SOAS, University of London (The School of Oriental and African Studies)

Crossing Borders - Launch Conference

The School of Arts Launch Conference

PROGRAMME

Crossing Borders
Saturday, 13 October

Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS

Coffee and Registration 10.00 – 10.20

Welcome 10.20 – 10.30 Prof. Timon Screech, Head of SOASOAS

Locating the Field(s) 10.30 – 12.00. Dr Dina Matar, chair

Dr Hanan Toukan
Transcending Boundaries: Interpreting Cultural Production and Practices

Dr Eva Fernandez del Campo (Complutensian University, Madrid)
Contemporary Eastern Art: Strategies for cultural difference in the era of migrations

Dr Rachel Harris
Temporal Shifts and Transnational Networks of Sentiment in Uyghur Song

Practices 1.30 – 3.00. Dr Richard Widdess, chair

Joe Browning (Research Student)
Hybrid Landscapes: sites and sounds of some contemporary shakuhachi recordings

Doreen Mueller (Research Student)
An interdisciplinary approach to pictures of urban disaster in late-Edo Japan

Dr Somnath Batabyal
Cars or Buses: what drives Delhi's media?

Performance, Space, Aesthetics 3.30 – 5.00. Prof Timon Screech, chair

Dr Anna Morcom (Royal Holloway)
Media, synergy and the Bollywoodisation of musical culture in India

Dr Jaeho Kang
Media Spectacle and Aesthetic Public Space in East Asian Cities

Prof. John Picton (Emeritus)
Making, Marking, Masking: Art and Artefact in Human History