Livelihoods at the Margins
Livelihoods at the Margins
Two-day international conference
Thursday 8th & Friday 9th July 2004
School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Livelihoods at the Margins is a two-day international conference, bringing together a wide selection of multi-regional ethnographic research carried out with people who derive incomes in ways generally excluded from mainstream economic analyses.
Twenty-one papers explore a range of topics in diverse locations, from children and young people living on the streets of Dhaka, Kampala and Rio de Janeiro, to women's responses to coping with financial insecurity in Kenya, Thailand and India. Several papers present research on informal and semi-illegal trades - from city street vending in Bolivia to poaching in the forests of West Bengal - while others explore migrant labour and marginalised occupations, such as those of traditional healers and of agro-pastoralists in Tanzania. One paper looks specifically at how elderly people in post-Soviet Russia manage their survival. Men and women involved in sex work and at the borders of international tourism - in Europe, in South Asia, and on the shores of Lake Malawi - also provide the focus for a number of papers.
Common themes running through the papers include social exclusion; everyday coping-strategies; the relationship between the local activities described and wider national and international perspectives; and the implications of livelihoods at the margins for NGO action and Government policy. Contributions come from across the social sciences - notably, anthropology, development studies and geography - and will allow delegates to consider how different disciplinary approaches might contribute to our understanding of common subject matter.
Papers will be pre-circulated to delegates and will be presented in 20-minute slots on panels of either three or four speakers with a common discussant, allowing time for questions and discussion on both days. A draft schedule can be emailed on request, and a final conference pack will be emailed to all registered delegates in mid-June.
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Registration details Unfortunately the conference is already over-subscribed, with a long waiting list. However, more information about the conference – including the programme, abstracts and papers – can be found on these webpages, and you are invited to follow the conference electronically. If you can’t find what you’re looking for, please email the conference organiser, Dr James Staples (js2@soas.ac.uk), for further details.
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22/02/13
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22/02/13
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23/02/13
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25/02/13
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26/02/13
26/02/13
- Research Student Seminar
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26/02/13
27/02/13
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27/02/13
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27/02/13
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27/02/13
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27/02/13
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27/02/13
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27/02/13
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28/02/13
- Interfaith Music Festival
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28/02/13
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28/02/13
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28/02/13
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28/02/13
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28/02/13
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March
01/03/13
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02/03/13
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02/03/13
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04/03/13
- Title TBC
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04/03/13
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05/03/13
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05/03/13
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(buffet lunch 12.30)
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- The Origins and Meaning of Om Manipadme Hum
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07/03/13
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08/03/13
- Women Mean Business
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08/03/13
- Biofortification and the Biopolitics of Sustainable Development
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08/03/13
- Greek Roots Revisited: Tangy, International and All-Female
PAKAW!
- Greek Roots Revisited: Tangy, International and All-Female
09/03/13
- Masterclass: Africa
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11/03/13
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11/03/13
- Jhumpa Lahiri's "Interpreter of Maladies" (1999)
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12/03/13
- Producing urban asylum: forced migration and the city
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12/03/13
- Who’s Afraid of Cultural Revolution? Bo Xilai, Wen Jiabao and the CCP
Patricia Thornton, University of Oxford
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
- Research Student Seminar
Longdu Shi
12/03/13
- Questions about dance in Indonesia
Dr Felicia Hughes-Freeland
12/03/13
- Social Development 2015 and beyond?
Jen Marshall (DFID)
12/03/13
12/03/13
- 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.
12/03/13
13/03/13
- Cannibal Tours, 1987, 70 min.
Dennis O’Rourke
13/03/13
- Lost in Translation? Non-State Actors and the Transnational Movement of Procedural Law
Professor Peter Katzenstein (Cornell)
13/03/13
- Militant Masks: Youth and radical insecurity in the Niger Delta
Dr. David Pratten, Oxford University
13/03/13
13/03/13
- Prewar revolutionary culture and the Fukushima Catastrophe
Norma Field (University of Chicago, Robert S. Ingersoll Distinguished Service Professor Emerita)
13/03/13
- The US Military and American Commitment to Taiwan’s Security
Prof. Steve Tsang (Nottingham)
13/03/13
14/03/13
- Interpretations and Transformations of the ‘Mother of All Buddhas’ in Medieval Shingon Buddhism
Steven Trenson (Kyōto University)
14/03/13
- The Tribunal Question: Adivasis and the Maoist Movement in India
George Kunnath (School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies, Oxford)
14/03/13
14/03/13
- Book launch: Imaging and Imagining Taiwan Identity representation and cultural politics
Dr. Bi-yu Chang (SOAS) & Dr. Andy Birtwistle (Canterbury Christ Church)
15/03/13
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
15/03/13
- Archaeology of a text: creation and redaction of Tibetan history
Dr Michael Willis (British Museum)
15/03/13
- Japanese folk tunes & tales - for everyone!
ABEYA
- Japanese folk tunes & tales - for everyone!
18/03/13
- Insight Day at SOAS
Various Speakers
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18/03/13
- Antwerp in the Ming, the Ming in Antwerp
Dr Anne Gerritsen (Department of History, University of Warwick)
18/03/13
- Born in the Global Nineteenth Century: The Emergence of Sectarianism in the Modern Middle East
Ussama Makdisi (Rice University)
19/03/13
- On deictic directionals in Berber
Aicha Belkadi
19/03/13
- The Illiterate Ustad and Other Mythical Beasts: Musicians Writing in the Mughal World
Katherine Schofield (KCL)
19/03/13
- Foxes, Boats and Medications: A Ritual Panacea to Heal the Body in Heian Japan
Benedetta Lomi, Centre for the Studies of Japanese Religions, SOAS
19/03/13
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19/03/13
- The Making and Unmaking of a Zionist: A Personal and Political Journey
Anthony Lerman, author; Ghada Karmi, Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter
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20/03/13
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20/03/13
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- Dating the Buddha: New archaeological evidence from Lumbini (Nepal) the birthplace of the Buddha
Robin Coningham (Durham University)
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)
20/03/13
- The Six Tastes of Ayurveda
Monisha Bharadwaj (Author and chef)
20/03/13
- TBC
Dr. Lin Ping (National Chungcheng University & SOAS)
21/03/13
- Law, Feminism and the Death of Marriage
Professor Rosemary Auchmuty, School of Law, University of Reading.
21/03/13
21/03/13
- 13th Annual Jaina Lecture: Jaina Logic and Epistemology. Is This How it All Began?
Professor Piotr Balcerowicz (University of Warsaw)
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
22/03/13
23/03/13
- Religion, Media and Marginality in Africa since 1800
The list of speakers is confirmed below
This workshop is inspired by recent scholarship that investigates the connections between new electronic media, traditional print media and the growth of religious, social and political constituencies, publics and communities.
23/03/13
- A Musical Celebration of Nowruz with Persian, Kurdish and Azari Music
A musical celebration to mark the Persian New Year.
April
05/04/13
- Igbo Language and Performance
Speakers TBC
Registration to the conference is open up until 8th February 2013. | Call for Papers attached
08/04/13
- Anita Desai's "Fasting, Feasting" (2000)
Kavita Ramdya (SOAS)
10/04/13
17/04/13
- The Bahari Foundation Lecture in Iranian Art and Culture
Dr Barbara Brend (Independent Scholar)
Early ‘Siyah Qalam’ style and the Great Mongol Shahnamah
18/04/13
- 1000 Years of the Art of Japanese Books
Treasures from the Tenri Central Library
18/04/13
- Colours of Change - Sri Lanka
A photographic exhibition by Stephen Champion
19/04/13
- Wakosho: An Overview of Early Japanese books from the Tenri Central Library
Professor Hideo Yamanaka
24/04/13
- Spanish-Welsh Bilingualism in Patagonia
Prof. Margaret Deuchar, Bangor Univeristy
25/04/13
- Saharawi songstress with international attitude
Aziza Brahim
- Saharawi songstress with international attitude
30/04/13
- The Fascination of Japanese Traditional Books
Professor Tadayoshi Ohashi (Vice President of Tenri University)
May
01/05/13
- Book Launch: The Shining Girls
Lauren Beukes (author)
02/05/13
- When was Zarathushtra?
Professor Martin West (All Souls College, Oxford)
Presenting the Fifteenth Dastur Dr Sohrab Hormasji Kutar Memorial Lecture
Follow by reception.
03/05/13
- The life of the Buddha in wall inscriptions of Western Tibet
Dr Kurt Tropper (Universität Wien)
08/05/13
- One Billion Hungry: Can We Feed the World?
Sir Gordon Conway (Imperial College)
Sir Gordon Conway will discuss his latest book One Billion Hungry: Can We Feed the World? and the response to it's launch.
08/05/13
- Mughal and Safavid Grotesque Animal Carpets: Sources and Distinctions
Steven Cohen
The 15th Annual Toby Falk Memorial Lecture
09/05/13
- Tantric Arts and Crafts in Bhutan
Timea Tallian
Timea Tallian discusses her work in Bhutan as a conservation supervisor for artwork exhibited in the Ta Dzong Museum in Trongsa. This work involved the restoration of important ancient Buddhist artifacts and sacred objects from the Royal collection.
10/05/13
- Grammar of Mimetics
The workshop aims to focus on these grammatical aspects, using Japanese as a model or starting-point for analyses of mimetics in other languages.
13/05/13
- The Hilly Flanks before Jarmo: New research into the first farmers of the eastern Fertile Crescent
Professor Roger Matthews (Reading University)
15/05/13
20/05/13
21/05/13
22/05/13
23/05/13
23/05/13
- The Jesuit Mission Press in Early Modern Japan
Professor Ikuo Higashibaba
24/05/13
- Sixth Austronesian and Papuan Languages and Linguistics conference, 2013
Keynote speaker: Nikolaus Himmelmann (Cologne University)
31/05/13
- Years of Radical Change: Korean Screen Culture
The list of speakers will be confirmed in due course
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.
June
05/06/13
- Metallic Memories: Exploring the Art and History of Medals in British India
Shailendra Bhandare
06/06/13
06/06/13
- Postgraduate Open Evening
Representatives from departments across the School will be available to answer your questions about postgraduate studies at SOAS.
12/06/13
- Undergraduate Open Day
- This Open Day is aimed at anyone interested in studying at SOAS at undergraduate level.
12/06/13
- Constructing the Imperial Image: Fath ʿAli Shah’s Portraits and Early Qajar Politics
Dr Francesca Leoni (Yousef Jameel Curator of Islamic Art, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford)
21/06/13
- Multilingualism at work: Multilingual practices in professional settings
Prof. Lorenza Mondada, University of Basel
July
September
04/09/13
- 7th ECPR General Conference - Water Panels
Panel convenors Peter Mollinga and Kate Bayliss
05/09/13
- Max Weber, China and the Spirit of Capitalism
The conference brings scholars from the social sciences and humanities together in a West/East dialogue central both to mutual understanding between China and the West and also to an exploration of the possible varieties of capitalism.
19/09/13
- Plants, animals, words: a multidisciplinary workshop
The list of speakers will be confirmed in due course
This workshop is designed to encourage interdisciplinary research in the areas of linguistics and ethnobiology by bringing together researchers from these fields and others.
October
02/10/13
- TBC
Sharalyn Orbaugh
December
04/12/13
- Annual Presentation on Asia for Sixth Form Students 2013
The list of speakers will be confirmed in due course
The aim of the day is to introduce students to subjects and concepts they may not have previously explored as part of their curriculum and, which will, we hope, inspire them.
