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
2012
January
10/01/12
- Common-law arbitration and the British discovery of the panchayat
James Jaffe (University of Wisconsin-Whitewater)
11/01/12
- Race, Power and Violence in German Colonial Africa
Jan-Georg Deutsch (Oxford)
16/01/12
- Globalization, the State and Narrative Plurality: Historiography in Saudi Arabia
Mathias Determann, SOAS
17/01/12
- Sandalwood, tea, pepper and nutmeg: the East India Company and the interconnected worlds of Sydney, Canton, Penang and Calcutta
Nicholas Martland, The British Library
23/01/12
- Presenting 'Ottoman Worlds' in Post-Ottoman Autobiographie
Philipp Wirtz, SOAS
24/01/12
- Negotiated settlements: microecologies and competing modes of politics in the Tang-Liao period (c. 7th to 12th centuries)
Naomi Standen, University of Birmingham
24/01/12
- On the origins of Indian nationalism
Norbert Peabody (University of Cambridge)
25/01/12
- Forging foreign policy during South Africa’s transition, 1993-1994
Matt Graham (Sheffield)
30/01/12
31/01/12
- Mazmur and Tahlil: Protestant Christian Music in the Malay World, 1600–1900
David R. M. Irving, King's College London
31/01/12
- Gandhi, Nehru and the binational Zionists: Palestine, religious pluralism and national identity
James Chiriyankandath (Institute of Commonwealth Studies)
February
06/02/12
- Politics of Mass Consumption in Egypt and Saudi Arabia during the Oil Boom
Relli Shecther, Ben-Gurion University
07/02/12
- The Bond Markets and China, 1895-1935
Hans van de Ven, University of Cambridge
This event has been cancelled.
08/02/12
- Between persecution and protection: Germany’s black population under the shadow of Hitler
Robbie Aitken (Sheffield Hallam)
14/02/12
- Forming the Public Relations State: Thai Identity through Representation
Preedee Hongsaton (ANU) and Matthew Phillips (SOAS)
This event has been cancelled, however we are looking to re-schedule and will update this entry as soon as possible.
21/02/12
- Empire and Information in Song China
Hilde de Weerdt, University of Oxford
21/02/12
- Looking Beyond Flags: The 1940s in India
Indivar Kamtekar (Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi & visiting professor, Centre for Modern Indian Studies at the University of Göttingen)
22/02/12
28/02/12
- Grave investments: abstraction and sacral spaces in 20th Century Colonial Delhi
Anish Vinaik (University of Oxford)
29/02/12
- Setting Africanness and Blackness Apart: Western discourses in Equatorial Guinea, 1898-1968
Enrique Okenve Martinez (West Indies)
March
06/03/12
- The Use of the Mandarin Bible and the Promotion of Mandarin as Guoyu in Republican China
George Kam Wah Mak, Hong Kong Baptist University
06/03/12
- State power, military rule, and land reforms in West Pakistan, 1958-1969
Daniel Haines (Royal Holloway University, London)
07/03/12
13/03/12
- The importance of being nuclear: big science and state formation in mid-twentieth century India
Jahnavi Phalkey (King’s College London)
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)
21/03/12
- The Second World War in Southwest Nigeria
Oliver Coates (Cambridge)
April
17/04/12
18/04/12
23/04/12
- First-year research student presentations
Talal Al-Rashoud + David Beamish
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
- The Sole of the Nation: Encounters with Western Feet, Footwear and Footwear Practices in Siam in the Nineteenth Century
24/04/12
30/04/12
- Heritage and Social Empowerment: The example of Siem Reap, in the Shadow of Angkor
Philippe Peycam, IIAS, Leiden
30/04/12
- First-year research student presentations
Jacques Rouyer Guillet + Ümit Eser
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
- Reading Between the Lines: Narrating the Voices of Filipino Domestic Workers in Hong Kong, 1970-1990
01/05/12
- Railways and the re-conceiving of journeys in colonial India: guidebooks and travelogues
Aparajita Mukhopadhyay (SOAS)
02/05/12
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
- China's New Administration in the Inner Asian Frontiers in the Late Qing Period, 1901-1911
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
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
- Forming the Public Relations State: Thai Identity through Representation
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
- The Xinzheng Reform and Economic Integration in Shandong
22/05/12
- The slow partitioning of Sri Lanka and India
Sujit Sivasundaram (University of Cambridge)
September
17/09/12
- SOAS Translation Workshop in Japanese Studies 2012
The participants are listed below
28/09/12
- Arabic Pasts: Histories and Historiography
What is in a Period? ‘Jāhiliyya’, ‘ʿAbbāsid’, and ‘Arab Spring’ in Arabic Historical Writing
28/09/12
- Arabic Pasts: Histories and Historiography
What’s in a Period?
‘Jāhiliyya’, ‘ʿAbbāsid’, and ‘Arab Spring’ in Arabic Historical Writing
October
08/10/12
- ‘Earnest money’ and the question of the sources of Islamic law
Gerald Hawting, SOAS
09/10/12
- The Dragon Navy: Maritime Militarization in the Great Qing
Chung-yam Po, University of Heidelberg
10/10/12
- Land Policies by Other Means: War and Tea in Zimbabwe, 1950s to 1970s
Heike Schmidt (University of Vienna)
15/10/12
- Beyond Egypt's borders: The transnational impact of reforms in Islamic education, 1870-1952
Hilary Kalmbach, Oxford
17/10/12
- The ANC in Rural South Africa: KwaZulu-Natal after 1994
Tim Gibbs (Trinity College, Cambridge)
22/10/12
23/10/12
- A Delicate Matter: Mailing Practices in Late Qing and Early Republican China
Weipin Tsai, Royal Holloway, University of London
Please note change in start time to 17:30
24/10/12
- A recent history of West African Anti-Slavery Movements, 1970s to the present: Niger, Mauritania, Mali and Diaspora in Paris
Lotte Pelckmans (University of Leiden)
29/10/12
- Monuments and Memories in the Caucasus: Yezidis, Kurds and the Republic of Armenia
Christine Allison, Exeter
31/10/12
- Narratives of War and Women in Contemporary Algeria
Natalia Vince (University of Portsmouth)
November
12/11/12
- Before Qasim Amin: Writing 'Local' Histories of Gender in 1890s Egypt
Marilyn Booth, Edinburgh
13/11/12
- Human Capital in Qing China: Economic Determinism or a History of Failed Opportunities?
Xu Yi, Guangxi Normal University and LSE
14/11/12
- Early pan-Africanism in a trans-Atlantic World before 1912
David Killingray (Goldsmiths, University of London)
21/11/12
- Contested histories and contemporary conflicts on the Jos Plateau, north-central Nigeria
Adam Higazi (King’s College, Cambridge)
26/11/12
28/11/12
December
03/12/12
- Seljuks, Byzantines and nomads in mediaeval Anatolia
Andrew Peacock, St Andrews
04/12/12
- The 1911 Revolution and International Bond Markets
Hans van de Ven, University of Cambridge
05/12/12
10/12/12
- Why write local history in the early Islamic centuries?
Harry Munt, Oxford
