Programme Languages & Cultures Postgraduate Open Evening 2014 Welcome General information On behalf of all of SOAS’ staff and students Arrival and registration it is my pleasure to welcome you to our Please bring your printed booking Open Evening. We hope this event gives confirmation form with you. If you forget you the opportunity to find out more your confirmation email, we will need to about our course programmes, meet our re-book you on the day. Make your way to staff and most importantly soak up SOAS’ the Brunei Gallery building for registration. unique and exciting atmosphere. Student Ambassadors SOAS, University of is the only We have a number of SOAS students Higher Education institution in Europe working at the event as ‘ambassadors’. specialising in the study of Asia, Africa and These students will be wearing red SOAS the Near and Middle East. Our world-class clothing and will be happy to help you research and teaching expertise in politics, with directions or general information law, culture and society equips people for about the school. a global economy and multicultural society. Access and disabilities This programme details the events and SOAS aims to create an environment activities taking place throughout the that enables all students to participate evening including times and locations. If fully in university life. Please inform us if you require any information or assistance you have a long-term medical condition, please do not hesitate to ask one of our specific learning difficulty and/or other Student Ambassadors. Please ensure that disability, so that we can make appropriate you register on arrival at the Brunei Gallery arrangements. All rooms and buildings at reception. Refreshments will be served the Open Evening are accessible. throughout the evening in the Brunei Suite – do help yourself! Emergency procedures If a fire alarm sounds while you are in any I hope you enjoy your evening and am SOAS building, please evacuate calmly delighted to welcome you on behalf of by the nearest fire exit. Once outside the the SOAS community. building, please follow instructions from SOAS security staff. Paul Webley Director Access to the main building To access the main building, you will need a visitor sticker to pass security. Once you have a sticker, you will be able to access the Student’s Union and Refectory. Unfortunately, we cannot allow open access to the library. To visit the SOAS library, please sign-up for a campus tour on arrival.

Refreshments Left: The Senate Refreshments will be served in the Brunei House proposed main atrium. Suite throughout the evening.

Below: The SOAS Library building. Programme As SOAS is located in the heart of central Transport and directions Presentations from many of our departments London, we strongly suggest that you do not in the Languages and Cultures Faculty will take bring a car to the Open Day. The School is place throughout the evening. Presentations easily accessible by a range of public transport will give you the opportunity to discover more including Underground, rail and bus. about the departments and meet academic staff. Staff will also be available to answer Underground stations questions at their departmental stall in the Brunei Suite. If you are unsure where to go to Russell Square (Piccadilly Line) – on Bernhard find out about the course you are interested in St. Approximately a five minute walk to the studying, please speak to a student ambassador SOAS campus. or a member of the events team.

Goodge Street (Northern Line) – on Welcome talk Tottenham Court Road. Approximately a ten 17:30 Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre minute walk from the SOAS campus. Richard Black On arrival, you will attend a 25-minute Euston (Northern and Lines) – on welcome talk from a Director of SOAS, which Euston Road. Approximately a ten minute will give you a flavour of the School and inform walk away. you of any additions to the programme. We strongly recommend that you attend this Buses introductory talk. The following buses serve the local area: Numbers 7, 68, 91, 168 and 188 stop on Information Stalls Russell Square; 18:00–20:00 Brunei Suite Numbers 10, 24, 29, 73 and 134 stop on Academic staff from many departments as Tottenham Court Road (North bound) or well as staff from the postgraduate taught and Gower Street (South bound). research admissions teams will be available to answer your questions about applying to SOAS For further information please visit: throughout the evening. www.tfl.gov.uk Careers and Graduate Destinations Talk 18:00–18:40 Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre ST. PANCRAS / EUSTON KING’S CROSS Philippa Hewett Find out from our careers service about the EUSTON BRITISH WARREN SQUARE LIBRARY graduate destinations of our postgraduate STREET SOAS HALLS OF RESIDENCE alumni from the faculty of Languages and Cultures. GOODGE STREET SOAS STUDENT ExPERIENcE Talk 19:30–20:10 Brunei Gallery Lecture RUSSELL BRITISH Theatre SQUARE MUSEUM Hear from our panel of Student Ambassadors equipped to answer questions on everything at TOTTENHAM SOAS from accommodation to nightlife. COURT ROAD

HOLBORN SOAS Summer Schools Stall 18:00–20:00 Brunei Suite SOAS Academic Summer School courses are an ideal way to try a subject out prior to committing to a postgraduate degree. There is an array of courses on offer in a three-week intensive format, running in two sessions throughout July and August. Africa Linguistics Stall 18:00–20:00 Brunei Suite Talk 18:00–18:40 Brunei Gallery Exhibition Space Lutz Marten Stall 18:00–20:00 Brunei Suite MA African Literature Noriko Iwasaki MA African Studies MA Applied Linguistics and Language Pedagogy The Department for the Languages and Cultures of Africa houses MA Language Documentation and Description a large concentration of scholars researching and teaching African MA Linguistics languages, literature and film of sub-Saharan Africa. This collective MA Linguistics and Language expertise gives SOAS a world-class capacity for teaching and research MA Theory and Practice of Translation (Asian and African Languages) in the area. The Department of Linguistics is the oldest in the UK, with a strong record of international research and an exciting range of courses China and Inner Asia taught in all areas of modern linguistics. Talk 18:00–18:40 Room B211 Michel Hockx and Dafydd Fell Near and Middle East MA Chinese Literature Talk 18:45–19:25 (Near and Middle Eastern Studies and Language MA Chinese Studies options) Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre MA Advanced Chinese Studies Yorgos Dedes and Mohamed Said MA Sinology Stall 18:00–20:00 Brunei Suite MA Taiwan Studies Wen-chin Ouyang The Department of the Languages and Cultures of China and Inner MA Ancient Near Eastern Languages Asia is part of the Faculty of Languages and Cultures and aims through MA Arabic Language Teaching teaching and research to cover a wide spectrum of the culture of MA Arabic Literature China, and to cover to a more limited extent the culture of Tibet. MA Islamic Societies and Cultures MA Islamic Studies Cultural, Literary and Postcolonial Studies (CCLPS) MA Near and Middle Eastern Studies Stall 18:00–20:00 Brunei Suite MA Turkish Studies Karima Laachir MA in Iranian Studies MA Comparative Literature (Africa / Asia) The Department is the largest in the UK that specialises in the Near and MA Cultural Studies Middle East, and has a long and distinguished record of studying and MA Postcolonial Studies teaching the region’s modern and ancient languages. The SOAS Centre for Cultural, Literary and Postcolonial Studies (CCLPS) exists to promote the disciplines of Comparative Literature, South Asia Cultural Studies and Postcolonial Studies in relation to Africa, Asia and Stall 18:00–20:00 Brunei Suite the Middle East. Francesca Orsini MA Anthropological Research Methods and Nepali Film Studies MA Intensive South Asian Studies Stall 18:00–20:00 Brunei Suite MA Languages and Cultures of South Asia Isolde Standish MA South Asian Area Studies MA in Global Cinemas and the Transcultural MA in the Study of Contemporary Pakistan The SOAS Centre for Film Studies promotes the disciplines of Film The South Asia Department is devoted to research and teaching in the Studies in relation to Africa, Asia and the Near and Middle East. languages, literatures and cultures of the Indian subcontinent, with the aim of reaching better understanding of one of the most complex and Gender Studies significant areas of the world. Talk 18:45–19:25 Brunei Gallery Exhibition Space Stall 18:00–20:00 Brunei Suite South and Pacific Asia Gina Heathcote and Katherine Natanel Stall 18:00–20:00 Brunei Suite MA Gender Studies Ben Murtagh MA Gender Studies and Sexuality MA Pacific Asian Studies MA Gender and Law MA South East Asian Studies SOAS’ MA in Gender Studies is unique in that it refocuses issues of Our teaching and research focuses on five of the major languages of Western Gender Studies on the complex specificities of Asia, Africa the region – Burmese, Indonesian / Malay, Thai, Vietnamese and Khmer and the Middle East. Drawing on the expertise of staff across all SOAS – and in their literatures, cinemas and associated cultures. faculties, it offers the specialised study of gender in relation to Asian, African and Middle Eastern cultures, together with rigorous training in Taiwan Studies and questioning of contemporary gender theory. Stall 18:00–20:00 Brunei Suite Dafydd Fell and MA Taiwan Studies Japan stall 18:00–20:00 Brunei Suite This MA programme in Taiwan Studies is the first postgraduate degree Alan Cummings and Isolde Standish focussing on contemporary Taiwan in the English speaking world. Korean stall 18:00–20:00 Brunei Suite It provides an unrivalled programme of advanced interdisciplinary Anders Karlsson courses on Taiwan’s society, culture, politics, language and economics. MA Applied Japanese Linguistics MA Japanese Literature Intensive Language Programmes MA Japanese Studies Talk 18:30–19:10 Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre MA Korean Literature Griseldis Kirsch MA Korean Studies The two-year intensive language pathways (for Arabic, Japanese and The department of Japan and Korea welcomes students who Korean), are directed at students who want to engage with Asia, Africa are keen to study Japan and Korea in depth. We offer excellent and the Near and Middle East in a professional as well as academic language training, as well as a wide range of courses on culture and way, as the language-based courses would enable them to become society, including literature, linguistics, history, film/television and confident bilingual regional specialists. popular culture, within the Department, and more subjects in other departments at SOAS. Contact

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