New Mandala

The Centre of South East Asian Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies has just released its seminar program for the new term.  The list of offerings for early 2007 is broad and interesting.  Burma topics feature prominently.

The seminar on 1 February will be of particular interest to many UK-based New Mandala readers.  The relevant details are:

Title: Thailand’s Next Constitution: Finding a Path to Constitutionalism
Speaker: Prof Peter Leyland (Professorial Research Associate in Law, SOAS)
Date:  Thursday, 1-Feb-07
Time: 17.00-19.00
Room: G51, Main Building , SOAS

The full list of seminars for January – March 2007 is over the fold.

“Dear All

Please find below the Centre of South East Asian Studies, SOAS seminar
programme for next term.

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Seminar
Title: Empowering the city: electricity and urban culture in South and
Southeast Asia , c. 1890-1920
Speaker: Dr Tilman Frasch ( Manchester Metropolitan University )

Date: Thursday, 18-Jan-07
Time: 17.00-19.00

Room: G51, Main Building , SOAS
Contact: Justin Watkins (jw2@soas.ac.uk) or Jane Savory (js64@soas.ac.uk)

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Seminar
Title: The Lizard Cage: a new novel of Burma – A talk with readings by the
author
Speaker: Karen Connelly
Date: Thursday, 25-Jan-07
Time: 17.00-19.00
Room: G51, Main Building , SOAS
Contact: Justin Watkins (jw2@soas.ac.uk) or Jane Savory (js64@soas.ac.uk)

Seminar
Title: Thailand’s Next Constitution: Finding a Path to Constitutionalism
Speaker: Prof Peter Leyland (Professorial Research Associate in Law, SOAS)
Date:  Thursday, 1-Feb-07
Time: 17.00-19.00
Room: G51, Main Building , SOAS
Contact: Justin Watkins (jw2@soas.ac.uk) or Jane Savory (js64@soas.ac.uk)

Seminar
Title: The Mass Rape of Chinese Indonesian Women in May 1998 in the
Discourse of War
Speaker: Soe Tjen Marching (SOAS)
Date: Thursday, 08-Feb-07
Time: 17.00-19.00
Room: G51, Main Building , SOAS
Contact: Justin Watkins (jw2@soas.ac.uk) or Jane Savory (js64@soas.ac.uk)

Seminar
Title: Dreaming of Diaspora and the Halal Hub: The Global Halal Market in
London
Speaker: Johan Fischer (Goldsmiths)
Date: Thursday, 22 Feb 07
Time: 17.00-19.00
Room: G51, Main Building , SOAS
Contact: Justin Watkins (jw2@soas.ac.uk) or Jane Savory (js64@soas.ac.uk)

Seminar
Title: Malaysia, The Rough Guide: Urban Refuges, Jungle Sites, and Border
Zones in the New Plural Society.
Speaker: Eva-Lotta Hedman (Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford )
Date: Thursday, 01-Mar-07
Time: 17.00-19.00
Room: G51, Main Building , SOAS
Contact: Justin Watkins (jw2@soas.ac.uk) or Jane Savory (js64@soas.ac.uk)

Seminar
Title: The Failure of International Policy Towards Burma
Speaker: Thant Myint-U (Visiting Senior Fellow, International Peace Academy
; Research Associate of the Cambridge Centre for History and Economics)
Date: Thursday, 08-Mar-07
Time: 17.00-19.00
Room: G51, Main Building , SOAS
Contact: Justin Watkins (jw2@soas.ac.uk) or Jane Savory (js64@soas.ac.uk)

Seminar
Title: TBC
Speaker: Catherine Allerton (Department of Anthropology, LSE)
Date: Thursday, 15-Mar-07
Time: 17.00-19.00
Room: G51, Main Building , SOAS
Contact: Justin Watkins (jw2@soas.ac.uk) or Jane Savory (js64@soas.ac.uk)

All are Welcome (seminars are free and open to the public).  Booking is not
required unless otherwise stated.

Centre of South East Asian Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies
(SOAS), University of London , Thornhaugh Street , Russell Square , London
WC1H OXG

Centre website: http://www.soas.ac.uk/cseas/

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