2021 Taiwan Festival Literature Strand Our 2021 Taiwan Festival Literature Strand took place on the 18th and 19th March 2021 and was attended by writers Shawna Yang Ryan and Ming-Yi Wu, public speaker Gwenneal Gaffric, and Academic Dr Lara Momesso, Dr Ti-han Chang, and Prof Niki...
Professor Niki Alsford awarded Fellowship of the Explorers Club Professor Niki Alsford, Head of ISAP, had an interview with the Rock FM on 21 June 2021 about his Fellowship of the Explorers Club, along with his on-going research on climate change and the Pacific. Professor Alsford...
Anthropocene and Race Conference We are pleased to announce the Anthropocene and Race Conference organised by IBAR will be taking place on the 5th and 6th of February 2021. Programme Plan Feb. 05 2021, Friday 09:15 - 9:30 Opening Remarks (by Dr Yvonne Reddick) 09:30 - 11:00 Panel A The...
Dr Bill Mihalopoulos caught up with Professor Saori Katada to talk about her new book 'Japan's New Regional Reality: Geoeconomic Strategy in the Asia-Pacific.' Dr Bill Mihalopoulos, Chief Editor of Japan Forum and lecturer for Asia Pacific Studies at UCLan spoke with Professor Saori Katada to talk...
Tokyo 2020: Korea & Japanese Nationalism Join us on the 3rd February for ISAP UCLan's first postgraduate-led event for 2021! A Roundtable discussion on Korea's perspective of the postponed Tokyo Olympics. Including a range of participants from different academic disciplines: Professor Niki Alsford Professor in Asia Pacific...
Taiwan: New decade, old challenges? In the last years, Taiwan has been on the spotlight for several reasons: its advanced democracy has been seen as a model in a region still threatened by authoritarian governments. Furthermore, its quick response to the challenges brought by Covid-19 has...
Biden to pursue ‘traditional diplomacy’ with North Korea – and a different agenda to Trump Dr Sojin Lim, co-director for the Institute of Korean Studies (IKSU) at The University of Central Lancashire - UCLan, was interviewed for a piece with Redaction Politics on Biden's agenda with...
Kimchi clash: South Korea accuses China of cultural and culinary appropriation Dr Sojin Lim, co-director for the Institute of Korean Studies (IKSU) at The University of Central Lancashire - UCLan, featured in an interview on DW News Asia about China's claim to the provenance of Kimchi. Watch...
Dr Sojin Lim on China's claim to kimchi's provenance at BBC World Service. Our Co-director for the International Institute of Korean Studies (IKSU) at The University of Central Lancashire (UCLan), Dr Sojin Lim, spoke on BBC World Service at 2:50pm today about the recent debate over China's...
A slippery slope. The Dongsha Incident – A bad omen of Chinese moves to marginalize Taiwan Our Chair of the North England Policy Centre for the Asia Pacific (NEPCAP), Dr Moises de Souza, has has published another piece with Dr Dean Karalekas, Associate Editor of Strategic Vision...