Week beginning Monday 21 May 2018
Tuesday 22 May 2018
3.30pm:
- Endangered Alphabets: From Art to Revival?
Tim Brookes (Champlain College)
5.00pm:
5.30pm:
- Miguel Covarrubias and the Impact of his Work on the Artists of Shanghai
Dr Paul Bevan, Christensen Fellow in Chinese Painting, Ashmolean Museum
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Miguel Covarrubias and the Impact of his Work on the Artists of Shanghai
6.30pm:
- An Update on the UK-Korea Relationship UK-DPRK & UK-ROK
HE Mr Alastair Morgan (British Ambassador to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea) and HE Mr Charles Hay MVO (Former British Ambassador to the Republic of Korea)
Wednesday 23 May 2018
2.00pm:
2.30pm:
- Borderlands, Brokers and Peacebuilding: War to Peace Transitions Viewed from the Margins
SOAS and International Alert would like to invite you to the presentation and discussion of comparative findings and policy implications of a two-year collaborative research project on the role of borderland regions in war to peace transitions, that has been carried out in Sri Lanka and Nepal by researchers from the School of Oriental and African Studies (UK), University of Bath (UK), Centre for Poverty Analysis (Sri Lanka), Martin Chautari (Nepal) and International Alert.
3.00pm:
- Cultural Diversity and International Order
Professor Christian Reus-Smit
5.00pm:
- Film Screening: One Step Beyond
The Centre for Gender Studies invites you to the screening of 'One Step Beyond...' - a documentary about Kurdish female political prisoners in Turkey
7.00pm:
Thursday 24 May 2018
5.00pm:
- The Principle of Social Scaling
Paulo dos Santos (New School for Social Research)
5.00pm:
- How the international community is navigating the challenges of support to Myanmar’s complex peace process through a unique multi-donor approach
Harriet Martin, Myanmar Joint Peace Fund
The Joint Peace Fund (JPF) aims to support Myanmar’s highly complex peace process,
initiated by the military government in 2012 and re-launched by the newly elected NLD
government in 2016.
6.30pm:
- Being Muslim in Europe Today: Building Bridges in an Age of Uncertainty
Ambassador Akbar Ahmed, Lord Bhiku Parekh, and Professor Stephen Hopgood
6.30pm:
7.00pm:
- The Trajectory from Tongzhi Literature to the BL World
Dr. Ta-wei Chi