Week beginning Monday 21 February 2011
Monday 21 February 2011
5.00pm:
- Player and referee roles held jointly: the effect of state ownership on China’s regulatory enforcement against fraud
Dr Wenxuan Hou (University of Durham)
5.00pm:
- A Taoistic Sense of Social Responsibility
Professor Liu Xiaogan (Chinese University Hong Kong)
5.15pm:
- The Fatimid state as seen by medieval Jews and modern social theorists
Marina Rustow, Johns Hopkins University
Tuesday 22 February 2011
5.00pm:
- Medical societies, networks and the competition for medical authority: hybridity, exchange and formalisation in India, 1789-1856
Erica Wald (London School of Economics)
5.00pm:
- Sexual slander and the post october 1965 genocide in Indonesia; a blank space in social science research
Professor Saskia Wieringa (University of Amsterdam)
5.00pm:
- Work after Globalization: Building Occupational Citizenship
Guy Standing (Bath / ILO)
5.00pm:
- Zhuangzi
Professor Liu Xiaogan (Chinese University Hong Kong)
(Open to graduate and research students only)
6.00pm:
- Southern Yemen today and rise and fall of the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (1967-1990)
Noel Brehony, LMEI and MENAS Associates Ltd.
Wednesday 23 February 2011
1.00pm:
- De-mystifying Tradition: the Politics of Rain-water Harvesting
Saurabh Gupta (SOAS)
3.00pm:
- Numata Seminar: Impersonal and personified images of evil (Māra)
Dr Tadeusz Skorupski
3.00pm:
3.00pm:
- Images of Tibet: Two presentations by photographers of contemporary Tibet
Ryan Pyle and Dianne Aigaki
At this event two leading photographers of contemporary Tibet present their work. Ryan Pyle in 'Development & Change in China's Tibet' demonstrates the remarkable pace of development and urbanization in contemporary Tibet. Dianne Aigaki in 'Dream of the Turquoise Bee' presents photos of Eastern Tibet's natural beauty and changing society. Ms. Aigaki's presentation also includes her botanical drawings of indigenous plants.
5.00pm:
- Pastoralist boundaries in Southern Darfur under British colonial rule and the limits of legibility, 1916-1956
Christopher Vaughan, Durham University
5.00pm:
5.00pm:
- The Autonomy of Migration
Dimitris Papadopoulos (University of Leicester)
5.00pm:
- Art and Design in Asia
Professor Haruhiko Fujita (Osaka University)
5.00pm:
- Maharaja Ranjit Singh's Samadhi: the last great example of indigenous architectural style in the Punjab
Nadhra Shahbaz Naeem Khan (SOAS Charles Wallace Pakistan Fellow 2011-12)
6.00pm:
- Ziran or Nature: In the Laozi and Contemporary Usage
Professor Liu Xiaogan (Chinese University Hong Kong)
6.00pm:
Thursday 24 February 2011
9.15am:
10.00am:
5.00pm:
- Peacexploitation?: Female Peacekeepers from the Global South
Dr Marsha Henry
- Peacexploitation?: Female Peacekeepers from the Global South
5.15pm:
- Salads, Sweat and Status: Migrant workers in UK horticulture
Donna Simpson (City University, London)
7.00pm:
- Managing the Fragmentation of International Environmental Law: Forests at the Intersection of the Climate and Biodiversity Regimes
Harro Van Asselt (University of Oxford)
Friday 25 February 2011
2.00pm:
- What the world needs now is........ ?
Professor Ricardo Uauy (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine)
3.00pm:
Saturday 26 February 2011
9.00am:
- 2011 SOAS Central Asia, the Caucasus and Eurasia Symposium
Sevket Akyildiz