{"title": "Manufacturing Vulnerability in the Uyghur Region: State-Imposed Forced Labour and the Crisis of Corporate Complicity", "start": "2026-11-09T17:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "SOAS University of London", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/how-sustainable-or-unsustainable-chinas-miracle-growth-dengs-reforms", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/colonialism", "society/human-rights"], "description": "A seminar on state-imposed forced labour in the Uyghur Region of China and how it reaches global supply chains from apparel to renewable energy. Organised by the SOAS China Institute, it features Professor Laura T. Murphy, a scholar of forced labour at Sheffield Hallam University and Senior Associate at CSIS, chaired by Professor Rachel Harris of SOAS. The talk examines how the government manufactures vulnerability among Indigenous citizens to justify its actions, and how corporations use discourses of 'urgency' and 'complexity' to shelter their complicity. The event is free and open to the public, though registration is required, and will not be recorded or live-streamed.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/manufacturing-vulnerability-in-the-uyghur-region-state-impos-43662/", "official_url": "https://www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/manufacturing-vulnerability-uyghur-region-state-imposed-forced-labour-and-crisis", "image": "https://noky.io/images/123c3dd9f29d68dd4f08d93891c30fc51d4202e666bddfc9acae0efb79a01595-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-09T17:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "SOAS University of London", "address": "", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Asia House and McKinsey Global Institute to Host Roundtable on Structural Vulnerabilities of Global Trade", "start": "2026-11-12T09:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-12T10:00:00Z", "place": "Asia House", "address": "63 New Cavendish Street, London, W1G 7LP, United Kingdom", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/economics"], "description": "An in-person roundtable on the structural vulnerabilities – or \"Achilles' heels\" – of global trade. It is held by Asia House in partnership with the McKinsey Global Institute, whose latest research examines where trade is most exposed to disruption through product criticality, supplier concentration and geopolitical distance between trading partners. Senior business executives and trade experts will discuss what these vulnerabilities mean in practice and how companies and policymakers can respond with targeted resilience strategies. Jeongmin Seong, Partner, and Tiago Devesa, Senior Fellow, of the McKinsey Global Institute will share insights from the research.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/asia-house-and-mckinsey-global-institute-to-host-roundtable-59994/", "official_url": "https://www.asiahouse.org/event/asia-house-and-mckinsey-global-institute-to-host-roundtable-on-structural-vulnerabilities-of-global-trade/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/37e20ee106029ef96b8bdaf2ae05c5b5a38a7238022a5fa3c9cd50ffd6f041b8-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Homelands research seminar series: Welcome to Guantánamo!", "start": "2026-11-12T16:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "University of Westminster", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["community/refugees"], "description": "Welcome to Guantánamo! is a research seminar with a lecture by Christian Kobluk, a Polish/Burundian essayist, writer and human rights activist. Drawing on NGO reports, first-hand observations and refugee testimonies, he examines conditions in Poland's migrant detention centres following the refugee crisis at the country's eastern border. The lecture offers a critical perspective on detention, border control and human rights in contemporary Europe. Kobluk is the author of A Zone of Nonbeing: A Black Pole's Reflections on Racism in Poland and a former refugee rights advisor to a member of the Polish Parliament.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/homelands-research-seminar-series-welcome-to-guantanamo-40001/", "official_url": "https://www.westminster.ac.uk/events/homelands-research-seminar-series-welcome-to-guantanamo", "image": "https://noky.io/images/3c49e6522fa72e5e67b75e26f23d17b29031f46d0b866026234cd66c35987cdb-1200.webp"}, {"title": "2026 BRISMES Annual Lecture: Beyond Bearing Witness: Palestine, Knowledge Production and the Political Economy of the Future", "start": "2026-11-12T17:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "SOAS University of London", "address": "", "price": "Free, registration required", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/book-talk-twelve-days-shook-middle-east", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/politics/israel-palestine", "history/colonialism"], "description": "A public lecture, also streamed online, discussing what forms of knowledge and analysis are needed beyond documenting conditions in Palestine. 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She presents her new book 'The Good Sea' and examines how East Timorese resistance, asylum seekers and ordinary Australians shaped Australia's relationship with Indonesia and Timor-Leste. The lecture, honouring historian Dr Trevor Reese, is given by an emerging scholar in history or political science. It takes place in the Nash Lecture Theatre at King's College London's Strand Campus.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/2026-australia-studies-institute-reese-lecture-vannessa-hear-36786/", "official_url": "https://www.kcl.ac.uk/events/2026-reese-lecture", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9fa9af59ca6f1b3eb3be0fd9a974b0341f638721f54bea0dfab19b5e56182f99-1200.webp"}, {"title": "The rise of the global shadow fleet and the geography of flags of convenience", "start": "2026-11-03T19:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Royal Geographical Society", "address": "Kensington Gore 1, SW7 2AR London", "price": "£5.00 - £12.00", "price_from": "5.00", "price_to": "12.00", "tickets_url": "https://portal.rgs.org/event/book/PANEL171126", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/politics/geopolitics", "history/maritime"], "description": "A discussion evening about the hidden fleet of ships reshaping the world's oceans, held in the Ondaatje Theatre at the Royal Geographical Society. 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