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SUMMARY:Book Talk: Class and Inequality in China and India\, 1950–2010 (Oxford\, 2024)
DESCRIPTION:China and India have long been central to the world economy. Two and a half centuries ago\, they contributed 50% of the world’s output; after suffering a decline thereafter\, their share fell to a paltry 9% in 1950 but has since resurged to about 25% today. This book shows that the growth and inequality experiences of China and India have had strikingly similar trajectories\, especially after 1980\, despite their very different political and social institutions. It offers novel insights using a class lens to analyze and compare the Chinese and Indian inequality stories\, locating them within the larger contexts of Asian and global capitalism. Vakulabharanam demonstrates that the interconnectedness between Chinese and Indian growth and inequality dynamics and the transformation and evolution of global capitalism is key to understanding the within-country inequality dynamics in both countries. The book thus offers a new perspective on economic development and inequality that builds on and adds to the insights of Kuznets and Piketty. \n \nAbout the Author: \n \nVamsi Vakulabharanam is Co-Director of the Asian Political Economy Program and Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts\, Amherst. He has previously taught at the University of Hyderabad and the City University of New York. His recent research focuses on inequality in India and China and the political economy of Indian cities through the axes of gender\, caste\, class\, and religion. In the past\, he has worked on agrarian change in developing economies\, agrarian cooperatives\, and the relationship between economic development and inequality. In 2013\, Vakulabharanam was awarded the Amartya Sen award for his contributions to social sciences by the Indian Council of Social Science Research. \n \nSPEAKERS \n \n\n\nVAMSI VAKULABHARANAM \n  \nAssociate Professor of Economics \nCo-Director\, Asian Political Economy Program \n \nUniversity of Massachusetts\, Amherst \n \n\n\n \nPreviously\, he taught at the University of Hyderabad (2008-14) and the City University of New York (2004-07). He was a grantee at the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET\, NY) between 2011 and 2014 on a project titled\, ‘Economic Development and Inequality: What Can the Asian Experience Teach Us?’ He was a Fellow of the India China Institute of the New School (NY) between 2008 and 2010. He has worked on issues pertaining to agrarian change in the context of globalization in developing economies\, agrarian cooperatives\, and the relationship between economic development and inequality. His recent research focuses…Read more \n  \n \n \n \n\n\nBRANKO MILANOVIC \n  \nResearch Professor\, The Graduate Center\, City University of New York \n \nSenior Scholar\, Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality \n \n\n\n \nBranko Milanovic obtained his Ph.D. in economics (1987) from the University of Belgrade with a dissertation on income inequality in Yugoslavia. He served as lead economist in the World Bank’s Research Department for almost 20 years\, leaving to write his book on global income inequality\, Worlds Apart (2005). He was a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington (2003-2005) and has held teaching appointments at the University of Maryland (2007-2013) and at...Read more \n  \n \n \n \n\n\nANUPAMA RAO \n  \nProfessor of History and Middle Eastern\, South Asian\,
 and South African Studies \n \nDirector\, Institute for Comparative Literature and Society Barnard College\, Columbia Universit \n \nBarnard College\, Columbia University \n \n\n\n \nAnupama Rao\, Professor\, History and MESAAS (Columbia) has research and teaching interests in gender and sexuality studies; caste and race; historical anthropology; social theory; comparative urbanism; and colonial genealogies of human rights and humanitarianism. \n \nShe is Director\, Institute for Comparative Literature and Society and the convenor of the Ambedkar Initiative\, which is supported by the Provost’s Office (Barnard)\, the Deans of Humanities and Social Sciences (Columbia)\, the Office of the EVP (Columbia)\, Columbia University Press\, and the Columbia Libraries. She served as…Read more \n  \n \n \n \n\n\nCARK RISKIN \n  \nProfessor Emeritus\, Weatherhead East Asian Institute\, Columbia University \n \nDistinguished Professor Emeritus\, Queens College\, City University of New York \n \n\n\n \nThe core of Professor Riskin’s research has dealt with the complex and changing impact of economic development on people’s lives — what the United Nations calls “human development.” He is the author of China ‘s Political Economy: The Quest for Development since 1949 (Oxford University Press\, 1987); Inequality and Poverty in China in the Age of Globalization (with A. R. Khan\, Oxford University Press\, 2001); and China’s Retreat from Equality (with R. Zhao and S. Li\, M. E. Sharpe\, 2001)\, as well as of…Read more
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/book-talk-class-and-inequality-in-china-and-india-1950-2010-oxford-2024/
LOCATION:Starr Foundation Hall (UL102) 
 University Center (lower level)
\, 63 5th Ave. (at 13th St)\, New York City\, New York\, 10003\, United States
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SUMMARY:ONLINE | Trajectories of Authoritarianism in Democratic Regimes
DESCRIPTION:In an era of global democratic decline\, elected leaders have tapped economic and other grievances and resentments\, harnessed new coalitions\, and created popular narratives that legitimize the concentration of power in single parties and individuals. The government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in India has compromised the integrity and independence of state institutions\, and attacked civil society actors\, media\, academia\, and opposition parties. But national elections earlier this year brought surprising results\, with Modi’s party losing its parliamentary majority and now governing through a coalition. In Turkey\, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his ruling party were also handed a surprising electoral defeat in local elections in March 2024. Elections in the United States on November 5 for control of the presidency and Congress are among the most closely contested in recent decades\, and with the results likely to face legal challenges after Election Day. Through a comparative discussion of India\, Turkey\, and the United States\, this panel will explore how to understand the authoritarian turn\, varying modes of repressive governance within democracies and bases of its support\, and the channels through which opposition parties and social movements have navigated the fraught political landscape. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSPEAKERS: \n\n\n\n\nPratap Bhanu Mehta \n\n\n\nLaurence S Rockefeller Visiting Professor for Distinguished Teaching \n\n\n\nPrinceton University \n\n\n\nFull Bio \n\n\n\n\n\nSenem Aydin Duzgit \n\n\n\nProfessor of International Relations \n\n\n\nSabanci University\, Istanbul \n\n\n\nFull Bio \n\n\n\n\n\n Jeffrey C. Isaac \n\n\n\nJames H. Rudy Professor of Political Science \n\n\n\nIndiana University \n\n\n\nFull Bio
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/trajectories-of-authoritarianism-in-democratic-regimes/
LOCATION:Online
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SUMMARY:States\, Citizenship\, and Welfare in India and China
DESCRIPTION:In China\, recent reforms have aimed at expanding social security coverage\, improving healthcare\, and addressing rural-urban disparities. India has launched several ambitious welfare schemes aimed at poverty alleviation\, healthcare\, food security\, and right to work programs. By virtue of population size\, these programs are among the largest social policy initiatives in the world. But they are also insightful examples of welfare provision based less on rights-based entitlements and more on achieving state goals of development\, social stability\, political loyalty\, and promotion of more exclusive conceptions of citizenship. This panel explores changing welfare policies and politics in China and India\, and their roles in anchoring new forms of authoritarian or illiberal governance.
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/states-citizenship-and-welfare-in-india-and-china/
LOCATION:New York
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SUMMARY:India China Day 2024
DESCRIPTION:Student Fellows’ Presentations & Information Session for ICI Starr Student Award\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin India China Day for tasty food of India and China\, and listen to the presentations by the ICI student fellows. All on campus are welcome – TNS students\, faculty and staff! \n\n\n\nIndia China Day is an annual celebration of our student fellows’ works. It is an occasion to meet new and old ICI friends\, learn about ICI fellowships\, programs and opportunities for the new academic year. \n\n\n\nSix student fellows of the current cohort will present their research findings. Below are their research projects: \n\n\n\nPrajwal Godse\, Roots: Sanskriti Gallery \n\n\n\nPearl LU\, If I Wasn’t An Artist\, I’d Be An Empty Building \n\n\n\nSawyer Mifsud\, Punjabi Railworkers in East Africa \n\n\n\nRunjie Ou\, Unveiling Narratives of National Humiliation: A Field Study on Humiliation Education Discourse in Nanjing \n\n\n\nSiri Manasa Poluru\, The Sociological Imagination of “Bharat” in India \n\n\n\nPolly Ruiying Xu\, Psychological Well-being of Chinese Schoolchildren and Adolescents through a Narrative-oriented Inquiry
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/india-china-day-2024/
LOCATION:Starr Foundation Hall\, UL102 63 Fifth Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10011
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SUMMARY:The India China Institute: 20th Anniversary in Penang\, Malaysia
DESCRIPTION:The India China Institute’s 20th Anniversary symposium is an occasion for us to reflect on two decades of groundbreaking work addressing critical global issues. This event will bring together scholars\, practitioners\, and stakeholders to discuss the evolving trajectories of India and China and chart a path for our future initiatives. The Asian Leadership fellows of ICI have been at the forefront of shaping discourse in fields such as urbanization and globalization\, prosperity and inequality\, and sustainable development. The symposium will explore and expand ICI’s research agenda\, provide a platform for these thinkers to reconnect\, share insights\, and to inspire the next generation of scholars and policymakers. We will  bring prior fellows to Penang\, Malaysia on August 15-17\, 2024. A second event will take place at The New School on April 25\, 2025.  \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nThe India China Institute’s 20th Anniversary Symposium (I) \n\n\n\nVenue: Penang\,  Malaysia \n\n\n\nThursday\, August 15   Symposium Day 1 \n\n\n\nWednesday\, August 14: Arrival Day  \n\n\n\n7:00pm     Informal dinner at the Hotel  \n\n\n\nThursday\, August 15: Symposium Day 1 \n\n\n\n8:45am Welcome and Opening Remarks \n\n\n\n9:00am Roundtable 1: India\, China\, and the US in Shifting Global Orders  \n\n\n\nModerator:  Mark Frazier \n\n\n\nPresenters: Nimmi Kurian\, Pratap Mehta\, Aromar Revi\, Yao Yang\, Kanti Bajpai  \n\n\n\nHow are the global engagements of China and India over the last two decades shaping new institutional arrangements in politics\, security\, and economic relations? How are these new arrangements challenging an older putatively liberal international order? \n\n\n\n11:00am Tea/Coffee Break  \n\n\n\n11:30am     Roundtable 2: Digital Governance \n\n\n\nModerator: Manjari Mahajan \n\n\n\nPresenters: Hiren Doshi\, Victoria Marshall\, Chakrapani Ghanta \n\n\n\nUnlike in the West\, where large technology corporations have spearheaded digital transformations\, India and China have been marked by the dominance of state-driven data infrastructures that are increasingly foundational to governance. What are the opportunities\, debates\, and dystopias of the vast data worlds being produced in these two countries? \n\n\n\n1:30pm Lunch \n\n\n\n2:30pm Roundtable 3: Cities and Citizenship  \n\n\n\nModerator:  Selina Ho \n\n\n\nPresenters: Amita Bhide\, Brian McGrath\, Nidhi Srinivas\, Wu Xiaobo\, Yang Zuojun \n\n\n\nUrbanization in the past twenty years in China and India has rekindled debates over migration\, belonging and citizenship. How has urbanization influenced older categories of class\, caste\, gender and religion while offering new forms of identity? How do urban public spaces\, infrastructure and housing shape create new forms of belonging and conceptions of citizenship?  \n\n\n\n4:30pm          Break  \n\n\n\n5:30pm Convene in the hotel lobby \n\n\n\n6:00pm Dinner \n\n\n\n8:30pm Return to hotel \n\n\n\nFriday\, August 16   Symposium Day 2 \n\n\n\n9:00am  Roundtable 4: Prosperity and Inequality  \n\n\n\nModerator:  Ashok Gurung \n\n\n\nPresenters: Milind Murugkar\, Partha Mukhopadhyay\, Guo Yukuan\, Mahendra Lama \n\n\n\nOver the last two decades\, India and China have seen rapid economic growth and dramatic inequality. Both governments have sought to redress various forms of poverty and deprivation through social policies\, including education\, housing and employment schemes. How have the growth trajectories and welfare policies in China and India altered older forms of inequality and produced new ones? \n\n\n\n11:00am Tea/Coffee Break \n\n\n\n11:30am Roundtable 5: Environment\, Sustainability and Climate Change \n\n\n\nModerator: Sanjay Chaturvedi (TBC) \n\n\n\nPresenters: Jayanta Bandyopadhyay\, Li Bo\,  Sze Ping Lo\, Dong Shikui  \n\n\n\nIndia and China have encountered unprecedented environmental challenges from their own development trajectories as well as from global climate change. As they articulate new developmental models that foreground sustainability\, how are both countries shaping global discourse around energy transitions and other strategies for mitigating and adapting to climate change?  \n\n\n\n1:30pm   Lunch  \n\n\n\n2:30pm Wrap-up Session: Future Agendas and Questions (one hour) \n\n\n\n3:30pm Break \n\n\n\n4:30pm George Town UNESCO Heritage\, Temple and Culture Walking Tour  \n\n\n\n8:00pm Dinner  \n\n\n\nSaturday\, August 17: Departure Day \n\n\n\nOptional:  Morning informal group discussions 
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/the-india-china-institute-20th-anniversary-in-penang-malaysia/
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SUMMARY:Online Seminar Series: Chinese Global Infrastructure
DESCRIPTION:Watch Here\n\n\n\nThis panel discusses China’s diversifying role in global infrastructure development. Prof. Austin Strange will provide an overview of the scale and scope of China’s overseas infrastructure using large datasets he developed. Prof. Wendy Leutert and Dr Isaac Kardon will discuss China’s global port development involvement and its economic and security implications. Prof. Oscar Otele will introduce China’s involvement in railway development. He will delve into local elite collusion and contestation in the largest infrastructure investment in Kenya since its independence\, financed by China. Dr. Andrea Pollio will use years of fieldwork in Kenya and South Africa to outline China’s growing involvement in digital infrastructure in Africa and its implications for urban growth and entrepreneurship development in Sub-Saharan Africa. \n\n\n\n\nWendy Leutert \n\n\n\nAssistant Professor \n\n\n\nHamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies Indiana University \n\n\n\nFull Bio \n\n\n\n\n\nIsaac Kardon \n\n\n\nSenior Fellow\, Asia Program \n\n\n\nCarnegie Endowment For International Peace \n\n\n\nFull Bio \n\n\n\n\n\nOscar Otele \n\n\n\nSenior Lecturer\, Department of Political Science \n\n\n\nUniversity of Nairobi \n\n\n\nFull Bio \n\n\n\n\n\nAndrea Pollio \n\n\n\nMarie Skłodowska-Curie FellowAfrica Center for Cities \n\n\n\nUniversity of Cape Town \n\n\n\nFull Bio \n\n\n\n\n\nAustin Strange \n\n\n\nAssistant Professor of International Relations Department of Politics and Public Administration \n\n\n\nUniversity of Hong Kong \n\n\n\nFull Bio
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/online-seminar-series-chinese-global-infrastructure/
LOCATION:New York
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SUMMARY:Online Seminar Series: China's Role in the Global Debt Landscape
DESCRIPTION:Watch Here\n\n\n\nIn part two\, we delve into the composition of Chinese development finance\, comparing it to the World Bank\, and examine how the Global South perceives its local impact. Prof. Yan Wang will situate Chinese development finance in the global debt landscape by comparing it with World Bank loans. Dr. Ammar Malik will draw on large datasets to discuss the impact of China’s overseas development finance on the Global South at large. Mr. Mustafa Sayed will offer a local interpretation of the nature of Chinese loans to Pakistan and their role in the development of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor\, the first and flagship economic corridor in China’s Belt and Road Initiative. \n\n\n\n\nAmmar Malik \n\n\n\nSenior Research Scientist \n\n\n\nAidData College of William and Mary \n\n\n\nFull Bio \n\n\n\n\n\nMustafa Sayed \n\n\n\nExecutive Director \n\n\n\nPakistan-China Institute \n\n\n\nFull Bio \n\n\n\n\n\nYan WANG \n\n\n\nSenior Academic Researcher \n\n\n\nBoston University Global Development Policy Center \n\n\n\nFull Bio
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/seminar-series-chinas-role-in-the-global-debt-landscape/
LOCATION:New York
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SUMMARY:ONLINE SEMINAR SERIES | China in International Development: Instruments\, Finance\, and Infrastructures
DESCRIPTION:China’s global engagement with countries in the developing world is rapidly evolving in an era where traditional aid discourses and the practices of emerging powers in international development are undergoing significant changes. As the largest South-South cooperation provider and the world’s second-largest economy\, China’s development activities overseas have sparked debates regarding its role as a rising power in international development and its implications for the post-liberal global order. Over the past few decades\, China has substantially diversified its instruments and infrastructure in development practices. While some view China as a catalyst for new models of development and growth\, others accuse China of being responsible for the debt crises faced by many recipient economies. China’s involvement in international development has led to wide-ranging impacts. \n\n\n\nThis seminar series invites experts from five continents to engage in a three-part discussion on the instruments\, finance\, and infrastructures of China’s international development. In the first part\, we explore the evolution and diversification of instruments in China’s international development practices\, including its deployment of foreign aid and development finance\, as well as its evolving role in international security arrangements and global economic governance institutions. In part two\, we delve into the composition of Chinese development finance\, comparing it to the World Bank\, and examine how the Global South perceives its local impact. In part three\, we take China’s global infrastructure engagement as an example to illustrate the different actors and approaches involved in China’s international development practices\, as well as the role of state-led development. Using the three panel discussions\, we illustrate the wide-ranging impacts of Chinese international development engagement at the local\, national\, and global levels. \n\n\n\n\n\nSeminar Series Schedule\n\n\n\nDay 1 — April 259:00 AM — 10:30 AMThe Diversification of China’s International Development InstrumentsREGISTER HEREIn the first part\, we explore the evolution and diversification of instruments in China’s international development practices\, including its deployment of foreign aid and development finance\, as well as its evolving role in international security arrangements and global economic governance institutions. Prof. Xiaoyang Tang will draw from her decades of research to offer an overview of Chinese development finance and its changing characteristics. Prof. Min Ye will discuss the motivations behind China’s Belt and Road Initiative from the perspective of Chinese domestic politics and trace its evolution over time. Prof. Jennifer Bouey will review China’s health cooperation with the Global South and focus on specific case studies to understand its emerging features. Prof. Courtney Fung will explore China’s growing role in international security cooperation\, comparing it with India’s role.\n\n\n\nDay 2 — April 269:00 AM — 10:30 AMChina’s Role in the Global Debt LandscapeREGISTER HEREIn part two\, we delve into the composition of Chinese development finance\, comparing it to the World Bank\, and examine how the Global South perceives its local impact. Prof. Yan Wang will situate Chinese development finance in the global debt landscape by comparing it with World Bank loans. Dr. Ammar Malik will draw on large datasets to discuss the impact of China’s overseas development finance on the Global South at large. Mr. Mustafa Sayed will offer a local interpretation of the nature of Chinese loans to Pakistan and their role in the development of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor\, the first and flagship economic corridor in China’s Belt and Road Initiative.\n\n\n\nDay 3 — May 29:00 AM — 10:30 AMDiversification of Chinese Global InfrastructureREGISTER HEREThis panel discusses China’s diversifying role in global infrastructure development. Prof. Austin Strange will provide an overview of the scale and scope of China’s overseas infrastructure using large datasets he developed. Prof. Wendy Leutert and Dr Isaac Kardon will discuss China’s global port development involvement and its economic and security implications. Prof. Oscar Otele will introduce China’s involvement in railway development. He will delve into local elite collusion and contestation in the largest infrastructure investment in Kenya since its independence\, financed by China. Dr. Andrea Pollio will use years of fieldwork in Kenya and South Africa to outline China’s growing involvement in digital infrastructure in Africa and its implications for urban growth and entrepreneurship development in Sub-Saharan Africa.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJennifer Bouey \n\n\n\nChair and Associate Professor\, Department of International Health \n\n\n\nGeorgetown University \n\n\n\nFull Bio \n\n\n\n\n\nCourtney Fung \n\n\n\nAssociate Professor \n\n\n\nMacquarie University \n\n\n\nFull Bio \n\n\n\n\n\nXiaoyang Tang \n\n\n\nChair and Professor\, Department of International Relations \n\n\n\nTsinghua University \n\n\n\nFull Bio \n\n\n\n\n\nMin YE \n\n\n\nProfessor \n\n\n\nFrederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies Boston University  \n\n\n\nFull Bio \n\n\n\n\n\nAmmar Malik \n\n\n\nSenior Research Scientist \n\n\n\nAidData College of William and Mary  \n\n\n\nFull Bio \n\n\n\n\n\nMustafa Sayed \n\n\n\nExecutive Director \n\n\n\nPakistan-China Institute \n\n\n\nFull Bio \n\n\n\n\n\nYan WANG \n\n\n\nSenior Academic Researcher \n\n\n\nBoston University Global Development Policy Center \n\n\n\nFull Bio \n\n\n\n\n\nWendy Leutert  \n\n\n\nAssistant Professor \n\n\n\nHamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies Indiana University \n\n\n\nFull Bio \n\n\n\n\n\nIsaac Kardon \n\n\n\nSenior Fellow\, Asia Program  \n\n\n\nCarnegie Endowment For International Peace  \n\n\n\nFull Bio \n\n\n\n\n\nOscar Otele \n\n\n\nSenior Lecturer\, Department of Political Science \n\n\n\nUniversity of Nairobi \n\n\n\nFull Bio \n\n\n\n\n\nAndrea Pollio \n\n\n\nMarie Skłodowska-Curie FellowAfrica Center for Cities \n\n\n\nUniversity of Cape Town \n\n\n\nFull Bio \n\n\n\n\n\nAustin Strange \n\n\n\nAssistant Professor of International Relations Department of Politics and Public Administration \n\n\n\nUniversity of Hong Kong \n\n\n\nFull Bio
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/online-seminar-series-china-in-international-development-instruments-finance-and-infrastructures/
LOCATION:Online
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SUMMARY:Online Seminar Series: The Diversification of China's International Development Instruments
DESCRIPTION:Watch Here\n\n\n\nIn the first part\, we explore the evolution and diversification of instruments in China’s international development practices\, including its deployment of foreign aid and development finance\, as well as its evolving role in international security arrangements and global economic governance institutions. Prof. Xiaoyang Tang will draw from his decades of research to offer an overview of Chinese development finance and its changing characteristics. Prof. Min Ye will discuss the motivations behind China’s Belt and Road Initiative from the perspective of Chinese domestic politics and trace its evolution over time. Prof. Jennifer Bouey will review China’s health cooperation with the Global South and focus on specific case studies to understand its emerging features. Prof. Courtney Fung will explore China’s growing role in international security cooperation\, comparing it with India’s role. \n\n\n\n\nJennifer Bouey \n\n\n\nChair and Associate Professor\, Department of International Health \n\n\n\nGeorgetown University \n\n\n\nFull Bio \n\n\n\n\n\nCourtney Fung \n\n\n\nAssociate Professor \n\n\n\nMacquarie University \n\n\n\nFull Bio \n\n\n\n\n\nXiaoyang Tang \n\n\n\nChair and Professor\, Department of International Relations \n\n\n\nTsinghua University \n\n\n\nFull Bio \n\n\n\n\n\nMin YE \n\n\n\nProfessor \n\n\n\nFrederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies Boston University \n\n\n\nFull Bio
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/online-seminar-series-the-diversification-of-chinas-international-development-instruments/
LOCATION:New York
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240321T090000
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SUMMARY:Climate Change: Views from the Global South
DESCRIPTION:Watch Here\n\n\n\nInternational negotiations about climate change have long been anchored in frameworks of carbon emissions and net-zero targets. However\, this framing has not necessarily captured the most meaningful goals for many parts of the world that are coping with some of the most intense effects of climate change. Their concerns have centered around other issues such as the availability of water\, the rise in extreme heat\, air pollution\, and shifts in patterns of biodiversity and agriculture. These issues are undoubtedly connected to emissions\, and yet the dominant framework has often determined the production of knowledge\, the determination of targets\, and the design of interventions\, in ways that have elided the concerns of different parts of the world. This panel will bring together scholars and practitioners from the Global South who will discuss the perspectives of climate change that are most trenchant in their parts of the world. \n\n\n\nThe panel is part of an ongoing series organized by the India China institute on emerging political\, technological\, and economic arrangements that are replacing an older putatively liberal international order dominated by US leadership. By focusing on alternative frameworks\, it seeks to broaden and make more representative differing ways of understanding and addressing climate change. \n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNagraj Adve\n\n\n\nMemberTEACHERS AGAINST THE CLIMATE CRISIS\, INDIA \n\n\n\nView Full Bio \n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \nHamza Hamouchene\n \n \nActivist and Co-founderENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE NORTH AFRICA \n \n \nNorth Africa Programme CoordinatorTRANSNATIONAL INSTITUTE \n \n \nView Full Bio \n \n \n\n \n \nBo LI\n \n \nSenior Consultant on China’s Environment\, Regenerative Agriculture and ClimateShan Shui Conservation CentePEKING UNIVERSITY \n \n \nView Full Bio \n \n \n \n\n \nJimena Leiva Roesch\n \nINTERNATIONAL PEACE INSTITUTE \n \nView Full Bio
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/climate-change-global-south/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240222T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240222T103000
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SUMMARY:US-China Technology Rivalry and Its Global Implications
DESCRIPTION:Much of the US-China strategic rivalry in the last few years has played out as a struggle for technological supremacy. The Trump years were characterized by an unabashed abandonment of the discourse of free trade and international cooperation in favour of the language of “decoupling” and nationalism. This was accompanied by tariffs\, import bans\, and export controls\, including pressure on non-US companies to adhere to US law\, and was met with retaliatory measures from China. While the strident discourse between the two countries has seen ebbs and flows\, the ongoing friction around technology access has had far reaching consequences. This panel aims to understand the direct and also indirect effects of the ongoing technology battles between the US and China. It is part of an ongoing series of panels organized by the India China Institute on emerging political\, technological\, and economic arrangements that are replacing an older international order that used to be dominated by US leadership. Some of the issues that this panel will explore include: the impacts on companies which have had to “China-proof” or “US-proof” their operations; the redirecting of investments and shifting away of manufacturing away from China to other parts of the world; new geographies of technological innovation that include battles for supremacy in AI\, biotech\, smart cities\, and climate change technologies; the impact on academic networks and flows of students and experts; and finally geopolitical consequences as governments have had to take sides in new infrastructural\, technological and military alliances. \n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYu Zhou\n\n\n\nProfessorDepartment of GeographyVASSAR COLLEGE \n\n\n\nView Full Bio \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPranay Kotasthane\n\n\n\nDeputy DirectorChair of the High-Tech Geopolitics ProgramTAKSHASHILA INSTITUTION \n\n\n\nView Full Bio \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYujia He\n\n\n\nAssistant ProfessorPatterson School of Diplomacy and International CommerceUNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY \n\n\n\nView Full Bio
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/technology-it-china/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240208T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240208T173000
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SUMMARY:IN PERSON | The Rise and Fall of Economic-Centered Coalitions in China’s Belt and Road Initiative
DESCRIPTION:The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)\, ten years since it began\, has become China’s guiding foreign engagement and economic governance principle in the Xi Jinping era. However\, questions remain — with regards to their implementation\, why do megaprojects encounter such divergent responses — with some gaining local support while others causing local grievances? This paper addresses these questions by conducting sub-national level analysis and by applying the Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF) in tracing the rise and fall of economic-centered coalitions in the Kenyan Standard Gauge Railway project\, one of the most controversial and influential China-financed megaprojects of the BRI. The paper is part of a book project on the impact of Chinese-led infrastructure megaprojects in the Global South. Our research is based on fieldwork in China and Kenya between 2015 and 2023\, and we conducted over 300 surveys and interviews with stakeholders involved with BRI project development and community-based project impact assessment. Our findings suggest that the BRI developed its current form from China’s domestic experience driven by economic interests\, which laid the foundation for economic-centered coalitions that contributed to progress during project construction. Yet. such coalitions fluctuated with interest redistribution\, which changed project outcomes\, and led to future uncertainties in project development and Initiative success. The research project fills the gap in existing literature by providing a sub-national perspective on the impact of Chinese overseas engagement and provides a new pathway for assessing China’s growing sphere of influence. \n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKeren Zhu\n\n\n\nPostdoctoral FellowPublic PolicyINDIA CHINA INSTITUTE AT THE NEW SCHOOL \n\n\n\nView Full Bio \n\n\n\nCommentator\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEmma Park\n\n\n\nAssistant Professor of HistoryTHE NEW SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH \n\n\n\nView Full Bio
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/belt-and-road-initiative/
LOCATION:Starr Foundation Hall UL102\, UL102 63 Fifth Ave\, New York\, New York\, 100011\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231102T090000
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SUMMARY:ONLINE | Transforming Global Governance Institutions in a Shifting World Order
DESCRIPTION:Watch Here\n\n\n\nFor the last seven decades\, world politics has been dominated by American leadership\, the institutions it has designed\, and putatively liberal norms. This international order is facing severe challenges due to the rise of new powers\, breakdown of old economic arrangements\, and a redistribution of technological and infrastructural activity. This academic year\, we are planning a series of panels that seek to examine emerging political\, technological\, and economic arrangements that are replacing an older international order. \n\n\n\nThe November 2nd panel will be a panel that discusses how global governance institutions reflect changing geopolitics and international political economy. We hope to deliberate on the impact of new powers like China\, India\, and other countries in the global South\, and how they are leading to new distributions of power\, norms\, and expertise. \n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOumar BaAssistant Professor of International Relations Department of GovernmentCORNELL UNIVERSITY \n\n\n\nView Full Bio \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nXiao RENProfessor of International Politics Institute of International StudiesFUDAN UNIVERSITY\, CHINA \n\n\n\nView Full Bio \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTansen SenProfessor of HistoryDirector of the Center for Global AsiaNEW YORK UNIVERSITY SHANGHAI \n\n\n\nView Full Bio \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArlene B. TicknerAmbassador and Deputy Permanent Representative of Colombia to the United NationsProfessor\, School of International\, Political and Urban StudiesUNIVERSIDAD DEL ROSARIO\, COLOMBIA \n\n\n\nView Full Bio \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[/fusion_text][/fusion_builder_column][/fusion_builder_row][/fusion_builder_container]
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/the-shifting-power-structures-in-the-world-and-the-political-economy-of-global-institutions/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231005T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231005T103000
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SUMMARY:ONLINE | New Frameworks for Food Security: India\, China\, and Shifting Global Orders
DESCRIPTION:Watch Here\n\n\n\nThe age-old challenge of food security used to be dominated by concisely-defined national and international policies for agriculture\, hunger eradication\, food distribution\, and safety nets for emergencies. The older field is being reshaped in the 21st century with the convergence of climate change\, biotechnology\, geopolitics\, and a political economy that contends with a dominance of multinational corporations. The new landscape demands more capacious frameworks for understanding food security—frameworks that simultaneously contend with local\, national\, and international measures; integrate environmental\, animal\, and human health; and bring into conversation the political economy of poverty eradication with climate change. Indeed\, the Ukraine-Russia war vividly illustrates the need for more capacious frameworks for conceptualizing food security. The war has had a direct impact on food supplies and prices but also subsequently on debt and inflation worldwide\, especially in the poorest countries.  Panelists will take on the challenge of deliberating on frameworks for food security by discussing the state of global food security; China’s and India’s domestic food security policies; and the influence of China and India on global institutions such as the Food and Agricultural Organization. \n\n\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSophia KalantzakosGlobal Distinguished Professor\, Environmental Studies and Public PolicyNEW YORK UNIVERSITY ABU DHABI \n\n\n\nView Full Bio \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAromar ReviDirectorINDIAN INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN SETTLEMENTS \n\n\n\nView Full Bio \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDaojiong ZhaProfessor\, School of International StudiesInstitute of South-South Cooperation and DevelopmentPEKING UNIVERSITY \n\n\n\nView Full Bio
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/online-changing-conceptions-on-national-and-global-food-security/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230928T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230928T163000
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SUMMARY:India China Day 2023
DESCRIPTION:Student Fellows’ Presentations & Information Session for ICI Starr Student Award\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin India China Day on September 28\, 2023 at Hirshon Suite with tasty food of India and China\, and listen to the presentations by the ICI student fellows. All on campus are welcome – TNS students\, faculty and staff! \n\n\n\nIndia China Day is an annual celebration of our student fellows’ works. It is an occasion to meet new and old ICI friends\, learn about ICI fellowships\, programs and opportunities for the new academic year. \n\n\n\nSix student fellows of the current cohort will present their research findings. Some tried to uncover contemporary discourses by delving into historical narratives for comparative purposes\, some utilized digital technologies to reflect cultural phenomenon. Their keen observations and insights hopefully serve as windows to expand awareness of India-China related topics and foster dialogues in this rapidly changing world. \n\n\n\nHere are their research topics:Varshini Balaji – Social Networks of Care and Transnational Politics of Migrant Workers In and Across Dubai and Tamil Nadu.Udeepta Chakravarty – Contesting the ‘People’: The Bihar Movement against Indira Gandhi’s Populism.Belen Fadde – Analyzing Food Access in Cities of the Global South. Learning from Indian Research.Tianran Qian – Diasporic-Chinese Founded Alternative Spaces in NYC: A Case Study on SLEEPCENTER.Lavannya Suressh – Kolam in Code.Ruilong Zhang – The Supervisory System in Imperial China’s Governance. \n\n\n\nThis is going to be an in-person event. One must register to attend. More details on the 2024 Starr Student Award application can be found here. \n\n\n\n2022 – 2023 Student Fellows
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/india-china-day-2023/
LOCATION:Dorothy Hirshon Suite\, 55 West 13th Street Room I203\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, USA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230921T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230921T103000
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SUMMARY:ONLINE | Changing Regimes\, Changing World Order? Transregional Perspectives from Africa and Asia
DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording here\n\n\n\nThe geopolitics of the twenty-first century is increasingly characterized by a transformation of world order. In recent decades\, the liberal international order\, underpinned since the end of the Cold War by unipolar American hegemony\, has been fundamentally destabilized by the rise of emerging powers across the global South – a process spearheaded by China and by organizational formations such as the BRICS. Economically\, this process is fuelled by the ascent of dynamic growth centres beyond the Euro-American core of the world-system\, and manifest in apparent departures from the policy orthodoxies of market liberalism. In the realm of global governance\, southern emerging powers have unsettled the workings of the extant multilateral system and begun crafting an alternative architecture for multilateralism through institutions such as the New Development Bank. \n\n\n\nHow do we understand the nature of the political regimes driving this transformation of world order? This is an urgent question\, especially considering deepening trajectories of autocratization across states in the global South. In India\, for example\, Narendra Modi and the increasingly authoritarian right-wing Hindu nationalist BJP government preside over an unprecedented trajectory of attack on democratic institutions and freedoms. Moreover\, under Xi Jinping\, China’s intensification of authoritarianism in its one-party state has been concomitant with the rollout of ambitious challenges to the liberal global order\, through initiatives on “Global Development” and “Global Security.” And in South Africa\, the erosion of the ANC’s post-apartheid hegemony has opened up space for the crystallization of a new right-wing populism grounded in xenophobic conceptions of nationhood and belonging. In this panel\, we interrogate the significance and implications of the entangled unfolding of illiberal politics and transformation of world order for understanding the nature of our current turbulent conjuncture. \n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSuhas PalshikarChief EditorSTUDIES IN INDIAN POLITICS \n\n\n\nView Full Bio \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWilliam ShokiDeputy EditorAFRICA IS A COUNTRY \n\n\n\nView Full Bio \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKellee S. TsaiProfessor of Political ScienceDean of Humanities and Social SciencesTHE HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY \n\n\n\nView Full Bio \n\n\n\nModerator\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAlf Gunvald NilsenProfessor of SociologyDirector\, the Centre for Asian Studies in AfricaUNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA\, SOUTH AFRICA \n\n\n\nView Full Bio
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/online-changing-regimes-changing-world-orders-transregional-perspectives-from-africa-india-and-china/
LOCATION:New York
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230426T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230426T180000
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SUMMARY:HYBRID | Fluvial Government: Tracking Petroleum as Liquid Infrastructure in India
DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, India China Institute’s Postdoctoral Fellow Sarandha Jain will discuss her PhD dissertation\, which studies the oil-mediated relationship between the Indian state and citizens. Focusing on both oil production and consumption\, presenting ethnography of oil refineries\, research institutes\, state offices\, a peri-urban working-class-neighborhood near Delhi\, and ‘black markets’\, her talk examines oil as an infrastructure for the state and for society. She argues that the Indian state distributes itself into citizens’ lives via petroleum products\, which obtain their sociopolitical agencies while being produced in certain ways\, and play out those agencies while being consumed in certain ways. Her ethnography of refineries details out the microprocesses of oil refining and the complex relationship that human and nonhuman actors share. It elaborates on how politics get programmed into petroleum products\, designed to discipline consumer-citizens into particular lifestyles\, and how varying actors encumber this. Research on oil consumption with ‘black-marketeers’ and ordinary consumers of petroleum products\, probes “distorted discipline”\, where governmental plans get mangled by the informal practices of state actors as well as citizens. How does the politics programmed into petroleum products in refineries actually play out once other actors intervene\, and snatch control over oil away from the state? Investigating this tussle between legalized and illegalized groups\, she describes how it structures citizens’ lives\, and the constellations of power and forms of sociality it gives rise to. This talk highlights the constant churning between the state and citizens through ever-evolving devices of government\, as well as through escape from them. Specific modes of subjectification\, engineered through flows of oil\, lie at the heart of this churning\, over which state-citizen formations are negotiated. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSarandha JainPostdoctoral FellowINDIA CHINA INSTITUTE \n\n\n\nSarandha Jain is a socio-cultural and political anthropologist\, who recently completed her Ph.D. at Columbia University. Studying the multi-nodal network of petroleum manufacturing\, circulation\, and use in India\, her research examines petroleum as an infrastructure for the Indian state and society. To understand the politics of petroleum in the everyday\, she studies the modes of government\, forms of sociality\, and constellations of power petroleum produces and is produced by\, both in its manufacturing and its use. \n\n\n\nView Full Bio \n\n\n\nDiscussant\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRohan D’SouzaProfessorGraduate School of Asian and African Area StudiesKYOTO UNIVERSITY \n\n\n\nView Full Bio
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/in-person-fluvial-government-tracking-petroleum-as-liquid-infrastructure-in-india/
LOCATION:Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Auditorium\,\, 66 5th Ave room N101\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, USA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230417T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230417T190000
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SUMMARY:HYBRID | Data Engines: The Allure of Automating China’s Soil and Soul
DESCRIPTION: \nhttps://youtu.be/83OHkPfdHyQWatch Here\n \nIn this talk\, Silvia Lindtner will draw from ethnographic research she has conducted over the last 14 months across two sites in China: 1) small-scale businesses that center on alternative food and spiritual practices via life in nature and the countryside and 2) large-scale\, data-driven agricultural experiments at the outskirts of major urban centers. Prof. Lindtner will discuss how these two sites interact for the implementation of two recent state policies on “rural revitalization” and “national strengthening.” These policies are aimed at reinvesting into China’s “hinterlands:” from rural farmland to people’s most inner selves. They position data-driven techniques of automation\, surveillance technology\, and smart systems as key to the state’s ability to manage life that has partially escaped the state’s reach. And they call upon China’s youths who have turned away from the city to live and work in China’s countryside to co-produce what she calls “data engines\,” i.e. a participatory form of techno-governance driven by an engineering mindset that aims to cultivate citizens as productive selves who operate on behalf of the party state and its ambition to build a “strong China” by turning inwards—China’s history\, soil\, and agriculture. Data engines\, she shows\, simultaneously enable\, and slow down the automation of China’s soil and soul. \n \n \nSPEAKERS\n \n\n \nSilvia LindtnerAssociate ProfessorSchool of InformationPenny W Stamps School of Art and DesignUNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN \n \nSilvia Margot Lindtner (she/her) is Associate Professor at the University of Michigan in the School of Information and Director of the Center for Ethics\, Society\, and Computing (ESC). Lindtner’s research focuses on the cultures and politics of technology innovation\, including the labor necessary to incubate entrepreneurial life and data-driven futures. Drawing from over a decade of multi-sited ethnographic research\, she writes about China’s shifting position in the global political economy of computing\, supply chains\, industrial and agricultural production\, and science and technology policy. She is the author of the award-winning book Prototype Nation: China and the Contested Promise of Innovation (Princeton University Press\, 2020)\, and co-author of the multigraph Technoprecarious (Goldsmiths/MIT Press 2020). Lindtner is also a Visiting Associate Professor at NYU Shanghai\, a CUSP (China-US Scholars Program) Fellow\, and a fellow in the National Committee on United States-China Relations’ Public Intellectuals Program. Her research has been awarded support from the US National Science Foundation (NSF)\, IIE (the Institute of International Education)\, IMLS (Institute of Museum and Library Services)\, Intel Labs\, Google Anita Borg\, and the Chinese National Natural Science Foundation. Her work has appeared at ST&HV (Science\, Technology\, and Human Values)\, ESTS (Engaging Science\, Technology and Society)\, SocialText\, Women’s Studies Quarterly\, China Information\, ToCHI\, ACM SIGCHI (Human-Computer Interaction)\, and has been covered by the Economist\, New York Magazine\, NPR\, The Atlantic\, Wired\, the MIT Technology Review\, and more. \n \nView full bio
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/hybrid-data-engines-the-allure-of-automating-chinas-soil-and-soul/
LOCATION:Starr Foundation Hall UL102\, UL102 63 Fifth Ave\, New York\, New York\, 100011\, United States
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SUMMARY:IN PERSON | Where does the Silk Road end? - power\, recognition\, and the aesthetics of prestige
DESCRIPTION:IR scholars often define prestige as “reputation for power” and argue for its significance in the context of high-stakes negotiations\, the dynamics of power transition\, or (bi-polar) competition to attract allies and partners. Famously\, Gilpin argued that for international relations prestige is “enormously important” – even more so than power itself. This is because “if your strength is recognized\, you can generally achieve your aims without having to use it.” But whereas Gilpin and others correctly conceptualize the power of prestige in driving desired outcomes\, there is yet little attention to what exactly it means for strength to be “recognized\,” and who is doing the recognizing. \n\n\n\nDrawing on the “visual turn” in IR and starting from the original (visual) connotation of prestige as “dazzling influence” and “glamour\,” this talk interrogates the links between prestige and recognition from the vantage point of the politics of aesthetics. For the purpose\, I turn to select cases linked to China’s bid for international prestige\, especially based on the invocation of common (Silk Road) past and shared future. I show how\, in different communities\, visual representations and public displays disrupt standard formulations of a shared (Silk Road) past and also bring forth alternative understandings of the meaning and work of prestige. These cases\, I suggest\, can help clarify not only the important links between power and recognition\, but can also showcase the need for critical exploration of prestige in relation to empire and ontologies of power\, the complexities of post-colonial order\, and the evolving spaces for political agency. \n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMarina Jose KanetiAssistant Professor in International AffairsLEE KUAN YEW SCHOOL OF PUBLIC POLICY\, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE \n\n\n\nView Full Bio \n\n\n\nDiscussant\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTansen SenProfessor of HistoryNEW YORK UNIVERSITY SHANGHAI \n\n\n\nView Full Bio
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/in-person-where-does-the-silk-road-end/
LOCATION:Wolff Conference Room – Albert and Vera List Academic Center\, room D1103\, 6 East 16th Street\, New York\, New York\, 10003\, United States
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SUMMARY:Film Screening | Those 4 Years
DESCRIPTION:India China Institute is excited to host the screening of the recent research documentary of ICI’s past fellow Joe Thomas K called “Those 4 Years“. \n\n\n\nThe Nilgiris have gained the distinction of being a geographic indication for tea\, today. Somewhere behind the present glory is a remote connection with the Chinese which remains forgotten. “Those 4 Years” is an amazing journey into the lives of those Chinese who came to India around the middle of the 19th century… speaking a language unknown to their neighbors when they first arrived. The film journeys across three countries and reams of colonial office records to retrace the places those people came from\, the means and mode of their arrival\, and how many of them ended up making India their home. It is a history of people\, plants and places – as it catalogues their contributions to plantations\, locates places and sites associated with their earliest arrival and stay and\, more remarkably\, manages to locate some of the descendants of those Chinese who arrived in India over 150 years ago. \n\n\n\nRead the reviews below: “Tracing 19th Century Connections in South India” — The Hindu \n\n\n\n“Film traces history of little-known Indian-Chinese group” — China Daily \n\n\n\n“The Chinese touch behind Indian tea: documentary shows sweeter side of historical ties”– South China Morning Post \n\n\n\n\n\nIn Conversation with Film Director\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoe Thomas KarackattuAssociate ProfessorINDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS \n\n\n\nView Full Bio
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/film-screening-those-4-years/
LOCATION:Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Auditorium\,\, 66 5th Ave room N101\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, USA
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SUMMARY:ONLINE | Book Launch: Against NGOs: A critical perspective on Civil Society\, Management\, and Development
DESCRIPTION:Watch Here\n\n\n\nWhat would development look like if its practitioners and scholars were ‘against NGOs\,’ challenging common sense about them? This book presents a critical perspective on NGOs\, describing how they emerged as key agents of development over time. Through an interpretative history based on Gramscian concepts it shows how civil society organizations were gradually enlisted in development as non-state technocratic actors. The book argues that management studies and development studies emerged as commonsensical explanations for capitalist crises. Each offered complementary solutions to balance the needs of capital and society\, in particular historical circumstances. These solutions also situated civil society as agents of development and vectors of management. Against NGOs fills a gap within the literature of management and development studies through its original discussion of their historical interconnections and shared themes. The book raises provocative questions on what forms of knowledge-politics can respond productively to the crises of our contemporary moment. \n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker/Author\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNidhi Srinivas\n Associate Professor of ManagementMilano School of Policy\, Management\, and Environment THE NEW SCHOOL \n\n\n\nNidhi Srinivas is Associate Professor of Management at Milano School of Policy\, Management\, and Environment. His research centers on social innovation and postcolonial studies\, mobilizing critical theory to study a variety of topics\, including management history\, international development\, mutual aid\, ecological politics and civic design. He publishes widely and has received several fellowships\, including from Erasmus Mundus\, the India China Institute\, and the BRICS policy center. He has also served as visiting professor at different institutions\, including the ITC-ILO\, Turin; Hitotsubashi University\, Tokyo; Sao Paulo School of Business Administration; and the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore. \n\n\n\nView full bio \n\n\n\nDiscussants\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSuchitra VijayanAuthor & ResearcherNEW YORK UNIVERSITY \n\n\n\nView Full Bio \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAlf Gunvald NilsenProfessor\, Department of SociologyUNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA \n\n\n\nView Full Bio
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/online-book-launch-against-ngos-a-critical-perspective-on-civil-society-management-and-development-2/
LOCATION:Online
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SUMMARY:ONLINE | Citizenship from Event series: Flows\, Infrastructure\, Citizenship in India and China
DESCRIPTION:Citizenship\n\n\n\nHosted by: Sarandha Jain \n\n\n\nHow does the migration and mobility of people\, objects\, and natural substances facilitate and obstruct the constructions of infrastructure\, and vice versa\, and of citizenship\, and vice versa? What forms of state-citizen relations arise from the state’s attempts at regulating flows and infrastructures\, and their occasional escape from this? Addressing these questions\, the fourth dialogue in the seminar series “Flows\, Infrastructure and Citizenship in India and China“\, is between Suraj Gogoi\, Assistant Professor at RV University’s School of Liberal Arts and Sciences\, and Andrew Grant\, Visiting Assistant Professor at Boston College’s International Studies Program\, facilitated by Alexandra Delano Alonso\, Associate Professor of Global Studies at The New School. While still emphasizing the triadic interface between flows\, infrastructure\, and citizenship\, the speakers here underscore citizenship more\, and discuss what it means in relation to flows and infrastructure\, and how that relationship shapes and is shaped by the state\, in India and China. (Please see the full description of this series for a detailed understanding of the dialogues). \n\n\n\nPresentation titles: \n\n\n\nSuraj Gogoi – “Who Comes after the National Register of Citizens (NRC)?” \n\n\n\nAndrew Grant – “Citizenship in China’s Contemporary Inner Asian Borderlands: Contradictions between Development and Security” \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSuraj GogoiAssistant ProfessorSchool of Liberal Arts and SciencesRV UNIVERSITY \n\n\n\nView Full Bio \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAndrew GrantVisiting ScholarInternational Studies ProgramBOSTON COLLEGE \n\n\n\nView Full Bio
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/online-citizenship/
LOCATION:Online
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SUMMARY:ONLINE | Infrastructure from Event series: Flows\, Infrastructure\, Citizenship in India and China
DESCRIPTION:Infrastructure\n\n\n\nHosted by: Sarandha Jain \n\n\n\nHow do infrastructures and notions of citizenship coalesce and become useful for each other through flows of people\, objects\, and natural substances? What infrastructures are created to regulate flows for protecting certain notions and forms of citizenship (such as documents\, digital identities\, surveillance\, detention centers\, dams\, etc.)? Addressing these questions\, the third dialogue in the seminar series “Flows\, Infrastructure and Citizenship in India and China“\, is between Sunalini Kumar\, Associate Professor at the School of Global Affairs at Ambedkar University\, and Amy Zhang\, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at New York University\, facilitated by Emma Park\, Assistant Professor of History at the New School for Social Research. While still emphasizing the triadic interface between flows\, infrastructure\, and citizenship\, the speakers here underscore infrastructure more\, and discuss what it means in relation to flows and citizenship\, and how that relationship shapes and is shaped by the state\, in India and China. (Please see the full description of this series for a detailed understanding of the dialogues). \n\n\n\nPresentation titles:  \n\n\n\nSunalini Kumar – “Tying the Camel and Goat Together: The Abrogation of Rural Citizenship in Urbanising Delhi” \n\n\n\nAmy Zhang –  “Re-thinking China’s Infrastructural Turn through Waste” \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSunalini KumarAssociate Professor School of Global AffairsAMBEDKAR UNIVERSITY \n\n\n\nView Full Bio \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAmy ZhangAssistant Professor\, AnthropologyNEW YORK UNIVERSITY \n\n\n\nView Full Bio
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/online-infrastructure/
LOCATION:Online
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SUMMARY:ONLINE | Flows from Event series: Flows\, Infrastructure\, Citizenship in India and China
DESCRIPTION:Flows\n\n\n\nHosted by: Sarandha Jain \n\n\n\nHow do flows of people\, things\, resources\, natural substances encounter infrastructure\, and what does that do to arrangements of citizenship? How is the state involved in these encounters and arrangements? Addressing these questions\, the second dialogue in the seminar series “Flows\, Infrastructure and Citizenship in India and China“\, is between Ritajyoti Bandhyopadhyay\, Assistant Professor of Humanities and Social Sciences at Indian Institute of Science Education and Research\, and Yimin Zhao\, Assistant Professor of Urban Planning and Management at Renmin University of China\, facilitated by Antina von Schnitzler\, Associate Professor of International Affairs at The New School. While still emphasizing the triadic interface between flows\, infrastructure\, and citizenship\, the speakers here underscore flows more\, and discuss what they mean in relation to infrastructure and citizenship\, and how that relationship shapes and is shaped by the state\, in India and China. (Please see the full description of this series for a detailed understanding of the dialogues). \n\n\n\nPresentation titles:  \n\n\n\nRitajyoti Bandhyopadhyay – “Dialectics of the Capitalist Urban Process: Infrastructure and Human Action in Twentieth-Century Calcutta” \n\n\n\nYimin Zhao – “Flows of People\, Flows of Water\, and Flows of Cars: The Political Infrastructure of (non-)Citizenship” \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRitajyoti BandyopadhyayAssistant ProfessorHumanities and Social SciencesINDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE EDUCATION AND RESEARCH \n\n\n\nView Full Bio \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYimin ZhaoAssistant ProfessorUrban Planning and ManagementRENMIN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA \n\n\n\nView Full Bio
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/online-flows/
LOCATION:Online
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SUMMARY:ONLINE | Seminar Series: Flows\, Infrastructure\, Citizenship in India and China (Feb. 27 - Mar. 10)
DESCRIPTION:Opening Dialogue\n\n\n\n\n\nFlows\n\n\n\n\n\nInfrastructure\n\n\n\n\n\nCitizenship\n\n\n\n\nHosted by: Sarandha Jain \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nLabor flows in from distant lands for the construction of a dam. The dam obstructs the flow of a river. The dam creates refugees\, who flow across borders\, in search of new citizenship. Airports are necessitated by the flow of people and things. Alongside passports and digital identities\, they also control the flow of people and things. Canals and bridges generate flows. Authorities managing them restrict the same flows\, also invoking proof of citizenship. Street hawkers and carts obstruct the flow of road traffic. They also create flows of people\, money\, and things. Public and private authorities managing circulatory infrastructures and flows such as roads\, transportation\, water supply\, energy provision\, and suchlike\, demand proof of citizenship and identity by residents/commuters to access them. These disparate images reflect varying interplays between flows\, infrastructure\, and citizenship. \n\n\n\nSeveral inquiries are possible about this tripartite arrangement between them. This dialogue series explores the many ways in which they encounter each other\, and what those co-arrangements mean for the evolving nature of the state. How do flows of people\, objects\, and natural substances facilitate and/or obstruct the constructions of infrastructure\, and vice versa? How do these flows relate similarly with constructions of citizenship? In other words\, what is the meaning of flows to both\, infrastructure and citizenship\, and to their relationship with each other: i.e.\, how do infrastructures and notions of citizenship coalesce and become useful for each other through flows of people\, objects\, and natural substances? Further\, what infrastructures are created to regulate flows for protecting certain notions and forms of citizenship (documents\, digital identities\, surveillance\, detention centers\, dams\, etc.)? How and when do flows of people\, objects\, and substances escape regulation? What forms of state-citizen relations arise from the state’s attempts at regulating flows and infrastructures\, and their occasional escape from this? This series studies the collective interface between flows\, infrastructures\, and citizenship\, and the structures and systems emerging from this triad\, and created to further cement it. \n\n\n\nIn the last few years\, there has been a renewed investment in policing citizenship in India and China. This has given rise to many new debates\, instituted new systems in these countries\, and new politics have emerged from them. Owing to advancements in technology\, new infrastructural capabilities have been afforded to the governments of these countries for implementing their new designs regarding citizenship and the regulation of flows. Flows\, however\, continue to evade policing and discipline. What can we learn from the current moment by analyzing the ever-evolving encounter between flows\, infrastructures\, and citizenship in India and China? Furthermore\, what has been the evolution in the nature of the state and in its role as an infrastructural state (as provider and as policer) to monitor flows? As the state’s infrastructural nature takes precedence\, through the lens of flows\, this series charts the evolution in the nature of the state\, in the relationship between the state and citizens in India and China\, and between infrastructures and state-citizen relations. \n\n\n\nThis series consists of four dialogues over Spring 2023\, held virtually on zoom. These dialogues are between a scholar of India and another of China\, who work on linked thematics; and are moderated by a third scholar who shares their thematic synergies. The opening dialogue lays the ground for the overall intellectual aims of the series by speaking to all three conceptual and empirical aspects: flows\, infrastructures\, and citizenship\, and how they connect. The following three dialogues\, while still focused on the interface between flows\, infrastructure\, and citizenship\, highlight one of them more\, by inviting scholars of India and China who specialize in flows (for the second dialogue)\, infrastructure (for the third)\, and citizenship (for the fourth). \n\n\n\nOpening dialogue\, Feb 27\, 2023\, 9.30am – 11.00am EST: Townsend Middleton (India)\, Ka Ming Wu (China)\, Sarandha Jain (discussant)Flows\, March 3\, 2023\, 10.00am – 11.30am EST: Ritajyoti Bandyopadhyay (India)\, Yimin Zhao (China)\, Antina von Schnitzler (discussant)Infrastructure\, March 6\, 2023\, 10.00am – 11.30am EST: Sunalini Kumar (India)\, Amy Zhang (China)\, Emma Park (discussant)Citizenship\, March 10\, 2023\, 11.00am – 12.30pm EST: Suraj Gogoi (India)\, Andrew Grant (China)\, Alexandra Delano (discussant) \n\n\n\nThis series is open to the public and audience is not limited to TNS affiliates. \n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTownsend MiddletonAssociate Professor AnthropologyUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL \n\n\n\nView Full Bio \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKa Ming WuAssociate Professor Cultural and Religious StudiesCHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG \n\n\n\nView Full Bio \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRitajyoti BandyopadhyayAssistant ProfessorHumanities and Social SciencesINDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE EDUCATION AND RESEARCH \n\n\n\nView Full Bio \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYimin ZhaoAssistant ProfessorUrban Planning and ManagementRENMIN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA \n\n\n\nView Full Bio \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSunalini KumarAssociate Professor School of Global AffairsAMBEDKAR UNIVERSITY \n\n\n\nView Full Bio \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAmy ZhangAssistant Professor\, AnthropologyNEW YORK UNIVERSITY \n\n\n\nView Full Bio \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSuraj GogoiAssistant ProfessorSchool of Liberal Arts and SciencesRV UNIVERSITY \n\n\n\nView Full Bio \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAndrew GrantVisiting ScholarInternational Studies ProgramBOSTON COLLEGE \n\n\n\nView Full Bio \n\n\n\nDiscussants\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSarandha JainPostdoctoral FellowINDIA CHINA INSTITUTE \n\n\n\nView Full Bio \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAntina von SchnitzlerAssociate Professor of International AffairsTHE NEW SCHOOL \n\n\n\nView Full Bio \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEmma ParkAssistant Professor of HistoryTHE NEW SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH \n\n\n\nView Full Bio \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAlexandra Delano AlonsoAssociate Professor of Global StudiesTHE NEW SCHOOL \n\n\n\nView Full Bio
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/online-flows-infrastructure-citizenship-in-india-and-china/
LOCATION:New York
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SUMMARY:Discussion with Artist Hai Zhang on BEING: A Digital Archive of the Age of Flux in China
DESCRIPTION:Join Hai Zhang\, an Artist and Visiting Artist for the inauguration of his collaborative digital archive project with India China Institute titled – ‘BEING’. Between 2008 and 2019\, Zhang frequently visited China\, his homeland\, to photograph the changing social and physical landscape. He says:“Every time I return to China (whether on specific topics or not)\, I become increasingly aware of the passage of time between visits and my inability to keep pace with the country. It has been a human impulse to collect images like souvenirs as a reminder of the experience. Yet\, the documentary images serve as a perfect metaphor from the fragmentary nature of memory and the desire to take ownership of it.”Zhang’s work with India China Institute establishes the continuity between disjointed experiences by bringing individual lives in China to the forefront of contextual discourse. This digital archive closely examines life in a society that is in a perpetual state of flux. In addition\, Zhang will share his thoughts on the process of archiving and what it means to make archival material accessible to the public.As Dr. Roland Benoit\, a German neuroscientist once said\, “Our memory is not made for the past\, but for the future.” So is the project – BEING. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSPEAKERS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHai ZhangPHOTOGRAPHER\, VISITING ARTIST\, INDIA CHINA INSTITUTE \n\n\n\nZHANG\, Hai was born in Kunming\, China in 1976. In 2000\, after his graduation of the college in Chongqing\, he moved to the US. Since then\, he has lived in Alabama\, Miami\, Washington\, DC and New York City. Before he was able to devote himself to photographic work\, he worked for the renowned architect\, Rafael Vinoly\, for several years. \n\n\n\nZHANG is interested in photography as a vital tool to investigate the context whether alien or familiar. While he has dedicated a great deal of energy and time to photograph in China and the Deep South of the US\, he has also traveled to Costa Rica\, Russia and Southeast Asia for projects. \n\n\n\nZHANG is also interested in making photography books not for a presentation but an integral investigative process to examine the subjects and photography itself. He has been applying the permutation and variation in book making for his short and long term projects as well as subject matters. \n\n\n\nView full bio
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/discussion-with-artist-hai-zhang-on-being-a-digital-archive-of-the-age-of-flux-in-china/
LOCATION:Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Auditorium\,\, 66 5th Ave room N101\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, USA
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SUMMARY:Politics of Gender in Work and Innovation in India and China
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a discussion of “Politics of Gender in Work and Innovation in India and China.”  \n\n\n\nDrawing on ethnographic research of design practices in post-liberalization India\, Prof. Lilly Irani traces how designers target everyday acts of social reproduction as sites of intervention and valorization through design intervention. She makes the case with stories of water cooling\, contrasting devalued water cooling practices characterized as jugaad or workaround with proper\, branded products recognizable as innovation. These contrasting categories act as signposts to see how design practices proposed as participatory and inclusive can still reproduce class\, caste\, and gender hierarchies in contemporary India. She draws from Chasing Innovation: Making Entrepreneurial Citizens in Modern India (Princeton University Press\, 2019). Prof. Yige Dong draws on a case study of Zhengzhou\, a city located in China’s heartland that has transformed from a major textile mill town in the socialist period to the world largest iPhone manufacturing center in the last decade. Extending the analytical focus from the factory shop floor to the space of social reproduction\, this talk discusses how dynamics in the realm of gender and care work has constituted the processes of political economy and shaped the outcomes of China’s industrial development.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSPEAKERS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLilly IraniAssociate ProfessorCommunication\, Science Studies\, Computer Science\, Critical Gender Studies\, Design LabUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO  \n\n\n\nLilly Irani is an Associate Professor of Communication & Science Studies at University of California\, San Diego. She also serves as faculty in the Design Lab\, Institute for Practical Ethics\, the program in Critical Gender Studies\, and sits on the Academic Advisory Board of AI Now (NYU). She is author of Chasing Innovation: Making Entrepreneurial Citizens in Modern India (Princeton University Press\, 2019) and Redacted (with Jesse Marx) (Taller California\, 2021). Chasing Innovation has been awarded the 2020 International Communication Association Outstanding Book Award and the 2019 Diana Forsythe Prize for feminist anthropological research on work\, science\, or technology\, including biomedicine. Her research examines the cultural politics of high-tech work and the counter-practices they generate\, as both an ethnographer\, a designer\, and a former technology worker. She is a co-founder of the digital worker advocacy organization Turkopticon. Her work has appeared at ACM SIGCHI\, New Media & Society\, Science\, Technology & Human Values\, South Atlantic Quarterly\, and other venues. She sits on the Editorial Committee of Public Culture and on the Editorial Advisory Boards of New Technology\, Work\, and Employment and Design and Culture. She has a Ph.D. in Informatics from University of California\, Irvine. \n\n\n\nView full bio \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYige DongAssistant Professor Department of SociologyDepartment of Global Gender & Sexuality StudiesUNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO\, THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK \n\n\n\nYige Dong\, PhD\, is an assistant professor in the UB Department of Sociology and in the Department of Global Gender and Sexuality Studies.Prof. Dong’s primary research interest lies at the intersection of political economy\, social inequality\, and social change. Currently\, she is working on a book project\, The Fabric of Care: Women’s Work and the Politics of Livelihood in Industrial China\, which examines the changing politics of care in China’s industrial sector in the past century. Prof. Dong has been awarded the Luce/ACLS Early Career Fellowship in China Studies (2021-2022). \n\n\n\nView full bio \n\n\n\nDISCUSSANT\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYing ChenAssistant ProfessorEconomics; Director of Undergraduate Studies and Departmental Faculty Advisor\, EconomicsTHE NEW SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH \n\n\n\nYing Chen is Assistant Professor of Economics at the New School and holds a Ph.D. in Economics from University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her work explores the contradictions within capitalism and how they exhibit themselves. Topics she has studied include economic development\, labor\, and climate change\, with a special focus on the global south. She has published in journals including Environment and Development Economics\, Economics and Labor Relations Review\, Journal of Labor and Society\, Review of Radical Political Economics\, International Review of Applied Economics\, and so on. She was also consulted for the working of the UNCTAD Trade and Development Report 2021. \n\n\n\nView full bio
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/politics-of-gender-in-work-and-innovation-in-india-and-china/
LOCATION:Online
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SUMMARY:India China Institute's Lunchtime Talks for The New School Community
DESCRIPTION:India China Institute is pleased to offer bi-weekly lunchtime talks for The New School faculty\, students and staff.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent Series
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/india-china-institutes-lunchtime-talks-for-the-new-school-community/
LOCATION:Wolff Conference Room – Albert and Vera List Academic Center\, room D1103\, 6 East 16th Street\, New York\, New York\, 10003\, United States
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SUMMARY:India China Day 2022
DESCRIPTION:Information Session for ICI Student Research Award & Past Student Fellows’ Presentations\n\n\n\n\n\nOn Sep. 29 we will celebrate India China Day with our 2022 – 2023 Student Fellows in preparation for the 2022 – 2023 student research award for full-time undergraduate and graduate students at The New School. This is an exciting opportunity for students to design and implement thorough archival research or secondary research on a topic of their choice within the context of India\, China and beyond.  \n\n\n\nJoin us in celebration and learn more about the opportunity by hearing from the previous cohort of ICI student fellows. The cohort consists of seven students who conducted research in 2022 – 2023 and will present brief reflections on their work and experiences. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2022 – 2023 Student Fellows
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/research-award-for-the-new-school-students-2/
LOCATION:Starr Foundation Hall\, UL102 63 Fifth Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10011
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SUMMARY:Shifting Geographies of Expertise and Policymaking
DESCRIPTION:The first in-person workshop that ICI hosts since Covid will takes place at CAG\, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy\, National University of Singapore. The workshop addresses the changing relationships between expertise and policymaking in India\, China\, and beyond. In both countries\, an increasing reliance on technical expertise for governance has been juxtaposed alongside new conceptions of who counts as a relevant expert. The response to the COVID-19 pandemic is perhaps the most vivid of many instances that illuminate the formation of novel epistemic communities and new institutional frameworks and infrastructures for knowledge production for policymaking. This in-person conference will bring SGEP fellows together to further strengthening fellowships among the fellows\, and more importantly\, review and critique the researches\, in preparation for an academic publication of the fellows’ outstanding insightful research works. \n\n\n\nSGEP Scholars
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/shifting-geographies-of-expertise-and-policymaking/
LOCATION:Centre on Asia and Globalization\, 469C Bukit Timah Road\, Singapore\, 259772\, Singapore
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