SOAS events http://www.soas.ac.uk/news Sat, 18 May 2013 10:48:02 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.soas.ac.uk/assets/footer_logo.png SOAS logo http://www.soas.ac.uk Gagaku and Japanese Tea ceremony http://www.soas.ac.uk/gallery/tenri/18may2013-gagaku-and-japanese-tea-ceremony.html

Date: 18 May 2013 01:00pm

Finishes:18 May 2013 04:30pm

Venue: Brunei Gallery

Room: Brunei Gallery Suite

Gagaku - Dr Hughes (SOAS) and Mr Shimizu, the head of Tenri cultural centre in Koln present Gagaku, the oldest surviving orchestra in the world.
Japanese tea ceremony – Enshuryu School presented by Master Mineko Miura from Holland.  

]]> Sat, 18 May 2013 12:00:00 +0100 Endangered Languages Week 2013 - Celebrating our Sounds, Signs and Songs http://www.soas.ac.uk/endangered-languages/

Date: 20 May 2013 09:00am

Finishes:28 May 2013 05:00pm

Venue: Russell Square: College Buildings

Room: Various rooms

Endangered Languages Week 2013 presents a variety of workshops, talks, films, demonstrations, debate, and more. All events are free of charge and open to anyone who is interested in languages.

]]> Mon, 20 May 2013 08:00:00 +0100 Three Rings or Three Impostors? The Comparative Approach to the Abrahamic Religions and its Origins http://www.soas.ac.uk/religions/events/jordan-lectures-in-comparative-religion/20may2013-three-rings-or-three-impostors-the-comparative-approach-to-the-abrahamic-religions-and-its.html

Date: 20 May 2013 01:00pm

Finishes:20 May 2013 03:00pm

Venue: Russell Square: College Buildings

Room: L67

]]> Mon, 20 May 2013 12:00:00 +0100 This Land Is Your Land, This Land Is My Land: Negotiating between Physical Geography and ... http://www.soas.ac.uk/koreanstudies/events/seminars/20may2013-this-land-is-your-land-this-land-is-my-land-negotiating-between-physical-geography-and-pol.html

Date: 20 May 2013 05:15pm

Finishes:20 May 2013 07:00pm

Venue: Russell Square: College Buildings

Room: 4421

]]> Mon, 20 May 2013 16:15:00 +0100 Three Orientalists on Judaism and Islam: Ernest Renan, Julius Wellhausen and William Robertson Smith http://www.soas.ac.uk/religions/events/jordan-lectures-in-comparative-religion/21may2013-three-orientalists-on-judaism-and-islam-ernest-renan-julius-wellhausen-and-william-roberts.html

Date: 21 May 2013 01:00pm

Finishes:21 May 2013 03:00pm

Venue: Russell Square: College Buildings

Room: L67

]]> Tue, 21 May 2013 12:00:00 +0100 Multilingualism as epistemic resource: rethinking ‘languages’ in educational policy http://www.soas.ac.uk/linguistics/events/21may2013-multilingualism-as-epistemic-resource-rethinking-languages-in-educational-policy.html

Date: 21 May 2013 03:30pm

Finishes:21 May 2013 05:00pm

Venue: Russell Square: College Buildings

Room: 4418

]]> Tue, 21 May 2013 14:30:00 +0100 French and British Agents at the Court of the Nizam of Hyderabad, 1750-1820 http://www.soas.ac.uk/history/events/sahistseminar/21may2013-french-and-british-agents-at-the-court-of-the-nizam-of-hyderabad-1750-1820.html

Date: 21 May 2013 05:00pm

Finishes:21 May 2013 06:30pm

Venue: Brunei Gallery

Room: B104

]]> Tue, 21 May 2013 16:00:00 +0100 State-Nationalisms in the Ottoman Empire, Greece and Turkey http://www.soas.ac.uk/lmei/events/turkey/21may2013-state-nationalisms-in-the-ottoman-empire-greece-and-turkey.html

Date: 21 May 2013 06:00pm

Finishes:21 May 2013 08:00pm

Venue: Russell Square: College Buildings

Room: 116

]]> Tue, 21 May 2013 17:00:00 +0100 The Bhutanese Refugee Re-settlement Experience http://www.soas.ac.uk/southasianstudies/events/bhutanese-refugee-re-settlement-workshop/22may2013-the-bhutanese-refugee-re-settlement-experience.html

Date: 22 May 2013 09:30am

Finishes:23 May 2013 06:00pm

Venue: Russell Square: College Buildings

Room: B111 and L67

The workshop will bring together researchers from across the globe working on different aspects of the re-settlement process and provide a platform to develop themes for future research, share ideas and explore the potential for working collaboratively.

]]> Wed, 22 May 2013 08:30:00 +0100 Islam in the Mind of Europe: Abraham Geiger, Ignaz Goldziher and Louis Massignon http://www.soas.ac.uk/religions/events/jordan-lectures-in-comparative-religion/22may2013-islam-in-the-mind-of-europe-abraham-geiger-ignaz-goldziher-and-louis-massignon.html

Date: 22 May 2013 01:00pm

Finishes:22 May 2013 03:00pm

Venue: Russell Square: College Buildings

Room: L67

]]> Wed, 22 May 2013 12:00:00 +0100 Christian Religious Practices in Early Modern Japan http://www.soas.ac.uk/csjr/events/22may2013-christian-religious-practices-in-early-modern-japan.html

Date: 22 May 2013 05:00pm

Finishes:22 May 2013 06:30pm

Venue: Brunei Gallery

Room: B104

]]> Wed, 22 May 2013 16:00:00 +0100 'Identifying the Indian: Immigration officials in Cape Town, South Africa and Wives and ... http://www.soas.ac.uk/history/events/afhistseminar/22may2013-identifying-the-indian-immigration-officials-in-cape-town-south-africa-and-wives-and-child.html

Date: 22 May 2013 05:00pm

Finishes:22 May 2013 06:30pm

Venue: Faber Building

Room: FG01

Jointly with SOAS Centre for Migration and Diaspora Studies

]]> Wed, 22 May 2013 16:00:00 +0100 Variations on a Persian Theme: maps as messages http://www.soas.ac.uk/lmei-cis/events/22may2013-variations-on-a-persian-theme-maps-as-messages.html

Date: 22 May 2013 06:00pm

Finishes:22 May 2013 08:30pm

Venue: Brunei Gallery

Room: Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre

Lecture followed by a reception to mark the rare Persian map collection donated to the Centre for Iranian Studies at SOAS by Dr Cyrus Ala'i.

]]> Wed, 22 May 2013 17:00:00 +0100 Iraqi Literature in Translation http://www.soas.ac.uk/cclps/cclps-reading-group/22may2013-iraqi-literature-in-translation.html

Date: 22 May 2013 06:45pm

Finishes:22 May 2013 08:00pm

Venue: other

Room:

]]> Wed, 22 May 2013 17:45:00 +0100 LIDC Bi-Annual Conference ‘Five years of interdisciplinary research in development – ... http://www.soas.ac.uk/lidc/events/23may2013-lidc-bi-annual-conference-five-years-of-interdisciplinary-research-in-development--looking.html

Date: 23 May 2013 09:30am

Finishes:23 May 2013 05:00pm

Venue: Birkbeck

Room: Room B01, Clore Management Centre, Birkbeck

London International Development Centre (LIDC) is inviting all its members - staff, students and alumni from Bloomsbury Colleges, to the first LIDC Bi-Annual Conference on 23 May 2013, to celebrate five years of successful interdisciplinary research in international development and to look forward.

]]> Thu, 23 May 2013 08:30:00 +0100 Teaching the Abrahamic Religions: A Subversive Enterprise? http://www.soas.ac.uk/religions/events/jordan-lectures-in-comparative-religion/23may2013-teaching-the-abrahamic-religions-a-subversive-enterprise.html

Date: 23 May 2013 01:00pm

Finishes:23 May 2013 03:00pm

Venue: Russell Square: College Buildings

Room: L67

]]> Thu, 23 May 2013 12:00:00 +0100 The Jesuit Mission Press in Early Modern Japan http://www.soas.ac.uk/gallery/tenri/23may2013-the-jesuit-mission-press-in-early-modern-japan.html

Date: 23 May 2013 05:00pm

Finishes:23 May 2013 06:30pm

Venue: Russell Square: College Buildings

Room: Khalili Lecture Theatre (KLT)

]]> Thu, 23 May 2013 16:00:00 +0100 The Jesuit Mission Press in Early Modern Japan http://www.soas.ac.uk/csjr/events/23may2013-the-jesuit-mission-press-in-early-modern-japan.html

Date: 23 May 2013 05:00pm

Finishes:23 May 2013 06:30pm

Venue: Russell Square: College Buildings

Room: Khalili Lecture Theatre

]]> Thu, 23 May 2013 16:00:00 +0100 Game changers? Multilingual learners in a Cape Flats primary school (South Africa) http://www.soas.ac.uk/cas/events/23may2013-game-changers-multilingual-learners-in-a-cape-flats-primary-school-south-africa.html

Date: 23 May 2013 05:00pm

Finishes:23 May 2013 07:00pm

Venue: Russell Square: College Buildings

Room: 4421

A Seminar about Multilingualism in South Africa

(as part of the Endangered Languages Week 2013)

]]> Thu, 23 May 2013 16:00:00 +0100 CISD Annual Lecture with John Ashton: 'On Climate Change: A War by Other Means' http://www.soas.ac.uk/cisd/events/23may2013-cisd-annual-lecture-with-john-ashton-on-climate-change-a-war-by-other-means-.html

Date: 23 May 2013 06:00pm

Finishes:23 May 2013 08:00pm

Venue: Brunei Gallery

Room: Brunei Gellery Lecture Theatre

]]> Thu, 23 May 2013 17:00:00 +0100 Sixth Austronesian and Papuan Languages and Linguistics conference, 2013 http://www.soas.ac.uk/linguistics/events/apll6-conference/

Date: 24 May 2013 10:00am

Finishes:25 May 2013 05:00pm

Venue: Russell Square: College Buildings

Room: G3 (Friday), 4421 and 4418 (Saturday)

]]> Fri, 24 May 2013 09:00:00 +0100 Translating Ramayana http://www.soas.ac.uk/southasianstudies/events/seminars/24may2013-translating-ramayana.html

Date: 24 May 2013 03:00pm

Finishes:24 May 2013 05:00pm

Venue: Russell Square: College Buildings

Room: 4418

]]> Fri, 24 May 2013 14:00:00 +0100 The Abolition of Indenture: Between Empire and Nation http://www.soas.ac.uk/history/events/sahistseminar/28may2013-the-abolition-of-indenture-between-empire-and-nation.html

Date: 28 May 2013 05:00pm

Finishes:28 May 2013 06:30pm

Venue: Brunei Gallery

Room: B104

]]> Tue, 28 May 2013 16:00:00 +0100 Mali in Transition: Interdisciplinary Perspectives http://www.soas.ac.uk/cas/events/conferences/mali---2013/

Date: 29 May 2013 09:00am

Finishes:30 May 2013 05:00pm

Venue: Russell Square: College Buildings

Room: Khalili Lecture Theatre

A forum to examine and discuss the political and humanitarian crisis in Mali and its impact on the country’s social and cultural diversity

]]> Wed, 29 May 2013 08:00:00 +0100 The role of the PDRY in creating a South Yemeni identity http://www.soas.ac.uk/lmei/events/29may2013-the-role-of-the-pdry-in-creating-a-south-yemeni-identity.html

Date: 29 May 2013 05:30pm

Finishes:29 May 2013 07:00pm

Venue: Russell Square: College Buildings

Room: G2

British Foundation for the Study of Arabia (BFSA) Lecture following the Foundation's AGM.

]]> Wed, 29 May 2013 16:30:00 +0100 Years of Radical Change: Korean Screen Culture http://www.soas.ac.uk/koreanstudies/events/korean-popular-culture-2013/31may2013-years-of-radical-change-korean-screen-culture.html

Date: 31 May 2013 10:00am

Finishes:1 June 2013 05:00pm

Venue: Russell Square: College Buildings

Room: G2

Following on from last year’s successful workshop on South Korean film held at SOAS, the Centre for Korean Studies will host a two day symposium that aims to investigate wider aspects of Korean screen culture - cinema, television and music.

]]> Fri, 31 May 2013 09:00:00 +0100 Passing Away: Despair, Eulogies and Millennial Palestine http://www.soas.ac.uk/cclps/events/31may2013-passing-away-despair-eulogies-and-millennial-palestine.html

Date: 31 May 2013 03:00pm

Finishes:31 May 2013 05:00pm

Venue: Russell Square: College Buildings

Room: 4418

]]> Fri, 31 May 2013 14:00:00 +0100 Muslims, Multiculturalism and Trust: New Directions http://www.soas.ac.uk/centresoffice/events/framingmuslims/01jun2013-muslims-multiculturalism-and-trust-new-directions.html

Date: 1 June 2013 10:00am

Finishes:2 June 2013 05:00pm

Venue: Russell Square: College Buildings

Room: Khalili Lecture Theatre

The aim of the conference is to analyse current critiques of multiculturalism, measure them against other, perhaps more progressive interpretations, and consider the potential offered by lived experience and creative visions of intercultural exchange to offer new ways of envisaging multicultural experience.

]]> Sat, 01 Jun 2013 09:00:00 +0100 A Review of the Performance of the Feminist Movement in Iran after the Revolution of 1979 http://www.soas.ac.uk/lmei-cis/events/01jun2013-a-review-of-the-performance-of-the-feminist-movement-in-iran-after-the-revolution-of-1979.html

Date: 1 June 2013 02:00pm

Finishes:1 June 2013 06:00pm

Venue: Brunei Gallery

Room: Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre

]]> Sat, 01 Jun 2013 13:00:00 +0100 New Songdo City and South Korea’s Green Economy: An Uncertain Future http://www.soas.ac.uk/koreanstudies/events/05jun2013-new-songdo-city-and-south-koreas-green-economy--an-uncertain-future.html

Date: 5 June 2013 01:00pm

Finishes:5 June 2013 04:00pm

Venue: Russell Square: College Buildings

Room: L67

]]> Wed, 05 Jun 2013 12:00:00 +0100 Metallic Memories: Exploring the Art and History of Medals in British India http://www.soas.ac.uk/art/iac/05jun2013-metallic-memories-exploring-the-art-and-history-of-medals-in-british-india.html

Date: 5 June 2013 06:30pm

Finishes:5 June 2013 07:30pm

Venue: Russell Square: College Buildings

Room: B104

]]> Wed, 05 Jun 2013 17:30:00 +0100 Agribusiness in Africa: Ploughing ahead? http://www.soas.ac.uk/cas/events/abg/events/06jun2013-agribusiness-in-africa-ploughing-ahead.html

Date: 6 June 2013 10:00am

Finishes:6 June 2013 02:00pm

Venue: Brunei Gallery

Room: tbc

AGRIBUSINESS AFRICA: PLOUGHING AHEAD?
Thursday 6 June 2013 – 10:00-14:00
]]> Thu, 06 Jun 2013 09:00:00 +0100 Postgraduate Open Evening http://www.soas.ac.uk/admissions/pg/openevenings/06jun2013-postgraduate-open-evening.html

Date: 6 June 2013 05:00pm

Finishes:6 June 2013 08:00pm

Venue: Brunei Gallery

Room:

Representatives from departments across the School will be available to answer your questions about postgraduate studies at SOAS.

]]> Thu, 06 Jun 2013 16:00:00 +0100 Ordering food and drinks & Beijing Opera Mask painting http://www.soas.ac.uk/lci/chinese-taster-lessons/07jun2013-ordering-food-and-drinks--beijing-opera-mask-painting.html

Date: 7 June 2013 06:30pm

Finishes:7 June 2013 08:00pm

Venue: Russell Square: College Buildings

Room: 232

Join us for FREE Chinese taster lessons and have fun!

]]> Fri, 07 Jun 2013 17:30:00 +0100 Origami http://www.soas.ac.uk/gallery/tenri/08jun2013-origami.html

Date: 8 June 2013 10:30am

Finishes:8 June 2013 05:00pm

Venue: Brunei Gallery

Room: Brunei Gallery Suite

Mr Masa Takeuchi, Central St. Martin graduate, presents the art of Origami

]]> Sat, 08 Jun 2013 09:30:00 +0100 The Shanghai-Beijing Nexus and the Invention of the Capital Correspondent in the Late Qing and ... http://www.soas.ac.uk/history/events/seaeahistseminar/11jun2013-the-shanghai-beijing-nexus-and-the-invention-of-the-capital-correspondent-in-the-late-qing.html

Date: 11 June 2013 05:00pm

Finishes:11 June 2013 07:00pm

Venue: Russell Square: College Buildings

Room: 4418

]]> Tue, 11 Jun 2013 16:00:00 +0100 Undergraduate Open Day http://www.soas.ac.uk/admissions/ug/opendays/12jun2013-undergraduate-open-day.html

Date: 12 June 2013 09:00am

Finishes:12 June 2013 04:00pm

Venue: Brunei Gallery

Room:

This Open Day is aimed at anyone interested in studying at SOAS at undergraduate level.]]> Wed, 12 Jun 2013 08:00:00 +0100 Constructing the Imperial Image: Fath ʿAli Shah’s Portraits and Early Qajar Politics http://www.soas.ac.uk/art/islac/12jun2013-constructing-the-imperial-image-fath-ali-shahs-portraits-and-early-qajar-politics.html

Date: 12 June 2013 07:00pm

Finishes:12 June 2013 09:00pm

Venue: Russell Square: College Buildings

Room: Khalili Lecture Theatre

]]> Wed, 12 Jun 2013 18:00:00 +0100 Origami http://www.soas.ac.uk/gallery/tenri/13jun2013-origami.html

Date: 13 June 2013 11:00am

Finishes:13 June 2013 07:30pm

Venue: Brunei Gallery

Room: Brunei Gallery Suite

Mr Masa Takeuchi, Central St. Martin graduate, presents the art of Origami

]]> Thu, 13 Jun 2013 10:00:00 +0100 Prof Andrew Lo: Chrysanthemum Treatises and Literati in Pre-Modern China http://www.soas.ac.uk/about/events/inaugurals/13jun2013-prof-andrew-lo-chrysanthemum-treatises-and-literati-in-pre-modern-china.html

Date: 13 June 2013 06:30pm

Finishes:13 June 2013 08:30pm

Venue: Brunei Gallery

Room: Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre

Inaugural Lecture Series Andrew Lo

]]> Thu, 13 Jun 2013 17:30:00 +0100 Calligraphy http://www.soas.ac.uk/gallery/tenri/15jun2013-calligraphy.html

Date: 15 June 2013 11:00am

Finishes:15 June 2013 04:30pm

Venue: Brunei Gallery

Room: Brunei Gallery Suite

Nobu Takeuchi and others present your name in Japanese.  If you wish, why not have a go and learn how to do it yourself.

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