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SUMMARY:Film Screening | Those 4 Years
DESCRIPTION:India China Institute is excited to host the screening of the recent research documentary of ICI’s past fellow Joe Thomas K called “Those 4 Years“. \n\n\n\nThe Nilgiris have gained the distinction of being a geographic indication for tea\, today. Somewhere behind the present glory is a remote connection with the Chinese which remains forgotten. “Those 4 Years” is an amazing journey into the lives of those Chinese who came to India around the middle of the 19th century… speaking a language unknown to their neighbors when they first arrived. The film journeys across three countries and reams of colonial office records to retrace the places those people came from\, the means and mode of their arrival\, and how many of them ended up making India their home. It is a history of people\, plants and places – as it catalogues their contributions to plantations\, locates places and sites associated with their earliest arrival and stay and\, more remarkably\, manages to locate some of the descendants of those Chinese who arrived in India over 150 years ago. \n\n\n\nRead the reviews below: “Tracing 19th Century Connections in South India” — The Hindu \n\n\n\n“Film traces history of little-known Indian-Chinese group” — China Daily \n\n\n\n“The Chinese touch behind Indian tea: documentary shows sweeter side of historical ties”– South China Morning Post \n\n\n\n\n\nIn Conversation with Film Director\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoe Thomas KarackattuAssociate ProfessorINDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS \n\n\n\nView Full Bio
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/film-screening-those-4-years/
LOCATION:Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Auditorium\,\, 66 5th Ave room N101\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, USA
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SUMMARY:IN PERSON | Where does the Silk Road end? - power\, recognition\, and the aesthetics of prestige
DESCRIPTION:IR scholars often define prestige as “reputation for power” and argue for its significance in the context of high-stakes negotiations\, the dynamics of power transition\, or (bi-polar) competition to attract allies and partners. Famously\, Gilpin argued that for international relations prestige is “enormously important” – even more so than power itself. This is because “if your strength is recognized\, you can generally achieve your aims without having to use it.” But whereas Gilpin and others correctly conceptualize the power of prestige in driving desired outcomes\, there is yet little attention to what exactly it means for strength to be “recognized\,” and who is doing the recognizing. \n\n\n\nDrawing on the “visual turn” in IR and starting from the original (visual) connotation of prestige as “dazzling influence” and “glamour\,” this talk interrogates the links between prestige and recognition from the vantage point of the politics of aesthetics. For the purpose\, I turn to select cases linked to China’s bid for international prestige\, especially based on the invocation of common (Silk Road) past and shared future. I show how\, in different communities\, visual representations and public displays disrupt standard formulations of a shared (Silk Road) past and also bring forth alternative understandings of the meaning and work of prestige. These cases\, I suggest\, can help clarify not only the important links between power and recognition\, but can also showcase the need for critical exploration of prestige in relation to empire and ontologies of power\, the complexities of post-colonial order\, and the evolving spaces for political agency. \n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMarina Jose KanetiAssistant Professor in International AffairsLEE KUAN YEW SCHOOL OF PUBLIC POLICY\, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE \n\n\n\nView Full Bio \n\n\n\nDiscussant\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTansen SenProfessor of HistoryNEW YORK UNIVERSITY SHANGHAI \n\n\n\nView Full Bio
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/in-person-where-does-the-silk-road-end/
LOCATION:Wolff Conference Room – Albert and Vera List Academic Center\, room D1103\, 6 East 16th Street\, New York\, New York\, 10003\, United States
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SUMMARY:HYBRID | Data Engines: The Allure of Automating China’s Soil and Soul
DESCRIPTION: \nhttps://youtu.be/83OHkPfdHyQWatch Here\n \nIn this talk\, Silvia Lindtner will draw from ethnographic research she has conducted over the last 14 months across two sites in China: 1) small-scale businesses that center on alternative food and spiritual practices via life in nature and the countryside and 2) large-scale\, data-driven agricultural experiments at the outskirts of major urban centers. Prof. Lindtner will discuss how these two sites interact for the implementation of two recent state policies on “rural revitalization” and “national strengthening.” These policies are aimed at reinvesting into China’s “hinterlands:” from rural farmland to people’s most inner selves. They position data-driven techniques of automation\, surveillance technology\, and smart systems as key to the state’s ability to manage life that has partially escaped the state’s reach. And they call upon China’s youths who have turned away from the city to live and work in China’s countryside to co-produce what she calls “data engines\,” i.e. a participatory form of techno-governance driven by an engineering mindset that aims to cultivate citizens as productive selves who operate on behalf of the party state and its ambition to build a “strong China” by turning inwards—China’s history\, soil\, and agriculture. Data engines\, she shows\, simultaneously enable\, and slow down the automation of China’s soil and soul. \n \n \nSPEAKERS\n \n\n \nSilvia LindtnerAssociate ProfessorSchool of InformationPenny W Stamps School of Art and DesignUNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN \n \nSilvia Margot Lindtner (she/her) is Associate Professor at the University of Michigan in the School of Information and Director of the Center for Ethics\, Society\, and Computing (ESC). Lindtner’s research focuses on the cultures and politics of technology innovation\, including the labor necessary to incubate entrepreneurial life and data-driven futures. Drawing from over a decade of multi-sited ethnographic research\, she writes about China’s shifting position in the global political economy of computing\, supply chains\, industrial and agricultural production\, and science and technology policy. She is the author of the award-winning book Prototype Nation: China and the Contested Promise of Innovation (Princeton University Press\, 2020)\, and co-author of the multigraph Technoprecarious (Goldsmiths/MIT Press 2020). Lindtner is also a Visiting Associate Professor at NYU Shanghai\, a CUSP (China-US Scholars Program) Fellow\, and a fellow in the National Committee on United States-China Relations’ Public Intellectuals Program. Her research has been awarded support from the US National Science Foundation (NSF)\, IIE (the Institute of International Education)\, IMLS (Institute of Museum and Library Services)\, Intel Labs\, Google Anita Borg\, and the Chinese National Natural Science Foundation. Her work has appeared at ST&HV (Science\, Technology\, and Human Values)\, ESTS (Engaging Science\, Technology and Society)\, SocialText\, Women’s Studies Quarterly\, China Information\, ToCHI\, ACM SIGCHI (Human-Computer Interaction)\, and has been covered by the Economist\, New York Magazine\, NPR\, The Atlantic\, Wired\, the MIT Technology Review\, and more. \n \nView full bio
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/hybrid-data-engines-the-allure-of-automating-chinas-soil-and-soul/
LOCATION:Starr Foundation Hall UL102\, UL102 63 Fifth Ave\, New York\, New York\, 100011\, United States
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SUMMARY:HYBRID | Fluvial Government: Tracking Petroleum as Liquid Infrastructure in India
DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, India China Institute’s Postdoctoral Fellow Sarandha Jain will discuss her PhD dissertation\, which studies the oil-mediated relationship between the Indian state and citizens. Focusing on both oil production and consumption\, presenting ethnography of oil refineries\, research institutes\, state offices\, a peri-urban working-class-neighborhood near Delhi\, and ‘black markets’\, her talk examines oil as an infrastructure for the state and for society. She argues that the Indian state distributes itself into citizens’ lives via petroleum products\, which obtain their sociopolitical agencies while being produced in certain ways\, and play out those agencies while being consumed in certain ways. Her ethnography of refineries details out the microprocesses of oil refining and the complex relationship that human and nonhuman actors share. It elaborates on how politics get programmed into petroleum products\, designed to discipline consumer-citizens into particular lifestyles\, and how varying actors encumber this. Research on oil consumption with ‘black-marketeers’ and ordinary consumers of petroleum products\, probes “distorted discipline”\, where governmental plans get mangled by the informal practices of state actors as well as citizens. How does the politics programmed into petroleum products in refineries actually play out once other actors intervene\, and snatch control over oil away from the state? Investigating this tussle between legalized and illegalized groups\, she describes how it structures citizens’ lives\, and the constellations of power and forms of sociality it gives rise to. This talk highlights the constant churning between the state and citizens through ever-evolving devices of government\, as well as through escape from them. Specific modes of subjectification\, engineered through flows of oil\, lie at the heart of this churning\, over which state-citizen formations are negotiated. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSarandha JainPostdoctoral FellowINDIA CHINA INSTITUTE \n\n\n\nSarandha Jain is a socio-cultural and political anthropologist\, who recently completed her Ph.D. at Columbia University. Studying the multi-nodal network of petroleum manufacturing\, circulation\, and use in India\, her research examines petroleum as an infrastructure for the Indian state and society. To understand the politics of petroleum in the everyday\, she studies the modes of government\, forms of sociality\, and constellations of power petroleum produces and is produced by\, both in its manufacturing and its use. \n\n\n\nView Full Bio \n\n\n\nDiscussant\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRohan D’SouzaProfessorGraduate School of Asian and African Area StudiesKYOTO UNIVERSITY \n\n\n\nView Full Bio
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/in-person-fluvial-government-tracking-petroleum-as-liquid-infrastructure-in-india/
LOCATION:Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Auditorium\,\, 66 5th Ave room N101\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, USA
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