Content note: institutional transphobia; Islamophobia; sexual assault mention Details Tuesday 17 November 2015, 1900–2100 Main Building, City University, London From the facebook event page: “This panel explores some of the complexities of transgender and academia as they intersect” Host: Sahra Ray Taylor (she/her) Panel: Natacha Kennedy … Continue readingReflections on Trans Academia panel
Admiral Ito’s talk focused on the JSDF’s non-controversial history, brought abruptly to the present in the (unfortunately off the record) Q&A. … Continue reading"Japanese Security Policy" at RUSI: Event Review
Lord Alton’s Cold War perspective engendered outdated and unhelpful “prospects for change” in a country which requires an approach which allows for complexity to end its human rights crisis. … Continue reading"Prospects for Change in North Korea": Event Review
The lecture by Prof. Tom Berger came down to a question of whether Japan is nationalistic or pragmatic. … Continue reading"Japan's Maritime Disputes": Review of the Chatham House Event
Jang Jin-sung offers superficial insight into the inner-workings of the DPRK state apparatus in a thinly-disguised Parliamentary book launch. … Continue readingAll Party Parliamentary Group on North Korea event: Jang Jin-sung
Yesterday evening in the Kings College Maughan Library was a two-part event by Women in War and International Politics on being a woman in nuclear studies and so-called New Nuclear Initiatives. … Continue readingNew Nuclear Initiative talk by Women in War and International Politics
Last Tuesday evening the UK Project on Nuclear Issues (UK PONI) hosted a roundtable event with British nuclear policymakers on the subject of Trident. Participants included: Rt Hon Margaret Beckett, MP – Labour MP for Derby South since 1983. British Foreign Secretary from 2006–2007, and … Continue readingUK PONI Roundtable
This afternoon the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) held a panel discussion on the territorial disputes in the South China Sea. The panel was held in the Ascham Room in Bloomsbury House, a large open space on the 2nd floor with views of tall … Continue readingPower, Law and the South China Sea: IISS Panel Review