‘Sino-Indian ties: co-operation, conflict and complementarities’ is the title of a lecture being organised by the University’s Department of International Relations at the Engineering Lecture Theatre (ELT), Msida campus, on Thursday from 4 to 5pm.
The speaker is Yukteshwar Kumar, course director of the Chinese stream at the University of Bath, UK.
He previously taught at top Indian universities like the University of Delhi, Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan and JNU in different capacities, including associate professor/ reader in Chinese.
He was a Nehru fellow at Peking University, China and has served as visiting professor and academic at various Chinese universities.
The event is free of charge and open to the general public.
Democratisation in Europe, implications of US foreign policy
The University’s Department of International Relations is also organising the following two public lectures:
A lecture entitled ‘Comparing democratisation in southern, central and eastern Europe’ will take place on Wednesday from 4 to 6pm at Dun Mikiel Xerri lecture centre, room 118 (LC118).
A lecture on ‘US foreign policy and its implications for Europe’ will be held on Friday from 3 to 5pm at the Old Humanities building, room 116 (OH116).
The speaker in both lectures is Howard Wiarda, Dean Rusk professor of International Relations and founding head of the Department of International Affairs at the University of Georgia. He is also a senior associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and a senior scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC.
Wiarda has held a part-time consulting position in the Department of Defense, at the National Defense University, Center for Hemispheric Studies.
He received an honorary doctorate and currently holds the position of honorary professor at Nizhny Novgorod State University, Russia.
Both events are free of charge and open to the public.
For further information, call 2340 3083 or e-mail annelise.calleja@um.edu.mt.
Free viewpoint TV
A public talk on Free Viewpoint Television (FTV) will be held on Friday at noon at the University’s Faculty of ICT auditorium.
FTV allows television viewers to see a 3D scene by freely changing their viewpoint as if they were actually present on site.
FTV is the ultimate 3D-TV and is ranked as the ultimate visual media as it has an infinite number of views.
FTV has been realised by developing ray capture, processing and display technologies. The international standardization of FTV has been conducted in MPEG since 2001.
The speaker is Masayuki Tanimoto, a Japanese academic and developer of FTV.