Calendar of Events
Week beginning Monday 21 January 2013
Monday 21 January 2013
10.00am:
- Supermarkets: A Workshop to Discuss an Emerging Field of Study
Prof Harry G. West, Dr. Michael Goodman, Dr. Emma-Jayne Abbots, and Dr. Ben Coles
5.15pm:
- Commercial Capitalism and the Ancestral Hall in Late Imperial China
Joe P. McDermott (Cambridge)
5.15pm:
5.30pm:
- Encounters, Cultural Flows and Hybridity in the Indian Ocean
Shihan de Silva (Institute of Commonwealth Studies)
5.30pm:
- Africa Research Student Network (AfNet) Launch
Professor Graham Furniss (SOAS, University of London); Michael Jennings (SOAS, University of London); Jonathan Harle (Association of Commonwealth University)
7.00pm:
- Cutting-edge klezmer from the Highlands
Moishe's Bagel Trio
- Cutting-edge klezmer from the Highlands
Tuesday 22 January 2013
3.00pm:
- Can the internet wake up dormant bilinguals?
Prof. Anne Pauwels
5.00pm:
- Aid and reconstruction in Haiti: A panel discussion to mark the anniversary of the 2010 earthquake
Peter Hallward (Kingston University), Andrew Leak (UCL and Haiti Solidarity Group) and Chiara Liguori (Amnesty International)
5.45pm:
- Shared Values of Singapore: Sexual Minority Rights as Singaporean Value
Phil W. Chan
We regret to inform you that this event has been cancelled.
5.45pm:
- Unfree in Palestine: Registration, Documentation and Movement Restriction
Nadia Abu-Zahra, University of Ottawa; Adah Kay, Cass Business School, City University, London
Part of the LMEI's Tuesday Evening Lecture Programme on the Contemporary Middle East, The Middle East - Changing Economic and Political Landscapes.
Wednesday 23 January 2013
9.30am:
- Research Supervision
John Wakeford
1.00pm:
3.00pm:
- Trans-sptial Protest: The Geography of Iranian Post-election Protest in the age of Web 2.0
Dr. Reza Masoudi-Nejad, SOAS
5.00pm:
- A Forgotten Buddhist Astronomy: History of "Bonreki" Movement in 19th Century Japan
Professor Masahiko Okada (Tenri University)
5.00pm:
- Borrowing across Borders: Migration, Credit and Migra-loans in Rural Cambodia
Maryann Bylander (SOAS)
5.00pm:
- A Forgotten Buddhist Astronomy: History of Bonreki Movement in 19th Century Japan
Masahiko Okada (Tenri University)
6.00pm:
- Comparing the Incomparable: Area Studies in a Networked World
Professor David Damrosch, Harvard University
6.00pm:
- Environmental Justice and Public Participation: A Case Study of Nuclear Waste Management and Policy in Taiwan
Chi-lun Huang (Newcastle)
This paper is an investigation into the public participation of Taiwan’s policy on nuclear waste disposal, concentrating on the ways in which dumping sites have been chosen, and on the wider implications of those choices.
Thursday 24 January 2013
5.00pm:
- When is peace? The Uncertain Outcome of Accord
Professor Cynthia Cockburn, Department of Sociology, City University London
Northern Ireland’s ‘Troubles’ were ended by the Good Friday Agreement of 1998, the ethno-national aggression in Bosnia-Herzegovina was halted by the Dayton Accord of 1995, and the Israel – Palestine conflict was slowed for some years by the Oslo Accords of 1993. Revisiting a study made by the author in these three countries during the late 1990s, this article draws on interviews conducted in 2012 with feminist activists of that earlier period.
5.00pm:
- Historical Documents and Cultural Materials in the Study of Modern Japanese Buddhism: Varieties of Materials in Bonreki Movement
Masahiko Okada (Tenri University)
5.00pm:
- Researching Citizenship Education in Post-Colonial Africa
Ridwan Osman (PhD Candidate, Cambridge University)
AfNet Seminar Series
5.05pm:
- The Changing Geography of Grain Cultivation in China and Its Environmental Impact
Chris Bramall (Department of Economics, SOAS)
5.30pm:
- Does 'Democracy' Mean Different Things in Pakistan, India, and the UK?
Dr Matthew Nelson (SOAS, University of London)
6.30pm:
Friday 25 January 2013
12.00pm:
- Protector or Occupier? Current Turkish Cypriot Perceptions of Turkey
Rebecca Bryant, LSE
1.15pm:
- Food, Peace and Human Thriving in a Changing World: New Paradigms and Practices for the 21st Century
Geoff Tansey, Writer, Consultant and Honorary Research Fellow, Department of Peace Studies, Bradford University and Centre for Rural Economy, Newcastle University
5.15pm:
- Martyrs and Murderers: The Korean Police Prepare for War, 1946-1950
Konrad Lawson (Max Weber Postdoctoral Fellow, European University Institute)
