Week beginning Monday 14 June 2021
Monday 14 June 2021
11.00am:
5.00pm:
- The Great Decoupling: China, America and the Struggle for Technological Supremacy
Nigel Inkster (International Institute for Strategic Studies and SOAS University of London)
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The USA and China have become locked in a struggle for control of the commanding heights of advanced technologies. This struggle has been a major factor in what has become known as The Great Decoupling, a progressive technology disengagement that has major economic and political implications for the entire planet.
Tuesday 15 June 2021
5.00pm:
- The Contemporary Colonial Struggle: Palestinian Resistance, Rights and the Law
Various Speakers
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This panel discussion comes at a critical moment of a renewed assault on Palestine and Palestinians.
Wednesday 16 June 2021
1.00pm:
- Recovering from COVID-19 – Re-Imagining our Relationship to Nature
Nnimmo Bassey (Health of Mother Earth Foundation) & Ashish Kothari (Kalpavriksh)
2.00pm:
4.00pm:
- Climate-neutral Central Banking: How the European System of Central Banks Can Support the Transition to Net-zero
Simon Dikau (LSE), Soledad Nuñez (Banco de España), Nick Robins (LSE), Dirk Schoenmaker (Rotterdam School of Management), Laurence Tubiana (European Climate Foundation), Ulrich Volz (SOAS)
5.00pm:
- Feasible Anti-Corruption and the Work of SOAS-ACE
Mushtaq Khan (SOAS)
7.00pm:
- Contemporary yoga as a practice of philosophy
Laura von Ostrowski
Thursday 17 June 2021
1.30pm:
6.00pm:
- Of Jesus and Opium: the missionaries and Opium Wars
Iris Yau, Dr Lars Laamann
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An online gallery tour and discussion between curator Iris Yau and Dr Lars Laamann (SOAS Senior Lecturer in the History of China). This event is open to the public