India China Institute Mission Statement
India and China share many interests
and face many similar challenges, and the United States is increasingly
engaged with both countries on many levels. The India China Institute
(ICI) fosters collaborative research and institutional and personal
connections among these three countries. ICI scholars analyze political
and social issues and trends in India, China and the United States with
the goal of encouraging leaders, managers, opinion-builders, and
academics in all three countries to work constructively together to
promote social and economic progress, address mutual problems, and
identify areas for future cooperation. Based in New York City at The
New School, ICI, in nurturing this three-way conversation, is emerging
as the hub of an international network of institutions and
activities that is deepening our understanding of global processes. Continue reading...
Fellowship Program
At the heart of ICI is a competitive two-year fellows program.
Leaders and learners come together to generate new ideas, debate
policies, and design solutions for key challenges facing India and
China through transdisciplinary and transnational conversations. 2008-2010 ICI Fellows Announced.
ICI announces Prosperity and Inequality: Debates in India and China (An International Conference).
NEWS & UPCOMING EVENTS...
| ICI Student Fellows Presentations - ICI's 2008 Student Fellows present the results of their research conducted during this past year. Friday, February 13, 2009. Room 510, 66 W. 12th Street | 1:00 – 4:00 p.m. |
| ICI Announces the 2009 Student Fellows - The India China Institute, now in its fifth year, is proud to announce our newest round of Student Fellows – the third of its kind in our brief history. ICI received applications from both graduate and undergraduate students representing a wide array of The New School’s diverse divisions, including The New School for Social Research, The New School for General Studies, Eugene Lang College, and Parsons The New School for Design. Through a rigorous selection and interview process our selection committee chose five excellent candidates to be awarded the Fellowship. |
| Video and Podcasts from ICI's co-sponsored event Vertical Density: Sustainable Solutions - An international symposium co-sponsored by the India China Institute, in conjunction with The Skyscraper Museum and The Tishman Environment and Design Center, aimed at exploring questions surrounding urbanization and prospects for sustainability. Three separate afternoon programs were held from October 16-18, 2008. Video and Podcasts from the event can be found at the Skyscraper Museum's homepage. |
 Kosi as Metaphor: Learning to Unlearn on Water - ICI Fellow NIMMI KURIAN writes about the recent dam breaches in Nepal, the resultant flooding of the Kosi River in India and the subsequent humanitarian disaster. Over 3 million people have been displaced in India and Nepal and a quarter of a million farmland ruined as a result of the deluge. "The intellectual discourse on water too has been problematic because of its inability to project alternative scenarios as well as raise critical new questions," Kurian writes. Read the full article here. Visit Kurian's ICI web page here.
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RECENT NEWS & EVENTS...
| India's Water Relations with Her Neighbours - A presentation by Professor Ramaswamy R. Iyer of India's Centre for Policy Research on India's water relations with Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, and Bangladesh; followed by comments and discussion from Lopamudra Banerjee, Assistant Professor of Economics, The New School; and a Q&A session. Monday, November 3, 2008 - 66 West 12th Street, Room 510 | 5:30-7:30pm. |
| Adam Smith in Beijing: Lineages of the New Asian Age October 15, 2008, 5-7:00pm. 55 W. 13th St., Theresa Lang Student Center. A presentation by Giovanni Arrighi, Professor of Sociology at Johns Hopkins University, on his recent book, Adam Smith in Beijing: Lineages of the Twenty-First Century followed by a discussant panel with New School faculty Arjun Appadurai and Duncan Foley. |
| Hong Kong | New York: Vertical Density | Sustainable Solutions An international symposium co-sponsored by India China Institute in conjunction with The Skyscraper Museum and The Tishman Environment and Design Center. October 16-18, 2008 at The New School and the Skyscraper Museum. |
| ICI Student Fellow ADRIANA YOTO gets a mention in "Malls Represent Changing Indian Aspirations," MeriNews (October 7, 2008) for her foray into living within a shopping mall. Learn more about Adriana and her ICI work here. |
| Prospects and Challenges: Identity Politics in the New Nepal, September 30, 2008, 6-8pm. Theresa Lang Student Center, 55 W. 13th St. Read more |
| ICI hosted the tremendously successful event, A Public Talk by Pushpa Kamal Dahal, Prime Minister of Nepal, September 26, 2008, 6-8pm. Remarks by Andrew Arato; Q&A led by Kul Chandra Gautam. Click here to read more, see the video, view photos, and link to related stories. |
| Kul Chandra Gautam (bio here), former Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations, and Deputy Executive Director of UNICEF, has been appointed as India China Institute Senior Fellow. Mr. Gautam will play a key role in advising the Nepal Democracy and Development Initiative, India China Institute, The New School. |
| Ford Foundation supports a new 3-year collaborative project with Yunnan University and University of Calcutta. The New School’s India China Institute announced a new initiative to develop a unique trilateral curriculum with partner universities in India and China dedicated to redefining India-China interactions by creating a framework for collaborative study and research. The three-year initiative is generously supported by a $525,000 grant from the Ford Foundation. See the press release here. |
| Democratic Vice Presidential nominee Senator Joe Biden delivered the keynote address to ICI's inaugural conference, Cities in a World of Migration, in April 2006. See video here. |