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Benazir Bhutto and my enduring relationship with Pakistan – a conversation with Victoria Schofield
Click to register Victoria Schofield in conversation about her thirty-year friendship with her Oxford contemporary, Benazir Bhutto. Her book, The Fragrance of Tears, which will be published on 15 October, is a memoir, drawing on diaries and letters, of Bhutto’s transformation from Oxford undergraduate to political activist, prisoner and politician against the backdrop of an…
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China’s Good War: How World War II is Shaping a New Nationalism
Click here to register Chinese leaders once tried to suppress memories of their nation’s brutal experience during World War II. Now they celebrate the “victory”-a key foundation of China’s rising nationalism. For most of its history, the People’s Republic of China limited public discussion of the war against Japan. It was an experience of victimization-and…
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China’s Good War: How World War II is Shaping a New Nationalism – Professor Rana Mitter
Click here to register Chinese leaders once tried to suppress memories of their nation’s brutal experience during World War II. Now they celebrate the “victory”-a key foundation of China’s rising nationalism. For most of its history, the People’s Republic of China limited public discussion of the war against Japan. It was an experience of victimization-and…
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Chinese Communist Espionage: Improving the Debate
To register, click here Misinformation about China’s spy apparatus helps fuel a racist response in Washington and allied capitals. Matt Brazil seeks to improve the debate for the sake of both national defense and civil rights. Matt Brazil is a former US Army officer, diplomat, and corporate security investigator who spent most of his career…
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The Asian University for Women: Supporting a Gender Agenda
Click here to register The Asian University for Women (AUW) was established in 2008 in Chittagong, Bangladesh, to provide women drawn from diverse social, economic and language backgrounds with opportunities to become critical thinkers and ethical leaders in their home communities. The AUW already has a significant record of achievement, but it needs help and…
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Asia’s Newest Flashpoint? The China-India Line of Actual Control – Michael Kugelman
Click here to register A long, tense, and deadly border spat in the region of Ladakh has plunged India-China relations to their lowest point in decades. Michael Kugelman will explain what may have caused the current border crisis, consider possible endgames, and discuss the implications of the crisis for the bilateral relationship and regional and global geopolitics. Michael Kugelman is Asia Program deputy director…
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The Grammar of Violence along the India/Pakistan Border: a Data-Driven Story – Dr Rudra Chaudhuri
Exceptionally, this event is open only to members of the RSAA. If you are a current member, please click here to register. If you not a current member and would like to participate in this webinar, then please go to our Membership page to join and then return here to register. Dr Rudra Chauduri is the…
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The Russian Conquest of Central Asia and the Myth of the “Great Game”- Dr Alexander Morrison
Click here to register The Russian conquest of Central Asia was the 19th century’s most dramatic and successful example of European imperial expansion, adding 1.5 million square miles of territory and at least 6 million people – most of them Muslims – to the Tsar’s domains. However its historiography has been blighted by a number of…
