BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//India China Institute - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for India China Institute REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20180311T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20181104T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20190310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20191103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20200308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20201101T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20210314T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20211107T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20220313T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20221106T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20230312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20231105T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20240310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20241103T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:UTC BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:UTC DTSTART:20210101T000000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230303T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230310T235959 DTSTAMP:20260503T172036 CREATED:20221219T053514Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240409T164210Z UID:114149-1677801600-1678492799@www.indiachinainstitute.org 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/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/flows_playblack.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20221110T150000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20221110T161500 DTSTAMP:20260503T172036 CREATED:20220905T113435Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230323T183402Z UID:113720-1668092400-1668096900@www.indiachinainstitute.org 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/being_playback.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20221013T100000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20221013T113000 DTSTAMP:20260503T172036 CREATED:20220904T171653Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230323T183355Z UID:113697-1665655200-1665660600@www.indiachinainstitute.org 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/politics_gender_playback.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20221110T120000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20221110T130000 DTSTAMP:20260503T172037 CREATED:20220926T044527Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221219T042502Z UID:113770-1668081600-1668085200@www.indiachinainstitute.org 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/ICI-Lunchtime-Talks.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220929T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220929T163000 DTSTAMP:20260503T172037 CREATED:20220905T124443Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230323T184127Z UID:113733-1664463600-1664469000@www.indiachinainstitute.org 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/indiachinaday_playback.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220909T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220910T235959 DTSTAMP:20260503T172037 CREATED:20220905T131714Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220926T044733Z UID:113737-1662681600-1662854399@www.indiachinainstitute.org 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/ICI_SHIFTING_GEO_transparent.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220414T090000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220414T110000 DTSTAMP:20260503T172037 CREATED:20220329T083451Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230323T183456Z UID:113458-1649926800-1649934000@www.indiachinainstitute.org SUMMARY:The Responses of India and China to the War in Ukraine DESCRIPTION:Watch Here\n\n\n\nThe Russian invasion of Ukraine\, which prompted immediate censure and sanctions against Russia by Western governments\, has been met with a more ambivalent response by China and India. While both governments have issued statements deploring the harm to civilians and loss of life\, for different reasons\, they have abstained from United Nations’ resolutions condemning Russia and sought ways to avoid having to choose sides with either the US-led coalition or with Russia. To understand the responses to the conflict\, please join a panel featuring foreign policy analysts from India and China. \n\n\n\nThe event is co-sponsored by Global Studies and Julien J. Studley Graduate Programs in International Affairs at The New School. \n\n\n\n\n\nSPEAKERS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShyam SaranFORMER FOREIGN SECRETARY OF INDIASenior FellowCENTRE FOR POLICY RESEARCH \n\n\n\nShyam Saran is a Senior Fellow and Member of the Governing Board at the Centre for Policy Research. He is a former Foreign Secretary of India and has served as Prime Minister’s Special Envoy For Nuclear Affairs and Climate Change. After leaving government service in 2010\, he has headed the Research and Information System for Developing Countries\, a prestigious think tank focusing on economic issues (2011-2017)\, and was Chairman of the National Security Advisory Board under the National Security Council (2013-15). He is currently a Life Trustee of India International Centre\, a Member of the Governing Board of the Institute of Chinese Studies\, a Trustee at the World Wildlife Fund (India)\, and a Member of the Executive Council of the Federation of Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI). He has recently published a book\, How India Sees the World. \n\n\n\nView full bio \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLU\, YangResearch Fellow Institute of the Belt and Road InitiativeTSINGHUA UNIVERSITY \n\n\n\nDr. LU\, Yang is currently a research fellow at the Institute of the Belt and Road Initiative\, Tsinghua University. She got her Bachelor’s in Xiamen University and her master’s and a doctorate in political science at the University of Heidelberg\, Germany. She was a post-doc at the Department of International Relations\, Tsinghua University from 2015 to 2018\, was a lecturer at the South Asia Institute\, Heidelberg University\, awarded the China India Scholar Leaders Fellowship of India China Institute\, The New School in New York\, Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-financed Students Abroad\, and fellowship of German Academy Exchange Service (DAAD). Her research area is international politics\, focusing on India and South Asia\, Germany\, and Europe. In recent years she has been working on China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)\, and related regional cooperation programs. She has published numerous academic articles and opinion pieces\, was invited by CGTN\, CCTV-13\, Phoenix TV commenting news related to South Asia and BRI. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNimmi KurianProfessor CENTRE FOR POLICY RESEARCH \n\n\n\nNimmi Kurian is a Professor at the Centre for Policy Research. Her research focuses in particular on the border regions between South Asia and Southeast Asia\, India’s neighborhood policy\, federalism and foreign policy\, transboundary water politics\, and comparative regionalism. Nimmi serves on the External Advisory Board of the India China Institute\, The New School\, New York\, and on the Fellowship Committee of the China Studies Postdoctoral Fellowship Program\, Centre for China Studies\, Ashoka University. She has held Fellowships from the India China Institute\, The New School\, New York\, and the Charles Wallace India Trust. She holds an MA\, MPhil\, and Ph.D. in International Relations from the Jawaharlal Nehru University.Nimmi has written and published widely on alternative spatial imaginations of South Asia\, a theme that is explored in detail in her two books India China Borderlands: Conversations Beyond the Centre (Sage\, 2014) and India and China: Rethinking Borders and Security (co-author) (University of Michigan Press\, 2016). \n\n\n\nView full bio \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDA\, WeiDirector of the Center for International Security and Strategy (CISS)Professor\, School of Social SciencesTSINGHUA UNIVERSITY \n\n\n\nDr. Da’s research expertise covers China-US relations and US security & foreign policy. Da Wei has worked in China’s academic and policy community for more than 2 decades. Prior to his current positions\, Dr. Da Wei was the assistant president of the University of International Relations (2017-2020)\, director of the Institute of American Studies\, China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations (2013-2017). He has written hundreds of policy papers for the Chinese government and published dozens of academic papers in journals in China\, the US\, and other countries.Da Wei earned his BA and MA from UIR and his Ph.D. from CICIR. He was a visiting senior fellow at the Atlantic Council of the United States from 2006 to 2007\, and a visiting senior associate at SAIS\, Johns Hopkins University from 2008 to 2009. \n\n\n\nView full bio URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/indian-and-chinese-responses-to-the-war-in-ukraine/ LOCATION:Online ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/ukraine_playback.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220303T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220303T113000 DTSTAMP:20260503T172037 CREATED:20220113T060313Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230323T184941Z UID:113316-1646301600-1646307000@www.indiachinainstitute.org SUMMARY:New Urbanisms of China and India: A Panel Discussion DESCRIPTION:https://youtu.be/c5DLJsiBIvQWatch Here\nA growing body of research on urban India and China shows that the concepts drawn from the histories of urbanization in the West are not adequate for understanding the new forms of power\, networks\, capital\, and infrastructure that constitute the rapidly changing urban ecologies of China and India. The authors of two recent books will discuss the meanings and significance of the “urban” in two of the largest and most populous urban centers in the world: Greater Mumbai and the Municipality of Chongqing. Drawing from their research on transformational processes that span conventional boundaries of rural-urban\, formal-informal\, state-society\, citizen-subject\, the panel addresses questions of governance\, migration\, infrastructure\, and public goods provision. Lisa Björkman is the editor of Bombay Brokers (Duke University Press\, 2021). Nick R. Smith is the author of The End of the Village: Planning the Urbanization of Rural China (University of Minnesota Press\, 2021). \nSpeakers\n\nLisa BjörkmanAssociate Professor\, Urban and Public AffairsUniversity of Louisville \nSenior Research AssociateMax Planck Institute for Social Anthropology\, Germany \nLisa Björkman is a political ethnographer and anthropologist interested in the material infrastructures and mediations of political life. She is the editor of Bombay Brokers\, published by Duke University Press in 2021. Her research in the Indian city of Mumbai has studied how global-level processes of urbanization and urban transformation are redrawing lines of socio-spatial inclusions and exclusions in that city\, animating new arenas of political mobilization\, contention\, and representation. Her current research builds on themes that emerged out of her doctoral research on everyday politics of infrastructural provisioning and access in Mumbai\, to explicitly pursue anthropology of democracy\, mediation\, and mass-political representation in contemporary India. \nFull Bio \n\nNick R. SmithAssistant Professor\, Architecture and Urban StudiesBarnard College of Columbia University \nNick R. Smith is a scholar of urban transformation and planning. His work explores the city as an institution and planning as a process of institution building. Combining the perspectives of new institutional economics\, development anthropology\, and urban sociology\, Smith investigates how urbanization inscribes the “rules of the game” into the space of the city. Using a combination of ethnography\, spatial analysis\, and archival research\, he primarily pursues these processes through investigations of peri-urban villages—contexts of instability\, liminality\, and rapid change where new forms of urbanization are produced and contested. \nFull Bio URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/new-urbanisms-of-china-and-india-a-panel-discussion/ LOCATION:Online ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/newurbanism_playback.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220210T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220210T100000 DTSTAMP:20260503T172037 CREATED:20220113T053006Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230323T184041Z UID:113313-1644483600-1644487200@www.indiachinainstitute.org SUMMARY:Foreign reporting on China from within and outside: An Indian perspective DESCRIPTION:Watch Here\n\n\n\nSince 2004\, China has been offering undergraduate medical courses in English and has over the years emerged as a destination for foreign students\, many of them from the subcontinent. Through a combination of word-of-mouth and an informal network of private educational consultants\, thousands of aspiring doctors in India have opted for a Chinese medical degree. Over the years\, fierce competition back home and limited medical seats have pushed more students to consider India’s neighbor as an option which has become an emerging player in a market that has traditionally been dominated by Russia and other east European countries. \n\n\n\nDrawing on this specific story of the journey of hundreds of Indian students seeking a medical degree in China each year\, the talk will look at the broader ways in which India and China interact across different fields. It was an Indian medical student returning from Wuhan to Kerala who was identified as Patient Zero when India began tracking Covid-cases in early 2020. The talk will follow the lives of students over the course of the pandemic as they make sense of online education\, strict border control\, and vaccine requirements. The talk will also touch upon information gathering and reporting in China\, and the difficulties of looking in from outside. It will provide an understanding of the ecosystem in which Indian foreign reporting operates. \n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSowmiya AshokIndependent JournalistFormer Correspondent\, The Hindu and The Indian Express \n\n\n\nSowmiya Ashok is an independent journalist based in Chennai. She has worked as a correspondent for two prominent Indian dailies The Hindu and The Indian Express. \n\n\n\nIn 2019\, she was the Beijing correspondent for The Indian Express where she attempted to tell stories that go beyond the official bilateral frame. She has lived and worked in the US\, China\, and Australia and her work has been featured in several Indian and international publications. She writes about politics\, culture\, history\, and the ways in which China and India interact away from geopolitics. Currently\, she is learning Mandarin at the National Taiwan University in Taipei. URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/foreign-reporting-on-china-from-within-and-outside-an-indian-perspective/ LOCATION:Online ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/foreignreporting_playback.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211202T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211202T103000 DTSTAMP:20260503T172037 CREATED:20210916T043031Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230323T184057Z UID:112947-1638435600-1638441000@www.indiachinainstitute.org SUMMARY:The Emerging Public Realm of the Greater Bay Area: Approaches to Public Space in a Chinese Megaregion: Book Launch and Author Panel DESCRIPTION:Watch Here\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThrough illustrated case studies\, twenty scholars and practitioners in this edited volume focus on the emerging public realm and the critical transformations of public space in the world’s most populous megaregion —the Greater Bay Area of southeastern China— projected to reach eighty million inhabitants by the year 2025. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEditor and Moderator\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTimothy JachnaDean\, College of Design\, Architecture\, Art and PlanningUNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI \n\n\n\nView Full Bio \n\n\n\nEditor\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMiodrag MitrašinovićProfessor of Urbanism and ArchitecturePARSONS SCHOOL OF DESIGN\, THE NEW SCHOOL \n\n\n\nView Full Bio \n\n\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJuan DuDean\, John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture\, Landscape\, and DesignUNIVERSITY OF TORONTO \n\n\n\nView Full Bio \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Ann O’DonnellIndependent Artist-EthnographerCofounderTHE HANDSHAKE-302 ART SPACE\, Shenzhen\, China \n\n\n\nView Full Bio \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBrian McGrathProfessor of Urban DesignPARSONS SCHOOL OF DESIGN\, THE NEW SCHOOL \n\n\n\nView Full Bio \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPaul ChuDepartment HeadCHU HAI COLLEGE OF HIGHER EDUCATION \n\n\n\nView Full Bio URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/the-emerging-public-realm-of-the-greater-bay-area-approaches-to-public-space-in-a-chinese-megaregion-book-launch-and-author-panel/ LOCATION:Online ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/emergingpublicrealm_playback.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211130T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211130T100000 DTSTAMP:20260503T172037 CREATED:20211112T185757Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230323T184729Z UID:113143-1638262800-1638266400@www.indiachinainstitute.org SUMMARY:Research Award for The New School Students DESCRIPTION:Information Session & Past Student Fellows’ Presentations\n\nhttps://youtu.be/FWvHgG6UycoWatch Here\nIndia China Institute at The New School is pleased to announce the student research award 2022 and is now welcoming applications from 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. \nJoin the information session and learn more about the opportunity by hearing from the previous cohort of ICI student fellows. The cohort consists of six students who conducted research in 2019 – 2020 and will present brief reflections on their work and experiences. \n2019 – 2020 Student Fellows URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/research-award-for-the-new-school-students/ LOCATION:Online ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/studentresearchaward22_playback-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211118T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211118T110000 DTSTAMP:20260503T172037 CREATED:20210905T045932Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230323T184438Z UID:112939-1637226000-1637233200@www.indiachinainstitute.org SUMMARY:The Ecological Question in Global Health: A Panel Discussion DESCRIPTION:Watch Here\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe COVID-19 pandemic has brought into stark relief the interactions between climate change and global health and revealed the dangers of ‘siloization’ of these issues into different conceptual frameworks and governance regimes. The panel will explore how the understanding of the environment and public health can be bridged\, and how these challenges are being addressed especially in India and China. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPanel Speakers\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArunabha GhoshFounder-CEOThe Council on Energy\, Environment and Water\, New Delhi\, India \n\n\n\nDr Arunabha Ghosh is a public policy professional\, adviser\, author\, columnist\, and institution builder. As the founder-CEO of the Council on Energy\, Environment and Water\, since 2010\, he has led CEEW to the top ranks as one of Asia’s leading policy research institutions (eight years in a row); and among the world’s 20 best climate think-tanks in 2013\, 2014 and 2016. He was actively involved in conceptualising and designing the International Solar Alliance and is a founding board member of the Clean Energy Access Network (CLEAN). With experience in 45 countries\, he previously worked at Princeton\, Oxford\, UNDP (New York)\, and WTO (Geneva). In 2018\, Dr Ghosh was nominated to the UN’s Committee for Development Policy. In 2020\, the Government of India appointed him Co-Chair of the energy\, environment and climate change track for India’s forthcoming Science\, Technology and Innovation Policy. His 2019 TED Talk on air quality (Mission 80-80-80) has over 250\,000 views. He is co-Chair of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Clean Air and is a member of the international high-level panel of the Environment of Peace initiative. He also serves on the Board of Directors of ClimateWorks Foundation. \n\n\n\nDr Ghosh advises governments\, industry\, civil society and international organisations around the world. This has included India’s Prime Minister’s Office\, several ministries and state governments. In 2015\, he was invited by France\, as a Personnalité d’Avenir\, to advise on the COP21 climate negotiations; and also advised extensively on HFC negotiations. He is the co-author/editor of four books and his essay “Rethink India’s energy strategy” in Nature was selected as one of 2015’s ten most influential essays. He holds a D.Phil. from Oxford and topped Economics from St. Stephen’s College\, Delhi. \n\n\n\nView Full Bio \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLyle FearnleyAssistant Professor of AnthropologySingapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) \n\n\n\nLyle Fearnley is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at SUTD. Trained as an anthropologist of science and medicine\, Fearnley received a Joint Ph.D. in Medical Anthropology from the University of California\, Berkeley and San Francisco. His book\, Virulent Zones: Animal Disease and Global Health at China’s Pandemic Epicenter\, is published on Duke University Press. Currently\, he is conducting two research projects. \n\n\n\nView Full Bio \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYifei LiAssistant Professor of Environmental StudiesNew York University Shanghai \n\n\n\nYifei Li is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies at NYU Shanghai and Global Network Assistant Professor at NYU. Professor Li’s research concerns both the macro-level implications of Chinese environmental governance for state-society relations\, marginalized populations\, and global ecological sustainability\, as well as the micro-level bureaucratic processes of China’s state interventions into the environmental realm. \n\n\n\nView Full Bio \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMridula PaulPostgraduate Researcher at the Department of Geography Policy and DevelopmentUniversity of Northumbria\, UK \n\n\n\nMridula Mary Paul is a lawyer and environmental policy specialist. She is a Postgraduate Researcher at the Department of Geography Policy and Development\, University of Northumbria\, Newcastle\, UK. She works on the political ecology of zoonoses\, with a focus on One Health and India. Mridula is a member of IUCN’s Sustainable Use and Livelihoods Specialist Group\, and is the editor of Courting the Environment\, a newsletter that aims to convey environmental and ecological research to lawyers. URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/the-ecological-question-in-global-health-a-panel-discussion/ LOCATION:Online ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/ecologicalquestionglobalhealth_playback.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211014T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211014T113000 DTSTAMP:20260503T172037 CREATED:20210902T192307Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230323T184118Z UID:112916-1634205600-1634211000@www.indiachinainstitute.org SUMMARY:Anti-Asian Racism in the Era of Great Power Competition DESCRIPTION:The current wave of anti-Asian racism did not arise from a deliberate attack on the United States. Its causes have been much more indirect in nature. As such\, those who inflame anti-Asian sentiment can do so in the name of “being accurate” on the supposed Chinese manufacturing of the COVID-19 virus\, as President Donald Trump suggested. The political rhetoric that exaggerates China’s threat\, including the insistence of the term “China virus\,” has driven anti-Asian violence and continues unabated despite changes in the Administration as well as greater coverage by the mainstream media. In this talk\, Jessica J. Lee of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft will explore how the current climate reduces space for U.S.-China cooperation on vital issues of mutual concern such as climate crisis and pandemics\, as well as endangers Asian Americans by reinforcing centuries-old fears about their influence in society. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJessica J. LeeSenior Research Fellow\, East Asia ProgramQuincy Institute For Responsible Statecraft \n\n\n\nJessica J. Lee is a Senior Research Fellow in the East Asia Program at the Quincy Institute. Her research interests include U.S. foreign policy toward the Indo-Pacific region\, with an emphasis on alliances and North Korea. \n\n\n\nJessica’s analysis has been featured in The Wall Street Journal\, Washington Post\, Foreign Affairs\, Foreign Policy\, The National Interest\, USA Today\, the Washington Times\, The Nation\, Arms Control Today\, and Quincy Institute’s news platform Responsible Statecraft. She has testified before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission and co-authored the Quincy Institute report\, “Toward an Inclusive & Balanced Regional Order: A New U.S. Strategy in East Asia.”  \n\n\n\nView Full Bio \n\n\n\nDiscussant\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYing ChenAssistant Professor\, Department of 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 mainly 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. \n\n\n\nView Full Bio URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/anti-asian-racism-in-the-era-of-great-power-competition/ LOCATION:Online ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/antiasianracism_playback.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210923T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210923T113000 DTSTAMP:20260503T172037 CREATED:20210819T004509Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230323T184157Z UID:112867-1632391200-1632396600@www.indiachinainstitute.org SUMMARY:Collision Course? The 1980s and the Transformation of Water Politics in Asia DESCRIPTION:Watch Here: https://youtu.be/IBqzX7yL0H0 \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nUntil the 1980s\, water featured relatively little in discussions of India’s relations with China. This talk delves into the history of that transformative decade of the 1980s\, when first China and then India developed ambitious plans to dam the upper reaches of the Himalayan rivers\, giving rise to new fears of future water conflicts. It seeks to situate those transformations in longer historical trajectories\, going back to the mid-twentieth century. Our ways of envisaging the problem of shared water continue to be constrained by the models and choices made at the moment when China and India began their ascent to global economic power. \n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSunil Amrith \n\n\n\nRenu and Anand Dhawan Professor of History \n\n\n\nYale University \n\n\n\nSunil Amrith is the Renu and Anand Dhawan Professor of History. His research focuses on the movements of people and the ecological processes that have connected South and Southeast Asia. Amrith’s areas of particular interest include environmental history\, the history of migration\, and the history of public health. He is a 2017 MacArthur Fellow\, and recipient of the 2016 Infosys Prize in Humanities. \n\n\n\nView Full Bio \n\n\n\nDiscussant \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSophia kalantzakos \n\n\n\nGlobal Distinguished Professor\, Environmental Studies and Public Policy \n\n\n\nNew York University \n\n\n\nSophia Kalantzakos is Global Distinguished Professor in Environmental Studies and Public Policy at New York University and a long-term affiliate at NYU Abu Dhabi. Her research focuses on resources and power; on new spatial imaginaries that reflect the changing ways that we think of global space and interdependence; and on the new emergent patterns and avenues of possibilist thinking as a way of re-imagining geopolitics for the 21st century. \n\n\n\nView Full Bio URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/collision-course-the-1980s-and-the-transformation-of-water-politics-in-asia/ LOCATION:Online ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/collisioncourse_playback.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210429T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210429T103000 DTSTAMP:20260503T172037 CREATED:20210322T142954Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230323T184220Z UID:110874-1619686800-1619692200@www.indiachinainstitute.org SUMMARY:India\, China\, Africa: Emerging Transnational Politics in the Global South DESCRIPTION:Watch Here: https://youtu.be/DHDUiKHFoJw\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe panel will explore how Africa has become both frontier and partner for India and China in realms of trade\, infrastructure\, finance\, technology\, and most recently COVID diplomacy\, creating new hierarchies and imperatives for transnational politics in the South.  \n\n\n\nSpeakers: \n\n\n\nLina Benabdallah:  Assistant Professor\, Department of Politics and International Affairs\, Wake Forest University  \n\n\n\nManjusha Nair:  Associate Professor\, Department of Sociology and Anthropology\, George Mason University \n\n\n\nXiaoyang Tang: Associate Professor and Vice-Chair\, Department of International Relations\, Tsinghua University and Deputy Director\, Carnegie–Tsinghua Center for Global Policy \n\n\n\nVeda Vaidyanathan:  Visiting Associate Fellow\, Institute of Chinese Studies\, Delhi URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/india-china-africa-emerging-transnational-politics-in-the-global-south/ LOCATION:Online ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/indiachinaafrica_playback.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210406T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210406T110000 DTSTAMP:20260503T172037 CREATED:20210308T234656Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230323T184436Z UID:110829-1617703200-1617706800@www.indiachinainstitute.org SUMMARY:Histories of Global Health\, COVID 19 and Asian Responses DESCRIPTION:Watch Here: https://youtu.be/TUtBi1htsyA\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe conversation with historian Jean-Paul Gaudillière will interrogate how global health has evolved as a field that is defined by philanthropy\, public-private partnerships\, and donor-driven technical assistance. The COVID 19 pandemic has revealed how this field\, while guided by expertise from Geneva and Seattle\, has not taken into account public health models adopted by many Asian countries. By comparing experiences of countries in Asia\, Africa\, and Europe\, the discussion hopes to put a critical lens on what regimes of global health have privileged – and systematically ignored. \n\n\n\nSpeaker: Jean-Paul Gaudillière (in conversation with Manjari Mahajan). \n\n\n\nJean-Paul Gaudillière is a historian of science and medicine and research professor at INSERM\, the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research\, and Director of the Center for Research on Medicine\, Sciences\, Health\, Mental Health\, and Society (CERMES3) in Paris. \n\n\n\nManjari Mahajan is an Associate Professor in the Julien J. Studley Graduate Programs in International Affairs and Co-Director of the India China Institute at The New School. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/histories-of-global-health-covid-19-and-asian-responses/ LOCATION:Online ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/historiesglobalhealth_playback.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210210T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210210T113000 DTSTAMP:20260503T172037 CREATED:20210108T193322Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210408T221203Z UID:110413-1612951200-1612956600@www.indiachinainstitute.org SUMMARY:(Watch Video) China Made: the techno-politics\, materialities\, and legacies of infrastructure development DESCRIPTION:The China Made project seeks to build an innovative research agenda for an infrastructural approach in the China Studies field. We approach infrastructure as both an empirically rich material object of research and an analytical strategy for framing research questions and approaches that help us explore more nuanced realms of techno-politics\, everyday life\, and spatio-temporal change in contemporary and historical China. In this panel\, we focus on four key arenas of inquiry: the infrastructural state\, infrastructure space\, temporalities of infrastructure\, and the everyday. Overall\, we draw from two broad strands of inquiry in developing our approach. These include\, first\, recent efforts to rethink the materiality of infrastructures not as an inert or relatively stable basis upon which more dynamic social processes emerge and develop\, but rather as unstable assemblages of human and nonhuman agencies. Second\, we draw on work that explores the often hidden (techno)political dimensions of infrastructures\, through which certain intended and unintended outcomes emerge less from the realms of “policy” and “implementation” and more from the material dispositions and effects of infrastructural formations themselves. These strands of inquiry are brought together as part of our effort to recognize that the infrastructural basis of China’s approach to development and statecraft deserves a more concerted theorizing of infrastructure than what we have seen in the China Studies field thus far. \n\n\n\nSpeakers: \n\n\n\nTimothy Oakes: Professor of Geography and Director of the Center for Asian Studies University of Colorado Boulder.Alessandro Rippa: Associate Professor of Chinese Studies Tallinn University.Darren Byler: Postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Asian Studies University of Colorado Boulder.Dorothy Tang: Doctoral student at MIT’s Department of Urban Studies and Planning. URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/china-made-the-tecno-politics-materialities-and-legacies-of-infrastructure-development/ LOCATION:Online CATEGORIES:Public Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Cover.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201118T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201118T210000 DTSTAMP:20260503T172037 CREATED:20201105T175001Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210408T212645Z UID:110215-1605726000-1605733200@www.indiachinainstitute.org SUMMARY:CHINA Town Hall: Health & Climate DESCRIPTION:Join the India China Institute (ICI) for a two-part CHINA Town Hall on Wednesday\, November 18\, at 7:00-9:00pm EST.   \n\n\n\nConfronting the global challenges of climate change and communicable disease cannot be achieved by any single country\, but must be met by constructive cooperation among nations. Although the United States and China will compete in many areas\, it is imperative they join forces to face these universal problems that affect global stability and endanger the world’s most vulnerable people. \n\n\n\n1. The first event is a panel from 7:00-8:00pm EST on Health and Climate in China\, sponsored by the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations. Margaret Hamburg (National Academy of Medicine)\, Ryan Hass (Brookings Institution)\, and Angel Hsu (Yale-National University of Singapore) will consider the roles of the United States and China in addressing these two major transnational issues. The conversation will be moderated by Merit Janow (Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs).  \n\n\n\nRead More\n\n\n\n2. Following the panel discussion\, at 8:00-9:00pm EST ICI will host a talk by Jennifer Turner\, Director of the Wilson Center’s China Environment Forum\, titled “Same Bed\, Different Dreams: Is There a Path to Revive U.S.-China Climate and Environmental Relations?” \n\n\n\nDiscussant:  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJennifer Turner has served as Director of the Wilson Center’s China Environment Forum for nearly two decades. She is a widely-quoted expert on U.S.-China environmental cooperation as well as climate-related challenges and governance issues facing the world’s most populous country. As head of the Center’s Global Choke Point multimedia reporting initiative\, Turner has worked to combine on-the-ground research with visual storytelling on water-energy-food nexus issues in China\, India\, Mexico\, South Africa\, and the United States. She and her team are currently focusing heavily on U.S.-China climate actions\, ocean plastic innovation in China and Indonesia\, and Chinese distant fishing fleets. Her favorite new project is creating an educational video game on ocean plastics together with the Wilson Center’s Serious Games Initiative. Check out her work at www.wilsoncenter.org and blogs at www.newsecuritybeat.org. \n\n\n\nModerator:  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMark Frazier is Professor of Politics at The New School\, where he also serves as Co-Director of the India China Institute. His research interests focus on labor and social policy in China\, and more recently on political conflict over urbanization\, migration\, and citizenship in China and India. His latest book\, The Power of Place: Contentious Politics in Twentieth Century Shanghai and Bombay (Cambridge University Press\, 2019)\, examines long-term changes in political geographies and patterns of popular protest in the two cities. He is also the author of Socialist Insecurity: Pensions and the Politics of Uneven Development in China (Cornell University Press\, 2010)\, The Making of the Chinese Industrial Workplace (Cambridge University Press\, 2002)\, and Co-Editor of the SAGE Handbook of Contemporary China (2018). He has authored op-ed pieces and essays for The New York Times\, Daedalus\, and The Diplomat. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIf you encounter technical difficulties during the ICI webinar\, you may view the first panel via the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations\, then return to this webinar for the discussion with Dr. Turner\, beginning at 8:00 p.m. If you have questions about registering or problems with your link\, please contact ICI at indiachina@newschool.edu.  \n\n\n\nExplore additional events in the 2020 CHINA Town Hall series URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/same-bed-different-dreams-is-there-a-path-to-revive-u-s-china-climate-and-environmental-relations/ LOCATION:Online CATEGORIES:Public Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Health-Climate-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201112T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201112T103000 DTSTAMP:20260503T172037 CREATED:20201014T144421Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210408T213641Z UID:109847-1605171600-1605177000@www.indiachinainstitute.org SUMMARY:(Watch Video) Exemplars in Global Health? Comparing Asia’s Many Responses to COVID 19 DESCRIPTION:Watch again HERE: \n\n\n\nEven as the COVID 19 pandemic continues to be marked by ebbs and flows\, a handful of countries in Asia have had relatively sustained success in curtailing morbidity and mortality due to the virus.  No single reason – such as regime type\, surveillance technology\, or experience with past epidemics – seems to explain these countries’ comparative achievements.  This panel will bring together experts from different states including Japan\, Vietnam\, China\, and South Korea. The juxtaposition of these national experiences will aim to illuminate the constellation of historical\, political\, infrastructural and other factors that undergird competent public health responses.   \n\n\n\nYanzhong HuangSenior Fellow for Global Health\, Council on Foreign Relations\, and Professor and Director of Global Health Studies at Seton Hall University’s School of Diplomacy and International Relations \n\n\n\nPan Suk KimProfessor of Global Public Administration\, Yonsei University \n\n\n\nTodd PollackCountry Director\, The Partnership for Health Advancement in Vietnam and Assistant Professor of Medicine\, Harvard Medical School \n\n\n\nKazuto SuzukiProfessor of International Politics\, Graduate School of Public Policy\, The University of Tokyo \n\n\n\nManjari Mahajan (moderator)Associate Professor of International Affairs and Co-Director\, India China Institute\, New School University \n\n\n\nThursday\, November 129:00-10:30am EST/7:30pm New Delhi/10:00pm Beijing URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/exemplars-in-global-health-comparing-asias-many-responses-to-covid-1/ LOCATION:Online CATEGORIES:Public Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Exemplars-in-Global-Health-Comparing-Asia’s-Many-Responses-to-COVID-19..png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201022T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201022T103000 DTSTAMP:20260503T172037 CREATED:20200423T213341Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210408T213906Z UID:107211-1603359000-1603362600@www.indiachinainstitute.org SUMMARY:(Watch Video) India and China in the New Asian Geopolitics DESCRIPTION:Watch again HERE \n\n\n\nFormer Ambassador and Indian National Security Advisor Shivshankar Menon will address how the increasingly tense relations between India and China are producing a “New Asian Geopolitics.” The talk will be moderated by Manjari Mahajan\, Co-Director of India China Institute and Associate Professor at Julien J. Studley Graduate Programs in International Affairs\, Schools of Public Engagement\, The New School. Mary Watson\, Executive Dean\, Schools of Public Engagement will make introductory remarks. Ambassador Menon has had a distinguished career in government; he was Foreign Secretary of India from 2006-2009\, and also served as the Indian Ambassador or High Commissioner to China\, Pakistan\, Sri Lanka and Israel. At present he is Visiting Professor at Ashoka University\, India; Chairman\, Advisory Board\, Institute of Chinese Studies\, New Delhi; Distinguished Fellow of the Centre for Social and Economic Progress (formerly Brookings India); Distinguished Visiting Research Fellow at the National University of Singapore; Member\, Board of Trustees\, International Crisis Group; and a Distinguished Fellow at the Asia Society Policy Institute\, New York. Ambassador Menon’s many publications include Choices: Inside the Making of Indian Foreign Policy (Brookings & Penguin Random House\, 2016). He has been a Fisher Family Fellow at the Kennedy School\, Harvard University\, 2015 and a Richard Wilhelm Fellow at MIT in 2015. He was chosen one of the “Top 100 Global Thinkers” by Foreign Policy magazine in 2010. The talk is sponsored by the India China Institute. We thank our co-sponsors\, the Julien J. Studley Graduate Programs in International Affairs at The New School\, and the New School Global Studies Program. Thursday\, October 22 9:30am – 10:30am US EDT/ 7:00pm – 8:00pm New Delhi/ 9:30pm – 10:30pm Beijing     URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/india-and-china-in-the-new-asian-geopolitics/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/India-and-China-in-the-New-Asian-Geopolitics-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200922T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200922T103000 DTSTAMP:20260503T172037 CREATED:20200727T143357Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251212T090058Z UID:109850-1600765200-1600770600@www.indiachinainstitute.org SUMMARY:Border Politics: A Panel Discussion DESCRIPTION:  \n  \n The lethal skirmishes between Indian and Chinese border patrols that took place in June in the Himalayan sector of their disputed border and continuing tensions have raised new questions about a possible “re-set” of relations between the two Asian giants and the prospects for regional stability. A panel of historians\, diplomats\, and political scientists will address these concerns through the long lens of history and more recent geopolitical trends. \n-Shyam Saran:  Senior Fellow at the Centre for Policy Research in New Delhi and former Foreign Secretary of India.\n \n \n-Nimmi Kurian:  ICI Fellow\, Professor at the Centre for Policy Research in New Delhi and author\, most recently\, of India and China: Rethinking Borders and Security.\n \n \n-Xiaoyu Pu: Associate Professor & Director of Graduate Studies\, Department of Political Science\, University of Nevada.\n \n \n-Tansen Sen:   Professor of History and Director of the Center for Global Asia\, NYU SHANGHAI\, and Global Network Professor\, NYU. His most recent book is India\, China\, and the World: A Connected History (2017).\n \n \n  \n  \n  URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/border-politics-a-panel-discussion/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Captura-de-Pantalla-2020-09-29-a-las-10.13.42-a.-m.-e1765529701452.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200401T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200401T183000 DTSTAMP:20260503T172037 CREATED:20200604T132646Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210408T214830Z UID:108909-1585760400-1585765800@www.indiachinainstitute.org SUMMARY:Making It Count: Statistics and Statecraft in the Early People’s Republic of China DESCRIPTION:ICI Co-Director Mark Frazier’s Interview with Professor Arunabh Ghosh\, author of Making it Count: Statistics and Statecraft in the Early People’s Republic of China (Princeton University Press\, 2020). \n\n\n\nread more URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/making-it-count-statistics-and-statecraft-in-the-early-peoples-republic-of-china/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/ghosh_slider-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200226T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200226T190000 DTSTAMP:20260503T172037 CREATED:20200601T171143Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210408T215348Z UID:108606-1582736400-1582743600@www.indiachinainstitute.org SUMMARY:Universities Under Attack DESCRIPTION:  \n\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers:Manu Bhagavan\, Professor of History at Hunter College\, The City University of New York. His interests include modern India\, human rights\, and sovereignty.Marcial Godoy\, sociocultural anthropologist and Managing Director of the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics at New York University. He also serves on the Board of Directors of the North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA).Kumru Toktamis\, Associate Professor of Social Science & Cultural Studies at Pratt Institute. She is an educator\, transnational activist\, and human rights researcher.Moderator:  Mark Frazier\, Professor\, Politics Department\, NSSR\n  \n \nThis event is organized by India China Institute and Studly Graduate Program in International Affairs.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n  URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/universities-under-attack/ LOCATION:63 5th Ave ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/universities-resized.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191114T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191114T183000 DTSTAMP:20260503T172037 CREATED:20200423T172229Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210408T215728Z UID:107008-1573750800-1573756200@www.indiachinainstitute.org SUMMARY:Fueling Revolution: Carbon Technocracy in the Early People's Republic of China DESCRIPTION:RSVP: Fueling Revolution \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVictor Seow is a historian of technology\, industry\, and the environment. His research interests revolve around questions of how technological developments intersect with economic life and environmental change in the making and unmaking of industrial society. Geographically\, he focuses on East Asia\, which\, in the modern era\, witnessed monumental transformations across its vast expense and multiple environments as regimes that ranged from imperialist to socialist pursued industrial expansion through heavily technological means. His research sets out to map the contours of those transformations in the past that gave rise to outcomes with which the region still grapples in the present\, from despoiled environments to divided societies. At the same time\, his work situates East Asia within a global frame and seeks to show how attention to East Asian experiences may sharpen historical and contemporary understandings of technology and the environment in our modern world. \n\n\n\nSeow is currently finishing his first book\, Carbon Technocracy: Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia\, which explores how coal resources and mining technologies shaped Chinese and Japanese experiences with global industrial modernity. Centered on the Fushun colliery in Manchuria\, which once boasted the largest coal mining operations in Asia\, this project examines how the various Chinese and Japanese regimes that had at different times owned and operated the Fushun coal mines became committed to large-scale\, state-led energy extraction amidst concerns over economic growth\, resource scarcity\, and national autarky. Pivotal to this process was the development and deployment of technologies of extraction: from methods such as open-pit mining and shale oil distillation that enabled the extraction of carbon energy to mechanisms such as fingerprinting and calorie counting that allowed for the extraction of the human labor undergirding the entire enterprise. Grounded in a range of Chinese and Japanese sources\, including engineering students’ practicum reports\, workers’ oral histories\, and the personal papers of mining managers\, this project uncovers links between the intensification of coal extraction and the rise of technocratic governance in transwar East Asia\, ultimately contributing to interdisciplinary debates about the relationship between energy and the state. \n\n\n\nOther ongoing projects include a history of scientific management in China and an environmental history of Chinese innovation as well as two collaborative projects: one on Mr. Science in May Fourth China and beyond (with Sean Hsiang-lin Lei) and the other on technologies of production in East Asian history (with Dagmar Schäfer). \n\n\n\nAt Harvard\, Seow offers or will be offering courses in the history of modern science and technology in East Asia\, the history of the factory\, and the history of technology and capitalism. \n\n\n\nBorn and raised in Singapore\, Seow received his B.A. in History and Political Science from McGill University and his Ph.D. in History and East Asian Languages from Harvard University. Before joining the Harvard faculty in 2017\, he was an Assistant Professor of History at Cornell University. URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/fueling-revolution-carbon-technocracy-in-the-early-peoples-republic-of-china/ CATEGORIES:Public Event,Public Talks ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Victor-Seow-Slider_1105_final.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191029T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191029T190000 DTSTAMP:20260503T172037 CREATED:20200423T172339Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251212T090605Z UID:107165-1572370200-1572375600@www.indiachinainstitute.org SUMMARY:The Power of Place: Contentious Politics in Twentieth-Century Shanghai and Bombay DESCRIPTION:UN Interview with Prof. Ying Chen\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Gallery \n \n \n \n \n UN Interview with Prof. Ying Chen \n \n \n featured\, News Archive \n \n \n \n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n UN Interview with Prof. Ying ChenProf. Ying Chen\, Assistant Professor of Economics at The New [...] By India China Institute|2022-10-04T17:15:59-04:00October 4th\, 2022|Categories: featured\, News Archive|Comments Off on UN Interview with Prof. Ying ChenRead More\n\n \n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n Meet our SGEP Fellows: Loraine Kennedy\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Gallery \n \n \n \n \n Meet our SGEP Fellows: Loraine Kennedy \n \n \n featured\, News Archive\, Shifting Geographies \n \n \n \n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n Meet our SGEP Fellows: Loraine Kennedy Dr. Loraine Kennedy invited Mr. Ram Mohan Chitta\, her [...] By India China Institute|2023-09-12T13:27:36-04:00February 28th\, 2022|Categories: featured\, News Archive\, Shifting Geographies|Comments Off on Meet our SGEP Fellows: Loraine KennedyRead More\n\n \n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n SGEP Guest Speakers: Pratap Bhanu Mehta and Gil Eyal\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Gallery \n \n \n \n \n SGEP Guest Speakers: Pratap Bhanu Mehta and Gil Eyal \n \n \n News Archive\, Shifting Geographies \n \n \n \n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n SGEP Guest Speakers: Pratap Bhanu Mehta and Gil Eyal The bi-weekly seminars on Shifting Geographies of Expertise and [...] By India China Institute|2023-09-12T13:28:05-04:00January 13th\, 2022|Categories: News Archive\, Shifting Geographies|Comments Off on SGEP Guest Speakers: Pratap Bhanu Mehta and Gil EyalRead More\n\n \n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n Meet our SGEP Fellows: Wenjuan Zhang\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Gallery \n \n \n \n \n Meet our SGEP Fellows: Wenjuan Zhang \n \n \n News Archive \n \n \n \n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n Meet our SGEP Fellows: Wenjuan Zhang   On Nov. 30\, 2021\, the SGEP fellows met [...] By India China Institute|2022-02-28T11:20:40-05:00January 13th\, 2022|Categories: News Archive|Comments Off on Meet our SGEP Fellows: Wenjuan ZhangRead More\n\n \n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n Anti-Asian Racism with Jessica J. Lee\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Gallery \n \n \n \n \n Anti-Asian Racism with Jessica J. Lee \n \n \n News Archive\, Uncategorized \n \n \n \n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n Anti-Asian Racism with Jessica J. LeeOn October 14\, ICI hosted a talk by Jessica J. [...] By India China Institute|2021-10-29T12:29:16-04:00October 29th\, 2021|Categories: News Archive\, Uncategorized|Comments Off on Anti-Asian Racism with Jessica J. LeeRead More\n\n \n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n A Dialogue with Distinguished Indian Historian Romila Thapar\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Gallery \n \n \n \n \n A Dialogue with Distinguished Indian Historian Romila Thapar \n \n \n News Archive \n \n \n \n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n A Dialogue with Distinguished Indian Historian Romila ThaparICI joined the Center for Global Asia at NYU Shanghai [...] By India China Institute|2021-10-29T12:21:49-04:00October 29th\, 2021|Categories: News Archive|Comments Off on A Dialogue with Distinguished Indian Historian Romila ThaparRead More\nPrevious123456···50Next URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/the-power-of-place-contentious-politics-in-twentieth-century-shanghai-and-bombay/ CATEGORIES:Public Talks ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/FINAL-Mark-Frazier-Slider.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20191024 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20191027 DTSTAMP:20260503T172037 CREATED:20200423T172224Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210408T220832Z UID:106998-1571875200-1572134399@www.indiachinainstitute.org SUMMARY:Fifth International Conference on the Unfinished Legacy of Dr. B. R. Ambedkar - Dalits in Global Context: Rethinking Gender and Religion DESCRIPTION:RSVP for The Fifth International Conference on Unfinished Legacy of Dr. Ambedkar \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFrom October 24-26\, 2019\, the New School will host the Fifth International Conference on the Legacy of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar. This year’s conference theme is Dalits in Global Context: Rethinking Gender and Religion. \n\n\n\nAmbedkar Conference Agenda Final \n\n\n\n5th International Ambedkar Conference Bios \n\n\n\nThe conference will explore critical issues faced by the Dalit community\, with a focus on the intersecting nature of gender\, religion\, and caste-based discrimination. Since its inception\, the Ambedkar Conference has convened various scholars and practitioners\, institutions and organizations across the world\, creating a space to discuss the politics of equal dignity and equal rights for Dalits. This year\, we hope to further this conversation. \n\n\n\nWhile the New School is this year’s host\, the conference is a collaboration between the following universities and think tanks: \n\n\n\nBrandeis University Barnard College\, Columbia University University of Massachusetts\, Amherst The Indian Institute of Dalit Studies\, India SAMATA Foundation\, NepalUniversity of CincinnatiCASTE: a Global Journal on Social Exclusion International Ambedkar Mission\, USABoston Study GroupIndia China Institute\, The New SchoolJulien Studley Graduate Study Program in International AffairsThe Global Studies Program\, The New School\n\n\n\nRelated Event: \n\n\n\nSecond Annual Ambedkar Lectures at Columbia University\, organized by Anupama Rao  \n\n\n\nOct. 17th: Race\, Caste\, and American Pragmatism  \n\n\n\nOct. 18th: Remaking Publics: Gender\, Affect\, Insurgence\, Presence \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOther Related Events: \n\n\n\nWorkshop (invite-only) on Dalits in Global Context: Rethinking Religion and Gender Sponsored by The Henry Luce Foundation \n\n\n\nFrom October 21-24\, 2019\, the India China Institute at The New School is hosting a focused workshop along the theme of the conference. The primary goal of the workshop is to convene an invited group of Global Dalit Change-makers — young and emerging scholars from within and outside of the Dalit community who are already working at the junction of gender\, religion\, caste\, and social justice. ICI will also invite established scholars and practitioners in the field to help inspire the workshop with intellectual rigor\, deep critical inquiry\, and innovative practices.  \n\n\n\nThis will be a new kind of conversation— the first workshop of its kind outside of South Asia\, one that combines scholarship and activism\, and strengthens conversations between scholars and practitioners when analyzing caste-based discrimination. The selected group of workshop participants will then join the Ambedkar Conference at the New School\, where they will present their work. \n\n\n\n100 Years of New \n\n\n\n2019 marks The New School’s centennial year\, and thus provides an opportunity to reflect not only on the university’s history of critical social inquiry\, but also the early days of the school’s founding. B.R. Ambedkar\, while a student at Columbia University\, studied under one of The New School’s co-founders\, John Dewey\, and was greatly influenced by him. The Ambedkar Conference is an opportunity for the New School to convene individuals who are writing and researching in the New School’s spirit of creative and critical scholarship\, and who\, more than anything\, are training their gazes on a future we’ll soon inhabit. \n\n\n\nThe Bluestone Rising Scholars Prize \n\n\n\nBrandeis University\, original convener of the International Conference on the Unfinished Legacy of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar\, awarded inaugural Bluestone Rising Scholar Prizes to two early career scholars\, to be published in CASTE: A Global Journal on Social Exclusion. The prize recipients will take part in an Award Ceremony at Brandeis University\, and then join the International Conference at The New School. \n\n\n\nMore Conference Information: \n\n\n\nInformation for Call for Papers \n\n\n\nCall for Papers \n\n\n\nI am born a Hindu\, but I will not die a Hindu\, for that is in my power. \n\n\n\nB. R. Ambedkar\, Yeola Conference\, Maharashtra\, India\, 193 \n\n\n\nThe most problematic aspect of Hindutva is the issue of the treatment of lower castes and tribes. It’s not only that you can ignore some people\, but that you identify who it is that you can ignore. \n\n\n\nAmartya Sen\, Harvard University Interview in The Hindu\, Feb. 28\, 2019 \n\n\n\nAccording to the International Dalit Solidarity Network\, “caste discrimination is one of the biggest human rights violations facing the international community today; both in terms of the numbers affected and the severity of the human rights violations caused by this form of discrimination.” The caste system is one of the most brutal forms of hierarchical social organization and caste-based discrimination affects over 250 million people in South Asia and across the globe. Dalits\, that is\, the “former Untouchables” are on the lowest rung of the Hindu social structure and South Asian society. Despite some increased legal protections in caste-affected countries within and without South Asia\, the Dalit community continues to face indignities ranging from daily humiliations\, to extreme poverty and servitude\, to violence and murder. These indignities are still largely shaped by understandings and practices of religion and underlying notions of purity and impurity as determined by birth and exacerbated by gender relations. For the Dalit community\, the entrenched caste system sanctions a massive denial of citizenship and fundamental rights which others enjoy under the constitutions of countries in South Asia. \n\n\n\nDuring this conference\, we aim to address issues or questions related to the theme of religion\, caste\, gender and social justice in or comparative to the South Asian context. These questions might include some of the following: \n\n\n\nHow can we rethink and reimagine established and emerging debates concerning these issues on methodologies\, research\, policies\, and trans-boundary collaborations? \n\n\n\nHow have the hierarchies of gender and sexuality affected and been transformed by Dalit women and men? \n\n\n\nWhat are the personal and political actions that Dalit women and men have taken to negotiate with patriarchy\, both inside and outside the Dalit community? \n\n\n\nHow do we engage with Dalit women’s lives at the intersections of gender\, caste\, class\, and religion? \n\n\n\nHow have Dalits used practice and faith to claim dignity and build solidarity? How have they expressed their experiences and aspirations in literary and other art forms to resist injustice and inhumanity? \n\n\n\nIn what ways have Dalit women (and men) carved out a new transnational political space to imagine a brighter future? \n\n\n\nHow can we analyze the intersections of caste and religion beyond Hinduism\, for example in Islam\, Christianity\, Buddhism or Sikhism\, specifically in South Asia? \n\n\n\nFor more information about Dalit issues\, please visit: \n\n\n\nInternational Dalit Solidarity Network \n\n\n\nIndian Institute of Dalit Studies \n\n\n\nSAMATA Foundation URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/fifth-international-conference-on-the-unfinished-legacy-of-dr-b-r-ambedkar-dalits-in-global-context-rethinking-gender-and-religion/ CATEGORIES:Public Event,Public Talks ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/dalits-in-global-context_final.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191007T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191007T200000 DTSTAMP:20260503T172037 CREATED:20200423T172304Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210411T234839Z UID:107085-1570471200-1570478400@www.indiachinainstitute.org SUMMARY:Political Crises in Hong Kong and Jammu & Kashmir DESCRIPTION:Register Here \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe current crises in Hong Kong and Jammu and Kashmir\, though distinct in their historical and political contours\, arose when central governments sought to increase sovereign power against the aspirations of many local residents for unrealized autonomy. Public authorities have laid claim to constitutional-legal provisions to support their stances\, and have simultaneously resorted to coercion against local opposition. Such actions have prompted widespread international and some domestic condemnation. At the same time\, large sections of mainstream media and publics in China and India have offered competing narratives that are generally supportive of the authorities. Please join us for this panel on the two crises and how they juxtapose the challenges of nationalism and liberal democratic norms. Panelists will explore the roots of the conflicts\, constitutional questions\, the strategies of state authorities and local resistance\, the range of domestic and global responses\, and prospects for the future. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHo-fung Hung is the Henry M. & Elizabeth P. Wiesenfeld Professor in Political Economy at the Sociology Department and School of Advanced International Studies of Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of the award-winning book The China Boom: Why China Will Not Rule the World and Protest with Chinese Characteristics: Demonstrations\, Riots\, and Petitions in the Mid-Qing Dynasty\, both published by Columbia University Press. His articles have appeared in American Journal of Sociology\, the American Sociological Review\, Development and Change\, the New Left Review and elsewhere. His analyses of the Chinese and global political economy and Hong Kong politics have been featured or cited in The New York Times\, The Financial Times\, The Wall Street Journal\, Bloomberg News\, among other publications. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nZha Jianying is a writer\, journalist\, and cultural commentator in both English and Chinese. She is the author of two books in English\, Tide Players: The Movers and Shakers of a Rising China (named “One of the best books of 2011” by The Economist)\, and China Pop: How Soap Operas\, Tabloids and Bestsellers Are Transforming a Culture\, and five books of non-fiction and fiction in Chinese. Her work has appeared widely in publications such as The New Yorker\, The New York Times\, Dushu\, and Wanxiang. Tide Players was selected by The Economist as “One of the Best Books of 2011.” A recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship\, she also has been a regular commentator on current events on Chinese television\, and works as the China Representative of the India China Institute at The New School in New York. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHaley Duschinski is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Center for Law\, Justice & Culture at Ohio University. She is a legal and political anthropologist with research specializations in law and conflict\, militarization and impunity\, popular protest\, and law and memory in Kashmir. Her research has appeared in journals such as Political and Legal Anthropology Review\, Cultural Studies\, Race & Class\, Memory Studies\, Anthropology Today\, Interventions\, and Anthropological Quarterly.  Her current book project is a legal ethnography of how cases relating to securitization and militarization have been contested and adjudicated in the courts of Kashmir. At Ohio University\, Professor Duschinski teaches anthropology courses on violence\, peace\, human rights\, and law. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSandipto Dasgupta is an Assistant Professor of Politics at the New School for Social Research. His research is in the history of modern political and social thought\, especially the political theory of empire\, decolonization\, and postcolonial presents. His book manuscript\, Legalizing the Revolution (under contract with Cambridge University Press)\, reconstructs the institutionalization of nascent postcolonial futures through a historical study of the Indian constitution making experience. He received his PhD in political theory from Columbia University. Before arriving at the New School this fall\, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University and the British Academy\, and taught at Ashoka and Columbia University. 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