Professor Liping Zhou, Peking University Hatfield College January - March 2013
Liping Zhou is Cheung-Kong Professor of Physical Geography at Peking University. Having studied geomorphology and Quaternary geology at Peking University, he received his BSc in 1982. He then obtained his MSc at the Free University of Brussels in 1984. Later he was awarded a Benefactors’ Scholarship from St John’s College, Cambridge, which enabled him to work on geochronology and environmental magnetism of wind-blown dust deposits in the Godwin Laboratory within the Department of Botany; he received his PhD in 1992. After he worked as a Senior Research Associate in the School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, he returned to Cambridge in 1993 and worked in the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Department of Physics and then the Department of Earth Sciences. He was appointed as Professor at Peking University in 1999 and was made Cheung-Kong Professor of Physical Geography by the Ministry of Education in 2000. He was also awarded a National Outstanding Youth fund in 2000. He was a visiting scientist in the Department of Earth Sciences, Oxford University funded by China-UK Science Networks of the Royal Society in 2006. He also worked in the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology on a Sino-Swiss Cooperation Research Fellowship in 2008.
As a specialist in geochronology, Professor Zhou has conducted extensive fieldwork in arid and semiarid regions and has worked on chronology and palaeoenvironmental implications of loess records in Eurasia. He also works on chronology of palaeoanthropological and palaeolithic archaeology sites in northern China. His current research involves extensive use of cosmogenic nuclides such as ¹ ⁴C and ¹⁰Be, e.g. the study of carbon dynamics in soils and in seawater, and past changes in the production rate of cosmogenic nuclides.
Whilst at the IAS, Professor Zhou will be working with Professor Bailiff and Dr Millard (Archaeology) and engaging with colleagues involved in the workshop on Debating Chronologies. He will also be interacting with paleoceanography and geochemistry colleagues in Durham.
Dr Mary Manjikian, Fulbright Fellow, Regent University Ustinov College January - March 2013
Mary Manjikian attended Wellesley College (BA), Oxford University (MPhil) and the University of Michigan (MA, PhD). She is a former US foreign service officer and has lived and worked in The Netherlands, Russia, Germany and Bulgaria. She is currently an Assistant Professor at the Robertson School of Government at Regent University, Virginia, where she teaches courses in international security. She is also the project director for America Asks, a conservative political themes project in cooperation with the Clapham Group and Intellectual Takeout.
Her research deals with the politics and discourse of disaster , crisis, risk and threat. She is the author of Threat Talk: Comparative Politics of Internet Addiction (2012) and Apocalypse and Post-Politics: The Romance of the End (2012). Her third book, Barring the Door: The Securitization of Property Squatting in Western Europeis forthcoming in 2013. Here she asks what exactly is threatened by the practice of property squatting – the homeland? The city? Or one’s sense of identity? – and suggests that legislation which criminalizes property squatting is in many ways actually about questions of who belongs in one’s neighborhood, and what types of migration flows should be encouraged. She has also published in the areas of cyberwarfare, the ethics of drones and unmanned warfare, and the discourse of the failed state.
Her project while at Durham University is on the evolution of security discourse regarding plague and pandemic. She hopes to examine the ways in which public health crises have often strengthened state power, and the ways in which public health crisis thus appears to take place in a different sort of emergency time, in which traditional democratic regimes and procedures may be bypassed or temporarily halted. Has this process evolved as governance becomes more rational or do states react to crisis in a similar fashion regardless of the temporal or cultural coordinates? She will examine both plague tracts written hundreds of years ago and current documents such as the National Security Strategy and public health strategies.
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