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Can We Feed the World?
10 February 2012 05:15
Date: 10 February 2012 01:15pm
Finishes:10 February 2012 02:45pm
Venue: Russell Square: College Buildings
Room: 4418
Manuscripts from the Silk Roads: Records of Paper and Ink Chosŏn Period
10 February 2012 07:00
Date: 10 February 2012 03:00pm
Finishes:10 February 2012 05:00pm
Venue: Brunei Gallery
Room: B111
Computer Assisted Language Learning in Asian and African Languages in Higher Education – The ...
10 February 2012 07:10
Date: 10 February 2012 03:10pm
Finishes:10 February 2012 04:30pm
Venue: Russell Square: College Buildings
Room: 4418
At this workshop/forum, we will discuss issues related to the development of CALL in general as well as pedagogical consideration (collaborative learning, teachers’ empowerment and blended learning issues ) and evaluation problems. Muaadh will demonstrate the state of Arabic language CALL development, with hands-on experience as well as the ongoing CALL for Swahili language project.
Numata Lecture: What sermons can tell us and why we don’t know much about them
10 February 2012 10:00
Date: 10 February 2012 06:00pm
Finishes:10 February 2012 07:30pm
Venue: Faber Building
Room: FG01
1 Week Political Islam Programme
12 February 2012 16:00
Date: 13 February 2012 12:00am
Finishes:17 February 2012 12:00am
Venue: Brunei Gallery
Room: B111
This is a one week programme offered by the London Middle East Institute, SOAS and SOAS Enterprise.
Convened by Dr Khaled Hroub
World Radio Day London: New Perspectives on Traditional Radio
13 February 2012 08:00
Date: 13 February 2012 04:00pm
Finishes:13 February 2012 06:00pm
Venue: Russell Square: College Buildings
Room: Room G2
A History of Tibetan Medicine through Texts and Images
13 February 2012 09:30
Date: 13 February 2012 05:30pm
Finishes:13 February 2012 06:30pm
Venue: Brunei Gallery
Room: B102
A group of four Tibetan doctors and researchers affiliated with the Tsongon Provincial Research Institute of Tibetan Medicine and Tsongon Tibetan Culture Museum will present a lecture on their research and the history of Tibetan medicine more generally.
Forming the Public Relations State: Thai Identity through Representation
14 February 2012 09:00
Date: 14 February 2012 05:00pm
Finishes:14 February 2012 07:00pm
Venue: Russell Square: College Buildings
Room: 4418
This event has been cancelled, however we are looking to re-schedule and will update this entry as soon as possible.
Japanese Speech Contest: Spoken Business Japanese
15 February 2012 07:00
Date: 15 February 2012 03:00pm
Finishes:15 February 2012 05:30pm
Venue: Russell Square: College Buildings
Room: G2
The 2012 Japanese Speech Competition and Award Ceremony
Making a Difference – Representing/Constructing the Other in Asian/African Media, Cinema and ...
15 February 2012 16:00
Date: 16 February 2012 12:00am
Finishes:18 February 2012 12:00am
Venue: Russell Square: College Buildings
Room: Khalili Lecture Theatre
The aim of the conference is to bring together scholars from across the world to discuss the representations of 'Otherness' in Asian and African media cultures. We shall explore how Otherness is constructed when the ‘Other’ cannot be considered as totally 'alien', but when familiarity might also be of vital importance.
Nights at the Brunei - Japanese Calligraphy
16 February 2012 09:00
Date: 16 February 2012 05:00pm
Finishes:16 February 2012 08:00pm
Venue: Brunei Gallery
Room: Brunei Gallery Exhibition Rooms
After hours at the Brunei Gallery
Second Annual Interdisciplinary Eurasia Postgraduate Conference
18 February 2012 01:00
Date: 18 February 2012 09:00am
Finishes:18 February 2012 05:00pm
Venue: Russell Square: College Buildings
Room: G2
15 speakers presenting papers on historical, anthropological, sociological, cultural and political themes relating to the countries of Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, China, Afghanistan, and Turkey.
Intoxication of Hafez, Persian Poetry & Music
18 February 2012 10:45
Date: 18 February 2012 06:45pm
Finishes:18 February 2012 09:00pm
Venue: Brunei Gallery
Room: Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre
An illuminating performance from Light of Music in cooperation with the Centre for Iranian Studies, LMEI, SOAS.
Theorizing the culturally unprecedented: Cultural difference as historical discontinuity after ...
20 February 2012 08:00
Date: 20 February 2012 04:00pm
Finishes:20 February 2012 06:00pm
Venue: 21/22 Russell Square
Room: T101 (note different room and time)
Learning to live with pollution: the making of environmental subjects in a Chinese ...
20 February 2012 09:00
Date: 20 February 2012 05:00pm
Finishes:20 February 2012 06:30pm
Venue: Russell Square: College Buildings
Room: G50
'An Enemy We Created': The Myth of the Taliban / Al-Qaeda Merger in Afghanistan, 1970-2010
20 February 2012 09:00
Date: 20 February 2012 05:00pm
Finishes:20 February 2012 07:00pm
Venue: Russell Square: College Buildings
Room: L67
There is thus an urgent need to re-examine the known facts of the Taliban-al-Qaeda relationship and to tell the story of the Taliban's encounter with internationalist militant Islamism, which is what Alex Strick van Linschoten and Felix Kuehn set out to do in An Enemy We Created.
Tolerance through Misunderstanding: The Experience of the Catholic Missionaries in Smyrna in ...
20 February 2012 09:15
Date: 20 February 2012 05:15pm
Finishes:20 February 2012 07:15pm
Venue: Russell Square: College Buildings
Room: G3
Contact, conflict and Identity in Bronze Age northern Anatolia
20 February 2012 10:00
Date: 20 February 2012 06:00pm
Finishes:20 February 2012 08:00pm
Venue: Russell Square: College Buildings
Room: G51
Student & Alumni Networking Reception
20 February 2012 10:30
Date: 20 February 2012 06:30pm
Finishes:20 February 2012 08:15pm
Venue: Brunei Gallery
Room: Ground Floor
CISD UNA-Westminster Annual Law Lecture
20 February 2012 10:30
Date: 20 February 2012 06:30pm
Finishes:20 February 2012 08:30pm
Venue:
Room: Brunei Lecture Theatre, SOAS
Intonation in tonal new Englishes
21 February 2012 07:30
Date: 21 February 2012 03:30pm
Finishes:21 February 2012 05:00pm
Venue: Russell Square: College Buildings
Room: 4418
Empire and Information in Song China
21 February 2012 09:00
Date: 21 February 2012 05:00pm
Finishes:21 February 2012 07:00pm
Venue: Russell Square: College Buildings
Room: 4418
Looking Beyond Flags: The 1940s in India
21 February 2012 09:00
Date: 21 February 2012 05:00pm
Finishes:21 February 2012 06:30pm
Venue: Brunei Gallery
Room: B104
Do The Ten Mohist Theses Represent Mozi’s Thought?
21 February 2012 09:00
Date: 21 February 2012 05:00pm
Finishes:21 February 2012 07:00pm
Venue: Brunei Gallery
Room: Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre
Shifts in US/EU policy towards the ME in light of the 'Arab Spring'
21 February 2012 09:45
Date: 21 February 2012 05:45pm
Finishes:21 February 2012 07:00pm
Venue: Russell Square: College Buildings
Room: Khalili Lecture Theatre
Part of the LMEI's Tuesday Evening Lecture Programme on the Contemporary Middle East, The Middle East in Transition: a new social economic and political landscape?
Fan Making Workshop
22 February 2012 04:30
Date: 22 February 2012 12:30pm
Finishes:22 February 2012 02:30pm
Venue: Brunei Gallery
Room: Lower Level Gallery
In Conjunction with the Exhibition Traditions Revised
Panel: Approaching Law: Critically, socio-legally
22 February 2012 05:00
Date: 22 February 2012 01:00pm
Finishes:22 February 2012 02:00pm
Venue: 21/22 Russell Square
Room: T102
Dead Birds, 1963, 83 min
22 February 2012 05:00
Date: 22 February 2012 01:00pm
Finishes:22 February 2012 03:00pm
Venue: Russell Square: College Buildings
Room: Khalili Lecture Theatre
Gardner stayed with the Dani of New Guinea for six months to film one of his best-known works, an essay on the theme of violence and death that details the intense ritual warfare conducted by the Dani and their neighboring tribes.
Why are the main means by which urban dwellers avoid hunger ignored?
22 February 2012 05:00
Date: 22 February 2012 01:00pm
Finishes:22 February 2012 03:00pm
Venue: Russell Square: College Buildings
Room: Room 116
Jews and Palestinians: Separate or Together?
22 February 2012 07:00
Date: 22 February 2012 03:00pm
Finishes:22 February 2012 04:30pm
Venue: Russell Square: College Buildings
Room: G51
Historical ecologies of East African Landscapes: integrating archaeological, historical and ...
22 February 2012 09:00
Date: 22 February 2012 05:00pm
Finishes:22 February 2012 07:00pm
Venue: Faber Building
Room: FG01
Meedan Liveblog - A new toolset for corroborating citizen reports in the Middle East
22 February 2012 09:00
Date: 22 February 2012 05:00pm
Finishes:22 February 2012 07:00pm
Venue: Russell Square: College Buildings
Room:
Public event. No registration required.
What makes SOAS special? - Careers Forum with recent Alumni
22 February 2012 09:00
Date: 22 February 2012 05:00pm
Finishes:22 February 2012 07:00pm
Venue: Russell Square: College Buildings
Room: Khalili Lecture Theatre
Refugees are migrants too: rethinking refugee protection
22 February 2012 09:00
Date: 22 February 2012 05:00pm
Finishes:22 February 2012 07:00pm
Venue: Russell Square: College Buildings
Room: G51
A Gentle Pursuit: The Role of Women Collectors in Colonial India in Bringing the Himalayas to ...
22 February 2012 09:00
Date: 22 February 2012 05:00pm
Finishes:22 February 2012 07:00pm
Venue: Brunei Gallery
Room: B111
Arguments In The Form Of Body-Part Trade-Offs: Their Nature And Evolution
22 February 2012 09:00
Date: 22 February 2012 05:00pm
Finishes:22 February 2012 07:00pm
Venue: Russell Square: College Buildings
Room: 4421
Being an Arab Jew in a Cosmopolitan Palestinian City
22 February 2012 09:30
Date: 22 February 2012 05:30pm
Finishes:22 February 2012 07:00pm
Venue: Brunei Gallery
Room: B104
Citizens from Outside: Immigrant Women's Exercising Voting Rights in the Private and Public ...
22 February 2012 10:00
Date: 22 February 2012 06:00pm
Finishes:22 February 2012 08:00pm
Venue: Russell Square: College Buildings
Room: 116
This study examines how immigrant women in Taiwan exercise their citizenship in the private and public domain. It is argued that immigrant women used their ballot as the ‘weapon of the weak’ in the private family domain. In the public sphere, they are targets for mobilisation by political parties and individual politicians. Some of them were thus aspired to independently found and manage their autonomous self-help organisations.
Guns in Japan, 1543-1786: Myths, Secret Traditions, and the Royal Hunt
22 February 2012 11:00
Date: 22 February 2012 07:00pm
Finishes:22 February 2012 09:00pm
Venue: Russell Square: College Buildings
Room: Khalili Lecture Theatre
Fan Making Workshop
23 February 2012 04:30
Date: 23 February 2012 12:30pm
Finishes:23 February 2012 02:30pm
Venue: Brunei Gallery
Room: Lower Level Gallery
In Conjunction with the Exhibition Traditions Revised
The Poetry of Belonging: Epiphanies and Shades in a Digital World
23 February 2012 07:00
Date: 23 February 2012 03:00pm
Finishes:23 February 2012 05:00pm
Venue: Russell Square: College Buildings
Room: 116
Postgraduate Open Evening
23 February 2012 09:00
Date: 23 February 2012 05:00pm
Finishes:23 February 2012 08:00pm
Venue: Brunei Gallery
Room:
Representatives from departments across the School will be available to answer your questions about postgraduate studies at SOAS.
Violence Against Women: the Devastating Legacy and the Transforming Struggle
23 February 2012 09:00
Date: 23 February 2012 05:00pm
Finishes:23 February 2012 06:30pm
Venue: Russell Square: College Buildings
Room: To be confirmed
Abstract: Violence Against Women: the Devastating Legacy and the Transforming Struggle
Take an Alum for Coffee - How this can help your career plans
23 February 2012 09:00
Date: 23 February 2012 05:00pm
Finishes:23 February 2012 06:00pm
Venue: Russell Square: College Buildings
Room: Khalili Lecture Theatre
Phallicism and Fertility in Contemporary Japan: Ancient Traditions or Urban Myths?
23 February 2012 09:00
Date: 23 February 2012 05:00pm
Finishes:23 February 2012 06:30pm
Venue: Russell Square: College Buildings
Room: G2
Facing fluidity and segmentation: Circulation and labour relations in rural Andhra Pradesh, India
23 February 2012 09:15
Date: 23 February 2012 05:15pm
Finishes:23 February 2012 07:00pm
Venue: Russell Square: College Buildings
Room: 4418
Labour migrants from Central Asia in Russia: Isolation or integration into the Russian society
23 February 2012 09:30
Date: 23 February 2012 05:30pm
Finishes:23 February 2012 07:00pm
Venue: Russell Square: College Buildings
Room: G50
Nourishment for the Dead: Early Buddhist Funeral Rites in Tibet
23 February 2012 10:00
Date: 23 February 2012 06:00pm
Finishes:23 February 2012 08:00pm
Venue: Vernon Square
Room: V211
Taking his cue from the dBa' bzhed chronicle of the Tibetan Imperial period, Martin Boord will look at some of the ways in which Buddhist funeral rites departed from previously established customs. While the new system of imported Buddhism certainly introduced creative innovations in harmony with what had been done before, there were also conflicts of view concerning the spirits of the other world that gave rise to some amusing rivalries.
Instruction Dialogues In The Zhuangzi: An “Anthropological” Reading
23 February 2012 10:00
Date: 23 February 2012 06:00pm
Finishes:23 February 2012 08:00pm
Venue: Vernon Square
Room: VG06
Food and City Systems
24 February 2012 05:15
Date: 24 February 2012 01:15pm
Finishes:24 February 2012 02:45pm
Venue: Russell Square: College Buildings
Room: 4418
A 550 years old misunderstanding: The real relationship between Hunmin jeongeum (script) and ...
24 February 2012 09:00
Date: 24 February 2012 05:00pm
Finishes:24 February 2012 07:00pm
Venue: Russell Square: College Buildings
Room: G50
Numata Lecture: Views from a Shan community: the annual ceremonial cycle
24 February 2012 10:00
Date: 24 February 2012 06:00pm
Finishes:24 February 2012 07:30pm
Venue: Faber Building
Room: FG01
After the Spring: Which Way Forward for the Middle East
25 February 2012 01:00
Date: 25 February 2012 09:00am
Finishes:25 February 2012 06:00pm
Venue: Russell Square: College Buildings
Room: Khalili Lecture Theatre (KLT), SOAS
Problems with Chinese religion
27 February 2012 09:00
Date: 27 February 2012 05:00pm
Finishes:27 February 2012 06:30pm
Venue: Russell Square: College Buildings
Room: G50
Public Display and Individual Concern: Representing Archaeology in the Turkish Republic
27 February 2012 09:15
Date: 27 February 2012 05:15pm
Finishes:27 February 2012 07:15pm
Venue: Russell Square: College Buildings
Room: G3
Rising Young Sitar Diva
27 February 2012 11:00
Date: 27 February 2012 07:00pm
Finishes:27 February 2012 09:00pm
Venue: Brunei Gallery
Room: Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre
Rising Young Sitar DivaOn the temporal nature of universals
28 February 2012 07:30
Date: 28 February 2012 03:30pm
Finishes:28 February 2012 05:00pm
Venue: Russell Square: College Buildings
Room: 4418
Grave investments: abstraction and sacral spaces in 20th Century Colonial Delhi
28 February 2012 09:00
Date: 28 February 2012 05:00pm
Finishes:28 February 2012 06:30pm
Venue: Brunei Gallery
Room: B104
Human Heroes, Power and the Cosmos in Borneo
28 February 2012 09:15
Date: 28 February 2012 05:15pm
Finishes:28 February 2012 07:00pm
Venue: Brunei Gallery
Room: B102
The Religion of the 'Subalterns': A Gramscian Perspective
28 February 2012 09:30
Date: 28 February 2012 05:30pm
Finishes:28 February 2012 07:00pm
Venue: Russell Square: College Buildings
Room: L67
Myth and the Politics of Mythmaking: Origins, Genealogies, Legacies
28 February 2012 09:30
Date: 28 February 2012 05:30pm
Finishes:28 February 2012 07:00pm
Venue: Russell Square: College Buildings
Room: L67
Between Art and Alienation, the Painted T-Walls in Segmented 2012 Baghdad
28 February 2012 09:45
Date: 28 February 2012 05:45pm
Finishes:28 February 2012 07:00pm
Venue: Russell Square: College Buildings
Room: Khalili Lecture Theatre
Part of the LMEI's Tuesday Evening Lecture Programme on the Contemporary Middle East, The Middle East in Transition: a new social economic and political landscape?
To Live with Herds, 1971, 69 min.
29 February 2012 05:00
Date: 29 February 2012 01:00pm
Finishes:29 February 2012 03:00pm
Venue: Russell Square: College Buildings
Room: Khalili Lecture Theatre
Set within a traditional homestead during a harsh dry season, this film explores the effects of nation building in pre-Amin Uganda amongst the semi-nomadic pastoral Jie people
What are the Ethnic Options of Chinese/White young people in Britain Today?
29 February 2012 07:00
Date: 29 February 2012 03:00pm
Finishes:29 February 2012 04:30pm
Venue: Russell Square: College Buildings
Room: G51
Mediation and Resistance, theorizing the relevance of media and communication for activism and ...
29 February 2012 07:00
Date: 29 February 2012 03:00pm
Finishes:29 February 2012 05:00pm
Venue: Russell Square: College Buildings
Room: G3
Public event. No registration required.
Love, Money and the Landscape of Imperial Loyalism: The Illustrated Books of Nishikawa Sukenobu
29 February 2012 09:00
Date: 29 February 2012 05:00pm
Finishes:29 February 2012 07:00pm
Venue: Russell Square: College Buildings
Room: G50
Setting Africanness and Blackness Apart: Western discourses in Equatorial Guinea, 1898-1968
29 February 2012 09:00
Date: 29 February 2012 05:00pm
Finishes:29 February 2012 07:00pm
Venue: Faber Building
Room: FG01
Correlating Transfer Patterns in the Boundaries of Borrowing: a cross-linguistic perspective
29 February 2012 09:00
Date: 29 February 2012 05:00pm
Finishes:29 February 2012 06:30pm
Venue: Russell Square: College Buildings
Room: L67
Topographical Photography, the Colonial Sublime, and the Authorities of Presence: Robert Gill ...
29 February 2012 09:00
Date: 29 February 2012 05:00pm
Finishes:29 February 2012 07:00pm
Venue: Brunei Gallery
Room: B111
Soldiers, Rebels, and Drifters: Gay Representation in Israeli Cinema
29 February 2012 09:30
Date: 29 February 2012 05:30pm
Finishes:29 February 2012 07:00pm
Venue: Brunei Gallery
Room: B104
National Identity and Election Campaigning in Hong Kong and Taiwan
29 February 2012 10:00
Date: 29 February 2012 06:00pm
Finishes:29 February 2012 08:00pm
Venue: Russell Square: College Buildings
Room: 116
Gender and the practice of politics: comparing local and regional government in Wales
1 March 2012 09:00
Date: 1 March 2012 05:00pm
Finishes:1 March 2012 06:30pm
Venue: Russell Square: College Buildings
Room: 4421
Abstract: Gender and the practice of politics: comparing local and regional government in Wales
Participatory governance in African cities
1 March 2012 09:00
Date: 1 March 2012 05:00pm
Finishes:1 March 2012 07:00pm
Venue: Brunei Gallery
Room: B102
This event is part of the Africa Seminar series on the African City, organised by the Centre of African Studies.
Exiled Activists or Cosmopolitan Intellectuals? The Young Turk Opposition in Paris
2 March 2012 04:00
Date: 2 March 2012 12:00pm
Finishes:2 March 2012 02:00pm
Venue: Russell Square: College Buildings
Room: 116
The Sustainability of Organic Agriculture in Developing Countries: Lessons from China
2 March 2012 05:15
Date: 2 March 2012 01:15pm
Finishes:2 March 2012 02:45pm
Venue: Russell Square: College Buildings
Room: 4418
Kasa as a means of communication
2 March 2012 09:00
Date: 2 March 2012 05:00pm
Finishes:2 March 2012 07:00pm
Venue: Russell Square: College Buildings
Room: G50
Book launch: "Britain and Africa under Blair" and "Civil War and Democracy in ...
2 March 2012 09:00
Date: 2 March 2012 05:00pm
Finishes:2 March 2012 07:00pm
Venue: Brunei Gallery
Room: Brunei Suite
Numata Lecture: Views from a Shan community: life cycle ceremonies
2 March 2012 10:00
Date: 2 March 2012 06:00pm
Finishes:2 March 2012 07:30pm
Venue: Faber Building
Room: FG01
The Asian Highway Network: the transmission of Chinese power via transport connectivity in ...
5 March 2012 09:00
Date: 5 March 2012 05:00pm
Finishes:5 March 2012 06:30pm
Venue: Russell Square: College Buildings
Room: G50
Rulers and Merchants in Pre-oil Kuwait: The Significance of Date Plantations
5 March 2012 09:15
Date: 5 March 2012 05:15pm
Finishes:5 March 2012 07:15pm
Venue: Russell Square: College Buildings
Room: G3
Banquet in fableland: Real and imagined worlds in glyptic iconography
5 March 2012 10:00
Date: 5 March 2012 06:00pm
Finishes:5 March 2012 08:00pm
Venue: Russell Square: College Buildings
Room: G51
Men who Tiptoe into their Marital Bedrooms: The Novelist and Dictatorship
5 March 2012 10:30
Date: 5 March 2012 06:30pm
Finishes:5 March 2012 09:00pm
Venue: Brunei Gallery
Room: Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre
The relationship between spoken Burmese and Yangon Sign Language
6 March 2012 07:30
Date: 6 March 2012 03:30pm
Finishes:6 March 2012 05:00pm
Venue: Russell Square: College Buildings
Room: 4418
The Use of the Mandarin Bible and the Promotion of Mandarin as Guoyu in Republican China
6 March 2012 09:00
Date: 6 March 2012 05:00pm
Finishes:6 March 2012 07:00pm
Venue: Russell Square: College Buildings
Room: 4418
State power, military rule, and land reforms in West Pakistan, 1958-1969
6 March 2012 09:00
Date: 6 March 2012 05:00pm
Finishes:6 March 2012 06:30pm
Venue: Brunei Gallery
Room: B104
Dalit rights and the development agenda: the promise, progress and pitfalls of Dalit NGO ...
6 March 2012 09:00
Date: 6 March 2012 05:00pm
Finishes:6 March 2012 07:00pm
Venue: Vernon Square
Room: VG06
Literature for Social Change: A Novel Use for a Cambodian Novel
6 March 2012 09:15
Date: 6 March 2012 05:15pm
Finishes:6 March 2012 07:00pm
Venue: Brunei Gallery
Room: B102
Between Ideology and Pragmatism: Zionism in National Socialist Jewish Policy
6 March 2012 09:45
Date: 6 March 2012 05:45pm
Finishes:6 March 2012 07:00pm
Venue: Russell Square: College Buildings
Room: Khalili Lecture Theatre
Part of the LMEI's Tuesday Evening Lecture Programme on the Contemporary Middle East, The Middle East in Transition: a new social economic and political landscape?
Southeast Asian Literature Event: Tash Aw and Preeta Samarasan in conversation with Pankaj Mishra
6 March 2012 11:00
Date: 6 March 2012 07:00pm
Finishes:6 March 2012 09:00pm
Venue: Russell Square: College Buildings
Room: 4421
Burton, Speke, and the Cutchi Bhatia (and Others)
6 March 2012 11:00
Date: 6 March 2012 07:00pm
Finishes:6 March 2012 08:30pm
Venue: Russell Square: College Buildings
Room: Khalili Lecture Theatre
Impact: (Well) Foucault to all that: human rights as practice
7 March 2012 05:00
Date: 7 March 2012 01:00pm
Finishes:7 March 2012 02:00pm
Venue: 21/22 Russell Square
Room: T102
Masai Women, 1974, 52 mins.
7 March 2012 05:00
Date: 7 March 2012 01:00pm
Finishes:7 March 2012 03:00pm
Venue: Russell Square: College Buildings
Room: Khalili Lecture Theatre
The film details a series of events in women's lives, from their circumcision ceremonies which mark their transition from girlhood to womanhood, to the moment when they proudly watch their sons make the transition to elderhood in the eunoto ceremony.
Celebrity and Development
7 March 2012 05:00
Date: 7 March 2012 01:00pm
Finishes:7 March 2012 03:00pm
Venue: Brunei Gallery
Room: B102
The changing mediascape of Spain's 15-M movement: a processual analysis
7 March 2012 07:00
Date: 7 March 2012 03:00pm
Finishes:7 March 2012 04:30pm
Venue: Russell Square: College Buildings
Room: G51
Slavery, abolition and constructivism
7 March 2012 08:00
Date: 7 March 2012 04:00pm
Finishes:7 March 2012 06:00pm
Venue: Russell Square: College Buildings
Room: 4418
The anecdotal mode of discourse in classical Japan
7 March 2012 09:00
Date: 7 March 2012 05:00pm
Finishes:7 March 2012 07:00pm
Venue: Russell Square: College Buildings
Room: G50
Human Rights, Colonialists’ Solidarity and the UN’s “Unfounded Silence”: rethinking ...
7 March 2012 09:00
Date: 7 March 2012 05:00pm
Finishes:7 March 2012 07:00pm
Venue: Faber Building
Room: FG01
Press, Publics, Protest and Power
7 March 2012 09:00
Date: 7 March 2012 05:00pm
Finishes:7 March 2012 07:00pm
Venue: Russell Square: College Buildings
Room: G3
Public event. No registration required.
Framing the African City: The Kenya International Film Festival (KIFF) as Mediascape
7 March 2012 09:00
Date: 7 March 2012 05:00pm
Finishes:7 March 2012 07:00pm
Venue: Brunei Gallery
Room: B102
This seminar is part of the Africa Seminar series on the Africa City, organised by the Centre of African Studies
Naturalisation and the politics of desire
7 March 2012 09:00
Date: 7 March 2012 05:00pm
Finishes:7 March 2012 07:00pm
Venue: Russell Square: College Buildings
Room: G51
TBC
7 March 2012 09:15
Date: 7 March 2012 05:15pm
Finishes:7 March 2012 07:00pm
Venue: Russell Square: College Buildings
Room: L67
Street Art and Graffiti in South Tel Aviv: Voices from the Urban Underground
7 March 2012 09:30
Date: 7 March 2012 05:30pm
Finishes:7 March 2012 07:00pm
Venue: Brunei Gallery
Room: B104
Problems in Establishing Political Legitimacy in Afghanistan: 1500-2012
7 March 2012 10:00
Date: 7 March 2012 06:00pm
Finishes:7 March 2012 08:00pm
Venue: Russell Square: College Buildings
Room: Khalili Lecture Theatre
The Passions of Taishangs in China: Business v.s. Politics
7 March 2012 10:00
Date: 7 March 2012 06:00pm
Finishes:7 March 2012 08:00pm
Venue: Russell Square: College Buildings
Room: 116
Ceramic Tiles on Islamic building in India and Pakistan
7 March 2012 10:30
Date: 7 March 2012 06:30pm
Finishes:7 March 2012 07:30pm
Venue: Brunei Gallery
Room: B111
Afghan Women and their Quest for Justice
8 March 2012 09:00
Date: 8 March 2012 05:00pm
Finishes:8 March 2012 06:30pm
Venue: Russell Square: College Buildings
Room: 4421
A Post-Modern Sculptor from Uganda - Developing a sculptural practice
8 March 2012 09:00
Date: 8 March 2012 05:00pm
Finishes:8 March 2012 07:00pm
Venue: Brunei Gallery
Room: B102
Women in Japanese Faith-Based Volunteer Groups: From Continuity to Innovation
8 March 2012 09:00
Date: 8 March 2012 05:00pm
Finishes:8 March 2012 06:30pm
Venue: Russell Square: College Buildings
Room: G2
Export agriculture, class relations and capitalist development in North East Brazil
8 March 2012 09:15
Date: 8 March 2012 05:15pm
Finishes:8 March 2012 07:00pm
Venue: Russell Square: College Buildings
Room: 4418
A book launch of Ben Selwyn’s ‘Workers, State and Development in North East Brazil: Powers of Labour, Chains of Value’ (Manchester University Press, 2012)
Confronting Legacies of Displacement in the South Caucasus -Panel organised by Conciliation ...
8 March 2012 09:30
Date: 8 March 2012 05:30pm
Finishes:8 March 2012 07:00pm
Venue: Russell Square: College Buildings
Room: G50
Sudanese roots meet global inspiration
8 March 2012 11:00
Date: 8 March 2012 07:00pm
Finishes:8 March 2012 09:00pm
Venue: Brunei Gallery
Room: Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre
Sudanese roots meet global inspirationA High Price: The Triumphs and Failures of Israeli Counterterrorism
8 March 2012 11:00
Date: 8 March 2012 07:00pm
Finishes:8 March 2012 09:00pm
Venue:
Room: Khalili Lecture Theatre
Global Food Security: Can Intensification be Sustainable?
9 March 2012 05:15
Date: 9 March 2012 01:15pm
Finishes:9 March 2012 02:45pm
Venue: Russell Square: College Buildings
Room: 4418
Rise and Fall of the U.S. Trusteeship Plan for Korea as Peace-maintenance Scheme, 1941-1945
9 March 2012 09:00
Date: 9 March 2012 05:00pm
Finishes:9 March 2012 07:00pm
Venue: Russell Square: College Buildings
Room: G50
Atisha revisited: Jo bo rje's travels in Tibet according to his early biographies
9 March 2012 09:30
Date: 9 March 2012 05:30pm
Finishes:9 March 2012 06:30pm
Venue: 21/22 Russell Square
Room: T102
Atiśa is a key figures in the revival of Buddhism in the 11th century. From Bengal, he reached Tibet in 1042 and remained for the last 12 years of his life. His early biographies speak about adventurous travel, religious rivalry, struggle for patronage, cultural misunderstandings and language problems. This paper introduces the most important sources for the life of Atiśa and re-evaluates his significance for Tibetan Buddhism.
“We’re Indian and African”: Sidis of India
9 March 2012 09:30
Date: 9 March 2012 05:30pm
Finishes:9 March 2012 07:30pm
Venue: Russell Square: College Buildings
Room: Khalili Lecture Theatre
Numata Lecture: Views from a Shan community: extraordinary events
9 March 2012 10:00
Date: 9 March 2012 06:00pm
Finishes:9 March 2012 07:30pm
Venue: Faber Building
Room: FG01
Conference: Entrepreneurship and Development in Africa
10 March 2012 01:00
Date: 10 March 2012 09:00am
Finishes:10 March 2012 05:00pm
Venue: Brunei Gallery
Room: Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre
A 1-day conference organised by the Centre of African Studies, University of London in association with Sub-Saharan Consulting Group