Week beginning Monday 18 November 2019
Monday 18 November 2019
10.00am:
- CIS International University Fair Barcelona
Barcelona, Spain
5.00pm:
- China and Japan: Strategic Partners or Competitors?
Various panellists
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The Chinese Government under Xi Jinping does not like or trust Prime Minister Shinzo Abe but it has proactively forged a good relationship with his administration.
5.00pm:
- LCI TALK: The Chinese Wine Renaissance – History and Future
Ms. Janet Z. Wang
Tuesday 19 November 2019
10.00am:
- CIS International University Fair Madrid
Madrid, Spain
12.30pm:
1.00pm:
- The Management of International Organisations
Saheed Adegbite (United Nations International Fund for Agricultural Development)
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Saheed will share insights and experiences from his combined private and public sector experience bringing valuable multiple perspectives amplified by a deep knowledge of the operational business models of diverse intergovernmental organizations within security, diplomacy, international trade and sustainable development.
2.30pm:
- Yenching Academy of Peking University Full-Fellowship Master’s Program 2020 Information Session
Dr Brent Haas
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Find out more about scholarship opportunities for a two-year interdisciplinary Masters Program at the Yenching Academy of Peking University in China.
3.00pm:
- Composing National Subjects: U.S. Missionary Projects in Korea, 1884-1915
Hyun Kyong Hannah Chang (University of Sheffield)
3.00pm:
5.00pm:
- Resisting Religious Nationalism from Below: Gender and Caste, Borders and Boundaries
Professor Navtej Purewal (SOAS University of London) & Professor Virinder Kalra (University of Warwick)
5.15pm:
- Buddhist in Public, Animist in Private: Semicolonialism and Outlines for an Enchanted History of Thai Modernity
Prof Peter A. Jackson (Australian National University, Canberra)
5.15pm:
- Bird in Hand (2019): Migration, Murmuration, and Messages in the work of artist Simryn Gill (born in Singapore, 1959)
Emilia Terracciano (University of Oxford)
5.30pm:
- Book Launch - Contested Politics in Tunisia: Civil Society in a Post-Authoritarian State
Dr Edwige Fortier (Research Associate, Department of Development Studies, SOAS)
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Several thousand new civil society organisations were legally established in Tunisia following the 2010–11 uprising that forced the long-serving dictator, Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali, from office.
6.30pm:
- Gilgamesh : The Hero who didn't want to die
Prof Andrew George (SOAS)
7.00pm:
- Mapping Taiwan's Pop Music in China: Mediation, Nations and Politics
Dr Stanley Chun-Ming Huang
Wednesday 20 November 2019
All Day:
- Languages in an Open World 2019
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The SOAS World Languages Institute (UK), Mercator European Research Centre, the Interdisciplinary Centre for Social and Language Documentation, and the Plurilingualism Research Unit – treffpunkt sprachen (AT) cordially invite scholars, community organisations and community members to join the international conference on “Languages in an Open World” that will take place in Graz, Austria, November 20-22 2019, at the ECML in Graz, Austria.
1.00pm:
- To Live with Herds 1971
David MacDougall
1.00pm:
- On (re-) translating al-Balāḍhuri's Futūḥ al-Buldān
Professor Hugh Kennedy (SOAS)
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 (Term time only).
3.00pm:
- That Bar Life: Nightlife, Gender and Service at Japanese-style Gay Bars
Marcello Francioni (SOAS)
3.00pm:
- That Bar Life: Nightlife, Gender and Service at Japanese-style Gay Bars
Marcello Francioni (SOAS)
3.00pm:
3.00pm:
- Roundtable on Contemporary African Oral Traditions
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Speakers: Prof Assefa Tefera Dibaba (Addis Ababa), Prof Karin Barber (Anthropology Department, LSE), Prof Alena Rettová (SOAS), Dr Martin Orwin (SOAS), Ret’sepile Makamane (SOAS)
5.00pm:
- Waste knot: Materials, waste and productivity in postwar Japan
Dr Sarah Teasley (Royal College of Art)
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What materials can tell us about industrial and social change in postwar Japan.
5.00pm:
- The Fight for China’s Future: Civil Society Vs the Party
Dr Willy Lam (Adjunct Professor, Centre for China Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong)
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The Fight for China’s Future throws light on the quintessence of 21st century Chinese politics through the prism of the struggle between the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and China’s vibrant intelligentsia and civil society. This book talk examines Xi Jinping’s 24-hour, multidimensional, AI-enabled police-state apparatus and explores the CCP’s policy towards civil society.
5.00pm:
- From the Product Space to Production: Economic Complexity and Industrial Policy
Umar Salam (Oxford Policy Management) and Antonio Andreoni (SOAS University of London)
5.15pm:
5.15pm:
- New Approaches to the Study of Buddhist and Hindu Metal Images of Indonesia
Mathilde Mechling (Leiden University and Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3)
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This presentation will show that a combination of art historical methods with archaeometallurgy, archaeology, and religious studies deepens our understanding of Indonesian metal images, and at the same time, substantiates the growing perception that the Indonesian Archipelago played an active role in various religious developments and trading systems across Asia.
7.00pm:
- The Odyssey of Nanak: Tracing the Earliest Artistic Expressions of the Founder of the Sikh Way
Davinder Toor, Independent Scholar and Collector
Thursday 21 November 2019
4.00pm:
- Book Talk: Labor, Global Supply Chains, and the Garment Industry in South Asia: Bangladesh after Rana Plaza
Dr Sanchita Banerjee Saxena (UC Berkeley)
5.00pm:
- China-Africa and an Economic Transformation - Book discussion
Dr Arkebe Oqubay (Editor of the book/SOAS Alum), Prof Carlos Oya (SOAS) and Prof Stephen Chan (SOAS)
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Authored by leading scholars on Africa, China and China-Africa relations, the book brings together stimulating and thought-provoking perspectives and deeper analysis.
5.00pm:
- Towards a Queer Postcolonial Poetics of Dissent: Caste, Gender, and Sexuality
Chair: Sophie Chamas, Centre for Gender Studies, SOAS - Speaker: Shamira Meghani, Faculty of English, University of Cambridge
5.30pm:
Friday 22 November 2019
12.00pm:
- Book Launch: Haydar Ergülen in conversation with Caroline Stockford
Haydar Ergülen
Pomegranate Garden: A Selection of Poems by Haydar Ergülen
5.15pm:
- Film Screening: North Korean Ghost Ships
Nicholas Ahlmark (Director)
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Documentary filmmaker Nicholas Ahlmark, will visit to show his new documentary 'North Korean Ghost Ships' and give a Q&A.
5.30pm:
- Film Screening: Soil Without Land
Nontawat Numbenchapol (Director)
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Film screening followed by a conversation with Rachel Harrison and independent curator Loredana Pazzini-Paracciani.
Saturday 23 November 2019
9.30am:
- Women Go Green for Peace
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The UK section of the Women’s International League for Peace & Freedom (WILPF) will be hosting its annual Autumn Seminar on Saturday, 23 November, at SOAS, University of London in the Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre from 10AM - 6PM