Calendar of Events
Week beginning Monday 28 January 2013
Monday 28 January 2013
5.15pm:
- The Moving Medium: Historical. Photographs and the Aesthetic Representation of China?s Twentieth-Century Past
Margaret Hillenbrand (University of Oxford)
We regret to inform you that this event has been cancelled.
5.15pm:
- The deposition of Defterdar Ahmed Pasha and the rule of law in seventeenth-century Egypt
James E. Baldwin (Queen Mary)
6.15pm:
- The development of graffiti practices in Karnak: New work at the temple of Ptah
Elizabeth Frood (Oxford)
7.00pm:
- Monthly Film Screening: In Search of a Healer & Throw a Stone into the Water
- Two documentaries by Hassan Solhjoo.
Tuesday 29 January 2013
11.00am:
- SOAS Writing Week 2013
Time for the third SOAS Writing Week with events for students and staff to celebrate writing in its wide and diverse forms.
3.30pm:
- FLEx - A software tool for storing and exploring language and cultural data
Tim Gaved, SOAS/SIL
5.00pm:
- Gender, Law and Justice in a Global Market
Ann Stewart (School of Law, Warwick University)
5.00pm:
5.00pm:
- The 'continuity' problem in Indian environmental historiography
Subhir Sinha (SOAS)
5.00pm:
- Multilingualism and Writing Systems in Cameroon: From King Njoya’s Shumum to the General Alphabet of Cameroonian Languages
Dr Seraphin Kamdem (SOAS, University of London); Chaired by Professor Graham Furniss
5.00pm:
- Research Student Seminar
Jonathon O’Donnell
5.45pm:
- Women's perceptions of access to justice in Iran
Sahar Maranlou, University of Warwick
Part of the LMEI's Tuesday Evening Lecture Programme on the Contemporary Middle East, The Middle East - Changing Economic and Political Landscapes.
6.30pm:
- Book Launch - 'Race, Racism and Development'
Kalpana Wilson (author, Birkbeck/ LSE), Firoze Manji (Head of Codesria's Documentation and Information Centre, Dakar) & Paru Raman (chair of the Centre for Migration and Diaspora Studies, SOAS)
Wednesday 30 January 2013
1.00pm:
- Arun Kolatkar and Literary Modernism in India
Dr. Laetitia Zecchini (CNRS, Paris)
1.00pm:
- The Hunters, 1957, 72 min.
John Marshall
1.00pm:
- Shahrastani on the ta’wīl of Surat al-Baqara
Toby Mayer (Institute of Ismaili Studies)
3.00pm:
- Business Feminism and the Transnational Governance of Gender
Professor Elisabeth Prügl (The Graduate Institute)
3.00pm:
- Urban community building and planning and residents’ responses in contemporary China
Prof. Stephan Feuchtwang, LSE
5.00pm:
- Japanese Literature after March 11th : first approaches
Anne Bayard-Sakai
5.00pm:
- The online dating as new field for sociological studies
Prof. Pascal Lardellier (University of Bourgogne, France)
5.00pm:
- Uncovering Fiebig's handcoloured photographs of Ceylon
Andrew Jarvis (Cambridge University)
5.00pm:
- The Documentary Moment (and Screening of Channel 4’s “New Model Army”)
Pratap Rughani (University of the Arts, London)
5.00pm:
- History on Film | Slavery & The African Diaspora From a Global Perspective
Various
Film Series and Panel Discussions
6.00pm:
- Vegetarianism in India
Monisha Bharadwaj (Author and chef)
7.00pm:
- Afro-Peruvian Criollo music: uplifting & vibrant
Malambo
- Afro-Peruvian Criollo music: uplifting & vibrant
7.00pm:
- Concentration of media ownership and the threat to democracy in Taiwan
Dr Monique Chu (SOAS), Dr Ming-yeh Rawnsley & Prof. Gary Rawnsley (Leeds) --moderated by Victor Chan of BBC
This event is co-organised by the Centre of Taiwan Studies, SOAS, and the student society “UK for Taiwan Media Freedom” as a round table forum.
Thursday 31 January 2013
12.00pm:
- Reflections on Nigeria's Forth Republic
Sylvester Odion Akhaine (Lagos State University and Centre for Constitutionalism and Demilitarisation)
5.00pm:
- Film Screening - "Dear Mandela" + Discussion
Dr Wayne Dooling (chair)
5.00pm:
5.30pm:
- The Gurkha's Daughter: Stories
Prajwal Parajuly (Author)
Prajwal Parajuly’s debut book, The Gurkha's Daughter: Stories, published by Quercus, has received rave reviews and now hits the stands in the UK after being on bestseller lists in South Asia.
6.30pm:
- 18th-20th century Mongolian Buddhist paintings and appliques
Zara Fleming
The most profound and long lasting influence on Mongolian art is that of Vajrayana Buddhism. This flourished for centuries under the patronage of the Khans, but in the 20th century it was all but annihilated under communism. This lecture explores this rich tradition of Buddhist art, identifying particular Mongolian characteristics in their thangkhas and appliques from the 18th to the 20th century.
6.30pm:
Friday 01 February 2013
9.30am:
- Word-order, information structure and language contact in Bantu
Key note speaker: Maarten Mous (University of Leiden)
11.00am:
- Equality and Diversity Overview FULL
Deb Viney
1.15pm:
- Creating a Zambian Breadbasket: 'Land Grabs' and Foreign Investments in Agriculture in Mkushi District, Zambia
Jessica Chu, Doctoral Candidate, Department of Anthropology and Food Studies Centre, SOAS, University of London
4.15pm:
- An Account of My Research on Romance of the Western Chamber and Beyond
Professor Wen-Chin HSU
5.15pm:
- The 1653 Calender Reform and the Dutch Castaways : Circulation of Knowledge and Involuntary Go-Betweeners (TBC)
Aurélien Laroulandie (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales [EHESS])
Saturday 02 February 2013
9.30am:
- Young African Diaspora Entrepreneurs - Exploiting your USP (Unique Selling Proposition)
Various speakers
Training Course (Certificate of Attendance)
