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.
2013
January
08/01/13
- The Panchayat Debate in the Bengal Presidency, 1815-1830
James Jaffe (University of Wisconsin-Whitewater)
09/01/13
- Trans-cultural Architecture: Identity, Practice and Syncretism in Goa
Mallica Kumbera Landrus (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford)
10/01/13
- Yarshater Lecture Series - Images and Decor in the Persianate World
Professor Yves Porter (Department of History, University of Aix-Marseille, France)
The making of Persian Paintings (14th-16th centuries)
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)
11/01/13
- Yarshater Lecture Series - Images and Decor in the Persianate World
Professor Yves Porter (Department of History, University of Aix-Marseille, France)
Poetical iconography on Persian ceramics (end 12th-early 14th centuries)
14/01/13
- Remember, remember: the changing memory of World War One in Palestine
Roberto Mazza (Western Illinois University)
14/01/13
- Yarshater Lecture Series - Images and Decor in the Persianate World
Professor Yves Porter (Department of History, University of Aix-Marseille, France)
Use and re-use of Persian Tiles
15/01/13
- Drawing the Socialist Camp Together: Chinese cartoonists and their trans-socialist links after 1949
Jennifer Altehenger, King’s College
15/01/13
- Shari'at and Muslim community in colonial Punjab, 1865-85
Robert Ivermee (University of Kent)
15/01/13
- Fantastic Bodies: Some Reflections on Religion and Body in Science Fiction Films
Alexander Ornella, Department of Humanities: Religion, University of Hull
15/01/13
- Yarshater Lecture Series - Images and Decor in the Persianate World
Professor Yves Porter (Department of History, University of Aix-Marseille, France)
Glazed Tiles in the Indian Sultanates
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
- Endangered Textile Traditions
Various Speakers
The WEFT exhibition is launched with a symposium titled Endangered Textile Traditions to be held at SOAS on the 18th and 19th of January.
18/01/13
- World Eco Fibre & Textile (WEFT) Art
WEFT explores the three dimensionality of textile art through installations and sculptural constructions, where contemporary textile artists are currently taking fibre sculpture into new areas.
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
21/01/13
23/01/13
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
28/01/13
- The deposition of Defterdar Ahmed Pasha and the rule of law in seventeenth-century Egypt
James E. Baldwin (Queen Mary)
29/01/13
29/01/13
- Research Student Seminar
Jonathon O’Donnell
30/01/13
- The Hunters, 1957, 72 min.
John Marshall
30/01/13
- The online dating as new field for sociological studies
Prof. Pascal Lardellier (University of Bourgogne, France)
30/01/13
- Uncovering Fiebig's handcoloured photographs of Ceylon
Andrew Jarvis (Cambridge University)
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)
05/02/13
- Dispirited: How Contemporary Spirituality makes us Stupid, Selfish and Unhappy
David Webster, Religion, Philosophy & Ethics, University of Gloucestershire
06/02/13
- Moi, un noir, 1957, 80 min.
Jean Rouch
06/02/13
- Venetian Reuse of Art Objects
Dr Stefania Gervini (Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca, Italy)
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
13/02/13
- Keynote - Urban Violence in the Middle East: Histories of Place and Event
Professor Charles Tripp
13/02/13
14/02/13
- Urban Violence in the Middle East: Histories of Place and Event
- In spite of its relevance to contemporary events the history of public violence in Middle Eastern cities has not yet been the subject of systematic academic debate.
18/02/13
18/02/13
19/02/13
- Shatter Zones and Lines of Flight: How Philippine History Shapes the Global Market for Caring Labour
Deirdre MacKay, Keele University
19/02/13
- Woman's body as “awrah” in Muslim legal tradition
Ziba Mir-Hosseini, Centre for Middle Eastern and Islamic Law, SOAS
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
- Disciplining the everday state: anti-corruption activism in Delhi'
Dr. Martin Webb, Sussex
20/02/13
- “We Have Always Been Good Citizens”: The Wiehahn Commission, Industrial Reform And White Organised Labour In South Africa, 1977-1980
Danelle van Zyl-Hermann (St. John’s Collee, Cambridge)
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
22/02/13
- The “Miraculous Image” of the Buddha from Khotan to Kyoto
Tabayashi Kei, Research Center for Buddhist Cultures in Asia at Ryukoku University
25/02/13
- The first Muslim empire: re-framing the Umayyads
Andrew Marsham (Edinburgh)
25/02/13
- Democratizing Manufacturing: 3D Printing & The Developing World
William Hoyle (TechforTrade)
26/02/13
26/02/13
- Research Student Seminar
Farah Mihlar
27/02/13
- A Wife Among Wives, 1981, 72 min.
David and Judith MacDougall
27/02/13
- “Men and gods, and things”: Maratha Art and Moor’s “Hindu Pantheon” (1810)
Holly Shaffer (Yale University)
27/02/13
- It happened in Angola. Why not here?? Regional Developments and Black South Africans, 1974-76
Isaac Saney, SOAS and Dalhousie
The southern African anti-colonial and national liberation struggles profoundly affected South Africa. Events in Mozambique and Angola in 1974-76 played a key role in reigniting the anti-apartheid struggle within the country, highlighting the interconnections of the anti-apartheid inside and outside of South Africa.
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
- Research Student Seminar
George Warner
05/03/13
- Sorting Boys and Men: Unlawful Intercourse, Boy Protection and the Child Marriage Restraint Act in Late Colonial India
Ishita Pande (Queen's University, Canada)
06/03/13
- Memories and dreams, 1993, 92 min.
Melissa Llewlyn-Davies
06/03/13
- Collecting Malay Silver at the V&A
Sau Fong Chan (Victoria & Albert Museum, London)
06/03/13
06/03/13
- The Symbolic Possession of the World: European Cartography in Mughal Allegory
Professor Ebba Koch Professor of Asian Art, Institute of Art History, University of Vienna, Austria
07/03/13
- Department of History of Art and Archaeology PG Third Year Seminar
Various
(buffet lunch 12.30)
08/03/13
- Biofortification and the Biopolitics of Sustainable Development
Sally Brooks, Teaching Fellow, Dept. of Social Policy and Social Work, University of York
11/03/13
- Pietism in Ottoman Islam: The case of Birgivī’s al-Ṭarīqa al-muḥammadiyya
Katharina Ivanyi (Saint Michael’s College, Vermont)
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
- Social Development 2015 and beyond?
Jen Marshall (DFID)
13/03/13
- Cannibal Tours, 1987, 70 min.
Dennis O’Rourke
13/03/13
- Continental Visions:The Radical Economics of African Unity in 1960s Ghana
Gerardo Serra (LSE)
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
15/03/13
- Heavenly Mistress and Bodhisattvas: Visualising the Celestial Identities of Two Empresses in Ming China (1368-1644)
Luk Yu Ping, Asia Department, The British Museum
18/03/13
- Insight Day at SOAS
Various Speakers
An invitation only event for prospective undergraduate students who have received an offer from SOAS
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
- The Illiterate Ustad and Other Mythical Beasts: Musicians Writing in the Mughal World
Katherine Schofield (KCL)
19/03/13
- Gay Rights, the Devil, and the End Times: Public Religion and the Enchantment of the Homosexuality Debate in Zambia
Dr Adriaan van Klinken, Department of Theology and Religious Studies , University of Leeds
20/03/13
- Before Tomorrow, 2008, 92 min.
Marie-Hélène Cousineau and Madeline Ivalu
20/03/13
- Dating the Buddha: New archaeological evidence from Lumbini (Nepal) the birthplace of the Buddha
Robin Coningham (Durham University)
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
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)
