Calendar of Events
Week beginning Monday 20 May 2013
Monday 20 May 2013
9.00am:
- Endangered Languages Week 2013 - Celebrating our Sounds, Signs and Songs
Various speakers
Endangered Languages Week 2013 presents a variety of workshops, talks, films, demonstrations, debate, and more. All events are free of charge and open to anyone who is interested in languages.
5.15pm:
- This Land Is Your Land, This Land Is My Land: Negotiating between Physical Geography and Political State in Yi Sang's "Miscellaneous Writings by Autumn Lamplight"
John Frankl (Associate Professor of Korean and Comparative Literature, Yonsei University)
5.30pm:
Tuesday 21 May 2013
1.00pm:
3.30pm:
- Multilingualism as epistemic resource: rethinking ‘languages’ in educational policy
Caroline Kerfoot, Stockholm University
Wednesday 22 May 2013
9.30am:
- The Bhutanese Refugee Re-settlement Experience
Various
The workshop will bring together researchers from across the globe working on different aspects of the re-settlement process and provide a platform to develop themes for future research, share ideas and explore the potential for working collaboratively.
1.00pm:
5.00pm:
- Christian Religious Practices in Early Modern Japan
Carla Tronu Montane (Autonomous University of Madrid)
5.00pm:
- 'Identifying the Indian: Immigration officials in Cape Town, South Africa and Wives and Children from the Indian Subcontinent in the Early Years of the Twentieth Century'
Uma Mesthrie (University of the Western Cape)
Jointly with SOAS Centre for Migration and Diaspora Studies
6.30pm:
- Variations on a Persian Theme: maps as messages
Francis Herbert Hon. FRGS FBCart.S
Lecture followed by a reception to mark the rare Persian map collection donated to the Centre for Iranian Studies at SOAS by Dr Cyrus Ala'i.
6.45pm:
- Iraqi Literature in Translation
Nadia Atia
Thursday 23 May 2013
9.30am:
- LIDC Bi-Annual Conference ‘Five years of interdisciplinary research in development – looking back and looking forward’
Various Speakers
London International Development Centre (LIDC) is inviting all its members - staff, students and alumni from Bloomsbury Colleges, to the first LIDC Bi-Annual Conference on 23 May 2013, to celebrate five years of successful interdisciplinary research in international development and to look forward.
1.00pm:
- Teaching the Abrahamic Religions: A Subversive Enterprise?
Guy G. Stroumsa
5.00pm:
- The Jesuit Mission Press in Early Modern Japan
Professor Ikuo Higashibaba (Tenri University)
5.00pm:
- The Jesuit Mission Press in Early Modern Japan
Professor Ikuo Higashibaba (Tenri University)
5.00pm:
- Game changers? Multilingual learners in a Cape Flats primary school (South Africa)
Caroline Kerfoot (Centre for Research on Bilingualism, Stockholm University)
A Seminar about Multilingualism in South Africa
(as part of the Endangered Languages Week 2013)
6.00pm:
Friday 24 May 2013
10.00am:
- Sixth Austronesian and Papuan Languages and Linguistics conference, 2013
Keynote speaker: Nikolaus P. Himmelmann (Universität zu Köln)
3.00pm:
- Translating Ramayana
Arshia Sattar (Independent Scholar)
