Calendar of Events
Week beginning Monday 22 April 2013
Monday 22 April 2013
5.15pm:
5.15pm:
6.00pm:
- Beautifying the Body in Ancient Africa and Today
Christelle Kedi (author); Joe Okwesa; Chaired by Paul Asquith
Tuesday 23 April 2013
5.00pm:
- Upgrade presentations
Anneliese Smit, Wasitthee Chaiyakan
Anneliese Smit: The Dynamics of the Mao Cult in Tibet during the Cultural Revolution
Wasitthee Chaiyakan: Pan-Tai Notions in Thai Text Books
5.00pm:
- Building Nations, Breaking Communities: the Locality of Caste Violence in Colonial North India
Mridu Rai (Trinity College, Dublin)
Wednesday 24 April 2013
3.00pm:
- Spanish-Welsh Bilingualism in Patagonia
Prof. Margaret Deuchar, Bangor Univeristy
This workshop will deal with the process involved in building multilingual corpora, including the initial stage of planning, data collection, data transcription and analysis.
6.30pm:
- Transforming Beauty: Artistic and Cultural Contacts Between The Middle East and Europe
Professor Anna Contadini
The Inaugural Lecture of Professor Anna Contadini.
6.45pm:
- Pashtoun Literature
James Caron
Thursday 25 April 2013
2.00pm:
- A day of Tangut studies: a celebration of language and culture in China's Xixia Dynasty
The speakers will include Dr. Liu Changqing (Ningxia University), Dr. Imre Galambos (Cambridge), Dr. Guillaume Jacques (CRLAO, CNRS), Dr. Andrew West.
5.30pm:
- The Timurid Kalila wa Dimna in the Gulistan Library
Massoumeh Assemi
7.00pm:
- Saharawi songstress with international attitude
Aziza Brahim
- Saharawi songstress with international attitude
Friday 26 April 2013
5.00pm:
- SDS Conference 2013 - 'A Future Without Immigration Detention?'
Various Speakers
5.15pm:
- Imperial Indo-Persian Treatments of Sanskrit Stories and Knowledge Systems
Dr Audrey Truschke
