About the talk:
Professor Craig Jeffrey will identify four new opportunities for staff and student mobility between India and Australia through drawing on key successful case studies of Australia-India mobility and India-US and India-UK mobility. He will reflect in particular on what made these case studies successful and their replicability. The presentation will emphasise a need to embed educational mobility strategies in a thorough understanding of the context in which higher education is evolving in Australia and India, including concerted reflection on the Indian Government's priorities in terms of staff/student mobility.

About the speaker:
Craig Jeffrey is Director of the Australia India Institute and former Professor of Development Geography at the University of Oxford and Official Fellow of St. John's College. He is a leading authority on South Asian youth and writes on Indian democracy, educational transformation, globalisation, and the 'social revolution' that he sees occurring across India in the Twenty-First Century.

Professor Jeffrey has spent a total of five years since 1995 conducting anthropological fieldwork in western Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand. He is the author of numerous journal articles as well as six books, including Timepass: Youth, Class and the Politics of Waiting in India (Stanford University Press, 2010) and Keywords for Modern India (with John Harriss; Oxford University Press, 2014). Oxford University Press have recently commissioned Craig Jeffrey to write A Very Short Introduction to Modern India, part of its prestigious Very Short Introduction series.

Professor Jeffrey is currently working with Dr. Jane Dyson on a Australian Research Council funded project on youth and prefigurative politics in north India. Professor Jeffrey was recently elected a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and, in addition to his academic work, is a regular contributor to BBC Radio 4, Times Literary Supplement, The Guardian, Sydney Morning Herald, Australian Financial Review and The Conversation.

Professor Jeffrey's partner, Dr Jane Dyson, has made a film about their work in India: www.lifelinesfilm.com

DATE & TIME: December 7, 2017. 6pm-7pm.

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