Why I made a video about Minecraft and colonial coding: Reflections from a historian Dr Marie Rodet on what led her to examine the colonial coding in Minecraft and why we must question the stories we encode in our digital worlds.
The Precarious Past in Premodern Java In this talk, Wayan Jarrah Sastrawan examines how communities in Java between the fifth and fifteenth centuries CE responded with distinctive strategies to record and transmit knowledge of the past. Drawing on sources in Javanese, Sanskrit, Malay, and related languages from the Indonesian archipelago, he provides a detailed account of diverse forms of history-making in premodern Java, reconstructing a dynamic culture in which written and nonwritten modes of transmission coexisted and intersected.
Water Security: Transboundary Challenges Join us for panel discussion and the launch of the WATCON hub as we explore evolving dynamics and the implications for water security, water justice and the human right to water.
Public Diplomacy as a contributing factor to managing identity-based conflict: Taiwan repositions its identity and security status (2000 – 2020) Dr Yung Lin examines whether public diplomacy can contribute to resolving the identity-based conflict between China and Taiwan regarding Taiwan’s political status.
Trends and patterns in family life since the Chinese Communist Revolution revealed in new book The first detailed study on sex, marriage and intimacy in China has been published revealing the trends and patterns in family life since the Chinese Communist Revolution.
The architecture of asylum infrastructure What happens when a building becomes a border? "The Architecture of Asylum Infrastructure" uncovers the hidden life of structures transformed into reception centres, exposing the tensions between the worlds they are designed to enforce and the worlds people create within them. Through these spaces, the project reads the social, political, and emotional geography of our time.
Book launch of Capitalist Value Chains: Labour Exploitation, Nature Destruction, Geopolitics Do Global Value Chains (GVCs) really “boost incomes, create better jobs, and reduce poverty”? Benjamin Selwyn will discuss how CVCs generate highly exploitative jobs, deepen poverty, stunt human development, and damage the environment.