EVENTS

TOPICS OF DISCUSSION

Professor Dibyesh Anand - Tibetan Conundrum in China-India Relations 

Dr. Nitasha kaul - Subaltern Geopolitics of the Himalayas: The Case of Bhutan

Dr. Ipshita Basu - 'Othering China’: The Role of China Threat in India’s Emerging Power Identity
 

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS

Dr.Nitasha Kaul is a Kashmiri novelist, academic, economist and poet. She is currently an Assistant Professor in Department of Politics and International Relations (DPIR) at University of Westminster, London where she teaches postgraduate courses on 'State, Politics and Violence' and 'Postcolonial International Relations'. She has previously been a tenured academic in Economics at the Bristol Business School and in Creative Writing at Royal Thimphu College in Bhutan. Her research and writing over the last decade and a half has been on identity, political economy, democracy, feminist and postcolonial theory, Kashmir and Bhutan. In her recent work, she has addressed issues of nationalism and neoliberalism in contemporary India and the question of nation-states and refugees in Europe. She has authored books including the scholarly monograph ‘Imagining Economics Otherwise’ (Routledge, 2007/2008) and a Man Asian Literary Prize shortlisted novel ‘Residue’ (Rainlight, 2014). More at www.nitashakaul.com

Professor Dibyesh Anand is the Head of the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Westminster in London. He is the author of monographs "Geopolitical Exotica: Tibet in Western Imagination” and “Hindu Nationalism in India and the Politics of Fear” and has published on varied topics including Tibet, China-India border dispute, Hindutva and Islamophobia, identity politics in Tanzania, and nationalism. He is currently working on colonial practices of postcolonial states, with special focus on India in Kashmir and China in Tibet. He is an avid Facebooker and available at www.facebook.com/dibyesh.

Dr.Ipshita Basu is a Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Westminster’s Department of Politics and International Relations. She is a political sociologist by training and her research primarily focuses on the politics of identity, violence and justice in relation to development and governance. Before joining University of Westminster, Ipshita was a Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Surrey’s Department of Politics and International Relations (2012-2015). Prior to that she was Head of Research at BRAC University’s Institute of Governance Studies (now renamed as Institute of Governance and Development)  from 2010-2012. She holds a PhD in International Development from University of Bath (2005-2009) and M.A. in Gender Studies from the University of Warwick (2001-2002). Ipshita has published with Contemporary South Asia, Development and Change and her most recent book is on Governance and Development in Bangladesh: Uncertain Landscapes London: Routledge.