All eyes on India
Leading scholars from Singapore, India, the Netherlands, Australia and New Zealand will be taking part in a two-day conference on the emergence of India as a global power in the twenty-first century. The conference takes place on 25-26 August 2015.
Indian Weekender is proud to be partnering with the New Zealand India Research Institute based at Victoria University of Wellington, the conference will be opened by Minister for Tertiary Education, Skills and Employment, Hon Steven Joyce.
Accomplished speakers from around the world will address the conference with key note addresses from stalwarts second to none in their fields. We feature some big names featured in the Conference :
Professor Subrata Mitra, director of the Institute of South Asian Studies at the National University of Singapore, who will consider democracy and the making of foreign policy in India.
Professor Ian Hall of Griffith University on the topic of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the remaking of India’s normative power. Professor Ian Hall, B.A. (Hons) Modern History, University of Oxford; MLitt International Studies Studies, PhD International Relations, University of St Andrews.
Ian Hall joined Griffith University in January 2015. His research and teaching interests include the history of international thought and Indian foreign policy. He has published a number of books and articles in these areas, and is currently working on an ARC-funded Discovery project on the evolution of Indian thinking about international relations since 1964. He currently sits on the editorial boards of Asian Politics and Policy and the Australian Journal of International Affairs.
Dr Amitendu Palit, Senior Research Fellow & Research Lead (Trade & Economic Policy) at the Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS) in the National University of Singapore. He is an economist specializing in comparative economic studies, political economy of international trade, regional developments and public policies. His current research is on China-India comparative economic development, trade and regional architectures in the Asia-Pacific and political economy of economic reforms.
Dr Palit worked in India’s Ministry of Finance for a decade and handled India’s external sector, industrial and infrastructure policies. He also worked in the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER). He was on Advisory Committees of India’s Planning Commission and the International Labour Organisation (ILO). His books include China India Economics: Challenges, Competition and Collaboration (Routledge, UK; 2011), Special Economic Zones in India: Myths and Realities (Anthem, UK; 2008, co-authored) and South Asia: beyond the Global Financial Crisis (edited; World Scientific, 2011). His forthcoming book is The Trans-Pacific Partnership, China and India (Routledge, UK). He has several publications in leading academic journals. A columnist for India’s Financial Express, he writes for the China Daily, Wall Street Journal, Business Times and other leading global publications.
Dr Nicolas Blarel is an assistant professor of International Relations at the Institute of Political Science. He studies foreign policy issues, with a focus on security issues in South Asia.
His current research focuses on why rising powers choose to redefine their strategic objectives and means. Nicolas also studies India’s relations with the Middle-East and has a forthcoming book on The Evolution of India's Israel Policy: Continuity, Change, and Compromise since 1922 at Oxford University Press. In addition, Nicolas published book chapters and articles on India's nuclear policies, India's relations with the U.S. India’s soft power potential, and India's insurgent movements and state-making.
Nicolas has worked for the French Foreign Ministry’s policy planning staff (the Centre d’Analyses et de Prévisions) on questions related to Afghanistan, South Asia, and nuclear proliferation. Nicolas has been a visiting fellow at the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA) in New Delhi. He was also editorial assistant at the peer-reviewed academic journal, International Studies Quarterly. Before coming to Leiden, Nicolas studied at Institut d’Etudes Politiques in Strasbourg, Sciences Po Paris, and Indiana University.
Professor Sekhar Bandyopadhyay is the Inaugural Director of the newly established New Zealand India Research Institute and Professor of Asian History at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. In 1992 he joined Victoria University, where he has been an Associate Dean (Research) and Deputy Dean in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. Before coming to Victoria he taught at University of Calcutta and Kalyani University in India.
According to Professor Bandyopadhyay, people attending the conference will gain an understanding of what India’s arrival on the global stage means for her Asian neighbours, as well as for the world at large, including New Zealand.
“The conference aims to address issues related to India’s foreign policy, as well as domestic politics, to understand what kind of power a rising India will evolve into.”
Educated at Presidency College and University of Calcutta, Professor Bandyopadhyay’s primary research interest is in the history of nationalism and caste system in colonial and postcolonial India. He is also interested in the history of Indian migration and the Indian diaspora. He has written seven books, edited or co-edited eight books, and published more than forty book chapters and journal articles. Some of his recent books are Caste, Protest and Identity in Colonial India (Second edition, OUP, 2011), Decolonization in South Asia (Routledge, 2009), Caste, Culture and Hegemony: Social Dominance in Colonial Bengal (Sage, 2004), From Plassey to Partition: A History of Modern India (Orient Longman, 2004). He has recently edited Nationalist Movement in India: A Reader (OUP, 2009) and India in New Zealand: Local Identities, Global Relations (Otago University Press, 2010). He is currently engaged in a research project on ‘Dalits in the history of Partition in eastern India’. It is funded by a Marsden research grant from the Royal Society of New Zealand.
Professor Bandyopadhyay is Associate Editor of the New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies. He is an Inaugural Fellow of the New Zealand Academy of Humanities. In 2009 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand. He has been a visiting fellow at University of Chicago, Australian National University, National University of Singapore, School of Oriental and African Studies (London), International Institute of Asian Studies (Leiden), Curtin University of Technology, University of Calcutta and Rabindra Bharati University (India).
Topics to be covered will include India’s relationship with China, its influence on climate change negotiations, its soft power in South East Asia, and its influence in the Middle-East and the Indian Ocean region.
Leading scholars from Singapore, India, the Netherlands, Australia and New Zealand will be taking part in a two-day conference on the emergence of India as a global power in the twenty-first century. The conference takes place on 25-26 August 2015.
Indian Weekender is proud to be partnering...
Leading scholars from Singapore, India, the Netherlands, Australia and New Zealand will be taking part in a two-day conference on the emergence of India as a global power in the twenty-first century. The conference takes place on 25-26 August 2015.
Indian Weekender is proud to be partnering with the New Zealand India Research Institute based at Victoria University of Wellington, the conference will be opened by Minister for Tertiary Education, Skills and Employment, Hon Steven Joyce.
Accomplished speakers from around the world will address the conference with key note addresses from stalwarts second to none in their fields. We feature some big names featured in the Conference :
Professor Subrata Mitra, director of the Institute of South Asian Studies at the National University of Singapore, who will consider democracy and the making of foreign policy in India.
Professor Ian Hall of Griffith University on the topic of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the remaking of India’s normative power. Professor Ian Hall, B.A. (Hons) Modern History, University of Oxford; MLitt International Studies Studies, PhD International Relations, University of St Andrews.
Ian Hall joined Griffith University in January 2015. His research and teaching interests include the history of international thought and Indian foreign policy. He has published a number of books and articles in these areas, and is currently working on an ARC-funded Discovery project on the evolution of Indian thinking about international relations since 1964. He currently sits on the editorial boards of Asian Politics and Policy and the Australian Journal of International Affairs.
Dr Amitendu Palit, Senior Research Fellow & Research Lead (Trade & Economic Policy) at the Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS) in the National University of Singapore. He is an economist specializing in comparative economic studies, political economy of international trade, regional developments and public policies. His current research is on China-India comparative economic development, trade and regional architectures in the Asia-Pacific and political economy of economic reforms.
Dr Palit worked in India’s Ministry of Finance for a decade and handled India’s external sector, industrial and infrastructure policies. He also worked in the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER). He was on Advisory Committees of India’s Planning Commission and the International Labour Organisation (ILO). His books include China India Economics: Challenges, Competition and Collaboration (Routledge, UK; 2011), Special Economic Zones in India: Myths and Realities (Anthem, UK; 2008, co-authored) and South Asia: beyond the Global Financial Crisis (edited; World Scientific, 2011). His forthcoming book is The Trans-Pacific Partnership, China and India (Routledge, UK). He has several publications in leading academic journals. A columnist for India’s Financial Express, he writes for the China Daily, Wall Street Journal, Business Times and other leading global publications.
Dr Nicolas Blarel is an assistant professor of International Relations at the Institute of Political Science. He studies foreign policy issues, with a focus on security issues in South Asia.
His current research focuses on why rising powers choose to redefine their strategic objectives and means. Nicolas also studies India’s relations with the Middle-East and has a forthcoming book on The Evolution of India's Israel Policy: Continuity, Change, and Compromise since 1922 at Oxford University Press. In addition, Nicolas published book chapters and articles on India's nuclear policies, India's relations with the U.S. India’s soft power potential, and India's insurgent movements and state-making.
Nicolas has worked for the French Foreign Ministry’s policy planning staff (the Centre d’Analyses et de Prévisions) on questions related to Afghanistan, South Asia, and nuclear proliferation. Nicolas has been a visiting fellow at the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA) in New Delhi. He was also editorial assistant at the peer-reviewed academic journal, International Studies Quarterly. Before coming to Leiden, Nicolas studied at Institut d’Etudes Politiques in Strasbourg, Sciences Po Paris, and Indiana University.
Professor Sekhar Bandyopadhyay is the Inaugural Director of the newly established New Zealand India Research Institute and Professor of Asian History at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. In 1992 he joined Victoria University, where he has been an Associate Dean (Research) and Deputy Dean in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. Before coming to Victoria he taught at University of Calcutta and Kalyani University in India.
According to Professor Bandyopadhyay, people attending the conference will gain an understanding of what India’s arrival on the global stage means for her Asian neighbours, as well as for the world at large, including New Zealand.
“The conference aims to address issues related to India’s foreign policy, as well as domestic politics, to understand what kind of power a rising India will evolve into.”
Educated at Presidency College and University of Calcutta, Professor Bandyopadhyay’s primary research interest is in the history of nationalism and caste system in colonial and postcolonial India. He is also interested in the history of Indian migration and the Indian diaspora. He has written seven books, edited or co-edited eight books, and published more than forty book chapters and journal articles. Some of his recent books are Caste, Protest and Identity in Colonial India (Second edition, OUP, 2011), Decolonization in South Asia (Routledge, 2009), Caste, Culture and Hegemony: Social Dominance in Colonial Bengal (Sage, 2004), From Plassey to Partition: A History of Modern India (Orient Longman, 2004). He has recently edited Nationalist Movement in India: A Reader (OUP, 2009) and India in New Zealand: Local Identities, Global Relations (Otago University Press, 2010). He is currently engaged in a research project on ‘Dalits in the history of Partition in eastern India’. It is funded by a Marsden research grant from the Royal Society of New Zealand.
Professor Bandyopadhyay is Associate Editor of the New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies. He is an Inaugural Fellow of the New Zealand Academy of Humanities. In 2009 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand. He has been a visiting fellow at University of Chicago, Australian National University, National University of Singapore, School of Oriental and African Studies (London), International Institute of Asian Studies (Leiden), Curtin University of Technology, University of Calcutta and Rabindra Bharati University (India).
Topics to be covered will include India’s relationship with China, its influence on climate change negotiations, its soft power in South East Asia, and its influence in the Middle-East and the Indian Ocean region.
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