On April 5, 2024, the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy hosted a lecture entitled ‘Becoming Human: Illicit Desire and Licit Caste.’ Sponsored by the Centre for South Asian Studies at the Asian […]
In 2023, China’s population shrank by 2.08 million.[1] The reason was unambiguous: its total fertility rate is approaching 1 child per woman,[2] whereas 2.1 children per woman are needed to maintain a stable population.[3] For […]
On February 14, 2024, Prabowo Subianto was elected the 8th President of Indonesia following his role as Defence Minister in 2019. He is assuming the leadership of the largest economy in Southeast Asia at a […]
The candidate from the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) won the 2024 Presidential election of the Republic of China (Taiwan) after fierce competition with its old rival, the Kuomintang (KMT), and the newly rising Taiwan People’s […]
On March 5th from 12- 130 pm EST, Professor Minxin Pei, a Chinese politics scholar at Claremont McKenna College, delivered a presentation on his new book The Sentinel State: Surveillance & the Survival of Dictatorship […]
On February 23, the Asian Institute at the Munk School of Global Affairs hosted an event titled “The Ripple Effect: China’s Complex Presence in Southeast Asia”. The speaker of the event was Enze Han, who […]
Abstract: Calls for the Lal Salaam, or “Red Salute,” have echoed across low-development regions of East India for nearly six decades now. The Naxalite-Maoist insurgency has involved sustained and violent conflict by both state and […]
On December 4th, the Contemporary Asian Studies Student Union hosted a fascinating panel, moderated by Dr. Francis Cody of the Asian Institute and composed of Dr. Aparna Sundar and Dr. Bharat Punjabi. The panel, in […]
On August 5th 2019, the Government of India abrogated most of Article 370 of the Indian Constitution, revoking the special status and limited autonomy granted to the state of Jammu and Kashmir [J&K]. This was accompanied […]
As an important component of popular culture, music is often conceived of as an unorganized activity or the result of consumer choices. Yet its art forms—melodies, lyrics, rhythms and so forth —are always embedded in […]
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