FRIDAY, APRIL 28
8:30-9:30 a.m.: Registration
9:30-10 a.m., Opening Addresses: Bob Kerrey, President, The New School; Arjun Appadurai, Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs, The New School;
10-12 p.m., Session 1: Dynamic Cities in India, China, and The United States
Chair:
Benjamin Lee, Dean, The New School for Social Research
Panelists:
Shahid Yusuf, Economic Adviser, Development Economics Research Group, The World Bank
Aromar Revi, Director, Taru Leading Edge Research and Consultancy, New Delhi, India and ICI Fellow
Kongjian Yu, Dean and Professor, Graduate School of Landscape Architecture, Peking University, China
Lisa Servon, Associate Professor, Milano The New School for Management and Urban Policy
1-3 p.m., Session 2: Circulation of People: Urban and Rural Migration
Chair:
Aristide Zolberg, Walter P. Eberstadt Professor of Political Science, The New School for Social Research
Director of the International Center for Migration, Ethnicity, and Citizenship.
Panelists:
Arjun Appadurai, Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs, The New School
Yang Yao, Professor, China Center for Economic Research, Peking and ICI Fellow
Partha Mukhopadhyay, Economist, former Vice President of the Policy Advocacy Group in India, and ICI fellow
Eiko Ikegami, Professor, Sociology, The New School for Social Research
6-7:15 p.m., Keynote Address: Senator Joseph R. Biden, Jr. (D-Delaware). The keynote address will be delivered from 6:00-7:15 in Tishman Auditorium, 66 West 12th St. (near Sixth Avenue). President Bob Kerrey will welcome Senator Biden. Senator Biden and President Kerrey will hold a conversation about the senator’s remarks and take questions from the audience.
SATURDAY, APRIL 29
10-11:30 a.m., Session 1: Governance and Planning
Chair:
Michael Cohen, Director, graduate program in International Affairs, The New School
Panelists:
K.C. Sivaramakrishnan, Senior Fellow, Institute of Social Sciences, New Delhi, India
Zuojun Yang, Senior Urban Planner, Hangzhou Urban Planning Bureau, China, and ICI Fellow
Dilip DaCunha, Professor of Architecture and Regional Planning, University of Pennsylvania
11:30-12:15 p.m., Session 2: Information and Knowledge Tools: Understanding Differences
A session featuring members of the Parsons Institute for Informational Mapping, Parsons The New School for Design
William Bevington, Executive Director, Parsons Institute for Informational Mapping
Robert G. Pietrusko, Senior Design Engineer, Parsons Institute for Informational Mapping
Brian McGrath, Architecture Faculty, Parsons; Consultant to the India China Institute
Joel Towers, Associate Provost for Environmental Studies, The New School
1:15-3 p.m., Session 3: Dwelling and Development: Real-Estate and Beyond
Chair:
Bob Kerrey, President, The New School
Panelists:
Keith Abell, Co-Chairman, Tishman Speyer GSC and Chairman, GSC Asia
Sheela Patel, Director and Founder, The Society for the Promotion of Area Resources (SPARC), Mumbai, India
Paul Goldberger, Dean, Parsons The New School for Design
3:30-5 p.m., Session 4: Imagining Democratic Sites; Building Democratic Futures
Chair:
Jonathan Bach, Associate Director, graduate program in International Affairs
Panelists:
Guang Yu Ren, Architect, Writer, Architectural Heritage Consultant to International Agencies
Vyjayanthi Rao, Assistant Professor, Anthropology, New School for Social Research
Keller Easterling, Associate Professor, Yale School of Architecture
5-5:30 p.m., Closing Remarks: Arjun Appadurai, Provost, The New School