Thursday 23 May – Nissan Lecture Theatre
9:30-11: 00: Histories:
Chair: Prof. Maria Misra (Oxford University)
India in China’s mind, 1945 to the present – Prof. Rana Mitter (Harvard University)
1988: Drawing the Line on History on the Eve of Global Status Games – Prof. Shruti Kapila (Cambridge University)
Lines of Historical Control: Borderlines and the Limits of Claims to Himalayan Borders- Dr. Kyle Gardner (Atlantic Council, Washington DC)
11.00 -11.30am Break
11:30-13:00: Geopolitics:
Chair: Prof. Evelyn Goh (Australian National University)
China-India relations in a new geopolitical structure – Prof. Zhang Jiadong (Fudan University)
The Galwan Crisis: India, China, and the Limits of International Law? – Dr. Arghya Sengupta & Mr. Jay Ojha (Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy, Delhi)
Contested Partnership: China and India in a Changing BRICS- Prof. Jing Gu (Institute of Development Studies, Brighton)
13.00 – 14.30 Lunch
14:30-16:00: Defence:
Chair: Prof. Jennifer Altehenger (Oxford University)
Appreciating the importance of the world’s oceans- Commander Douglas Robb (US Navy and Hudson Fellow, St. Antony’s College)
Sino-Indian Border Dispute – Prospects for a Peaceful Settlement- General Manoj Naravane (Former Chief of Army Staff)
Why the deadly brawl at Galwan Valley should not be a turning point in China-India relations- Senior Colonel (retd) Zhou Bo (Tsinghua University)
16.00 – Tea/ coffee –
17:30-19:00: Keynote:
Can China and India live in harmony?
Ambassador Kishore Mahbubani (NUS, Singapore)
Friday 24 May – Nissan Lecture Theatre
9:00-10:00: Sovereignty:
Chair: Prof. Christophe Jaffrelot (Sciences Po and King’s College London)
Tibet and the Dalai Lama in the India-China Dispute: Buffer, Irritant and Future Prospects? – Prof. Tsering Topgyal (University of Birmingham)
The Xinjiang factor in Sino-Indian ties in the early 1950s – Mr. Prateek Joshi (Oxford University)
10:00-11:00: Bilateralism:
Chair: Prof. Kate Sullivan de Estrada (Oxford University)
Where the Way out for Sino-Indian Border Dispute? – Prof. Xinmin Sui (Zhengzhou University)
Mutual Perceptions and China-India Relations – Prof. Li Li (Tsinghua University)
11.00 – 11.30 – Break
11:30-13:00: Regions:
Chair: Prof. Alexander Evans (LSE)
Southeast Asian Views on the Sino-Indian Dispute – Prof. John Ciorciari (Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, Univ. of Michigan)
The effects of the India-China border crisis on South Asia – Mr. Sushant Singh (Yale)
China-Pakistan Partnership – An Answer to the Indo-Pacific Strategy? – Dr. Ayesha Siddiqa (SOAS)
13.00 -14.00 – lunch
14:00-15:00: Roundtable on ways forward
General Manoj Naravane
Senior Colonel Zhou Bo
Ambassador Kishore Mahbubani
