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.
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
13 Aug 2025
Swati Chawla
The Dalai Lama’s legacy in exile is deeply intertwined with India’s modern history. Yet, recent commentary on his succession reduced his statements on reincarnation to a mere gambit in the geo-political chessboard of Sino-India relations.
Venue: Zoom Webinar
06 Aug 2025
Dhriti Roy
Both India and China are emerging as important global political and economic powers within the contemporary landscape of Asia, and the world at large.
Venue: Zoom Webinar
30 Jul 2025
Shantanu Roy-Chaudhury
The Communist Party of China often uses homophonic pen names sophistically as a dual-purpose propaganda mechanism.
Venue: Zoom Webinar
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