Calendar of Events
Week beginning Monday 14 May 2012
Monday 14 May 2012
5.30pm:
- Opening lecture: How Islam Saved the Jews
Prof. David J. Wasserstein (Vanderbilt University, U.S.A)
7.30pm:
- FRENEMIES + Jigsaw
Stand-up comedy evening.
Tuesday 15 May 2012
1.00pm:
- Seminar One:The World Muhammad Made
Prof. David J. Wasserstein (Vanderbilt University, U.S.A)
3.30pm:
5.00pm:
- Final Year Research Presentations
Matthew Philips, Han Lifeng
- Forming the Public Relations State: Thai Identity through Representation
Matthew Philips - The Popular Sai Ritual and the Economy of Local Festivals in Song China, 960-1279
Han Lifeng
- Forming the Public Relations State: Thai Identity through Representation
5.30pm:
6.00pm:
- The First President: A life of John L Dube, Founding President of the ANC
Heather Hughes (author); Professor Shula Marks
Wednesday 16 May 2012
9.00am:
- Musical Geographies Of Central Asia
Various Speakers
An international conference and concert presented by the Institute of Musical Research and the Department of Music at SOAS, in collaboration with the Aga Khan Music Initiative, a programme of the Aga Khan Trust for Culture.
1.00pm:
- Seminar Two: The Great Westwards Shift
Prof. David J. Wasserstein (Vanderbilt University, U.S.A)
5.00pm:
7.00pm:
- A lecture to celebrate the life and work of Ernst J. Grube: 1932–2011: The Edmund de Unger Ewer: an Early Fatimid Rock Crystal Ewer in Context
Professor Jeremy Johns, Professor of the Art and Archaeology of the Islamic Mediterranean Director, Khalili Research Centre for the Art and Material Culture of the Middle East, University of Oxford
Thursday 17 May 2012
1.00pm:
- Seminar Three: How It Really Was
Prof. David J. Wasserstein (Vanderbilt University, U.S.A)
5.00pm:
- Suad Amiry and Palestinian Life Writing
Professor Bart Moore-Gilbert, Professor of Postcolonial Studies and English, Department of English and Comparative Literature, Goldsmiths College, University of London
5.00pm:
- Nights at the Brunei - Kolam and Rangoli Workshop and Live Music
Various Speakers
After hours at the Brunei Gallery
6.30pm:
- Introduction to Ancient Mongolian Buddhist Scriptures
Prof. Delger Borjigin
Friday 18 May 2012
3.00pm:
- Why do Chinese Paintings have Inscriptions?
Alfreda Murck, Independent Scholar
5.00pm:
- On the Performative Mechanisms of Politeness in Modern Korean
Dr Myung Uhn Kim
