Katharine Adeney
Director of the Institute of Asia and Pacific Studies, Nottingham
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New MA in Asian and International Studies welcomes first cohort of students
September 21, 2015
IAPS is excited to welcome the first cohort of students onto the new MA in Asian and International Studies. This is an exciting programme, taught by academics across Nottingham’s UK, Chinese and Malaysian campuses who are experts on Asian politics and international relations. Students study on UNUK for their first semester, then move to either UNMC …
Xi Jinping’s Pakistan visit: what’s left behind?
May 18, 2015
By Filippo Boni. The long-awaited visit has finally taken place. Xi Jinping’s first official visit abroad this year was to Islamabad, previously postponed due to the September 2014 dharna (sit-in) organised by Imran Khan’s PTI. “I feel as if I am going to visit the home of my brother” said Xi Jinping ahead of his …
Disaster, Development and Urban Risk: a comment on the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction
March 25, 2015
By Pauline Eadie The World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (WCDRR) was held in Sendai, Japan from 14-18 March 2015. The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) organized the conference. The objective of the conference was to facilitate a post-2015 framework for disaster relief. The result of the WCDRR was the non-binding Sendai …
Postgraduate MA Travel Bursaries
March 17, 2015
IAPS Tomlinson Scholarships for MA Students Number available: 2 Value of award: £800 The Institute of Asia and Pacific Studies encourages and co-ordinates research activities relating to the Asia and Pacific region at the University of Nottingham. In line with its aim, IAPS is pleased to announce a competition for two postgraduate travel bursaries of …
A new political turn for Indian Kashmir
March 5, 2015
By Dr Andrew Whitehead The 79-year old Mufti Mohammad Sayeed was sworn-in on Sunday (1st March) as the new chief minister of the Indian state of Jammu & Kashmir. Attending the ceremony in the state’s winter capital of Jammu was India’s Prime Minister, Narendra Modi. For his party, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), it was …
New visiting fellow joins IAPS
February 16, 2015
IAPS is delighted to welcome Dr Andrew Whitehead as a visiting fellow. Andrew Whitehead is an expert on contemporary South Asia, and particularly on Kashmir. He is the author of A Mission in Kashmir (2007), which uses oral history and personal testimony to interrogate the established Indian, Pakistani and Kashmiri narratives of how the Kashmir …
Humanitarian Landscapes: Deep Lessons from Afghanistan
January 27, 2015
IAPS was delighted to host Professor Antonio Donini, the former Director of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Assistance (OCHA) in Afghanistan, as he delivered the annual Tomlinson lecture. Professor Donini detailed how for a long period of history, Afghanistan served as a laboratory for humanitarian action. He also detailed how humanitarian action …
Many shades of responsibility: China’s Small Arms and Light Weapons Transfers to the Republic of Sudan since 2003
January 15, 2015
By Jade Hall, Winner of the 2014 Tomlinson MA Prize for the best dissertation on Asia. Small arms and light weapons (SALW) have increasingly become the weapon of choice in conflicts throughout the developing world, and are responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths annually. Recent studies have shown that SALW imports increase the probability …
The State of the Taiwan politics field
December 9, 2014
Written by Dr Jon Sullivan, Contemporary Chinese Studies, University of Nottingham. As a western academic working on Taiwan, the health of Taiwan studies is something that has concerned me for several years. As a PhD student attending the European Association of Taiwan Studies conference in Madrid in 2009, I listened to the eminent American Taiwan …
South Asia’s hydrological moment with China
November 10, 2014
Written by Uttam Kumar Sinha. The countries of South Asia face, with alarming regularity, the twin blights of drought and floods. The management of hydro resources is a critical challenge for South Asia, one that requires a different political outlook and a focus on water. This change of aspect clearly brings into attention the Himalayan and …
