Jane Portal is Curator in the Oriental Antiquities Department at the British Museum, London, and is the author of Korea – Art and Archaeology (2000) and Chinese Love Poetry (2004). She has wide experience of both North and South Korea, having spent a year in both countries, and is creating a collection of contemporary North Korean art for the British Museum.
openAwakening in conjunction with the University of East London is organizing a three-part event series on ‘The Tahrir Square Meme’ to be held at UEL's Dockland Campus.
Our first event is Rap and the Arab Spring.
Read Anthony Barnett's lecture for the Raymond Williams Society and his foreword to the new edition of The Long Revolution:
The Long Revolution Raymond Williams
Jim Gabour Sunday Comics
James Warner Standing Perpendicular, as books do
Markha Valenta Inter Alia: religion, politics, culture
Paul Rogers on Global security
Li Datong on China from the inside
Mary Kaldor on Human security
Daniele Archibugi on Cosmopolitan democracy
