Seminars, Conferences & Events
Departmental seminars, conferences & events
Departmental Centre seminars, conferences & events
2011
January
12/01/11
14/01/11
- Energy Glut: Why population fatness and climate change are related and what we need to do about both
Professor Ian Roberts (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine)
19/01/11
- Integration and Return: Emerging Political Narratives amongst Palestinian Refugees
Ruba Salih (Centre for Gender Studies, SOAS)
21/01/11
- 25 Years after the Great Ethiopian Famine: What Have We Learned?
Dr. Laura Hammond (Department of Development Studies, SOAS)
26/01/11
26/01/11
- From the Pristine to the Peccant: Agricultural Expansion, Migration and the Production of New Subjects in South India, 1920-70
V. J. Varghese (Centre for Development Studies, Sussex)
28/01/11
- Terroir, Hegemonic constructions and French wine culture
Dr. Marion Demossier (Department of European Studies, University of Bath)
February
02/02/11
- W(h)ither Anthropology: Opening Up or Closing Down
David Marsden (SOAS)
02/02/11
- Insights from the Maoist Revolution in India
Alpa Shah and George Kunnath, (Goldsmiths)
02/02/11
- The Spatial Structuring of Class: capitalism and labour migration in the Gulf Arab States
Adam Hanieh (Department of Development Studies, SOAS)
04/02/11
- Growing well but growing poor? An analysis of spending and productivity among cocoa farmers in the Dominican Republic
Dr. Amanda Berlan (Brooks World Poverty Institute, The University of Manchester)
09/02/11
- The land of gold: Rupture and social change in East Timor
Dr Judith Bovensiepen (University of Kent)
09/02/11
- Migration to Transition Societies: Chinese in Serbia
Maja Korac (Humanities and Social Sciences, UEL)
11/02/11
- Tackling Malnutrition in Guatemala: Gender Dynamics, Development Interventions, and the Role of Ethnography
Lauren Blake (Department of Human Geography, University of Sheffield/British Library)
15/02/11
23/02/11
- De-mystifying Tradition: the Politics of Rain-water Harvesting
Saurabh Gupta (SOAS)
23/02/11
23/02/11
- The Autonomy of Migration
Dimitris Papadopoulos (University of Leicester)
25/02/11
- What the world needs now is........ ?
Professor Ricardo Uauy (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine)
March
02/03/11
- Astana: Making a Kazakh City? Power and New Identity in Post-Soviet Kazakhstan
Aigul Zabirova (SOAS)
02/03/11
- Women At-Risk in Migration: Asylum-seeking and trafficked women, violence and health
Cathy Zimmerman (LSHTM)
04/03/11
- Liquid materialities: a history of milk, science and the law
Professor Peter Atkins (Department of Geography, Durham University)
05/03/11
- Does all applied anthropology end in failure?
Dr David Marsden, Prof Tom Selwyn and Prof Jeremy Keenan (SOAS Research Associates)
09/03/11
- Caste out of Development
David Mosse (SOAS)
09/03/11
- 'What stinks?': Perfume & the productivity of smell
Dr Kit Davis (SOAS)
09/03/11
- ‘No Longer Pet Kittens’: Diaspora, cricket, belonging
Paru Raman (Department of Anthropology SOAS)
11/03/11
- The work of LEAF; a global environmental farming charity promoting sustainable agriculture through integrated farm management
Anthony Goggin (LEAF Marque Technical Manager)
14/03/11
- Citizenship, autochthony and the intersected politics of belonging.
Nira Yuval-Davis (Centre on Migration, Refugees and Belong, UEL)
16/03/11
- TBC
Chandrika Parmar(Oxford)
16/03/11
18/03/11
- Food stories: the Oral History Food Collections at the British Library
Dr. Polly Russell (Lead Curator, Social Science Collections and Research, The British Library)
25/03/11
- Organic farming in England and Wales: Does geography matter?
Professor Brian Ilbery (Professor of Rural Studies, The University of Gloucestershire)Collections and Research, The British Library)
May
07/05/11
11/05/11
- The Pursuit of Pleasurable Work: an Anthropology of Craft and Craftspeople
Professor Trevor Marchand
Handiwork lends craftspeople a creative sense of agency to make, repair and transform the world in immediate, practical, hands-on ways. This lecture will discuss research on craft and apprenticeship among masons and carpenters in Yemen, Mali and the UK, and introduce emerging interdisciplinary interests in the complex relations between brain, hand and tool.
June
20/06/11
- Anthropology in London Day - 2011 - ‘Values of Knowledge’
- Anthropology in London is a platform for anthropologists of all London colleges and universities to meet and share ideas arising from their current research. To encourage an open dialogue, this year’s conference includes panels comprising both post-fieldwork doctoral students and faculty.
July
14/07/11
October
05/10/11
- K.L. Khandpur, Through a Lens Starkly, 1996 (39 min), Sukhdev, And Miles to Go…, 1965 (14 min), S.N.S. Shastry, And I Make Short Films,1968 (16 min)
These are three classic films produced for the state run Films Division of India. The first gives an overview of the hostry of documentary film in India. The second portrays the democratic challenges of working together to work for the progress of the nation. And the third is a poetic meditation on the work of filmmakers for the Film Division.
12/10/11
- Mani Kaul, Siddeswari 1989 (92 min)
This film about the great thumri singer Siddheshwari Devi (1902-66), broke conventional modes of biographical or documentary film making. Like a Sufi wanderer, it celebrates the life of exile. In so doing takes it the 'documentary' to its non-representational limits as part of an imaginative becoming of music.
12/10/11
- “Answering the 'so what?': Applying Anthropology to Defence and Security”
Dr Andrew Gee, Anthropologist, Influence Analysis Team - Strategic Analysis Group, Policy and Capability Studies Department
12/10/11
- “Answering the 'so what?': Applying Anthropology to Defence and Security”
Dr Andrew Gee, Anthropologist, Influence Analysis Team - Strategic Analysis Group, Policy and Capability Studies Department.
12/10/11
- Film: ‘Living Like a Common Man’: an anthropological documentary on Indian youngsters living in London
Professor Mario Rutten (University of Amsterdam)
14/10/11
- Confessions of a Vegan Anthropologist: Exploring the Trans-Biopolitics of Eating in the Field
Samantha Hurn, Lecturer in Anthropology, University of Wales, Trinity St. David
19/10/11
19/10/11
- Anand Patwardhan, Bombay, Our City, 1985.
This tells the story of the daily battle for survival of slum dwellers of Bombay who make up half the city's population. Although they are Bombay's main workforce of industrial labor, construction work, domestic servants, many face the constant threat of eviction as city authorities carry out campaigns to "beautify" Bombay.
19/10/11
- “The Birth of the Word: language, force, and Mapuche ritual”
Dr Magnus Course, University of Edinburgh
19/10/11
- Disconnected or Reconnected? The Tamil Diaspora after the end of the war in Sri Lanka
Nicholas Van Hear (Compas, Oxford)
21/10/11
- Growing Children around the World: The Globalization of Milk Consumption and Height
Andrea Wiley, Professor of Anthropology, Indiana University
26/10/11
- Manjira Dutta, The Sacrifice of Babulal Bhuiyan, 1988 (64 min)
This film is an investigation of the murder of Babulal, who was shot dead by industrial security guards employed by owners of a coal dust recycling plant.
26/10/11
- “Facebook and Digital Anthropology’”
Professor Daniel Miller, University College London
26/10/11
- Histories and Ecologies of Diaspora in the Bay of Bengal
Sunil Amrith (Birkbeck)
28/10/11
- Immigrants and Nostalgic Products – Are We Using this Information in Disease Risk Assessments?
Jonathan Rushton, Senior Lecturer in Animal Health Economics, Royal Veterinary College
November
02/11/11
- Deepa Dhanraj, Something Like a War, 1991, 52 min.
This film offers a historical overview of India's coercive Family Planning program and its effect on women.
02/11/11
- Something Like A War, Deepa Dhanraj, 52 min, 1991
Deepa Dhanraj
This film offers a historical overview of India's coercive Family Planning program and its effect on women.
02/11/11
- “Politics, prostitution and the emergence of a new popular audience in 1920s Lagos”
Professor Karin Barber University of Birmingham
04/11/11
- Beyond Beef: Putting Indian Christian Eating Practices in Perspective
James Staples, Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology, Brunel University
07/11/11
- Video installation (time looped): Lucia King (SOAS), THE WARKARI CYCLE
Lucia King (SOAS)
07/11/11
- Contesting divides: folk music and performance cultures in contemporary documentary film
Rajula Shah
Screening: WORD WITHIN THE WORD, Rajula Shah, 74 min, 2008
07/11/11
- Comida e Práticas Alimentares no Campo e na Cidade / Food and Foodways in the Country and the City
José Manuel Sobral (ICS-UL), Nuno Domingos (ICS-UL e SOAS), Harry West (SOAS, University of London)
Through an array of case studies, contributors to this symposium (to be co-sponsored by the Instituto de Ciências Sociais (Universidade de Lisboa) and the SOAS Food Studies Centre (University of London), and held in Lisbon on 7-8 November 2011) will document the ever-changing relationship between the country and the city through the lens of changing foods and foodways.
07/11/11
- Session 1: Within and Without: Camera as Compass
Rajula Shah (Filmmaker) & Lucia King (SOAS)
Rajula Shah (Filmmaker) & Lucia King (SOAS) in conversation about "Word Within the Word"
07/11/11
- Session 1: Within and Without: Camera as Compass
Rajula Shah (Filmmaker) & Lucia King (SOAS)
Rajula Shah & Lucia King in conversation about Sabad Nirantar
07/11/11
- Session 2: Situating Marginalized Performance Practice through Documentary Practice
Saba Dewan(Filmmaker) & Lucia King (SOAS)
Saba Dewan(Filmmaker) discusses “The Other Song” and other films of this tripych moderated by Lucia King (SOAS)
07/11/11
- Session 2: Situating Marginalized Performance Practice through Documentary Practice
Lucia King (SOAS)
Viewing time to visit the VIDEO INSTALLATION at Room 116 (First Floor Main Buiding, SOAS)
07/11/11
- Session 3: The cultural narrative and the respons(e)ability of the filmmaker
Saba Dewan(Filmmaker) , Lucia King (SOAS), Mairead McClean (University of Greenwich) and Rajula Shah (Filmmaker)
Round table with Saba Dewan(Filmmaker) , Lucia King (SOAS), Mairead McClean (University of Greenwich) and Rajula Shah (Filmmaker)
08/11/11
- Video installation (time looped): Lucia King (SOAS), THE WARKARI CYCLE
Lucia King (SOAS)
08/11/11
- Audiences and Documentary - focus South India
Deepa Dhanraj (Filmmaker) , Giulia Battaglia(SOAS), Stephen Hughes (SOAS) and Ravi Vasudevan (CSDS/SARAI, New Delhi)
- Conversation with Deepa Dhanraj (Filmmaker) , Giulia Battaglia(SOAS), Stephen Hughes (SOAS) and Ravi Vasudevan (CSDS/SARAI, New Delhi)
- Screening: 16mm - MEMORIES, MOVEMENT AND A MACHINE, K.R. Manoj, 40 min, 2007
08/11/11
- Being an Anthropologist in Academia and Beyond
In inviting participants to think ethnographically about their working lives in the academy and beyond, the workshop aims to discuss the impact of emerging audit cultures, institutional conditions, and webs of power on the ways anthropologists work and produce knowledge...
08/11/11
- Ethnographic film and documentary filmmaking in India
Rahul Roy (Filmmaker) and Stephen Hughes (SOAS)
- Screening: THE CITY BEAUTIFUL, Rahul Roy, 78 min, 2003
- Rahul Roy (Filmmaker) in conversation with Stephen Hughes (SOAS)
08/11/11
- Unequal relations: filmmaker/film subject/spectator
Deepa Dhanraj, Saba Dewan, Yasmine Kabir, Rajula Shah and Rahul Roy, Alisa Lebow (Brunel University)
A Concluding Panel with filmmakers Deepa Dhanraj, Saba Dewan, Yasmine Kabir, Rajula Shah and Rahul Roy. Chaired by Alisa Lebow (Brunel University)
16/11/11
- Reena Mohan, Kamala Bai, 1992 (46 min)
A film about Kamlabai Gokhale, one of the first actors of India, and the first lady of Indian film.
16/11/11
- Remapping Migration
Paolo Novak (Development Studies, SOAS)
18/11/11
- Making a Meal of It: Young People, Fast Food, and Regionalism in Ecuador
Emma-Jayne Abbots, Research Associate, Food Studies Centre, SOAS
23/11/11
- Nilita Vachani, Diamonds in a Vegetable Market, 1992 (68 min)
This film offers a behind-the-scenes look the sellers who crowd an inter-state bus terminal, selling wares as variegated as their own life stories.
23/11/11
- "Fields of desire: Poverty, policy and aspiration in the south of Laos"
Dr Holly High, University of Cambridge
23/11/11
- Fields of desire: Poverty, policy and aspiration in the south of Laos
Dr Holly High (University of Cambridge)
23/11/11
- Home, City and Diaspora: Anglo-Indian and Chinese attachments to Calcutta
Alison Blunt and Jayani Bonnerjee (Geography, QMUL)
23/11/11
- Book launch, network/committee launch and Travel, Tourism & Pilgrimage Programme inception
Book launch, network/committee of scholars in the anthropology of tourism and pilgrimage launch and inception of the MA in Travel, Tourism, and Pilgrimage in the Anthropology Department at SOAS.
25/11/11
- Linking Agricultural Policy, Globalization, Diet and Health: A New Hypothesis of Dietary Change and its Implications for Food Policies to Address Unhealthy Eating, Obesity, and Chronic Diseases
Corinna Hawkes, Food Policy Analyst and Visiting Fellow, Centre for Food Policy, City University
26/11/11
- Anthropology Revisits the Festival
Festivals and carnivals are significant contemporary phenomena in societies across the world. In many of these contexts, including the UK, the numbers of events calling themselves festivals is growing.
30/11/11
- ‘Celebrity and Development’
Dr Dan Brockington (University of Manchester)
30/11/11
- R. V. Ramani, If I Die, 1996 (58 min)
The filmmaker portrays Shihan Hussaini, a Karate exponent and an aspiring actor, who performs 'sensational' events to draw attention to issues that he considers important. The filmmaker portrays Hussaini as a performer of bizarre proportions, struggling for public expression and notoriety at the fringes of the film industry and within political arena of Tamil Nadu.
30/11/11
- “Globalization, multiculturalism and ‘the autochthonous’ working-class: Comparing two steel-towns in Brazil and Britain"
Dr Massimiliano Mollona Goldsmiths, University of London
30/11/11
- Reconciliation: western Muslim religiosity and political behaviour
Justin Gest (Migration Studies Unit, LSE)
December
02/12/11
- Food Practices and Working Families in England: Findings from a Mixed Methods Study
Rebecca O'Connell, Research Officer, Thomas Coram Research Institute, Institute of Education
07/12/11
- TBA
Seb Taylor
07/12/11
- K.P. Jayasankar and Anjali Monteiro, Naata, The Bond, 2003 (45 min)
This film follows two friends and activists, Bhau Korde and Waqar Khan, who have been involved in conflict resolution, working with neighbourhood peace committees in Dharavi, Mumbai, reputedly, the largest ‘slum’ in Asia.
07/12/11
- “Father Mao and the Country-Family: Affection for the Chinese State”
Dr Hans Steinmuller. London School of Economics
07/12/11
- Famine Relief Diaspora-Style The Somali response to the 2011 crisis
Laura Hammond (Development Studies, SOAS)
09/12/11
- From Crops to Meals: The Material and Symbolic Journey of Guinean Food to Europe and its Role in Bridging Distances
Maria Abranches, Doctoral Candidate, Sussex Centre for Migration Research, University of Sussex
14/12/11
- Paromita Vohra, Partners in Crime, 2011 (94 min)
Is video piracy organized crime or class struggle? This film considers the grey horizons of copyright and culture during times when technology is changing the contours of the market.
14/12/11
- “An ethics of the rough ground of the everyday: the struggles and entwinements of life in post-invasion Iraq”
Mr. Hayder Al-Mohammad University of Kent at Canterbury
14/12/11
- Development Brokering and the Blurring of Aid and Security in Dakar
Anne-Line Rodriguez (Anthropology, SOAS)
15/12/11
- Thinking beyond pathways? Agriculture, livelihoods, dietary behaviour and health
Dr. Elizabeth Hull and Dr. Emma-Jayne Abbots
A half day workshop, organised by Dr. Elizabeth Hull and Dr. Emma-Jayne Abbots, and co-sponsored by LCIRAH (the Leverhulme Centre for Integrative Research in Agriculture and Health) and the SOAS Food Studies Centre
16/12/11
- Planting Power: Cocoa and Imperial Agricultural Science in Ghana (1945-1957)
Marta Macedo, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Inter-University Centre for the History of Science and Technology, University of Lisbon
