Informal Meeting Session with Professor Tansen Sen

Tansen Sen is Professor of history and the Director of the Center for Global Asia at NYU Shanghai, and Associated Full Professor of History at New York University. Previously he was a faculty at the City University of New York and the founding head of the Nalanda Sriwijaya Center at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore. He is the author of Buddhism, Diplomacy, and Trade: The Realignment of Sino-Indian Relations, 600-1400 (2003; 2016) and India, China, and the World: A Connected History (2017; 2018). He has co-authored (with Victor H. Mair) Traditional China in Asian and World History (2012), edited Buddhism across Asia: Networks of Material, Cultural and Intellectual Exchange (2014), and co-edited (with Burkhard Schnepel) Travelling Pasts: The Politics of Cultural Heritage in the Indian Ocean World (2019), and (with Brian Tsui) Beyond Pan-Asianism: Connecting China and India, 1840s-1960s (2021). He is currently at the Institute of Advanced Studies in Princeton working on a book on the Ming admiral Zheng He, a collaborative project on China-India interactions during the 1950s, and co-editing (with Engseng Ho) the Cambridge History of the Indian Ocean, volume 1.