Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies Research Day

Introduction

Dr Yaron Peleg, Co-Chair, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies

Panel 1: Anthropology/Politics in East Asia

12.50pm-1.10pm: Dr Adam Chau, The 
sphere-isation of society

1.10pm-1.30pm: Dr John Nilsson-Wright, Identity, Populism and the Romantic Impulse: Japan and the Politics of Nostalgia.

1.30pm-1.50pm: Q&A

1.50pm-2pm: break

Panel 2: Anthropology/Politics in the Middle East

2pm-2.20pm: Dr Chihab El-Khachab, Visualizing Egypt after 1952. 

2.20pm-2.40pm: Dr Paul Anderson, Exchange Ideologies and Merchant Politics in post-Baathist Aleppo

2.40pm-3pm: Q&A

3pm-3.10pm: break

Panel 3: The Social Life of Plastic

3.10pm: introduction, Dr Brigitte Steger, Introduction: The CirPlas project on eliminating plastic waste and the social life of plastic

3.15pm-3.30pm: Dr Patrick O’Hare, Cambridge, Carnaval, and the Actually Existing Circularity of Plastics

3.30pm-3.45pm: Dr Teresa Perez, The impact of COVID-19 on recycling and research in Cape Town

3.45pm-4pm: Dr Hildegard Diemberger, Piles of Plastic on darkening Himalayan Peaks: changing cosmopolitics of 'pollution' in Limi, Western Nepal

4pm-4.15pm: Dr Brigitte Steger, Stingy, stingy, stingy government: Mixed consumer responses to the introduction of the plastic carrier bag levy in Japan

4.15pm-4.40pm: Q&A

https://zoom.us/j/99371428604?pwd=RERpQ1NEV1JlbnNBUlNGY2tpdEZZZz09

Meeting ID: 993 7142 8604

Passcode: 605629