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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20071206T181500
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SUMMARY:What Led to China's Economic Growth?
DESCRIPTION:Discussion by Zhiwu Chen\, Professor of Management\, Yale School of Management\, explores the determinants of China’s economic growth with Keith Abell and Salieh Neftci as discussants. \n\n\n\nIn the last 15 years China’s economy has been catapulting forward at a tremendous rate. Much is said about where it is going\, but what are the root causes behind this growth? Why the recent “reform and open door policy” succeeded while those in the Qing and republican years did not? Why institutions matter despite China’s growth experience in the past 30 years? What “capitalization and financialization” lessons to learn from China’s experience? \n\n\n\nZhiwu Chen is an expert on finance theory\, securities valuation\, emerging markets\, and China’s economy and capital markets. Dr. Chen is a frequent contributor to top economics and finance journals with research papers ranging from novel means of valuing stocks and pricing options\, to studies of foreign exchange\, market integration\, mutual funds and profitable investment strategies. In the last few years\, Dr. Chen has been actively doing research on market development and institution-building issues in the context of China’s transition process and other emerging markets. What institutions are necessary for markets to develop? What roles do financial innovations play in a country’s economic development process? These are among the issues which Dr. Chen’s research focuses on. Dr. Chen’s work has been featured in The Wall Street Journal\, The New York Times\, The Boston Globe\, Barron’s\, Far-Eastern Economic Review\, and many newspapers and magazines in Hong Kong and China. He is also a frequent contributor to newspapers and magazines in China\, on economic policy and legal reform issues. \n\n\n\nModerated by Benjamin Lee\, Provost. \n\n\n\nCo-sponsored with Graduate Program for International Affairs.
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/what-led-to-chinas-economic-growth/
CATEGORIES:Public Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20071030T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20071030T190000
DTSTAMP:20260614T103445
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SUMMARY:Gauging Public Opinion: Polling and Social Work in China
DESCRIPTION:A presentation by Victor Yuan\, moderated by Jaheo Kang. \n\n\n\nWith the re-emergence of China as a world power one of the challenges for both the Public and Private sector is gauging public opinion. What role can polling and social work play in establishing the political and commercial needs of the rapidly growing Chinese consumers? What have been the results thus far? \n\n\n\nDr. Victor Yuan is the chairman of Horizon Corp.\, an India China Institute honorary fellow\, a Global fellow at Yale University\, and a host of the Dragon TV-CBN talk show “Brainstorm”. He is considered one of China’s most highly regarded young leaders and is at the forefront of information gathering services. \n\n\n\nHorizon Consultancy Group is one of the leading strategic research and consultancy firms in China. The group was one of the first companies certified by the State Statistic Bureau eligible for engaging international research projects in China.
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/gauging-public-opinion-polling-and-social-work-in-china/
CATEGORIES:Public Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20071026T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20071026T160000
DTSTAMP:20260614T103445
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SUMMARY:Calm Before the Storm? Perspectives on Continuing Crisis Burma/Myanmar
DESCRIPTION:A panel discussion with Sanjay Reddy\, Khin Zaw Win\, Anshin Nayake\, Sara Davis. Co-sponsored with Graduate Program for International Affairs and TCDS. \n\n\n\nKhin Zaw Win: Burmese Independent Researcher and Activist. A trained dentist and former prison of conscious (1994-2005) for his “seditious writings” and human rights work\, Mr. Khin Zaw Win has been working independently in the past two years as a development practitioner and policy writer and researcher. He advocates incremental reform and broader international economic and political engagement with Burma\, instead of abrupt regime change\, isolation and sanction\, which differs him from the mainstream opposition movement. After witnessing first hand of the Saffron Revolution in Burma\, he arrived in New York in October as a Visiting Fellow of Friedrich Ebert Foundation. \n\n\n\nSanjay Reddy: Assistant Professor of Economics at Barnard\, Columbia University. Dr. Reddy also teaches in the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University\, where he teaches courses on world poverty and on development economics. His areas of work include development economics\, international economics and economics and philosophy. \n\n\n\nAshin Nayaka: Burmese Buddhist monk. Dr. Nayaka is founding director of the Buddhist Missionary Society\, New York and currently a visiting scholar at Department of History\, Columbia University. \n\n\n\nSara (Meg) Davis: Executive Director\, Asia Catalyst. Sara Davis (“Meg”) is a writer and human rights advocate. Her book\, Song and Silence: Ethnic Revival on China’s Southwest Borders (Columbia University Press\, 2005)\, based on her doctoral dissertation\, draws on research in Yunnan\, China and Shan State\, Burma into cross-border ethnic cultural and religious revival. \n\n\n\nTim Pachirat: Assistant Professor of Political Science and International AffairsTimothy Pachirat (Ph.D. 2008\, Yale University) is an assistant professor in the Department of Politics and the Graduate Program in International Affairs at The New School. His research and teaching interests include comparative politics\, the politics of Southeast Asia\, spatial and visual politics\, the sociology of domination and resistance\, the political economy of dirty and dangerous work\, and interpretive and ethnographic research methods. Pachirat’s work has received awards from the American Political Science Association’s Section on Qualitative Methods and from the American Political Science Association’s Labor Project. He is currently working on a book project that draws on an ethnography of immigrant labor on the kill floor of an industrialized slaughterhouse to explore how violence that is seen as both essential and repugnant to modern society is organized\, disciplined\, and regulated.
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/calm-before-the-storm-perspectives-on-continuing-crisis-burma-myanmar/
CATEGORIES:Public Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20071008T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20071008T200000
DTSTAMP:20260614T103445
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SUMMARY:Nepal's Fragile Peace Process
DESCRIPTION:An event co-sponsored with International Crisis Group. \n\n\n\nRhoderick Chalmers\, South Asia Deputy Project Director for The International Crisis Group\, discussed the state of Nepal’s peace process; what is behind political parties’ heightened tensions that threaten to disrupt the upcoming elections for Nepal’s Constituent Assembly; and actions the government\, its constituent participants\, and the international community can take to support the peace process \n\n\n\nRhoderick Chalmers\, Deputy South Asia Project Director\, International Crisis Group: Rhoderick Chalmers is primarily responsible for Crisis Group’s reporting on Nepal’s Maoist insurgency. As well as examining the roots of the conflict and means of containing and resolving it\, he coordinates research on specific areas including political parties and constitutional reform\, cross-border security issues\, ethnic movements and Maoist politics. Advocacy work involves continuous interaction with diplomatic missions in Kathmandu and maintaining close contact with government\, academia\, the media and policy think tanks both in Nepal and India\, as well as briefing foreign ministries\, UN agencies and international NGOs in Europe and the U.S.
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/nepals-fragile-peace-process/
CATEGORIES:Public Talks
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20070616
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20070617
DTSTAMP:20260614T103445
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SUMMARY:Urban Futures: People and Planning in India and China Conference
DESCRIPTION:Following the two-weeks of the Fellows’ residency in China\, the ICI hosted an international conference in partnership with the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) in Beijing. The conference began with opening remarks by Benjamin Lee\, Provost of The New School\, and Pan Gongkai\, President of CAFA\, both emphasized the need for academia to respond to the challenges of urbanization by focusing on research and to take collaborations seriously. Following their remarks\, Nirupama Rao\, the Indian Ambassador to China\, spoke on the need for inclusive growth in both India and China. The keynote address\, delivered by Chen Gang\, Deputy Mayor of Beijing\, focused on Beijing’s urbanization pressures. Chen described cities as centers of spiritual and material wealth and culture. In order to make Beijing a liveable international metropolis\, the government plans to cap the city’s population at 18 million\, organize the city by district centers\, create green belts\, improve mass transit and services for migrants\, and promote sustainable agriculture. After the address\, three panels of experts from India\, China\, and the United States spoke on different aspects of urban futures. \n\n\n\nThe first session\, Speculation and Preservation\, moderated by K.C. Sivaramakrishnan\, Chair of the Center of Policy Research in India\, addressed planning and management of cities’ growth. Panelists included two developers\, Feng Lun\, Chair of Vantone Group\, and Zhang Guilin\, Chair of Zhuzong Group; Wen Zhongyong\, Deputy Chief Planner of Beijing and ICI fellow; and Michael Cohen\, Director of the Graduate Program in International Affairs and former World Bank official. Panelists analyzed political forces\, market forces\, and public participation as major factors that decide the future of cities. In China\, city planning\, formerly a technical area\, has become a matter of public policy; designers have been transformed from technical officials to social workers; and government has moved from public management to service provision. \n\n\n\nIn the second session\, Aspiration and Agency\, moderated by S. Parasuraman\, Professor and Director of the Tata Institute of Social Sciences in India\, panelists addressed planning for the unexpected and people’s participation. Hua Xinmin\, preservation scholar and activist\, discussed the evolution of property rights and implications for planning and social development with a historical perspective on land reform since the 1950s. ICI fellow Yao Yang\, Professor and Director of the China Center for Economic Research\, Peking University\, discussed property rights as a countervailing force to social engineering created by concerned stakeholders\, and the way popular protest and resistance\, as well as challenges from scholars\, are changing government’s mindset. Arjun Appadurai\, ICI endowed Professor at The New School\, stated that whereas in the past cities demanded housing\, now housing demands cities. The housing industry is increasingly driving both finance and human labor\, requiring infinite production of poor people. \n\n\n\nThe third session\, Technology and Innovation\, moderated by Colleen Macklin\, Professor at Parsons School of Design at The New School\, addressed ways to account for technology and innovation in planning for the future of cities. Panelists included two architects\, Frank Fu\, Professor at CAFA\, and Margarita Gutman\, faculty member at The New School; ICI fellow Wu Xiaobo\, Vice Dean of the School of Management\, Zhejiang University; and ICI fellow Aromar Revi\, founder and President of TARU in India. Wu discussed the use of digital management systems in Hangzhou and the challenges of integrating the soft power of human behavior with technology. Revi outlined four necessary urban transformations: social transformation\, which addresses caste\, gender\, and minority inclusion and empowerment; economic transformation\, which makes markets work for poor people; RUrban transformation\, which maintains ecosystem services to balance the rural and the urban; and institutional transformation\, which requires a functioning and responsive decentralized governmental framework\, the building of a cadre of urban change management professionals\, and the integration of risk mitigation into the urban economy\, planning\, and design.
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/urban-futures-people-planning-in-india-and-china-conference/
CATEGORIES:International Conference,Public Talks
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20070519
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20070520
DTSTAMP:20260614T103445
CREATED:20200423T172300Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210524T112652Z
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SUMMARY:Nepal Today: Challenges of Inclusive Democracy
DESCRIPTION:D.B. Bishwakarma: Pro-Dalit Politics towards Inclusive Democracy in Nepal\n\n\n\nMurari Sharma: Inclusion and Democratization
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/nepal-today-challenges-of-inclusive-democracy/
CATEGORIES:Public Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20070421T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20070421T190000
DTSTAMP:20260614T103445
CREATED:20200423T172333Z
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SUMMARY:The Historical Chindian Paradigm
DESCRIPTION:A presentation and talk by Tan Chung; moderated by Professor L.H.M. Ling\, Graduate Program in International Affairs\, The New School It is hard to overstate the influence that India and China have had on each other\, from the introduction of Buddhism into Chinese society\, to their rapid and concurrent development in modern times. Yet their two thousand years of interaction has been short-changed in academic circles\, covered in not nearly the same depth as the relatively recent invasion of Western powers. Professor Tan’s talk will address these and other discrepancies\, focusing on the acculturation of Buddhism into Chinese society. \n\n\n\nProfessor Tan Chung is an Academic Associate at the University of Chicago and an Emeritus Member at the Institute of Chinese Studies in New Delhi. A legendary figure among Asian scholars\, he has published countless articles and over fifteen books in Chinese and English\, including”Across the Himalayan Gap: An Indian Quest for Understanding China” and “Rise of Asian Giants: The Dragon-Elephant Tango.”
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/the-historical-chindian-paradigm/
CATEGORIES:Public Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20070421T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20070421T160000
DTSTAMP:20260614T103445
CREATED:20200423T172245Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210527T202348Z
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SUMMARY:Intermediate Organizations amidst talk about 'New' Nepal
DESCRIPTION:Despite much recent debate about the significance of civil society in Nepal\, there has been comparatively little discussion about the social and political role intermediate organizations like NGOs and professional associations can play in the country’s future. On April 21\, Pratyoush Onta\, one of the most respected historians and public intellectuals from Nepal\, will be at The New School to share his views on this important issue and the so-called ‘new’ Nepal. \n\n\n\nPratyoush Onta has a Ph.D. in history and has done research on Nepali nationalism\, Gurkha history\, institutions\, area studies and media. He is currently the convener of Martin Chautari\, a forum for public discussions and research in Kathmandu. He is the founding editor of the biannual academic journal\, Studies in Nepali History and Society\, published from Kathmandu since 1996. He has authored\, edited or co-edited several books including Social History of Radio Nepal (2004)\, Growing up with Radio (2005)\, and Mass Media in Post-1990 Nepal (2006). During spring 2008\, he was a visiting member of the faculty at Trinity College\, Hartford.
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/intermediate-organizations-amidst-talk-about-new-nepal/
CATEGORIES:Public Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20070220T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20070220T200000
DTSTAMP:20260614T103445
CREATED:20200423T172315Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210527T202056Z
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SUMMARY:Revisioning India and China: Authors and Artist Series
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a discussion with two leading experts on: “Market Upheaval and the Breaking of Form: Chinese Cultural Trends since the late 1990sJianying Zha is the author of “China Pop: How Soap Operas\, Tabloids\, and Bestsellers Are Transforming a Culture”. Her Chinese publication includes three books of fiction and two books of essays and journalism. Her most recent book Bashiniandai fangtanlu (Conversations on the Nineteen Eighties) was published to great acclaim and has won several “best book of the year” awards in 2006. Currently based in Beijing\, she is also Senior Advisor for India China Institute at the New School University.Prof. Xudong Zhang is Professor of Chinese and Comparative Literature and Chair of Dept. of East Asian Studies at New York University. The author of Chinese Modernism in the Era of Reforms and Postsocialism and Cultural Politics\, he is also the co-editor of “Postmodernism and China”; and editor of “Whither China: Intellectual Politics in Contemporary China”. His works in Chinese include Piping de zongji (Traces of Criticism); and Quanqiuhua shidai de wenhua rentong (Cultural Identity in the Age of Globalization).
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/revisioning-india-and-china-authors-and-artist-series/
CATEGORIES:Public Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20070210T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20070210T170000
DTSTAMP:20260614T103445
CREATED:20200423T172300Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210527T201136Z
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SUMMARY:Nepal In Transition: The Terai Question
DESCRIPTION:The turmoil in Terai raises serious issues and challenges facing “new” Nepal. What is new and distinct about the Madhesi movement? Are there opportunities for strengthening new democracy?Organized by the India China Institute in collaboration with Alliance for Democracy & Human Rights in Nepal\, USA; Nepalese Democratic Youth Council\, USA; and Nepal-America Friendship Society \n\n\n\nPanelists:Prof. Pramod Kantha\, Assistant Professor of Political Science\, Wright State University\, Dayton\, OhioParamendra Bhagat\, President\, Hamro Nepal\, NYCProf. Mahendra Lawoti\, Department of Political Science\, Western Michigan University\, Kalamazoo\, MichiganMr. Kul Gautam\, Deputy Executive Director\, UNICEFModerator: Ashok Gurung\, Director of India China Institute
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/nepal-in-transition-the-terai-question/
CATEGORIES:Public Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20061106T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20061106T200000
DTSTAMP:20260614T103445
CREATED:20200423T172152Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210527T200914Z
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SUMMARY:Art and Design Education  in Today's China
DESCRIPTION:The India China Institute and Parsons The New School for Design present: Art and Design Education in Today’s ChinaSpeaker: Prof. Pan Gongkai of The Central Academy of Fine Arts\, China \n\n\n\nModerator: Benjamin Lee\, Provost of the New School \n\n\n\nArt and design education in China has been transformed over the last decade as a result of the radical changes in the landscape of China’s society. Professor Pan Gongkai will make reference to the impact of globalization and localization on Chinese art and design education\, with an emphasis upon how Chinese education institutions should respond to these challenges in the future. \n\n\n\nThe President of the most renowned art institution in China\, Pan Gongkai is also a well-known painter and scholar of Art History in China. From 1992 to 1994\, he was a visiting scholar at the University of California\, Berkeley. He also holds an Honorary Doctor Degree from the Los Angeles College of Art. He has had exhibitions of his work in New York\, Los Angeles\, Hong Kong and at the UNESCO Headquarters in Paris. \n\n\n\nAdmission is Free. Snacks will be provided. In collaboration with The Vera List Center for Art +Politics”
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/art-and-design-education-in-todays-china/
CATEGORIES:Public Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20061011T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20061011T160000
DTSTAMP:20260614T103445
CREATED:20200423T172320Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210527T194955Z
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SUMMARY:Sensing Urbanization in India and China: Close-up and Remote
DESCRIPTION:The India China Institute and the Tishman Environment and Design Center present:Sensing Urbanization in India and China: Close-up and Remote \n\n\n\nA workshop which will explore the question: How can remote sensing technology connect to local actors and decision makers on the ground? \n\n\n\nModerator: Grahame Shane\, author of Recombinant UrbanismPresenters: Remote and Close-upChristopher Small\, Lamont Daugherty Earth ObservatoryColleen Macklin\, Chair\, Design and Technology\, ParsonsPresenters: How to fill the Gap?Sarah Williams\, Director of the Spatial Information Design lab at ColumbiaVictoria Marshall\, Till and Brian McGrath\, ICI Faculty Fellow \n\n\n\nCities in the Long 21st Century \n\n\n\nThis century begins with half of the world\, for the first time in history\, living in urban areas with much of the rest somehow plugged into the global telecommunications net. How will our global urban society collectively navigate the long\, turbulent 21st century of systemic change? What role will cities as incubators of knowledge\, creativity and sociability take in shaping critical environmental choices in the future? Since this century will witness the final elimination of any wild\, rural or subsistence agricultural life on the planet\, many fixed ideas about the relationship between cities\, nature and society need to be challenged. The exhaustion of both new labor markets and natural resources means that industrial and economic expansion cannot proceed along the 19th and 20th century trajectory\, and new productive paradigms must be invented. This century’s challenge is to create an urban society that is more socially equitable and better able to manage natural resources repairing the social and environmental damage caused by the first centuries of global capitalism. How can India and China\, the largest and fastest developing countries\, lead the way? \n\n\n\nClose-up and Remote Technologies: Filling the Gap \n\n\n\nSatellite technology brings global society two different representations of this millennial transition: telematic flows bring center and periphery together in one kaleidoscopic close-up media image of the global village. Meanwhile and remote sensing gives many of us a picture of our mixed human\, vegetative and watery planet. Close-up\, micro-expressions broadcast from multiple sites within the global metropolis\, and the continually updated objective and remote fractal mosaic of night-light or satellite imagery from afar offer two radically different windows on the emerging 21st-century city. Can the scalar gap in these two technologies be bridged in order to offer global society the complex socio-political tools with which to design\, manage and re-inhabit the planet in the coming decades? The choices we face are daunting: how to share diminishing resources within an unevenly developed world society based on the belief in the endless accumulation of capital? How can knowledge from space empower and inform decisions of local actors on the ground?
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/sensing-urbanization-in-india-and-china-close-up-and-remote/
CATEGORIES:Public Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20060929T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20060929T200000
DTSTAMP:20260614T103445
CREATED:20200423T172209Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210527T193531Z
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SUMMARY:Chinese in India: The Legend of Fat Mama
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a viewing of The Legend of Fat Mama\, a film by Rafeeq Ellias\, an award-winning advertising and magazine photographer. Discussion Participants:Rafeeq Ellias\, Director The Legend of Fat MamaPayal Banerjee\, Adjunct Professor\, GPIA\, The New SchoolLily Ling\, Associate Professor\, GPIA\, The New SchoolModerator: Tansen Sen\, Associate Professor of History at Baruch College and author of Buddhism\, Diplomacy\, and Trade: The Realignment of Sino Indian Relations\, 600-1400
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/chinese-in-india-the-legend-of-fat-mama/
CATEGORIES:Public Talks
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20060428
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20060430
DTSTAMP:20260614T103445
CREATED:20200423T172140Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260106T164849Z
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SUMMARY:The Inaugural Conference: Cities in a World of Migration: India and China in Global Perspective
DESCRIPTION:  \n  \nThe rapid economic emergence of India and China has significantly altered the landscape and context of cities in a world of migration. The scale and urgency of globalization and urbanization in India and China are unprecedented and present significant socio-economic challenges for these two countries and across the globe. Cities in a World of Migration: India and China in Global Perspective” provided a forum for insight into the multiple dimensions of these changes – social\, economic and environmental – and the opportunities and challenges of urbanization and globalization in the 21st century. \n  \nThe conference began with an opening address delivered by New School President Bob Kerrey. The keynote address was delivered by Sen. Joseph R. Biden\, Jr.\, Democrat from Delaware\, who compared internal migration in India and China with immigration to the United States. He called for the development of strategic relations between the United States and the two Asian countries\, which are rising powers facing a number of urgent problems. As a nation where 300 million people have risen out of poverty\, China offers important opportunities for the United States in areas such as energy tech support. Senator Biden pointed out that lessons learned from U.S. immigration periods could be applied to address the massive migration problems now facing India and China. More than 20 scholars\, architects\, urban planners from The New School\, and experts from India and China joined ICI fellows as conference panelists. \n  \nIn five sessions over a two day period\, panelists addressed the following topics: 1) Dynamics: What are the dynamic roles of cities in India\, China\, and the United States? How have they evolved from local\, national\, and global perspectives? 2) Circulation: How do we understand the dynamics of urban and rural migration in both directions? 3) Governance and Planning: Cities in India\, China\, and the United States have developed in very different physical and political environments. How do these differences affect our approaches to urban governance and planning? 4) Dwelling and Development: How is the real estate market responding? Can people be regulated? What is the social impact of new housing and infrastructure developments? 5) Imagining the Future: What opportunities exist for imagining a democratic future for the emerging cities of the world? What are the constraints? \n  \nThe discussions were so varied that it would be impossible to give an adequate summary of the proceedings. There was\, however\, consensus among the participants that the most crucial lesson learned is the importance of balancing open public debate and private discussion. Energetic work and slow-paced reflection must both be employed to develop exceptional collaborations across disciplines and countries. Ultimately\, as President Kerrey pointed out\, the cultivation of friendships across borders may make the difference between war and peace. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/the-inaugural-conference-cities-in-a-world-of-migration-india-and-china-in-global-perspective/
CATEGORIES:Public Talks
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SUMMARY:India & China: Who’s Ahead?
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CATEGORIES:Public Talks
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SUMMARY:Nepal at the Crossroads: A Year of Worsening Political Quagmire
DESCRIPTION:February 1st marks the first year of King Gyanendra’s direct rule in Nepal. To many this day is seen as a black day due to spiraling down of human rights situation and deeply troubling political quagmire in Nepal since then. In the name of “Ïwar on terror” the government of King Gyanendra has resorted to curbing civil liberties and heavy-handed crackdown on democratic forces in the country. The speakers will highlight some of the key aspects of general trend in political and human rights situation in Nepal in the past year and discuss the possible ways out of the crisis. Questions and answers will follow the presentations from the speakers.\nAlliance for Democracy & Human Rights in Nepal\, USA and the South Asia Forum (The New School) cordially invite you to a discussion Nepal at the Crossroads: A Year of Worsening Political Quagmire \n\n\n\nSub-topics and speakers:\n“Chairman Gyanendra vs. The People of Nepal”\nKanak Mani Dixit is a prominent Kathmandu-based journalist who is the editor of the Himal South Asia and publisher of the news magazine Himal Khabarpatrika. He is also a children’s author and a cultural activist.\n“Prospects for Peace: International Perspectives”\nRhoderick Chalmers is the Deputy South Asia Project Director at the International Crisis Group. \n\n\n\nThe program will start with a 10-minute performance art by Ashmina Ranjit\, a prominent Nepali Artist and Activist\, currently a Fulbright Scholar at Columbia University.     \n\n\n\nModerator: Professor Carol Breckenridge\, Founder\, South Asia Forum     \n\n\n\nFree admission.
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/nepal-at-the-crossroads-a-year-of-worsening-political-quagmire/
CATEGORIES:Public Talks
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