India and Visions of World Order
Convenors: Professor Shruti Kapila and Tarika Khattar
Conference Programme
22 May 2025
2:30 PM – 4:00 PM
Mentoring interaction with Early-Career Researchers (By invitation)
C. Raja Mohan (CSDR/NUS), Tanvi Madan (Brookings, USA), Suhasini Haidar (The Hindu)
Location: Room I4, Corpus Christi College
5:30 PM – 7:30 PM
Opening Roundtable on Multipolarity and (the End of) the Liberal International Order
Participants: C. Raja Mohan (CSDR/NUS), Tanvi Madan (Brookings, USA), Gideon Rachman (FT), Suhasini Haidar (The Hindu), Professor Shruti Kapila (Chair)
Location: McCrum Lecture Theatre
8:00 PM onwards
Seated Dinner (By invitation)
Location: Parker Room, Corpus Christi College
23 May 2025
9:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Panel 1 – Conflict: Past and Future
Participants: Professor Pratap Bhanu Mehta (Princeton), Professor Faisal Devji (Oxford), Dr Rohan Mukherjee (LSE), Dr Nicolas Blarel (Leiden)
Chair and Discussant: Professor Jeremy Adelman (Princeton/Cambridge)
Location: New Combination Room, Corpus Christi
11:45 AM - 1:15 PM
Panel 2 – From Empire to Cold War
Participants: Dr Martin Bayly (LSE), Dr Paul McGarr (KCL), Dr Swapna Kona Nayudu (Yale-NUS)
Chair and Discussant: Professor Saul Dubow (Cambridge)
Location: New Combination Room, Corpus Christi
1:15 PM - 1:45 PM: Break for lunch
1:45 PM - 3:15 PM
Panel 3 – India and the Neighbourhood
Participants: Dr Farzana Shaikh (Chatham House), Dr Tripurdaman Singh (Geneva Graduate Institute), Suhasini Haidar (The Hindu)
Chair and Discussant: Professor Sujit Sivasundaram (Cambridge)
Location: New Combination Room, Corpus Christi
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Panel 4 – India and China
Participants: Dr Tanvi Madan (Brookings, USA), Professor C. Raja Mohan (CSDR/NUS), Dr Chietigj Bajpaee (Chatham House)
Chair and Discussant: Sonia Singh (NDTV)
Location: New Combination Room, Corpus Christi
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Keynote Address by Ambassador Shivshankar Menon (former National Security Advisor and Foreign Secretary, India)
Vote of thanks by Professor Tim Harper, Head of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Location: McCrum Lecture Theatre
7:00 PM onwards
Garden Party hosted by Professor Kapila (By invitation)
Location: Fellows’ Garden, Corpus Christi College
