Week beginning Monday 21 January 2019
Monday 21 January 2019
5.00pm:
- Personal Trust and Stranger Solidarity: Competing Moral Economies of Chinese Organic Farming
Dr Anders Sybrandt Hansen (Aarhus University)
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The widespread phenomenon of unsafe food on the Chinese market has been argued to be both symptomatic of moral disregard for the well-being of strangers, and productive of social distrust. In response to the ongoing food safety crisis some agricultural producers have turned to organic farming, and this seminar discusses the moral reasoning of farmers based on ethnographic fieldwork at one such organic farm in northern China.
5.00pm:
- The Great Delusion: Liberal Dreams and International Realities
Professor John J Mearsheimer
5.15pm:
- Sheng – Rise of a Kenyan Swahili Vernacular
Dr Chege Githiora (author)
6.00pm:
- UAE Global Study UK Information Session
Dubai - UAE
6.15pm:
- The Mythology of Sumer : the Oldest Known Stories
KAMRAN ZAND (HEIDELBERG)
Tuesday 22 January 2019
1.00pm:
- A Richer Paradigm of International Criminal Justice: Part I
Dr Phil Clark, Dr Leah Owen and Dr Dan Plesch
5.00pm:
- Singularity: A Manifesto for Incomparable Geographies
Dr Tariq Jazeel (University College London)
This paper is a methodological response to the challenge of decolonising geographical knowledge.
5.30pm:
- The History of the Huthi Conflict
Marieke Brandt, Austrian Academy of Sciences
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Part of the LMEI's Tuesday Evening Lecture Programme on the Contemporary Middle East.
7.00pm:
- The Yarshater Lectures in Persian Art - Safavid Albums: Shifting the Visual Language
Dr Massumeh Farhad, Chief Curator and The Ebrahimi Family Curator of Persian, Arab and Turkish Art, Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Instituton, Washington, D.C.
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Lectures Postponed
Wednesday 23 January 2019
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:
- The IMF and the Politics of Austerity
Dr. Ben Clift (University of Warwick)
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This paper explores the evolution of economic ideas within the IMF since the crash and the Great Recession, drawing on research contained in my new book, The IMF and the Politics of Austerity in the Wake of the Global Financial Crisis (Oxford University Press, 2018). It opens the ‘black box’ of internal Fund debates and practices, and situates these within internal power relations to develop a novel theory of ideational change in international organisations.
3.00pm:
3.30pm:
5.00pm:
- The Captivity Epistles of ‘69
Dr Chris Perkins (University of Edinburgh)
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This paper explores the writings of Japanese university students imprisoned in 1969 after the battle for Tokyo University.
5.00pm:
- Islamophobia and the Novel
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Peter Morey will be in conversation with Rehana Ahmed and Anshuman Mondal on the subject of Morey’s latest book, Islamophobia and the Novel.
5.00pm:
- Macroeconomic Impacts of a Low-carbon Transition
Jean-Francois Mercure (Exeter) and Hector Pollit (Cambridge Econometrics)
5.00pm:
- Journalistic Practices in Communicating Political Change: The Case of the Arab Spring
Dr Fatima El-Issawi, University of Essex
6.30pm:
- Art and Human Rights Art Breath X SOAS - Talk & Soirée
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Art Breath, in collaboration with SOAS, will hold a series of events looking at the intricate relationship between art and politics.
7.00pm:
7.00pm:
Thursday 24 January 2019
10.30am:
- Hassan Musa: the artist's stamp
Mail Art from the SOAS Archives & Special Collections and a sampler of his paintings and illustrated books
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Mail Art from the SOAS Archives & Special Collections and a sampler of his paintings and illustrated books. An exhibition at the Brunei Galley SOAS until 23 March 2019.
5.30pm:
- Networks, informality, and corruption: how to parse Central Asian governance
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Panel discussion with Dr Abel Polese (Dublin City U, Institute for International Conflict Resolution and Reconstruction), Prof Alena Ledeneva (UCL-SSEES) and Scott Newton (SOAS Law).
5.30pm:
- Without Name But Numbers & Data
Hanaa Malallah
6.00pm:
- Artist Talk
Hassan Musa
6.00pm:
- Palestine facing Trump’s “deal of the century”
Diana Buttu
Friday 25 January 2019
1.15pm:
- Food, Water and the Consequences of Society Not Valuing the Environment
Professor Tony Allan (SOAS & Global Affairs, King’s College London)
5.00pm:
5.00pm:
- Japan’s renewables push in the shadow of Fukushima - Professor LLewelyn Hughes
Professor LLewelyn Hughes (Australian National University)
5.15pm:
- “From the Writing to Speaking Subject: Korean ‘Comfort Women’ and Girlhood”
Dr Jinhee Choi (King's College London)
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How the girls’ sensibilities and tropes of private ‘writing’ in the former is replaced with the urge and ability to speak in public in the latter
5.15pm:
5.30pm:
- Charismatic Moderns: (Re)locating Chinese Buddhism in the Digital Age
Dr Francesca Tarocco (Ca' Foscari, Venice - NYU Shanghai)
6.00pm:
7.00pm:
- The State of Journalism in the Age of Misinformation - A Practitioner's Perspective
Jim Muir
The State of Journalism in the Age of Misinformation - A Practitioner's Perspective
with BBC Correspondent Jim Muir
Reporting from the Middle East for the last 40 yearsSOAS Research Associate London Middle East Institute (LMEI)
Chaired by: Aida Kaisy
Saturday 26 January 2019
9.00am:
- Transmission and Innovation: Mapping Charisma in Modern Chinese Buddhism (Seminar)
Dr Francesca Tarocco (Ca' Foscari, Venice - NYU Shanghai)