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Greetings Glocal Citizens! We're picking up more momentum toward African progress sharing the stories of dynamic diasporans making impact in the reparatory justice space. On the eve of Africa Day, I attended the premier screening of Omitted, a short film exploring reparatory justice and the legacies of colonialism by Lavinya Stennett, founder of The Black Curriculum. Raised in the UK with Jamaican roots, she founded The Black Curriculum in 2019 at age 22 shortly after finishing her studies at London's School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) which included a study abroad program in New Zealand. Her learning and experience with indigenous communities in New Zealand joined with her activism as a student at SOAS are the framework for the craft of truthtelling that is at the core of The Black Curriculum. Believing in the power of education, social impact and youth social entrepreneurship, her work has been recognised globally from Vogue and GQ to the historic Freedom of the City of London Award in 2024. She also has written on social and cultural themes throughout the African diaspora for outlets including the Guardian, Black Ballad, Quartz Africa. Expanding her entrpreneurship journey, in 2024 Lavinya co-founded the Racial Impact Collective, an initiative supporting social entrepreneurs and seeking equity in the grant making world. The future is brighter with knowing that there is a generation fo social innovators with creative talents like Lavinya committed to justice for marginalized peoples. Where to find Lavinya? https://www.lavinyastennett.co.uk TheBlackCurriculum.com (https://theblackcurriculum.com) On LinkedIn (https://linkedin.com/in/lavinya-stennett-frsa-022290104) On Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/theblackcurriculum/) On Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/theblackcurriculum) On YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJ3q6lnCyT5dMgTPbVRjPDw/featured) What's Lavinya reading? Material World (https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/703268/material-world-by-ed-conway/) by Ed Conway Free: Coming of Age at the End of History (https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393867732) by Lea Ypi Other topics of interest: Portland (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portland_Parish) and Saint Thomas (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Thomas_Parish,_Jamaica), Jamaica Barbados (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbados) and the Welcome Stamp Visa (https://www.visitbarbados.org/barbados-welcome-stamp) - Note: the capital is Bridgetown, not Christ Church The SOAS Walter Rodney Prize (https://www.facebook.com/SOASHistory/posts/the-walter-rodney-prizethe-walter-rodney-prize-fund-recognises-student-excellenc/2737891912931953/) Dream New Scholarship (https://www.european-funding-guide.eu/scholarship/dream-new-scholarship) Univrsity of Waikato (https://www.waikato.ac.nz/int/) About the Treaty of Waitangi (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Waitangi) and the latest on the protest haka in the New Zealand's Parliament seen around the globe (linkhttps://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/5/new-zealand-parliament-suspends-maori-mps-who-performed-protest-haka) About Omitted production partner, Transmission (https://www.wearetransmission.com) About Peace First (https://peacefirst.org) Special Guest: Lavinya Stennett.

Watch the rest of the interview here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/patreon-anti-pt-130931485 Palestinian organizers Tara Alami and Saif Abukeshek and (fired over Palestine) German lawyer Melanie Schweizer talk about the international march to Gaza. Then Katie talks to Dalia Sarig, Haim Bresheeth Zabner and Ronnie Barkan about the first Jewish Anti-zionist Congress. https://www.juedisch-antizionistisch.at/en Tara Alami is an organizer with the Palestinian Feminist Collective. Saif Abukeshek is a Palestinian activist based in Barcelona. He has been involved in organizing Palestinian movements in Europe for the past 20 years, he tirelessly advances Palestinian rights and amplifies the cause on the global stage. He serves as the chairman of the global coalition against the occupation in Palestine and represents the IAC (Intersindical Alternativa de Catalunya). Melanie Schweizer is a German lawyer, and former servant to the Federal Ministry before she was fired over speaking out against the genocide in Gaza. She is also a member of the international collective of the global march to Gaza. Dalia Sarig is co-founder of the initiative ‘Not in our Name' founded by Jews in Vienna and candidate on the GAZA list. Haim Bresheeth Zabnner was Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at University of East London and then a Professorial Research Associate at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS).He is Filmmaker, photographer, film studies scholar, and historian. His films include “A State of Danger,” a documentary on the first Palestinian Intifada. His books include "An Army Like No Other: How the Israel Defense Force Made a Nation." Haim is the son of two Holocaust survivors and was raised in Israel. He is a member of Holocaust survivors and Descendents Against the Genocide and a founding member of Jewish Network for Palestine. On November 4, Haim was arrested over a speech he gave at a pro Palestine demonstration outside the residence of Israeli ambassador Tzipi Hotovely in north London. Ronnie Barkan is an Israeli activist, a conscientious objector and co-founder of Boycott from Within – a group of conscientious Israelis who support the Palestinian call for boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against Israel. He represented the Popular Struggle Coordination Committees at the European Parliament in Brussels, where he challenged EU institutional complicity in Israeli violations. ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Get your Katie Halper Show Merch here! https://katiehalper.myspreadshop.com/all Follow Katie on Twitter: https://x.com/kthalps Follow Katie on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/kthalps/

This episode explores Turkey's evolving foreign policy under Recep Tayyip Erdoğan—from assertive moves in the Middle East to its complex ties with NATO and the EU. Is Ankara driven by neo-Ottoman ambition or pragmatic regional strategy? We also look at how domestic politics—like the protests over Istanbul mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu's arrest and the recent dissolution of the Kurdisch Workers' Party (PKK) —are shaping its international posture ahead of the 2028 elections.Guests:Cengiz Günay is Director of the Austrian Institute for International Affairs –OIIP– and Lecturer at the Department of Political Sciences, the Department of Near Eastern Studies and the Department of International Development and the University of Vienna. In 2018/19 he was a visiting fellow at the Foreign Policy Institute at the Paul H. Nietze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University in Washington DC. He is the author of the monographies “Die Geschichte der Türkei. Von den Anfängen der Moderne bis heute”, Wien: Böhlau, UTB, and “From Islamists to Muslim Democrats?” Saarbrücken: VDB. His regional focus lies on Turkey and the MENA region. His research interests are:• Democracy and the rise of new forms of authoritarian governance• Neoliberal Interventions und their effects on state and statehood• European Neighbourhood Policy• IslamismSabine Kroissenbrunner is Secretary General of the Bruno Kreisky Forum for international Dialogue, Vienna, since August 2024. In 2000, she joined the Austrian Foreign Ministry and served as a career diplomat in Berlin, Ankara, Belgrade and Cairo. Between 2007 and 2011 she established and headed the Task Force for Dialogue of Cultures and Religions in the Austrian Foreign Ministry. Before joining the cabinet of the Austrian Minister for Women's Affairs as her advisor on EU affairs and the Federal Chancellery in 1995, Sabine Kroissenbrunner worked as a researcher, mediator and consultant. Her research publications cover topics related to Turkey, the Middle East, Islam in Europe , religious and political networks related to migration and integration. She studied political science at the University of Vienna, the Bosphorus University in Istanbul and the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London.Moderation:Marylia Hushcha, Researcher and Project Manager at the IIP.The episode was recorded on 14 May 2025 with the support of The Austria Future Fund.

Joseph Daher est un universitaire spécialisé en économie politique et en histoire contemporaine du Moyen-Orient. Il est titulaire d'un doctorat en études du développement de la School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) de l'Université de Londres. Il enseigne à l'Université de Lausanne en Suisse et a été professeur affilié à l'Institut Universitaire Européen de Florence, en Italie.​

Bruno Montesano"Israele - Palestina oltre i nazionalismi"edizioni e/owww.edizionieo.itIl 7 ottobre e la punizione collettiva contro Gaza lasceranno tracce profondissime nelle già lacerate società israeliane e palestinesi. Gli interventi qui raccolti affrontano quel che è successo in questi mesi secondo il prisma dell'antinazionalismo e della necessità di superare le diverse forme di disumanizzazione e solidarietà selettiva maturate in decenni di occupazione e apartheid. Non per approdare ad un impossibile equilibrismo, ma per provare a capire quali forme di coesistenza siano possibili al di là dello Stato-nazione."Sapere, comprendere, sentire. Meglio: sapere senza comprendere e comprendere senza sentire, sono condizioni mentali che indicano una falsa postura e che soprattutto producono false percezioni. Molto pericolose soprattutto quando in partita c'è la dichiarazione di voler capire per davvero qualcosa nei conflitti sociali, culturali, politici, simbolici.Ogni riferimento alla questione di «prendere posizione» rispetto alla questione israelo-palestinese è deliberatamente voluto. Proprio per questo, uno dei meriti di Israele – Palestina. Oltre i nazionalismi (e/o) è di non fondare un partito, ma di porre questioni ineludibili a tutte le parti e opinioni in campo. In breve compiere una operazione intellettuale. Anzi, ancora meglio: dare un volto a che cosa debba essere l'intellettuale oggi: indicare questioni che ciascuna delle parti in conflitto e in discussione non può scantonare o eludere.Per farlo Bruno Montesano ha lavorato rielaborando la riflessione aveva proposto sulle pagine web della rivista “Il Mulino” nel novembre scorso e ha raccolto testi, alcuni già pubblicati, in Italia e fuori d'Italia, altri (Maria Grazia Meriggi, Mario Ricciardi, Luigi Manconi, Widad Tamini) invece, chiesti in relazione all'obiettivo di questo breve ma indispensabile libro."David Bidussa su Gli Stati GeneraliBruno Montesano, dottorando in Mutamento sociale e politico (UniTo/UniFi), ha conseguito un master alla School of Oriental and African Studies (Soas) di Londra. Si occupa del rapporto tra razzismo, istituzioni ed economia. Collabora con “il manifesto” e con la rivista “Gli Asini”.IL POSTO DELLE PAROLEascoltare fa pensarewww.ilpostodelleparole.itDiventa un supporter di questo podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/il-posto-delle-parole--1487855/support.

In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP Fellow Ahmed Moor speaks with Tahani Mustafa, Senior Palestine Analyst for the International Crisis Group, about Palestinian politics and the challenging predicament of cooperation or confrontation with Israel. The two discuss the evolution of the Palestinian Authority and its legitimacy today, including the role of Mahmoud Abbas, as well as the growth of armed resistance and militance in the face of expanded Israeli military activity in the West Bank. They draw from Tahani's recent policy brief, "Israel's West Bank Incursions Highlight the Dilemmas of Palestinian Politics." Tahani Mustafa is the International Crisis Group's Senior Palestine Analyst, where she works on issues including security and  socio-political and legal governance in the West bank. She has a background in development and security governance in the Middle East, and has worked in academia and policy advocacy. Based between the UK, Jordan and Israel/Palestine, she holds a Ph.D in Politics and International Studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. Ahmed Moor is a Palestinian-American writer born in Gaza. He is an advisory board member of the US Campaign for Palestinian rights, co-editor of After Zionism (Saqi Books) and is currently writing a book about Palestine. He also currently serves on the board of the Independence Media Foundation. His work has been published in The Guardian, The London Review of Books, The Nation, and elsewhere. He earned a BA at the University of Pennsylvania and an MPP at Harvard University. Original music by Jalal Yaquoub.

Watch more exclusive interviews here: https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Haim Bresheeth Zabner, the Israeli son of two Holocaust survivors, talks to Katie about being arrested over a speech he gave at a non-violent protest outside the residence of Israeli ambassador Tzipi Hotovely in north London. Haim Bresheeth Zabnner was Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at University of East London and then a Professorial Research Associate at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS).He is Filmmaker, photographer, film studies scholar, and historian. His films include “A State of Danger,” a documentary on the first Palestinian Intifada. His books include "An Army Like No Other: How the Israel Defense Force Made a Nation." Haim is the son of two Holocaust survivors and was raised in Israel. He is a member of Holocaust survivors and Descendents Against the Genocide and a founding member of Jewish Network for Palestine. On November 4, Haim was arrested over a speech he gave at a pro Palestine demonstration outside the residence of Israeli ambassador Tzipi Hotovely in north London. **Please support The Katie Halper Show ** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Get your Katie Halper Show Merch here! https://katiehalper.myspreadshop.com/all Follow Katie on Twitter: @kthalps

In a significant escalation of tensions between North and South Korea, some of the historic roads that used to connect the two parts of the country, divided since the war in the 1950's, have been blown up! So, what does this mean geopolitically?Joining Seán to discuss is Professor Hazel Smith from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) and author of ‘North Korea: Markets and Military Rule'.

In a significant escalation of tensions between North and South Korea, some of the historic roads that used to connect the two parts of the country, divided since the war in the 1950's, have been blown up! So, what does this mean geopolitically?Joining Seán to discuss is Professor Hazel Smith from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) and author of ‘North Korea: Markets and Military Rule'.

Guest: Haim Bresheeth-Zabner is a Professor of film studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London. He is the author of An Army Like No Other: How the Israeli Defense Force Made a Nation. The post IDF: A History of Israel's Army of Occupation appeared first on KPFA.

With limited agency and influence over events in Myanmar, India's Act East policy is in jeopardy on several levels, including the risk of being outmaneuvered and encircled by China in its near east. Aparna Pande and Avinash Paliwal, experts on India's foreign policy and South Asian geopolitics, dissect regional power dynamics and New Delhi's options in this episode of Asian Insider. Synopsis: Every fourth Friday of the month, The Straits Times' global contributor Nirmal Ghosh shines a light on Asian perspectives of global and Asian issues with expert guests. It may have been called a “forgotten” war - but the civil war in Myanmar triggered by the military's February 2021 coup d'etat, has grave implications for India's national security, and plans for connectivity to Southeast Asia.  Also, as it remains to be seen where the cards eventually fall, it has also heightened New Delhi's concerns over potential encirclement by China.  India's immediate concern is spillover of the conflict into its own volatile northeast, where the state of Manipur which borders Myanmar, has been witnessing ethnic violence. But more broadly the crisis also threatens India's “Act East” policy, and raises concerns in New Delhi as China extends its influence in Myanmar and also in Bangladesh; though Bangladesh's current Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is pro-India, the country's army is supplied mostly with Chinese weapons, and there is latent resentment against India.  But India's options are limited, experts Dr Aparna Pande and Dr Avinash Paliwal told Asian Insider.  Dr Paliwal lectures in diplomacy and public policy at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London, has just published his book “India's Near East.” Dr. Aparna Pandey is a research fellow at the Hudson Institute in Washington, DC and has written books on Indian foreign policy.  Myanmar's internal conflict is a long war which is unlikely to be solved through traditional conflict-resolution diplomacy, they told Asian Insider.  This leaves India forced to defensively mitigate risks and relegate connectivity projects - roads and port investments, for instance - to the back burner, in the hope that when the situation stabilises, they may resume.  Highlights (click/tap above):  2:19 The multi-sided civil wars has deep implications for India's national security 3:50 India's big investment in building connectivity through Myanmar 4:51 China's interests in Myanmar's civil and military domains concern India deeply 13:00 All of India's neighbours are its first layer of security 20:18 An asymmetric connectivity benefitting India but not for Bangladesh 21:49 Understanding India's regional geopolitics through domestic political lens  25:36 India's challenge is broadly with all of its neighbours  Produced by: Nirmal Ghosh (nirmal@sph.com.sg) and Fa'izah Sani Edited by: Fa'izah Sani Follow Asian Insider with Nirmal Ghosh every fourth Friday of the month here: Channel: https://str.sg/JWa7 Apple Podcasts: https://str.sg/JWa8 Spotify: https://str.sg/JWaX Website: http://str.sg/stpodcasts Feedback to: podcast@sph.com.sg Follow Nirmal Ghosh on X: https://str.sg/JD7r Read Nirmal Ghosh's articles: https://str.sg/JbxG Register for Asian Insider newsletter: https://str.sg/stnewsletters --- Discover more ST podcast channels: All-in-one ST Podcasts channel: https://str.sg/wvz7  The Usual Place: https://str.sg/wEr7u  In Your Opinion: https://str.sg/w7Qt  COE Watch: https://str.sg/iTtE  Asian Insider: https://str.sg/JWa7  Health Check: https://str.sg/JWaN  Green Pulse: https://str.sg/JWaf  Your Money & Career: https://str.sg/wB2m  Hard Tackle: https://str.sg/JWRE  #PopVultures: https://str.sg/JWad  Music Lab: https://str.sg/w9TX  --- ST Podcast website: http://str.sg/stpodcasts  ST Podcasts YouTube: https://str.sg/4Vwsa --- Special edition series: True Crimes Of Asia (6 eps): https://str.sg/i44T  The Unsolved Mysteries of South-east Asia (5 eps): https://str.sg/wuZ2  Invisible Asia (9 eps): https://str.sg/wuZn  Stop Scams (10 eps): https://str.sg/wuZB  Singapore's War On Covid (5 eps): https://str.sg/wuJa  --- Get The Straits Times' app, which has a dedicated podcast player section: The App Store: https://str.sg/icyB  Google Play: https://str.sg/icyX  #STAsianInsiderSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

With limited agency and influence over events in Myanmar, India's Act East policy is in jeopardy on several levels, including the risk of being outmaneuvered and encircled by China in its near east. Aparna Pande and Avinash Paliwal, experts on India's foreign policy and South Asian geopolitics, dissect regional power dynamics and New Delhi's options in this episode of Asian Insider. Synopsis: Every fourth Friday of the month, The Straits Times' global contributor Nirmal Ghosh shines a light on Asian perspectives of global and Asian issues with expert guests. It may have been called a “forgotten” war - but the civil war in Myanmar triggered by the military's February 2021 coup d'etat, has grave implications for India's national security, and plans for connectivity to Southeast Asia.  Also, as it remains to be seen where the cards eventually fall, it has also heightened New Delhi's concerns over potential encirclement by China.  India's immediate concern is spillover of the conflict into its own volatile northeast, where the state of Manipur which borders Myanmar, has been witnessing ethnic violence. But more broadly the crisis also threatens India's “Act East” policy, and raises concerns in New Delhi as China extends its influence in Myanmar and also in Bangladesh; though Bangladesh's current Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is pro-India, the country's army is supplied mostly with Chinese weapons, and there is latent resentment against India.  But India's options are limited, experts Dr Aparna Pande and Dr Avinash Paliwal told Asian Insider.  Dr Paliwal lectures in diplomacy and public policy at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London, has just published his book “India's Near East.” Dr. Aparna Pandey is a research fellow at the Hudson Institute in Washington, DC and has written books on Indian foreign policy.  Myanmar's internal conflict is a long war which is unlikely to be solved through traditional conflict-resolution diplomacy, they told Asian Insider.  This leaves India forced to defensively mitigate risks and relegate connectivity projects - roads and port investments, for instance - to the back burner, in the hope that when the situation stabilises, they may resume.  Highlights (click/tap above):  2:19 The multi-sided civil wars has deep implications for India's national security 3:50 India's big investment in building connectivity through Myanmar 4:51 China's interests in Myanmar's civil and military domains concern India deeply 13:00 All of India's neighbours are its first layer of security 20:18 An asymmetric connectivity benefitting India but not for Bangladesh 21:49 Understanding India's regional geopolitics through domestic political lens  25:36 India's challenge is broadly with all of its neighbours  Produced by: Nirmal Ghosh (nirmal@sph.com.sg) and Fa'izah Sani Edited by: Fa'izah Sani Follow Asian Insider with Nirmal Ghosh every fourth Friday of the month here: Channel: https://str.sg/JWa7 Apple Podcasts: https://str.sg/JWa8 Spotify: https://str.sg/JWaX Website: http://str.sg/stpodcasts Feedback to: podcast@sph.com.sg Follow Nirmal Ghosh on X: https://str.sg/JD7r Read Nirmal Ghosh's articles: https://str.sg/JbxG Register for Asian Insider newsletter: https://str.sg/stnewsletters --- Discover more ST podcast channels: All-in-one ST Podcasts channel: https://str.sg/wvz7  The Usual Place: https://str.sg/wEr7u  In Your Opinion: https://str.sg/w7Qt  COE Watch: https://str.sg/iTtE  Asian Insider: https://str.sg/JWa7  Health Check: https://str.sg/JWaN  Green Pulse: https://str.sg/JWaf  Your Money & Career: https://str.sg/wB2m  Hard Tackle: https://str.sg/JWRE  #PopVultures: https://str.sg/JWad  Music Lab: https://str.sg/w9TX  --- ST Podcast website: http://str.sg/stpodcasts  ST Podcasts YouTube: https://str.sg/4Vwsa --- Special edition series: True Crimes Of Asia (6 eps): https://str.sg/i44T  The Unsolved Mysteries of South-east Asia (5 eps): https://str.sg/wuZ2  Invisible Asia (9 eps): https://str.sg/wuZn  Stop Scams (10 eps): https://str.sg/wuZB  Singapore's War On Covid (5 eps): https://str.sg/wuJa  --- Get The Straits Times' app, which has a dedicated podcast player section: The App Store: https://str.sg/icyB  Google Play: https://str.sg/icyX  #STAsianInsiderSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Gurdofarid Miskinzoda is the Head of the Shiʿi Studies Unit in the Department of Academic Research and Publication at The Institute of Ismaili Studies. She is also the Managing Editor of the Shiʿi Heritage Series. Miskinzoda's academic background is in the fields of the history of the Near and Middle East and of Islam, Islamic Studies, philology and the study of Arabic and Persian literatures. She is the editor (with Farhad Daftary) of The Study of Shiʿi Islam: History, Theology and Law (London, 2014). Having completed her doctoral studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in 2007, with a dissertation on medieval accounts of the Prophet Muhammad's life, Miskinzoda joined the Institute of Ismaili Studies as a Research Associate. Most recently in 2019, Miskinzoda completed an MBA in Higher Education Management at the IOE, UCL. Miskinzoda is a Senior Fellow of the Hider Education Academy, UK.

Episode 178: Les évolutions post-2011 du cinéma tunisien En 2023, le Centre d'Études Maghrébines à Tunis a lancé une recherche sur le cinéma tunisien contemporain en tant qu'art et industrie. Prenant en compte la création d'un cinéma d'Etat après l'indépendance ainsi que des impacts de la révolution de 2011, ce projet a analysé des des acteurs/actrices et des institutions, des tendances thématiques et artistiques, des événements et espaces, et des succès et challenges qu'a vécu l'industrie depuis ses débuts. Dans ce podcast, Kenza Ben Azouz, chercheuse qui s'intéresse aux évolutions du domaine cinématographique en contexte tunisien depuis 2011, discute son approche et ses découvertes. Elle essayé de comprendre comment traiter de la fluidité de la définition du cinéma en général, et du cinéma tunisien en particulier ? Quel langage utilisent des membres de l'industrie en parlant du cinéma ?  Pour visualiser le processus complexe de la réalisation cinématographique en Tunisie, elle examine la production de sa conception à sa réception afin de montrer les opportunités et les défis des cinéastes à tous les niveaux. Plus globalement, sa recherche évalue la place du cinéma dans la société tunisienne, et la place du film tunisien sur la scène internationale. Les résultats de la recherche sont présentés dans leur intégralité dans le rapport final intitulé « Contemporary Tunisian Cinema. » Kenza Ben Azouz a été la 2022 AIMS Film Fellow. Elle est chercheuse en anthropologie. Avant ce projet, elle a travaillé avec plusieurs associations de défense des droits de l'homme et du développement (le Haut-Commissariat des Nations unies aux droits de l'homme, HCDH ; Mercy Corps ; Human Rights Watch ; et l'Organisation de coopération et de développement économiques, OCDE) dans l'Afrique de l'Ouest, le Maghreb, et le Mashreq. Son travail se concentre sur la violence des hommes contre les femmes, le racisme institutionnel, et les challenges du développement structurel. Kenza est diplômée en sciences politiques et philosophie de l'Université de McGill et a reçu son master en anthropologie sociale de développement du School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). Elle a été lauréate de la bourse Allan & Nesta Ferguson Scholarship for African Students en 2018 et de la bourse Finberg Fellowship at Human Rights Watch en 2022. Elle parle arabe, anglais, et français. Cet épisode a été enregistré le 08 juin 2023 via Zoom, par le Centre d'Études Maghrébines à Tunis (CEMAT)  Posté par: Hayet Yebbous Bensaid, Bibliothécaire / Chargée de la diffusion des activités scientifiques (CEMA). 

Dr. Amy Matthewson's Cartooning China: Punch, Power, & Politics in the Victorian Era (Routledge, 2022) explores the series of cartoons of China and the Chinese that were published in the popular British satirical magazine Punch over a sixty-year period from 1841 to 1901. Filled with political metaphors and racial stereotypes, these illustrations served as a powerful tool in both reflecting and shaping notions and attitudes towards China at a tumultuous time in Sino-British history. A close reading of both the visual and textual satires in Punch reveals how a section of British society visualised and negotiated with China as well as Britain's position in the global community. By contextualising Punch's cartoons within the broader frameworks of British socio-cultural and political discourse, the Dr. Matthewson engages in a critical enquiry of popular culture and its engagements with race, geopolitical propaganda, and public consciousness. This book will interest scholars and researchers of cultural studies, political history and Empire, Chinese studies, popular culture, Victoriana, as well as media studies comics-based research. Dr. Amy Matthewson has a PhD degree in history from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), at the University of London, in the UK. Dr. Matthewson is a historian interested in representation through visual and material culture, in particular the ways in which China and Chinese communities were understood by Western nations in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with specific interest in Britain's relationship with China. She is currently teaching history at University of Iceland. Elizabeth Allyn Woock an assistant professor in the Department of English and American Studies at Palacky University in the Czech Republic with an interdisciplinary background in history and popular literature. Her specialization falls within the study of comic books and graphic novels. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Dr. Amy Matthewson's Cartooning China: Punch, Power, & Politics in the Victorian Era (Routledge, 2022) explores the series of cartoons of China and the Chinese that were published in the popular British satirical magazine Punch over a sixty-year period from 1841 to 1901. Filled with political metaphors and racial stereotypes, these illustrations served as a powerful tool in both reflecting and shaping notions and attitudes towards China at a tumultuous time in Sino-British history. A close reading of both the visual and textual satires in Punch reveals how a section of British society visualised and negotiated with China as well as Britain's position in the global community. By contextualising Punch's cartoons within the broader frameworks of British socio-cultural and political discourse, the Dr. Matthewson engages in a critical enquiry of popular culture and its engagements with race, geopolitical propaganda, and public consciousness. This book will interest scholars and researchers of cultural studies, political history and Empire, Chinese studies, popular culture, Victoriana, as well as media studies comics-based research. Dr. Amy Matthewson has a PhD degree in history from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), at the University of London, in the UK. Dr. Matthewson is a historian interested in representation through visual and material culture, in particular the ways in which China and Chinese communities were understood by Western nations in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with specific interest in Britain's relationship with China. She is currently teaching history at University of Iceland. Elizabeth Allyn Woock an assistant professor in the Department of English and American Studies at Palacky University in the Czech Republic with an interdisciplinary background in history and popular literature. Her specialization falls within the study of comic books and graphic novels. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/history

Dr. Amy Matthewson's Cartooning China: Punch, Power, & Politics in the Victorian Era (Routledge, 2022) explores the series of cartoons of China and the Chinese that were published in the popular British satirical magazine Punch over a sixty-year period from 1841 to 1901. Filled with political metaphors and racial stereotypes, these illustrations served as a powerful tool in both reflecting and shaping notions and attitudes towards China at a tumultuous time in Sino-British history. A close reading of both the visual and textual satires in Punch reveals how a section of British society visualised and negotiated with China as well as Britain's position in the global community. By contextualising Punch's cartoons within the broader frameworks of British socio-cultural and political discourse, the Dr. Matthewson engages in a critical enquiry of popular culture and its engagements with race, geopolitical propaganda, and public consciousness. This book will interest scholars and researchers of cultural studies, political history and Empire, Chinese studies, popular culture, Victoriana, as well as media studies comics-based research. Dr. Amy Matthewson has a PhD degree in history from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), at the University of London, in the UK. Dr. Matthewson is a historian interested in representation through visual and material culture, in particular the ways in which China and Chinese communities were understood by Western nations in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with specific interest in Britain's relationship with China. She is currently teaching history at University of Iceland. Elizabeth Allyn Woock an assistant professor in the Department of English and American Studies at Palacky University in the Czech Republic with an interdisciplinary background in history and popular literature. Her specialization falls within the study of comic books and graphic novels. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/chinese-studies

Dr. Amy Matthewson's Cartooning China: Punch, Power, & Politics in the Victorian Era (Routledge, 2022) explores the series of cartoons of China and the Chinese that were published in the popular British satirical magazine Punch over a sixty-year period from 1841 to 1901. Filled with political metaphors and racial stereotypes, these illustrations served as a powerful tool in both reflecting and shaping notions and attitudes towards China at a tumultuous time in Sino-British history. A close reading of both the visual and textual satires in Punch reveals how a section of British society visualised and negotiated with China as well as Britain's position in the global community. By contextualising Punch's cartoons within the broader frameworks of British socio-cultural and political discourse, the Dr. Matthewson engages in a critical enquiry of popular culture and its engagements with race, geopolitical propaganda, and public consciousness. This book will interest scholars and researchers of cultural studies, political history and Empire, Chinese studies, popular culture, Victoriana, as well as media studies comics-based research. Dr. Amy Matthewson has a PhD degree in history from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), at the University of London, in the UK. Dr. Matthewson is a historian interested in representation through visual and material culture, in particular the ways in which China and Chinese communities were understood by Western nations in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with specific interest in Britain's relationship with China. She is currently teaching history at University of Iceland. Elizabeth Allyn Woock an assistant professor in the Department of English and American Studies at Palacky University in the Czech Republic with an interdisciplinary background in history and popular literature. Her specialization falls within the study of comic books and graphic novels. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/art

Dr. Amy Matthewson's Cartooning China: Punch, Power, & Politics in the Victorian Era (Routledge, 2022) explores the series of cartoons of China and the Chinese that were published in the popular British satirical magazine Punch over a sixty-year period from 1841 to 1901. Filled with political metaphors and racial stereotypes, these illustrations served as a powerful tool in both reflecting and shaping notions and attitudes towards China at a tumultuous time in Sino-British history. A close reading of both the visual and textual satires in Punch reveals how a section of British society visualised and negotiated with China as well as Britain's position in the global community. By contextualising Punch's cartoons within the broader frameworks of British socio-cultural and political discourse, the Dr. Matthewson engages in a critical enquiry of popular culture and its engagements with race, geopolitical propaganda, and public consciousness. This book will interest scholars and researchers of cultural studies, political history and Empire, Chinese studies, popular culture, Victoriana, as well as media studies comics-based research. Dr. Amy Matthewson has a PhD degree in history from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), at the University of London, in the UK. Dr. Matthewson is a historian interested in representation through visual and material culture, in particular the ways in which China and Chinese communities were understood by Western nations in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with specific interest in Britain's relationship with China. She is currently teaching history at University of Iceland. Elizabeth Allyn Woock an assistant professor in the Department of English and American Studies at Palacky University in the Czech Republic with an interdisciplinary background in history and popular literature. Her specialization falls within the study of comic books and graphic novels. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/journalism

Dr. Amy Matthewson's Cartooning China: Punch, Power, & Politics in the Victorian Era (Routledge, 2022) explores the series of cartoons of China and the Chinese that were published in the popular British satirical magazine Punch over a sixty-year period from 1841 to 1901. Filled with political metaphors and racial stereotypes, these illustrations served as a powerful tool in both reflecting and shaping notions and attitudes towards China at a tumultuous time in Sino-British history. A close reading of both the visual and textual satires in Punch reveals how a section of British society visualised and negotiated with China as well as Britain's position in the global community. By contextualising Punch's cartoons within the broader frameworks of British socio-cultural and political discourse, the Dr. Matthewson engages in a critical enquiry of popular culture and its engagements with race, geopolitical propaganda, and public consciousness. This book will interest scholars and researchers of cultural studies, political history and Empire, Chinese studies, popular culture, Victoriana, as well as media studies comics-based research. Dr. Amy Matthewson has a PhD degree in history from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), at the University of London, in the UK. Dr. Matthewson is a historian interested in representation through visual and material culture, in particular the ways in which China and Chinese communities were understood by Western nations in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with specific interest in Britain's relationship with China. She is currently teaching history at University of Iceland. Elizabeth Allyn Woock an assistant professor in the Department of English and American Studies at Palacky University in the Czech Republic with an interdisciplinary background in history and popular literature. Her specialization falls within the study of comic books and graphic novels. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dr. Amy Matthewson's Cartooning China: Punch, Power, & Politics in the Victorian Era (Routledge, 2022) explores the series of cartoons of China and the Chinese that were published in the popular British satirical magazine Punch over a sixty-year period from 1841 to 1901. Filled with political metaphors and racial stereotypes, these illustrations served as a powerful tool in both reflecting and shaping notions and attitudes towards China at a tumultuous time in Sino-British history. A close reading of both the visual and textual satires in Punch reveals how a section of British society visualised and negotiated with China as well as Britain's position in the global community. By contextualising Punch's cartoons within the broader frameworks of British socio-cultural and political discourse, the Dr. Matthewson engages in a critical enquiry of popular culture and its engagements with race, geopolitical propaganda, and public consciousness. This book will interest scholars and researchers of cultural studies, political history and Empire, Chinese studies, popular culture, Victoriana, as well as media studies comics-based research. Dr. Amy Matthewson has a PhD degree in history from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), at the University of London, in the UK. Dr. Matthewson is a historian interested in representation through visual and material culture, in particular the ways in which China and Chinese communities were understood by Western nations in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with specific interest in Britain's relationship with China. She is currently teaching history at University of Iceland. Elizabeth Allyn Woock an assistant professor in the Department of English and American Studies at Palacky University in the Czech Republic with an interdisciplinary background in history and popular literature. Her specialization falls within the study of comic books and graphic novels. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/popular-culture

Dr. Amy Matthewson's Cartooning China: Punch, Power, & Politics in the Victorian Era (Routledge, 2022) explores the series of cartoons of China and the Chinese that were published in the popular British satirical magazine Punch over a sixty-year period from 1841 to 1901. Filled with political metaphors and racial stereotypes, these illustrations served as a powerful tool in both reflecting and shaping notions and attitudes towards China at a tumultuous time in Sino-British history. A close reading of both the visual and textual satires in Punch reveals how a section of British society visualised and negotiated with China as well as Britain's position in the global community. By contextualising Punch's cartoons within the broader frameworks of British socio-cultural and political discourse, the Dr. Matthewson engages in a critical enquiry of popular culture and its engagements with race, geopolitical propaganda, and public consciousness. This book will interest scholars and researchers of cultural studies, political history and Empire, Chinese studies, popular culture, Victoriana, as well as media studies comics-based research. Dr. Amy Matthewson has a PhD degree in history from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), at the University of London, in the UK. Dr. Matthewson is a historian interested in representation through visual and material culture, in particular the ways in which China and Chinese communities were understood by Western nations in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with specific interest in Britain's relationship with China. She is currently teaching history at University of Iceland. Elizabeth Allyn Woock an assistant professor in the Department of English and American Studies at Palacky University in the Czech Republic with an interdisciplinary background in history and popular literature. Her specialization falls within the study of comic books and graphic novels. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/british-studies

The northeast Indian state of Assam has had a complex history. As independence loomed, Assam was a large British province, bordering the fellow British colony of Burma and covering a large segment of India's northeast. Today's Assam is much smaller: First partition cut Assam off from the rest of India, with just a tiny “chicken neck” of land connecting the state with India proper. Then decades of tension between the Assamese and minority groups led to new states being created from within its borders: Nagaland, Meghalaya and Mizoram, to name a few. Arupjyoti Saikia takes on the task of explaining six decades of Assam history in his latest book, The Quest for Modern Assam: A History, 1942-2000 (India Allen Lane, 2023) In this interview, Arupjyoti and I talk about Assam's history from the Second World War and the decades since independence, including some of the wild schemes the British tried to apply to the Indian northeast, and why it's important to understand Indian history through its federal states. Arupjyoti Saikia is a professor of history at the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati. He held the Agrarian Studies Programme Fellowship at Yale University and visiting fellow positions at Cambridge University and the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. He is also the author of Forests and Ecological History of Assam, 1826-2000 (Oxford University Press: 2011), A Century of Protests: Peasant Politics in Assam since 1900 (Routledge: 2014), and The Unquiet River: A Biography of the Brahmaputra (Oxford University Press: 2019). You can find more reviews, excerpts, interviews, and essays at The Asian Review of Books, including its review of The Quest for Modern Assam. Follow on Twitter at @BookReviewsAsia. Nicholas Gordon is an associate editor for a global magazine, and a reviewer for the Asian Review of Books. He can be found on Twitter at @nickrigordon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

The northeast Indian state of Assam has had a complex history. As independence loomed, Assam was a large British province, bordering the fellow British colony of Burma and covering a large segment of India's northeast. Today's Assam is much smaller: First partition cut Assam off from the rest of India, with just a tiny “chicken neck” of land connecting the state with India proper. Then decades of tension between the Assamese and minority groups led to new states being created from within its borders: Nagaland, Meghalaya and Mizoram, to name a few. Arupjyoti Saikia takes on the task of explaining six decades of Assam history in his latest book, The Quest for Modern Assam: A History, 1942-2000 (India Allen Lane, 2023) In this interview, Arupjyoti and I talk about Assam's history from the Second World War and the decades since independence, including some of the wild schemes the British tried to apply to the Indian northeast, and why it's important to understand Indian history through its federal states. Arupjyoti Saikia is a professor of history at the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati. He held the Agrarian Studies Programme Fellowship at Yale University and visiting fellow positions at Cambridge University and the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. He is also the author of Forests and Ecological History of Assam, 1826-2000 (Oxford University Press: 2011), A Century of Protests: Peasant Politics in Assam since 1900 (Routledge: 2014), and The Unquiet River: A Biography of the Brahmaputra (Oxford University Press: 2019). You can find more reviews, excerpts, interviews, and essays at The Asian Review of Books, including its review of The Quest for Modern Assam. Follow on Twitter at @BookReviewsAsia. Nicholas Gordon is an associate editor for a global magazine, and a reviewer for the Asian Review of Books. He can be found on Twitter at @nickrigordon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/history

The northeast Indian state of Assam has had a complex history. As independence loomed, Assam was a large British province, bordering the fellow British colony of Burma and covering a large segment of India's northeast. Today's Assam is much smaller: First partition cut Assam off from the rest of India, with just a tiny “chicken neck” of land connecting the state with India proper. Then decades of tension between the Assamese and minority groups led to new states being created from within its borders: Nagaland, Meghalaya and Mizoram, to name a few. Arupjyoti Saikia takes on the task of explaining six decades of Assam history in his latest book, The Quest for Modern Assam: A History, 1942-2000 (India Allen Lane, 2023) In this interview, Arupjyoti and I talk about Assam's history from the Second World War and the decades since independence, including some of the wild schemes the British tried to apply to the Indian northeast, and why it's important to understand Indian history through its federal states. Arupjyoti Saikia is a professor of history at the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati. He held the Agrarian Studies Programme Fellowship at Yale University and visiting fellow positions at Cambridge University and the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. He is also the author of Forests and Ecological History of Assam, 1826-2000 (Oxford University Press: 2011), A Century of Protests: Peasant Politics in Assam since 1900 (Routledge: 2014), and The Unquiet River: A Biography of the Brahmaputra (Oxford University Press: 2019). You can find more reviews, excerpts, interviews, and essays at The Asian Review of Books, including its review of The Quest for Modern Assam. Follow on Twitter at @BookReviewsAsia. Nicholas Gordon is an associate editor for a global magazine, and a reviewer for the Asian Review of Books. He can be found on Twitter at @nickrigordon. Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/southeast-asian-studies

The northeast Indian state of Assam has had a complex history. As independence loomed, Assam was a large British province, bordering the fellow British colony of Burma and covering a large segment of India's northeast. Today's Assam is much smaller: First partition cut Assam off from the rest of India, with just a tiny “chicken neck” of land connecting the state with India proper. Then decades of tension between the Assamese and minority groups led to new states being created from within its borders: Nagaland, Meghalaya and Mizoram, to name a few. Arupjyoti Saikia takes on the task of explaining six decades of Assam history in his latest book, The Quest for Modern Assam: A History, 1942-2000 (India Allen Lane, 2023) In this interview, Arupjyoti and I talk about Assam's history from the Second World War and the decades since independence, including some of the wild schemes the British tried to apply to the Indian northeast, and why it's important to understand Indian history through its federal states. Arupjyoti Saikia is a professor of history at the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati. He held the Agrarian Studies Programme Fellowship at Yale University and visiting fellow positions at Cambridge University and the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. He is also the author of Forests and Ecological History of Assam, 1826-2000 (Oxford University Press: 2011), A Century of Protests: Peasant Politics in Assam since 1900 (Routledge: 2014), and The Unquiet River: A Biography of the Brahmaputra (Oxford University Press: 2019). You can find more reviews, excerpts, interviews, and essays at The Asian Review of Books, including its review of The Quest for Modern Assam. Follow on Twitter at @BookReviewsAsia. Nicholas Gordon is an associate editor for a global magazine, and a reviewer for the Asian Review of Books. He can be found on Twitter at @nickrigordon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/south-asian-studies

The northeast Indian state of Assam has had a complex history. As independence loomed, Assam was a large British province, bordering the fellow British colony of Burma and covering a large segment of India's northeast. Today's Assam is much smaller: First partition cut Assam off from the rest of India, with just a tiny “chicken neck” of land connecting the state with India proper. Then decades of tension between the Assamese and minority groups led to new states being created from within its borders: Nagaland, Meghalaya and Mizoram, to name a few. Arupjyoti Saikia takes on the task of explaining six decades of Assam history in his latest book, The Quest for Modern Assam: A History, 1942-2000 (India Allen Lane, 2023) In this interview, Arupjyoti and I talk about Assam's history from the Second World War and the decades since independence, including some of the wild schemes the British tried to apply to the Indian northeast, and why it's important to understand Indian history through its federal states. Arupjyoti Saikia is a professor of history at the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati. He held the Agrarian Studies Programme Fellowship at Yale University and visiting fellow positions at Cambridge University and the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. He is also the author of Forests and Ecological History of Assam, 1826-2000 (Oxford University Press: 2011), A Century of Protests: Peasant Politics in Assam since 1900 (Routledge: 2014), and The Unquiet River: A Biography of the Brahmaputra (Oxford University Press: 2019). You can find more reviews, excerpts, interviews, and essays at The Asian Review of Books, including its review of The Quest for Modern Assam. Follow on Twitter at @BookReviewsAsia. Nicholas Gordon is an associate editor for a global magazine, and a reviewer for the Asian Review of Books. He can be found on Twitter at @nickrigordon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/asian-review

The northeast Indian state of Assam has had a complex history. As independence loomed, Assam was a large British province, bordering the fellow British colony of Burma and covering a large segment of India's northeast. Today's Assam is much smaller: First partition cut Assam off from the rest of India, with just a tiny “chicken neck” of land connecting the state with India proper. Then decades of tension between the Assamese and minority groups led to new states being created from within its borders: Nagaland, Meghalaya and Mizoram, to name a few. Arupjyoti Saikia takes on the task of explaining six decades of Assam history in his latest book, The Quest for Modern Assam: A History, 1942-2000 (India Allen Lane, 2023) In this interview, Arupjyoti and I talk about Assam's history from the Second World War and the decades since independence, including some of the wild schemes the British tried to apply to the Indian northeast, and why it's important to understand Indian history through its federal states. Arupjyoti Saikia is a professor of history at the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati. He held the Agrarian Studies Programme Fellowship at Yale University and visiting fellow positions at Cambridge University and the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. He is also the author of Forests and Ecological History of Assam, 1826-2000 (Oxford University Press: 2011), A Century of Protests: Peasant Politics in Assam since 1900 (Routledge: 2014), and The Unquiet River: A Biography of the Brahmaputra (Oxford University Press: 2019). You can find more reviews, excerpts, interviews, and essays at The Asian Review of Books, including its review of The Quest for Modern Assam. Follow on Twitter at @BookReviewsAsia. Nicholas Gordon is an associate editor for a global magazine, and a reviewer for the Asian Review of Books. He can be found on Twitter at @nickrigordon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/british-studies

Dr. Yakoob Ahmed is an Ottoman historian with a specialization in late Ottomon history. He received his Ph.D. from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) at the University of London and he currently teaches at Istanbul University in Turkiye. I had a chance to sit down with Dr. Yakoob after I attended a weekend seminar he did in Chicago on Ottoman history. We discussed his origin story, his identity as a "Londoner", how he developed empathy for others, and biases that Western academics operate from..amongst other things. Resources for "Sultans and Sneakers" Patreon:  https://patreon.com/sultansandsneakers YouTube:  www.youtube.com/sultansandsneakers Instagram:  https://instagram.com/sultansandsneakers Twitter:  https://twitter.com/SultansNSnkrs Facebook:  https://facebook.com/sultansandsneakers

This week on Cleaning Up, Michael welcomes Achim Steiner, Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme and co-chair of UN Energy. Michael had questions for Steiner on UNDP's roster of initiatives, balancing climate priorities with development goals, and how to clear a path to financing billions of dollars of clean infrastructure in the midst of a global energy crisis.Like, share and subscribe to Cleaning Up for more essential conversations around the net zero transition. Links and Related Episodes: Learn more about UNDP: https://www.undp.org/energyOver 120 countries are part of UNDP's Climate Promise: https://climatepromise.undp.org/Discover UNDP's Sustainable Finance Hub: https://sdgfinance.undp.org/Many of the episodes mentioned can be found in our ‘United Nations' playlist on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gvl91lgPsUg&list=PLe8ZTD7dMaaDVAOrAyAwuMKrmq3G9ih75Watch Episode 98 with Bill McKibben: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7W9uR6eTe94Watch Episode 59 with Alain Ebobissé: https://www.cleaningup.live/ep-59-alain-ebobisse-meeting-africas-infrastructure-needs/Guest BioAchim Steiner became Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme in 2017, and is also the Vice-Chair of the UN Sustainable Development Group. Steiner has been a global leader on sustainable development, climate resilience and international cooperation for nearly three decades.Prior to joining UNDP, he was Director of the Oxford Martin School and Professorial Fellow of Balliol College, University of Oxford. He led the United Nations Environment Programme (2006-2016), and was Director-General of the United Nations Office at Nairobi. Steiner previously held positions including Director General of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, and Secretary General of the World Commission on Dams.Steiner graduated in Philosophy, Politics and Economics (MA) from Worcester College, Oxford University, and holds an MA from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS).

Support LCA https://lightscameraazadi.in/support-lca/ https://www.patreon.com/azadi Follow Dipa https://twitter.com/sinhadipa Dipa Sinha has done her MA in Economics from JNU, MSc in Development Studies from School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London and Ph.d from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She has worked on issues related to food rights, nutrition and public health.3:10 Understanding Dipa's journey5:40 What is right to food?8:25 How do we measure hunger?11:00 How is India's progress in this area?16:05 State intervention in this area18:40 Role of Union and State Government20:55 Malnourishment basis groups24:50 How do different governments approach this issue?37:25 The impact on women 50:25 The biggest battle that India is fighting when it comes to public health1:05:10 The fragmented model of public health in India1:06:50 Aam Admi Party's model of governance1:08:10 Health outcomes in North vs South

Today's guest, Frank Dikötter, comes on to chat about the impact that Mao had on China and how the People's Republic of China has navigated the global political landscape since his death. Links from the show:* China After Mao: The Rise of a Superpower* Connect with Frank* Connect with Ryan on Twitter* Subscribe to the newsletterAbout my Guest:Frank Dikötter is the author of the People's Trilogy, a series of books that document the impact of communism on the lives of ordinary people in China on the basis of new archival material. The first volume, entitled Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, won the 2011 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction, Britain's most prestigious book award for non-fiction. The second instalment, The Tragedy of Liberation: A History of the Chinese Revolution, 1945-1957, was short-listed for the Orwell Prize in 2014. The Cultural Revolution: A People's History, 1962-1976 concludes the trilogy and was short-listed for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize in 2017. His last book is entitled China after Mao: The Rise of a Superpower.Frank has been Chair Professor of Humanities at the University of Hong Kong since 2006. Before coming to Hong Kong he was Professor of the Modern History of China at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.Born in the Netherlands in 1961, he was educated in Switzerland  and graduated from the University of Geneva with a Double Major in History and Russian. After two years in the People's Republic of China, he moved to London where he obtained his PhD in History from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in 1990. He stayed at SOAS as British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow and as Wellcome Research Fellow before being promoted to a personal chair as Professor of the Modern History of China in 2002. His research and writing has been funded by over 2 US$ million in grants from various foundations, including, in Britain, the Wellcome Trust, the Arts and Humanities Research Council, The Economic and Social Research Council and, in Hong Kong, the Research Grants Council and the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation. He holds an honorary doctorate from Leiden University and is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution.He has published a dozen books that have changed the ways historians view modern China, from the classic The Discourse of Race in Modern China (1992) to China before Mao: The Age of Openness (2007). His work has been translated into twenty languages. Frank Dikötter is married and lives in Hong Kong. Get full access to Dispatches from the War Room at dispatchesfromthewarroom.substack.com/subscribe

Listen to Dr Olcay Muslu Gardner speak about musical traditions, sustainability and the scholarship she undertook at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). Dr Olcay is assistant professor at the Mustafa Kemal Hatay University, Turkey. She is the first recipient of the Visiting Scholars Scheme to be jointly supported by the British Institute at Ankara. Her work is concerned with identifying dimensions of sustainability for traditional music in the region of Sanlurfa, Turkey. The visiting scholarship enabled her to conduct research at UK academic libraries and to develop relationships with traditional Turkish music groups in and around London. For more information and to access the transcript: www.ucl.ac.uk/nahrein/achievements-2017-21/past-visiting-scholars/transcript-conversation-olcay-muslu-gardner Date of episode recording: 2019-10-01 Duration: 00:33:57 Language of episode: English Presenter: Mehiyar Kathem Guests: Olcay Muslu Gardner Producer: Mehiyar Kathem

Episode #125: Given the deteriorating and destabilizing situation in Myanmar, one might assume that experts in the fields of Burma Studies, along with Burmese language teachers, would be more important now than ever. Yet nonetheless, the University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) has elected to terminate the post of Professor of Burmese. Burmese language instruction at SOAS dates back to 1917, when civil servants associated with Britain's colonial administration studied Burmese. Yet the institution is now experiencing financial problems that can be traced back to Brexit, and Covid has only exacerbated the situation. As a result, Justin Watkins, who currently holds the position, was informed in the summer in 2020 that his position was at risk of being cut, and he was given two years to seek out funding to build an endowment. However, the military coup happened only months later, it became very difficult to ask for funding for his program that otherwise would probably go to supporting a country in such dire circumstances. Watkins has requested a two-year extension, but the post is set to expire this month. Watkins fears that at a time when it has been so difficult for the crisis in Myanmar to break into the international community's consciousness, cutting his program would only serve to further relegate the country and its people to the background. Plus, SOAS is one of the few institutions in the world that still offers Burmese language study. Watkins points to the negative effect that decreased opportunities for Burmese language study will have on aid workers, diplomats, human rights activists, and others who can do far better work when they are able to speak in the local language.

Part 1:   An interview with Isaac Saney on the relationship of Cuba, under Castro, and Africa. Isaac Saney is Director and Black Studies Senior Instructor, he holds a PhD in history from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London in the United Kingdom. The SOAS is recognized as one the world's premiere centres for the study of Africa. His teaching has encompassed courses on Africa, the Caribbean, Cuba, and Black Canadian history. He is the author of the widely acclaimed book Cuba: A Revolution in Motion (Zed Books, 2004).   Part 2:   In this second part of Amandla's look at the life of Fidel Castro and his role on the African continent, Amanda regular Doug Miller talks to Montreal anthropologist, writer, radio broadcaster and filmmaker Ole Gjerstad who was a witness of the Cuban presence in Angola.   Gjertad offers a rare first-hand look at the Cuban presence in Africa and how Cubans contributed to the liberation struggles on the continent.   Produced by CKUT 90.3 Source https://archive.org/details/TheLegacyOfCastroInAfrica https://archive.org/details/CastrosLegacyInAfricaPart2OleGjerstagRemembersAngolaAndEthiopia

In India, derogatory comments about the Prophet Mohammed made two officials from India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party have sparked a mixture of deadly protests and diplomatic spats. Countries like Oman, Qatar, Malaysia and Indonesia have lodged complaints with India's ambassadors. We take a closer look and get analysis from Subir Sinha, a lecturer in development studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London.

Der Königspalast gab am Montagmorgen in einer Erklärung die Verlobung von Prinzessin Maria Laura, der Tochter von Prinzessin Astrid und Prinz Lorenz, mit Sir William Isvy bekannt. Die Hochzeit soll in der zweiten Hälfte des Jahres 2022 stattfinden.Prinzessin Maria Laura hat am Institut für Orientalische Sprachen in Paris Chinesisch und Internationale Beziehungen studiert. Nach einem Praktikum in New York zog sie 2012 nach Shanghai, um in der Privatwirtschaft zu arbeiten. Nach zwei Jahren in China, kehrte Maria Laura nach Europa, nach London,Forschung in einem "Think Tank" zu tun, vor einem Master-Abschluss in Internationalen Beziehungen und Diplomatie an der School of Oriental and African Studies „(SOAS) abgeschlossen. Sie dann arbeitete drei Jahre lang bei der Europäischen Bank für Wiederaufbau und Entwicklung (EBRD) im Jahr 2020, um eine große philanthropische Stiftung zu erreichen, wo sie jetzt als Analystin im Bereich Klimawandel arbeitet Treffen in London mitHerrn William Isvy, französischer und britischer Nationalität , wurde in Paris als Sohn einer britischen Mutter und eines französisch-marokkanischen Vaters geboren, lebte die meiste Zeit seiner Kindheit in London, wo er am Lycée Français Charles de Gaulle seinen Abschluss machte und anschließend einen Bachelor-Abschluss in Finanzwesen an der McGill University in Montreal erwarb.

The Royal Palace announced in a statement Monday morning the engagement of Princess Maria Laura, daughter of Princess Astrid and Prince Lorenz, to Sir William Isvy. The wedding will take place in the second half of 2022.Princess Maria Laura studied Chinese and international relations at the Institute of Oriental Languages ​​in Paris. After an internship in New York, she moved to Shanghai in 2012 to work in the private sector. After two years in China, Maria Laura returned to Europe, to London, to do research in a "think tank", before completing a master's degree in International Affairs and Diplomacy at the School of Oriental and African Studies "(SOAS ). She then worked for three years at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) in 2020 to reach a major philanthropic foundation where she now works as an analyst in the area of climate change. Meeting in LondonMr. William Isvy, of French and British nationality, was born in Paris to a British mother and a Franco-Moroccan father, lived most of his childhood in London, where he graduated from the Lycée Français Charles de Gaulle, and then obtained a bachelor's degree in finance from McGill University in Montreal.Trouver l'autre mystérieuxL'amour est un mystère pour ceux qui le vivent, un mystère pour ceux qui le regardent. Nous constatons, mais nous ne comprenons pas. Pourquoi ? Parce que ce qui nous lie à l'autre est inexplicable. Aimer vraiment, c'est aller vers quelqu'un, non pas seulement pour son image (sa beauté, sa ressemblance avec tel ou tel), ni pour ce qu'il symbolise (un père, une mère, le pouvoir, l'argent), mais pour son secret. Ce secret que nous ne savons pas nommer, et qui va rencontrer le nôtre : un manque ressenti depuis l'enfance, une souffrance singulière, indéfinissable. « L'amour s'adresse à notre part d'inconnu, explique le psychanalyste Patrick Lambouley.☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆https://linktr.ee/jacksonlibon---------------------------------------------------#facebook #instagram #amour #couple #couplegoals #famille #relation #doudou #youtube #twitter #tiktok #love #reeĺs #shorts #instagood #follow #like #ouy #oyu #babyshark #lilnasx #girl #happybirthday #movie #olive #garden #menu #deviance #autotrader #trading #khan #academy #carter #carguru #ancestry #accords #abc #news #bts #cbs #huru bluebook #socialmedia #whatsapp #music #google #photography #memes #marketing #india #followforfollowback #likeforlikes #a #insta #fashion #k #trending #digitalmarketing #covid #o #snapchat #socialmediamarketing #bhfyp

Le Palais Royal a annoncé lundi matin dans un communiqué les fiançailles de la princesse Maria Laura, fille de la princesse Astrid et du prince Lorenz, avec Sir William Isvy. Le mariage aura lieu au cours du second semestre de 2022.La princesse Maria Laura a étudié le chinois et les relations internationales à l'Institut des langues orientales à Paris. Après un stage à New York, elle est partie en 2012 à Shanghai pour travailler dans le secteur privé. Après deux années en Chine, Maria Laura est rentrée en Europe, à Londres, pour faire de la recherche dans un "think tank", avant d'effectuer un master en Affaires internationales et diplomatie à la "School of Oriental and African Studies" (SOAS). Elle a ensuite travaillé pendant trois ans à la Banque européenne pour la reconstruction et le développement (BERD) pour rejoindre en 2020 une importante fondation philanthropique où elle travaille aujourd'hui comme analyste dans le secteur du changement climatique. Rencontre à LondresM. William Isvy, de nationalité française et britannique, est né à Paris, d'une mère britannique et d'un père franco-marocain. Il a vécu la plus grande partie de son enfance à Londres. Il y obtient son baccalauréat au Lycée français Charles de Gaulle. Il décroche ensuite une licence en finance à l'Université McGill à Montréal.Trouver l'autre mystérieuxL'amour est un mystère pour ceux qui le vivent, un mystère pour ceux qui le regardent. Nous constatons, mais nous ne comprenons pas. Pourquoi ? Parce que ce qui nous lie à l'autre est inexplicable. Aimer vraiment, c'est aller vers quelqu'un, non pas seulement pour son image (sa beauté, sa ressemblance avec tel ou tel), ni pour ce qu'il symbolise (un père, une mère, le pouvoir, l'argent), mais pour son secret. Ce secret que nous ne savons pas nommer, et qui va rencontrer le nôtre : un manque ressenti depuis l'enfance, une souffrance singulière, indéfinissable. « L'amour s'adresse à notre part d'inconnu, explique le psychanalyste Patrick Lambouley.☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆https://linktr.ee/jacksonlibon---------------------------------------------------#facebook #instagram #amour #couple #couplegoals #famille #relation #doudou #youtube #twitter #tiktok #love #reeĺs #shorts #instagood #follow #like #ouy #oyu #babyshark #lilnasx #girl #happybirthday #movie #olive #garden #menu #deviance #autotrader #trading #khan #academy #carter #carguru #ancestry #accords #abc #news #bts #cbs #huru bluebook #socialmedia #whatsapp #music #google #photography #memes #marketing #india #followforfollowback #likeforlikes #a #insta #fashion #k #trending #digitalmarketing #covid #o #snapchat #socialmediamarketing #bhfyp

CWCIT director Bill Cavanaugh speaks with Paul Gifford, emeritus professor of the study of religions at the School of Oriental & African Studies (SOAS), University of London, about contemporary Catholicism on the African continent. Among the topics they cover are the Catholic Church in Africa's huge involvement with development, its relative lack of interest in ecumenism, and its vulnerability in the face of the recent “Pentecostal” explosion. Paul Gifford is CWCIT's fall 2021 visiting research fellow. He has been living on the African continent for several decades and is the author of numerous books, including "Christianity, Modernity, and Development in Africa" (Hurst, 2015) and "Ghana's New Christianity: Pentecostalism in a Globalizing African Economy" (Hurst, 2003).

Kuwait, a leading emitter of Greenhouse Gasses and exporter of hydrocarbons, in recent years has experienced the severe impact of climate change with record breaking temperatures, deadly floods and increasingly severe dust storms. The Government of Kuwait has recognized that the global transition away from fossil fuels and efforts to limit global warming will have profound implications for the country's economy, environment and social life. The event launched 'The Quiet Emergency: Experiences and Understandings of Climate Change in Kuwait', a new report from the LSE Kuwait Programme project 'Sustaining Kuwait in Unsustainable Times' that provides a grounded account of climate change in Kuwait. It examines how the inhabitants of Kuwait (both citizens and non-citizens) understand and experience climate change, drawing on a series of focus groups, a media review, an analysis of the December 2020 Kuwait parliamentary elections, and over 30 interviews with key stakeholders based in Kuwait. The researchers discussed the key findings from the report, including the extent to which climate change is impacting daily life, how politicians are addressing the question, the generational divide, and the unequal impact of climate change within Kuwait. Deen Sharp is an LSE Fellow in Human Geography in the Department of Geography and Environment at LSE, whose research focuses on the political economy of urbanization in the Middle East. He was previously a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He holds a PhD in Earth Environmental Sciences (Geography Track) at the Graduate Center, City University of New York, a MSc in International Politics from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) and BA in Human Geography from Queen Mary University. Samia Alduaij is a Senior Environmental Specialist with experience working for the World Bank and with United Nations Development Programme. Her work has consisted mostly of operational projects and technical assistance programs related to environmental policy, management, governance, solid waste managment, marine issues, the sustainable development goals and climate change. Prior to the World Bank, she worked for Kuwait Petroleum International in Denmark and the Scientific Center in Kuwait. She is currently working for the Center for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Sciences in the UK and the British Embassy in Kuwait on an environmental sustainability programme, with a focus on climate change awareness and outreach ahead of COP 26 in November 2021. She is a member of the Voluntary Advisory Committee under the Supreme Council for the Environment in Kuwait. She holds a Master's degree in Environment, Politics and Globalization from King's College, London. Abrar Alshammari is a PhD student at Princeton University's Near Eastern Studies department. Her research explores sociopolitical issues relating to citizenship and inequality in the Arabian Peninsula. She graduated with an MA in Arab Studies from Georgetown University's Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, where she wrote her dissertation on the intersection of cultural production and politics in Kuwait. She is fluent in English and her native language is Arabic. Kanwal Tareq Hameed is a PhD candidate at the University of Exeter, and member of the Gulf Studies department and the European Centre for Palestine Studies. She works on modern histories of the Gulf. Her interests include critical histories, gender studies, the role for academia beyond the university, and social justice. Courtney Freer is a Visiting Fellow with the LSE Middle East Centre. Previously, Courtney was an Assistant Professorial Research Fellow at the Middle East Centre.

Oliver is joined by Maiko Kodaka, PhD candidate at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) at the University of London, the challenges that come with researching such a contentious subject and the insights we can gain from it. Maiko will also share her research on josei-muke (女性向け) pornography, or “porn for women”, being produced in the Japanese Adult Video industry and how this new genre has challenged mainstream pornography shot for the heterosexual male gaze. Keen to know more? Website of Erika Lust, advocate of feminist pornography

Since the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949, five men have principally shaped the ruling Chinese Communist Party and the nation: Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping, Jiang Zemin, Hu Jintao, and Xi Jinping. David Shambaugh analyzes the personal and professional experiences that shaped each leader and argues that their distinct leadership styles had profound influences on Chinese politics. David Shambaugh is Gaston Sigur Professor of Asian Studies, Political Science, & International Affairs and the founding director of the China Policy Program in the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University. Before joining the GW faculty, Professor Shambaugh taught Chinese politics at the University of London's School of Oriental & African Studies (SOAS) and was editor of The China Quarterly. He also worked at the U.S. Department of State and National Security Council. He served on the board of directors of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, U.S. Asia-Pacific Council, and other public policy and scholarly organizations. A frequent commentator in the international media, he sits on numerous editorial boards, and has been a consultant to governments, research institutions, foundations, universities, corporations, banks, and investment funds. Professor Shambaugh has published more than 30 books and 300 articles. His latest book, China's Leaders: From Mao to Now(Polity Press, 2021), is now available in hardback. The Harvard on China Podcast is hosted and produced by James Gethyn Evans at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. Research for this episode was provided by Connor Giersch, and the episode was edited by Mike Pascarella.

As a PhD candidate at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), Rakesh Sengupta researched early Indian cinema. His essay 'Writing from the Margins of Media: Screenwriting Practice and Discourse During the First Indian Talkies', published in the Dec 2018 issue of Bioscope [no. 9.2] won the Best Journal Article by Screenwriting Research Network and also received High Commendation for Screen's Annette Kuhn Debut Essay Prize. On today's episode, we talk about the way in which the lack of script archives dictated the methods of research, how the vocation of screenwriting propelled fantasies of self-improvement and socioeconomic ascendancy in the 1930s and 1940s and the way in which the study of early cinema has been revitalised in the contemporary context of OTT and web programming. We also have some lovely anecdotes about serendipitous discoveries of forgotten Indian cinema scripts in other corners of the world. Click here to access the Image+ Guide & view the material being discussed in the podcast: https://sites.google.com/view/artalaap-podcast-resources/episode-9. Credits: Producer: Tunak Teas Design & artwork: Mohini Mukherjee Marketing: Dipalie Mehta Musical arrangement: Jayant Parashar Images: Rakesh Sengupta Additional support: Kanishka Sharma, Amy Goldstone-Sharma, Raghav Sagar, Shalmoli Halder, Arunima Nair Audio courtesy: Vernouillet by Blue Dot Sessions [CC BY-NC 4.0] References: Ashish Rajadhyaksha, 'The Phalke Era: Conflict of Traditional Form and Modern Technology', The Journal of Arts and Ideas, 1987. Kaushik Bhaumik, 'The Emergence of the Bombay Film Industry, 1913-1936', D. Phil Diss., University of Oxford, 2001. Priya Jaikumar, 'Cinema at the End of Empire', Duke University Press, 2006. Debashree Mukherjee, 'Notes on a Scandal: Writing Women's Film History Against an Absent Archive', Bioscope: South Asian Screen Studies' [Vol. 4.1], pp. 9-30, Jan. 2013. Bombay Hustle: Making Movies in a Colonial City',Columbia University Press, 2020. 'Somewhere Between Human, Nonhuman and Woman: Shanta Apte's Theory of Exhaustion', Feminist Media Histories [Vol. 6.1], pp. 21- 51, 2020. Tom Gunning, 'The Cinema of Attractions', Amsterdam University Press, 2006. André Gaudreault and Phillipe Marion, 'The Cinema as a Model for the Genealogy of Media', Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Tecnologies [8.4], pp. 12-18, Dec. 2002. Ravi Vasudevan, 'The Melodramatic Public: Film Form and Spectatorship in Indian Cinema', Palgrave Macmillan US, 2010. Rachel Dwyer, 'Filming the Gods: Religion and Indian Cinema', Routledge, 2006. Rosie Thomas, 'Bombay Before Bollywood: Film City Fantasies', SUNY Press, 2015. Sudhir Mahadevan, 'A Very Old Machine: The Many Origins of the Cinema in India', SUNY Press, 2015. André Bazin, 'What Is Cinema?', trans. Hugh Gray, University of California Press, 1967. Stephen Hughes, 'The Production of the Past: Early Tamil Film History as a Living Archive', Bioscope: South Asian Screen Studies, pp. 71-80, June 2013. Ravikant, 'Words in Motion Pictures: A Social History of the Language of Hindi Cinema (c. 1931 till present)', Unpublished diss., University of Delhi, 2015. Henry Jenkins, 'Converge Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide', NYU Press, 2006. Virchand Dharamsey, 'Light of Asia: Indian Silent Cinema', 1912-1934, eds. Suresh Chabria, Paolo Cherchi Usai, Niyogi Books, 1994.

While social media has allowed for instant reporting of what’s happening in Palestine and Israel, many of us around the world continue to rely on traditional media to stay updated on the violence that has been going on in a decades long conflict. But news organisations, especially English-language news media based in the West, have also often been called out for taking sides or for “sanitising” the violence when reporting about Palestine. Now, why does it matter how the media frames and reports on Palestine and Israel? Is objectivity possible or simply a guise for taking sides? To delve into these issues, we speak to Dr Dina Matar, Chair of the Centre for Global Media & Communication, and Chair of the Centre for Palestine Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). Image source: Shutterstock

While social media has allowed for instant reporting of what’s happening in Palestine and Israel, many of us around the world continue to rely on traditional media to stay updated on the violence that has been going on in a decades long conflict. But news organisations, especially English-language news media based in the West, have also often been called out for taking sides or for “sanitising” the violence when reporting about Palestine. Now, why does it matter how the media frames and reports on Palestine and Israel? Is objectivity possible or simply a guise for taking sides? To delve into these issues, we speak to Dr Dina Matar, Chair of the Centre for Global Media & Communication, and Chair of the Centre for Palestine Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). Image source: Shutterstock

The Tennessee World Affairs Council in association with Belmont University Center for International Business, the Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce, the George Mason University Schar School Policy and Government and the Wilson Center Kennan Conversations Series presents Global Dialogue | Russia & Iran A Conversation with Dr. Mark Katz Professor, Schar School of Policy and Government With Host Lt. Cmdr. Patrick W. Ryan, USN(Ret) Mark N. Katz is a professor of government and politics at George Mason University. He earned a B.A. in international relations from the University of California at Riverside in 1976, an M.A. in international relations from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies in 1978, and a Ph.D. in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1982. He is the author of The Third World in Soviet Military Thought (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982), Russia and Arabia: Soviet Foreign Policy toward the Arabian Peninsula (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986), Gorbachev's Military Policy in the Third World (Center for Strategic and International Studies, 1989), Revolutions and Revolutionary Waves (St. Martin's Press, 1997), Reflections on Revolutions (St. Martin's Press, 1999), and Leaving without Losing: The War on Terror after Iraq and Afghanistan (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012). During 2017, he was a visiting scholar first at the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington (January-March), and then at the Finnish Institute of International Affairs in Helsinki (April-September). During 2018, he was a Fulbright Scholar at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London (January-March), and was then the 2018 Sir William Luce Fellow at Durham University in the UK (April-June). In February 2019, he was appointed a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council. Links to his recent articles can be found on www.marknkatz.com

Sander Tideman joins my from his home in The Netherlands to discuss a wide range of subjects related to shifting the mindset and consciousness of business and finance towards well-being and what some call consciousness capitalism. Sanders and I first met at his home in Holland where we discussed shifts in economic consciousness with some of Holland's leading thinkers. We subsequently met at the Garrison Institute on the Hudson River in upstate New York at a gathering called Climate, Mind and Behaviour along with other leading economists, journalist, bankers and thought leaders like Paul Hawken (author of the Ecology of Commerce). Sander Tideman is a leadership educator, social & sustainability entrepreneur, author and humanitarian, motivated by fostering the human capacity to address the unprecedented societal and ecological challenges of this age. Sander integrates insights from Eastern philosophy and psychology with Western science and practices of management, business and economics. He has held senior leadership roles himself, in many complex stakeholder fields, co-founded several sustainable enterprises, worked on three continents with leading companies and organizations. Sander's academic training reflects his interest in East-West integration: he studied International Law at University of Utrecht and International Economic Law at London School of Economics (LSE), while also completing a degree in Asian Legal Systems at the London School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). He deepened his understanding of the East by studying Chinese philosophy, language and culture in Taiwan, and Buddhist philosophy in Nepal and India. In his subsequent career as lawyer, banker, social entrepreneur and management & leadership consultant, he developed a theory and practice for sustainability leadership, which he calls Triple Value Leadership. He is currently Executive Director at Garrison Institute International, Senior Faculty at Mobius Executive Leadership in Boston, Faculty Member Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, and Board Director at the European Platform for Compassionate Leadership for Climate & Peace (EUPCL) in Luxembourg. Sander authored several books and articles. His work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, The Economist, NRC Handelsblad and the Journal for Corporate Citizenship. For more information: www.sandertideman.com. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mark-anielski/message

Episode 106: Populism and the Crisis of the Republic In this podcast, Professor Charles Tripp argues that populism is a form of collective politics that embodies distinct ideas, particularly those about popular sovereignty. Populism, he stresses, claims to communicate and respond directly to the political base – the people – by passing increasingly unpopular political elites and institutions. Three features characterize populism: (1) demagogic simplification; (2) anti-representative confrontation of below and above; and (3) assertion of a clear and uniform will of the people. The rise of populism is a symptom of a crisis of governance and particularly a crisis of the republic, which fails to fulfill its promises of citizen equality. From this perspective, populism becomes a technique for disguising deep inequalities of power. Charles Tripp is Professor Emeritus of Politics with reference to the Middle East and North Africa at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, and is a Fellow of the British Academy. His PhD was from SOAS and examined Egyptian politics in the latter years of monarchy. At SOAS he had been head of the Centre for Middle Eastern Studies and is one of the co-founders of the Centre for Comparative Political Thought. His research has mainly focused on political developments in the Middle East and includes the nature of autocracy, war and the state, as well as Islamic political thought, the politics of resistance and the relationship between art and power. He is currently working on a study of the emergence of the public and the rethinking of republican ideals in North Africa.   This podcast, in CEMAT's Politics Now lecture series, was recorded as part of the roundtable on "Populism, Politics and Popularity - Reflections on the Politics of Today," organized by the Centre d'Études Maghrébines à Tunis (CEMAT) on February 6, 2020, at Le 15 in downtown Tunis.   Posted by: Hayet Lansari, Librarian, Outreach Coordinator, Content Curator (CEMA).

This "Brexit Musing" episode features Matthew Bock, Partner at MIDDLETON SHRULL & BOCK, LLC and Amy Moore, Principal at CLIFTONLARSONALLEN (CLA) as they 'muse' about the possibilities of a deal or no-deal Brexit and its impact on your customs and trade experience, as well as your supply chain. Additionally, they suggest mitigation plans and how your business can best prepare for the coming of the new year Post-Brexit.Matthew Bock is a Partner at MIDDLETON SHRULL & BOCK, LLC, where he is exclusively committed to representing clients in all aspects of customs and international trade law and import/export regulatory compliance.  Matthew was previously a member of a customs and international trade law firm in Dallas, TX, and Ernst and Young's Global Trade practice in Dallas and Houston, TX.Matthew earned his juris doctorate degree from Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, and a master of laws degree (LL.M.) in International Economic Law from the University of London – School Of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS).  Matthew also obtained a bachelor's degree in Multinational Business Operations from Florida State University.Matthew is a licensed customs broker and is admitted to practice law in Massachusetts, New York and the U.S. Court of International Trade.Matthew is on the Board of Directors and is the Secretary of the New England chapter of the National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA), and is also on the Board of Directors of the Coalition of New England Companies for Trade (CONECT).Amy Moore, Principal, leads the Global Concierge practice for CLIFTONLARSONALLEN with more than 20 years of experience. Amy brings a wealth of experience to help companies to expand or grow their operations into the United States in an efficient and effective manner.She began her career at Arthur Andersen leaving as a manager, where her focus was in the Audit of Technology, Life Science and Financial Services Companies. She was apart of three IPO's during her time at Andersen. She then spent 7 years in private industry working as the AVP of Management Reporting at an International Finance and Insurance Company. In this role, she worked with the CFO and COO on both buy and sell side transactions, and played a critical role of the integration process. as well as building out the Management Reporting Framework. This framework was critical in managing real time results and was critical in the IPO process when the US subsidiary was transitioned out of the broader umbrella. In addition, she lead up the integration of numerous acquisitions, focusing on the accounting, operational and technical integrations. From there, she joined a rapidly growing Professional Services Firm as its CFO which was expanding its footprint both domestically and internationally. This role included Accounting and Finance, HR, Legal, IT and Marketing. Throughout her tenure, the company more than doubled in size, footprint and revenues, while maintaining and growing the profit margin. During this time she worked to build out a scalable right size infrastructure.

Molk is an ex-lawyer with a Bachelor's degree from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) she worked in various local and international law firms until she shifted to the development sector to pursue her passion at UN Women Egypt. To further expand her know-how Molk decided to continue her studies by doing her MSc in Sustainable Development at SOAS, where the concept of establishing @eedwahda came to life. Eed Wahda's ethos is to engage, enable and empower all women and girls - a sustainable initiative and soon to be a foundation with the goal to provide all survivors with cross-cutting tools (therapy, legal aid, direct them to SMEs and most importantly community building) aiming for a real social and cultural shift to occur.

Hello and welcome to today's episode of the Migration & Diaspora Podcast, a show in which we talk about anything and everything to do with migration; with me your host Loksan Harley. Today, we are lucky to have with us Katy Barwise from the International Organization for Migration's (IOM) European Regional Office to talk about her and IOM's mission to "mainstream migration" into international cooperation and development, which broadly means taking into account the migration linkages within international development programmes and projects. Now if that still sounds like Greek or Chinese to you, do not worry because we'll explain all very shortly. Katy is an unbelievably sharp and worldly programme manager who, before joining IOM Brussels in 2017, spent 12 years with the organisation in South Africa, Zambia, Mozambique and Australia (covering the Pacific). During that time, she developed and managed projects in the area of migration and health, diaspora engagement, labour migration, migration governance, migration and climate change, and community development. Katy holds a Master's Degree in International Studies and Diplomacy and an undergraduate degree in African history, both from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) at the University of London, which, in my completely unbiased view (wink wink), is a fantastic school. It's because of this rich and varied background that she is the ideal person to talk about the linkages between migration and development, and the linkages between migration and different development sectors. And by the way, when we say "development sectors" we're talking about areas of work within international development, like education, health, rural development, environment and climate change, and so on. It's worth mentioning here that part of Katy's brief is also to provide technical assistance and capacity building to strengthen policy coherence between migration and development policies, in particular in the framework of the SDGs and the 2030 Agenda. Just a quick disclaimer, I worked as a consultant to Katy's project for a good year and a half. Learn more about the “Mainstreaming Migration into International Cooperation and Development” (MMICD) Initiative implemented by IOM and funded by the EU: - Webpage: eea.iom.int/mmicd - Linkedin: linkedin.com/company/mmicd/ - Twitter: twitter.com/IOMatEU (#MMICD, #MigrationConnection) Check out the series of videos developed under the MMICD Initiative that capture what integrating migration into development programmes means in practice for people and communities: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPbTEMLeBi2nFhYF7OAJZzLo5k5dpDg-b Read more about IOM's work on migration and sustainable development: migration4development.org

Martin describes how his love of humanitarian work has shaped every stage of his career from his first experiences in Tanzania in the 90s, via Nepal during the civil war to his work coordinating programmes in Mexico.  His passion for his work and admiration for the people he meets and works with is evident.  As a leader, he leads multilingual, multidisciplinary teams working in potentially stressful and exhausting situations and creates highly functioning teams whilst maintaining an eye on their wellbeing.   Although not many leaders will find themselves in such circumstances, this inspirational leader gives us much to think about.    About Martin de Boer:Head of Operations in the ICRC Regional Delegation for Mexico, Central America and Cuba A strong believer in humanity and dedicated to responsible humanitarian action, Martin is an experienced manager who has led multidisciplinary and multicultural teams in complex situations.Born a Dutch national in 1971, Martin holds a MSc in Social Sciences (Violence, Conflict and Development) from the London School for Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) and a BSc Tropical Forestry from Larenstein University in Velp, The Netherlands.Already during his forestry studies, Martin was drawn to humanitarian work while conducting his thesis research on the environmental impact of the Rwandese refugee camps in Tanzania in 1995. However, he first worked in forestry advisor in Nepal for 3 years before joining the ICRC in the year 2000 as an interpreter for the ICRC's operations in Nepal. Since then he has worked as a generalist ICRC delegate in Gaza (2004) and increased his management responsibilities as: a deputy head of Sub-Delegation in Gaza (2004-05), Head of Sub-Delegation in Afghanistan (2005-06) and Sri Lanka (2006-08) followed by Deputy Head of Delegation in Washington DC, (2009-11), Pakistan (2012-14) and Operations Coordinator for the Americas Region at the ICRC Headquarters in Geneva (2015-17). He currently works as Head of Operations in the ICRC Regional Delegation in Mexico since January 2018.In his current role, Martin is overseeing and supporting the delegation's team (120 colleagues) to carry out its humanitarian operations in Mexico in support of violence affected people such as migrants, the missing and their families, detainees and the resident population as well as maintaining the relationship with the Mexican Red Cross. To contact Martin via LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/martin-de-boer-4b410329/For more information about the podcast and your host, Ann Collins: www.bluebottlecoaching.comLinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/annridleycollins

On this episode of the Japan Station podcast, we're talking about the history and layout of Edo with one of the world's foremost experts on the subject: Dr. Timon Screech. About Dr. Timon Screech Dr. Timon Screech is a professor of the history of art at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. He is a specialist in the art and culture of the Edo period and has written extensively on the subject. His most recent book is titled Tokyo Before Tokyo: Power and Magic in the Shogun's City (Reaktion Books). Topics Discussed The story behind Dr. Screech's latest book Tokyo Before Tokyo: Power and Magic in the Shogun's City of Edo The history of Nihonbashi (日本橋) in Tokyo Nihonbashi as the city center of Edo The possible etymological origin of Nihonbashi What was in and around the original Nihonbashi bridge when it was built Nihonbashi's status as the start of the famous Tokaido highway The mountainous geography of Japan and how it made it challenging to keep the country united Edo era maps, their evolution, and how reliable they were Why certain areas of Edo's maps were often blocked out Early Edo Period maps and how usable they would have been The extensive documentation of urban ephemera of the Edo Period How folding screens intended for the elite would depict areas of Edo that commoners were not supposed to be able to see The amusing story of the peculiar way Emperor Go-Mizunoo is said to have had his portrait paited Portrait drawing customs in Japan versus the West The official name of Edo Castle Why Edo Castle was officially names Chiyoda Castle The location of Edo Castle The Shogunate's decision to not choose Kamakura as their base of power About the destruction of Chiyoda Castle/Edo Castle and reasons for why it was never reconstructed The recently restored paintings of Kyoto's Nijo Castle Edo's 40 meter tall Buddha made of wicker (Kappa Ōbotoke) Dr. Timon Screech's recommendations for temples to visit in Tokyo The story of the Octopus Medicine Buddha at Tako Yakushi Jōjuin Temple in Meguro The Temple of the 500 Arhats in Meguro (Gohyaku Rakanji) The deification of Tokugawa Ieyasu How Tokugawa Ieyasu's body was moved a year after his death Disagreement over where Tokugawa Ieyasu's body is today And much more! Support on Patreon If you enjoy Japan Station and want to ensure that we're able to produce more episodes, then please consider becoming a patron on Patreon.com. For a minimum pledge of $1 a month you'll get early access to all JapanKyo podcasts, bonus content, and more. And for $3 a month, you'll get access to Japanese Plus Alpha, a podcast produced by me (Tony Vega) that focuses on the Japanese language and all of its fascinating quirks. Also, all pledges get a shout-out on the show and my undying gratitude. Thank you in advance! Support Japan Station on Patreon Links, Videos, Etc. You can use the link below to purchase Tokyo Before Tokyo: Power and Magic in the Shogun's City of Edo on Amazon. The link is an Amazon affiliate link so using it will support the show without costing you anything extra. Tokyo Before Tokyo: Power and Magic in the Shogun's City of Edo by Dr. Timon Screech You can use the Amazon affiliate link below to purchase The Shogun's Silver Telescope and the Cargo of the New Year's Gift: God, Art, and Money in the English Quest for Japan, 1600-1625. The Shogun's Silver Telescope and the Cargo of the New Year's Gift: God, Art, and Money in the English Quest for Japan, 1600-1625 by Dr. Timon Screech To listen to the latest episode of Ichimon Japan, use the link below. How do Japanese names work? | Ichimon Japan 28 And here are the two episodes of Japan Station mentioned at the end of this episode. Japan Station 11: Sacred High City, Sacred Low City (Dr. Steven Heine) Japan Station 27: The Bells of Old Tokyo (Anna Sherman) If you would like to check out the Kimito Designs shop, then use the link below. Remember to use the coupon code OPENING10 when you check out to get 10% off (valid until the end of 2020). Visit KimitoDesigns.com Special Thanks Opening/Closing song: Oedo Controller (大江戸コントローラー) by Yunomi featuring Toriena (Used with permission from Yunomi) To listen to more of Yunomi's music, check out his Soundcloud page or YouTube channel. Japan Station cover art: Provided by Erik R. Featured image: Courtesy of Dr. Timon Screech Featured image: Courtesy of Dr. Timon Screech Follow Japankyo on Social Media Facebook (@JapankyoNews) Twitter (@JapankyoNews) Full Show Notes Get full show notes at www.japanstationpodcast.com  

This event will be a discussion around the Omani Union (1952-1965), an overlooked political group that represents a seminal stage in the emergence of the leftist current in Oman. While the Dhofar Revolution has received increasing scholarly attention, comparatively little is known of the Jabal Akhdar (or Green Mountain) Uprising of the 1950s and early 60s, which sought independence for inner Oman under the rule of the Imam of the Ibadi sect. Despite the Imamate’s religious and tribal nature, the Omani Union’s educated and cosmopolitan cadres became closely aligned with it, imbuing its discourse with Arab nationalist, leftist, and Third Worldist ideas. They portrayed the “Omani Revolution” as parallel to those of Palestine and Algeria, forming part of the Pan-Arab awakening led by Nasserist Egypt, and a broader Afro-Asian struggle for independence. Moreover, they sought to transform the Imamate movement into a progressive patriotic front uniting all Omanis in armed struggle against the forces of reaction and colonialism. Although ultimately unsuccessful in its aims, the Omani Union pioneered and popularized ideas subsequently espoused by the better-known Omani leftist movements of the late 1960s and 1970s. Prominent among these ideas were Third Worldist socialism, a common Gulf identity and solidarity (with Oman as the region’s revolutionary center), and a “Greater” or “Natural” Omani homeland extending from Dhofar to the Trucial States. Talal Al-Rashoud is a Visiting Fellow at the Middle East Centre, and an Assistant Professor of Modern Arab history at Kuwait University. He obtained his PhD in history from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), and holds master’s degrees in history and government from King’s College London and Georgetown University respectively. Al-Rashoud specialises in the history of modern ideological movements in the Gulf region and their transnational connections. His current research deals with the relationship between Arab nationalism and education in Kuwait (1911-1961), and Arab nationalist activism among Omani exiles in the 1950s and 1960s. Courtney Freer is Assistant Professorial Research Fellow at the Middle East Centre. Her work focuses on the domestic politics of the Gulf states, particularly the roles played by Islamism and tribalism. Her book Rentier Islamism: The Influence of the Muslim Brotherhood in Gulf Monarchies, based on her DPhil thesis at the University of Oxford and published by Oxford University Press in 2018, examines the socio-political role played by Muslim Brotherhood groups in Kuwait, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates. Join the conversation on Twitter using #LSEOman

This week, in a collaboration with the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation, we turn our attention to Japan - specifically, its foreign policy. Against a backdrop of rising tensions between the US and China, what are Japan's priorities when it comes to managing its relations with the two countries? As the world's third largest economy, it holds considerable clout both within the Asia region and globally. But how can it best utilise this influence, and what does it perceive its role to be within a shifting world order?Andrew is joined by Akio Takahara, a law professor at Tokyo University and an adjunct fellow at the Japan Institute of International Affairs; and Yuka Kobayashi, a China and International Politics scholar at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). Support the show (https://twitter.com/AsiaMattersPod)

Today we are in conversation with the very versatile and dynamic author Fatima Bhutto. Hailing from the famous Bhutto family, she was born in Kabul in 1982 and graduated from Columbia University in 2004, majoring in Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures and from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in 2005 with a Masters in South Asian Government and Politics. She is the author of multiple books including Whispers of the Desert, 8.50 a.m. 8 October 2005, Songs of Blood and Sword, The Shadow Of The Crescent Moon, The Runaways and New Kings of the World Dispatches from Bollywood, Dizi, and K-Pop A vast cultural movement. In this episode she talks about her writing and reading passions and about her upcoming projects. In groundbreaking research highlighting the global mass culture that's rapidly displacing US exports, Fatima Bhutto offers a lively, inside look at Bollywood, Turkish soap operas, and the South Korean music sensation known as K-Pop. You can watch the episode on YouTube

Today we are in conversation with the very versatile and dynamic author Fatima Bhutto. Hailing from the famous Bhutto family, she was born in Kabul in 1982 and graduated from Columbia University in 2004, majoring in Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures and from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in 2005 with a Masters in South Asian Government and Politics. She is the author of multiple books including Whispers of the Desert, 8.50 a.m. 8 October 2005, Songs of Blood and Sword, The Shadow Of The Crescent Moon, The Runaways and New Kings of the World Dispatches from Bollywood, Dizi, and K-Pop A vast cultural movement. In this episode she talks about her writing and reading passions and about her upcoming projects. In groundbreaking research highlighting the global mass culture that's rapidly displacing US exports, Fatima Bhutto offers a lively, inside look at Bollywood, Turkish soap operas, and the South Korean music sensation known as K-Pop. You can watch the episode on YouTube

Interview with Muthoni Muriu and Doris Basler of Oxfam about their ambitious, innovative, bottom-up Oxfam strategy process, which was approved at the onset of the global pandemicBiosMuthoni Muriu: Former Global Strategy Lead, Oxfam America & Oxfam International (please note that Muthoni left Oxfam as of June 30, 2020, after the strategy had been approved by Oxfam International's Board)Former Senior Director, Global Programs Mgt team, Oxfam America Former Regional Program Director, W-Africa, Oxfam AmericaEducated at the University of London - London School of Economics and Politics and School for Oriental and African Studies (SOAS)  Alum of the Transnational NGO Leadership Institute at Syracuse Univerity, which Tosca once used to lead Doris Basler: Director for Governance and Strategy, Oxfam International Former Dir of Organizational Development as well as former Director of Capacity Building, Transparency International Former roles at Amnesty International and the International Committee of the Red Cross Educated at the School for Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) at the University of LondonQuotes “During our strategy process, our Affiliate boards were encouraged to trust the 10.000 (staff), so that the strategy could be built bottom-up”  “Through this bottom-up process, staff came up with about 250 ‘big, hairy and audacious' scenarios!” In this episode, you will learn how Oxfam went about its new strategy formation, what it learned along the way, and to what extent it held up : How this Oxfam global strategy process was different from past ones at Oxfam, and why The principles on which it was designed, and how these, and the characteristics of the process resulted in greater staff buy-in, more outside-in perspectives, more thinking from-the-future- back and less space for politicking The various parts of the strategy process, what was innovative, what worked and what less so What's the difference between a strategy framework, strategy horizon plans, strategy operationalization, and strategy visualization How this strategy framework and the resulting scenarios proved to be prescient of the pandemic's impacts and of the need for Oxfam to move into digital rightsMore information about Muthoni and Doris Muthoni Muriu LinkedIn profile  Muthoni's Twitter handle  Doris Basler's LinkedIn profile Doris' email address: Doris.Basler@oxfam.org Click here to subscribe to be alerted when new podcast episodes come out or when Tosca produces other thought leadership pieces. Or email Tosca at tosca@5oaksconsulting.org if you want to talk about your social sector organization's needs, challenges, and opportunities. You can find Tosca's content by following her on her social media channels:  Twitter LinkedIn Facebook   

นปี ค.ศ. 2020 สถาบันอุดมศึกษาขนาดเล็กในอังกฤษที่มีชื่อว่า School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) ตกเป็นข่าวว่าได้กลายเป็นสถานศึกษาที่มีปัญหาทางการเงิน ทั้งนี้ในปี 2020 จากเหตุการณ์โควิด – 19 ยิ่งจะส่งผลให้ฐานะทางการเงินของ SOAS แย่ลงไปมากกว่าเดิม เพราะรายได้ที่มาจากนักศึกษาต่างชาติลดลง ประมาณการว่ารายรับจากค่าเล่าเรียนในส่วนของนักศึกษาต่างชาติอาจลดลงไปถึงร้อยละ 50 ที่ผ่านมา ผู้บริหารมหาวิทยาลัยได้ทำการขายอาคารสถานที่ของมหาวิทยาลัยเพื่อแก้ปัญหาทางการเงิน อย่างไรก็ตามรายได้จากการขายอาคารไม่ได้แก้ปัญหาทางการเงินให้กับมหาวิทยาลัยในระยะยาว เรามาดูกันว่า สุดท้ายแล้ว มหาวิทยาลัยขนาดเล็กในอังกฤษแห่งนี้ น่าจะไปทางไหนต่อ?

Ambassador Dick Bowers, LCDR Patrick Ryan and Dr. Breck Walker, Ph.D., discuss the top five items in the week’s global news providing commentary and assessments, background and context; and they take your questions and comments. We were pleased to welcome Dr. Walker to the weekly Global News Review team as a regular co-host. This week Professor Mark Katz joined the conversation about key issues in global news especially his analyses of US-Russian affairs. Dr. Katz is a Professor of Government and Politics at George Mason University. (Bio below) Topics: 1 – Thucydides Takes a South China Sea Cruise 2 – Vladimir the Great — Putin can serve through 2036 3 – Russia’s murder for hire program in Afghanistan 4 – Hong Kong: End of One City, Two Systems 5 – Iran: Why Are There Fires Breaking Out This week Dick and Pat welcomed Dr. Breck Walker aboard the News Review team as a regular member. They also shared the program with Dr. Mark Katz, a specialist on Russian affairs. Dr. Breck Walker received his PhD in Diplomatic History from Vanderbilt in 2007. His dissertation was on the foreign policy of the Carter administration. He taught at Sewanee, the University of the South, 2007-2012, and on the University of Virginia’s Semester at Sea Program in Spring 2013 and Fall 2015. He worked as a historian in the Historical Office of the Office of Secretary of Defense 2013-2016, researching and writing a book on early Pentagon cyber policy. Prior to becoming a history professor, Breck worked for twenty years as an investment banker, the last ten as co-head of the Corporate Finance Group at J.C. Bradford & Co in Nashville. He has an undergraduate degree from the University of Texas, and J.D. and M.B.A. degrees from Stanford University. Breck serves as a Member of the Board of Directors of the Tennessee World Affairs Council. Guest Co-Host | Professor Mark Katz Mark N. Katz, Professor of Government and Politics, began teaching at George Mason University in 1988. He writes on Russian foreign policy, the international relations of the Middle East, transnational revolutionary movements, and other subjects. During 2017, he was a visiting scholar first at the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington (January-March), and then at the Finnish Institute of International Affairs in Helsinki (April-September). During 2018, he was a Fulbright Scholar at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London (January-March), and then the 2018 Sir William Luce Fellow at Durham University in the UK (April-June). In February 2019, he was appointed a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council. Links to his recent articles can be found at www.marknkatz.com

An inspiring global panel of feminist thinkers and activists discuss how we can collectively reorganise, shift power and pivot towards building transformative feminist realities that can get us out of the worsening health, climate and capitalist crises. This webinar  explores feminist analyses of the crisis and the way the pandemic intersects with patriarchy, corporate power and a global division of labour that is both gendered and racialised. What can we learn from the feminist practices and measures that are already being deployed to build radical democratic systems that genuinely care for the environment and our collective well-being? Panellists: -Tithi Bhattacharya: Associate Professor of History and the Director of Global Studies at Purdue University -Laura Roth, Lecturer of legal and political philosophy at Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Barcelona and member of Minim Municipalist Observatory -Awino Okech, Lecturer at the Centre for Gender Studies at School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London -Khara Jabola-Carolus of the Hawaii State Commission on the Status of Women  

Lecture on ‘The Rise of ISIS: Origin & Reality’ The SOAS Muslim Students’ Association in partnership with the SOAS Middle East & North Africa Society hosted the event at the School of Oriental and African Studies [SOAS] on 16th January 2015. The event highlighted the origins of the ISIS crisis, and the follow on, with ... Read more

President Donald Trump’s proposal for peace between the Israeli and Palestinian peoples under the spotlight at an event hosted by King’s Decolonising Working Group at King’s College London. Trump’s Peace Plan: A First Reading, a seminar led by Dr Toufic Haddad. Dr Haddad is the director for the Council for British Research in the Levant’s Kenyon Institute, based in East Jerusalem. He is the author of Palestine Ltd: Neoliberalism and Nationalism in the Occupied Territories, which explores extensively the role of international donors and the legacy of economic peace-making in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. He completed his PhD in development studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in 2015.

Rodrigo Marinho recebe o jornalista e autor do blog “Saída Pela Direita”, Fábio Zanini. O entrevistado fala como o pensamento de direita varia dentro do espectro político, da importância da atuação dos liberais nas políticas econômicas do atual governo e qual o papel do Instituto Mises Brasil para a difusão do liberalismo no Brasil, além de nos dizer o que devemos fazer para não perdermos a nossa independência intelectual ao trilhar o caminho da busca pela liberdade. Fábio Zanini é jornalista formado pela Escola de Comunicações e Artes da USP (ECA-USP), com mestrado em relações internacionais pela School of Oriental and African Studies (Soas), da Universidade de Londres, e escreveu o livro “Euforia e Fracasso do Brasil Grande”, que trata da política externa da era Lula. Atualmente, é repórter especial da Folha de S. Paulo.

This event is the launch of the report titled ‘Public Payroll Expansion in Iraq: Causes and Consequences’ published under the LSE Conflict Research Programme by Principal Investigator Ali Al-Mawlawi. The public payroll in Iraq has grown unchecked since 2003, commensurate with the country’s vastly expanding oil wealth. With few alternative sources of government income, the state budget’s growth poses worrying questions about whether this ongoing trend can be sustained without risking economic ruin. The report offers policy recommendations for a realistic path to address unemployment and job creation. At the same time, the current protest movement in Iraq, centred around demands for jobs and against corruption and nepotism, also raises concerns about Iraq’s economic trajectory, including in relation to public sector employment growth. This report will be discussed in relation to developments on the ground in Iraq. Ali Al-Mawlawi is head of research at Al-Bayan Centre for Planning and Studies, a public policy think tank based in Baghdad, where he specialists in institutional reform and foreign affairs. He has written extensively on public sector spending and combatting corruption in Iraq. He holds a Master of International Studies and Diplomacy from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. Alia Moubayed is an economist and former director of geo-economics and strategy at the International Institute for Strategic Studies. Previously, she worked as Chief Economist for the MENA region at Barclays Bank in London. She has also worked at the World Bank as a senior economist responsible for research and policy dialogue covering several countries in Europe and Central Asia, and held policy responsibilities in various economic institutions of the Government of Lebanon. Toby Dodge is Kuwait Professor and Director of the Kuwait Programme at the LSE Middle East Centre. He is also Professor in the Department of International Relations. Toby currently serves as Iraq Research Director for the DFID-funded Conflict Research Programme (CRP). From 2013–18, Toby was Director of the Middle East Centre. He has been visiting, researching and writing about Iraq for over twenty years and his main areas of research include the comparative politics and historical sociology of the Middle East, the politics of intervention, the evolution of the Iraqi state, state-society dynamics and political identities in Iraq. Taif Alkhudary is a Research Assistant on the LSE Middle East Centre research project, 'Managing Religious Diversity in the Middle East: The Muhasasa Ta'ifia in Iraq, 2003–2018'. She has previously held roles at several Geneva-based NGOs, where she worked on women’s and girls’ rights and on bringing cases of enforced disappearances, torture, arbitrary detention and extrajudicial killings in the Gulf and Iraq before the United Nations. Join the conversation on Twitter using #LSEIraq

In dieser Folge spricht Sarah Brockmeier mit Philipp C. Jahn, dem Leiter des Büros der Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung in Khartum, Sudan. Sie diskutieren die Herausforderungen, vor welchen das Land nach dem Ende der Diktatur von Umar al-Bashir steht. Sie besprechen auch, welche Unterstützung die neue Übergangsregierung von Akteuren wie Deutschland braucht. Nach 30 Jahren Diktatur musste Sudans Präsident Umar al-Bashir im April 2019 abtreten. Wie kam es dazu? Wer sind die zivilen Demonstranten, die monatelange Proteste organisierten? Wie kam es danach zur Bildung der neuen Übergangsregierung und vor welchen Herausforderungen steht diese jetzt? Philipp C. Jahn und Sarah Brockmeier diskutieren diese und weitere Fragen in dieser Folge von PeacebyPeace. Wie immer geht es dabei auch darum, was Deutschland und die Europäische Union dafür tun können, eine positive Entwicklung im Sudan zu unterstützten. Dazu gehört laut Jahn vor allem schnelle technische Unterstützung und Bereitstellung von Expertise beim Institutions- und Verwaltungsaufbau sowie u.a. Unterstützung bei Reformen des Sicherheits- und Justizsektors. Wichtig sei, dass die Übergangsregierung der Bevölkerung schnell Erfolge zeigen kann, die ihr alltägliches Leben betreffen – zum Beispiel bezüglich des Preises von Brot oder der stundenlangen Wartezeiten für Benzin. Als politisches Signal der Unterstützung für die Übergangsregierung sei auch wichtig, dass der Bundestag einen Beschluss von 1989 schnell aufhebe, der die bilaterale Entwicklungszusammenarbeit mit dem Sudan verbietet. Philipp C. Jahn leitet das Landesbüro der Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) in Khartum. Zuvor arbeitete er für die GIZ in Afghanistan, Äthiopien, Aserbaidschan sowie als Antikorruptions-Berater für das BMZ. Er hat Rechtswissenschaften in Berlin, Madrid und der School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London studiert. Weiterführende Links * FES-Büro im Sudan: https://www.fes-sudan.org/ *„Der Diktator ist weg: Die Herausforderungen für Deutschland wachsen“ – Briefing der FES vom April 2019: https://www.fes-sudan.org/fileadmin/user_upload/documents/190417_FES_Briefing_Sudan.pdf * Referat Naher/Mittlerer Osten und Nordafrika der Friedrich-Eberst-Stiftung: https://www.fes.de/referat-naher-mittlerer-osten-und-nordafrika * Philipp C. Jahn auf Twitter: @philippcjahn: https://twitter.com/philippcjahn

With continuous protests ongoing across Lebanon for the last two weeks, this event will analyse this largest demonstration of public disobedience for the past decade. The situation will be contextualised against the backdrop of failing state services, a system that has gradually drifted apart from society, and also a society that has reached its consumerist limits. This event is part of a series being organised by the LSE Institute for Global Affairs responding to the Lebanese protests. For further information, please contact Dr. Bilal Malaeb. Jamil Mouawad is a lecturer in political studies and public administration at the American University of Beirut. His research interests in state-society relations span the subfields of comparative politics and political economy. He specializes in the politics of the Middle East, with a focus on governance and limited statehood. He was a Max Weber Fellow at the European Univesrity Institute, finalizing his book based on his PhD thesis. The book presents a critique to the concept of ‘weak’ states. The central argument of his book is that ‘weakness’ does not capture the nature of the Lebanese state and that the patterns of ‘presence’ and ‘absence’ are by no means incidental but central to the way politics works. He was awarded a PhD in politics from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in June 2015. Later, he joined the Institut Français du Proche-Orient (IFPO) in Beirut, as a postdoctoral fellow, through a grant from the Arab Council for Social Sciences (ACSS). He also acted as a researcher coordinator of the Critical Security Studies in the Arab world and the Ethics in Social sciences project, both on-going projects launched by ACSS. Hicham Safieddine is Lecturer in the History of the Modern Middle East at King's College, London. He is author of Banking on the State: The financial Foundations of Lebanon (Stanford University Press). He holds a PhD in Middle East Studies from the University of Toronto, an MA in Political Science from York University, Canada, and an MA in Economics from The University of Rochester, New York. Sophie Chamas is a senior teaching fellow at the Centre for Gender Studies at SOAS. She is finishing up her PhD in Modern Middle East Studies at the University of Oxford, where she was also an Ertegun Scholar. Her work focuses on the study of social movements, counter-culture, and political theory and discourse rooted in, focused on or related to the Middle East. Broadly speaking, she is interested in thinking through the life, death and afterlife of the radical political imaginary in the Middle East and beyond. Sophie is also an essayist and writer of creative non-fiction. Her writing has appeared in Kohl: a journal for body and gender research, The State, Raseef 22, Mashallah News, Jadaliyya and The Towner, amongst other publications. Bilal Malaeb is a postdoctoral research officer at the Institute of Global Affairs (IGA) at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). He works primarily on the Responsible Deal project, an inter-regional collaboration of seven universities, coordinated by the LSE. His research focus is on the integration of Syrian refugees in frontier countries in the Middle East. Bilal’s expertise is in Microeconometrics and Development Economics, and his research interests are in migration, poverty, and labour market issues. Prior to joining the LSE, he worked as a research officer at the University of Oxford and a research fellow at the University of Southampton. Join the conversation on Twitter using #LSELebanon

Listen to Social Europe Editor-in-Chief Henning Meyer in conversation with Guy Standing. They discuss the plunder of the commons and ways to share public wealth, the topic of Guy Standing's most recent book published by Pelican Books. Guy Standing is a British professor of Development Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, and co-founder of the Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN). If you like our podcast you might also find our regular articles, blogs and other written publications of interest. Just visit our website www.socialeurope.eu to read our latest output. If you want to stay up-to-date with all things Social Europe just sign up to our regular newsletter. You can do so on our website.

What makes good food, good? PhD students at SOAS University of London Francesca Vaghi and Brandi Miller join Coral to discuss why ""good"" food is often contigent on nutritional, economic, political, or moral conditions, and why the distinction changes across cultures and scale. Francesca is a final year doctoral researcher based at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London, and the Thomas Coram Research Unit. Prior to starting her PhD, she was awarded an MPhil in Medical Anthropology from the University of Oxford in 2015. Her project, ‘Food, policy, and practice in early years education and care: children, parents, and practitioners in a London nursery,’ spans a variety of areas, mainly: medical anthropology, the anthropology of food, childhood studies, gender, and class. Francesca's doctoral research was conducted in an inner-London nursery and children's centre over a 12-month period. As well as investigating the ways in which children create their self and peer identities through food and eating practices, her work explores how children's food policy fits into family intervention policies more broadly, as well as how notions of 'good food' and 'good parenting' (particularly 'mothering') are interlinked. Brandi Simpson Miller holds an MA in World History from Georgia State University (2015). She is a doctoral researcher at the Department of History at the School of Oriental and African Studies London. Her research interests include the study of the social history of Ghana, particularly the political aspects of global and local food practices from the precolonial period to Ghanaian independence. Meant To Be Eaten is powered by Simplecast.

Date of Publication: 28/06/2019 Description: Today, the state of human rights in China appears to be at its worse since the 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre. According to Human Rights Watch, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) continues to increase its hold over government bureaucracy and has subsumed state bodies in charge of religious, ethnic, and overseas Chinese affairs. Chinese authorities have also significantly increased repression and systematic abuse against religious groups, especially the Turkic Muslims in China’s Xinjiang region, and have continued the arbitrary detention, torture, and enforced disappearance of dissenters and human rights defenders. Human rights abuses on China’s mainland are very concerning, especially when considering this state’s place in global politics and economic relations. China’s growing power in the international system makes it an exporter of human rights abuse and has allowed China to extend its reach to silence many of its critics across the globe. However, dissenters and human rights defenders in China’s free, autonomous territories such as Hong Kong are obviously the communities that are most at risk of falling victim to human rights abuse by mainland China. Earlier this month, we saw mass protests take place in Hong Kong in opposition to a now-suspended bill that would have allowed mainland China to extradite individuals from Hong Kong to stand trial. This bill would have removed any protection that the people of Hong Kong had from mainland China’s arbitrary and inhumane criminal justice system. On 16 June, nearly 2 million protesters took to the streets in Hong Kong to express their concerns and resistance to being subject to mainland China’s criminal justice system and successfully pressured leadership to suspend the bill. In this edition of the War Studies Podcast, we asked Benedict Rogers, founder and chair of the human rights organization Hong Kong Watch, to tell us about the state of human rights in China and the recent protests in Hong Kong around the now suspended extradition bill. Interviewee bio: Benedict Rogers specialises in human rights in Asia. He is also co-founder and Chair of Hong Kong Watch. He is the author of six books, and a regular contributor to international media including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Guardian, the Diplomat, The Catholic Herald, and The Huffington Post. and has appeared regularly on the BBC, CNN, Sky News and Al-Jazeera. He is the author of The Darkest Moment: The Crackdown on Human Rights in China 2013-2016. Benedict is a frequent speaker in universities, schools and conferences around the world. He has testified at hearings in the British Parliament, the US Congress, the European Parliament and the Japanese Parliament. He has a BA in History and Politics from Royal Holloway, University of London, and an MA in China Studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). Hong Kong Watch website: https://www.hongkongwatch.org/ War Studies Live Stream - China 30 Years After the Tiananmen Massacre (Ben Rogers): https://www.facebook.com/WarStudies/videos/783991868662508/

Guest: Maria Bach, The American University of ParisHosted and produced by Reinhard Schumacher In this episode, Reinhard talks with Maria Bach about her PhD thesis Redefining universal development from and at the margins: Indian Economics’ contribution to development discourse, 1870-1905. We discuss her interest in Indian economic thought, her methodological approach of Positive Discourse Analysis, the development of the Indian economy and of Indian economics in the second half of the 19th century. Maria describes how Indian Economics was influenced by the Indian economic experience and the policy they recommended for Indian development. A focus in the discussion is on the distinct concept of development, which Indian economists developed. In Maria's thesis, she focuses on three Indian economists: Dadabhai Naoroji, Mahadev Govind Ranade, and Romesh Chunder Dutt. They are also the main protagonists in our discussion. Maria Bach is an Assistant Professor in the Economics Department at the American University of Paris. She has recently finished her PhD at King’s College London in International Political Economy. In her thesis, she analyses how Indian Political Economists constructed an idea of development at the turn of the 19th century. Before starting her PhD, Maria was a consultant at the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in Paris working on a project entitled New Approaches to Economic Challenges. Maria completed her MSc in Development Economics in 2012 at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) and her BA in International Economics and Applied Mathematics at the American University of Paris in 2011. And Maria is a co-host of Ceteris Never Paribus: The History of Economic Thought Podcast. An article based on some of her Phd research has been published in the European Journal of the History of Economic Thought (EJHET): What laws determine progress? An Indian contribution to the idea of progress based on Mahadev Govind Ranade's works, 1870–1901

Thomas Lockley is Assistant Professor at Nihon University College of Law in Tokyo, where he teaches courses about the international and multicultural history of Japan and East Asia. He has published several dozen research papers and articles, including the first in the world regarding the life of Yasuke. He is currently Visiting Scholar at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. He and his family live in Chiba, Japan.