Calendar of Events
Week beginning Monday 11 March 2013
Monday 11 March 2013
3.00pm:
- Africa: Opportunities and Challenges
Roger Nord (Deputy Director of the IMF’s African Department)
5.15pm:
- Pietism in Ottoman Islam: The case of Birgivī’s al-Ṭarīqa al-muḥammadiyya
Katharina Ivanyi (Saint Michael’s College, Vermont)
5.30pm:
- Jhumpa Lahiri's "Interpreter of Maladies" (1999)
Kavita Ramdya (SOAS)
6.15pm:
- Investigating life in Egyptian Kush: The latest results from Amara West
Neal Spencer (British Museum)
Tuesday 12 March 2013
5.00pm:
- Producing urban asylum: forced migration and the city
Jonathan Darling (Geography, Manchester)
5.00pm:
- The Andaman “Local Born”: a history of ex-convicts and their descendants in the Bay of Bengal
Clare Anderson (University of Leicester)
5.00pm:
- Research Student Seminar
Longdu Shi
5.15pm:
- Hybridity and fusion in a Java-Japan dance experiment
Dr Felicia Hughes-Freeland Research Associate, Centre of Southeast Asian Studies, SOAS
5.15pm:
- Social Development 2015 and beyond?
Jen Marshall (DFID)
5.30pm:
5.45pm:
- Revolt in Syria: Eye-Witness to the Uprising
Stephen Starr, freelance 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:
7.00pm:
- The Modern Griot
Sunara Begum (artist and film-maker); Tunde Jegede (composer and multi-instrumentalist); Angela Impey (SOAS, University of London)
Where Old traditions meet the New
Wednesday 13 March 2013
1.00pm:
- Cannibal Tours, 1987, 70 min.
Dennis O’Rourke
3.00pm:
- Lost in Translation? Non-State Actors and the Transnational Movement of Procedural Law
Professor Peter Katzenstein (Cornell)
3.00pm:
- Militant Masks: Youth and radical insecurity in the Niger Delta
Dr. David Pratten, Oxford University
5.00pm:
- Continental Visions:The Radical Economics of African Unity in 1960s Ghana
Gerardo Serra (LSE)
5.00pm:
5.00pm:
- Khamosh Pani
Directed by (Sabiya Sumar)
5.00pm:
- The Voice of the Sinophone: Silence and Sound in Contemporary Transnational “Chinese” Cinemas
Dr. Songhwee Lim (Exeter University)
6.00pm:
- Prewar revolutionary culture and the Fukushima Catastrophe
Norma Field (University of Chicago, Robert S. Ingersoll Distinguished Service Professor Emerita)
6.00pm:
- The US Military and American Commitment to Taiwan’s Security
Prof. Steve Tsang (Nottingham)
This talk focuses on how the U.S. military assesses the threat of a Taiwan Strait crisis over the next two decades, America’s possible responses, and the U.S. capacity for effective intervention. It examines the drivers behind the U.S. approach, highlighting their implications.
6.30pm:
7.00pm:
- The Vulnerabilities of Authoritarian Upgrading in Yemen
Larissa Alles
A lecture by Larissa Alles, recipient of last year’s British-Yemeni Society academic grant.
Thursday 14 March 2013
5.00pm:
- Interpretations and Transformations of the ‘Mother of All Buddhas’ in Medieval Shingon Buddhism
Steven Trenson (Kyōto University)
5.15pm:
- The Tribal Question: Adivasis and the Maoist Movement in India
George Kunnath (School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies, Oxford)
5.30pm:
5.30pm:
- A Spanish lustreware dish from the Courtauld Gallery
Tanja Tolar
Convened by Professor Anna Contadini, in collaboration with the Courtauld Gallery.
5.30pm:
- 'The Errant Eye' and Mughal Pastoral Poetry
Sunil Sharma
6.00pm:
- Book launch: Imaging and Imagining Taiwan Identity representation and cultural politics
Dr. Bi-yu Chang (SOAS) & Dr. Andy Birtwistle (Canterbury Christ Church)
Since the 1990s the issue of identity has been one of the most prominent and hotly-debated topics in Taiwan Studies. Imaging and Imagining Taiwan takes a fresh approach to this important topic, examining Taiwanese identity from a visual perspective and exploring the ways in which the island is presented and imagined.
Friday 15 March 2013
1.15pm:
- Milk, Muck and Red Tape: Quality Assurance Schemes and Farmers' Record keeping Practices in the French and UK Dairy Sectors
Laura Sayre, Research Associate, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Dijon
5.30pm:
- Archaeology of a text: creation and redaction of Tibetan history
Dr Michael Willis (British Museum)
bSam yas is Tibet's earliest Buddhist establishment. Apart from a short foundation inscription, we depend on later histories the institution's development. The oldest of the later histories is known as the "Testimony of BA" and dates to about 1000 CE. This lecture looks at the 'Testament of Ba', the earliest such history, and explores how Tibetans constructed their history and identity.
7.00pm:
- Japanese folk tunes & tales - for everyone!
ABEYA
- Japanese folk tunes & tales - for everyone!
Saturday 16 March 2013
9.00am:
- Technologies of Imperialism: Law in Contemporary and Historical Perspective
A Masters Student Symposium
