[SNUAC] 2024 SNUAC WEEKLY (1st Week of Sep)
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How to Evaluate the Belt and Road Initiative: Origins, Current Status, and Competition
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[News] Completion of the 19th Cohort of SNUAC Research Internship
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On Friday, August 30, the graduation ceremony for the 19th cohort of research interns who have been active at the Seoul National University Asia Center during the first half of the 2024 academic year (from March to August 2024) was held. The ceremony was conducted with a congratulatory speech from Professor Juyong Park, Head of the Human Resources Development Department, and was hosted by Dr. Eunyeong Nam, Research Fellow of the Human Resources Development Department.
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SNUAC offers a visiting scholars fellowship to promote the exchanges of scholars at home and abroad interested in Asian studies and their cooperation with SNUAC.
Let us introduce the SNUAC visiting fellows for Fall 2024.
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[Visiting Scholars] Hyun Bang Shin
Hyun Bang Shin is Professor of Geography and Urban Studies and the Head of the Department of Geography and Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Until recently, he directed the Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre (2018-2023) and was an Editor of the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (2021-2024). Having more than 20 years of experience in researching Asian cities, Hyun’s work centres on the critical analysis of the political economy of urbanisation, focusing on speculative urbanisation, gentrification, politics of displacement, mega-projects, mega-events as urban spectacles, and Asian urbanism. His books include Global Gentrifications: Uneven Development and Displacement (Policy Press, 2015); Planetary Gentrification (Polity Press, 2016); Neoliberal Urbanism, Contested Cities and Housing in Asia (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019); Exporting Urban Korea? Reconsidering the Korean Urban Development Experience (2021, Routledge); Covid-19 in Southeast Asia: Insights for a Post-pandemic World (2022, LSE Press); The Political Economy of Mega Projects in Asia: Globalization and Urban Transformation (forthcoming, Routledge). He currently works on two other book projects, including a monograph entitled Making China Urban (for Routledge) and a monograph on the making of the speculative city of Seoul.
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