Tuesday, March 8 from 12:15–1:15 pm ET (via zoom)
For decades, India and China have been uneasy neighbors, wrestling over shared claims to the region of Ladakh. From the war in 1962 that established the line of actual control (LAC) to a recent skirmish in summer 2020, questions over how to draw the India-China border continue to plague national interests and international security.
Digging into the long history of this contested space, in The Frontier Complex: Geopolitics and the Making of the India–China Border, 1846–1962 (Cambridge University Press, 2021), Kyle Gardner (Sigur Center for Asian Studies, George Washington University) shows how today’s conflicts resulted, in part, from the cartographic ambiguities of imperial legacies.
Join the author, in conversation with Ambassador Nirupama Menon Rao (former Indian Foreign Secretary) and Michael Kugelman (Deputy Director and Senior Associate for South Asia at the Wilson Center), to learn more.
Elizabeth Lhost (Dartmouth College) will moderate the discussion.
Register to attend: https://dartgo.org/conversations-gardner
This event is sponsored by the Bodas Family Academic Programming Fund | the Asian Societies, Cultures, and Languages Program | the Dickey Center for International Understanding | and the Department of History at Dartmouth College.
All are welcome to attend.