Week beginning Monday 27 January 2020
Monday 27 January 2020
5.00pm:
- The Implications of Xi Jinping’s New Era for Global Human Rights
Professor Eva Pils (King's College London)
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In Xi Jinping’s ‘New Era,’ the role and visibility of the Chinese Communist Party has been enhanced, while the role of law in limiting public power has been reduced. This seminar draws on examples from Professo Eva Pils engagement with human rights defence in and about China.
5.00pm:
- Three Perspectives to Extreme Speech: Theory and Practice
Matti Pohjonen
6.00pm:
- CISD Alumni Lecture with Andrew Gilmour, (former) Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights at UN OHCHR
Andrew Gilmour, former Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights (UN OHCHR), Valerie Amos (SOAS), Dan Plesch (CISD SOAS)
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The Centre for International Studies & Diplomacy hosts Andrew Gilmour, former Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights at UN OHCHR for the 2020 CISD Alumni Lecture alongside Baroness Valerie Amos and Dr Dan Plesch.
7.00pm:
- Assad or We Burn the Country: How One Family's Lust for Power Destroyed Syria
Sam Dagher (journalist)
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This ground-breaking account of the Syrian Civil War reveals the never-before-published true story of a 21st-century humanitarian disaster from a Pulitzer Prize-nominated journalist specializing in the Middle East.
7.30pm:
- The Reconstruction of Yogi Bhajan’s Kundalini Yoga
PHilip Deslippe
Tuesday 28 January 2020
2.30pm:
- School of Interdisciplinary Studies Webinar
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Join Centre Directors from the School of Interdisciplinary Studies (SIS) to find out more about the range of postgraduate degrees offered within SIS, including module options, course outcomes and key dates.
5.00pm:
- The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor: Progress, Opportunities and Perils
Dr Tayyab Safdar (University of Cambridge, UK)
5.15pm:
- The Memetics of Cerita Silat
Professor Edward Buckingham (Monash University)
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Exploring Indonesian martial arts fiction and its links to the works of Louis Cha (Jin Yong) and other Chinese writers.
5.30pm:
- Syria after the Uprisings: The Political Economy of State Resilience
Dr Joseph Daher (University of Lausanne)
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Syria has been at the centre of world news since 2011, following the beginnings of a popular uprising in the country and its subsequent violent repression.
Wednesday 29 January 2020
1.00pm:
1.00pm:
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:
- Congolese Literature as World, or rather Planetary, Literature?
Speaker: Prof Silvia Riva (University of Milan)
3.00pm:
- Vignettes on Social Reproduction: Gender, Empire and Capital in an Egyptian Century
Sara Salem (Assistant Professor in Sociology, London School of Economics and Political Science) and Mai Taha (Assistant Professor at the Department of Law, American University Cairo)
3.15pm:
- Education and Race in Black and Asian Communities in Britain: An Archival Study
Emma Abotsi, British Sociological Association Fellow at the British Library
5.00pm:
5.00pm:
- What should I wear with my tape-recorder? Aurality, mobility and sound technology in postwar Japan
Dr Martyn Smith (University of Sheffield)
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This paper explores the wider social and cultural contexts within which sound and sound recording technology resonated in postwar Japan and offers an important case study for the role of technology and consumerism in sound studies.
5.00pm:
- Reconstructing the Poet’s Image through Institutional Translation —a Case Study of Rewi Alley’s Translation of Li Bai’s Poems
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Speaker: Professor Huijuan Ma (Beijing Foreign Studies University)
5.00pm:
- Innovation Bureaucracies: How agile stability creates the entrepreneurial state
Rainer Kattel (UCL)
5.00pm:
5.00pm:
- Gender and Media
Aida Al Kaisy (SOAS)
5.15pm:
- Tracing Patterns of Textiles in Ancient Java (8th-15th century)
Dr Sandra Sardjono (Tracing Patterns Foundation)
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The lecture provides an overview of the repertoire of textile-related patterns found on Ancient Javanese art and architecture, dated from 8th-15th century.
5.15pm:
- Urban geopolitics and the figure of the immigrant in Europe
Parastou Saberi, University of Warwick
7.00pm:
Thursday 30 January 2020
11.00am:
- SI-UK University Fair 2020
New Delhi, India
Find out more about studying at SOAS, how to apply, funding opportunities, living in London and much more!
2.00pm:
5.00pm:
- GDAI Webinar #4 - Climate Induced Migration In West Africa - with Prof Joseph Teye
Professor Joseph Teye ( Centre for Migration Studies, University of Ghana)
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Although West Africa’s contribution to global climate change is very minimal, the continent is the worst affected by the effects of climate change because of its geographical location and weak adaptive capacity.
5.30pm:
- Embroidery and the Intifada: dress and resistance in Palestine
Rachel Dedman, Jameel Curator of Contemporary Art from the Middle East, Victoria and Albert Museum
7.30pm:
- The Haṭhābhyāsapaddhati: A Precursor of Modern Yoga Practice
Jason Birch, Jacqueline Hargreaves and Mark Singleton
Friday 31 January 2020
10.30am:
- Edwise International World Education Fair 2020
Chennai, India
Find out more about studying at SOAS, how to apply, funding opportunities, living in London and much more!
1.15pm:
- Food Loss in History: Insights into the Food Produced but Never Consumed
Dr Laura Prosperi (University of Milan-Bicocca)
5.15pm:
- The Small China concept in the “T’aengniji” by Yi Chung-hwan (1690-1756?)
Dr Nataliya Chesnokova (National Research University Higher School of Economics)
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This seminar will explore the interpretation of the “T’aengniji” in different historical periods and the political influence on the contents of it.
5.30pm:
- Invisible Nuns and Ancillary Female Temples: Unfolding a Different Narrative of Modern Chinese Buddhism
Dr. Stefania Travagnin (Groningen)
Saturday 01 February 2020
10.00am:
- The Discourse(s) of Modern Sichuan Buddhism: Interactive Networks and the Reconstruction of Local Religious and Cultural History (seminar)
Dr. Stefania Travagnin (Groningen)