SOAS (CSP) Centre for the Study of Pakistan

18/08/2016

[SOAS] Workshop> Digital Humanities> Tuesday 13 September @ 2pm

Abstracts:

'Text Mining Medieval Charters: Perspectives from Two Projects'
Dr Roger Evans (University of Brighton)

This paper reports on two recent projects working with historians and archivists to unlock the potential of free text content in historical documents.

'The Research Environment for Ancient Documents: Digital Editions, Paleography and EpiDoc Integration'
Dr Stefan Baums (University of Munich) and Stephen White (digital humanities software engineer, Venice)

The Research Environment for Ancient Documents (READ) is a new software system for the study of ancient texts and their physical carriers. This paper will discuss the design process behind READ, intended to meet the needs of broader user communities, and its current set of features.

More details: www.soas.ac.uk/south-asia-institute/events/asia-beyond-boundaries/13sep2016-digital-humanities.html

Dr Roger Evans (Brighton), Dr Stefan Baums (LMU Munich), and Stephen White (Venice)

16/08/2016

[SOAS South Asia Institute] Conference> The Past Before Us: Heritage and History in South Asia> 5-6 September

You are warmly invited to a cross-disciplinary international conference to celebrate SOAS’s centenary.

Over the two days of the conference, over thirty contributors from India, Europe, Bangladesh, Pakistan, the US and Singapore will address questions relating to the conceptualisation of heritage, the relationship between global and local evaluations of heritage, and the contested politics of heritage in South Asia.

More details: www.soas.ac.uk/south-asia-institute/events/heritage-and-history-in-south-asia/

Heritage and History in South Asia: a cross-disciplinary international conference on concepts and constructions of heritage and history in South Asia, jointly organized by the SOAS South Asia Institute in London and Presidency University in Kolkata.

31/05/2016

[SOAS Politics] Talk: Democratic Dynasties by Dr. Kanchan Chandra, Thurs 9 June 4pm

Abstract
Dr. Chandra's book, Democratic Dynasties, by studying dynastic politics in India, introduces a new theoretical perspective on dynasticism in democracies. It argues that the roots of dynastic politics lie at least in part in modern democratic institutions – the state and political parties – which give political families a leg up in the electoral process.

Further details available here: www.soas.ac.uk/politics/events/09jun2016-democratic-dynasties.html

Welcome to the page of the Department of Politics and International Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies, SOAS University of London

26/05/2016

[The British Library] Panel Discussion: Louis MacNeice’s 1948 radio features on India and Pakistan, Thurs 16 Jun 6pm

This event will feature highlights from Louis MacNeice's superbly panoramic, but also controversial, 1948 series of BBC radio features presenting a Westerner's view of India and Pakistan following Partition. Followed by panel discussion and Q&A with Aasiya Lodhi, lecturer in Radio and Journalism, University of Westminster, chaired by Amanda Wrigley, Research Fellow, University of Westminster.

Free but registration is required. Further details available at:www.bl.uk/events/louis-macneices-1948-radio-features-on-india-and-pakistan .UwKyRVAK.dpuf

17/05/2016

[SOAS CSP] Lecture: ISIS, Paris, Pakistan and the search for peace: conversations with an Islamic scholar, Fri 20 May, 6pm

For the CSP Annual Lecture 2016, we will welcome Professor Akbar Ahmed who will be in conversation with Professor Lord (Bhikhu) Parekh.

We will be screening 'Journey into Europe' on Sat 21 May, 5pm

Both of these events are free to attend. Registration is required. Full details and to register visit: /www.soas.ac.uk/csp/events/

23/02/2016

[SOAS CSP & SOAS South Asia Institute] Seminar: The new Pakistani consensus: Democracy as an agreed façade? by Professor Christophe Jaffrelot, Thurs 17 Mar 5pm

Dr. Christophe Jaffrelot is Senior research fellow at CERI (Centre d’Etudes et de Recherches Internationales) at Sciences Po (Paris), and research director at the CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), Professor of Indian Politics and Sociology at the King’s India Institute (London) and Global Scholar at Princeton University. He has been visiting professor at Columbia University, Yale and SAIS (Johns Hopkins).

Full details are available at www.soas.ac.uk/south-asia-institute/events/17mar2016-seminar-by-christophe-jaffrelot.html

Christophe Jaffrelot, Pakistan, politics

17/02/2016

[SOAS South Asia Institute] Fellowship: SOAS Charles Wallace Pakistan Fellowship, 2016-2017. Deadline 31 May 2016

One fellowship is awarded annually by the Centre for the Study of Pakistan (located within the SOAS South Asia Institute (SSAI)) and the Charles Wallace Pakistan Trust to a scholar who has had no, or little, opportunity to conduct research outside Pakistan. The 3 month placement at SOAS, University of London should be taken predominantly during term-time (late September–mid December).

Full details available on: www.soas.ac.uk/south-asia-institute/scholarships/fellowship/pakistan/

3 month Charles Wallace Pakistan Fellowship at SOAS - How To Apply

11/02/2016

[SOAS Dept of Politics] Seminar: Envisaging a new South Asia by
Dr. David Page, Aamir Ghauri, Ashutosh Shastri and Dr. Kiran Hassan, Mon 15 Feb 5pm

Synopsis:
In the light of the information revolution in South Asia, regional economic challenges and overstretched energy resources in India and Pakistan, this discussion aims to encourage a reinvention of intellectual approaches towards South Asia and its upcoming challenges.

Full details available on www.soas.ac.uk/politics/events/15feb2016-envisaging-a-new-south-asia.html

Seminar regarding the recent Pathankot and Bacha Khan University attacks.

10/02/2016

[SOAS CSP] Annual Lecture: ISIS, Paris, Pakistan and the search for peace: conversations with an Islamic scholar by Professor Akbar Ahmed, Fri 20 May 6pm

*Registration open*

Biography:
Ambassador Akbar Ahmed is the Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies in the School of International Service at American University in Washington, D.C. He has served as a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and was the First Distinguished Chair of Middle East and Islamic Studies at the U.S Naval Academy in Annapolis, MD. Ahmed belonged to the senior Civil Service of Pakistan and was the Pakistan High Commissioner to the U.K. and Ireland.

Further details and online registration available at: www.soas.ac.uk/csp/events/annual-lecture/20may2016-isis-paris-pakistan-and-the-search-for-peace-conversations-with-an-islamic-scholar-.html

CSP Annual Lecture, Centre for the Study of Pakistan, Professor Akbar Ahmed, ISIS, Paris, Pakistan and the search for peace: conversations with an Islamic scholar