Reading Tayeb Salih in the 21st Century

Join us for a day of presentations exploring the works of Tayeb Salih. The day is divided into 3 sessions: (1) The World of Tayeb Salih; (2) Tayeb Salih in the World; and (3) Reading Tayeb Salih's Non-fiction. Programme timings are available at https://www.sudaneseprogramme.org/
Please join us for all or part of the day, all are welcome. Registration is essential:
In-person attendance: Please email Dr Ahmed Al-Shahi: namlas159@gmail.com
Online attendance: Please register your details at https://tinyurl.com/TSP26May

Strategic Voting and Majority Rule

We exhibit a voting method for elections that is resistant to strategic voting and elects the majority winner (i.e., the Condorcet winner) when voters’ preferences over candidates are single-peaked, meaning that a voter prefers candidates closer to her in ideology to those further away. Moreover, we show that this system is essentially the unique strategy-resistant method among all voting systems satisfying anonymity (equal treatment of voters) and neutrality (equal treatment of candidates) for single-peaked preferences.

Ideology Without Unity: The Logic of Xi Jinping Thought

This talk reconceptualizes Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics ('Xi Thought') not as a coherent doctrine but as a rhizomatic ideological formation. Drawing on Deleuze and Guattari, it treats Xi Thought as a configuration in which coherence is not presupposed but produced through the continual recombination of fragments across institutional sites. Based on an analysis of official publications, including collected works, excerpt volumes, and study readers, Prof.
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