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SUMMARY:From Commune to Capitalism: How China's Peasants Lost Collective Farming and Gained Urban Poverty
DESCRIPTION:The India China Institute welcomes Howard University Professor Zhun Xu to speak about his recent book\, From Commune to Capitalism: How China’s Peasants Lost Collective Farming and Gained Urban Poverty. \n\n\n\n“In the early 1980s\, China undertook a massive reform that dismantled its socialist rural collectives and divided the land among millions of small peasant families. Known as the decollectivization campaign\, it is one of the most significant reforms in China’s transition to a market economy. This mainstream history argues that the rural communes\, suffering from inefficiency\, greatly improved agricultural productivity under the decollectivization reform. It also describes how the peasants\, due to their dissatisfaction with the rural regime\, spontaneously organized and collectively dismantled the collective system.  \n\n\n\nA closer examination suggests a much different and more nuanced story. Zhun Xu argues that the decollectivization campaign was neither a bottom-up\, spontaneous peasant movement\, nor necessarily efficiency-improving. Decollectivization\, by depoliticizing the peasantry and freeing rural labor to compete with the urban workers\, served as both the political and economic basis for consequent Chinese neoliberal reforms and a massive increase in all forms of economic\, political\, and social inequality.” \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nZhun Xu is Assistant Professor of Economics at Howard University. His research interests include political economy\, social development\, and the Chinese economy. His recent publications appear in American Journal of Public Health\, Journal of Agrarian Change\, World Development\, and Review of Radical Political Economics. His book From Commune to Capitalism: How China’s Peasants Lost Collective Farming and Gained Urban Poverty\, was recently published by Monthly Review Press.
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/from-commune-to-capitalism-how-chinas-peasants-lost-collective-farming-and-gained-urban-poverty/
LOCATION:Klein Conference Room\, 66 West 12th Street 5th Floor\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, USA
CATEGORIES:Public Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181128T173000
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SUMMARY:A People's Constitution: The Everyday Life of Law in the Indian Republic.
DESCRIPTION:The India China Institute is proud to present “A People’s Constitution: The Everyday Life of Law in the Indian Republic”\, a talk with author\, lawyer\, and Yale professor Rohit De on his book\, A People’s Constitution. \n\n\n\n“What difference did the enactment of the the Indian constitution make on everyday lives of its citizens? It has long been contended that the Indian Constitution of 1950\, a document in English created by elite consensus\, has had little influence on India’s greater population. Drawing upon the previously unexplored records of the Supreme Court of India\, A People’s Constitution upends this narrative and shows how the Constitution actually transformed the daily lives of citizens in profound and lasting ways. This remarkable legal process was led by individuals on the margins of society\, and Rohit De looks at how drinkers\, smugglers\, petty vendors\, butchers\, and prostitutes—all despised minorities—shaped the constitutional culture. \n\n\n\nThe Constitution came alive in the popular imagination so much that ordinary people attributed meaning to its existence\, took recourse to it\, and argued with it. Focusing on the use of constitutional remedies by citizens against new state regulations seeking to reshape the society and economy\, De illustrates how laws and policies were frequently undone or renegotiated from below using the state’s own procedures. De examines four important cases that set legal precedents: a Parsi journalist’s contestation of new alcohol prohibition laws\, Marwari petty traders’ challenge to the system of commodity control\, Muslim butchers’ petition against cow protection laws\, and sex workers’ battle to protect their right to practice prostitution.” \n\n\n\nThe Author: \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRohit De is lawyer and an Assistant Professor of History at Yale University.  Prior to Yale\, he was a Mellon Research Fellow at the Centre for History and Economics at the University of Cambridge. He has worked with Chief Justice K.G Balakrishnan of the Supreme Court of India and worked on constitutional reform projects in Sri Lanka and Nepal. He is currently working on a history of civil liberties arising out of Asia and Africa post WW2 and mediated through Indian diasporic lawyers.
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/a-peoples-constitution-the-everyday-life-of-law-in-the-indian-republic/
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Public Event,Public Event (General),Public Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181115T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181115T193000
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SUMMARY:A Fantastic State of Ruin: The Painted Towns of Rajasthan - David Zurick
DESCRIPTION:A Fantastic State of Ruin: The Painted Towns of Rajasthan\n\n\n\nBook Launch and Photo Lecture w/ David Zurick \n\n\n\nThursday\, Nov. 15\, 2018\, 5:30-7:30 pm \n\n\n\nOrozco Room (#712)\, 66 W. 12th St.\, The New School \n\n\n\nRSVP NOW \n\n\n\nIn this illustrated lecture\, geographer and photographer David Zurick explores the connections between visual culture\, landscape change\, and the loss of cultural memory in small-town India. \n\n\n\nFor several years\, Zurick has been making photographs in the Shekhawati region of Rajasthan\, among little-known settlements that owe their origins to the trade caravans that once crossed the Thar Desert. In the 1800s\, prosperous merchants financed the construction of ornate buildings in the towns and commissioned artists to decorate them with exquisite murals depicting local life and society. For generations\, these painted buildings served the towns as trading houses\, pleasure palaces\, temples\, caravansaries\, and private homes. Eventually\, the trading families left Shekhawati for India’s burgeoning cities and abandoned their opulent structures. Some were left in the charge of caretakers; squatters took up residence in many; most simply remain vacant. The buildings have slowly deteriorated over time\, ravaged by climate and neglect\, and now lie scattered among the desert settlements as an elegiac collection of beautiful living ruins – a crumbling open-air gallery set amid the ordinary affairs of small town life in rural India. As the mural-clad buildings of the painted towns disappear\, the opportunity for local residents to engage with their cultural heritage declines\, and the beauty of our lived-world is further diminished. In this presentation\, Zurick discovers the unique richness of this remote vernacular architecture and highlights ongoing efforts to designate the region a UNESCO World Heritage Site. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nAbout David Zurick \n\n\n\nDavid Zurick is an academically trained geographer (PhD\, University of Hawaii and East-West Center\, Honolulu) and a self-taught photographer. He writes and photographs extensively about Asia and the Pacific region\, with a special focus on the cultural landscapes of South Asia and the Himalaya. His books and photography have won numerous awards and acclaimed reviews\, including the National Outdoor Book Award\, Banff International Mountain Book Award Finalist (twice)\, and Kentucky Arts Council Al Smith Visual Artist Fellowship Award (twice). His geographical studies and photography have been supported by research grants from the National Science Foundation\, American Geographical Society\, Banff Centre\, and other major funding organizations. In 2009 he received the “Mt Everest Award” for his lifetime achievement in Himalaya studies. David is a Fellow of The Explorers Club. He lectures and exhibits at academic and film arts organizations worldwide. His photography books include Illustrated Atlas of the Himalaya\, Southern Crossings\, and Land of Pure Vision. \n\n\n\nYou can learn more about David’s work at his website www.davidzurick.com and blog www.medium.com/@david.zurick.
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/a-fantastic-state-of-ruin-the-painted-towns-of-rajasthan-david-zurick/
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Public Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181102T160000
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SUMMARY:Airing Grievances and the Atmospherics of Chinese Legal Reform - Julie Chu
DESCRIPTION:The India China Institute (ICI) at The New School is pleased to announce another event as part of our ongoing Colloquium on the Economies and Societies of India and China (CESIC). \n\n\n\nAiring Grievances and the Atmospherics of Chinese Legal Reform\n\n\n\nProfessor Julie Chu\, University of Chicago \n\n\n\nFriday\, Nov 2\, 2018 (4:00-6:00 pm) | Orozco Room (#712)\, 66 W. 12th St. \n\n\n\nRSVP Now \n\n\n\nAbout the Talk \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis talk considers the ways in which legal reform unfolds as a palpable\, if vague\, “change in the air” in new zones of urban revitalization and port development in contemporary China. Drawing from various examples of air’s tactile circulation through the rezoned areas of coastal Fuzhou (e.g.\, the free trade port area\, the touristic city center)\, I show how redevelopment as filtered through “the rule of law” still politically and literally stinks for those caught up in its environs. But against instrumental readings of the dysfunctions and failures of China’s recent legal reforms\, my aim is to explore how “the law” actually works through its very malfunctions and spread of bad airs to shape a distinctive atmospherics of protest in citizen-state encounters; this includes gathering unlikely allies together under a shared cloud of political disaffection and procedural noise to ponder the revolutionary and everyday possibilities of social change beyond the governing logics of “reform.” \n\n\n\nAbout the Speaker \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJulie Y. Chu is a sociocultural anthropologist with interests in mobility and migration\, economy and value\, ritual life\, material culture\, media and technology\, and state regulatory regimes. Her book\, Cosmologies of Credit: Transnational Mobility and the Politics of Destination in China (Duke University Press\, 2010)\, received the 2011 Sharon Stephens Prize from the American Ethnological Society and the 2012 Clifford Geertz Prize from the Society for the Anthropology of Religion. Her current writing project is entitled The Hinge of Time: Infrastructure and Chronopolitics at China’s Global Edge. Based on three years of fieldwork largely among Chinese customs inspectors and transnational migrant couriers\, this work will analyze the various infrastructures in place (legal-rational\, financial\, cosmic\, piratical) for managing the temporal intensities and rhythms of people and things on the move between Southern China and the United States. A graduate of NYU’s Program in Culture and Media\, she is also currently completing video projects related to her fieldwork as well as developing a new ethnographic focus on Chinese soundscapes\, especially in relation to the changing qualities and valuations of the Chinese concept of renao (热闹\, a bustling scene\, social liveliness or\, literally\, “heat and noise”). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSelected Publications\n\n\n\nn.d.\nThe Hinge of Time: Infrastructure and Chronopolitics at China’s Global Edge (book manuscript in progress). \n\n\n\nn.d.\nLeaving Longyan\, ethnographic film in production. \n\n\n\nn.d.\nDebt\, Theft and the Calculus of Fortune (in preparation for publication). \n\n\n\nn.d.\nSchlock Value: Or\, How Some Chinese Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Politics of Fiasco (in preparation for journal submission). \n\n\n\n2017\nRisk\, Fate\, Fortune: The Lives and Times of Customs Inspectors in Southern China. Cambridge University Press. \n\n\n\n2016\nBoxed In: Human Cargo and the Dis/comforts of Moving Strangers. International Journal of Politics\, Culture & Society. \n\n\n\n2014\nWhen Infrastructures Attack: The Workings of Disrepair in China. American Ethnologist 14 (2): 351-367. \n\n\n\n2011\nThe Noise of Data: Comments on Ewald’s “After Risk.” Carceral Notebooks 7 (2011): 109-118. \n\n\n\n2010\nCosmologies of Credit: Transnational Mobility and the Politics of Destination in China. Duke University Press. \n\n\n\n2010\nThe Attraction of Numbers: Accounting for Ritual Expenditures in Fuzhou\, China. Anthropological Theory\, 10 (1-2): 132-142. \n\n\n\n2009\nDeparting China: Identification Papers and the Pursuit of Burial Rights in Fuzhou. In Sabine Berking and Magdalena Zolkos\, eds.\, Between Life and Death; Governing Populations in the Era of Human Rights. Frankfurt: Peter Lang. \n\n\n\n2007\nEquation Fixations: On the Whole and the Sum of Dollars in Foreign Exchange. In A. Truitt & S. Senders\, eds.\, Money: Ethnographic Encounters. Oxford: Berg Publishers. \n\n\n\n2006\nTo Be ‘Emplaced’: Fuzhounese Migration and the Politics of Destination. Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power. 13(3): 395-425. \n\n\n\n2001\nWhen Alan Turning Was a Computer: Notes on the Rise and Decline of Punch Card Technologies. Connect: art.politics.theory.practice 1(2). \n\n\n\n2000 Meet Halo Halo\, a 28-minute video documentary produced and directed.
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/airing-grievances-and-the-atmospherics-of-chinese-legal-reform-julie-chu/
CATEGORIES:CESIC Talk,Public Event,Public Talks
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SUMMARY:India China Day 2018
DESCRIPTION:Come check out the India China Institute’s India China Day!
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/india-china-day-2018/
LOCATION:Lang Cafe\, 65 West 11th Street First Fl.\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, USA
CATEGORIES:Exhibit,Fellowship,Grants & Awards,Public Event,Public Event (General),Public Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180504T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180504T180000
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SUMMARY:High-Speed Urbanization and the “Over-sized Cities” in Contemporary China
DESCRIPTION:  \n  \nHigh-Speed Urbanization and the “Over-sized Cities” in Contemporary China\n  \nMay 4\, 2018 | 4:00-6:00 pmStarr Foundation Hall | 63 Fifth Ave\, NY\, The New School \n  \nA Public Talk with Zhe Sun\, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics(S.U.F.E) \n  \nAbout the Talk \n  \nThe urbanization rate in China has passed 50% since 2011 and will reach 60% by the year 2020. However\, the image of “rural China” stays as a stereotype for a long time. \n  \nThis talk is aimed to help understand China in urban condition. It will start from the process of high-speed urbanization in the first decade of 21st century. Then it will demonstrate the high- density situation in three megacities: Beijing\, Shanghai and Guangzhou. Finally\, it will emphasize the current u-turn of urban policy from social inclusion to social exclusion in the so-called “over-sized” cities and point out the latest inequality issues in the case of Shanghai. \n  \nAbout the Speaker \n  \nDr. Zhe SUN is an assistant researcher in the department of economic sociology at Shanghai University of Finance and Economics(S.U.F.E). He achieved his PhD in E.N.S Paris-Saclay with a French dissertation on the housing market and homeowner society in Shanghai. Now he is studying the rental housing market\, tenants groups as well as other relevant urban issues such as the informal economy\, gentrification and gated-community etc. \n  \nThis event is organized by the India China Institute and co-sponsored by The New School’s Global Studies Program and Environmental Studies Program. \n  \nLIMITED SEATING \n  \n\n\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/high-speed-urbanization-and-the-over-sized-cities-in-contemporary-china/
LOCATION:Wolff Conference Room\, 6 East 16th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, USA
CATEGORIES:Public Event,Public Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180423T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180423T180000
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SUMMARY:The Promise of Making: Desiring Alternatives and Hacking Entrepreneurial Living in China
DESCRIPTION:Since 2014\, a series of Western media outlets from the Wired UK over the Economist to Forbes has begun to celebrate the city of Shenzhen in the South of China as a rising hub of innovation\, a so-called “Hollywood for Makers” and “Silicon Valley of Hardware.” These media stories took up an idea that open source hardware advocates had been promoting for several years: that the city of Shenzhen had become crucial for the realization of one of the key promises of the maker movement\, i.e. to prototype concrete alternatives to the pitfalls of the information society and contemporary capitalism. Just a couple years earlier\, Shenzhen was largely known as a place of copycats and fakes that lacked creativity where ideas created elsewhere were simply executed and mass produced. What happened within the timespan of only a few years that changed Shenzhen’s image from demonstrating China’s continuous lag in technology innovation towards a place where alternatives to neoliberal capitalism could be prototyped?In this talk\, Silvia Lindtner presents excerpts from her forthcoming book “The Promise of Making”\, unpacking the historical contingencies of this transformation of Shenzhen\, and with it China\, in the global tech imaginary. Drawing from more than seven years of ethnographic research\, she shows how the displacement of techno-optimistic onto Shenzhen unfolded through and alongside the emergence of “making” as a mode of intervention in the status-quo by hacking not only machines but also markets and work itself. Shenzhen\, as the speaker shows\, was rendered by open source hardware advocates\, venture capitalists\, avant-garde designers\, and Chinese politicians and state actors alike as a laboratory to prototype what she calls “entrepreneurial living\,” i.e. a naturalization of experimentation as a mode of “living on” amidst a pervasive economization of life. While making reformulated a key neoliberal logic of self-economization as a story of empowerment by promising to include ever more people in its call for self-transformation into human capital\, Shenzhen came to be seen as the place to accomplish this upgrade of the self and to regain a sense of control amidst anxieties over the economic and environmental crisis. \n\n\n\nSilvia Lindtner is an assistant professor at the University of Michigan in the School of Information\, with a courtesy appointment in the Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design. Lindtner’s research and teaching interests include innovation and technology entrepreneurship\, making and hacking cultures\, shifts in digital work\, labor\, industry\, policy\, and governance. This work unfolds through a deep engagement with issues of gender\, inequality\, and enactments of masculinity in engineering and computer science fields\, politics and transnational imaginaries of design\, contemporary political economy\, and processes of economization. Lindtner draws from more than eight years of multi-sited ethnographic research\, with a particular focus on China’s shifting role in transnational and global tech production alongside research alongside research in the United States\, Taiwan\, and Africa. \n\n\n\nLIMITED SEATING
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/the-promise-of-making-desiring-alternatives-and-hacking-entrepreneurial-living-in-china/
CATEGORIES:Public Event,Public Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180418T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180418T193000
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SUMMARY:Urban Futures in the Indian Himalayas
DESCRIPTION:  \n  \nThe expanded reproduction of rural livelihoods has led to an increasing number of households in the Indian Himalayas—especially in the state of Himachal Pradesh—route available surplus to nearby urban areas in search of speculative footholds. This talk is about the production of space and everyday lives concomitant to this process.Rohit Negi is with the School of Human Ecology at Ambedkar University\, Delhi. He has a PhD in Geography (Ohio State) and masters degree in Urban Planning (UIUC). Rohit’s research lies at the intersections of urban geography and political ecology\, and his ongoing projects concern Delhi’s toxic air\, and Himachal’s construction boom. \n  \nLIMITED SEATING \n  \n\n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/urban-futures-in-the-indian-himalayas/
CATEGORIES:Public Event,Public Event (General),Public Talks>Info Session
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180409T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180409T200000
DTSTAMP:20260503T211101
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SUMMARY:Global Asia and Postcolonial Predicaments: How to Historicize the Rohingya Crisis
DESCRIPTION:The horrors suffered by Rohingyas in Myanmar today – which now appear ever more frequently and graphically in the news — represent one brutal extremity of a kind of victimization that haunts countless people whose only crime is living in old spaces of human mobility that modern empires carved into national territories. Methodological nationalism justifies their precarity with histories that provide charters for national belonging\, tying citizens firmly to specific places inside national borders. In a world covered by nations\, human rights depend on that belonging. Old spaces of mobility can thus become perilous homelands where nations produce minorities as aliens eligible for marginalization\, exclusion\, and expulsion. Histories of mobile social space may implicitly disenfranchise their residents\, but we need those histories to escape methodological nationalism and explore interactions of mobility and territoriality that generate globalization\, at many levels of scale. All these post-colonial predicaments challenge any history of the Rohingya crisis\, which I approach here through local histories of Global Asia around the Bay of Bengal.The “Carol Breckenridge Memorial Lecture Series in South Asian History” is an annual lecture by a distinguished scholar in the field of South Asian history and society\, broadly defined. It was established with the generous support of Professor Arjun Appadurai\, the former Provost of The New School. The lecture series has featured diverse vantage points on South Asian history and different generations of scholars\, including Sir Christopher Bayly\, Gayatri Spivak\, Dipesh Chakrabarty\, Faisal Devji\, and Ritu Birla. \n\n\n\nDavid Ludden is Professor and Chair in the Department of History at New York University. He received his Ph.D. in History from the University of Pennsylvania\, in 1978\, and served on the Penn faculty from 1981 until 2007\, when he came to NYU. He has directed South Asia programs at Penn\, the Social Science Research Council\, the Fulbright Senior Scholars program (CIES)\, and NYU. He served as President of the Association for Asian Studies in 2002-3. His research focuses on very long-term histories of globalization in Asia\, particularly as they concern trajectories of capitalist economic development\, spatial inequity\, natural environments\, and changing material conditions in everyday life. \n\n\n\nLIMITED SEATING
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/global-asia-and-postcolonial-predicaments-how-to-historicize-the-rohingya-crisis/
LOCATION:Klein Conference Room\, 66 West 12th Street 5th Floor\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, USA
CATEGORIES:Public Event,Public Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180405T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180405T190000
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SUMMARY:The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor: Prospects\, Perceptions\, and Potential Implications for India and the US
DESCRIPTION:The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is a $62 billion infrastructure project associated with Beijing’s broader Belt and Road Initiative. It entails new roads\, power plants\, and ports across Pakistan as part of China’s global effort to facilitate access to markets far and wide. CPEC has the potential to bring major benefits to Pakistan’s economy\, but because of security and financial issues\, it is also fraught with risk. This lecture will examine CPEC’s prospects; discuss how it is perceived in Pakistan\, China\, India\, and the US; and consider its strategic implications for both New Delhi and Washington. \n\n\n\nMichael Kugelman is the Asia Program Deputy Director and Senior Associate for South Asia at the Woodrow Wilson Center\, where he is responsible for research\, programming\, and publications on the region. His main speciality is Pakistan\, India\, and Afghanistan and U.S. relations with each of them. Kugelman writes monthly columns for Foreign Policy’s South Asia Channel and monthly commentaries for War on the Rocks. He also contributes regular pieces to the Wall Street Journal’s Think Tank blog. He has published op-eds and commentaries in the New York Times\, Los Angeles Times\, Politico\, CNN.com\, Bloomberg View\, The Diplomat\, Al Jazeera\, and The National Interest\, among others. \n\n\n\nLIMITED SEATING
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/the-china-pakistan-economic-corridor-prospects-perceptions-and-potential-implications-for-india-and-the-us/
LOCATION:Klein Conference Room\, 66 West 12th Street 5th Floor\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, USA
CATEGORIES:Public Event,Public Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180402T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180402T190000
DTSTAMP:20260503T211101
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SUMMARY:Xi Jinping and China's Success Trap
DESCRIPTION:Drawing on Professor Mohanty’s more than three decades of research\, this talk will focus on how China’s “reform and open door” policy evolved and helped achieve tremendous economic success. Professor Mohanty will also examine how this policy has generated serious social and environmental problems. \n\n\n\nIn his recent book\, ‘China’s Transformation: The Success Story and the Success Trap’\, Mohanty argues that the consequences of this story of success and growth are so strong that it has been difficult for China to change its main development path and to achieve a desirable level of equity and sustainability. Professor Mohanty describes this as the “success trap” that China is currently grappling with. \n\n\n\nThis event is organized by the India China Institute and co-sponsored by the Global Studies Program at The New School \n\n\n\nLIMITED SEATING
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/xi-jinping-and-chinas-success-trap/
CATEGORIES:Public Event,Public Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180305T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180305T180000
DTSTAMP:20260503T211101
CREATED:20200423T172149Z
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SUMMARY:Agrarian Elites in Urban Real Estate: Urban and Land Transformations along New Economic Corridors in Liberalizing India
DESCRIPTION:  \n  \nProfessor Sai Balakrishnan will be exploring the narrative movements of urbanization in contemporary India from megacities to the contested geographies along new economic corridors. As policymakers search for new market-oriented means for the transfer of land from agrarian constituencies to infrastructural promoters and urban developers\, the re-allocation of property control is erupting into volatile land-based social conflicts. Professor Balakrishnan puts forward the argument that some of India’s most decisive conflicts over its urban futures will unfold in these corridor regions where electorally strong agrarian propertied classes are coming into direct encounters with financially powerful incoming urban firms. She calls for new theories of land and urbanization that are capable of incorporating within them the agrarian political economy. Through focusing on the agrarian to urban land-use change along India’s first economic corridor\, the Mumbai-Pune Expressway\, she articulates how diverse agrarian property regimes shape the trajectories of contemporary urbanization in liberalizing India.An India China Institute public event. RSVP here to register for the event. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/agrarian-elites-in-urban-real-estate-urban-and-land-transformations-along-new-economic-corridors-in-liberalizing-india/
CATEGORIES:Public Event,Public Event (General),Public Talks
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180301
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180302
DTSTAMP:20260503T211101
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SUMMARY:Deadline to Apply - Faculty Research & Curriculum Development Grants
DESCRIPTION:The Faculty Research and Curriculum Development Grants will support new or continuing research\, curriculum development and student engagement on India and China by faculty in any division of The New School. Six Faculty Research Awards (up to $10\,000 each) and one of up to $15\,000 for the express purpose of curriculum development and student engagement will be distributed\, and grant recipients will have 24 months to carry out the proposed activities of the grant. Grant recipients are requested to give a presentation upon completion of the initiative\, the form of which may be mutually determined at the time of funding.Applications must be submitted by March 1\, 2018. Awards will be announced in early April 2018. Complete details about the grants can be found here.
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/deadline-to-apply-faculty-research-curriculum-development-grants/
CATEGORIES:Grants & Awards
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171204T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171204T180000
DTSTAMP:20260503T211101
CREATED:20200423T172327Z
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SUMMARY:The 19th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party and the Futures of Chinese Politics
DESCRIPTION:The 19th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party and the Futures of Chinese Politics\n\n\n\nDecember 4\, 2017 | 4:00-6:00 pmOrozco Room (712) | 66 W. 12th St\, NY\, The New School \n\n\n\nA Public Talk with Andrew Nathan Columbia University | Hua Ze China Rights in Action | L.H.M. Ling The New School | Mark Frazier The New School | Xu Youyu Chinese Academy of Social Sciences | Zha Jianying Writer \n\n\n\nAbout the Talk \n\n\n\nAs the now undisputed\, strong leader of modern China\, Xi Jinping is uniquely positioned to determine China’s future. Through his emphasis on the ‘Belt and Road’ Initiative\, (BRI)\, Xi demonstrates his intention for China to shape the contours of global affairs as well. \n\n\n\nAt the 19th Party Congress\, Xi Jinping’s ideas on China’s development and role in global affairs were incorporated in the Party’s Constitution. With only five years in office\, Xi has attained a level of personalized power and authority not seen in China in decades. But will Xi’s supremacy go unchallenged in the future? What are the prospects for political change in China under Xi’s self-stated “New Era of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics”. A panel of China experts will discuss these and related questions about China following the 19th Party Congress. \n\n\n\nAbout the Book \n\n\n\nThis panel on China’s multiple political futures is being held in connection with the recent publication of To Build a Free China: A Citizen’s Journey (Lynne Rienner Publishers\, 2017) by Xu Zhiyong\, a former ICI fellow\, and translated by Joshua Rosenzweig and Yaxue Cao. \n\n\n\nDr. Xu is a prominent legal scholar\, civil rights lawyer\, activist\, and founder of the New Citizens’ Movement. He was named one of Asia Weekly’s People of the Year in 2005 and one of the Southern People’s Weekly Top Ten Young Leaders of China in 2006. He was an ICI Fellow from 2008 to 2010. Professor Andrew Nathan\, who wrote the introduction of the book\, will share his thoughts and insights on the specific questions explored by Xu Zhiyong. \n\n\n\nThis event is organized in partnership with Columbia University’s Weatherhead East Asian Institute and co-sponsored by The New School’s Global Studies Program and the Julien J. Studley Graduate Program in International Affairs.
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/the-19th-congress-of-the-chinese-communist-party-and-the-futures-of-chinese-politics/
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Public Event,Public Talks
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20171110
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20171111
DTSTAMP:20260503T211101
CREATED:20200423T172326Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210412T083311Z
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SUMMARY:Summer Travel Research Grant 2018
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/summer-travel-research-grant-2018/
CATEGORIES:Grants & Awards
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171103T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171103T180000
DTSTAMP:20260503T211101
CREATED:20200423T172255Z
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SUMMARY:Media Politics in China: Improvising Power Under Authoritarianism
DESCRIPTION:Media Politics in China: Improvising Power Under Authoritarianism\n\n\n\nA CESIC Talk with Maria Repnikova\n\n\n\nNovember 3\, 2017 | 4:00-6:00 pmKlein Conference Room (#501) | 66 W. 12th St\, NY\, The New School \n\n\n\nAbout the Talk \n\n\n\nWho watches over the party-state? In her new book\, Maria Repnikova reveals the webs of an uneasy partnership between critical journalists and the state in China. More than merely a passive mouthpiece or a dissident voice\, the media in China also plays a critical oversight role\, one more frequently associated with liberal democracies than with authoritarian systems. Chinese central officials cautiously endorse media supervision as a feedback mechanism\, as journalists carve out space for critical reporting by positioning themselves as aiding the agenda of the central state. Drawing on rare access in the field\, Media Politics in China examines the process of guarded improvisation that has definedthis volatile partnership over the past decade on a routine basis and in the aftermath of major crisis events. Combined with a comparative analysis of media politics in the Soviet Union and contemporary Russia\, the book highlights the distinctiveness of Chinese journalist-state relations\, as well as the renewed pressures facing them in the Xi era. \n\n\n\nAbout the Speaker \n\n\n\nDr. Maria Repnikova is a scholar of global communication\, with a comparative focus on China and Russia. Her research examines the processes of political resistance and persuasion in illiberal political contexts\, drawing on ethnographic research approaches and extensive time in the field. Maria holds a doctorate from the University of Oxford\, where she was a Rhodes Scholar. \n\n\n\nLIMITED SEATING 
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/media-politics-in-china-improvising-power-under-authoritarianism/
CATEGORIES:Public Event,Public Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171026T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171026T180000
DTSTAMP:20260503T211101
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SUMMARY:Religious Change and Disturbed Religious Ecosystems in Jiangsu\, China w/ Robert Weller
DESCRIPTION:Religious Change and Disturbed Religious Ecosystems in Jiangsu\, China \n \n \nTalk by Professor Robert Weller\n \nOctober 26\, 2017 | 4:00-6:00 pmOrozco Room (#712) | 66 W. 12th St\, NY\, The New School \n \nAbout the Talk \n \nRapid urban expansion in wealthy parts of China has led to the resettlement of many villagers into high-rise buildings\, making earlier forms of material and cultural life impossible.  At the same time\, large-scale urban reconstruction has displaced many old city neighborhoods.  One result is that the territorially-based religion described in much of the anthropological and historical literature has become increasingly untenable as the entire ecosystem surrounding it has grown unstable. This talk examines what appears to be an especially creative zone for religious innovation:  the expanding urban edge.  The cases come from various cities in southern Jiangsu and focus on ghost attacks\, a spirit medium network\, and innovations in the forms and objects of temple worship. Theoretically\, the paper thinks about ecosystems in the broadest sense of complexly articulated systems\, without assuming a divide between nature and culture. \n \nAbout the Speaker \n \nRobert Weller is Professor of Anthropology & Director of Graduate Studies at Boston University. Weller’s work concentrates on China and Taiwan in comparative perspective. His actual research topics\, however\, are eclectic—running from ghosts to politics\, rebellions to landscape paintings. Perhaps what unites everything is an interest in finding the limits to authority in all its settings. His publications include Unities and Diversities in Chinese Religion (1987)\,  Resistance\, Chaos\, and Control in China: Taiping Rebels\, Taiwanese Ghosts and Tiananmen (1994)\, Alternate Civilities: Chinese Culture and the Prospects for Democracy (1999)\, Discovering Nature: Globalization and Environmental Culture in China and Taiwan (2006)\, and Ritual and Its Consequences: An Essay on the Limits of Sincerity (2008). \n \nLIMITED SEATING 
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/religious-change-and-disturbed-religious-ecosystems-in-jiangsu-china-w-robert-weller/
CATEGORIES:Public Event,Public Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171023T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171023T200000
DTSTAMP:20260503T211101
CREATED:20200423T172311Z
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SUMMARY:Reimagining Youth and Politics in India w/Shehla Rashid
DESCRIPTION:Reimagining Youth and Politics in India\n\n\n\nTalk by Shehla Rashid\n\n\n\nOctober 23\, 2017 | 6:30-8:00 pmKellen Auditorium (#101) | 66 Fifth Avenue\, NY\, The New School \n\n\n\nAbout the Talk \n\n\n\nShehla Rashid represents one of the most important voices in the anti-fascist struggles in India. She was the Vice President of the Jawaharlal Nehru University Student Union and a member of the All India Student Association. She is currently finishing a MPhil in Law and Governance at JNU. \n\n\n\nA 2016 interview with Rashid for The Wire. \n\n\n\nA 2016 video of Rashid giving a speech on campus at JNU. \n\n\n\nLIMITED SEATING 
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/reimagining-youth-and-politics-in-india-w-shehla-rashid/
CATEGORIES:Public Event,Public Event (General),Public Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171018T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171018T200000
DTSTAMP:20260503T211101
CREATED:20200423T172315Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260107T105512Z
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SUMMARY:Reversing Roles? Environmental Politics and Policy in China and the US in the Trump and Xi Jingping Era w/ Robert Gottlieb
DESCRIPTION:  \n  \nReversing Roles?\n  \nEnvironmental Politics and Policy in China and the US in the Trump and Xi Jingping Era\n  \nA book talk by Professor Robert Gottlieb \n  \nOctober 18\, 2017 | 6:00-8:00 pm \n  \nOrozco Room (712)\, 66 W. 12th St \n  \nRSVP Now \n  \nAbout the Talk \n  \nHas there been a role reversal between the US and China on the environment? \n  \nChina has long been considered an environmental outlier — horrendous smog episodes\, water unfit to drink and even to irrigate\, huge increases in the number of cars on the road\, a global leader in the use of pesticides\, a major coal producer and importer\, a reluctant participant in global climate negotiations until recently\, and more. The US\, until November 9\, had been seen as at least modestly responsive to environmental concerns. Now with Donald Trump and Scott Pruitt ensconced in Washington seeking to systematically dismantle the environmental policy system in contrast to the passage of environmental legislation and a new role around climate change in China\, the roles do seem to be reversing. Is that an accurate view? \n  \nThe answer is yes and no. The talk will compare current US and China environmental approaches in such areas as air pollution\, transportation\, and food as well as climate change\, and the interplay between national and local or regional government policies and their implementation. It will point to the role of social movements and popular protests to help us understand what has changed and why. And it will look at the structural barriers for change: the nature of China’s embrace of marketization\, developmentalism\, and urbanization on the one hand\, and the continuing power of the fossil fuel industry and other environmentally problematic industry forces in the U.S. to shape or at least block policies. \n  \nAbout the Speaker \n  \nRobert Gottlieb is Emeritus Professor at Occidental College and founder and former executive director of the Urban & Environmental Policy Institute. He is the author or co-author of more than a dozen books; his most recent book\, co-authored with Simon Ng\, is Global Cities: Urban Environments in Los Angeles\, Hong Kong\, and China (MIT Press). \n  \nSponsored by The New School’s interdisciplinary programs in Global Studies\, Urban Studies\, and Environmental Studies\, and the India China Institute. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/reversing-roles-environmental-politics-and-policy-in-china-and-the-us-in-the-trump-and-xi-jingping-era-w-robert-gottlieb/
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Public Event,Public Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171012T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171012T173000
DTSTAMP:20260503T211101
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SUMMARY:Welfare\, Work\, And Poverty: Social Assistance in China W/ Qin Gao
DESCRIPTION:Welfare\, Work\, And Poverty\n\n\n\nTalk by Professor Qin Gao\n\n\n\nOctober 12\, 2017 | 4:00-5:30 pmHirshon Suite | 55 W 13th St NY New York NY 10011 \n\n\n\nWelfare\, Work\, and Poverty\, Professor Qin Gao’s new book\,  provides the first systematic and comprehensive evaluation of the impacts and effectiveness of China’s primary social assistance program — Minimum Livelihood Guarantee\, or Dibao — since its inception in 1993. Dibao serves the dual function of providing a basic safety net for the poor and maintaining social and political stability. Despite currently being the world’s largest welfare program in terms of population coverage\, evidence on Dibao’s performance has been lacking. This book offers important new empirical evidence and draws policy lessons that are timely and useful for both China and beyond. Welfare\, Work\, and Poverty is essential reading for political scientists\, economists\, sociologists\, public policy researchers\, and social workers interested in learning about and understanding contemporary China. \n\n\n\nABOUT THE SPEAKER \n\n\n\nQin Gao is a professor at the Columbia School of Social Work (CSSW)\, a faculty affiliate of the Columbia Population Research Center and of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute\, and the director of Columbia University’s China Center for Social Policy. She is also an Academic Board Member of the China Institute for Income Distribution at Beijing Normal University and a Public Intellectual Fellow of the National Committee on United States-China Relations. Before joining the CSSW faculty\, she was a professor and the Coordinator of International Initiatives at Fordham University’s Graduate School of Social Service. Dr. Gao’s current research examines the following topics: 1) the Chinese welfare state in transition: size\, structure\, and redistributive effects; 2) effectiveness and impacts of dibao\, China’s primary social assistance program\, and other anti-poverty policies and programs; 3) gender inequality in time use in China and beyond; 4) social protection for rural-to-urban migrants in China and Asian American immigrants; and 5) cross-national comparative social policies and programs. Dr. Gao’s work has been supported by multiple national and international funding sources such as the National Social Science Fund of China\, UNICEF\, and the World Bank. \n\n\n\nLIMITED SEATING
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/welfare-work-and-poverty-social-assistance-in-china-w-qin-gao/
CATEGORIES:Public Event,Public Event (General),Public Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171005T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171005T193000
DTSTAMP:20260503T211101
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SUMMARY:Live Baccarat Calculations: Macau Machine Gaming and the Production of the Post-Socialist Subject
DESCRIPTION:Following Portugal’s return of Macau to the People’s Republic of China in 1999\, the local government liberalized the city’s 150-year-old casino monopoly concession and invited participation by select foreign gaming companies. Over the following decade these companies produced a phantasmagoric Macau cityscape comprised of enormous integrated casino resorts such as the Venetian\, Parisian\, Wynn\, MGM\, and City of Dreams. As a result\, tiny Macau is now the world’s most lucrative site of casino gaming\, and is visited by more than 30 million tourists per year. The majority of Macau’s casino revenues are derived from Chinese high-rollers who gamble in private VIP rooms. However\, due to a recent slowdown of China’s economy\, as well as a central government crackdown on corruption and tightening of illicit cross-border financial flows\, Macau’s VIP gambling revenues have decreased significantly. Therefore\, Macau’s gaming operators are seeking to diversify the industry and to target Chinese ‘mass market’ tourists. This paper analyzes an electronic casino game called LIVE Baccarat\, which was specifically created for the Macau market and designed to appeal to ordinary Chinese gamblers. Drawing on the work of Michel Callon and Michel Foucault\, I explore the ways in which the LIVE Baccarat gaming machine ‘economizes’ the casino game of baccarat by introducing novel betting functions which require gamblers to engage in various forms of financial calculation. LIVE Baccarat may be understood as an apparatus\, or dispositif\, of subjection of a Chinese ‘mass market’ gambler – an individuated\, speculating\, calculating\, and risk-taking subject\, and a form of ‘human capital’ that Foucault might call an ‘entrepreneur of the self’. This nascent Chinese economic subject is not only important to Macau’s gaming industry\, but to post-socialist market reforms in the PRC\, and perhaps ultimately to the sustainability of global capitalism.This is an India China Institute event\, co-sponsored by the School of Design Strategies\, Parsons School of Design\, and the Global Studies Program\, The New School \nRSVP Here:  
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/live-baccarat-calculations-macau-machine-gaming-and-the-production-of-the-post-socialist-subject/
LOCATION:Klein Conference Room\, 66 West 12th Street 5th Floor\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, USA
CATEGORIES:Public Event,Public Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171002T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171002T200000
DTSTAMP:20260503T211101
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SUMMARY:What Went Wrong With India-China Relations - A Historical Analysis w/ Tansen Sen
DESCRIPTION:Tansen Sen is Director of the Center for Global Asia; Professor of History\, NYU Shanghai; Global Network Professor\, NYU. He received his MA from Peking University and Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania.Prof. Sen specializes in Asian history and religions and has special scholarly interests in India-China interactions\, Indian Ocean connections\, and Buddhism. He is the author of Buddhism\, Diplomacy\, and Trade: The Realignment of Sino-Indian Relations\, 600-1400 (2003; 2016) and India\, China\, and the World: A Connected History (2017). He published numerous articles.
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/what-went-wrong-with-india-china-relations-a-historical-analysis-w-tansen-sen/
CATEGORIES:Public Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171002T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171002T180000
DTSTAMP:20260503T211101
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SUMMARY:Rebel Retirement Through Informal Exit Networks: Evidence from India w/ Rumela Sen
DESCRIPTION:Rebel Retirement Through Informal Exit Networks: Evidence from India\nA CESIC Seminar w/\nPost-Doctoral Research Fellow Rumela Sen\nOct 2\, 20174-6 pm\, Orozco Room\n  \nUnder what conditions do insurgents give up arms and return to the same political processes that they had once sought to overthrow? A lot has been written on why men and women rebel. But we know very little about how rebels quit. In this paper I show that rebels quit through informal exit networks that thrive in the underbelly of grassroots associations of civic participation. They are made up of ordinary people in conflict zones who live their everyday lives one foot in democracy and one foot in insurgency. \nThe empirical puzzle for this study is drawn from the ongoing Maoist insurgency in India that has claimed 6\,760 lives in the last ten years and has been acknowledged as the biggest internal security threat that the country has ever faced. Despite comparable conflict intensity (measured in terms of incidents and casualties) and unified command structure of the rebel organization\, retirement is exceptionally high in the south and very low in the north. Further\, both in the north and in the south\, rebel retirement is concentrated in some districts and not others. \nAbout the Speaker \nRumela Sen is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Political Science at Columbia University.  She studied Comparative Politics in the Department of Government at Cornell University. Her current research focuses on rebel retirement and reintegration with empirical evidence drawn primarily from South Asia.
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/rebel-retirement-through-informal-exit-networks-evidence-from-india-w-rumela-sen/
CATEGORIES:Public Event,Public Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170922T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170922T000000
DTSTAMP:20260503T211101
CREATED:20200423T172220Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210412T090710Z
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SUMMARY:EMERGING PUBLIC SPACE IN\OF THE PEARL RIVER DELTA SYMPOSIUM
DESCRIPTION:The purpose of the symposium is to discuss variations of the concept of urban public space and multiplicities of public spatial practice that have emerged in the context of the Pearl River Delta’s rapid urban development in the last forty years. We are particularly interested in exploring characteristics that make the public space and socio-spatial practices in this region distinct from urban development in China and East Asia in general\, as well as searching for research practices and points of view that are currently emerging or have been under-explored in this context.The symposium brings together fourteen participants who will present different perspectives on this expansive theme from the fields of urbanism\, architecture\, planning\, sociology\, and politics both academics and professional practitioners. The talks will be informative in reporting on findings from current research and practice\, and are aimed at constituting a series of provocations about the innovative ways of framing and conceptualizing public space inof Pearl River Delta. \n\n\n\nORGANIZED IN COLLABORATION with the School of Design at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University and with the India China Institute\, The New School \n\n\n\nSPONSORED BY the School of Design Strategies\, Parsons School of Design\, Urban @Parsons\, and The India China Institute\, The New School \n\n\n\n\nCONFERENCE SCHEDULE: \n9:00 WELCOME / GENERAL INTRODUCTION: \nTim Marshall\, Provost\, The New School \nJoel Towers\, Executive Dean\, Parsons School of Design \nAshok Gurung\, Director\, India China Institute \n9:30 SESSION 1 \nModerated by Miodrag Mitrasinovic\, The New School \nAdam Frampton\, Columbia University \nGeorgeen Theodore\, NJIT \nJonathan Bach\, The New School \nAdrian Blackwell\, Uof Waterloo \nBrian McGrath\, The New School \n11:30-12:00 PANEL DISCUSSION \nmoderated by Mark Frazier \n12:00-1:00 LUNCH \n1:00 SESSION 2 \nModerated by Mark Frazier\, The New School \nDavid Grahame Shane\, Columbia University \nYang Xiaochun and Gao Wenxiu\, Shenzhen \nUniversity \nTim Simpson\, University of Macau \n Stefan Al\, UPenn \nMargaret Crawford\, UC Berkeley \n3:00-3:30 PANEL DISCUSSION \nModerated by Miodrag Mitrasinovic \n3:30-4:00 COFFEE BREAK \n4:00-5:00 ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION \nModerated by Tim Jachna\, Hong Kong Polytechnic SD
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/emerging-public-space-inof-the-pearl-river-delta-symposium/
CATEGORIES:International Symposium,Public Event,Public Talks
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SUMMARY:What Would a UN-Country-City Partnership Look Like? w/ Aromar Revi
DESCRIPTION:Preparing the World to Implement the SDG’s:\n\n\n\nWhat would a UN-Country-City Partnership Look Like?\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nPublic talk with former ICI fellow Aromar Revi\n\n\n\nSept 20\, 2017 | 5:30-7pm\n\n\n\nDorothy Hirshon Suite (#205)\, 66 W 12th St\, The New School\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin us in welcoming Aromar Revi\, a former ICI fellow\, for a talk on preparing the world to implement the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).  He is a global expert on Sustainable Development; Co-Chair of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN)\, from where he helped lead a successful global campaign for an urban Sustainable Development Goal (SDG 11) as part of the UN’s 2030 development agenda\, which brought major global urban institutions and over 300 cities and organisations together. He has the distinction of addressing the UN General Assembly twice on the theme of sustainable cities\, in 2014 and 2017. \n\n\n\nAbout the Speaker \n\n\n\nAromar’s policy\, practice and research work lie at the interface of sustainability and climate science; and the emerging discipline of ‘urban science’\, that he is helping define internationally. He is a member of the UCL-Nature Sustainability Expert Panel on urban research and global sustainability. In 2016\, UNSDSN & the SDG Academy launched the first 75-session global Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on Sustainable Cities & SDG 11\, curated by him featuring 30 of the world’s leading urbanists. 10\,000 participants from 110 countries have registered for this.
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/what-would-a-un-country-city-partnership-look-like-w-aromar-revi/
CATEGORIES:Public Event,Public Talks
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SUMMARY:Reflections on the Belt and Road Forum
DESCRIPTION:Reflections on the Belt and Road Forum\n \nJune 20\, 2017 | 5:30 – 7:00 pmTheresa Lang Center (55 W. 13th St\, 2nd floor\, The New School) * Updated Event Venue\n \nFeatured Speakers: Liang Huijiang\, Wang Wen\, Zha Daojiong\, and Zhai Kun\n \nRSVP Now \n \nAbout the Talk: \n \nLast month China held a major international forum on its Belt and Road Initiative\, the first of its kind since Beijing announced the project in 2013. Drawing official delegations\, scholars\, entrepreneurs\, as well as representatives from financial institutions and media organizations from 130 nations\, the forum was an important step in China’s drive to develop infrastructure and connectivity along the “Belt and Road Corridors” from China to Africa\, Europe\, South and Southeast Asia. Though many important details about the initiative remain unclear\, foreign businesses are already vying for opportunities to join the project\, and their excitement was primed by President’s Xi Jinping’s promise at the Forum to raise tens of billions of dollars in new financing. The event generated some concern about whether actual profits and benefits will match expectations. From the perspectives both of recipient countries and investors\, the Belt and Road Initiative represents huge potential and significant risk. Amid the enthusiasm and apprehension surrounding the project\, a robust dialogue and accurate information are critical. In support of this\, the National Committee and the India China Institute of The New School are pleased to welcome a delegation of financial and economic scholars led by the director general of the International Finance Department of the China Development Bank\, Mr. Liang Huijiang\, to discuss the May 2017 Belt and Road Forum on June 20\, 2017. \n \nAbout the Speakers: \n \n\n\n\n \nMr. Liang Huijiang is director general of the International Finance Department of the China Development Bank (CDB). He oversees strategy and policy making of the bank’s international business operations as well as cooperation with national and multilateral development banks.  He also manages an overseas loan portfolio of over USD 300 billion\, and is instrumental in expanding the bank’s global network. \n \nFrom 2005 to 2009\, Mr. Liang was deputy director general of the bank’s Treasury Department\, playing a key role in building a professional team for the bank’s liquidity and investment portfolios as it reached several milestones in overseas bond offerings and underwritings. Between 1998 and 2003 Mr. Liang was special assistant to Mr. Chen Yuan\, then president of the CDB. In that capacity\, he was in charge of developing strategies as the CDB transformed itself from a semi-government agency into a market-oriented bank. Before joining CDB\, Mr. Liang worked in the International Department of the People’s Bank of China\, where he was involved in annual consultations between China and the IMF and reform of China’s exchange rate regime. \n \nMr. Liang holds a master’s degree in finance from the London Business School (2004)\, a master’s in economics from the PBC School of Finance\, Tsinghua University (1996)\, and a bachelor’s degree in economics from Hangzhou University (1993). \n \n\n\n\n \nDr. Wang Wen is a professor and executive dean of the Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies at Renmin University of China. He also serves as a consultant fellow at the Counselors’ Office of the State Council of China\, secretary general of the Green Finance Association of China\, and standing director of World Socialism Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. As a leading think tank professional since 2013\, Dr. Wang was named a “2014 Top Ten Figures of Chinese Think Tanks\,” and a “2015 China Reform and Development Pioneer.” \n \nDr. Wang worked as chief op-ed editor and editorial writer at Global Times before 2012\, and won a China News Awards in 2011. He has written and edited over 20 books including Think as a Tank; Anxiety of the U.S.; Visions of the Great Powers; 2016: G20 and China; Theories of World Governance: A Study in the History of Ideas; and The G20 and Global Governance. \n \n\n\n\n \nDr. Zha Daojiong is a professor of international political economy at the School of International Studies\, Peking University\, where he holds concurrent appointments in the University’s Institute of South-South Cooperation and International Development and Institute of Ocean Research. He specializes in studying non-traditional security issues in China’s foreign relations\, including energy\, food\, public health\, and transboundary water management. His recent research interests have expanded to political risk management for Chinese investments overseas. \n \nProfessor Zha has served as Arthur Ross Fellow at the Center on US-China Relations of the Asia Society in New York\, as the inaugural Rio Tinto China Fellow at the Lowy Institute for International Policy in Sydney\, and as senior research fellow at the Rajaratnam School of International Studies\, Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. He is also a member of the China chapter of the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific\, and a senior advisor to the Chinese Association for International Understanding. He is an active participant in the National Committee’s longstanding track II economic dialogue. \n \nProfessor Zha has written and edited seven academic books\, in addition to dozens of journal articles. He taught in Japan for six years and holds a doctoral degree in political science from the University of Hawaii at Manoa and the East-West Center. \n \n\n\n\n \nDr. Zhai Kun is a professor at the School of International Studies\, Peking University\, and director of the Center for Global Interconnectivity Studies\, Peking University. \n \nDr. Zhai was formerly director of the Institute of World Political Studies (2011-2014) and director of South and Southeast Asian and Oceania Studies (2007-2011) at the China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations (CICIR). He is a council member of China People’s Institute of Foreign Affairs\, a China expert and eminent person of the ASEAN Regional Forum\, and deputy president of the China Association of Southeast Asian Studies. Dr. Zhai has published extensively on China’s diplomacy and strategic thinking. He frequently writes for the People’s Daily\, China Daily\, World Knowledge\, and Oriental Morning Post. \n \nDr. Zhai received his Ph.D. in international relations from CICIR\, and his M.A. in international relations and B.A. in international journalism from the University of International Relations. \n \nThis event is organized by the National Committee on U.S. – China Relations\, and co-sponsored by the India China Institute. \n \nRSVP Now
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/reflections-on-the-belt-and-road-forum/
CATEGORIES:Public Event (General)
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SUMMARY:India China: Rethinking Borders and Security - Book Launch
DESCRIPTION: \n\n\n\nIndia China: Rethinking Borders and Security\n\n\n\nBook launch with authors: L.H.M. Ling\, Adriana Abdenur\, Payal Banerjee\, Nimmi Kurian\, Mahendra P. Lama\, Li Bo \n\n\n\nMonday\, May 22\, 4:00-6:oo pmOrozco Room (712)\, 66 West 12th St\n\n\n\nRemarks by:Mary Watson\, Executive Dean\, NSPETansen Sen\, Professor\, CUNYAshok Gurung\, Senior Director\, ICI \n\n\n\n RSVP NOW \n\n\n\nUniversity of Michigan Press (2016)\n\n\n\nAbout the Book \n\n\n\nChallenging the Westphalian view of international relations\, which focuses on the sovereignty of states and the inevitable potential for conflict\, the authors from the Borderlands Study Group reconceive borders as capillaries enabling the flow of material\, cultural\, and social benefits through local communities\, nation-states\, and entire regions. By emphasizing local agency and regional interdependencies\, this metaphor reconfigures current narratives about the China India border and opens a new perspective on the long history of the Silk Roads\, the modern BCIM Initiative\, and dam construction along the Nu River in China and the Teesta River in India. \n\n\n\nTogether\, the authors show that positive interaction among people on both sides of a border generates larger\, cross-border communities\, which can pressure for cooperation and development. India China offers the hope that people divided by arbitrary geo-political boundaries can circumvent race\, gender\, class\, religion\, and other social barriers\, to form more inclusive institutions and forms of governance. \n\n\n\nLing and her collaborators have ambitions that are not merely explanatory but also transformative: they seek not merely to make sense of an existing conflict\, but by diagnosing it in terms of blocked flows and interrupted balances\, they seek to envision ways to resolve (or\, better\, to dis-solve) it. If the more typical IR explanatory social-scientific question would be ‘why is this India-China conflict as virulent as it is?\,’ their question is instead ‘what does the present state of the conflict reveal about how to change things?’ The transformative question encompasses the explanatory question and presses it onto novel terrain; call the results ‘explanation-plus.’ —Patrick Thaddeus Jackson\, Editor\, Configurations Series\, University of Michigan Press and Professor\, School of International Service\, American University \n\n\n\nAbout the Authors \n\n\n\n\nL. H. M. Ling is Professor of International Affairs at The New School in New York\, USA. \n \nAdriana Abdenur is a Fellow with the Igarapé Institute\, in Rio de Janeiro\, and a Productivity Scholar with the Brazilian National Council for Technological and Scientific Development (CNPq).\n  \n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nPayal Banerjee is an Associate Professor with the Department of Sociology at Smith College in Northampton\, MA.\n\n\n\nNimmi Kurian is an Associate Professor at the Centre for Policy Research (CPR) in New Delhi\, India\, and India Representative\, India China Institute\, The New School\, New York. \n\n\n\nMahendra P. Lama is a Professor in the School of International Studies at Jawarhalal Nehru University (JNU) in New Delhi\, India. \n\n\n\nLi Bo is a part-time consultant for environmental grant-making in China and chief editor of the Green Cover Book: Annual Review of China’s Environment\, a Chinese publication. At the same time\, he runs a small organic farm by Lake Huron in Canada. \n\n\n\nRSVP NOW
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/india-china-rethinking-borders-and-security-book-launch/
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Public Event
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SUMMARY:The Global Democracy Recession: Can it be Reversed?
DESCRIPTION:The Global Democracy Recession: Can it be Reversed?\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA TALK WITH CARL GERSHMAN \n\n\n\nWed\, May 3\, 2017 – 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM \n\n\n\nJohnson/Kaplan Lecture Hall (#404)\, 66 West 12th St\, NY \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThree decades after the historic “third wave” of democratization\, global democracy is in retreat and authoritarianism has made alarming gains. Can the momentum of global democratization be revived? \n\n\n\nABOUT THE SPEAKER:\nCarl Gershman is the president of the Washington DC-based National Endowment for Democracy\, an institution with the mission to strengthen democratic institutions around the world through non-governmental efforts. The World Movement for Democracy\, which was founded under his leadership in India in 1999\, held its fifth global assembly in Kyiv in 2008. Prior to assuming the position with the Endowment\, Mr. Gershman was Senior Counselor to the United States Representative to the United Nation. Mr. Gershman has lectured extensively and written articles and reviews on foreign policy issues for leading international publications\, is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. His work in advancing democracy has been recognized worldwide and on behalf of NED\, he has accepted awards from the governments of Poland\, Romania\, Korea\, Lithuania and from numerous NGOs internationally. A frequent visitor to Ukraine\, he most recently traveled there in April 2015. Born in New York City in 1943\, he received his undergraduate degree from Yale University in 1965 and M.Ed. from Harvard University in 1968. \n\n\n\nOpening and Welcome: \n\n\n\nDavid Van Zandt\nPresident of The New School \n\n\n\nDiscussants: \n\n\n\nJeffrey C. Goldfarb\nMichael E. Gellert Professor\nDepartment of Sociology\, New School for Social Research \n\n\n\nSukhadeo Thorat\nChairman\nIndian Council of Social Science Research Professor Emeritus\, Jawaharlal Nehru University \n\n\n\nSanjay Ruparelia\nAssociate Professor and Chair\nDepartment of Politics\, New School for Social Research
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/the-global-democracy-recession-can-it-be-reversed/
CATEGORIES:Public Event (General)
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SUMMARY:China: End of the Reform Era w/ Carl Minzner
DESCRIPTION: \n\n\n\nChina: End of the Reform Era\n\n\n\nA Public Talk by Professor Carl Minzner\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nMonday\, May 1st\, 20174:00-6:00 pmOrozco Room (712)\, 66 West 12th St\, New York\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin ICI for an exciting talk by University of Fordham law professor Carl Minzner as he discusses the core factors that have characterized China’s ending reform era. Professor Minzner’s recent publications include “China After the Reform Era” and “The Rise and Fall of Chinese Legal Education”. \n\n\n\nAbout the Talk: \n\n\n\nChina’s reform era is ending. Core factors that characterized it – political stability\, ideological openness\, and rapid economic growth – are unraveling.  Since the early 1990s\, Beijing’s leaders have set their face against fundamental political reform of China’s one-Party system.  On the surface\, this has been a success.  The past three decades have seen political turmoil topple former Communist East bloc regimes\, internal unrest overtake Mideast nations\, and populist movements rise to challenge established Western democracies.  China\, in contrast\, has appeared a relative haven of stability and growth. But a closer look at China’s reform era reveals a different truth.  Over the past three decades a frozen political system has fueled both the rise of entrenched interests within the Communist Party itself\, and the systematic underdevelopment of institutions of governance among state and society at large.  Economic cleavages have widened\, social unrest worsened\, and ideological polarization deepened.  Now\, to address these looming problems\, China’s leaders are progressively cannibalizing institutional norms and practices that have formed the bedrock of the regime’s stability in the reform era.  Uncertainty hangs in the air as a new future slouches towards Beijing to be born. \n\n\n\nAbout the Speaker: \n\n\n\nCarl Minzner is an expert in Chinese law and governance. He has written extensively on these topics in both academic journals and the popular press\, including op-eds appearing in the New York Times\, Wall Street Journal\, Los Angeles Times\, and Christian Science Monitor. Prior to joining Fordham\, he was an Associate Professor of Law at Washington University in St. Louis. In addition\, he has served as Senior Counsel for the Congressional-Executive Commission on China\, International Affairs Fellow for the Council on Foreign Relations\, and Yale-China Legal Education Fellow at the Xibei Institute of Politics and Law in Xi’an\, China. He has also worked as an Associate at McCutchen & Doyle (Palo Alto\, CA) and as a Law Clerk for Hon. Raymond Clevenger of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/china-end-of-the-reform-era-w-carl-minzner/
CATEGORIES:Public Event (General)
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SUMMARY:Book Launch w/ Jonathan Bach
DESCRIPTION:LEARNING FROM SHENZEN: CHINA’S POST-MAO EXPERIMENT FROM SPECIAL ZONE TO MODEL CITY \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPlease join us on Wednesday evening\, April 26th\, for a reception celebrating the publication of Learning from Shenzhen: China’s Post-Mao Experiment from Special Zone to Model City\, edited by Mary Ann O’Donnell\, Winnie Wong\, & Jonathan Bach (University of Chicago Press\, 2017). \n\n\n\nThis multidisciplinary volume presents an account of China’s contemporary transformation via one of its most important yet overlooked cities: Shenzhen\, located just north of Hong Kong. From an experimental site as the first of China’s special economic zones\, Shenzhen is now a dominant city at the crossroads of the global economy\, a UNESCO City of Design\, and the hub of China’s emerging technology industries. A city of contradictions\, it embodies the spatial and temporal intricacies of the contemporary urban experience. The book explores especially how urban villages and informal institutions enabled social transformation. Through cases of labor\, architecture\, gender\, public health\, politics\, education\, and more\, this urban case study serves to explore critical problems for modern-day China and beyond. \n\n\n\nThe book just received prominent mention in the latest Economist magazine special feature on the Pearl River Delta. \n\n\n\nRemarks by co-editor and author\, Jonathan Bach\, chair of the Global Studies Program (New School)\, Mark Frazier\, Professor of Politics (New School)\, and special guest Na Fu\, Luce Visiting Scholar in Urban Studies at Trinity College and head of the research department at the Shenzhen Center for Design. \n\n\n\nRefreshments will be served and books will be available for purchase at a discount. \n\n\n\nSponsored by the interdisciplinary programs in Global Studies\, Urban Studies\, and Environmental Studies\, the India China Institute\, the Department of Anthropology\, and the Graduate Program in International Affairs.
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/book-launch-w-jonathan-bach/
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Public Event
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