AHRB CENTRE FOR ASIAN AND AFRICAN LITERATURES (SOAS/UCL), LONDON
SEMINAR SERIES
10 February, 5.30pm, Room 116, SOAS
PROF WANG NING (Director of the Center for Comparative Literature
and Cultural Studies, Tsinghua University)
"Globalizing Chinese Literature: Toward a Rewriting of Contemporary
Chinese Literary Culture"
24 February, 5.30pm, Room G3, SOAS
DR JOSEPH MASAD (Columbia University, Visiting Professor in Near
andMiddle East, SOAS)
"Remembrances of Desires Past"
3 March, 5.30pm, Room G3, SOAS
DR RUPERT SNELL (South Asia, SOAS)
"Confessions of a 17th-century Jain merchant: the Ardhakathanak of
Banarasidas"
10 March, 5.30pm, Room G3, SOAS
DR AYMAN EL-DESOUKY (Near and Middle East, SOAS)
"Words with Power: Ancient Egypt and Sacred Discourse in the Novels
of al-Ghitani"
17 March, 5.30pm, Room G3, SOAS
DR MICHEL HOCKX (East Asia, SOAS)
"Sophisticated Entertainment: Literary Tea Parties and the Social
Functions of Literature in 1930s Shanghai"
19 March, 5pm, Room G50, SOAS In Association with the Japan Research
Centre Seminar Series
PROF DREW GERSTLE (East Asia, SOAS)
"Creating Celebrity and Fame: Kabuki actors, poets, artists"
PUBLIC LECTURES
PROF ANN LAURA STOLER Friday 21 February 2003, 5.30pm
MSLT, SOAS
(University of Michigan)
"Habits of a Colonial Heart: The Affective Grid of Racial Politics".
FILM SCREENING Thursday 27 February 2003, 2pm
MSLT, SOAS
'ANATOMY OF A MIGRATION'
A film researched, filmed, directed and produced by Suresh Kumar Pillai.
ABDULRAZAK GURNAH Friday 21 March 2003, 5.30pm
MSLT, SOAS
A reading by Abdulrazak Gurnah, author of 'Paradise', 'Admiring
Silence' and 'By the Sea'.
BUCHI EMECHETA Wednesday 2 April 2003, 5.30pm
MSLT, SOAS
"Women's Spirituality in Nigeria."
HARISH TRIVEDI Thursday 15 May 2003, 5.30pm
BG05, SOAS
"Translating Culture vs. Cultural Translation: Literature,
Anthropology and the Postcolonial"
ALL WELCOME !
Enquiries to: Gillian Hudson, AHRB Centre for Asian and African Literatures
Tel: 020 7898 4267, Email: [log in to unmask]
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