Week beginning Monday 16 November 2020
Monday 16 November 2020
8.00am:
- UKEAS Taiwan Study World Fair Autumn 2020
Ms Maggie Dziem and Dr Richard Alexander
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2.00pm:
- Greening the Recovery in Time of Debt Distress: Launch of a Report on ‘Debt Relief for Green and Inclusive Recovery’
Gordon Brown, Mia Amor Mottley, Shamshad Akhtar, Kevin P. Gallagher, Stephany Griffith Jones, Moritz Kraemer, Barbara Unmüßig, Ulrich Volz
5.00pm:
- What Explains the Resilience of Chinese Communist Party Rule?
Tony Saich (Director of the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation / Daewoo Professor of International Affairs)
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This talk will look at different explanations for the continued resilience of the Communist Party of China.
Tuesday 17 November 2020
5.30pm:
- Women, Writing and the Iraqi Ba'thist State: Contending Discourses of Resistance and Collaboration
Hawraa Al-Hassan (University of Cambridge)
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This book traces the turbulent history of Ba'thist discourses on women and state patronage of the novel, and explores various literary responses from a wide spectrum of Iraqi women writers.
Wednesday 18 November 2020
2.00pm:
- Verification in the Age of Google Earth: Webinar 7
Melissa Hanham (Open Nuclear Network / Datayo); Alan Hill (Ridgeway); Hans Kristensen (Federation of American Scientists); Benjamin Strick (BBC / Bellingcat / EUArms Project); Respondent: Nathaniel Raymond (Yale University); Chaired by Henrietta Wilson (S
2.30pm:
- Climate Change and Sovereign Risk
Natalie Ambrosio Preudhomme (427), John Beirne (ADBI), Daniel Clarke (Centre for Disaster Protection), Marie Diron (Moody’s Investors Service), Nisha Krishnan (Global Commission on Adaptation), Lesley Ndlovu (African Risk Capacity), Ulrich Volz (SOAS)
3.00pm:
- Cultural Studies; policy and practice: Towards a reformist approach to strategic communications
Dr. Dounia Mahlouly, SOAS
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This talk addresses the role of communication practices and community-owned media infrastructures in processes of collective resilience, drawing on the case study of an EU-funded initiative implemented by British Council and designed to support community resilience through media capacity in Tunisia and Lebanon.
5.00pm:
- Death Care Disarranged: Buddhism, memory and the afterlife of human remains in contemporary Japan
Dr Paulina Kolata (University of Chester)
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Investigating proactive approaches to the end of death and the afterlife of human remains in contemporary Japanese Buddhism.
5.00pm:
- Orientalism in Economic Theory (Webinar)
Professor Jan Toporowski (SOAS)
5.00pm:
- Tales of the (Im)Proper: Speaking from the Margins in the Digital Era
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Speaker: Dr Cristina Moreno Almeida (BA Postdoctoral Fellow, King's College London)
5.00pm:
5.00pm:
- Waiting to Wait: Waiting to Wait Exiled Time, Sacred Landscapes and Struggles to Return in the Bosnian Dinaric Highlands
Dr Safet HadžiMuhamedović, University of Cambridge
6.00pm:
- New Cities, Future Ruins
Noura al-Sayegh, Head of Architectural Affairs, Bahrain Authority for Culture and Antiquities, Bahrain
6.00pm:
- Illness in the Book of Job and the Health Advice of Job's Friends
Speaker: Prof. Katherine E. Southwood, St John’s College, University of Oxford
6.00pm:
- Illness in the Book of Job and the Health Advice of Job's Friends
Prof. Katherine E. Southwood, St John’s College, University of Oxford
6.30pm:
Friday 20 November 2020
9.00am:
2.00pm:
- Giving water its place: Artificial glaciers and the politics of place in a high-altitude Himalayan village
Arjun Sharma (KU Leuven University, Belgium)
3.00pm:
- Virtual Global Ed Interaction (Chandigarh, Ludhiana, Dehradun, Jaipur, Kolkata and Lucknow)
Amy Mitchell-Bell
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7.00pm:
- Are you a woman?
Jana Matuszak
Saturday 21 November 2020
12.00pm:
- Virtual Global Ed Interaction (Delhi, North Delhi, West Delhi and Gurgaon)
Amy Mitchell-Bell
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