Date: Monday 30 May, 2022

Time: 13:30-14:30

Venue: Topelia Room A118, University of Helsinki (Unioninkatu 38 A, Ground Floor, Room A118)

Professor Julia C. Strauss is Professor of Chinese Politics at the Department of Politics and International Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. She received a BA in Chinese Language and European History from Connecticut College (1983) and both an MA and PhD from the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley (1984, 1991). She moved to the Department of Political and International Studies at SOAS in 1994. She served as Editor of The China Quarterly from 2002-2011 and was promoted to Professor in 2013. She offers courses in Chinese politics and comparative political sociology.

Professor Strauss is currently visiting the Viikki Tropical Resources Institute (VITRI) at Department of Forest Sciences at University of Helsinki. This is for her new study on how China approaches forestry, natural resources and forest landscape restoration in developing countries.

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Congratulations to University of Helsinki Chinese Studies! Together with Univerzita Palackého, University of Copenhagen, and Université catholique de Louvain, we have successfully obtained a 1.5 million Euro grant to conduct a research project “The EU in the volatile Indo-Pacific region (EUVIP)” together!