Events organised by the Centres and Programmes Office, SOAS, London
The events listing includes the weekly seminar series, workshops, annual lectures, film screenings, conferences, book launches/readings, performances and symposiums. The events are organised with academic staff from all disciplines across the School and are often co-hosted with external organisations.
Most of the events organised are free and open to both internal and external audiences, unless otherwise stated.
For further information about any of the events listed below please contact the Centres & Programmes Office team.
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2013
April
08/04/13
- Anita Desai's "Fasting, Feasting" (2000)
Kavita Ramdya (SOAS)
16/04/13
- Rewriting the Social History of the Multicultural Mughal Court
Dr Audrey Truschke
17/04/13
- Sanskrit Textual Production for the Mughal Elite
Dr Audrey Truschke
26/04/13
- Imperial Indo-Persian Treatments of Sanskrit Stories and Knowledge Systems
Dr Audrey Truschke
May
08/05/13
- Text and Image in Japanese Books
This workshop will focus on examining the relationship between text and image in a variety of Japanese genres. The workshop is in conjunction with the SOAS exhibition of ‘1000 Years of the Art of Japanese Books’ from the Tenri Library.
08/05/13
- Claiming back indigenous theater: the Saangit, Bhagat and Nautanki traditions of North India
Dr Devendra Sharma (California State University)
10/05/13
- Grammar of Mimetics
Mimetic or “sound-symbolic” words in Japanese (giongo/giseigo/gitaigo) constitute a significant lexical category.
11/05/13
- Nautanki
Dr Devendra Sharma (California State University)
22/05/13
24/05/13
- Sixth Austronesian and Papuan Languages and Linguistics conference, 2013
Keynote speaker: Nikolaus P. Himmelmann (Universität zu Köln)
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
01/06/13
- Muslims, Multiculturalism and Trust: New Directions
The aim of the conference is to analyse current critiques of multiculturalism, measure them against other, perhaps more progressive interpretations, and consider the potential offered by lived experience and creative visions of intercultural exchange to offer new ways of envisaging multicultural experience.
11/06/13
- The Shanghai-Beijing nexus and the Invention of the Capital Correspondent in the late Qing and Early Republic
Timothy Weston (University of Colorado)
July
September
05/09/13
- Max Weber and China: Culture, Law and 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
08/10/13
- Reflecting on homonormativity in post-98 Indonesian Cinema
Ben Murtagh (SOAS)
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.
