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
February
04/02/13
- Floating Clouds and Feudal Commodifications: Family, Law and Reform in the Contemporary PRC
Professor Michael Palmer (Shantou University Law School, China)
04/02/13
- Arun Kolatkar and modernism in India I: the ‘Bombay scene’ in the 60s
Laetitia Zecchini
05/02/13
- Return of a King - The Battle for Afghanistan
William Dalrymple (Princeton University)
- Meet the author and buy signed copies of his book.
05/02/13
05/02/13
- Immigration and trade: is there a link? Evidence from Australia
Abu Siddique (University of Western Australia)
06/02/13
- Cross-dressing as Lady Murasaki: Tokugawa vernacular translations of classical Japanese texts
Rebekah Clements (University of Cambridge)
07/02/13
- Informality, Islam, and Public Opinion on the Inter-Peripheries of South Asia
Dr James Caron (SOAS, University of London)
08/02/13
- Neo-Liberalism and the Strengthening of the Korean State
David Hundt (Deakin)
11/02/13
- Arundhati Roy's "The God of Small Things" (1997)
Kavita Ramdya (SOAS)
14/02/13
- Seminar on the Pisa Griffin and the Mari-Cha Lion
This seminar is intended to further our understanding of these bronze objects by sharing the results of the scientific analyses and the historical and art-historical investigations that have taken place in the last ten years.
19/02/13
- Dakwah at the cinema: Identifying Indonesia's 'Islamic' Film as a genre
Alicia Izharuddin (Centre for Gender Studies, SOAS)
20/02/13
- Unfitting Parts: the Moral, Political, and Informal Economies of Japanese Organ Transplants
Alessia Costa (2012-13 Tsuda Bursary Recipient)
21/02/13
- 'That Obscure Object of Desire': Desi Porn in the Age of World Wide Web
Bhaskar Mukhopadhyay (Goldsmiths College)
22/02/13
- The body, territory and national identity in "stories about Kubo" by Pak T’ae-wǒn, Ch’oe In-hun and Chu In-sǒk
Justyna Najbar (Warsaw University)
22/02/13
- “We’re Indian and African”: Sidis of India
Shihan de Silva (Institute of Commonwealth Studies)
23/02/13
- Jai Bhim Comrade
Anand Patwardhan (Director)
25/02/13
- Rethinking Sino-European Comparative History
Hilde de Weerdt (King’s College London)
26/02/13
27/02/13
- Morito Tatsuo’s “Bunka Kokka-ron”: The State, the Citizen, and Democratic Culture in Early Postwar Japan
Peter Siegenthaler (Robert & Lisa Sainsbury Fellow, Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures)
27/02/13
- Food in Hindu Sacraments
Monisha Bharadwaj (Author and chef)
28/02/13
- Dis-Solving the Myth: The West in South Asian Muslims' Travel Narratives 1765-1857
Dr Najeeba Arif (Charles Wallace Pakistan Trust Visiting Fellow 2012-13)
March
05/03/13
- TBC
Somnath Batabyal
06/03/13
- 'Creating a 'Usable Past' - Japanese Television Drama and the Memory of the Second World War
Griseldis Kirsch (SOAS)
06/03/13
- The Burdens of Happiness: Zhu Changwen's Garden of Joy
Professor Stephen H. West (Foundation Professor of Chinese at Arizona State University and formerly Louis Agassiz Professor of Chinese at UC Berkeley)
07/03/13
- SOAS Master Class
Professor Stephen H. West (Foundation Professor of Chinese at Arizona State University and formerly Louis Agassiz Professor of Chinese at UC Berkeley)
07/03/13
07/03/13
- Dr Najib and Mr Karzai: a Tale of Two Retreats
Jonathan Steele (Author/ International affairs columnist)
11/03/13
- Jhumpa Lahiri's "Interpreter of Maladies" (1999)
Kavita Ramdya (SOAS)
12/03/13
12/03/13
13/03/13
- Prewar revolutionary culture and the Fukushima Catastrophe
Norma Field (University of Chicago, Robert S. Ingersoll Distinguished Service Professor Emerita)
14/03/13
18/03/13
- Antwerp in the Ming, the Ming in Antwerp
Dr Anne Gerritsen (Department of History, University of Warwick)
19/03/13
- Reflecting on homonormativity in post-98 Indonesian Cinema
Ben Murtagh (SOAS)
20/03/13
20/03/13
- The Six Tastes of Ayurveda
Monisha Bharadwaj (Author and chef)
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
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.
April
08/04/13
- Anita Desai's "Fasting, Feasting" (2000)
Kavita Ramdya (SOAS)
May
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.
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.
July
September
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.
