International Talkies

On 16 th November, 2019, the Department of International Studies and History, CHRIST(Deemde to Be University) in collaboration with National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS) organised a research workshop to promote young voices in the field of International Studies. The event was titled “NIAS Strategic Forecast 2020” to accentuate the aim of the workshop which was to create predictions for 2020 based on events happening in 2019. The workshop saw participation of scholars from a variety of different institutes such as Christ University, Stella Maris College, Jain University and NIAS itself. The young participants also were diverse in their level of academics, ranging from Masters to MPhil and PhD scholars to Research Associates. The events was inaugurated by prominent personalities such as Prof. Shailesh Nayak, Amb. PS Raghavan and Prof. Sachin Chaturvedi. Amb. Raghavan advised the young scholars to not ignore domestic events in their pursuit to discern global happenings. Prof...

The Department of International Studies and History organized a guest lecture on “Innovation and International Business” by Professor Buckley from Sheffield University, UK. His interests lie in International Comparative Management and on International Business and Strategy. Professor Buckley stated that in this advanced age it is necessary to understand the need to innovate. The countries of the world play to showcase their best entrepreneurial drive and showcases their creativity via such credible and noteworthy inventions. The main challenge for innovation lies in the fact of lack of external and internal financial funding. He made the students to actively participate and ponder over what does it mean to be innovative. He states that innovation is a key to improvement in quality of life and stressed on its vital reason on the non-availability of infinite resources and hence we must move towards sustainability. This would now differentiate from the existing technology and incre...

The Department of International Studies and history has organised a 15 hours of lecture series of Professor John Dean of Catholic University of Paris, a well-read expert in American History and politics. The major areas of discussion in the 15 hour session is based around the theme, American Propaganda, Domestic and International, from World War One to the Present Time. The introductory session was held on 6 th  November 2019. The session was majorly focused upon how the entire module was planned and major areas of focus, which included topics like 9/11 and propaganda, Obama and soft power, US propaganda today, 1950s post war commodity propaganda, US 1920s propaganda and so on. The entire session was very interactive and students received an opportunity to raise their opinions as well as pose some questions to the guest. Some of the interesting questions included on how economic growth helps to spread propaganda or does propaganda leads to economic growth? Why does propa...

The Department of International Studies and History, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), organized a Skype conference with students from KU Leuven, Belgium, on 7 th  November, 2019. Along with students, were professors from the two institutions. The theme of discussion was post-colonialism. While, the purpose of such a confabulation was to facilitate a continuous and consistent dialogue between students who study the concept of post-colonialism from very different lenses, the session was merely an introductory one, wherein the faculty in-charge from both institutions introduced their respective class and set down basic parameters that were to be followed during the course of the interaction, which was as discussed, to extend to nearly a month. This introductory session, set out various pre-requisites as well as requirements for the successful fruition of this interaction. The students are essentially, over multiple sessions, expected to discuss multiculturalism, migration and...

The Department of International Studies and History organized a guest lecture on “The Future of the Liberal International Economic Order” by Professor Marc Williams, Associate Dean (International) Arts and Social Sciences and Professor of International Relations from UNSW Arts & Social Sciences, Australia. Professor Williams stressed on the definition of Liberal International Economic Order as a starting point of the lecture. He sided with the existence of the Order and stated its collapse as being detrimental to everyone. He divided the lecture into 3 major segments – Concept of Liberal International Economic Order and Global Economic Governance, Understanding the Liberal International Economic Order; and the Liberal International Economic Order and a Globalizing World Economy. He stressed on the fact that, presently, the Liberal International Economic Order is in crisis and further explored the question - ‘why does it matter?’. Professor Williams stated that the base o...