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Centres and Programmes Office

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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2012

January

11/01/12
11/01/12
13/01/12
16/01/12
17/01/12
18/01/12
19/01/12
20/01/12
  • Catalyst Vietnam
  • Caroline Ticarro-Parker (Founder of Catalyst Vietnam) and others, Chair: Carol Tan
20/01/12
23/01/12
24/01/12
25/01/12
26/01/12
26/01/12
30/01/12
31/01/12

February

01/02/12
02/02/12
02/02/12
03/02/12
06/02/12
06/02/12
07/02/12
08/02/12
09/02/12
09/02/12
16/02/12
16/02/12
20/02/12
20/02/12
21/02/12
22/02/12
22/02/12
23/02/12
23/02/12
24/02/12
27/02/12
28/02/12
29/02/12

March

02/03/12
02/03/12
03/03/12
05/03/12
06/03/12
07/03/12
07/03/12
07/03/12
07/03/12
07/03/12
08/03/12
08/03/12
09/03/12
09/03/12
12/03/12
12/03/12
  • Senna
  • Asif Kapadia (Director)

  • The event will include the press launch for the London Asian Film Festival followed by the screening of the film Senna.

13/03/12
14/03/12
15/03/12
15/03/12
19/03/12
21/03/12
21/03/12
21/03/12
22/03/12
22/03/12

April

03/04/12
  • 7th European Australianists workshop 2012
  • Include: Eva Schultze-Berndt (University of Manchester), William McGregor (University of Arhus) and Peter Austin (SOAS)

  • The purpose of the workshop is to provide a venue for the presentation and discussion on current research on Australian languages.

12/04/12
12/04/12
13/04/12
13/04/12
14/04/12
16/04/12
18/04/12
19/04/12
19/04/12
20/04/12
  • Fukushima Colours- Voices of recovery after the catastrophe in Japan
  • Elin Lindqvist (Freelance Journalist)

  • It will take years for the full extent of the nuclear crisis’ impact on Japan to become clear. Yet, already now, a year after the tsunami, it is possible to see some of the consequences that March 11th has had on people’s mind-sets, Japanese agriculture, the fishing industry, family ties, and research about renewable energy sources.

23/04/12
23/04/12
26/04/12
27/04/12

May

01/05/12
02/05/12
02/05/12
02/05/12
03/05/12
03/05/12
03/05/12
04/05/12
05/05/12
08/05/12
09/05/12
  • Open Day
  • The programme is listed below

  • Visit the Russell Room and R201 (SOAS main building) to see a variety of displays, demonstrations, software, posters, and books from organisations involved in endangered languages activities.

09/05/12
10/05/12
  • Korean film: Years of radical change
  • The speakers are confirmed below

  • In this one day workshop organised by SOAS Centre for Korean Studies, senior scholars will critically examine some of the most important issues in Korean Cinema.

10/05/12
  • The Films of Bob Holman
  • Introduced by Bob Holman

  • Pioneer poet/moviemaker Bob Holman, twice winner of awards from the Zebra Poetry Film Festival in Berlin and recipient of the International Public Television Award will screen some of his new documentary series, "On the Road with Bob Holman".

10/05/12
  • Writing Panare - Portrait of a Linguist Fieldwork / Firekeepers
  • The list of films is confirmed below

  • We will show films from the collection of the International Festival of Ethnographic Film (RAI), sponsored by The Royal Anthropological Institute, The Department of Anthropology, University College London (UCL), and InSight Education.

10/05/12
10/05/12
11/05/12
11/05/12
  • Sign Language workshop
  • Ulrike Zeshan and her team (International Institute for Sign Languages and Deaf Studies (iSLanDs))

  • This year’s workshop will be about sign language documentation. Linguists working on spoken languages will learn about how to begin documenting a sign language they discover in their field site. The work shop will be taught by Ulrike Zeshan and her team from the International Institute for Sign Languages and Deaf Studies (iSLanDs).

15/05/12
18/05/12
19/05/12
23/05/12
29/05/12

June

13/06/12
18/06/12
23/06/12

July

04/07/12
24/07/12
  • KOEL
  • Bonny Mukherjee (Film Director)

September

12/09/12
15/09/12
17/09/12
18/09/12
20/09/12
29/09/12
  • Korean Art: Narratives and Displays in Museum Contexts
  • The list of presenters is confirmed below

  • This workshop aims to explore the contexts and narrative structures of the ways in which Korean art has been interpreted and displayed within museum contexts in Europe, America and Korea.

October

02/10/12
03/10/12
04/10/12
08/10/12
08/10/12
09/10/12
10/10/12
11/10/12
  • Secularising Islamists?
  • Dr Humeira Iqtidar (King's College London) in conversation with Dr Asad Ali (Harvard University)
12/10/12
13/10/12
  • Indonesia Kontemporer 2012

  • Inspired by Indonesian arts and cultural traditions, Indonesia Kontemporer 2012, is a creative event mixing exhibitions, performances, workshops, crafts, film screenings, as well as food and handicrafts stalls.

15/10/12
15/10/12
16/10/12
17/10/12
18/10/12
19/10/12
22/10/12
23/10/12
24/10/12
24/10/12
  • Bones will Crow: Burmese Poetry
  • With Burmese poets Thitsar Ni, Eaindra and co-editor of Bones Will Crow, James Byrne

  • This historic event marks the beginning of a UK tour celebrating the publication of the first anthology of contemporary Burmese poetry published in the West.

29/10/12
30/10/12
31/10/12
31/10/12

November

01/11/12
06/11/12
  • State Capitalism and Development in East Asia
  • Jeong Seongjin (Gyeongsang National University), Lee Jeong-koo (GNU), Gareth Dale (Brunel University), Jamie Allinson (University of Westminster), Owen Miller (SOAS)

  • The workshop seeks to investigate the role of state capitalism in East Asian economic development, looking at commonalities across the conventional boundaries of ‘capitalist’ and ‘communist’ countries.

11/11/12
12/11/12
13/11/12
14/11/12
15/11/12
15/11/12
16/11/12
16/11/12
17/11/12
19/11/12
20/11/12
21/11/12
  • Annual Presentation on Asia for Sixth Form Students 2012
  • The list of speakers is confirmed below

  • The aim of the day is to introduce 6th form students to subjects and concepts they may not have previously explored as part of their curriculum and, which will, we hope, inspire them.

21/11/12
  • Life in Burma and Life as a Refugee
  • Mr Ian Werrett (Formerly of the Chow Kit Foundation (Assistant Centre Manager / Outreach Worker) and UNICEF (Researcher). Currently writing for ‘LLB Online’ and ‘Interact UK’)
21/11/12
21/11/12
22/11/12
23/11/12
23/11/12
  • Pakistan: Past Perspectives, Future Challenges
  • Professor Ian Talbot (Southampton University), Professor Anatol Lieven (Kings College London), Dr Sarah Ansari and Dr James Caron

  • The discussion will focus on past failings, future challenges and the opportunities which remain for Pakistan in the coming years.

24/11/12
28/11/12
28/11/12
29/11/12
30/11/12

December

03/12/12
05/12/12
06/12/12
  • Empires of the Indus: The Story of a River
  • Alice Albinia (Writer) in conversation with Victoria Schofield (MA. Senior member, Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. Associate, Pakistan Security Research Unit, University of Bradford)
07/12/12
10/12/12
12/12/12
12/12/12
  • Journey into America: The challenge of Islam
  • Professor Akbar Ahmed (American University), Craig Considine (Trinity), Dr Anshuman Mondal (Brunel) and Professor Peter Morey (UEL)

  • Journey into America is a groundbreaking and timely documentary that records Ambassador Akbar Ahmed and his team of American students as they travel to more than 100 mosques in cities, suburbs and towns across America

14/12/12