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Dec 3 Beyond PanAsianism: Connecting India and China
A BOOK LAUNCH at the Center for Chinese Studies, Delhi
Beyond PanAsianism: Connecting China and India, 1840s-1960s
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Within Asia, the period from the 1840s to 1960s had witnessed the rise and decline of Pax Britannica, the growth of multiple and often competing anti-colonial movements, and the entrenchment of the nation-state system. Beyond Pan-Asianism seeks to demonstrate the complex interactions between China, India, and their neighbouring societies against this background of imperialism and nationalist resistance. The contributors to this volume, from India, the West, and the Chinese- speaking world, cover a tremendous breadth of figures, including novelists, soldiers, intelligence officers, archivists, among others, by deploying published and archival materials in multiple Asian and Western languages. This volume also attempts to answer the question of how China–India connectedness in the modern period should be narrated. Instead of providing one definite answer, it engages with prevailing and past frameworks— notably ‘Pan-Asianism’ and ‘China/India as Method’—with an aim to provoke further discussions on how histories of China–India and, by extension the non-Western world, can be conceptualized.
Editors Tansen Sen is professor of history and director of the Center for Global Asia at NYU Shanghai, China, and Global Network Professor at NYU, Shanghai, China. He received his MA from Peking University, China, and PhD from the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA. He specializes in Asian history and religions and has a special academic interest 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 has co-authored (with Victor H. Mair) Traditional China in Asian and World History (2012), edited Buddhism Across Asia: Networks of Material, Cultural and Intellectual Exchange (2014), and co-edited (with Burkhard Schnepel) Travelling Pasts: The Politics of Cultural Heritage in the Indian Ocean World (2019). He is currently working on a book about Zheng He’s maritime expeditions in the early fifteenth century and co-editing (with Engseng Ho) The Cambridge History of the Indian Ocean, Volume 1. Brian Tsui teaches at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China, and is interested in the intersection between revolutionary politics and mobilization of cultures on both the left and the right in China’s twentieth century. His first book, China’s Conservative Revolution: The Quest for a New Order, 1927–1949 (2018), studies mass politics under the Guomindang, the dilemmas confronting Chinese liberal intellectuals caught between an authoritarian state and a supposedly untam- able populace, and the Nationalist Party’s appeal to pan-Asianism as a strategy to garner international support. His current research focuses on the advent of ‘New China’ as an Asia-wide event, zeroing in on how the early People’s Republic of China was interpreted by Indian nationalists and Asian Christians in the 1950s.
Contributors (Speaking at Book Launch) Yin Cao is Associate Professor and Cyrus Tang scholar in the Department of History, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China Adhira Mangalagiri is Lecturer in the Department of Comparative Literature at Queen Mary University of London, UK. Anne Reinhardt is Professor of History, Williams College, Massachusetts Zhang Ke is Associate Professor in the Department of History, Fudan University, Shanghai, China. |
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Dec 1. A Social Theory of Corruption
GLOBAL ASIA and South Asia@NYU
invite you to a panel discussion of
Sudhir Chella Rajan’s new book,
A Social Theory of Corruption: Notes from the Subcontinent
(Harvard, 2020).
with responses from
Arjun Appadurai, Goddard Professor, Media Studies, NYU
Prasannan Parthasarathi, Professor of History, Boston College
Tanika Sarkar, Professor of History, JNU (Retd)
with the author responding.
Dec 1, 11:30am-1pm EST
Sudhir Chella Rajan teaches political theory and environmental policy at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras. The author of The Enigma of Automobility: Democratic Politics and Pollution Control, he was previously Senior Fellow at the Tellus Institute
Register for this meeting at this link:
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
4 Dec. Policing, Violence, and Truth
4 Dec 9:30-11:00 Continue reading 4 Dec. Policing, Violence, and Truth
Migrants and Pandemic in Singapore, Nov 19
From crisis to opportunity?
Migrant lives in the post-COVID world, the case of Singapore
A Zoominar from Singapore hosted by New York Center for Global Asia Colloquium Series: Migration, Globalization, and COVID-19
November 19th, 2020. 9 p.m. SGT, 8 a.m. EST
Here is a link to the recording.
In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, Singapore quickly emerged as a text-book example of how to handle the spread of the disease. From contact tracing to temperature reporting and sanitizers, both the prevention protocols and on-the-ground execution seemed stellar. Any sense of early success in pandemic control was however quickly overshadowed by an outbreak across migrant workers’ dormitories throughout the city-state. Soon thereafter, official figures projected that one in every six migrant workers was potentially infected. Overnight, the Singapore story became an early warning of the types of precarity and inequality that the pandemic would soon expose across the world. For Singaporeans, this also became an opportunity to revisit the unspoken truth about the city-state’s profound dependency on migrant workers.
Beyond the official government response, in the months to follow, expressions of generosity, compassion, and support for migrant workers became a new normal. This, along with intense soul-searching amongst Singaporeans, signaled an opportunity of a different sort: fair and equitable inclusion of migrants.
Would it be possible for Singapore to become an example of the type of community engagement and policy solutions necessary for such change? What would be some of the key challenges? How could Singapore’s migration policies affect Southeast Asia and beyond?
To discuss such questions, this panel brings into conversation both migrants and scholars of migration living and working in Singapore. The panel includes:
Akshita Nanda, is an award-winning writer, who came to Singapore on a youth scholarship. She is currently completing her MIA degree at the National University of Singapore.
Zakir Hossain Khokan, is a freelance journalist, award-winning poet, founder of Migrant Writers of Singapore, One Bag One Book project, and a quality control project coordinator in the construction sector. He was born in Dhaka, Bangladesh and arrived in Singapore in 2003.
Prof. Anju Mary Paul is an international migration scholar with a research focus on migration to, from, and within Asia. She is an Associate Professor in Sociology and Public Policy at Yale-NUS.
The panel will be moderated by Dr. Marina Kaneti, Assistant Professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore. Dr. Kaneti specializes in questions of global governance, including migration and climate change.
Lockdown in Kashmir October 29, 2020
The Center for South Asian and Indian Ocean Studies will be hosting its third virtual event on October 29th (11AM ET). Listed below is the description of the event and the zoom registration link.
“A Lockdown within a Lockdown: The Advancement of Settler-colonialism in Indian-Occupied Kashmir,” Professor Hafsa Kanjwal (Lafayette College) – October 29th 11AM. Here is the recording.
Racial Capitalism
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Oct 23 Immigration and Covid-19 in the Gulf
Global Asia Webinar Series
Fall 2020
MIGRATION, GLOBALIZATION, AND COVID-19
WEBINAR1, FRIDAY OCTOBER 23
Indian Immigration, Labor, and Covid-19 in the Gulf.
Friday, October 23, 2020, 9:00-10:30AM (NY), 5:00-6:30 PM (Abu Dhabi), and 9:30-10:30 PM (Shanghai). Subsequent webinars will be on New York City, Bangladesh, Singapore, and China
Research presentations on middle class Indians in the UAE and Qatar, by Neha Vora (Lafayette College) and on Indian laborers in the UAE, by Andrea Wright (William and Mary), with discussant, Dina M. Siddiqi (NYU-NY).
Here is the Zoom link to the recording,which includes chat text. (Here is a more permanent public access link to the recording.)
The global pandemic has intensified inequalities globally. In the Arabian Peninsula, the coronavirus pandemic has taken a particularly heavy toll on immigrant populations. In the case of immigrants who work as manual laborers and live in dormitory housing, the pandemic has heightened their concerns over unemployment, deportation, and infection. Middle-class immigrants, too, contend with rising unemployment and many have chosen to return to India. In addition, xenophobia is on the rise in Gulf countries as all residents are living in a state of heightened insecurity. In this discussion, Andrea Wright and Neha Vora will explore how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted Indian diasporic communities, their employment, and their everyday lives in the Gulf. We will introduce audience members to our research among different Indian immigrant populations and explore how our interlocutors are affected by state and local responses to the pandemic.
COME ONE AND COME ALL !!!
Nov 13 Jairus Banaji on Commercial Capitalism
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Global Asia Pandemic Webinar Series
The Pandemic in Global Asia: a webinar series, 2020-1
23 October 2020. Neha Vora and Andrea Wright with Dina M. Siddiqi on Indian immigrant communities in the Gulf
19 November 2020 Roundtable from Singapore on Covid and Migrant Workers
3 December 2020. Roundtable on Covid and A/P/A Communities in New York
in the works
more on the pandemic, racial capitalism, white supremacy in Global Asia