Seminars, Conferences & Events
Departmental seminars, conferences & events
Departmental Centre seminars, conferences & events
2013
January
08/01/13
- The Panchayat Debate in the Bengal Presidency, 1815-1830
James Jaffe (University of Wisconsin-Whitewater)
09/01/13
- Temporary Workers, Labour Exploitation & the Future of Global Migration
Immanuel Ness (Brooklyn College, CUNY)
11/01/13
- Making Aquaculture a Component of Food Security for Developing Countries
Peter Gardiner, Executive Director, Independent Science & Partnership Council, The Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR)
15/01/13
- Shari'at and Muslim community in colonial Punjab, 1865-85
Robert Ivermee (University of Kent)
16/01/13
- Robert Flaherty, Nanook of the North, 1922, 55 min.
Robert Flaherty
16/01/13
16/01/13
- A Life Writing About Food
Claudia Roden
18/01/13
- The Spread of Smaller Scale Rural Mechanisation in some South Asian Countries
Stephen Biggs, Research Fellow, School of International Development, University of East Anglia
23/01/13
23/01/13
- Borrowing across Borders: Migration, Credit and Migra-loans in Rural Cambodia
Maryann Bylander (SOAS)
25/01/13
- Food, Peace and Human Thriving in a Changing World: New Paradigms and Practices for the 21st Century
Geoff Tansey, Writer, Consultant and Honorary Research Fellow, Department of Peace Studies, Bradford University and Centre for Rural Economy, Newcastle University
30/01/13
- The Hunters, 1957, 72 min.
John Marshall
30/01/13
- The Documentary Moment (and Screening of Channel 4’s “New Model Army”)
Pratap Rughani (University of the Arts, London)
February
01/02/13
- Creating a Zambian Breadbasket: 'Land Grabs' and Foreign Investments in Agriculture in Mkushi District, Zambia
Jessica Chu, Doctoral Candidate, Department of Anthropology and Food Studies Centre, SOAS, University of London
04/02/13
- Two weeks in the Sahara / Sahel: a long-term view of conflict in Mali and Algeria
Professor Jeremy Keenan (SOAS)
06/02/13
- Moi, un noir, 1957, 80 min.
Jean Rouch
06/02/13
- Flocks without Shepherds? Sovereignty, Governmentality and the Paradoxical Politics of International Policy for the Protection of Internally Displaced Persons
Simon Addison (University of Manchester)
08/02/13
- ‘We Didn’t Want to Hear About Calories’: Rethinking Food Security, Food Power and Food Sovereignty - Lessons from the Gaza Closure
Aeyal Gross, Professor of Law, Tel Aviv University and Visiting Reader in Law, SOAS, University of London
18/02/13
19/02/13
- Ubunto and Development
David Marsden (SOAS) and Alex Ankrah (Tutu Foundation)
20/02/13
- Dead Birds, 1963, 83 min.
Robert Gardner
20/02/13
- Exclusive Religious Identities and Shared Spiritual Cosmologies in the British South Asian Diaspora
Virinder Kalra (University of Manchester)
20/02/13
- Disciplining the Everyday State? Anti-Corruption and Right to Information Activism in Delhi
Martin Webb (Birkbeck / Sussex)
21/02/13
- Postgraduate Open Evening
Representatives from departments across the School will be available to answer your questions about postgraduate studies at SOAS.
22/02/13
- Rice supply and State Building in Jiangnan and Taiwan, 1949-1953
Julia Strauss, Senior Lecturer in Chinese Politics, SOAS, University of London
23/02/13
- Jai Bhim Comrade
Anand Patwardhan (Director)
25/02/13
- Democratizing Manufacturing: 3D Printing & The Developing World
William Hoyle (TechforTrade)
26/02/13
27/02/13
- A Wife Among Wives, 1981, 72 min.
David and Judith MacDougall
27/02/13
- Too Much, too Young? The Conceptualisation and Representation of Children and Young People Seeking Asylum in the UK
Heaven Crawley (Swansea University)
March
01/03/13
- Food, Trauma and Identity: Memories of Polish Women Deported during the Second World War
Monica Janowski, Senior Teaching Fellow, Department of Anthropology, and Research Associate, Food Studies Centre, SOAS, University of London; and Research Officer, Caritas Social Action Network
04/03/13
- Title TBC
Sarah McMillan (the Prince's Youth Business International)
05/03/13
- Building Nations, Breaking Communities: the Locality of Caste Violence in Colonial North India
Mridu Rai (Trinity College, Dublin)
06/03/13
- Memories and dreams, 1993, 92 min.
Melissa Llewlyn-Davies
06/03/13
- Curating Migrant Stories in European Museums
Chris Whitehead (Newcastle University)
08/03/13
- Biofortification and the Biopolitics of Sustainable Development
Sally Brooks, Teaching Fellow, Dept. of Social Policy and Social Work, University of York
12/03/13
- The Andaman “Local Born”: a history of ex-convicts and their descendants in the Bay of Bengal
Clare Anderson (University of Leicester)
12/03/13
- Social Development 2015 and beyond?
Jen Marshall (DFID)
13/03/13
- Cannibal Tours, 1987, 70 min.
Dennis O’Rourke
13/03/13
15/03/13
- 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
18/03/13
- Insight Day at SOAS
Various Speakers
An invitation only event for prospective undergraduate students who have received an offer from SOAS
19/03/13
- The Illiterate Ustad and Other Mythical Beasts: Musicians Writing in the Mughal World
Katherine Schofield (KCL)
20/03/13
- Before Tomorrow, 2008, 92 min.
Marie-Hélène Cousineau and Madeline Ivalu
20/03/13
- The Ejamba of North Fairmount Avenue, the Wizard of Menlo Park and the Dialectics of Ensoniment: an Episode in the History of an Acoustic Mask
Stephan Palmié (University of Chicago)
22/03/13
- Tales of the Not Entirely Unexpected: Life Histories of Coffee, Tea and Flower Workers in Ethiopia and Uganda
Christopher Cramer, Deborah Johnston, Carlos Oya
Christopher Cramer, Professor of Development Studies, SOAS, University of London
Deborah Johnston, Senior Lecturer in Development Economics, SOAS, University of London
Carlos Oya, Senior Lecturer in the Political Economy of Development, SOAS, University of London
June
06/06/13
- Postgraduate Open Evening
Representatives from departments across the School will be available to answer your questions about postgraduate studies at SOAS.
