The Xinjiang Emergency: Perceptions of Uyghur Detention in China
Event status:
This event will take place in-person and online- Date:
- Tuesday 05 April 2022 06:00 pm until Tuesday 05 April 2022 07:00 pm (Add to calendar)
- Contact:
- La Trobe Asia
asia@latrobe.edu.au - Presented by:
- La Trobe Asia
- Type of Event:
- Public Lecture; Public
Since 2016, an estimated one million Uyghurs and members of other Turkic Muslim minorities have disappeared into a vast network of ‘re-education camps’ in the far west region of Xinjiang, China in what some experts call a systematic, government-led program of cultural genocide.
Those outside detention are subject to intensive surveillance through a network of hi-tech surveillance systems, checkpoints and interpersonal monitoring.
While many countries now acknowledge these problems as a reality of President Xi Jinping's China, a more accurate understanding of how the detentions are perceived both within China and in the global community is crucial.
The Melbourne book launch of The Xinjiang emergency Exploring the causes and consequences of China's mass detention of Uyghurs, edited by Michael Clarke.
Panel:
- Dr Michael Clarke, Senior Fellow, Centre for Defence Research, Australian Defence College and Adjunct Professor, Australia-China Relations Institute, University of Technology Sydney
- Professor James Leibold, Department of Politics and Philosophy, La Trobe University
- Final speaker to be confirmed
Chair:
Associate Professor Rebecca Strating, Director, La Trobe Asia
This panel will be in-person, but will be streamed via zoom for participants unable to attend in person.
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Room 2.11, Level 2
360 Collins Street, Melbourne
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