This week, Dr. Vili Lehdonvirta and Boxi Wu will be presenting on their paper (written in conjunction with Zoe Hawkins): “Cloud empires’ physical footprint: How trade and security politics shape the global expansion of U.S. and Chinese data centre infrastructures”

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This week, Dr. Ana Valdivia from the Oxford Internet Institute will be speaking on the political and environmental impact of AI and its supply chains.

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This week, Yi-Ting Chang will be speaking about Engineering the state: Taiwan's satellite production amid geopolitical tensions

Note that we're back in the Chester Room this week.

This week, Sihao Huang will be speaking about China’s current “State of AI” and advanced technology posture.

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Note that this week we'll be in the Nuffield Cole Room.

This week, Nikki Sun will be speaking about how AI is being used in workplaces in China and its influence on the power dynamics between workers and employers.

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Despite growing concerns over China’s military build-up and modernization there have been few attempts to understand the growth of China’s defence budget, its comparative size or composition. Available estimates of China’s military spending range implausibly from one quarter of the USA to near parity and, since the end of the Cold War, no statistical agencies or defence departments have reported international comparisons of real defence spending.

Jon Wilson is a historian of South Asian and, more recently, global politics based at King’s College London, where he is currently Head of History. He has published The Domination of Strangers. Modern Governance in Eastern India, 1780-1835 (2007) and India Conquered. Britain’s Raj and the Chaos of Empire (2017), and is currently writing a global history of the emergence of the nation state in the twentieth century.

Addressing a range of contemporary and historical conflicts and daily struggles, this series of talks will explore how violence remains integral to the global political economy, with lasting effects on gendered hierarchies which often extend far beyond immediate war zones.

Addressing a range of contemporary and historical conflicts and daily struggles, this series of talks will explore how violence remains integral to the global political economy, with lasting effects on gendered hierarchies which often extend far beyond immediate war zones.

Addressing a range of contemporary and historical conflicts and daily struggles, this series of talks will explore how violence remains integral to the global political economy, with lasting effects on gendered hierarchies which often extend far beyond immediate war zones.