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Conference Announcement "Prosperity and Inequality: Debates in India and China" Interdisciplinary Conference India China Institute, The New School New York, NY (USA) 27-28 March 2008 __________________________________________________ The stage is set for India and China to be major players in the global political economy of this century, having posting record growth rates for the past five years. Yet, each faces major social and economic challenges. Both countries are coming face-to-face with growing social unrest. Their leaders and residents face the dual challenges of extensive poverty and growing worries about rising energy needs in a world market dictated by a dwindling oil supply. Chinas growth is creating massive disparities between its urban and rural sectors, resulting in protests against state authority and restless migrant populations. Residents face a steady degradation of public health due to runaway industrial growth, while capitalists begin to chafe against the states tight control of the market. Indias growth and the interests that champion massive liberalization of the economy and unfettered foreign investment are increasingly challenged by farmer suicides, violence against minorities, the rise of judicial activism and an active, vocal civil society. The India China Institute at The New School, now in its third year of convening fellowships, public debates and trilateral research collaborations between experts in India, China and the United States, is ideally placed to host this major conference on Prosperity and Inequality: Debates in India and China. Drawing on two cohorts of our own fellows from all three counties, as well as a remarkable range of experts who have been researching issues of urbanization, globalization and growth in India and China, this Conference will determine a benchmark assessment of Chinese and Indian urbanization and wealth-formation, of the social and political risks associated with skyrocketing growth in two massive agrarian societies, of alternative designs for future development in each society and of the search, in both societies, for a third way of development that combines the virtues of socialism and capitalism without sacrificing the virtues of democracy and grassroots inclusion. Conference Programme: http://www.newschool.edu/ici/subpage.aspx?id=15822 Contact: India China Institute The New School 66 Fifth Avenue, 9th Floor New York, NY 10011 USA Phone: +1 212 229 6812 Fax: +1 212 627 0369 Email: [email protected] Web: http://www.newschool.edu/ici/subpage.aspx?id=12030 __________________________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: http://interphil.polylog.org Intercultural Philosophy Calendar: http://cal.polylog.org
