Calendar of Events
Week beginning Monday 04 February 2013
Monday 04 February 2013
5.15pm:
- Floating Clouds and Feudal Commodifications: Family, Law and Reform in the Contemporary PRC
Professor Michael Palmer (Shantou University Law School, China)
5.15pm:
- Arun Kolatkar and modernism in India I: the ‘Bombay scene’ in the 60s
Laetitia Zecchini
5.15pm:
- Two weeks in the Sahara / Sahel: a long-term view of conflict in Mali and Algeria
Professor Jeremy Keenan (SOAS)
6.00pm:
Tuesday 05 February 2013
1.00pm:
3.00pm:
- Return of a King - The Battle for Afghanistan
William Dalrymple (Princeton University)
- Meet the author and buy signed copies of his book.
5.00pm:
- Macroeconomic Impact of Capital Flight on sub-Saharan Countries
John Weeks (Department of Economics, SOAS)
5.00pm:
- Dispirited: How Contemporary Spirituality makes us Stupid, Selfish and Unhappy
David Webster, Religion, Philosophy & Ethics, University of Gloucestershire
5.15pm:
5.15pm:
- title to be announced
Sam Lee
5.45pm:
- Immigration and trade: is there a link? Evidence from Australia
Abu Siddique (University of Western Australia)
5.45pm:
- The Art of Heritage Collection: traditional dress in Saudi Arabia
Aisa Martinez, LMEI
Part of the LMEI's Tuesday Evening Lecture Programme on the Contemporary Middle East, The Middle East - Changing Economic and Political Landscapes.
Wednesday 06 February 2013
9.00am:
- Undergraduate Open Day
- This Open Day is aimed at anyone interested in studying at SOAS at undergraduate level.
1.00pm:
- Moi, un noir, 1957, 80 min.
Jean Rouch
3.00pm:
- Into the Desert: Reflections on the 1990-1991 Gulf War
Jeffrey A. Engel
3.00pm:
- Postcoloniality and Sexuality in the Politics of Military Service and Citizenship
Dr Vron Ware (Open University)
3.00pm:
- Multidisciplinary Anthropology: film, history, arts and media
Dr. Giulia Battaglia, SOAS
3.00pm:
- The Three Red Lines and Water Policy/Institutional Reform in China in Global Context
Prof. James E Nickum
5.00pm:
- Cross-dressing as Lady Murasaki: Tokugawa vernacular translations of classical Japanese texts
Rebekah Clements (University of Cambridge)
5.00pm:
- Flocks without Shepherds? Sovereignty, Governmentality and the Paradoxical Politics of International Policy for the Protection of Internally Displaced Persons
Simon Addison (University of Manchester)
6.00pm:
- Documentary Screening: "Our Life Saving Vinegar” and “Memoir Of Miss Kuan” and Q&A with film maker Jeng Hsiao-ta
Jeng Hsiao-ta (SOAS)
In this seminar, we will screen a short film entitled "Our Life Saving Vinegar", which documents the difficulties of learning a new trade and leading a new life for former sex workers in Taiwan. The film also questions the government's policy and asks why prostitution is not an acceptable occupation in Taiwan. The film screening will be followed with Q&A with film maker Hsiao-ta Jeng.
6.30pm:
- Is Islamism the Arab Destiny?
Aziz Al-Azmeh, CEU University Professor, School of Historical and Interdisciplinary Studies, Central European University, Budapest
- Aziz Al-Azmeh is CEU University Professor in the School of Historical and Interdisciplinary Studies, Central European University, Budapest. Among his books in English are Islams and Modernities, The Times of History, and Muslim Kingship: Power and the Sacred in Christian, Muslim and Pagan Polities.
7.00pm:
- Venetian Reuse of Art Objects
Dr Stefania Gervini (Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca, Italy)
7.00pm:
- Secessionism and Civilian Targeting
Dr Tanisha Fazal
Thursday 07 February 2013
5.00pm:
- Generation and Ritual among young Shias in the UK
Kathryn Spellman Poots, Research Associate, London Middle East Institute, SOAS, University of London
Shia Muslims make up approximately fifteen percent of the estimated 2.8 million Muslims living in the UK, and come from a range of backgrounds including South Asian, East African, Iranian, Iraqi, Afghani, Lebanese, Bahraini, Saudi Arabian, and Yemeni. This paper will discuss the development of local and transnational Shi’a institutions and religious practices in British society, taking a gendered and generational view.
5.15pm:
- The physical materiality of the Indian Rice Economy
Barbara Harriss-White (School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies, Oxford)
5.15pm:
- Poetics of the infra-ordinary
Elvira Dyangani Ose (Curator, International Art, Supported by Guaranty Trust Bank Plc - Tate Modern); Chaired by Prof. John Picton (SOAS)
5.30pm:
- Informality, Islam, and Public Opinion on the Inter-Peripheries of South Asia
Dr James Caron (SOAS, University of London)
Friday 08 February 2013
1.15pm:
- ‘We Didn’t Want to Hear About Calories’: Rethinking Food Security, Food Power and Food Sovereignty - Lessons from the Gaza Closure
Aeyal Gross, Professor of Law, Tel Aviv University and Visiting Reader in Law, SOAS, University of London
5.15pm:
- Neo-Liberalism and the Strengthening of the Korean State
David Hundt (Deakin)
5.30pm:
- The study of the Ganden phodrang aristocracy (1895-1959): new results through prosopography
Dr Alice Travers (CNRS)
This presentation discusses a socio-historical investigation into the aristocracy of the central government of Tibet (1895-1959). Oral and written sources built into a computerized database provides a basis to analyze noble lineage and government service. The database gives new insights into the general development of careers and marriage patterns.
7.00pm:
- Deep, Resonant & Delicate Journeys on the Oud
Attab Haddad
- Deep, Resonant & Delicate Journeys on the Oud
Saturday 09 February 2013
9.40am:
- The Idea of Iran: From Saljuq Collapse to Mongol Conquest
The tenth programme in The Idea of Iran annual series.
