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2012

January

17/01/12
19/01/12
24/01/12
25/01/12
26/01/12
26/01/12
30/01/12
31/01/12

February

01/02/12
01/02/12
01/02/12
02/02/12
07/02/12
08/02/12
08/02/12
17/02/12
21/02/12
21/02/12
  • Towards Rio+20: Business, Natural Resources and Human Rights
  • Salil Tripathi (Institute for Human Rights and Business)

  • Ending complicity in conflict: how international efforts have attempted to break the link between extractive industries and human rights abuses.

    For further information contact Virginie Rouas: ledc@soas.ac.uk

22/02/12
23/02/12
28/02/12

March

02/03/12
05/03/12
05/03/12
06/03/12
07/03/12
07/03/12
07/03/12
08/03/12
08/03/12
08/03/12
12/03/12
13/03/12
14/03/12
  • Towards Rio+20: Business, Natural Resources and Human Rights
  • Krystyna Swiderska (Int'l Institute for Environment and Development)

  • Implementing the Nagoya Protocol's provisions on community protocols and prior informed consent: lessons and challenges.

    For further information contact Virginie Rouas: ledc@soas.ac.uk

21/03/12
21/03/12
21/03/12
21/03/12
  • The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class
  • Guy Standing

  • The Precariat is a new class, comprising the growing number of people facing lives of insecurity, doing work without a past or future. Their lack of belonging and identity means inadequate access to social and economic rights. Why is this new class growing, what political dangers does it represent and how might these be addressed?

22/03/12
  • The Future of the Euro
  • Francis Cripps

  • Francis Cripps worked with Wynne Godley at the Department of Applied Economics, University of Cambridge, and advised Tony Benn on economic policy in Benn's bid for the Labour Party leadership. Francis Cripps now runs his own consultancy.

    Chair: Anastasia Nesvetailova

23/03/12
  • Alternatives to Privatisation: Public Options for Essential Services in the Global South
  • Dr. David McDonald, Professor and Head, Global Development Studies, Queen's University, Canada; Co-Director of the Municipal Services Project

  • Alternatives to privatisation in the Global South – book launch

    London launch of "Alternatives to Privatisation: Public Options for Essential Services in the Global South" and discussion.

    Organised by the Department of Economics at SOAS and the London International Development Centre (LIDC), as part of the Economics Department Seminar Series
.

April

02/04/12
04/04/12
18/04/12
18/04/12

May

02/05/12
11/05/12
14/05/12
24/05/12
30/05/12

June

14/06/12
18/06/12
25/06/12

July

06/07/12

October

10/10/12
10/10/12
11/10/12
  • Gendering (Counter) Revolutions in the Middle East
  • Professor Nadje Al-Ali

  • Does gender matter in revolutionary times? Is democracy bad for women? How do authoritarian regimes instrumentalize women and men? This talk addresses the gendered implications of recent political developments in the Middle East and North Africa. 

20/10/12
22/10/12
24/10/12
24/10/12
25/10/12
25/10/12
26/10/12

November

14/11/12
14/11/12
15/11/12
  • Palestinian Women's Life-Writing: Colonialism, Patriarchy and Beyond
  • Professor Bart Moore- Gilbert, Professor of Postcolonial Studies and English, Department of English and Comparative Literature, Goldsmiths College, University of London

  • This paper will discuss five Palestinian women life-writers - Leila Khaled, Fadwa Tuqan, Hanan Ashrawi, Ghada Karmi and Suad Amiry - in the light of their representations of a variety of colonial histories.

21/11/12
22/11/12
  • Re-membering Mwanga: Queer Memory and Belonging in Postcolonial Uganda'
  • Dr. Rahul Rao, Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy, SOAS, University of London

  • In 2009, Uganda shot to infamy when a little-known parliamentarian named David Bahati introduced an 'Anti-Homosexuality Bill', which proposed enhancing punishments for consensual same-sex conduct, mandating the death penalty for certain classes of offences. This talk explores the 19th century antecedents of this production of homophobia in an earlier encounter between British and French colonial missionaries and elites of the powerful Baganda tribe.

29/11/12
  • Gender Subjectivity under the Situation of Humanitarian Crisis in the Gaza Strip: Contradictory but Self-Respected
  • Dr. Aitemad Muhanna, Research Fellow, Middle East Centre, London School of Economics.

  • The prolonged closure imposed over Gaza Strip by the Israeli occupation during the period 2007-2010 generated profound gender changes, which considerably dislocating the structural basis of the ideology of male domination and patriarchy in the Palestinian society. In this paper, based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork among women and men in poor households in diverse locations in Gaza, I focus on how poor men and women responded to the crisis of gendered selfhood.

December

05/12/12
05/12/12
05/12/12
06/12/12
13/12/12