Weds March 20th, 15.00-16.30 Kolade Teaching Room, Business School, Dr Yang Cheng, Associate Professor of International Relations, East China Normal University; Visiting International Fellow, University of Exeter (Spring 2013), ‘Rising China in International Politics: Possibilities and Restrictions’

Thurs 21- Fri 22 March, Third Annual Nooruz/Navruz Workshop in Central Asian Studies at Newcastle University. With a keynote address by John Heathershaw, ‘The Global Performace state: rethinking the Central Asian “weak state”.’

Weds 27 March 1.30-3.00pm, Amory 308, Dr. Balihar Sanghera, University of Kent, “Why Central Asian scholarship needs a strong social theory”