FYI: This is Tokayev's Alma Mater. Beijing Language and Culture University to Unveil New Branch in Astana. youtu.be/SN9VmLY4joo?fe…

"Moreover, through the SCO’s enlargement, Moscow and, to some extent, Beijing show the (Western) world that neither of these two powers will ever be truly internationally isolated, despite Western isolation of Russia following its invasion of Ukraine and China’s increasingly

The SCO is expanding. With China's blessing the BRICS group could also expand and include Kazakhstan. We surveyed some of the most prominent experts on the matter, Giulia Sciorati, Eva Seiwert, and Prof Bhavna Dave to decode the symbolism behind what happened the Astana summit.⤵️

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Updates for #ASIAC2024 (in Venice) applicants: Notifications of acceptance are currently being sent. The process should be completed by 20 July 2024. Get in touch if you have not received a message from us by that day. Please check your emails, including the spam folder!

Thanks to Simone Pieranni for including my @AsiaMaior research in his awesome newsletter "The Party" (discussing and analysing news on the inner workings of the #CCP). You can subscribe here 🇮🇹: ilpartito.substack.com/account?free_s… The paper is in open access here 🇬🇧: asiamaior.org/the-journal/18…

🚨 It's publication month! P. Rosa (SIS Trento - Unitn) & I just published our attempt at understanding the impact of systemic and domestic drivers on #China's conflict behaviour on Interdisciplinary Political Studies. It's in open access and available here: siba-ese.unisalento.it/index.php/idps…

I have read the “report” published by this obscure charity devoted to transparency (ah, the irony): a nine-pager with outlandish claims and no evidence. Academic freedom at Lau China Institute, King's College London is self-evident through its outputs, and perfectly embodied in its director, Kerry Brown. ☮️

We are hiring! The LSE ID department is looking for an Assistant Professor in Development Studies, with a focus on gender and development, China and/or food systems and livelihoods. The position starts in Sept. 2025. More information can be found here: jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/38…

Yay! (Very) happy to share that I successfully completed the Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education of the LSE Eden Centre for Education Enhancement and I am now a Fellow of the UK #HigherEd Academy. Really enjoyed the programme, especially the Creative Pedagogies module. advance-he.ac.uk/fellowship/fel…

As a former member of the Pavia Gymnastics Society, I am so proud of this legacy.

Following our popular New Taiwanese Cinema season in 2023, we are delighted to launch a new strand, supported by the Ministry of Culture, Taiwan, to showcase the best of classic and contemporary filmmaking from the region- Taiwanese Cinema: Now and Then thegardencinema.co.uk/season/taiwane…

We would like to express our concern regarding the arrest of Bahruz Samadov, PhD student and participant in our conference, on 21/08 in Baku on alleged charges of treason. It is our sincere hope that he will be released and that he will be able to join us in Venice in December.

'There’s agreement ... that it is time to evolve. But [members] struggle to agree on which countries to include, the scale of the enlargement of permanent and non-permanent members; and what their powers on the council will look like'. edition.cnn.com/2024/08/28/ame…

Please take a moment to sign and circulate this petition in support of Bahruz Samadov and other jailed Azerbaijani academics openletter.earth/statement-of-s…

We would like to remind participants of #ASIAC2024 that you should register by 1 September 2024. If you are having any issues please please get in touch with us at this email: [email protected]. We are looking forward to seeing you in Venice at wonderful Unive Ca' Foscari University.

✨We are hiring! LSE Methodology is looking for an assistant professor in qualitative research methods. Please apply, share widely, and get in touch if you have any questions. ✨ jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/62…

🚀 From today, ALL articles accepted for publication in the European Journal of International Security will be entirely open access! 🎉 Read more here: cambridge.org/core/journals/… BISA - British International Studies Association

Ad to be be posted soon in usual places, but pls know: Georgetown is searching this year for asst historian of China before-1800, those w/ adjacent expertise in Central, SE, NE, maritime Asia encouraged to apply. Tenure-track, 2-2 load. Letter, CV, writing sample, by EARLY OCT

Very grateful to LSE IDEAS and the Ratiu Foundation RO for these past few days in Transylvania, contributing to the Ratiu Forum. It was such a rewarding experience to meet so many academics and practictioners and bring some of my research on historical #narratives into the discussion.