Typhoon Yolanda: One Year Later
November 7, 2014
By Pauline Eadie Nearly a year ago, on 8 November 2013 super-typhoon Yolanda hit the Visayan region of the Philippines. Winds reached up to 200 mph with a ‘storm surge’ of over 17 feet. The storm surge was actually the height of a tsunami and the damage was catastrophic. The latest available official figures show that 6,293 individuals …
IAPS PhD Studentship in History
December 16, 2013
IAPS is co-funding a PhD studentship in conjunction with the Department of History, within the School of Humanities at the University of Nottingham. We invite applications for a PhD Studentship in one or more of the following areas: the history of late nineteenth- and twentieth-century East Asia (especially Japan), and the history of migration, labour, …
