BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/New_York X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VEVENT UID:259@harvard-yenching.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210624T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210624T111500 DTSTAMP:20210611T144101Z URL:https://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/book-talk-a-military-history-o f-india-since-1972-full-spectrum-operations-and-the-changing-contours-of-m odern-conflict/ SUMMARY:Book Talk: A Military History of India Since 1972: Full Spectrum Op erations and the Changing Contours of Modern Conflict DESCRIPTION:Author Conversation Series\, Spring 2021 \n\nOrganized by the Harvard University Asia Center and co-sponsored by the Harvard-Yenching In stitute and the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\n\nHeld via Zoom - reg istration required\n\nBios:\n\nArjun Subramaniam is the President’s Cha ir of Excellence in National Security at NDC. He is a retired fighter pilo t from the IAF who has flown MiG-21s and Mirage-2000s. He has commanded a MiG-21 Squadron and a large flying base and held several operational\, sta ff\, and instructional assignments in the IAF. He is an airpower doctrinal expert having crafted the current IAF doctrine in 2012. He was awarded th e Ati Vishisht Seva Medal for distinguished service by the President of In dia in 2011. A Ph.D. in Defence and Strategic Studies from the Univ of Mad ras\, he has been a Visiting Fellow at The Harvard Asia Center and Oxford Universities\, and a Visiting Professor at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy\, Ashoka and Jindal Universities. Currently\, he is also an Adju nct Faculty member at the Naval War College. He has lectured extensively a t a wide range of Universities\, think tanks\, and war colleges in India a nd abroad including Harvard\, MIT\, Georgetown University\, Oxford\, Carne gie Endowment\, and the International Institute of Strategic Studies. His current areas of focus are international and regional security\, contempor ary Indian military history\, airpower in integrated operations\, and the India-China security relationship. He is the author of four books includin g ‘India’s Wars: A Military History: 1947-1971’ and its newly-releas ed sequel titled ‘A Military History of India since 1972: Full Spectrum Operations and the Changing Contours of Modern Conflict.’\n\nM. Taylor F ravel is the Arthur and Ruth Sloan Professor of Political Science and Dir ector of the Security Studies Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Te chnology. Taylor studies international relations\, with a focus on interna tional security\, China\, and East Asia. His books include Strong Borders \, Secure Nation: Cooperation and Conflict in China’s Territorial Disput es\, (Princeton University Press\, 2008)\, and Active Defense: China's Mi litary Strategy Since 1949 (Princeton University Press\, 2019). His other publications have appeared in International Security\, Foreign Affairs\, Security Studies\, International Studies Review\, The China Quarterly\, T he Washington Quarterly\, Journal of Strategic Studies\, Armed Forces & \; Society\, Current History\, Asian Survey\, Asian Security\, China Leade rship Monitor\, and Contemporary Southeast Asia. Taylor is a graduate of Middlebury College and Stanford University\, where he received his Ph.D. He also has graduate degrees from the London School of Economics and Oxfor d University\, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. In 2016\, he was named an An drew Carnegie Fellow by the Carnegie Corporation. Taylor is a member of th e board of directors of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations and serves as the Principal Investigator for the Maritime Awareness Project.\ n\nJames Robson is the James C. Kralik and Yunli Lou Professor of East As ian Languages and Civilizations and the William Fung Director of the Harva rd University Asia Center. He is also the Chair of the Regional Studies Ea st Asia M.A. program. Robson received his Ph.D. in Buddhist Studies from S tanford University in 2002\, after spending many years researching in Chin a\, Taiwan\, and Japan. He specializes in the history of medieval Chinese Buddhism and Daoism and is particularly interested in issues of sacred geo graphy\, local religious history\, and Chan/Zen Buddhism. He has been enga ged in a long-term collaborative research project with the École Françai se d’Extrême-Orient studying local religious statuary from Hunan provin ce. He is the author of Power of Place: The Religious Landscape of the So uthern Sacred Peak [Nanyue 南嶽] in Medieval China (Harvard\, 2009)\, which was awarded the Stanislas Julien Prize for 2010 by the French Academ y of Inscriptions and Belles-Lettres and the 2010 ToshihideNumata Book Pri ze in Buddhism. Robson is also the author of "Signs of Power: Talismanic W ritings in Chinese Buddhism" (History of Religions 48:2)\, "Faith in Muse ums: On the Confluence of Museums and Religious Sites in Asia" (PMLA\, 201 0)\, and "A Tang Dynasty Chan Mummy [roushen] and a Modern Case of Furta S acra? Investigating the Contested Bones of ShitouXiqian." His current rese arch includes a long-term project on the history of the confluence of Budd hist monasteries and mental hospitals in East Asia. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20210314T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR