Calendar of Public Events at SOAS

China - Changchun

Prof. Michael Dunford (University of Sussex)

Mr. Vindi Banga

Ahmed Rajab

81 of the poems from two competitions for the 2016 Prize for Swahili Poetry were published last year. In this event we will discuss and read some of these poems.

Yasuyuki Sawada (Asian Development Bank)

Lecture-demonstration with Dr Ulaş Özdemir

Chenaara Edghill-Peart

OPEN to all - no booking required. This talk will be recorded. 

NOTE: If you do do not have a SOAS ID card please sign in at reception. Event entry will be on first come first basis

Peter K. Austin & Julia Sallabank (SOAS)

Professor Ursula Rao (Director of the Institute of Anthropology, Uni of Leipzig)

Danny Dorling

Insurrection is an uprising. Analysts and commentators on inequality have long warned that if inequality is allowed to rise too high there will be insurrection. Thomas Piketty suggested this is why elites should concern themselves with inequality. Politicians often confuse sounding as if they care about inequality with actually caring. This talk provides some illustrations of how things fall apart as inequality rises, when it is high and when it is tolerated.

Teresa Canepa

The Trade of Japanese Lacquer to Europe and the New World in the late 16th and early 17th Centuries

Dr Teresa Canepa

John McHugo, Centre for Syrian Studies, St Andrews University

Part of the LMEI's Tuesday Evening Lecture Programme on the Contemporary Middle East.

We would all love to perform to bigger audiences – but how can we encourage new attendees? In this session we’ll explore some of the barriers to attendance and how you can overcome them, as well as a brief look at branding and image in those all important concert posters.

Come and meet other amateur musicians, and share advice and experiences..

SOAS Music Department teams up with Making Music to offer a free session on how to build audience for your event.

Dr Carlos Nuno Castel-Branco (IESE, Maputo / University of Lisbon), Dr Joseph Hanlon (LSE), Dr Branwen Gruffyd Jones (Cardiff University), Dr Rahul Rao (SOAS), Dr Meera Sabaratnam (SOAS)

What do international statebuilding interventions look like from the perspective of their targets? This panel discusses the findings of Sabaratnam's Decolonising Intervention, a new book on the effects of international aid in Mozambique.

Jonathan Hillman

China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is the most ambitious geoeconomic vision in recent history. Jonathan Hillman, director of the Reconnecting Asia Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, will put these developments into perspective by examining a few key projects and the challenges they face.

China - Hangzhou

Dr Nimer Sultany

SOAS School of  Law Research Seminar Series 2017-18

George Warner

Ruba Salih, SOAS

Dr Soofia Siddique (Freie Universität, Berlin)

Tony Norfield (Author of 'The City: London and the Global Power of Finance')

Dr. Soe Tjen Marching, Senior Lector at SOAS University of London.

Lois Barnett

The thesis research examines the role of Western-inspired fashion items (as opposed to indigenous garments such as the kimono) in the Japanese cinema of the 1920s and 1930s, and the co-operation between the cinema, fashion-related industries and print media in encouraging the commercial activities of the audience member as consumer.

Prof Vron Ware (Kingston)

Dr Angus Lockyer (SOAS) & Dr Ryoko Matsuba (SOAS)

Niki Alsford (Central Lancashire)

AMRIT KAUR LOHIA

Plenary speakers to be announced

The Mercator Research Centre, SOAS World Languages Institute, the Interdisciplinary Centre for Social and Language Documentation and the Foundation for Endangered Languages cordially invite scholars, community organisations and community members working on the revitalization of endangered languages, its documentation and archiving to join the International Conference on “Communities in Control” in Alcanena, Portugal, on October 19-21 2017.

Speaker: Dr Ida Hadjivayanis (SOAS, University of London)

Joerg Bibow (Skidmore College and Levy Economics Institute)

Sami de Giosa, Khalili Research Centre, University of Oxford

Part of the MBI Al Jaber Foundation Lecture Series.

Marcos Orellana (Human Rights Watch)

LEDC’s Eleventh Annual Public Evening Seminar Series (2017-2018)

Helen Porter

Jennifer Constantine, PhD researcher, Department of International Development, King’s College London

Dominique Akhoun-Schwarb

Speaker:  Professor Vincent Durand-Dastès (INALCO)