Events and Seminars
2012
January
18/01/12
- Communicating with crisis affected populations: the infoasaid initiative
Jonathan Robert Shaw (Broadcast Engineer, BBC World Service), Anita Shah (Head of infoasaid project), Robert Powell (Local Media Officer, infoasaid - Editor of the Media and Telecoms Landscape guides), Carole Chapelier
25/01/12
- Between Cybercide and Cyber Intifada: Technologic (dis-)empowerment of Palestinian activism
Miriyam Aouragh, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford
Public event. No registration required.
February
01/02/12
- 'Twitter Consciousness': Collective Intelligence and Social Media Activism
Joss Hands (Senior Lecturer, Communication and Media Studies, Anglia Ruskin University; Director of ARCDigital (the Anglia Research Centre in Digital Culture)
Public event. No registration required.
08/02/12
- SCREENING: Goddesses
Leena Manimekalai (dir.)
16/02/12
- Making a Difference – Representing/Constructing the Other in Asian/African Media, Cinema and Languages
Please refer to the programme
The aim of the conference is to bring together scholars from across the world to discuss the representations of 'Otherness' in Asian and African media cultures. We shall explore how Otherness is constructed when the ‘Other’ cannot be considered as totally 'alien', but when familiarity might also be of vital importance.
22/02/12
- Meedan Liveblog - A new toolset for corroborating citizen reports in the Middle East
George Weyman Senior Program Officer, Meedan
Public event. No registration required.
29/02/12
- Mediation and Resistance, theorizing the relevance of media and communication for activism and social movements
Bart Cammaerts Senior Lecturer, Department of Media and Communications, LSE
Public event. No registration required.
March
07/03/12
- Press, Publics, Protest and Power
Natalie Fenton Professor of Media and Communications, Goldsmiths, University of London
Public event. No registration required.
14/03/12
- Hybrid media and revolutionary democracy in Ethiopia
Iginio Gagliardone, British Academy Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, University of Oxford
This talk has been cancelled to show solidarity with the Come Clean national walkout.
21/03/12
- ICT4D – in whose interests?
Tim Unwin, CEO of the Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation, and Emeritus Professor/UNESCO Chair in ICT4D at Royal Holloway, University of London
Public event. No registration required.
June
23/06/12
- Open City Docs Fest
The list of films is confirmed below
October
06/10/12
- Rethinking Small Media
Join academics, journalists and activists to explore some of the intractable binaries that dominate our thinking about politics and media.
10/10/12
- Journey through photographic sites: from Europe to Central Asia
Manuel Capurso (independent photographer)
12/10/12
- In Search of Lost Causes: Fragments, Ruins, and Allegories
Professor Hamid Dabashi
A keynote Lecture delivered by: Professor Hamid Dabashi (Columbia University), Followed by reception Celebrating the Launch of the School of Arts, SOAS
13/10/12
- Crossing Borders - Launch Conference
The School of Arts Launch Conference
17/10/12
- Stereotyping and Screen Space in East Asia
Dr Jeesoon Hong (Manchester University / Sogang University, Seoul)
24/10/12
- Chronicling Indian Cinema
Munni Kabir (Documentary and film-maker, India)
31/10/12
- Empowerment' and 'voice' in participatory youth filmmaking
Alicia Blum-Ross (LSE)
November
14/11/12
- The archaeology of intermediality in East Asia
Dr Sungdo Kim (Korea University, Seoul / Cambridge University)
15/11/12
- Not in the Age of the Pharaohs
Professor Bruce Ferguson (American University in Cairo, Egypt)
Chair: Dr. Atef Alshaer (Centre for Media and Film Studies)
21/11/12
28/11/12
- Title: Forthcoming
Georgie Pope (On Ethnomusicology)
December
05/12/12
- Displacement in Post Independence Eritrea: causes and consequences
Gaim Kibreab (London South Bank University)
05/12/12
- Route 181 by Khleifi and Sivan: An exercise in in projecting the history of Palestine forward
Prof. Haim Bersheeth (SOAS associate)
07/12/12
- Image Politics in the Middle East: The role of the visual in political struggle
Lina Khatib (Head of the Program on Arab Reform and Democracy, at Stanford University)
In conversation with Charles Tripp, Professor of Middle East Politics (SOAS), and author of the new book The Power and the People: Paths of Resistance in the Middle East.
Join us for a discussion on political expression in Egypt, Libya, Lebanon, Syria and Iran.
Moderated by Dina Matar
12/12/12
- Crafting on the radio, Discussion of CARM project (Community Appropriated Research Model)
Deirdre Figueirdo and Katie Hillt
