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GUEST LECTURE

Tensions between the general and the particular in Asia and Pacific Studies - Vietnam as a Case Study
Professor Adam Fforde, University of Melbourne

Friday 26.11.2010 at 10-12 am, Unioninkatu 37, lecture hall,
1st floor, University of Helsinki

Professor Adam Fforde is one of the most widely cited authors working on contemporary Vietnam. He holds an honorary position at the Asia Institute of the University of Melbourne and is part-time Professorial Fellow at the Centre for Strategic Economic Studies, Victoria University. His PhD (1982, University of Cambridge) was about agricultural cooperatives in North Vietnam and he was a student at Hanoi University in 1978-79. From 1983-87 he was a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow and since then he has combined academic and consulting work related to Vietnam and to development issues more generally. In Melbourne he has taught sessionally at Monash, Latrobe and the University of Melbourne.

His most recent book on Vietnam is Vietnamese State Industry and the Political Economy of Commercial Renaissance: Dragon's tooth or curate's egg? Oxford: Chandos 2007. A book on development, Coping with facts – a skeptic’s guide to the problem of development, was published in 2009 by Kumarian Press. His current and recent consultancies include studies of the Vietnamese civil service, educational socialization in Ho Chi Minh City and relationships between the environment, foreign trade and human development in various rural sectors in Cambodia.

WELCOME!

Guest lecture is organised by Development Studies, Department of Political and Economic Studies in co-operation with Asia-Pacific Studies, Department of World Cultures.
For more information please contact Minna Hakkarainen, tel. 09-191 22434, minna.hakkarainen(ät)helsinki.fi or Tiina Airaksinen, tel. 09-191 23286, tiina.h.airaksinen(ät)helsinki.fi
http://www.helsinki.fi/asia/
http://www.helsinki.fi/developmentstudies/

 

ASIA-PACIFIC FORUM

Asia-Pacific Forum is a series of guest lectures organised by the Asia Pacific Studies Programme. Several guest lectures are held each semester, most of them in English. Upcoming lectures will be announced on this webpage.

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PUBLICATIONS

Recent publications from Asia-Pacific Studies staff members:

In English

Leena Avonius, Damien Kingsbury (eds.): Human Rights in Asia. A Reassessment of the Asian Values Debate, Palgrave Macmillan 2008. Read more

Raisa Asikainen, Teemu Naarajärvi, Juha Vuori (toim.): Kiina 1989 ja Tiananmenin perintö, Gaudeamus 2009. Lue lisää

 

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