Coterminous with the Institute, is the weekly Wednesday Seminar, which has been held uninterruptedly for the last four decades. The topics span an enormous range and attract students, experts, practitioners and laypersons alike. These seminars provide an opportunity for interested people to have access to informed discussions on various aspects of China and are ample evidence that the sections within India, which are interested in knowing and learning about China are widening and enlarging.
29 Oct 2025
Saheli Chattaraj
The Third Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China held from 15 to 18 July 2024, highlighted that ‘opening up’ is a defining characteristic of Chinese-style modernisation.
Venue: Zoom Webinar
22 Oct 2025
Rishi Gupta
Nepal has once again entered into uncertain times of reforms and elections with the Gen Z youth-led movement bringing yet another political change in Nepal.
Venue: Zoom Webinar
15 Oct 2025
Snehal Ajit Ulman
The uniqueness of political culture in contemporary China lies in the use of different rhetorical elements in the expressions by its leaders.
Venue: Zoom Webinar
08 Oct 2025
Niu Ruiyuan
As two representative civilisations in Eastern culture, China and India share more than 2,000 years of cultural exchanges, profoundly enriching and developing the world’s cultural landscapes.
Venue: Zoom Webinar
01 Oct 2025
Nishant Dilip Sharma
January 2024 onward, China’s Patriotic Education Law has made the cultivation of patriotic sentiment a matter of legal duty.
Venue: Zoom Webinar
24 Sep 2025
Y. Nithiyanandam
Tibet Autonomous Region is rapidly emerging as China’s high-altitude power base.
Venue: Zoom Webinar
17 Sep 2025
Mirza Zulfiqur Rahman
Towering hydroelectric concrete dams and flood-protection embankments attempt to ‘control and tame’ rivers within nation-state led security framings of their natural transboundary flows.
Venue: Zoom Webinar
10 Sep 2025
Nishit Kumar
Translation is central to the circulation of literary works. However, when this journey occurs via an intermediary language through relay translation, it raises important questions of fidelity, authorship, and cultural transfer.
Venue: Zoom Webinar
03 Sep 2025
Avinash Anil Godbole
China is cementing its pole position as a champion of various challenges facing the world, in the fields of development, governance, security and people-to-people relations.
Venue: Zoom Webinar
20 Aug 2025
Rityusha Mani Tiwary
China’s Global AI Governance Initiative (GAIGI), introduced in 2023, reflects its bid to influence the international regulatory frameworks for artificial intelligence.
Venue: Zoom Webinar
