Calendar of Events
Week beginning Monday 14 January 2013
Monday 14 January 2013
5.15pm:
- Remember, remember: the changing memory of World War One in Palestine
Roberto Mazza (Western Illinois University)
5.30pm:
- Hanif Kureishi's "The Black Album" (1995)
Kavita Ramdya (SOAS)
5.30pm:
- Killing in the Name of the King: Thailand’s Political Developments Since the 2006 Coup
Pavin Chachavalpongpun (Kyoto University)
6.15pm:
- Administering slavery in ancient Egypt
Christopher Eyre (Liverpool)
7.00pm:
- Yarshater Lecture Series - Images and Decor in the Persianate World
Professor Yves Porter (Department of History, University of Aix-Marseille, France)
Use and re-use of Persian Tiles
Tuesday 15 January 2013
1.00pm:
- Shanghai Triad
Dr Lars Laamann
3.00pm:
3.30pm:
- Polar Eskimo: some initial thoughts and phenomenological observations
Stephen Pax Leonard, Scott Polar Research Institute/Trinity
5.00pm:
- When daughters migrate and mothers do not: girl children workers in India
Deepita Chakravarty (Department of Economics, SOAS)
5.00pm:
- Drawing the Socialist Camp Together: Chinese cartoonists and their trans-socialist links after 1949
Jennifer Altehenger, King’s College
5.00pm:
- Shari'at and Muslim community in colonial Punjab, 1865-85
Robert Ivermee (University of Kent)
5.00pm:
- Fantastic Bodies: Some Reflections on Religion and Body in Science Fiction Films
Alexander Ornella, Department of Humanities: Religion, University of Hull
5.45pm:
- Re-conceptualising zakat in Indonesia: worship, philantropy, and property rights
Kostas Retsikas (SOAS, Univeristy of London)
5.45pm:
- Exit the Colonel: The Hidden History of the Libyan Revolution
Ethan Chorin, Berkeley Research Group
Ethan Chorin discusses his recently-published book, Exit the Colonel: The Hidden History of the Libyan Revolution (PublicAffairs Books, 2012).
7.00pm:
- Yarshater Lecture Series - Images and Decor in the Persianate World
Professor Yves Porter (Department of History, University of Aix-Marseille, France)
Glazed Tiles in the Indian Sultanates
Wednesday 16 January 2013
1.00pm:
1.00pm:
- Robert Flaherty, Nanook of the North, 1922, 55 min.
Robert Flaherty
1.00pm:
- Armour Poems of Abul Ala al-Maarri
Peter Philips (SOAS, University of London)
3.00pm:
3.00pm:
- Justice and Politics: The World of Thai Judges
Professor Duncan McCargo (Leeds)
5.00pm:
- The Department Store, the Mannequin Girl, and the Politics of the Gaze in 1930s Japan
Irena Hayter (University of Leeds)
5.30pm:
- India, a 'Rising Power' and Africa: Challenges
Dr Sumit Roy (School of International Relations and Strategic Studies, Jadavpur University,Kolkata,India)
5.30pm:
6.30pm:
6.30pm:
- A Life Writing About Food
Claudia Roden
7.00pm:
- Torture, Drones, and Detention: The Vagaries of Liberal Warfare
Lisa Hajjar & Laleh Khalili
Lisa Hajjar & Laleh Khalili
in conversationTorture, Drones, and Detention: The Vagaries of Liberal Warfare
Wednesday 16 January, 7-8.30 with reception following
Khalili Lecture Theatre
Thursday 17 January 2013
5.00pm:
- Gondar's Child: Songs, Honor and Identity Among Ethiopian Jews In Israel
Dr Marilyn Herman (author); Chair: Dr Shihan de Silva Jayasuriya
Book Launch
5.15pm:
- Breaking Dependency and Monopolies: Post-1994 Rwanda's Liberalized Coffee Sector
Pritish Behuria (Department of Development Studies, SOAS)
5.30pm:
- Glass in Turkish-Islamic Tradition: An Insight to the Beykoz Glass Factory
Dr. Ergün Lafli, Dokuz Eylul Universitesi
5.30pm:
- Consuming Modernity: Religious Consumption, the West and Emerging Middle-Class Culture in Lahore, Pakistan
Ammara Maqsood (University of Oxford)
6.30pm:
- Prof Peter Mollinga: Our Uncommon Future - A Critical Perspective on Global Environmental Governance
Professor Peter Mollinga
Friday 18 January 2013
10.00am:
- Endangered Textile Traditions
Various Speakers
The WEFT exhibition is launched with a symposium titled Endangered Textile Traditions to be held at SOAS on the 18th and 19th of January.
10.30am:
- World Eco Fibre & Textile (WEFT) Art
WEFT explores the three dimensionality of textile art through installations and sculptural constructions, where contemporary textile artists are currently taking fibre sculpture into new areas.
10.30am:
- Sacred London
A portrait of a Tamil Community in North London photographs by Chiara Contrino
1.15pm:
- The Spread of Smaller Scale Rural Mechanisation in some South Asian Countries
Stephen Biggs, Research Fellow, School of International Development, University of East Anglia
5.00pm:
- Humanitarian Intervention and US Policy
Prof Thomas Weiss
5.15pm:
- Korean Cannibalism: Production of Transgression in a Climate of Social Ills
Dr Se-Woong Koo (Center for Korean Studies) École des Hautes Études
Saturday 19 January 2013
6.30pm:
- Poetry, Satire, Music, Dance - Announcing the winners of the Jaleh Esfahani Poetry Prize
With Satirist Haroon Yousofi, the music ensemble Mahalat Ajam and dance by Flamenco South.
