Event Description
The School of Education at Drexel University presents Global Education Colloquium (GEC) Brown Bag Lunch Series:
Who Owns the South China Sea? Politics of Knowledge and Evidential Claims Making
This presentation will locate the origins of the disputes in the
nationalist anxiety that marked the confused transition from empire to
republic in China and the processes of decolonization in Southeast Asia.
It will show how the first territorial claims were provoked by the
commercial exploitation of bird droppings and then how the lure of
hydrocarbons combined with the adoption of a new UN Convention on the
Law of the Sea led to the occupation of almost every feature in the Sea.
The presentation will tell the often bizarre stories of how the rival
claims came about, examine the evidence for them and discuss whether
they can ever be reconciled.
Register for an upcoming event. About The Speaker
Bill Hayton is the author of The South China Sea: The Struggle for Power in Asia to be published by Yale University Press in the fall of 2014. His book Vietnam: Rising Dragon
was published by Yale in 2010 and well received. He currently works as a
journalist for BBC News in London, specializing in Southeast Asian
affairs. During 2013 he spent a year embedded with the state radio and
TV service in Myanmar attempting to persuade the former military regime
to introduce pluralism into broadcasting, with predictably mixed
results. In 2006-7 he was the BBC reporter in Vietnam. Prior to that he
focused on European affairs and the Middle East, writing and reporting
on the Balkans, Yemen and Iran among other places.
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About the Global Education Colloquium:
Established
in November 2013, the Global Education Colloquium is a monthly Brown
Bag Lunch Series that features distinguished speakers and lively
discussion.
The topics presented will be the
result of research spanning the full range of learning, teaching and
training topics including international studies, higher education, peace
education, social justice, inequality, politics of knowledge, policy,
leadership and organizational change.
GEC
events are held the third Tuesday of every month on the main campus of
Drexel University, start promptly at 12 Noon. You are invited to bring
your lunch. Drinks and cookies will be served.
Learn more about the Global Education Colloquium Series.
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