Seminars
The Department offers a number of regional seminars for invited speakers and as an opportunity for PhD students to present their research. The Department is also active in the seminar programmes of a number of regional centres.
Department Seminars
- African History Seminar
- Near & Middle East History Seminar
- South Asia History Seminar
- Southeast and East Asia History Seminar
Research Colloquium
Regional Centres
- Centre of African Studies
- Centre of Chinese Studies
- Centre of Korean Studies
- Centre of South Asian Studies
- Centre of South East Asian Studies
- Japan Research Centre
- London Middle East Institute
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2013
February
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
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
20/02/13
- Memorialising African Slavery in Brazil on Film
Shihan de Silva (ICS); Hebe Mattos (University Federal Fluminense/Brazil); Carolina Moraes-Liu (Independent Producer)
Part of the History on Film | Slavery & The African Diaspora From a Global Perspective Workshops and Film Screenings
21/02/13
- Postgraduate Open Evening
Representatives from departments across the School will be available to answer your questions about postgraduate studies at SOAS.
25/02/13
- The first Muslim empire: re-framing the Umayyads
Andrew Marsham (Edinburgh)
27/02/13
- Transmission of Cultural Heritage of Slavery in the Indian Ocean on Film
Marie Rodet (SOAS, University of London); Francesca Declich (University Urbino); Beheroze Shroff (University of California, Irvine); Shihan de Silva (Institute of Commonwealth Studies)
Part of the Workshops/Film Screening on History on Film | Slavery & The African Diaspora From a Global Perspective
March
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
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)
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.
June
06/06/13
- Postgraduate Open Evening
Representatives from departments across the School will be available to answer your questions about postgraduate studies at SOAS.
