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
2011
January
11/01/11
- The Amritsar massacre: the untold story
Nick Lloyd (King’s College, London)
17/01/11
- Pre-modern popular Arabic historiography and knowledge construction
Marina Pyrovolaki, SOAS
18/01/11
- Unleashing humanitarianism: Rammohun Roy and the transatlantic campaigns against slavery and sati
Lynn Zastoupil (Rhodes College)
19/01/11
- Reconstituted traditionalisms: resettlement and the making of the Ciskei, c.1963-1976.
Laura Evans, University of Sheffield
24/01/11
- Tripoli Lebanon: Violence and Identity Quest in Post Ottoman Era
Nasser Kalawoun
25/01/11
- Muslims of Tamilnad: politics and society 1930-1947
.B.P. More (Institute for Research in Social Sciences and Humanities, Tellicherry)
26/01/11
- ‘African agency in the early Atlantic World: the perspective from Cabo Verde and Upper Guinea’
Toby Green, King’s College London
31/01/11
- The Histories of Sharaf al-Din 'Ali Yazdi (d. 1454) and Timurid Politics
Evrim Binbas, Royal Holloway, University of London
February
01/02/11
- Nation's two bodies: fantasies and phantoms of 'New' India
Ravinder Kaur (University of Copenhagen)
01/02/11
- Mr. Matthew Phillips & Mr. Martyn Smith
Mr. Matthew Phillips & Mr. Martyn Smith
02/02/11
- 'On writing the life of Idi Amin'
Mark Leopold, University of Sussex
07/02/11
- Forgeries, sacred history and religious minorities: the hidden story of Miguel de Luna
Mercedes Garcia-Arenal, CSIC, Madrid
21/02/11
- The Fatimid state as seen by medieval Jews and modern social theorists
Marina Rustow, Johns Hopkins University
22/02/11
- Medical societies, networks and the competition for medical authority: hybridity, exchange and formalisation in India, 1789-1856
Erica Wald (London School of Economics)
23/02/11
- Pastoralist boundaries in Southern Darfur under British colonial rule and the limits of legibility, 1916-1956
Christopher Vaughan, Durham University
28/02/11
- A pilgrimage to Arawân: salt, oil, manuscripts, and history in northern Mali
Judith Scheele, University of Oxford
March
01/03/11
- Civilians and soldiers during India’s Second World War
Yasmin Khan (Royal Holloway, University of London)
02/03/11
- Sex and the colonial city. Regulating prostitution in the Belgian Congo
Amandine Lauro, Cambridge University
07/03/11
- Abd al-Mu'min, the first Almohad caliph (tbc)
Maribel Fierro, CSIC, Madrid
08/03/11
- Marginalised voices in the history of ‘Hindi’
Aishwarj Kumar (University of Cambridge)
09/03/11
- ‘Landscape legacies: the role of the colonial wilderness vision in the formation of Zimbabwean identities’
Coralie Hancock, Aberystwyth University
21/03/11
- The bedouin fallahun: Mapping the tribes of medieval Fayyum
Yossi Rapoport, Queen Mary, University of London
22/03/11
- The Amritsar Massacre: The Untold Story
Nick Lloyd (King’s College, London)
23/03/11
- Indian cotton textiles in the British Atlantic slave trade
Kazuo Kobayashi, Osaka University and King's College London
April
26/04/11
- Ms. Lifeng Han & Ms. Bianca Son
Ms. Lifeng Han & Ms. Bianca Son
27/04/11
May
03/05/11
- Ms. Carol Ann Boshier / Ms. Chia-Lin Huang / Ms. Shazwani Binti Shahibulbahri
Ms. Carol Ann Boshier / Ms. Chia-Lin Huang / Ms. Shazwani Binti Shahibulbahri
03/05/11
- Rumour, panic and the Great Fear of Calcutta in 1857
Niladri Chatterjee (History Department, SOAS)
10/05/11
- Appropriating the Public: urban groups, the state and the contest for space in colonial Delhi: 1863-1880
Raghav Kishore (History Department, SOAS)
11/05/11
17/05/11
- Relations of power, geographies of property: land-administration, political-economy, 'Cuttack' and 'India' in the early-nineteenth century
Upal Chakarabarti (History Department, SOAS)
23/05/11
- The Camel Conference @ SOAS
Various Speakers
In May 2011 the School of Oriental and African Studies will host an international conference examining, documenting and celebrating camel cultures from around the world.
24/05/11
- Institutionalising unity: Hindi, Urdu and the Hindustani Academy, 1927-47
David Lunn (Languages and Cultures of South Asia, SOAS)
31/05/11
- Mr. Andy Jackson & Mr Ronnie McCrum
Mr. Andy Jackson
31/05/11
- The small world of the Indian sewing machine: global goods and local usages, 1875-1952
David Arnold (University of Warwick)
June
07/06/11
- Leaving India to anarchy: Gandhi on the virtue of civil war
Faisal Devji (University of Oxford)
14/06/11
- Imperial Identities and Subaltern Subjects
Saurabh Dube (El Colegio de México and University of Warwick)
July
17/07/11
- SOAS Translation Workshop in Japanese Studies 2011
The participants are listed below
September
05/09/11
- Communicating Civilisations and World Order Conference 2011
Due to a scheduling conflict, the dates of the Conference have been adjusted to September 5-7th. The Opening Keynote address will still be delivered by Professor Harry Harootunian. We are also pleased to announce that a second keynote address will be given by Professor Prasenjit Duara. We look forward to your abstracts and participation.
September 5th features a cultural event from 6-9pm, the jazz band: "Last Mango in Paris"
October
04/10/11
- Anarchist Modernity
Sho Konishi, University of Oxford
10/10/11
- The Origin and Development of the Counter-Crusade: A New Perspective
Alexander Mallet: Royal Holloway
11/10/11
- Situating Oral Histories of Biocutural Diversity Loss in the Satpura Hills of Madhya Pradesh
Ezra Rashkow (Montclair State University)
12/10/11
- ‘Development and Decolonisation: The Gold Coast (Ghana), 1940-1957’
Jon Olav Hove (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)
17/10/11
- The DeRossetti Affair: Legal Pluralism in 19th Century Egypt
Elizabeth Shlala: London School of Economics
18/10/11
18/10/11
- The Amritsar Massacre: The Untold Story
Nick Lloyd (King’s College London)
19/10/11
24/10/11
- History, Memory and Identity: the Kurds in Post-Soviet Armenia
Christine Allison: University of Exeter
Please note: this lecture has been postponed until term 2 as it clashes with Ilan Pappe's Palestine lecture on the same evening (Room V111, the SOAS Vernon Square Campus (Penton Rise, near King’s Cross)
25/10/11
- Caste, Class and Public Policy in India, a macro-level historical analysis
Pradipta Chaudhury (JNU)
31/10/11
- Symbols of Rebellion in Early Islam
Hasan al-Khoee: SOAS
November
01/11/11
- Japan and Global Rubber, 1931-1945
William Clarence-Smith, SOAS
02/11/11
- ‘“Nigeria Can Do Without Such Perverts”: Sexual Anxiety and Political Crisis in Postcolonial Nigeria’
Steven Pierce (Manchester)
14/11/11
- State Approaches to Economic Concessions from the late Ottoman Empire to the early Turkish Republic
Kate Fleet: Cambridge University
15/11/11
- Tindo-European Dress in Orientalist Portraiture : A New Perspective on Cultural Cross-Dressing
Tara Mayer, Affiliation: Research Associate, Le Centre d'Études de l'Inde et de l'Asie du Sud (CEIAS) in Paris
16/11/11
- ‘“Between Bozal and Ladino”: West Africans’ Experiences in the Slave Trade to Bahia and Cuba, 1819-1864’
Manuel Barcia Paz (Leeds)
17/11/11
- The British Boss is Gone and Will Never Return: British Public Utility Companies in Communist Shanghai (1949-1954)
Jon Howlett, University of Bristol
(PLEASE NOTE NEW DATE AND ROOM)
21/11/11
- Urban Violence in Pahlavi Abadan
Rasmus Elling: SOAS
22/11/11
- Colonial disciplines and universal truths: Jaynarayan Ghoshal in Banaras, 1791-1821
David Curley (Western Washington University)
23/11/11
28/11/11
- Is Tebb a Medical System? ‘Islamic Medicine’ from the Medieval to Modern Period
Hormoz Ebrahimnejad: University of Southampton
29/11/11
- An Intellectual Biography of Shimaji Mokurai (1838-1911)
Mick Deneckere, University of Cambridge
29/11/11
- Religious Encounters between Bengali Travellers and Southeast Asians, c. 1916-1927
Swarupa Gupta, Makaias (Ministry of Culture, Government of India), and Presidency University, Calcutta
December
06/12/11
- Ariadne’s Sword: Interwar feminist responses to child sexual abuse in Britain and India
Daniel Grey (Wolfson College, University of Oxford)
07/12/11
- ‘The Historical Ecology of Policy: Forestry and Landscape Change in Africa’
Pauline von Hellermann (Goldsmiths)
12/12/11
- Paradox and Passion in the Tower of Babel: on Scientific Translation in the Moroccan Classroom
Charis Boutieri: King's College
13/12/11
- Robert Hart and the Chinese Embassy in the UK
Zhang Zhiyong, CASS
13/12/11
- The image of America in Indian political discourse, c. 1947-84: a study of transnational culture
Shalini Sharma (Keele University)
