MS. KATHI ZELLWEGER & PROF. MIKE CHINOY

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"Making Sense of North Korea" at 16:00-18:00, in J311 Abstract: With a robust nuclear weapons program, an enduring conflict with the US and South Korea and now in the midst of a transition to a young, untested new leader, Kim Jong Un, North Korea remains a country as important as it is misunderstood.

Cities in a ‘Global Polity’: The Making of Public Space Policy in Hanoi

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Prof. Ola Soderstrom, Professor of Social and Cultural Geography at the Institute of Geography, University of Neuchatel, Switzerland, presented his recent research on public space policy in Hanoi, Vietnam. [...] Abstract: Hanoi is an aspiring 'world city' in a country with the third growth in GPD in Asia and the most important urbanization