If you are an IR enthusiast/student doing your research on China or India, and if you are in the US, here's a great opportunity for you to listen to what the experts have to say. ----- HARVARD COLLEGE CHINA-INDIA DEVELOPMENT AND RELATIONS SYMPOSIUM (CIDRS) ---------------------------------------------------------------- DATES: March 30 - April 2, 2007 LOCATION: New York City WEBSITE: http://www.cidrs.org APPLICATION DEADLINE: December 26, 2006 Financial aid available! CIDRS is a four-day program of keynote speeches, breakouts, plenary sessions, and student paper presentations focusing entirely on China's and India's most pressing development and international relations topics. CIDRS seeks to foster a fuller understanding of the link between China and India through dialogue and exchange of ideas. CIDRS is a being organized by a team of Harvard students under the auspices of the Harvard Project for Asian and International Relations (HPAIR), a registered student group of Harvard College. For fifteen years, HPAIR has organized conferences on Asian relations and business, hosting such officials as South Korean President and Nobel Laureate Kim Dae Jung, Governor General of Australia Peter Hollingworth, and Singapore President S.R. Nathan. CIDRS represents HPAIR's first major conference in North America. ---------------------------------------------------------------- PROGRAM ---------------------------------------------------------------- Each day of our program is dedicated to a different overarching field of study: Economics, Society and Culture, Government and Politics, and International Relations. Session topics will include: Civil Society; Sustainable Development; Energy Relations; Human Rights Protection; China, India, and the U.S.; and more! A full listing of session topics can be found here: www.cidrs.org/about/program.aspx. ---------------------------------------------------------------- SPEAKERS ---------------------------------------------------------------- Confirmed speakers include: Lincoln Chen, Director, Harvard KSG Global Equity Center Nicholas Platt, President Emeritus, Asia Society Jean Oi, Professor and Director, Stanford University Center for East Asian Studies Dwight Perkins, Professor, Harvard University Arundhati Banerjee, Director of MIT-India Program Hafiz Pasha, Regional Director, UN Development Programme Katharina Pistor, Professor, Columbia University Gowher Rizvi, Director, Harvard Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation O. P. Dwivedi, Professor Emeritus, University of Guelph And more! ---------------------------------------------------------------- APPLICATION ---------------------------------------------------------------- Applicants of all ages and backgrounds will be considered, but strong preference will be shown to current graduate students and advanced undergraduate students at internationally accredited institutions. Interested students who wish to present a paper at the conference may submit a paper abstract as part of their application. Both general delegates and paper presenters are welcome! Applications are online at www.cidrs.org. ---------------------------------------------------------------- MORE INFORMATION ---------------------------------------------------------------- To learn more about CIDRS conference, please go to http://www.cidrs.org/