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.
2011
January
11/01/11
- The Amritsar massacre: the untold story
Nick Lloyd (King’s College, London)
12/01/11
12/01/11
13/01/11
- Yarshater Lecture Series
Professor Sheila Blair, Norma Jean Calderwood University Professor of Islamic and Asian Art, Boston College
13, 14, 17 & 18 January
From the Samanids to the Safavids: Persian Art in Medieval Times
- Word and Image: A bowl from Nishapur
- Perfuming the Air: a Rosewater sprinkler from Herat
- Monumentality under the Mongols: The tomb of Uljaytu at Sultaniyya
- Rediscovering roots: the Ardabil Carpets
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)
14/01/11
- 'The Tibetan Empire in Central Asia'
Dr Amy Heller (CNRS)
17/01/11
- Pre-modern popular Arabic historiography and knowledge construction
Marina Pyrovolaki, SOAS
18/01/11
- Unleashing humanitarianism: Rammohun Roy and the transatlantic campaigns against slavery and sati
Lynn Zastoupil (Rhodes College)
19/01/11
19/01/11
- Reconstituted traditionalisms: resettlement and the making of the Ciskei, c.1963-1976.
Laura Evans, University of Sheffield
19/01/11
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)
24/01/11
- Tripoli Lebanon: Violence and Identity Quest in Post Ottoman Era
Nasser Kalawoun
25/01/11
- Muslims of Tamilnad: politics and society 1930-1947
.B.P. More (Institute for Research in Social Sciences and Humanities, Tellicherry)
26/01/11
26/01/11
26/01/11
26/01/11
- ‘African agency in the early Atlantic World: the perspective from Cabo Verde and Upper Guinea’
Toby Green, King’s College London
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)
28/01/11
- Western Buddhism, 'No-Self' and the Politics of Identity
Sharon Smith (University of Sussex)
31/01/11
- The Histories of Sharaf al-Din 'Ali Yazdi (d. 1454) and Timurid Politics
Evrim Binbas, Royal Holloway, University of London
February
01/02/11
- Nation's two bodies: fantasies and phantoms of 'New' India
Ravinder Kaur (University of Copenhagen)
01/02/11
- Mr. Matthew Phillips & Mr. Martyn Smith
Mr. Matthew Phillips & Mr. Martyn Smith
02/02/11
- W(h)ither Anthropology: Opening Up or Closing Down
David Marsden (SOAS)
02/02/11
02/02/11
- Insights from the Maoist Revolution in India
Alpa Shah and George Kunnath, (Goldsmiths)
02/02/11
- 'On writing the life of Idi Amin'
Mark Leopold, University of Sussex
02/02/11
- Numata Lecture: Emptiness as emptiness, and emptiness as ultimate reality
Dr Tadeusz Skorupski
02/02/11
- The Spatial Structuring of Class: capitalism and labour migration in the Gulf Arab States
Adam Hanieh (Department of Development Studies, SOAS)
03/02/11
- Constructing the Other: Orientalists and their ‘Hinduisms’
Dr Sharada Sugirtharajah (University of Birmingham)
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)
04/02/11
- Tombs of Han-Period Luoyang
Lukas Nickel (SOAS & UCL)
07/02/11
- Forgeries, sacred history and religious minorities: the hidden story of Miguel de Luna
Mercedes Garcia-Arenal, CSIC, Madrid
09/02/11
09/02/11
- The land of gold: Rupture and social change in East Timor
Dr Judith Bovensiepen (University of Kent)
09/02/11
- Numata Lecture: One and three vehicles / forms of enlightenment: harmony and discord
Dr Tadeusz Skorupski
09/02/11
- Migration to Transition Societies: Chinese in Serbia
Maja Korac (Humanities and Social Sciences, UEL)
09/02/11
- An Overview of the Recent Discoveries of the Mamluk and Ottoman Pottery from the Citadel of Damascus
Dr Véronique François (CNRS Aix en Provence, France)
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)
11/02/11
- Overthrow of Norodom Sihanouk: The Buddhist Connection
Ian Harris (Cumbria)
11/02/11
- Ideal Femininity and the Seductive World of Japanese Department Stores: Two Readings of YANAGI Miwa’s Elevator Girls 3F
Lena Fritsch (Bonn University)
15/02/11
16/02/11
- Numata Seminar: Character and contexts of Buddhist compassion (karuṇā)
Dr Tadeusz Skorupski
16/02/11
21/02/11
- The Fatimid state as seen by medieval Jews and modern social theorists
Marina Rustow, Johns Hopkins University
22/02/11
- Medical societies, networks and the competition for medical authority: hybridity, exchange and formalisation in India, 1789-1856
Erica Wald (London School of Economics)
23/02/11
- De-mystifying Tradition: the Politics of Rain-water Harvesting
Saurabh Gupta (SOAS)
23/02/11
- Numata Seminar: Impersonal and personified images of evil (Māra)
Dr Tadeusz Skorupski
23/02/11
23/02/11
- Pastoralist boundaries in Southern Darfur under British colonial rule and the limits of legibility, 1916-1956
Christopher Vaughan, Durham University
23/02/11
23/02/11
- The Autonomy of Migration
Dimitris Papadopoulos (University of Leicester)
24/02/11
25/02/11
- What the world needs now is........ ?
Professor Ricardo Uauy (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine)
25/02/11
28/02/11
- A pilgrimage to Arawân: salt, oil, manuscripts, and history in northern Mali
Judith Scheele, University of Oxford
March
01/03/11
- Civilians and soldiers during India’s Second World War
Yasmin Khan (Royal Holloway, University of London)
02/03/11
- Numata Seminar: Buddhist encounters and attitudes towards indigenous beliefs
Dr Tadeusz Skorupski
02/03/11
- Astana: Making a Kazakh City? Power and New Identity in Post-Soviet Kazakhstan
Aigul Zabirova (SOAS)
02/03/11
- JRC Tsuda fellowship lecture
Kigensan Licha (Soas)
02/03/11
- Sex and the colonial city. Regulating prostitution in the Belgian Congo
Amandine Lauro, Cambridge University
02/03/11
02/03/11
- Women At-Risk in Migration: Asylum-seeking and trafficked women, violence and health
Cathy Zimmerman (LSHTM)
02/03/11
- Ottoman Istanbul Displayed in London Panorama Theatres, 1800-1863
Professor Namik Erkal, Middle East Technical University, Istanbul
04/03/11
- Liquid materialities: a history of milk, science and the law
Professor Peter Atkins (Department of Geography, Durham University)
04/03/11
05/03/11
- Does all applied anthropology end in failure?
Dr David Marsden, Prof Tom Selwyn and Prof Jeremy Keenan (SOAS Research Associates)
07/03/11
- Abd al-Mu'min, the first Almohad caliph (tbc)
Maribel Fierro, CSIC, Madrid
08/03/11
- Marginalised voices in the history of ‘Hindi’
Aishwarj Kumar (University of Cambridge)
09/03/11
- Caste out of Development
David Mosse (SOAS)
09/03/11
- Numata Seminar: Men, women, sexuality, and enlightenment
Dr Tadeusz Skorupski
09/03/11
- 'What stinks?': Perfume & the productivity of smell
Dr Kit Davis (SOAS)
09/03/11
- ‘Landscape legacies: the role of the colonial wilderness vision in the formation of Zimbabwean identities’
Coralie Hancock, Aberystwyth University
09/03/11
- Numata Lecture: The traidhātuka gods (deva): are they Buddhist or non-Buddhists?
Dr Tadeusz Skorupski
09/03/11
- ‘No Longer Pet Kittens’: Diaspora, cricket, belonging
Paru Raman (Department of Anthropology SOAS)
10/03/11
- The Hare Krishna Movement and its Future Prospects
Dr Graham Dwyer (University of Winchester)
10/03/11
- Jordan Lectures: Nothingness and Desire: A Philosophical Antiphony
James Heisig (Nanzan University)
10/03/11
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)
11/03/11
- From Riches to Rags: how new clothes for the dead become old robes for monks
Rita Langer (Bristol)
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
- Numata Seminar: Buddhist heritage through slides
Dr Tadeusz Skorupski
16/03/11
16/03/11
- Numata Lecture: The Buddhist pilgrimage sites: actualities and ambiguities
Dr Tadeusz Skorupski
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)
18/03/11
21/03/11
- The bedouin fallahun: Mapping the tribes of medieval Fayyum
Yossi Rapoport, Queen Mary, University of London
22/03/11
- The Amritsar Massacre: The Untold Story
Nick Lloyd (King’s College, London)
23/03/11
- Indian cotton textiles in the British Atlantic slave trade
Kazuo Kobayashi, Osaka University and King's College London
24/03/11
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)
April
26/04/11
- Ms. Lifeng Han & Ms. Bianca Son
Ms. Lifeng Han & Ms. Bianca Son
27/04/11
27/04/11
- The Past is Not Dead, the Story of Qajar Textiles in South Kensington
Ms Jennifer Wearden (Former Senior Curator (Textiles) in the Department of Furniture,Textiles & Fashion, V&A and now Honorary Research Fellow in the V&A
May
03/05/11
- Ms. Carol Ann Boshier / Ms. Chia-Lin Huang / Ms. Shazwani Binti Shahibulbahri
Ms. Carol Ann Boshier / Ms. Chia-Lin Huang / Ms. Shazwani Binti Shahibulbahri
03/05/11
- Rumour, panic and the Great Fear of Calcutta in 1857
Niladri Chatterjee (History Department, SOAS)
05/05/11
- Why do we really need a new edition of the Avesta?
Professor Alberto Cantera (University of Salamanca)
The Fourteenth Dastur Dr Sohrab Hormasji Kutar Memorial Lecture
07/05/11
10/05/11
- Appropriating the Public: urban groups, the state and the contest for space in colonial Delhi: 1863-1880
Raghav Kishore (History Department, SOAS)
11/05/11
11/05/11
- Middle Cambodia
Ashley Thompson (University of Leeds)
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.
11/05/11
- Mamluks & Mongols, Franks & Armenians: The Archaeology of Antioch and Cilicia in the 13th-14th Centuries
Professor Scott Redford (Department of Archaeology and History of Art, Koç University, Istanbul)
12/05/11
- CSJR Summer International Workshop: Words, Deities and Icons: Performing Rituals in Premodern Japan
Words, deities and icons are fundamental and entwined elements of religious liturgies, as suggested by ritual, iconographical and literary evidence.
17/05/11
- Relations of power, geographies of property: land-administration, political-economy, 'Cuttack' and 'India' in the early-nineteenth century
Upal Chakarabarti (History Department, SOAS)
19/05/11
- Media Coverage of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict
Professor Greg Philo
Featuring John Pilger and Greg Philo in conversation on the subject of media coverage of the current conflict in the Middle East and the impact it has on public opinion.
21/05/11
- The Diasporic Family in Cinema
The list of speakers is confirmed in the programme
The conference examines the representation of the diasporic family in contemporary European cinema, Hollywood and Bollywood. It provides a platform for dialogue with filmmakers and producers and aims to explore how they negotiate between their artistic ambitions, the demands of the public funding bodies and the market in their construction of diasporic family life on screen.
23/05/11
- The Camel Conference @ SOAS
Various Speakers
In May 2011 the School of Oriental and African Studies will host an international conference examining, documenting and celebrating camel cultures from around the world.
24/05/11
- Institutionalising unity: Hindi, Urdu and the Hindustani Academy, 1927-47
David Lunn (Languages and Cultures of South Asia, SOAS)
25/05/11
- The Impact of Popular Mughal Painting 16th-17th Century
Krista Gulbransen
27/05/11
- Chinese Four Arts Summer School 2011
Various
A series of workshops, lectures and demonstrations on the quintessential Chinese arts of the qin zither, weiqi (the game of Go), calligraphy and painting, and a concert of qin music.
27/05/11
31/05/11
- Mr. Andy Jackson & Mr Ronnie McCrum
Mr. Andy Jackson
31/05/11
- The small world of the Indian sewing machine: global goods and local usages, 1875-1952
David Arnold (University of Warwick)
June
02/06/11
- Music Department Performance Exams
Public Performance Exams by students of the SOAS Department of Music
03/06/11
- Music Department Performance Exams
Public Performance Exams by students of the SOAS Department of Music
07/06/11
- Leaving India to anarchy: Gandhi on the virtue of civil war
Faisal Devji (University of Oxford)
08/06/11
- The Nguyen Dynasty palaces, tombs and collections
Vu Hong Lien
08/06/11
- Mecca's First Photographers (1880-1890): Lives, Activities and Work
Professor Jan Just Witkam (Leiden University, the Netherlands)
14/06/11
- Imperial Identities and Subaltern Subjects
Saurabh Dube (El Colegio de México and University of Warwick)
15/06/11
- Ancient Vietnam: History and Archaeology
Anne-Valerie Schweyer
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.
22/06/11
- New reflections on Banteay Chhmar temple, Cambodia
Professor Claude Jacques
24/06/11
July
14/07/11
19/07/11
- Inaugural Mongolian Khöömii (overtone singing) Festival, Conference
This is the first time in Europe that a Khöömii festival has been organised. It is an unique opportunity to hear from and discuss with the keepers of the tradition.
September
05/09/11
- Communicating Civilisations and World Order Conference 2011
Due to a scheduling conflict, the dates of the Conference have been adjusted to September 5-7th. The Opening Keynote address will still be delivered by Professor Harry Harootunian. We are also pleased to announce that a second keynote address will be given by Professor Prasenjit Duara. We look forward to your abstracts and participation.
September 5th features a cultural event from 6-9pm, the jazz band: "Last Mango in Paris"
October
04/10/11
- Anarchist Modernity
Sho Konishi, University of Oxford
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.
05/10/11
- Red Star On The Silver Screen: Stardom In Chinese Socialist Cinema
Dr. Xiaoning Lu, Lecturer in Modern Chinese Culture and Language, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
05/10/11
06/10/11
- Practising Christianity in Early Modern Japan: Symbol, Prayer, and Mirror
Professor Ikuo Higashibaba (Tenri University)
10/10/11
- The Origin and Development of the Counter-Crusade: A New Perspective
Alexander Mallet: Royal Holloway
11/10/11
- Situating Oral Histories of Biocutural Diversity Loss in the Satpura Hills of Madhya Pradesh
Ezra Rashkow (Montclair State University)
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
- ‘Development and Decolonisation: The Gold Coast (Ghana), 1940-1957’
Jon Olav Hove (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)
12/10/11
- Film: ‘Living Like a Common Man’: an anthropological documentary on Indian youngsters living in London
Professor Mario Rutten (University of Amsterdam)
12/10/11
- The Role of Journalism in African Cinemas: 4 Short African Films and Discussion
Donald Omope, Founder and Editor of African Screens Magazine, Short-Film Juror for London’s Film Africa Festival 2011, Nigerian Filmmaker
12/10/11
- The Making of the Modern Indian Craftsman: Devi Prasad
Naman Ahuja (JNU, New Delhi)
12/10/11
- A tapestry at Powis Castle based on the Louvre’s ‘Reception of a Venetian Embassy in Damascus’
Ms Helen Wyld, Tapestry Curator at the Paul Mellon Centre, the National Trust
13/10/11
- Printing and the Visual Representation of Linguistic Data in the Discovery of Ancient Japan
Professor William M. Bodiford (UCLA)
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
14/10/11
- Recent Studies on Textiles from the Silk Road
Zhao Feng, China National Silk Museum, Hangzhou
17/10/11
- The DeRossetti Affair: Legal Pluralism in 19th Century Egypt
Elizabeth Shlala: London School of Economics
18/10/11
18/10/11
- The Amritsar Massacre: The Untold Story
Nick Lloyd (King’s College London)
18/10/11
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
19/10/11
- Disconnected or Reconnected? The Tamil Diaspora after the end of the war in Sri Lanka
Nicholas Van Hear (Compas, Oxford)
19/10/11
- Spreading Viral Messages in Iran
Hossein Sharif Broadcast Journalist at BBC World Service Documentary Filmmaker
20/10/11
- Onmyōji
by director Takita Yōjirō
21/10/11
- Growing Children around the World: The Globalization of Milk Consumption and Height
Andrea Wiley, Professor of Anthropology, Indiana University
21/10/11
- The Porcelain Pagoda: an enigma and its questions
Clarence Eng, Research Associate, SOAS
21/10/11
- Poetry and Eroticism in a Sinhala Buddhist Idiom
Prof. Stephen C Berkwitz (Missouri State University)
24/10/11
- History, Memory and Identity: the Kurds in Post-Soviet Armenia
Christine Allison: University of Exeter
Please note: this lecture has been postponed until term 2 as it clashes with Ilan Pappe's Palestine lecture on the same evening (Room V111, the SOAS Vernon Square Campus (Penton Rise, near King’s Cross)
25/10/11
- Caste, Class and Public Policy in India, a macro-level historical analysis
Pradipta Chaudhury (JNU)
25/10/11
- Indigenous Modernity: Shamanism, Discourse, and the Study of Religions’
Thomas Alberts (C. Zene)
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)
26/10/11
- Reflection on Tehran’s Red Light District
Vali Mahlouji London-based Iranian Curator, Writer and Designer
27/10/11
- The Funeral (お葬式 Osōshiki)
by director Itami Juzo (1984)
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
28/10/11
- The Contribution of Andhra to Buddhism
Prof. S. Nagaraju (Institute of Action Archaeology and Heritage Studies, Bangalore)
31/10/11
- Symbols of Rebellion in Early Islam
Hasan al-Khoee: SOAS
November
01/11/11
- Japan and Global Rubber, 1931-1945
William Clarence-Smith, SOAS
01/11/11
- “Hindu Philosophies” and “Muslim Philosophies”
Dr Ted Proferes and Dr Jan-Peter Hartung
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
02/11/11
- ‘“Nigeria Can Do Without Such Perverts”: Sexual Anxiety and Political Crisis in Postcolonial Nigeria’
Steven Pierce (Manchester)
02/11/11
- Film Screening And Discussion: Blood In The Mobile
Introduced by: Dr. Lindiwe Dovey, Senior Lecturer in African Film and Performance Arts, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Afterword Discussion: Georgina Holmes, Africa Research Group, Department of War Studies, King’s College London
02/11/11
- The iconography of Buddhist tablets in Southeast Asia
Delphine Desoutter, PhD student, Université Sorbonne-Nouvelle, Paris III
02/11/11
- The Mahanavami dibba or Great Platform at Vijayanagara
Anna Dallapiccola
03/11/11
- Where Mountains Fly
by directors Sandra and Karina Roth (2008)
04/11/11
- Beyond Beef: Putting Indian Christian Eating Practices in Perspective
James Staples, Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology, Brunel University
04/11/11
- Two Different Narratives of the Influential Monk Phimonlatham: Alternative Interpretations of Thai Political Buddhism
Dr Phibul Choompolpaisal (Bodleian Library, Oxford)
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)
14/11/11
- State Approaches to Economic Concessions from the late Ottoman Empire to the early Turkish Republic
Kate Fleet: Cambridge University
15/11/11
- Tindo-European Dress in Orientalist Portraiture : A New Perspective on Cultural Cross-Dressing
Tara Mayer, Affiliation: Research Associate, Le Centre d'Études de l'Inde et de l'Asie du Sud (CEIAS) in Paris
15/11/11
- The Exploration of the Idea of Emanation with Special Reference to Ibn Sīnā and Abhinavagupta
Ahmet Riza Emiroglu (J-P Hartung)
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
- ‘“Between Bozal and Ladino”: West Africans’ Experiences in the Slave Trade to Bahia and Cuba, 1819-1864’
Manuel Barcia Paz (Leeds)
16/11/11
- Remapping Migration
Paolo Novak (Development Studies, SOAS)
16/11/11
- Reporting The Environment In China
Sam Geall Deputy Editor of Chinadialogue.net
16/11/11
- Model Agency: The Practice of Copying Buddha Images in Thai Art History
Angela Chiu, PhD student, Art & Archaeology Department, SOAS
16/11/11
- New Light on Ottoman Goldsmiths’ Work
Professor Michael Rogers, Hon Curator, Khalili Collection, London
17/11/11
- The British Boss is Gone and Will Never Return: British Public Utility Companies in Communist Shanghai (1949-1954)
Jon Howlett, University of Bristol
(PLEASE NOTE NEW DATE AND ROOM)
17/11/11
- Suwa Onbashira Festival 1992
by director Kitamura Minao (1992)
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
18/11/11
- Tracing the Emperor: Photography and the Imperial Famous Places in Japan
Kim Gyewon, SISJAC fellow
18/11/11
- Charity Concert: An Evening of Piano, Shakuhachi and Belly Dance
Three young performers from Japan will provide a fascinating mix of traditional, modern and weirdly cross-genre music and dance. The shakuhachi, an evocative bamboo flute long associated with Zen Buddhism, will be played by Koichi Yoshida, who will offer both a traditional solo piece and several pieces accompanied by piano (by Ippei Ikeda) and/or dance (by Jamilla). Jamilla's dancing draws on various cultures for inspiration.
21/11/11
- Urban Violence in Pahlavi Abadan
Rasmus Elling: SOAS
22/11/11
- Colonial disciplines and universal truths: Jaynarayan Ghoshal in Banaras, 1791-1821
David Curley (Western Washington University)
22/11/11
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
23/11/11
- Home, City and Diaspora: Anglo-Indian and Chinese attachments to Calcutta
Alison Blunt and Jayani Bonnerjee (Geography, QMUL)
23/11/11
- PROGRESSIVE IDEAS IN A RELAPSING ENVIRONMENT: MEDIA ACTIVISM IN EGYPT AFTER THE JANUARY UPRISING
Dr. Ramy Aly Associate Tutor (Anthropology, School of Global Studies, Cultural Studies) University of Sussex
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.
24/11/11
- Fragment
by director Makoto Sasaki (2008)
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
25/11/11
- Scientific analysis of paper in the Otani collection
Sakamoto Shoji, Ryokoku University
25/11/11
- Allan Bennett (Ananda Metteyya): are the writings of an early western bhikkhu worth publishing?
Dr. Elizabeth J Harris (Liverpool Hope 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.
28/11/11
- Is Tebb a Medical System? ‘Islamic Medicine’ from the Medieval to Modern Period
Hormoz Ebrahimnejad: University of Southampton
29/11/11
- An Intellectual Biography of Shimaji Mokurai (1838-1911)
Mick Deneckere, University of Cambridge
29/11/11
- Religious Encounters between Bengali Travellers and Southeast Asians, c. 1916-1927
Swarupa Gupta, Makaias (Ministry of Culture, Government of India), and Presidency University, Calcutta
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)
30/11/11
- ‘Twitter Consciousness’ Collective Intelligence and Social Media Activism
Dr. Joss Hands Senior Lecturer in Communication and Media Studies at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge
Director of ARCDigital (the Anglia Research Centre in Digital Culture)
Author of ‘@ is For Activism: Dissent Resistance and Rebellion in a Digital Culture'
30/11/11
- Mughal painting and European Art (title to be confirmed)
Prof Ashok Kumar Srivastava (Deen Dayal Upadhyay Gorakhpur University, Gorakhpur)
This event has been cancelled
December
01/12/11
- Zen
by director Takahashi Banmei (2009)
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
02/12/11
- Works of Kawanabe Kyosai in the multi-cultural context of the late 19th century
Sadamura Koto, SISJAC fellow
02/12/11
- Prapanca in the Tattvarthapatala of the Bodhisattvabhumi: Its Meaning and its Significance for Understanding the Early Yogacara View of Language
Dr Ligeia Lugli (School of Oriental and African Studies, London)
06/12/11
- Ariadne’s Sword: Interwar feminist responses to child sexual abuse in Britain and India
Daniel Grey (Wolfson College, University of Oxford)
06/12/11
- Out of Syriac into Sogdian: the history of the Church of the East in Sogdiana
Barakatullo Ashurov (E. Hunter)
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
- ‘The Historical Ecology of Policy: Forestry and Landscape Change in Africa’
Pauline von Hellermann (Goldsmiths)
07/12/11
- Famine Relief Diaspora-Style The Somali response to the 2011 crisis
Laura Hammond (Development Studies, SOAS)
07/12/11
- Mobile-Enabled Social Change
Ken Banks
Founder kiwanja.net and FrontlineSMS, Tech Awards Laureate 2009 National Geographic Emerging Explorer 2010
07/12/11
- The Martyr and the Saint: the Ottoman Transformation of two Medieval Shrines
Dr Zeynep Yurekli-Gorkay, Lecturer in Islamic Art and Architecture, Oriental Institute, University of Oxford
08/12/11
- The Rebirth of Buddha
by director Takaaki Ishiyama (2009)
08/12/11
- Revisiting Ḥadīth Bayāḍ wa Riyāḍ (ms. Vat. ar. 368) - New perspectives
Dr. Arianna D'Ottone
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
09/12/11
- Nagarjuna, Nirvana and Nihilism: Re-reading the Ratnavali
Dr. Burkhard Scherer (Canterbury Christ Church University)
12/12/11
- Paradox and Passion in the Tower of Babel: on Scientific Translation in the Moroccan Classroom
Charis Boutieri: King's College
13/12/11
- Robert Hart and the Chinese Embassy in the UK
Zhang Zhiyong, CASS
13/12/11
- The image of America in Indian political discourse, c. 1947-84: a study of transnational culture
Shalini Sharma (Keele University)
13/12/11
- “Dirt and Garbage in the Ancient Jewish Religious Imagination and in Daily Life” and “Zulu Fundamentalists: Performing the Biblical Script in Twentieth Century South Africa”
Professor Catherine Hezser and Dr Joel Cabrita
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
14/12/11
- Development Brokering and the Blurring of Aid and Security in Dakar
Anne-Line Rodriguez (Anthropology, SOAS)
14/12/11
- Between 1989 and 2011: From Velvet Revolution to Arab Spring
His Excellency Mr. Michael Zantovsky
Ambassador of the Czech Republic to the United Kingdom
Founding Member of the Civic Forum in Czechoslovakia in 1989
Former Reuters Correspondent
14/12/11
- An imperial mission for the Khmer medical Buddha
Peter Sharrock (SOAS)
14/12/11
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
