Category Archives: Research

News, reports, and items about research activities at the Division International Studies

When Lady Associate Professor go to Beijing…

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… some logitistics are needed. So it is also the case when the Head of Division Catherine Goetze, Associate Professor May Tan-Mullins and Associate Professor Anna Greenwood are going to participate in the workshop on EU researchers in China that … Continue reading

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Dr Kiwuwa and Dr Klantschnig at the African Studies Conference in San Francisco

Dr David Kiwuwa and Dr Gernot Klantschnig attended the prestigious African Studies Association meeting in San Francisco between 18 and 22 November 2010. This is one of the largest global gatherings of scholars working on Africa and takes place annually … Continue reading

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Dr. May Tan-Mullins tours Great-Britain

Dr. May Tan-Mullins has returned from the snow-covered United Kingdom, after a ten days visit to University of Sussex (Institute of Development Studies), Cambridge University, University of Nottingham and the London School of Oriental and African Studies. In Brighton, May … Continue reading

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Why Democracy for the Post-Socialist Societies Workshop

On 5 November 2010 the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities at Cambridge University hosted a workshop on democracy in the post-socialist world. The aim of the workshop was to bring together various strands of research … Continue reading

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Dr. Gernot Klantschnig is back from West Africa

After attending the UK African Studies Association meeting in Oxford in September 2010, Dr. Gernot Klantschnig went on a research trip to Nigeria for his forthcoming book on the politics of drugs in Africa. He worked at the national archives … Continue reading

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The right to know what happened: The lessons of open archives — roundtable at UNNC, 4 November 2010

At the invitation of the Division of International Studies, Professor Mark Kram from Harvard University, Associate Professor James Hershberg from George-Washington University and Professor David Wolff from University of Hokkaido visited UNNC to discuss the always thorny question of open … Continue reading

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Excellent review for Sergey Radchenko’s book “Two Suns in the Heavens”

Austin Jersild reviews Sergey Radchenko’s Two Suns in the Heavens in the September 2010 issue of The China Quarterly. “The Russian overtures [to China] were perpetually undercut by the enduring legacy of their traditional civilizing mission in the East. Russian cultural arrogance … Continue reading

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Professor Mike Chapman visited UNNC

Michael Chapman, Associate Professor of History, Peking University, gave a public lecture on Thursday, October 21, 2010, entitled “Revisiting the Road to Pearl Harbor.” Prof. Chapman visited the UNNC at the invitation of the Division of International Studies. In his lecture, … Continue reading

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Dr. Sergey Radchenko attended 2010 LSE-FGV Cold War History School

From30 September to 1 October, 2010, Dr. Sergey Radchenko was away for the 2010 LSE-FGV Cold War History School in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. As an instructor, He addressed the following topics: “The Soviet Union and the origins of the Cold … Continue reading

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Dr. David Emmanuel Kiwuwa’s research work on Rwanda(Africa)

In August, Dr. David Emmanuel Kiwuwa was member of the Commonwealth Electoral Monitoring Mission in Rwanda as an observer of the Rwandan Presidential Elections. This election is the second since the Rwandan civil war, and this time four candidates were … Continue reading

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