This is an opportunity for penultimate or final year students who are interested in starting their career in Asia Pacific. Through this virtual event, you will hear from, and engage with, some of our senior Asset Management business leaders and current graduates from the region. They will share their insights about this global business in the Asia-Pacific region and help you learn more about what a career at HSBC is really like. You will also have the opportunity to find out more about our Asset Management internships and graduate programmes, and the recruitment and assessment process.

Need to know what makes for a stand-out legal application? This session will help you understand what firms are looking for and how to approach answering typical application questions? While the focus is on law firms the good practice principles apply to other legal applications including the Bar.

Dr Patrick Meehan works in Global Sustainable Development in the School of Cross-Faculty Studies at the University of Warwick, and he is also a post-doctorate research fellow in the Department of Development Studies at SOAS. In this seminar, Dr Meehan provides insights into the political economy of the illegal drug trade in Myanmar based on extensive fieldwork conducted as Co-Investigator of a five-year research programme (2017-2022) led by SOAS University of London entitled 'Drugs and (dis)order: Building sustainable peacetime economies in the aftermath of war’. This seminar explores how Myanmar’s flourishing drug economy is not only rooted in the country’s longstanding armed conflict, but is also central to processes of rapid political, economic, and social change that have re-shaped Myanmar’s borderlands since the 1990s. Through exploring issues of cultivation, trafficking, and rising local drug use, Dr Meehan reveals how drugs have become embedded in the DNA of the Myanmar state and the development processes through which Myanmar’s resource-rich borderlands have been integrated into the global economy.

Date: 27th October 2022

Time: 16:15-17:30

Venue: MS.05, Zeeman Building

This seminar is part of the East Asia Study Group (EASG) Seminar Series. For further information please contact the EASG at easg@warwick.ac.uk.

Ben Campion (PhD)

Title: “The New Theory of Photography and the Dilemma of Videogame Imagery”

 Abstract:

Indicative of a growing interest among artists and theorists in the relationship between photography and videogames, a recent major exhibition at The Photographer’s Gallery, London, includes works which are produced utilising videogame graphics. The production of these images by photographers and their display in a gallery dedicated to photography raises a pertinent question: are these images photographic images? In this talk, I will argue that this question poses a dilemma to a group of contemporary philosophical views on photography called the ‘new theory’. One of the goals of new theory is to provide a theoretical basis for accepting a greater amount of work by photographers as photography than previous theories had allowed. I will suggest that considering videogame images a form of photography threatens this goal, as one can either accept that they are photographs—a claim which I argue threatens the theoretical foundations of new theory—or deny that they are photographs, thereby threatening new theory’s ability to account for photographic practice.

Join our Graduate Recruitment Manager, Bonny Hui as she talks you through our recruitment process, provides tips for your application and answers your questions.

Registration will close on Monday 24 October and all applicants will be emailed the access link in advance. Times are HK time.

Representatives from organisations working in recruitment and HR from a broad range of sectors will take part in a panel discussion. Following the discussion, there will be an opportunity for networking with the speakers in an online Q&A session.