Calendar of Events
Week beginning Monday 18 February 2013
Monday 18 February 2013
5.15pm:
5.15pm:
6.15pm:
- The royal palaces of the Late Assyrian empire
David Kertai (UCL)
Tuesday 19 February 2013
3.30pm:
- Aspect across languages: the case of the Spanish Perfective but progressive
Maria Arche, University of Greenwich
5.00pm:
- Rethinking Development: China’s Development ‘Model’
Jennifer Hsu (Political Science, Alberta)
5.00pm:
- Shatter Zones and Lines of Flight: How Philippine History Shapes the Global Market for Caring Labour
Deirdre MacKay, Keele University
5.00pm:
- Jute mill companies and managing agencies in colonial Bengal, 1870-1921
Alexis Wearmoth (University of Dundee)
5.00pm:
- Woman's body as “awrah” in Muslim legal tradition
Ziba Mir-Hosseini, Centre for Middle Eastern and Islamic Law, SOAS
5.15pm:
- title to be announced
Dr Emma Brinkhurst
5.15pm:
- Ubunto and Development
David Marsden (SOAS) and Alex Ankrah (Tutu Foundation)
5.45pm:
- Iran's Nuclear Programme: A Surge into Modernity
David Patrikarakos, Author and Journalist
Part of the LMEI's Tuesday Evening Lecture Programme on the Contemporary Middle East, The Middle East - Changing Economic and Political Landscapes.
5.45pm:
- Dakwah at the cinema: Identifying Indonesia's 'Islamic' Film as a genre
Alicia Izharuddin (Centre for Gender Studies, SOAS)
Wednesday 20 February 2013
1.00pm:
- Postcolonial Italian Studies: Anti-colonial Foundational Myths, Colonial Amnesia, and Neo-colonial Ambitions
Dr Simone Brioni, University of Warwick
1.00pm:
- Dead Birds, 1963, 83 min.
Robert Gardner
1.00pm:
- Inventors or Compilers: The Role of Qur’anic Fragments in Literary Compilation Works
Nuha al-Sha‘ar (American University of Sharja)
3.00pm:
- Doing and Being Done by Law: Notes Towards a Materialist Account of the History of International Human Rights Law
Mr Paavo Kotiaho (University of Helsinki)
3.00pm:
- Disciplining the everday state: anti-corruption activism in Delhi'
Dr. Martin Webb, Sussex
5.00pm:
- Unfitting Parts: the Moral, Political, and Informal Economies of Japanese Organ Transplants
Alessia Costa (2012-13 Tsuda Bursary Recipient)
5.00pm:
- Exclusive Religious Identities and Shared Spiritual Cosmologies in the British South Asian Diaspora
Virinder Kalra (University of Manchester)
5.15pm:
- Memorialising African Slavery in Brazil on Film
Shihan de Silva (ICS); Hebe Mattos (University Federal Fluminense/Brazil); Carolina Moraes-Liu (Independent Producer)
Part of the History on Film | Slavery & The African Diaspora From a Global Perspective Workshops and Film Screenings
5.15pm:
- Disciplining the Everyday State? Anti-Corruption and Right to Information Activism in Delhi
Martin Webb (Birkbeck / Sussex)
6.00pm:
- How the UK learnt to deal with Taiwan: Trade and politics 1960-1980
Mike Hoare (SOAS)
Based on newly available archival data, this lecture describes the fraught process through which the British government came to terms with pressure to open up trade with Taiwan between 1960 and 1980, while the Foreign Office struggled to maintain the fiction that Britain could not recognize or deal with the ROC for fear of Beijing.
Thursday 21 February 2013
5.00pm:
- The Feminist Judgements Project.
Professor Rosemary Hunter, School of Law, University of Kent.
The UK Feminist Judgments Project and other feminist judgment-writing projects provide a fruitful source of both empirical data and theoretical reflections on processes of feminist judg(e)ment. In this paper I consider the extent to which a feminist ethics of care has informed – or might inform – feminist judging, and the potential value and limitations of such an approach.
5.00pm:
- Postgraduate Open Evening
Representatives from departments across the School will be available to answer your questions about postgraduate studies at SOAS.
5.15pm:
- Agrarian systems and food provisioning strategies in rural South Africa
Elizabeth Hull (department of Anthropology, SOAS)
5.30pm:
- 'That Obscure Object of Desire': Desi Porn in the Age of World Wide Web
Bhaskar Mukhopadhyay (Goldsmiths College)
6.30pm:
- Sbyin-pa (Compassionate Giving), one of the six Paramitras
Arjia Rinpoche
Friday 22 February 2013
10.00am:
- IllumiNations: Reflections of global culture: Languages and cultures festival for children at SOAS
Various Speakers
SOAS, University of London students are organising language-event IllumiNations where visitors can experience the diversity of language and culture through a range of interactive events and activities.
1.15pm:
- Rice supply and State Building in Jiangnan and Taiwan, 1949-1953
Julia Strauss, Senior Lecturer in Chinese Politics, SOAS, University of London
3.00pm:
- Face to Face with Lung Ying-tai
Dr. Lung Ying-Tai (Minister of Culture, Taiwan)
Since May 2012, Dr. Lung Ying-tai has served as Taiwan's first Minister of Culture. Part of her mission is to promote sustainable peace across the Taiwan Strait through cultural exchanges. In this informal gather, Minister Lung takes questions from the audience and shares her views on cultural issues.
5.15pm:
- The body, territory and national identity in "stories about Kubo" by Pak T’ae-wǒn, Ch’oe In-hun and Chu In-sǒk
Justyna Najbar (Warsaw University)
5.30pm:
- “We’re Indian and African”: Sidis of India
Shihan de Silva (Institute of Commonwealth Studies)
7.00pm:
- Arabic soundscapes from an exceptional soloist
Maya Youssef
- Arabic soundscapes from an exceptional soloist
Saturday 23 February 2013
9.00am:
- Jai Bhim Comrade
Anand Patwardhan (Director)
