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Download File (Pdf; 998Kb) outho S sia A Newsletter Centre of South Asian Studies www.soas.ac.uk/csas/ No 71 January 2009 Forthcoming events at SOAS this term: Food & Migration workshop Further details on Page 12 Annual Jaina Studies Lecture and Workshop Further details on Page 11 Tellings, Not Texts: Singing, story-telling and performance Workshop Further details on Page 5 SOAS Food Forum Distinguished Lecture Further details on Page 13 Exhibition: Asian Dance Theatre: performance through the lens Further details on Pages 10 CENTRE MEMBERS Professor Ravi AHUJA PHD(HEIDELBERG) DHABIL(HANNOVER) Dr Stephen P HUGHES BA(BATES COLL., LEWISTON) MA PHD(CHICAGO) Professor of Modern South Asian History Lecturer in Social Anthropology Chair, Centre of South Asian Studies Department of Anthropology and Sociology Department of History [email protected] [email protected] Dr Daud ALI BA(WILLIAM & MARY) MA PHD(CHICAGO) Professor Michael J HUTT BA PHD(LONDON) Senior Lecturer in Early Indian History Professor of Nepali and Himalayan Studies Department of History [email protected] Department of the Languages and Cultures of South Asia [email protected] Dr Rochana BAJPAI BA(BARODA) MA(JAWAHARLAL NEHRU UNIV) PHD(OXON) Lecturer in the Politics of Asia/Africa Professor Mushtaq KHAN BA(OXON) MPHIL PHD(CANTAB) Department of Politics and International Studies Professor of Economics [email protected] Department of Economics [email protected] Dr Crispin BRANFOOT BA(MANCHESTER) MA PHD(LONDON) Mr Abul Hussain KHONDOKER Lecturer in South Asian Art and Archaeology Lector in Bengali Department of Art and Archaeology [email protected] Department of the Languages and Cultures of South Asia School of Oriental and African Studies [email protected] Dr Whitney COX BA(VIRGINIA) MA PHD(CHICAGO) Lecturer in Sanskrit Dr Prabha KOTISWARAN BA LLB (NLSIU, BANGALORE, INDIA) LLM SJD Department of the Languages and Cultures of South Asia (HARVARD) [email protected] Lecturer in Law School of Law [email protected] Dr Kate CROSBY BA DPHIL(OXON) Senior Lecturer in Buddhist Studies Dr Sunil KUMAR BA(DELHI) MA(BRIDGEPORT) PHD(DUKE) Department of the Study of Religions [email protected] Reader in Medieval Indian History and Early Modern South Asia Department of History [email protected] Dr Philippe CULLET LLM(LONDON) MA(LONDON) JSD(STANDFORD) Reader in International Environmental Law Dr Martin W LAU MA PHD(LONDON) Chair, Centre of Law, Envirnment & Development Reader in Law School of Law [email protected] School of Law [email protected] Dr Jens LERCHE MA PHD(COPENHAGEN) Dr Sonali DERANIYAGALA BA(CANTAB) MA(LONDON) DPHIL(OXON) Lecturer in Economics Senior Lecturer in Development Studies Department of Economics [email protected] Department of Development Studies [email protected] Dr Angelika MALINAR MA PHD(TÜßINGEN) Professor Rachel M J DWYER BA(LONDON) MPHIL)OXON) PHD(LONDON) Professor of Indian Cultures and Cinema Senior Lecturer in Hinduism Department of the Languages and Cultures of South Asia Department of the Study of Religions [email protected] [email protected] Dr Magnus MARSDEN BA PHD(CANTAB) Dr Heather ELGOOD BA MA PHD(SOAS) Lecturer in Social Anthropology with reference to South and Course Director, Postgraduate Diploma in Asian Art Central Asia Department of Art and Archaeology [email protected] Department of Anthropology and Sociology [email protected] Mr Alexander FISCHER BA(LSE) MA(HEIDELBERG) Lecturer in Law Mr Nicholas MARTLAND School of Law [email protected] Joint Head, Teaching & Research Support Library and Information Service [email protected] Dr Peter FLÜGEL MA DPHIL (MAINZ) Lecturer in the Study of Religions Dr Matthew MCCARTNEY BA(CANTAB) MPHIL(OXON) Chair, Centre for Jaina Studies Lecturer in Economics with reference to South Asia Department of the Study of Religions [email protected] Department of Economics [email protected] Professor Werner MENSKI MA(KIEL) PHD(LONDON) Dr Jonathan GOODHAND BA PGCE(BIRMINGHAM) MSC PHD(MANCHESTER) Senior Lecturer in Development Practice Professor of South Asian Laws Department of Development Studies [email protected] Chair, Centre for Ethnic Minority Studies School of Law [email protected] Dr Jan-Peter HARTUNG PHD(ERFURT) Lecturer in the Study of Islam Ms Alessandra MEZZADRI BA(LA SAPIENZA) MSC(SOAS) Department of the Study of Religions [email protected] Lecturer in Development Studies Department of Development Studies [email protected] Dr Almut HINTZE BA(HEIDELBERG) MPHIL(OXON) DPHIL(ERLANGEN) DHABIL(BERLIN) Reader in Zoroastrianism Department of the Study of Religions [email protected] 2 South Asia Newsletter: No 71 School of Oriental and African Studies Mr Satoshi MIYAMURA BA(TOKYO) MA(HITOTSUBASHI) MSC(LONDON) Professor Peter G ROBB BA(WELLINGTON) PHD(LONDON) FRHISTS Teaching Fellow in Economics Professor of the History of India Department of Economics [email protected] Department of History [email protected] Professor David MOSSE BA DPHIL(OXON) Dr Lawrence SAEZ BA(CALIFORNIA) MALD(FLETCHER) MA PHD(CHICAGO) Professor of Social Anthropology Senior Lecturer in International Politics Department of Anthropology and Sociology [email protected] Department of Politics and International Studies [email protected] Dr Atticus NARAIN Post-Doctorial Fellow Dr Pasquale SCARAMOZZINO LAUREA(ROME) MSC PHD(LONDON) Department of the Languages and Cultures of South Asia Reader in Economics [email protected] Department of Financial and Management Studies [email protected] Mr Rakesh NAUTIYAL BA MA(GARHWAL) LLB Lector in Hindi Mr Naresh SHARMA Department of the Languages and Cultures of South Asia Senior Lector Hindi/Urdu [email protected] Department of the Languages and Cultures of South Asia [email protected] Dr Matthew J NELSON BA(BOWDOIN) PHD(COLUMBIA) Lecturer in the Politics of Asia/Africa Dr Edward SIMPSON BSOC.SCI(MANCHESTER) PHD(LONDON) Department of Politics and International Studies Lecturer in Social Anthropology [email protected] Department of Anthropology and Sociology [email protected] Mr Paolo NOVAK MSC(LONDON) Dr Subir SINHA BA(DELHI) MA PHD(NORTHWESTERN) Lecturer in Development Studies Senior Lecturer in Institutions and Development Department of Development Studies [email protected] Department of Development Studies [email protected] Dr Francesca ORSINI BA (VENICE) PHD(SOAS) Dr Tadeusz SKORUPSKI LTH(VATICAN) PHD(LONDON) Reader in the Literatures of North India Reader in Buddhist Studies Department of the Languages and Cultures of South Asia Director, Centre of Buddhist Studies [email protected] Department of the Study of Religions [email protected] Dr Caroline OSELLA BA PHD(LONDON) Dr Renata SÖHNEN-THIEME DRPHIL(MAINZ) Reader in Anthropology with reference to South Asia Senior Lecturer in Sanskrit Department of Anthropology and Sociology [email protected] Department of the Languages and Cultures of South Asia [email protected] Dr Ulrich PAGEL BA PHD(LONDON) Reader in Language and Religion in Tibet and Middle Asia Dr Sarah STEWART BA(ANU) PGCE MA PHD(NAPLES) Department of the Study of Religions Lecturer in Zoroastrianism [email protected] Department of the Study of Religions [email protected] Mr Krishna PRADHAN BA MA(TRIBHUVAN) Dr Shabnum TEJANI BA(OBERLIN COLL) MA MPHIL PHD(COLUMBIA) Lector in Nepali Lecturer in the History of Modern South Asia Department of the Languages and Cultures of South Asia Department of History [email protected] [email protected] Dr Hanne-Ruth THOMPSON PHD(LONDON) Ms Shital PRAVINCHANDRA BA MA(LONDON) PHD(CORNELL) Lector in Bengali Teaching Fellow in Postcolonial Studies Department of the Languages and Cultures of South Asia Department of the Languages and Cultures of South Asia [email protected] [email protected] Professor D Richard WIDDESS MUSB MA PHD(CANTAB) MA(LONDON) Dr Theodore PROFERES BA(NEW YORK) MA PHD(HARVARD) Professor of Musicology Senior Lecturer in Ancient Indian Religions Department of Music [email protected] Department of the Study of Religions [email protected] Dr Amina YAQIN BA(PUNJAB) BA(SUSSEX) PHD(LONDON) Dr William RADICE MA DPHIL(OXON) Lecturer in Urdu and Postcolonial Studies Senior Lecturer in Bengali Department of the Languages and Cultures of South Asia Department of the Languages and Cultures of South Asia [email protected] [email protected] Dr Cosimo ZENE BA MA PHD(LONDON) Dr Parvathi RAMAN BA PHD(LONDON) Senior Lecturer in Theory and Methods in the Study of Religions Lecturer in Social Anthropology Department of the Study of Religions Chair, Centre for Migration and Diaspora Studies [email protected] Department of Anthropology and Sociology [email protected] January 2009 3 STAFF NEWS Letter from the Chair The Centre of South Asian Studies is certainly not a stronghold of wealth except in one respect: its members potentially form one of the largest communities of South Asianists outside the subcontinent. To realize this potential, to facilitate the development of a community of academic exchange is the most important task of this Centre. We are happy to serve as an ‘umbrella’ and support base for every member of faculty and research student who wishes to discuss problems of South Asia research in a wider, interdisciplinary context. The wide-ranging programme contained in this newsletter shows that we are largely successful in this though some disciplines are remarkably more active than others. Apart from creating a space of interdisciplinary exchange, the Centre can also help to further develop School of Oriental and African Studies SOAS’s links with South Asia. One of the avenues we are currently exploring is the possibility of creating ‘strategic partnerships’ with a limited number of universities in South Asian countries – partnerships that do not merely exist on paper but imply very concrete measures of cooperation in both teaching and research matters. Hopefully, we will be able to present first results in our next newsletter.
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