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Centre Welcomes Visiting Fellow Alessia Paolillo

The UCD Centre for Asia-Pacific Research is happy to welcome Alessia Paolillo as a visiting fellow for the Autumn 2023 trimester. Alessia is a Ph.D. candidate in Civilizations of Asia and Africa at Sapienza University of Rome. She researches on political language and its uses in Chinese foreign policy. You can read more about Alessia and her work (opens in a new window)here

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Alex Dukalskis Participates in Roundtable on China-Russia Relations after the Invasion of Ukraine at Malmo University

This roundtable discussed the history, dynamics and current developments of relations between China and Russia, focusing on both political leaders and ordinary citizens, and from the perspectives of historians, anthropologists, and political scientists.

  • Dr. Alexander Dukalskis, School of Politics and International Relations, University College Dublin
  • Professor Bo Petersson, Dept. of Global Political Studies, RUCARR, Malmö University
  • Dr. Ed Pulford, Modern Languages and Cultures, University of Manchester
  • Professor Marina Svensson, Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, Lund University (moderator)

Details: https://mau.se/en/calendar/roundtable-on-russia-china-relations/

Porscha Fermanis Gives Talk at University of Warsaw

Professor Porscha Fermanis of the UCD School of English, Drama and Film recently delivered an invited in-person talk on "Time, Capital and Settler Colonialism” at the "As Time Goes By" conference at the University of Warsaw. Thanks to Prof. Iwona Kurtz (Institute of Polish Culture), Prof. Sven Oliver Müller (Universität Tübingen), and dr hab. Małgorzata Litwinowicz (Institute of Polish Culture) for the invitation.

If you want to read more about Porscha's research project "SouthHem", see her project blog and website, which lists recent publications including those on Southeast Asia and the Asia-Pacific world: https://southhem.org and https://www.ucd.ie/southhem/. 

 

Maika Nguyen Reflects on her Recent Trip to Vietnam

Maika Nguyen, an Irish Research Council-funded Ph.D. student in French & Francophone Studies, went on a teaching and research trip to Vietnam in July 2022. During her trip she visited the University of Social Sciences and Humanities (USSH), which is part of Vietnam National University in Hanoi, conducted research, and presented a paper titled ‘The Lens of Home: Memory and Identity in Vietnamese Migrant Literature’.

You can read more about her experiences here: Nguyen Vietnam Trip 2022

Steffen Rimner Gives Invited Talk at Columbia University

Centre steering committee member Steffen Rimner, Assistant Professor in the History of International Affairs and Ad Astra Fellow, recently delivered an invited in-person lecture on "Japanese Anti-Racism and its Global Expansion in the Wake of World War I" at the Columbia University Seminar on Modern Japan, thanks to Dr Sarah Kovner (@sarah_kovner), Chair and Senior Research Scholar, Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia (@ColumbiaSIPA) and Dr Tatiana Linkhoeva (@linkhoeva), Assistant Professor of Modern Japanese History at New York University.

If you want to read more on Steffen's project, check out his article in the Journal of the British Academy: (opens in a new window)https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/publishing/journal-british-academy/8s3/politics-locating-violence-japanese-nationalist-critique-american-racism-after-first-world-war/"

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photo credit: Charlotte May