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The Japan and Korea Section at SOAS University of London.

Dongzhu Xu is a PhD candidate in Development Studies at SOAS, University of London. His research examines the political economy of mineral wealth and poverty in the Democratic Republic of Congo, with broader interests in critical minerals, new institutional economics, conflict dynamics, the resource curse and development in the Global South.

This talk will historicise the anxieties that nation-states encode in their body politic, examining relations between China and India across their Himalayan border.

In the 2025 Centre of Taiwan Studies Summer School, we are excited to feature Dr Lev Nachman’s book talk, which offers a timely analysis of how identity, territory, and external threats shape party politics and movement mobilisation in Taiwan.

Dr Eric Yan-ho Lai talks about his new book 'Legal Resistance Under Authoritarianism: The Struggle for the Rule of Law in Hong Kong', which examines the decline of Hong Kong’s rule of law.

Nadia Aït Saïd-Ghanem is a provenance researcher and cuneiformist.

Sociolinguistics, Corpus Linguistics, Pragmatics, Critical Discourse Analysis, Applied Linguistics (Teaching Mandarin as a Foreign Language)

Polly Rossdale is an MPhil student in the Department of Anthropology. She is interested in critical thinking around trauma and torture in the context of migration; healing and rehabilitation; subjectivity and survivor-centred approaches.