Yale-NUS Lecture on Global Affairs: How Democracies Renew?
Schedule
Thu Feb 02 2023 at 07:00 pm to 08:15 pm
Location
Yale-NUS College Performance Hall | Clementi, SG
About this Event
Join us for a lecture by Dr Radha Kumar as she talks about the factors that contribute to the return of democracy in some countries and how democracy renewal in major powers, such as the United States, impacts autocratising countries. Dr Kumar, a specialist in ethnic conflicts, peace, and security, will also dive into the role of external factors in democracy renewal and how potential global democratic alliances could impact the divide between autocracy and democracy.
The Yale-NUS Lecture on Global Affairs is sponsored by the late Professor Saw Swee Hock.
Please arrive at the Performance Hall at 6:45pm and all attendees must be seated by 7:00pm.
If you are unable to join us physically, watch the live stream by registering here.
About the speaker:
Dr Radha Kumar is a specialist in ethnic conflicts, peace, and security. She has held various academic and leadership positions, including Director of the Mandela Centre for Peace at Jamia Millia Islamia University, Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, and Associate Fellow at the Institute for War and Peace Studies. She has also served as chair of the United Nations University Council, vice-chair of the United Nations Institute for Training and Research, and is currently vice-chair of the board of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. In 2010-11, Dr Kumar was appointed by the Indian government to a three-person group of interlocutors tasked with preparing a report on the situation in Jammu and Kashmir called A New Compact for Jammu and Kashmir.
Dr Kumar has published several books, including A Gender Atlas of India, Making Peace with Partition, Negotiating Peace in Deeply Divided Societies: A Set of Simulations, and A History of Doing: Movements for Women's Rights and Feminism in India. Her latest book, Paradise at War: A Political History of Kashmir, was highly praised, with the Telegraph India calling it "the one book to read on Kashmir," and the Financial Times naming it the first of five books to read on the subject. Dr Kumar has also published articles in numerous journals and is a frequent contributor to op-eds in the Hindu and the Indian Express. Among the honours she has received are the Warren Weaver fellowship at the Rockefeller Foundation, the SSRC-Macarthur Post-Doctoral fellowship, and a fellowship at the Institute for Development Studies in Bangalore.
About the moderator:
Dr Swapna Kona Nayudu is Lecturer of Social Sciences (International Relations) at Yale-NUS College, Singapore. She is also Associate at the Harvard University Asia Center and Associate at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore. She is a member of the Advisory Board at the Harvard University Association for Global Political Thought. Swapna took her PhD in War Studies from King’s College London, University of London. Her research has been published in Cold War History, Diplomatica, Global Intellectual History, and is forthcoming in the Journal of Cold War Studies. She is currently completing an international history of India’s international relations in the Nehru period.
Where is it happening?
Yale-NUS College Performance Hall, 16 College Avenue West, Clementi, SingaporeEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
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