SOAS Inaugural Lecture Series: Professor Phil Clark and Professor Dafydd Fell (Department of Politics and International Studies)
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5:30 pm
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- Brunei Gallery
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Our first inaugural lecture of 2024 welcomed Professor Phil Clark and Professor Dafydd Fell from the Department of Politics, who presented lectures on Rwanda under the Rwandan Patriotic Front: Assessing 30 Years of Post-Genocide Recovery and Alternative Politics in Taiwan: The Birth of Asia's First Green Party respectively.
April 2024 marks the 30th anniversary of the Genocide against the Tutsi population in Rwanda. Drawing on more than 20 years of field research in Rwanda, in his lecture Professor Clark will assess how far the country has come since the Genocide in terms of justice, reconciliation, socio-economic equality and civic freedom.
In the second lecture, Professor Fell discussed how a conversation with a SOAS student led to a decade long journey researching Taiwan's Green political parties. This inaugural lecture focused on the party's first year, including its formation, first election and relationship with the international Green Party movement.
About the speakers
Professor Phil Clark
Phil Clark is a Professor of International Politics at SOAS University of London. He specialises in conflict and post-conflict issues, including transitional justice, peacebuilding and reconciliation after mass atrocity in Rwanda, Uganda, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Burundi.
Professor Dafydd Fell
Professor Dafydd Fell's main research focus has been on Taiwan’s political parties and electoral politics. As director of the SOAS Centre of Taiwan Studies he has helped develop the world’s most extensive Taiwan Studies teaching, academic events and publications programme.
SOAS Inaugural Lecture Series
The SOAS Inaugural Lecture Series recognises that research is an integral part of university life, and offers a platform for newly appointed and promoted professors to share their significant contributions to their field while also showcasing the overall strength, depth and vitality of research at SOAS.
