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
2013
January
14/01/13
- Remember, remember: the changing memory of World War One in Palestine
Roberto Mazza (Western Illinois University)
15/01/13
- Drawing the Socialist Camp Together: Chinese cartoonists and their trans-socialist links after 1949
Jennifer Altehenger, King’s College
21/01/13
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
30/01/13
- History on Film | Slavery & The African Diaspora From a Global Perspective
Various
Film Series and Panel Discussions
February
13/02/13
- Keynote - Urban Violence in the Middle East: Histories of Place and Event
Professor Charles Tripp
14/02/13
- 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.
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
- “We Have Always Been Good Citizens”: The Wiehahn Commission, Industrial Reform And White Organised Labour In South Africa, 1977-1980
Danelle van Zyl-Hermann (St. John’s Collee, Cambridge)
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
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
27/02/13
- It happened in Angola. Why not here?? Regional Developments and Black South Africans, 1974-76
Isaac Saney, SOAS and Dalhousie
The southern African anti-colonial and national liberation struggles profoundly affected South Africa. Events in Mozambique and Angola in 1974-76 played a key role in reigniting the anti-apartheid struggle within the country, highlighting the interconnections of the anti-apartheid inside and outside of South Africa.
March
06/03/13
11/03/13
- Pietism in Ottoman Islam: The case of Birgivī’s al-Ṭarīqa al-muḥammadiyya
Katharina Ivanyi (Saint Michael’s College, Vermont)
13/03/13
- Continental Visions:The Radical Economics of African Unity in 1960s Ghana
Gerardo Serra (LSE)
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.
April
15/04/13
22/04/13
22/04/13
23/04/13
- Upgrade presentations
Anneliese Smit, Wasitthee Chaiyakan
Anneliese Smit: The Dynamics of the Mao Cult in Tibet during the Cultural Revolution
Wasitthee Chaiyakan: Pan-Tai Notions in Thai Text Books
29/04/13
May
07/05/13
- Third-year research presentations
Shazwani Binti Haji Shahibulbahri, Chia-lin Huang, Carol Ann Boshier
Shazwani Binti Haji Shahibulbahri: The Integration of Basilan Island into the Philippines 1946-1986
Chia-lin Huang: Formosa Revisited – British Commercial Interests and Local Business Networks, 1860-1895
Carol Ann Boshier: Leslie Fernandes Taylor and the 'lost' Linguistic and Ethnographic Survey of Burma
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.
11/06/13
- The Shanghai-Beijing nexus and the Invention of the Capital Correspondent in the late Qing and Early Republic
Timothy Weston (University of Colorado)
11/06/13
- The Shanghai-Beijing Nexus and the Invention of the Capital Correspondent in the Late Qing and Early Republic
Tim Weston, University of Colorado
