexities of international environmental policy and the role of religion within it. It laid the groundwork for the next few years as ICI continues to spearhead further inquires on the Himalayas‰Ûª pressing issue of environmental policy and climate change. For further materials on this workshop, please click here.”

Secrets of Shangri-La: The Ancient Caves of Mustang
2010-10-06 18:00 - 20:00
India China Institute at the New School, would like to invite you to: Secrets of Shangri- La: The Ancient Caves of Mustang, a lecture by Broughton Coburn.
Broughton Coburn, Harvard graduate, author and editor of seven books (including two national bestsellers), is a premier authority on the culture and environment of the Himalaya, where he lived for two decades. In Secrets of Shangri-La, he recounts the 2008 National Geographic- sponsored expedition to the caves of Mustang, a series of human- excavated cave cities that date to 4,000 B.C., yielding discoveries of international significance. In a lively, illustrated presentation (including clips from the National Geographic/PBS Special, Secrets of Shangri- la), Broughton Coburn unravels the pre-historic, religious, cultural and artistic legacy of this enchanted, living landscape. He traverses such diverse subjects as high altitude archaeology and anthropology, fragile mountain environments, global warming, Himalayan art history, issues of cultural change and modernization.

Low-Carbon Development in China: A Panel Discussion
2010-09-23 17:30 - 19:00
India China Institute and iCET invite you to A Panel Discussion on Low-Carbon Development in China. This event is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be available. We hope to see you there!

Lessons from Psychological Science and Practice in China
2010-06-22 - 2010-06-23
An Introduction to Chinese Taoist Cognitive Psychotherapy

Tuesday, June 22, 2010, 1:30-4:30pm Department of Psychology, The New School for Social Research, 80 Fifth Avenue, 6th Floor [Seats are limited. RSVP to kallifeldman@gmail.com]

Zhang Yalin, MD, PhD., creator of Chinese Taoist Cognitive Psychotherapy. CTCP is an indigenous Chinese form of cognitive therapy that has been demonstrated, in a number of randomized clinical trials in China, to be effective in the treatment of anxiety disorders and other neurotic conditions. This presentation, geared specifically to clinicians, will provide an introduction to CTCP, including the theoretical framework and core techniques of the treatment.

Voices from the Field

Wednesday, June 23, 2010, 1:00-3:00pm The New School, 65 West 11th St, Wollman Hall

How have notions of the Chinese self changed alongside the geopolitical, economic, and cultural shifts over the past forty years? What do psychological research and clinical practice reveal about the individual and familial costs of modernization?– Zhang Yalin, MD, PhD., (Central South University, China), “Confessions of a psychotherapist in China”– Cao Yuping,M.D, Ph.D. (Central South University, China), “Prevalence and predictors of domestic violence in Mainland China”

Co-sponsored by the India-China Institute and the Department of Psychology. All talks are free and will be presented in Mandarin Chinese with English interpretation. Funding provided by the AAPA/APF Okura Foundation Mental Health Leadership Foundation and the New School Faculty Development Fund (to Doris F. Chang, The New School for Social Research).

The Future of People-Centered Conservation and Development in the Himalaya
2010-05-23 13:00 - 18:00
The India China Institute, in partnership with Gurung Conservation Trust, Chandra Gurung Conservation Fund, and the Tamu Society of USA, cordially invites you to a symposium on The Future of People-Centered Conservation and Development in the Himalaya.

Agenda:

1:00 pm – 1:30 pm Registration

1:30 pm – 3:00 pm Session I: Future of People-Centered Conservation & Development in the Himalaya

Panelists: – Broughton Coburn, Author, Development and Conservation consultant, and a co-principal investigator of ACAP– Eric Dinerstein, Chief Scientist and Vice President of Conservation Science, World Wildlife Fund– Gyan Chandra Acharya, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Nepal to the United Nations– Sumitra Manandhar Gurung, Chairperson of Women’s Cooperative Society, Special Advisor to Chandra Gurung Conservation Foundation

Moderator: – Ashok Gurung, Senior Director, India China Institute, The New School

3:00 pm – 4:00 pm Session II: Launching a multi-year initiative to Honor the Legacy for Dr. Chandra Prasad Gurung

Panelists: – Ashok Gurung, Senior Director, India China Institute, The New School– Tika Gurung, President, Tamu Society of USA– Steve Powers, Trustee Member, Chandra Gurung Conservation Trust– Sumitra Manandhar Gurung, Chairperson of Women’s Cooperative Society, Special Advisor to Chandra Gurung Conservation Fund

4:00 pm – 5:00 pm Reception: Wine, Chiya, Khaja, and Nepali Performance

The Rise, Transformation, and Fall of Liberalism in India: 1800-1950
2010-05-11 18:00 - 20:00
The India China Institute, and History at the New School for Social Research and Eugene Lang College are very please to present:

The Inaugural Carol Breckenridge Annual Memorial Lecture in South Asian History.

The Rise, Transformation, and Fall of Liberalism in India: 1800-1950

Delivered by Christopher Bayly

Christopher Bayly is a Vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial and Naval History and part of the Faculty of History at the University of Cambridge. As a historian and scholar of global cultures, Carol Breckenridge (1942-2009) brought along with her to different cities and campuses not only her erudition and insight into intellectual debates on global and transnational issues, but also her formidable gift of inspiring others through a rare combination of charm, generosity of spirit, hospitality, and hard work. The journal Public Culture which she founded in 1988 with her husband and soulmate Arjun Appadurai, the later Sister Cities Project, and the articles and books she wrote and co-edited with colleagues, have brought new perceptions to the field and remain as evidence of her unstinting efforts against the stultifying effects of academic parochialism on the world at large. At the New School for Social Research and at other departments and universities where Carol and Arjun have lived and taught, Breckenridge will be remembered for the way she personified these very commitments by her concern and care for her junior colleagues and students, even while, as in more recent times, she was courageously coping with physical challenges of her own. Mentor, scholar, and friend, she will be sadly missed.

Landscapes of Modernity: Public Culture in South Asia
2010-05-10 00:00

Cha n' Chai: Tea between China and India
2010-04-13 18:00 - 20:00
The India China Institute invites you to Cha n’ Chai: Tea between China and India, a discussion with Dr. Victor Mair.

Structural Imbalances in China
2010-03-23 15:30 - 17:30

Prosperity and Inequality: India and China in a Global Perspective
2010-03-22
While the economies of China and India have grown significantly in the past decade, we are witnessing a growing concern for the rise of inequality in both countries. Over the past two years, the 2nd cohort of ICI Fellows has worked in four primary collaborative teams. This event will conclude the final residency for the 2nd Cohort of 15 ICI Fellows, a distinguished group of scholars and experts from India, China and the New School, and their work on “Prosperity and Inequality in India and China.” Additionally, they will initiate a new conversation surrounding the theme of the 3rd Cohort of six ICI Fellows on “Social Innovation for Sustainable Environments.”

The team members come from diverse disciplinary backgrounds, enabling them to engage in a unique process of understanding and analyzing the complex dynamics of prosperity and inequality. The March 22, 2010 conference is designed to share these insights and findings based on the Fellows’ work in the following initiatives:Preliminary Conference Agenda:Session I Rethinking Borders between India and China: New Connections for Ancient GeographiesSession II Open Governance and AccountabilitySession III Migrant Lives: Documentary & DiscussionSession IV Growth, Reforms and Inequality: Comparing India & ChinaSession V Wealth Inequality and Social Justice: Analysis of India and ChinaSession VI India & China in Global Perspective

Panelists, Discussants & Moderators: Adriana Abdenur, Ashwini Deshpande, Azizur Rahman Khan, Carl Riskin, Jeesoon Hong, JIAN Yi, L.H. M. Ling, LI Bo, Lopa Banerjee, Mahendra Lama, Milind Murugkar, Nimmi Kurian, Prem Shankar Jha, Sanjay Reddy, Sanjay Ruparelia, Sanjib Baruah, Vamsi Vakulabarnam, WEI Zhong, XU Zhiyong, YAN Ming

Limited Seating, refreshments provided.

Presentations:Using right to information by Milind MurugkarGrowth, Reform and Inequality by Lopamudra Banerjee, Ashwini Deshpande, Yan Ming, Sanjay Ruparelia, Vamsicharan Vakulabharanam, and Wei Zhong

Re-Orient: India, China and the West in the 21st Century
2010-02-18 18:00 - 20:00
India China Institute invites you to Re-Orient: India, China and the West in the 21st Century, a lecture by Prem Shankar Jha.

Considered among the finest authors and journalists in India today, Prem Shankar Jha is the author of several books including The Perilous Road to the Market: Political Economy of Reform in Russia, India and China and Kashmir 1947: The Origins of a Dispute. His most recent book, Crouching Dragon, Hidden Tiger: Can China and India Dominate the West? looks at the interaction of economic with political and social change in China and India. The book also examines the social and political conflicts that the market has unleashed, and the success of the countries in containing it. Prem Shankar Jha has recently been a Visiting Fellow at the Fairbank Centre at Harvard University, the Visiting Chair in India’s Political Economics at the University of Science Politique in Paris and was a senior advisor to the Prime Minister of India.

Urban Citizenship in India and China
2009-11-30 18:30 - 21:30

The Peace Process in Nepal: Is it failing?
2009-11-06 18:00 - 20:00
Speaker: Ian Martin, Former United Nations Envoy in NepalDiscussants: Professor Andrew Arato, The New School; Deepak Thapa, Professor of Social Science, Baha, Nepal; Kul C. Gautam, former Assistant Secretary General of the U.N. and Deputy Executive Director of UNICEF.

Nepal’s peace process has been hailed as an unusual success story, achieved by Nepali actors and not by the international community. But with the deadline for an agreement on a new constitution fast approaching, and the Maoist army still in cantonments, divisions among political parties threaten its successful completion. Is the peace process failing?

Video of the Event

Transforming World Politics: From Empire to Multiple Worlds
2009-11-04 18:00 - 20:00

Accumulation, Development and Exclusion: China, India, and Global Capitalism
2009-11-02 18:00 - 20:00

China, India, Brazil and South Africa in the World Economy
2009-10-19 18:00 - 20:00

Architectural Culture in Consumerist China
2009-09-24 18:00 - 20:00
The India China Institute is pleased to welcome Professor Liu Dong, and esteemed academic from Tsinghua University.Professor Liu will speak on the unprecedented building boom in China, and its effect on the urban and cultural landscape of the country. In its rush to construct modern housing is China wiping away both the cultural memory and individuality that has made it unique?

Professor Liu is the Executive Director of the Tsinghua Academy of Chinese Learning: professor of Aesthetics, Comparative Literature and Sinology of the Philosophy Department, Tsinghya University. He is also the Chief Editor of the Chinese Scholarship Quarterly. This event will be moderated by Zha Jianying, a writer and media commentator who is also the India China Institute’s Senior Adviser in China.

Dong Liu’s presentation

The Country is Yours: Contemporary Nepali Literature
2009-09-04 18:00 - 20:00
The India China Institute invites you to a reading of selections from The Country is Yours: Contemporary Nepali Literature by Manjushree Thapa. Friday, 4 September, 2009 6:30-8:00PM Wollman Hall 65 W 11th Street The New School

The Country is Yours: Contemporary Nepali Literature Translated and introduced by Manjushree Thapa

Modern Nepali literature started in the 1930s. As a response to state censorship, one group of high modernists sought to locate human freedom in the play of language. Another group wrote more directly in favor of social justice. From these pioneers emerged the ‘democrats’ and the ‘progressives’, the distinctions between who have gradually blurred since the re-establishment of democracy in 1990. The Country Is Yours is a collection of contemporary Nepali literature. Organized in four sections- ‘The Perplexity of Living’, ‘The Right to Desire’, ‘The Imminent Liberation’ and ‘Visions’- the stories and poems of the 49 writers included here offer a view onto the upheavals of Nepali Society, Politics and Identity leading up to and after 1990. They also speak of the universal joys and sorrows of the human condition. Translated and introduced by Manjushree Thapa, this volume sensitively captures the spirit of a society at the threshold of transformation. Manjushree Thapa is a writer from Nepal, the author of many well-received books of fiction and nonfiction. Her essays and opinions have appeared widely in the Nepali and international media, including in the New York Times. Her fiction titles are Tilled Earth, a collection of short stories about Nepalis and the Nepali diaspora; The Tutor of History, a novel set in a small highway town in Nepal during a general election; and the upcoming Seasons of Flight, a novel about a Nepali woman who wins the US government’s diversity visa lottery and lands in Los Angeles. Her non-fiction titles are Forget Kathmandu, a personal account of Nepal’s political upheavals, with reportage on the Maoist insurgency; Mustang Bhot in Fragments, a travelogue to villages on the Nepal-Tibet border; and the upcoming A Boy from Siklis, a biography of the groundbreaking Nepali environmentalist Chandra Gurung. Her oeuvre includes several titles of literary translations, including Secret Places: New Writing from Nepal, published by the University of Hawai’i Press, which she co-edited.”

Emerging Exchanges: New Architectures of India
2009-04-30 - 2009-05-01
India’s architectural and urban landscape is being remade in unexpected and exuberant ways at this defining moment in its history. New economic growth, proliferation of media technologies, transnational modes of production, as well as new state and social dynamics are presenting challenges to the entrenched traditions and extraordinary diversity of India. Modern architecture in India, represented by the seminal practices of Balkrishna Doshi, Charles Correa, Raj Rewal and others have long been on a world stage, however the present moment is marked by new ideological and ideational shifts away from early modernist positions. The Delhi/Ahmedabad axis has moved east and south to Mumbai and Bangalore, which now includes a new generation of architects, both Indian and international, who are involved in a diverse range of practices and productions that are re-imagining entrenched histories of both modernities and traditions. Centrifugal and centripetal dynamics characterizes contemporary practices where many architects look to balance global and transnational imperatives as well as more situated approaches to building. The circulation of these inward and outward movements has resulted in both the glittering towers that reproduce the Special Economic Zones of Shanghai or Dubai as an enclave in a landscape of contested territories and economic disparities. At the same time, some architects are engaged in emplaced material practices related to landscape, siting, local building fabrication, and programming, which has led to reconsidering new regionalisms and the informal sector.The Architectural League of New York, the India China Institute and Parsons The New School for Design plan a two-day conference to probe these material economies and territorial intersections in Indian architecture today. These circuits and realignments will be examined by keynote speakers, project presentations and interdisciplinary panels in order to present a body of emerging architectural practices, while unraveling the forces of the larger cultural and social dynamics that these projects generate, concentrate and disperse.

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