Week beginning Monday 12 November 2018
Monday 12 November 2018
10.00am:
- CIS International University Fair
The Hague - Netherlands
5.00pm:
- China, from Present to Past
Professor Valerie Hansen (Yale University)
Due to unforeseen circumstances, this event has now been cancelled.
5.15pm:
7.00pm:
Tuesday 13 November 2018
1.00pm:
- EHEF Indonesia - European Higher Education Fair
Yogyakarta - Indonesia
2.00pm:
- Bodhgaya: Collections and Archives
Dr Sam van Schaik (British Library), Dr Michael Willis (British Museum), Dr Daniela Simone (British Museum), Dr Danièl Balogh (British Museum) and Dr Marc Miyake (British Museum)
5.00pm:
- Black Revolution: The Global Politics of Black Radicalism
Dr Kehinde Andrews (Birmingham City University)
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Black radicalism is one of the most misunderstood political philosophies that exist. Conflated with extremism, narrow versions of nationalism and misogynistic organisations, it has largely been dismissed or overlooked as the ‘evil twin on the civil rights movement’.
5.00pm:
- Crisis and the city in modern India: notes towards a conjunctural history
Prashant Kidambi (University of Leicester)
5.00pm:
- Transferring a Tīrtha: From Śatruñjaya to Kadambgīrī
Prof Hawon Ku (Seoul National University)
5.30pm:
- Gendering 'Everyday Islam'
Pnina Werbner (Keele University), Claudia Liebelt (University of Bayreuth), Laura Ferrero (University of Turin), Deniz Kandiyoti (SOAS)
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Part of the LMEI's Tuesday Evening Lecture Programme on the Contemporary Middle East.
5.30pm:
6.00pm:
- Japan's New security Partnerships
Prof. Wilhelm Vosse
6.30pm:
- Cultural Flows in the History of Yoga
Dr James Mallinson
Wednesday 14 November 2018
All Day:
- BIG Cities, Small LANGUAGES - BISL 2018
Plenary Speaker: Daniel Kaufman (Endangered Language Alliance)
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SWLI, Mercator, CIDLeS & ZAS conference
The conference “BIG cities, small LANGUAGES” intends to bring together scholars from linguistics and social sciences with an interest and expertise in small languages in urban areas, with a special focus on comparing situations in various cities.
10.00am:
- CIS International University Fair
Barcelona - Spain
2.00pm:
- Inclusive Technology Drop in
Assistive Technology Trainer Nicholas Christodoulou and Paul Boateng
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Runs weekly until the end of term 3
3.00pm:
5.00pm:
- History of the Japanese Video Game Industry
Prof Yuhsuke Koyama (Shibaura Institute of Technology)
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Brief history of the Japanese video game industry from Space Invaders to smartphone games.
5.00pm:
- Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank
Natalie Lichtenstein (Lawyer)
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Natalie Lichtenstein will talk about her book which will appeal to general readers and legal specialists alike, where she examines the AIIB’s mandate, membership, finance, governance, and institutional set-up.
5.00pm:
- Culture, Interpretation and beyond
Professor Mark Hobart
Why might culture be important
to the study of media and communication? Are media products or
films texts that we can interpret? What is the contribution of Cultural
Studies? And what are the implications for the study of
communication and media?
5.15pm:
- Caste, Class and Agrarian Transition in Western Tamil Nadu, India
Judith Heyer (Oxford)
5.30pm:
6.00pm:
- Zoroastrian Studies and the question of Orality
Professor Philip G.Kreyenbroek (Professor Emeritus of Iranian Studies, Georg-August University Göttingen)
Thursday 15 November 2018
10.00am:
- CIS International University Fair
Madrid - Spain
5.00pm:
- The Impact of Investment Treaty Law on Host States: Some empirical insights from Central Asia
Dr Mavluda Sattorova (University of Liverpool)
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How developing states learn from international investment law: a Central Asian experience.
5.00pm:
- Gender and Development ICT Launch: Feminists Doing Digital
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Opening remarks: Caroline Sweetman - Editor, 'Gender & Development'
5.45pm:
- Dragons Blood Island: Socotra and Our Search for Dragons
Ella Al-Shamahi (National Geographic Explorer)
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Part of the MBI Al Jaber Foundation Lecture Series.
7.00pm:
- Criminalising environmental protest: policing the anti-fracking movement
Dr Damien Short (School of Advanced Study, University of London)
7.00pm:
- The Imaginary Visions of Iran in 1930s and 1970s
Ali Mirsepassi, New York University
Friday 16 November 2018
12.00pm:
- Brigadier-General Sir Wyndham Deedes and the London Halkevi (1942-1950)
Sandra Nichols, MA Turkish, SOAS
1.15pm:
- Navigating Class through Food and Meat in a Liberalising and Nationalist South India
Dr James Staples (Brunel University)
5.15pm:
- Piketty in Hell Joseon: Inequality, Polarization and Social Contention in a Neo-liberal Age
Dr Youngmi Kim (University of Edinburgh)
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Drawing on Piketty’s insights into the origins of inequality in capitalist societies, the paper examines issues of income and wealth polarisation and dynamics of contention in early 21st century South Korea.
5.15pm:
5.30pm:
- Sangha Education in Contemporary China: Evolutions, Contexts and Debates
Prof. Zhe Ji (INALCO, Paris)
8.45pm:
Saturday 17 November 2018
9.00am:
- Approaching Buddhism in Modern and Contemporary China
Prof. Zhe Ji (INALCO, Paris)