Month: May 2024

On May 30, Chingduang Yurayong was invited to deliver a guest lecture for the colloquium of the Department of Linguistics and the Institute of Altaic Studies at the College of Humanities, Seoul National University, South Korea.

The lecture was entitled Language diversity and contact of Altaic languages in Temperate Asia: Exploring patterns in adjustable quantification and negation, based on the forthcoming publication in Journal of Chinese Linguistics Monograph Series under collaboration with Pui Yiu Szeto (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice) and Sami Honkasalo (University of Helsinki).

Prof Julie Yu-Wen Chen and Prof Peter Stadius welcomed the delegation of the Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam to the University of Helsinki in May. The delegation was led by Ambassador Dr. Pham Lan Dung, Acting President of the Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam.

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Prof. Stadius gave presentation about Finland’s foreign and security strategies from long-term perspectives while Prof. Chen presented the EUVIP project where the South China Sea issue is one of the core focuses of the project. The meeting facilitated deeper understanding of Finland’s foreign and security policies and approaches toward the current world political situation, including political and security trends in the Indo-Pacific and the South China Sea in the context of great power competition. Please also check Prof. Chen’s recent co-authored commentary on EU-Vietnam relations for further information.

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On May 2, Professor Julie Yu-Wen Chen visited Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam (DAV) and exchanged views with Dr. Do Thanh Hai who is senior fellow at the DAV and former Deputy Ambassador of Vietnam to India.