Showing posts with label seminars. Show all posts
Showing posts with label seminars. Show all posts

Friday, 10 December 2010

History Seminar programme 10th-14th December

The last History department seminars of 2010!
TODAY
Commemorating Constantinople's conquest: appropriating the imperial past for the national present - Gavin Brockett (Wilfred Laurier University)
12 Noon to 2 p.m.
Russell Square Campus, College Buildings, Room 116
Contact Dr. Benjamin Fortna (bp@soas.ac.uk)

MONDAY 13th DECEMBER
The ethnic cleansing of Palestine: past and present  - Ilan Pappe (University of Exeter)
5.15 p.m - 7.15 p.m.
Russell Square Campus, College Buildings, Room G3
Contact Teresa Bernheimer (tb31@soas.ac.uk)


TUESDAY 14th DECEMBER
Making Ayurveda modern: framing indigeneity and the biopolitical in inter-war North India - Rachel Berger (Concordia University)
5.00 p.m. - 6.30 p.m
Russell Square Campus, College Buildings, Room G2
Contact Dr Eleanor Newbigin (en2@soas.ac.uk)

Thursday, 11 November 2010

African history seminar

On 17th November, Dr. Kate Skinner from the University of Birmingham will give the African History Seminar on "Local historians and strangers with big eyes: the politics of Ewe history in Ghana and its global diaspora"
This will take place in Room 563 (College Buildings, Russell Square Campus) between 5 and 7 p.m.

Contact Prof. Tom McCaskie (tm2@soas.ac.uk) for further details