Centre for Gender and Religions Research Events
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2013
January
08/01/13
- The Panchayat Debate in the Bengal Presidency, 1815-1830
James Jaffe (University of Wisconsin-Whitewater)
09/01/13
- Trans-cultural Architecture: Identity, Practice and Syncretism in Goa
Mallica Kumbera Landrus (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford)
10/01/13
- Making Buddhist Ancestors: Portrait-Statues at Baoshan
Wendy L. Adamek (University of Sydney)
10/01/13
- Yarshater Lecture Series - Images and Decor in the Persianate World
Professor Yves Porter (Department of History, University of Aix-Marseille, France)
The making of Persian Paintings (14th-16th centuries)
11/01/13
- Making Aquaculture a Component of Food Security for Developing Countries
Peter Gardiner, Executive Director, Independent Science & Partnership Council, The Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR)
11/01/13
- Yarshater Lecture Series - Images and Decor in the Persianate World
Professor Yves Porter (Department of History, University of Aix-Marseille, France)
Poetical iconography on Persian ceramics (end 12th-early 14th centuries)
14/01/13
- Remember, remember: the changing memory of World War One in Palestine
Roberto Mazza (Western Illinois University)
14/01/13
- Yarshater Lecture Series - Images and Decor in the Persianate World
Professor Yves Porter (Department of History, University of Aix-Marseille, France)
Use and re-use of Persian Tiles
15/01/13
- Drawing the Socialist Camp Together: Chinese cartoonists and their trans-socialist links after 1949
Jennifer Altehenger, King’s College
15/01/13
- Shari'at and Muslim community in colonial Punjab, 1865-85
Robert Ivermee (University of Kent)
15/01/13
- Fantastic Bodies: Some Reflections on Religion and Body in Science Fiction Films
Alexander Ornella, Department of Humanities: Religion, University of Hull
15/01/13
- Yarshater Lecture Series - Images and Decor in the Persianate World
Professor Yves Porter (Department of History, University of Aix-Marseille, France)
Glazed Tiles in the Indian Sultanates
16/01/13
- Robert Flaherty, Nanook of the North, 1922, 55 min.
Robert Flaherty
16/01/13
16/01/13
- A Life Writing About Food
Claudia Roden
18/01/13
- Endangered Textile Traditions
Various Speakers
The WEFT exhibition is launched with a symposium titled Endangered Textile Traditions to be held at SOAS on the 18th and 19th of January.
18/01/13
- World Eco Fibre & Textile (WEFT) Art
WEFT explores the three dimensionality of textile art through installations and sculptural constructions, where contemporary textile artists are currently taking fibre sculpture into new areas.
18/01/13
- The Spread of Smaller Scale Rural Mechanisation in some South Asian Countries
Stephen Biggs, Research Fellow, School of International Development, University of East Anglia
21/01/13
23/01/13
23/01/13
- A Forgotten Buddhist Astronomy: History of Bonreki Movement in 19th Century Japan
Masahiko Okada (Tenri University)
24/01/13
- Historical Documents and Cultural Materials in the Study of Modern Japanese Buddhism: Varieties of Materials in Bonreki Movement
Masahiko Okada (Tenri University)
25/01/13
- Food, Peace and Human Thriving in a Changing World: New Paradigms and Practices for the 21st Century
Geoff Tansey, Writer, Consultant and Honorary Research Fellow, Department of Peace Studies, Bradford University and Centre for Rural Economy, Newcastle University
28/01/13
- The deposition of Defterdar Ahmed Pasha and the rule of law in seventeenth-century Egypt
James E. Baldwin (Queen Mary)
29/01/13
29/01/13
- Research Student Seminar
Jonathon O’Donnell
30/01/13
- The Hunters, 1957, 72 min.
John Marshall
30/01/13
- The online dating as new field for sociological studies
Prof. Pascal Lardellier (University of Bourgogne, France)
30/01/13
- Uncovering Fiebig's handcoloured photographs of Ceylon
Andrew Jarvis (Cambridge University)
31/01/13
February
01/02/13
- Creating a Zambian Breadbasket: 'Land Grabs' and Foreign Investments in Agriculture in Mkushi District, Zambia
Jessica Chu, Doctoral Candidate, Department of Anthropology and Food Studies Centre, SOAS, University of London
04/02/13
- Two weeks in the Sahara / Sahel: a long-term view of conflict in Mali and Algeria
Professor Jeremy Keenan (SOAS)
05/02/13
- Dispirited: How Contemporary Spirituality makes us Stupid, Selfish and Unhappy
David Webster, Religion, Philosophy & Ethics, University of Gloucestershire
06/02/13
- Moi, un noir, 1957, 80 min.
Jean Rouch
06/02/13
- Venetian Reuse of Art Objects
Dr Stefania Gervini (Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca, Italy)
08/02/13
- ‘We Didn’t Want to Hear About Calories’: Rethinking Food Security, Food Power and Food Sovereignty - Lessons from the Gaza Closure
Aeyal Gross, Professor of Law, Tel Aviv University and Visiting Reader in Law, SOAS, University of London
13/02/13
- Urban Violence in the Middle East: Histories of Place and Event
- In spite of its relevance to contemporary events the history of public violence in Middle Eastern cities has not yet been the subject of systematic academic debate.
13/02/13
- Keynote - Urban Violence in the Middle East: Histories of Place and Event
Professor Charles Tripp
13/02/13
18/02/13
18/02/13
19/02/13
- Shatter Zones and Lines of Flight: How Philippine History Shapes the Global Market for Caring Labour
Deirdre MacKay, Keele University
19/02/13
- Woman's body as “awrah” in Muslim legal tradition
Ziba Mir-Hosseini, Centre for Middle Eastern and Islamic Law, SOAS
19/02/13
- Ubunto and Development
David Marsden (SOAS) and Alex Ankrah (Tutu Foundation)
20/02/13
- Dead Birds, 1963, 83 min.
Robert Gardner
20/02/13
- Disciplining the Everyday State? Anti-Corruption and Right to Information Activism in Delhi
Martin Webb (Birkbeck / Sussex)
22/02/13
- Rice supply and State Building in Jiangnan and Taiwan, 1949-1953
Julia Strauss, Senior Lecturer in Chinese Politics, SOAS, University of London
25/02/13
- The first Muslim empire: re-framing the Umayyads
Andrew Marsham (Edinburgh)
25/02/13
- Democratizing Manufacturing: 3D Printing & The Developing World
William Hoyle (TechforTrade)
26/02/13
26/02/13
- Research Student Seminar
Farah Mihlar
27/02/13
- A Wife Among Wives, 1981, 72 min.
David and Judith MacDougall
27/02/13
- “Men and gods, and things”: Maratha Art and Moor’s “Hindu Pantheon” (1810)
Holly Shaffer (Yale University)
28/02/13
- Religion and Politics in Contemporary Japan: Soka Gakkai Youth and Komeito
Anne Mette Fisker-Nielsen (SOAS)
The presentation will be followed by a reception
March
01/03/13
- Food, Trauma and Identity: Memories of Polish Women Deported during the Second World War
Monica Janowski, Senior Teaching Fellow, Department of Anthropology, and Research Associate, Food Studies Centre, SOAS, University of London; and Research Officer, Caritas Social Action Network
04/03/13
- Title TBC
Sarah McMillan (the Prince's Youth Business International)
05/03/13
- Building Nations, Breaking Communities: the Locality of Caste Violence in Colonial North India
Mridu Rai (Trinity College, Dublin)
05/03/13
- Research Student Seminar
George Warner
06/03/13
- Memories and dreams, 1993, 92 min.
Melissa Llewlyn-Davies
06/03/13
- Collecting Malay Silver at the V&A
Sau Fong Chan (Victoria & Albert Museum, London)
06/03/13
- The Symbolic Possession of the World: European Cartography in Mughal Allegory
Professor Ebba Koch Professor of Asian Art, Institute of Art History, University of Vienna, Austria
07/03/13
- Department of History of Art and Archaeology PG Third Year Seminar
Various
(buffet lunch 12.30)
07/03/13
- The fire Ritual of Japanese Mountain Ascetics
Claudio Ciniglia
08/03/13
- Biofortification and the Biopolitics of Sustainable Development
Sally Brooks, Teaching Fellow, Dept. of Social Policy and Social Work, University of York
11/03/13
- Pietism in Ottoman Islam: The case of Birgivī’s al-Ṭarīqa al-muḥammadiyya
Katharina Ivanyi (Saint Michael’s College, Vermont)
12/03/13
- Who’s Afraid of Cultural Revolution? Bo Xilai, Wen Jiabao and the CCP
Patricia Thornton, University of Oxford
12/03/13
- The Andaman “Local Born”: a history of ex-convicts and their descendants in the Bay of Bengal
Clare Anderson (University of Leicester)
12/03/13
- Research Student Seminar
Longdu Shi
12/03/13
- Social Development 2015 and beyond?
Jen Marshall (DFID)
13/03/13
- Cannibal Tours, 1987, 70 min.
Dennis O’Rourke
13/03/13
14/03/13
- Interpretations and Transformations of the ‘Mother of All Buddhas’ in Medieval Shingon Buddhism
Steven Trenson (Kyōto University)
15/03/13
- Milk, Muck and Red Tape: Quality Assurance Schemes and Farmers' Record keeping Practices in the French and UK Dairy Sectors
Laura Sayre, Research Associate, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Dijon
18/03/13
- Insight Day at SOAS
Various Speakers
An invitation only event for prospective undergraduate students who have received an offer from SOAS
18/03/13
- Born in the Global Nineteenth Century: The Emergence of Sectarianism in the Modern Middle East
Ussama Makdisi (Rice University)
19/03/13
- The Illiterate Ustad and Other Mythical Beasts: Musicians Writing in the Mughal World
Katherine Schofield (KCL)
19/03/13
- Foxes, Boats and Medications: A Ritual Panacea to Heal the Body in Heian Japan
Benedetta Lomi, Centre for the Studies of Japanese Religions, SOAS
20/03/13
- Before Tomorrow, 2008, 92 min.
Marie-Hélène Cousineau and Madeline Ivalu
20/03/13
- Dating the Buddha: New archaeological evidence from Lumbini (Nepal) the birthplace of the Buddha
Robin Coningham (Durham University)
21/03/13
22/03/13
- Tales of the Not Entirely Unexpected: Life Histories of Coffee, Tea and Flower Workers in Ethiopia and Uganda
Christopher Cramer, Deborah Johnston, Carlos Oya
Christopher Cramer, Professor of Development Studies, SOAS, University of London
Deborah Johnston, Senior Lecturer in Development Economics, SOAS, University of London
Carlos Oya, Senior Lecturer in the Political Economy of Development, SOAS, University of London
April
10/04/13
17/04/13
- The Bahari Foundation Lecture in Iranian Art and Culture
Dr Barbara Brend (Independent Scholar)
Early ‘Siyah Qalam’ style and the Great Mongol Shahnamah
May
08/05/13
- Mughal and Safavid Grotesque Animal Carpets: Sources and Distinctions
Steven Cohen
The 15th Annual Toby Falk Memorial Lecture
15/05/13
20/05/13
21/05/13
22/05/13
23/05/13
June
05/06/13
- Metallic Memories: Exploring the Art and History of Medals in British India
Shailendra Bhandare
12/06/13
- Constructing the Imperial Image: Fath ʿAli Shah’s Portraits and Early Qajar Politics
Dr Francesca Leoni (Yousef Jameel Curator of Islamic Art, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford)
