Calendar of Events
Week beginning Monday 15 March 2010
Monday 15 March 2010
5.00pm:
- An Illustrated Journey into Jewish Baghdad
Tony and Mira Rocca
5.00pm:
- China-Africa Security Relations: Prospects and Challenges
Chin-Hao Huang (USC)
5.00pm:
- China-Africa Security relations: prospects, challenges and policy implications
Chin-Hao Huang (Joel Micah Schwartz Fellow, University of Southern California)
China's expansive engagement in Africa has drawn much critical commentary, especially regarding diplomatic support to Khartoum, with respect to Darfur, and to Zimbabwe.
5.15pm:
- Shari'a court in West Jerusalem: a site of Palestinian resistance
Ido Shahar, Queen Mary, University of London
6.00pm:
- “Do All Roads Lead to Mexico?” International Climate Negotiations post-Copenhagen
Panel: Saleem Huq (IIED), M.J Mace (Independent Legal Consultant), Linda Siegele (FIELD), Phillipe Cullet (SOAS)
Tuesday 16 March 2010
1.00pm:
5.00pm:
- Seminar: TBC
Dr Lee Wilson (Cambridge)
Wednesday 17 March 2010
1.00pm:
- Jacques Berque's Analysis of Political Islam in N.Africa in the 1930's & 1940's: Past & Present
Clair Spencer (Head of Middle East & N.Africa Programme, Chatham House)
3.00pm:
- The hidden dimensions of polygyny
Professor Paul Spencer (SOAS)
5.00pm:
- Seminar: Introducing the project "Verb Semantics and Argument Realization in Pre-Modern Japanese"
Bjarke Frellesvig, Stephen Horn, Kerri Russell (Oxford) and Peter Sells (SOAS)
5.00pm:
5.00pm:
- Mapping Migrancy and Familiarity through Screen Media
Lindiwe Dovey (Africa Department, SOAS)
5.15pm:
- Study Abroad: Outcomes, Research and Good Practices
Professor Jim Coleman
5.30pm:
- The Noble Lasso of Methods: A Mah?yoga Text from Dunhuang and its Transmission in Tibet
Dr Robert Mayer & Dr Cathy Cantwell (Oxford University)
5.30pm:
- Between Notables and Revolutionaries: a political sociology of Shia communities in Eastern Saudi Arabia
Toby Matthiesen, SOAS
Society for Arabian Studies Lecture
6.00pm:
- Labour Resistance and Authoritarian Legacy: Independent Trade Unions in Taiwan
Chiu Yu-bin (Essex)
- The independent labour movement, emerging from the political transition in the late 1980s, was one of the leading forces of social reform in Taiwan. By reviewing the critical juncture of newborn trade union movement in the early 1990s, this paper argues that the institutional legacy of authoritarian rule and the capacity of movement to manage the legacy are the key to understand the independent labour movement in new democracies.
6.30pm:
- 2010: The case for a light footprint: Rethinking the international project in Afghanistan
Astri Suhrke (Chr Michelsen Institute)
This years Anthony Hyman Memorial lecture will be given by Astri Suhrke, Senior Researcher at the Chr. Michelsen Institute in Bergen.
7.00pm:
- Ottoman History as Seen by Baroque Artists
Professor Hans Georg Majer - University of Munich
Thursday 18 March 2010
12.00pm:
- Opportunities and constraints for sustainable business: commodity production and labour markets in Uganda
Karin Wedig, Development Economist, SOAS
Labour market flexibility has heightened existing structural problems in Uganda.
3.00pm:
- Democracy and Foreign Aid: Taiwan’s Role in International Communities
Kwei-Bo Huang (MOFA, Taiwan); Francis Yi-hua Kan (National Chengchi University); Chih-wei Chou (Tamkang University); Judy Ying-ming Wong (MOFA, Taiwan)
5.00pm:
- Film Screening: Sthaniya Sambaad (Spring in the colony)
Director: Arjun Gourisaria and Moinak Biswas (Jadavpur University)
5.00pm:
- Christian Mission in Glocal Perspective: A Study of Christianity in Japan
Maki Salata (King's College)
6.00pm:
- 10th Annual Jaina Lecture: The Historical Development of the Jaina-Yoga System and the Impact of other Indian Yoga Systems on it: A Comparative and Critical Study
Sagarmal Jain (P?r?van?th Vidy?p??h, Varanasi)
7.00pm:
- Restoring the Splendour of Djenné: a cooperative venture between Mali and the Netherlands
Rogier Bedaux, Annette Schmidt (Volkenkunde Museum) and Pierre Maas (Architect)
Renowned archaeologists Rogier Bedaux and Annette Schmidt (Volkenkunde Museum, Leiden) are joined by Dutch architect Pierre Maas to discuss the challenges and triumphs of conserving Djenné’s historic mud houses for future generations.
Friday 19 March 2010
9.00am:
- 12th Jaina Studies Workshop: Jaina Yoga
The list of speakers is detailed below
- The 12th Jaina Studies Workshop explores the various notions of yoga and their developments as found in the textual traditions of Jainism as well as in contemporary Jaina practice.
12.00pm:
- The Chilcot Inquiry and the Legality of the Iraq War
Professor Philippe Sands QC (UCL)
1.15pm:
- Markets and values: an analysis of organic farming initiatives in Andalusia
Dr. Peter Luetchford (Department of Anthropology, University of Sussex)
5.00pm:
- Seminar: Korean Adoptee Artists: Discourses of Migration, Exhile and Transversality
Dr Aino Rinhaug (University of Oslo)
6.00pm:
- The Meaning of the Hemp-Leaf (Asa-no-ha) Motif in Kabuki Costume (in Japanese) and Viewing and Reviewing Nishikawa’s Inkwell: An Ehon by Sukenobu
Mizuho Kamo (PhD Candidate, Ritsumeikan University) and Jenny Preston (PhD Candidate, SOAS, University of London)
