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2012

January

04/01/12
10/01/12
11/01/12
  • The Masks of Mer, 2010, 60 mins
  • Michael Eaton

  • In this documentary director Michael Eaton traces the story of Alfred Haddon's largely neglected 1898 film footage shot in the Torres Strait islands of a sacred initiation.  Although less than a minute long, this rare footage is the world's first example of anthropological cinema.  The filmmaker will be present to discuss his film.

11/01/12
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16/01/12
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18/01/12
  • Nanook of the North, 1922, 55 min
  • Robert Flaherty

  • This classic film focuses on an ‘Eskimo’ hunter and his family as they struggle for survival against the harsh forces of nature in the Canadian artic. This was Flaherty’s first film and has been widely acclaimed as the first full length documentary film.

18/01/12
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18/01/12
  • The Cosmic Cup in Medieval and Later Persian Art
  • Dr Marianna Shreve Simpson, Independent Scholar, Maryland, USA and Pres Lecturer in Islamic Art and Architecture, Oriental Institute, University of Oxford

  • The Hadassah and Daniel Khalili Memorial Lecture in Islamic Art and Culture

20/01/12
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25/01/12
  • Man with a Movie Camera [Chelovek s kino-apparatom], 1929, 103 min
  • Dziga Vertov

  • The highly innovative film presents urban life in the Soviet Union following their inhabitants from dawn to dusk as they work and play. The film is also a playful reflection on the powers of filmic representation as it follows the work of the cameraman throughout the city.  

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  • Tullio Lobetti

February

01/02/12
  • The Hunters, 1957, 72 min
  • John Marshall

  • This is an early classic anthropological film, which follows four men on a hunt of a giraffe by over a five-day period in the Kalahari Desert in southwest Africa.

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08/02/12
  • Moi, un noir, 1957, 80 min
  • Jean Rouch

  • The film, set in Abidjan, Ivory Coast depicts the lives of casual labor over the course of one week. The characters model themselves on fantasy characters- gangsters and FBI agents- from Hollywood films - living on dreams denied to them in their working class realities.

08/02/12
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  • Raqqa – Qasr Banat
  • Prof Oliver Watson, IM Pei Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture, University of Oxford
09/02/12
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22/02/12
  • Dead Birds, 1963, 83 min
  • Robert Gardner

  • Gardner stayed with the Dani of New Guinea for six months to film one of his best-known works, an essay on the theme of violence and death that details the intense ritual warfare conducted by the Dani and their neighboring tribes.

22/02/12
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24/02/12
  • Food and City Systems
  • Michael Duff, Associate Consultant in Strategy, Design and Sustainability, Happold Consulting, and Guest Lecturer, UCL Sustainable Urbanism M.Sc. and LSE Cities Programme
24/02/12
28/02/12
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29/02/12
  • To Live with Herds, 1971, 69 min.
  • David MacDougall

  • Set within a traditional homestead during a harsh dry season, this film explores the effects of nation building in pre-Amin Uganda amongst the semi-nomadic pastoral Jie people

29/02/12
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March

02/03/12
02/03/12
06/03/12
06/03/12
06/03/12
07/03/12
  • Masai Women, 1974, 52 mins.
  • Chris Curling and Melissa Llewlyn-Davies

  • The film details a series of events in women's lives, from their circumcision ceremonies which mark their transition from girlhood to womanhood, to the moment when they proudly watch their sons make the transition to elderhood in the eunoto ceremony.

07/03/12
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10/03/12
  • International Bagpipe Conference, Concert and Ball

  • This conference will gather bagpipe specialists (musicians, academics, historians, instrument makers and many others) and will enable each and every one of them to exchange their thoughts about the instrument.

    Conference to be followed by a concert and ball.

13/03/12
13/03/12
  • TBC
  • Adam Forbes

  • Please note change of date.

14/03/12
  • Cannibal Tours, 1987, 70 min
  • Dennis O’Rourke

  • With dry humor and a great deal of irony this film follows western tourists as they journey up the Sepik River in Papua New Guinea.  It focuses on the complex relationships and mutual dependencies between the tourists and the indigenous people

14/03/12
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15/03/12
  • Women Only Peace and Reconciliation Discussion
  • Ms. Quhramaana Kakar (Gender adviser to the Afghan High Peace Council)
  • Afghan Advocacy Initiative (AAI) is pleased to inform you that we will be holding a women only discussion event on peace and reconciliation process in Afghanistan on Thursday 15th March (to commemorate International Women’s Day). The aim of this event is to create an opportunity for Afghan and non-Afghan women to voice their opinions about the peace and reconciliation process and discuss ideas on how to establish a platform to advocate for greater woman participation in the process.
16/03/12
20/03/12
  • Joint South and East Asia History Seminarheast India
  • Jonathan Saha (University of Bristol) / Willem van Schendel (University of Amsterdam and International Institute of Social History)

  • Joint South/Southeast/East Asia History Seminar: Defragmenting Asian Studies - Views from Northeast India and Burma

    Willem van Schendel (Amsterdam) and Jonathan Saha (Bristol)

20/03/12
  • Joint South and East Asia History Seminar
  • Jonathan Saha (University of Bristol) / Willem van Schendel (University of Amsterdam and International Institute of Social History)

  • Joint South/Southeast/East Asia History Seminar: Defragmenting Asian Studies - Views from Northeast India and Burma

    Willem van Schendel (Amsterdam) and Jonathan Saha (Bristol)

20/03/12
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  • Mark Faulkner
20/03/12
21/03/12
  • Imagining Indians, 1992, 60 mins.
  • Victor Masayeva

  • Using examples drawn from popular media representations this film explores how Native Americans respond to the misappropriation of American Indian culture, spiritualism, ceremony and religion.

21/03/12
21/03/12
21/03/12
  • ICT4D – in whose interests?
  • Tim Unwin, CEO of the Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation, and Emeritus Professor/UNESCO Chair in ICT4D at Royal Holloway, University of London

  • Public event. No registration required.

21/03/12
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23/03/12

April

04/04/12
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17/04/12
18/04/12
18/04/12
  • Seeing in Isfahan: Expanding Gaze for an Early Modern Capital
  • Professor Renata Holod, College for Women Class of 1963 Term Professor in the Humanities, History of Art Department; Curator, Near East Section, PENN Museum, University of Pennsylvania, USA

  • The Bahari Foundation Lecture in Iranian Art and Culture

19/04/12
  • Ancient Vietnam & Champa
  • Anne-Valerie Schweyer, Ian Glover, Vu Hong Lien, Julian Brown, Peter Sharrock

  • This springtime colloquium marks the UK launch of the first book in English on the history of Vietnam and the now lost kingdom of Champa, as told through their extraordinary art and architecture.

19/04/12
23/04/12
24/04/12
  • MPhil/PhD Upgrade Presentations
  • Thomas Bruce, Lin Jiao, Simon Forbes
    • The Sole of the Nation:  Encounters with Western Feet, Footwear and Footwear Practices in Siam in the Nineteenth Century
      Thomas Bruce
    • Breast-binding in Republican China (1910s-1930s): The Female Body in an Age of Globalisation
      Lin Jiao
    • The Bombing and Occupation of Guangzhou: The British Response
      Simon Forbes
24/04/12
24/04/12
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  • Sarah Stewart
24/04/12
26/04/12
27/04/12
30/04/12
30/04/12

May

01/05/12
  • MPhil/PhD Upgrade Presentations
  • Sarah Lee, Bo Bo Maung
    • Reading Between the Lines: Narrating the Voices of Filipino Domestic Workers in Hong Kong, 1970-1990
      Sarah Lee
    • The Burmese Military and the Press in U Nu's Burma
      Bo Bo Maung
01/05/12
02/05/12
02/05/12
03/05/12
03/05/12
04/05/12
05/05/12
08/05/12
  • MPhil/PhD Upgrade Presentations
  • Cyrus K.Y. Yee, Niki Alsford, Thanyarat Apiwong
    • China's New Administration in the Inner Asian Frontiers in the Late Qing Period, 1901-1911
      Cyrus K.Y. Yee
    • The Banka Petition: British Interactions at the Cession of Formosa in 1895
      Niki Alsford
    • Thai Borders and Burmese Migrants in Chiang Mai, 1880s-1980s
      Thanyarat Apiwong
08/05/12
08/05/12
08/05/12
  • Donkey Conference @ SOAS

  • An interdisciplinary conference on donkey, mule and hinny cultures worldwide.

    Tuesday 8 May (film and discussion from 6pm in room B111)
    Wednesday 9 May 2012 (10am - 6pm)

09/05/12
10/05/12
  • In-Sung Kim Han and Caroline Rumpf
  • In-Sung Kim Han and Caroline Rumpf

  • Islamic Material Culture in Medieval Korea (8th century - 1427) (In-Sung Kim Han)

    Evolution of contemporary Iranian Art after the Reform Period of Muhammed Khatami, through the analysis of paintings and sculptural works by Farhad Moshiri, Bita Fayyazi and Rokni Haerizadeh (Caroline Rumpf)

11/05/12
  • Puppetry and Art in Japan
  • Iwata Yoriko (Chukyo University), Mizote Eri (Kurashiki City College), Senda Yasuko (Independent Researcher), Iku Masunari (Ph.D. student, Open University)
    • Iwata Yoriko (Chukyo University): “Punch”-related Ephemera: “ Ponch-e” and Others
    • Mizote Eri (Kurashiki City College): The Influences of D’Arc Marionettes on Japanese Theatre
    • Senda Yasuko (Independent Researcher): Karauri ningyô --Japanese Automata
    • Iku Masunari (Ph.D. student, Open University): Learning about “Sustainability” through Puppetry
14/05/12
15/05/12
15/05/12
  • Final Year Research Presentations
  • Matthew Philips, Han Lifeng
    • Forming the Public Relations State: Thai Identity through Representation
      Matthew Philips
    • The Popular Sai Ritual and the Economy of Local Festivals in Song China, 960-1279
      Han Lifeng
16/05/12
16/05/12
16/05/12
16/05/12
17/05/12
18/05/12
22/05/12
  • Final Year Research Presentations
  • Fion So, Sangpil Jin
    • The Xinzheng Reform and Economic Integration in Shandong
      Fion So
    • Late Joseon Neutralisation (1882-1907): Influencing Factors and Proposals
      Sangpil Jin
22/05/12
25/05/12
28/05/12
29/05/12

June

06/06/12
07/06/12
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14/06/12
  • Anthropology of International Humanitarianism
  • Professor Tim Allen (LSE) and Dr Rosalind Eyben (IDS, Sussex)

  • Panel discussion on International Humanitarianism chaired by Dr Emma Crewe featuring Professor Tim Allen (LSE) and Dr Rosalind Eyben (IDS, Sussex).

22/06/12
25/06/12

September

28/09/12

October

03/10/12
03/10/12
05/10/12
  • International Workshop: Where Art Meets Ritual

  • This workshop aims to examine aspects of the Japanese religious and artistic experience through the analysis of texts, images and performance. The papers presented will focus on the visual and semantic analysis of Buddhist paintings and explore ritual performance, including rituals which do not necessarily belong to a category of ‘religion.’

05/10/12
06/10/12
  • Rethinking Small Media

  • Join academics, journalists and activists to explore some of the intractable binaries that dominate our thinking about politics and media.

08/10/12
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November

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December

03/12/12
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06/12/12
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07/12/12
  • Image Politics in the Middle East: The role of the visual in political struggle
  • Lina Khatib (Head of the Program on Arab Reform and Democracy, at Stanford University)

  • In conversation with Charles Tripp, Professor of Middle East Politics (SOAS), and author of the new book The Power and the People: Paths of Resistance in the Middle East.

    Join us for a discussion on political expression in Egypt, Libya, Lebanon, Syria and Iran.

    Moderated by Dina Matar

10/12/12
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11/12/12
  • Title to be confirmed
  • Dr Benedetta Lomi, Department of the Study of Religions, SOAS, University of London
12/12/12
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