Events
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2017
September
25/09/17
- Book Launch: Taiwan's Social Movements under Ma Ying-jeou
Speakers: André Beckershoff (Tubingen), Dafydd Fell (SOAS), Lara Momesso (Central Lancashire and SOAS)
October
11/10/17
- The Politics of Human Shielding
Neve Gordon (SOAS)
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Investigating the political use of human shielding, Neve Gordon traces the historical development of this, showing both how this development reflects the ever-changing borders of the human and how it is currently being deployed to eviscerate the civilian status of the ex-colonized.
25/10/17
- From FPR-Inkotanyi to Rwandan Patriotic Front: Authoritarian Mutation and Survival in the New New Rwanda
Will Jones (Royal Holloway)
25/10/17
- Democracy, Youth Political Engagement, and Social Media in Taiwan
Speaker: Gwenyth Wang
November
15/11/17
- The Path to Great Power
Jennifer Lind (Dartmouth College)
22/11/17
- Muhammad Ali Foroughi and the Foundations of Iranian Aufklärung
Ramin Jahanbegloo, Jindal Global University, India
29/11/17
- A Conceptual History of Turkish Republicanism
Banu Turnaoğlu (University of Cambridge)
December
13/12/17
- An Ethnography of the Westminster Parliament: Shapeshifting as Political Work
Emma Crewe (SOAS Anthropology and Sociology)