Faculty Events
Numerous events, seminars, films, discussions, talks and lecture series are held throughout term-time and beyond, hosted by the Departments and Centres of the Faculty of Arts & Humanities.
Unless otherwise stated, all events are free and open to the public.
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2013
April
10/04/13
15/04/13
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
19/04/13
- Wakosho: An Overview of Early Japanese books from the Tenri Central Library
Yamanaka Hideo, Teri University
22/04/13
22/04/13
23/04/13
- 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
23/04/13
- Building Nations, Breaking Communities: the Locality of Caste Violence in Colonial North India
Mridu Rai (Trinity College, Dublin)
26/04/13
- SOAS upgrade presentations: Biqing Ouyang, Marine Cabos and Irene Bernabe
Biqing Ouyang, Marine Cabos and Irene Bernabe
Biqing Ouyang
Bronze Mirrors of the Sanguo period
Marine Cabos
Serial representations of iconic sites: a journey in China through landscape photography from the 1840s to 1937
Irene Bernabe
Ghosts, demons and magical animals in the art of the Bakumatsu period (1830s-1868)
29/04/13
May
02/05/13
- When was Zarathushtra?
Professor Martin West (All Souls College, Oxford)
Presenting the sixteenth Dastur Dr Sohrab Hormasji Kutar Memorial Lecture
Follow by reception.
03/05/13
- SOAS upgrade presentations: John Johnston, Hao Liu and Kristin Scheel
John Johnston, Hao Liu, Kristin Scheel
John Johnston
Tengwang Ge: A Case Study of Changing Depictions of Specific Sites on Chinese Ceramics in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Hao Liu
The purpose, operation and impacts of art investment of the British Rail Pension Fund collection in the fields of Chinese art from 1974 to 1989
Kristin Scheel
The afterlife of Mongol gold textiles in 14th-15th century Northern Europe
07/05/13
- Third-year research presentations
Shazwani Binti Haji Shahibulbahri, Chia-lin Huang, Carol Ann Boshier
Shazwani Binti Haji Shahibulbahri: The Integration of Basilan Island into the Philippines 1946-1986
Chia-lin Huang: Formosa Revisited – British Commercial Interests and Local Business Networks, 1860-1895
Carol Ann Boshier: Leslie Fernandes Taylor and the 'lost' Linguistic and Ethnographic Survey of Burma
08/05/13
- Mughal and Safavid Grotesque Animal Carpets: Sources and Distinctions
Steven Cohen
The 15th Annual Toby Falk Memorial Lecture
10/05/13
- The Bauhaus and China
Robin Rehm, Basel University
15/05/13
- Islamic Glass in a Chinese Context: an Aspect of the Famensi Reliquary Deposit (874)
Professor Roderick Whitfield, Percival David Professor of Chinese and East Asian Art, Emeritus, SOAS
17/05/13
- SOAS upgrade presentations: Sara Peterson
Sara Peterson
- Plant Iconography at Tillya-tepe, Bactria, first century CE
20/05/13
21/05/13
22/05/13
23/05/13
- Teaching the Abrahamic Religions: A Subversive Enterprise?
Guy G. Stroumsa
June
05/06/13
- Metallic Memories: Exploring the Art and History of Medals in British India
Shailendra Bhandare
11/06/13
- The Shanghai-Beijing Nexus and the Invention of the Capital Correspondent in the Late Qing and Early Republic
Tim Weston, University of Colorado
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)
