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
January
09/01/13
- Growing Up in a World at War: Personal Documents by Children and Adolescents in Wartime Japan
Aaron Moore (University of Manchester)
14/01/13
- Hanif Kureishi's "The Black Album" (1995)
Kavita Ramdya (SOAS)
14/01/13
- Killing in the Name of the King: Thailand’s Political Developments Since the 2006 Coup
Pavin Chachavalpongpun (Kyoto University)
15/01/13
- Re-conceptualising zakat in Indonesia: worship, philantropy, and property rights
Kostas Retsikas (SOAS, Univeristy of London)
16/01/13
- The Department Store, the Mannequin Girl, and the Politics of the Gaze in 1930s Japan
Irena Hayter (University of Leeds)
16/01/13
- India, a 'Rising Power' and Africa: Challenges
Dr Sumit Roy (School of International Relations and Strategic Studies, Jadavpur University,Kolkata,India)
17/01/13
- Consuming Modernity: Religious Consumption, the West and Emerging Middle-Class Culture in Lahore, Pakistan
Ammara Maqsood (University of Oxford)
18/01/13
- Korean Cannibalism: Production of Transgression in a Climate of Social Ills
Dr Se-Woong Koo (Center for Korean Studies) École des Hautes Études
21/01/13
- Commercial Capitalism and the Ancestral Hall in Late Imperial China
Joe P. McDermott (Cambridge)
21/01/13
- Encounters, Cultural Flows and Hybridity in the Indian Ocean
Shihan de Silva (Institute of Commonwealth Studies)
22/01/13
- Shared Values of Singapore: Sexual Minority Rights as Singaporean Value
Phil W. Chan
We regret to inform you that this event has been cancelled.
23/01/13
- A Forgotten Buddhist Astronomy: History of "Bonreki" Movement in 19th Century Japan
Professor Masahiko Okada (Tenri University)
24/01/13
- Does 'Democracy' Mean Different Things in Pakistan, India, and the UK?
Dr Matthew Nelson (SOAS, University of London)
25/01/13
- Martyrs and Murderers: The Korean Police Prepare for War, 1946-1950
Konrad Lawson (Max Weber Postdoctoral Fellow, European University Institute)
28/01/13
- The Moving Medium: Historical. Photographs and the Aesthetic Representation of China?s Twentieth-Century Past
Margaret Hillenbrand (University of Oxford)
We regret to inform you that this event has been cancelled.
30/01/13
- Japanese Literature after March 11th : first approaches
Anne Bayard-Sakai
30/01/13
- Vegetarianism in India
Monisha Bharadwaj (Author and chef)
31/01/13
- The Gurkha's Daughter: Stories
Prajwal Parajuly (Author)
Prajwal Parajuly’s debut book, The Gurkha's Daughter: Stories, published by Quercus, has received rave reviews and now hits the stands in the UK after being on bestseller lists in South Asia.
February
01/02/13
- An Account of My Research on Romance of the Western Chamber and Beyond
Professor Wen-Chin HSU
01/02/13
- The 1653 Calender Reform and the Dutch Castaways : Circulation of Knowledge and Involuntary Go-Betweeners (TBC)
Aurélien Laroulandie (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales [EHESS])
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)
28/02/13
- Managing uncertainty in Afghanistan - a view from the ground
Michael Keating, Senior Consulting Fellow, Chatham House; former Deputy UN Envoy to Afghanistan (until November 2012)
March
05/03/13
- Creating a middle class audience and bourgeoise environmentalism
Somnath Batabyal (SOAS, University of London)
05/03/13
- US Imperialism and the Culture of Integration in Cold War Thailand
Dr Matthew Phillips
06/03/13
- 'Creating a 'Usable Past' - Japanese Television Drama and the Memory of the Second World War
Griseldis Kirsch (SOAS)
06/03/13
- Can Film be used as an instrument for Social Change?
Javed Akhtar and Shabana Azmi
In view of the horrific gangrape recently in Delhi concerns have been expressed about the role films. TV and advertisements play in commodifying women. Is self - regulation required or State Censorship? Does film have a larger role to play beyond that of entertainment?
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
- Temple of Doom: Thai-Cambodain Conflicts and the Role of ASEAN
Pavin Chachavalpongpun
07/03/13
- Dr Najib and Mr Karzai: a Tale of Two Retreats
Jonathan Steele (Author/ International affairs columnist)
08/03/13
- China Goes Global: The Partial Power
Professor David Shambaugh (George Washington)
In China Goes Global, eminent China scholar David Shambaugh delivers the book many have been waiting for—a sweeping account of China's growing prominence on the international stage.
09/03/13
- Saving Face
Dr Mohammad Ali Jawad (Consultant Plastic Surgeon)
11/03/13
- Jhumpa Lahiri's "Interpreter of Maladies" (1999)
Kavita Ramdya (SOAS)
12/03/13
12/03/13
13/03/13
- Khamosh Pani
Directed by (Sabiya Sumar)
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
14/03/13
- 'The Errant Eye' and Mughal Pastoral Poetry
Sunil Sharma
18/03/13
- Antwerp in the Ming, the Ming in Antwerp
Dr Anne Gerritsen (Department of History, University of Warwick)
20/03/13
20/03/13
- The Six Tastes of Ayurveda
Monisha Bharadwaj (Author and chef)
21/03/13
- The Political Economy of Research and Research Institutions in Nepali History
Pratyoush Onta (Martin Chautari, Kathmandu)
21/03/13
- 13th Annual Jaina Lecture: Jaina Logic and Epistemology. Is This How it All Began?
Professor Piotr Balcerowicz (University of Warsaw)
21/03/13
- Muslims, Trust and Cultural Dialogue
Anwar Akhtar, Kristiane Backer, Commander Makhdum Chishty, Abbey
22/03/13
- Memories Without Borders
Mehmet Binay (CAM Film), Ilham Safarov (Internews Azerbaijan), Nouneh Sargsyan and Harut Mansuryan (Internews Armenia)
Film screening of Memories Without Borders – a new documentary film (55-minutes, English subtitles)
made by Turkish, Armenian and Azerbaijani filmmakers working across closed borders.
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)
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.
