School of Oriental & African Studies our year in review 2002-03 To advance through teaching and research the To knowledge and understanding of Asia and Africa. of the School’s contribute to the development To academic disciplines. students a high quality education so that our provide To competence in their chosen subject or subjects achieve their intellectual and other core skills. and develop high quality training in languages and provide To other expertise related to Asia and Africa specific to the needs of individuals, official agencies, companies, non-governmental organisations and the media. encourage and inform understanding of Asia To and Africa in the United Kingdom and beyond. The aims of the School are: • • • • • 2

SOAS director and principal’s report 3 become larger, evolve, advance, age, augment, become, build, burgeon, Grow [v] develop, enlarge, expand, flourish, bigger, get heighten, increase,spread, mature, thrive, multiply, widen Physically, ways. SOAS continues to grow – in many the most substantial growth in the acquisition of a second site,recent years was Edwardian a handsomely renovated and other activities began in Vernon Square in Islington. Teaching building at Vernon Square in 2001. In the year under review, work began on another addition to the estate,School’s East Block, a new the College and filling in the space between Phillips buildings. and perhaps most dramatic measure of Student numbers the most obvious provide growth. As recently as 1991, the School had only 1100 students (of whom 600 were 2001,undergraduate and 500 postgraduate). In just a decade later, enrolments total 3000 for the firstat SOAS rose above In 2002/3, time. the School had 1642 undergraduates, 1446 postgraduates,special plus 339 other students registered for programmes and diplomas. A further registered as 1494 postgraduates were studying through part-time distance education. other full degree courses. Two beyond learning and at SOAS extends well Teaching created successful. The Language Centre was been extremely areas of activity have to a wider public the exceptional language expertise available to make in the School. It currently offers introductory, intermediate 50 African in over and advanced tuition enrolled in 590 different coursesand Asian languages. Over 3000 students this year. Equally, Courses the programme in International and English Language Foundation a range of coursesStudies provides expressly for international students who wish to enter higher education in the UK at either undergraduate or postgraduate level. Enrolment numbers are only part Students, of the story. of course, and grow develop do this being at SOAS. An index of how successfully they socially and intellectually by results remain their examination performance – where the School’s by is provided outstanding. This year, of 410 bachelors awarded, degrees at firstor upper 72% were second level, nationally for their achievement. and SOAS ranks in the top ten At graduation in July 2003, also 929 Masters and 73 PhDs awarded. there were Growing bigger also means becoming more complex. A larger School requires greater that, Beyond administrative capacity. there is an exacting burden of accountability – to the Funding Council, Agency, to the Quality Assurance to the research councils – which has sharply increased the requirements on higher education institutions in the UK in recent years. A major change in how the School administers itself was introduced this year, with its sixteen departments grouped into three faculties. director & principal’s report principal’s director & Professor Colin Bundy Colin Professor and PrincipalDirector (see page 26) edited by David Arnold David (see page 26) edited by “He who can, does. He who cannot, one teaches” was cheapest jibes. Well,of Shaw’s in forty-five years I have lost the certaintynever that I am living in a community of highest scholarship amongst colleagues at all levels who can and who do and who will go on trying. I cannot are incapable of holding onto our that we believe grow bigger, while we humanity even I see no and been being other than proud to have possibility of ever part of this School. I think that we can build upon this platform,I think that we the and amplify this end, To external further. even relations School’s a new executive post – Vice-Principal (External) – has been created. Professor Lisa Croll is the first colleague to be appointed to this importantconfident that she will manage and role. I am enhance our alliances and linkages, expand opportunities for joint programmes staff and student exchanges and develop with carefully selected partner the world. institutions all over The School has grown bigger, better known and successful in all of us,a range of activities. Like it is also getting older – the end of appropriately acknowledged towards and this was history, the publication of a new by the year under review Since the Sixties, SOAS and Christopher Shackle. (A few weeks before the book was weeks and Christopher Shackle. (A few launched, extended and distinguished Professor Shackle’s opportunity this term to an end. I take as Pro-Director came to record the outstanding service he performed as Pro- Director and Acting Director.) The history Professor felt memoir by ends with a deeply He arrived as an undergraduate in 1958 and Hugh Baker. remained uninterruptedly retiring at the at the School until end of this year from the Chair in Chinese. He concludes his chapter with these words: (Military) God of wealth, prosperity and longevity. Late 19th / early 20th century (SOAS Library) (Military) God of wealth, prosperity and longevity. When the School’s scholarly activities flourish, School’s When the so does its reputation. widely known, how overseas by I am struck travel when I warmly and admired, of SOAS. is the name The new faculties are: ArtsThe new and Humanities, and Languages Cultures, and Social Sciences. Each is presided over and Law Board, a Dean and a Faculty by are intended and they much of the basic administration previously over to take handled at departmental will also operate The faculties level. budgetarywith substantially devolved powers, a step which at departmentalcould not realistically be taken level. The academic departments remain, of course, responsible for the teaching, supervision within their disciplines. and research yearsAnother area of sustained growth in recent has been in the Arts made by and research. The most prestigious awards Research Centres. Humanities Research Board are its national since the scheme began been awarded Only 17 of these have institutions to – and SOAS and Cambridge are the only two secured two of these. This year,have the AHRB Centre for opened,Cross-Cultural Music and Dance Performance with of the Music Department Howard Dr Keith as the principal holder; it joined the AHRB Centre for Asian and African award Literatures, Gerstle. Professor Drew The School’s headed by History Department one of joined an exclusive club: it was only four History departments nationally to receive 5* ratings in the 1996 and 2001 Research Assessment Exercises, and HEFCE. additional funding by awarded on this basis was external research income has sustained the The School’s impressive growth of recent years, and the total for new £6.9 million. This included grants announced this year was Rausing Charitable from the Lisbet the munificent award Fund to support the establishment of the Hans Rausing Endangered Languages Project at the School. The project Austin, is under the academic leadership of Professor Peter the Mellon A grant of £446,000 by who took office this year. enables the School to appoint six post-doctoral Foundation the next three years.fellows over scholarly flourish, activities When the School’s so does its how widely overseas by reputation. I am struck when I travel known, admired, and warmly is the name of SOAS. This a network of international have academic means that we international links and activities. One of the most obvious activities that the School undertakes is the year abroad that of our language students spend during their degree. many Our student body is genuinely and distinctively cosmopolitan, with students from a hundred countries in our classrooms. 4

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The Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) 2001 Assessment Exercise The Research position as a of the School’s a consolidation saw of internationalresearch institution standing. underway, RAE now well of the review With HEFCE’s expected to be no for the next exercise and the date earlier than 2007, the School has sought also to build in research. A Research Policy on areas of success established with a remit that Committee has been current research and future included the School’s strategy, faculty structure and the new has been designed, resources, with some devolved so as to Deans and Associate by encourage research planning as heads of department.Deans as well research 6

research research 7 Research Fellows and Students and Research Fellows post doctoral research fellows new During the year several joined the School,British Academy, the funded by the Trust,Leverhulme and other bodies. Foundation the Korean In addition, LRCF enabled a from the the significant award to be filled. range of posts (both research and non-research) Languages Based within the Hans Rausing Endangered Project (HRELP),included a Professorial Chair, these posts research fellows, a specialist archivist. a lecturer and Through the generosity of Sir Joseph Hotung, £1.4m has been secured to supporta project on Law, Human Rights and Reconstruction in the Middle East. This funding will enable a further appointments to research posts series of (a professorship, two research fellowships and a research assistantship) during 2003-04. Research students, countries, from many drawn continued research 118 new research activities. to enrich the School’s admitted in September students (full-time equivalents) were 2002, their degrees between awarded and 74 were September 2002 and August 2003. The Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) 2001 saw (RAE) Exercise Assessment The Research position as a research of the School’s a consolidation institution of international standing. Lisbet Rausing Charitable Fund (LRCF) to support the International Shinto Foundation to provide continued to provide International Shinto Foundation Dictionary and Wa for the AHRB Research Grant award from the Mellon Foundation for the appointment from the Mellon Foundation support the Study of Japanese Religions. to the Centre for activities. supportsThis award the full range of the Centre’s In addition, for a lectureship, funding it provides postdoctoral fellowships and studentships. £446K: of six 2 year postdoctoral fellows within the programme for in the Boundaries: Critical Issues Scholarship Beyond Humanities and Social Sciences. The aim is to focus on the dynamics of regional change in the context of globalisation and to stimulate research across the boundaries of region and discipline. The first fellows will begin their fellowships two during 2003-04. £220K: internet database for Minority Languages of Burma. This will include the compilation of a balanced corpus of texts, design and compilation of an electronic internet-accessible lexicographical database together with related publications. Future success in this area is anticipated in 2003-04, with a number of further large grants already secured from the AHRB, ESRC and other bodies. Research Funding external research income continued to grow. The School’s grants announced during the year exceeded The total for new £6.9m, departments meant that many which far exceeded continue to attract their research income targets. Academics support of funders from a wide range for an ever-increasing grants range of research projects. Some of the larger secured include: £4.67m: Languages establishment of the Hans Rausing Endangered elements: Project (HRELP). This project combines three (ELAP),the Endangered Languages Academic Programme the (ELDP) Endangered Languages Documentation Programme and the Endangered Languages Archive (ELAR). £375K: teaching 8

teaching teaching 9 The second joint-winner of the Director’s teaching prize was of the Director’s The second joint-winner teaching innovative Dr Theodore Proferes for his exciting and of Indian religions. Nationally, Mr Andre Noor, been having his students,nominated by a special commendation received run the economics centre of by under the scheme of awards the LTSN. schemes for peer The School and its faculties devised observation of teaching, to be introduced in 2003/4. Through the efforts LTU, of the the School has also taken rate of active measures to address its relatively low retention of first-year undergraduates, including (for 2003-04) an induction programme for all home students, an extended bridging course students, for mature attempts to improve student services, of the available awareness a re-invigorated personal tutoring system, a policy of embedding study skills into existing undergraduate programmes, increased training Libraryin information skills by staff, and enhanced use of The new during the first termdiagnostic essays of study. posts of Diversity and Widening Participation Advisor Co- ordinator will support efforts. these the publication of procedures in 2002-03 allowed Improved a draft School timetable in June, a smoother start providing planned rate of use of The to the following academic year. School rooms reached 97% at Thornhaugh Street and 87% Square,at Vernon for 2003/04. A team from the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education visited the School in 2003 to carryan out institutional audit of its academic management and teaching. aspects of its procedures, advised on many The School was and will be following up these recommendations. It received the highest judgment possible, that of ‘broad confidence’, commended. of its currentand several practices were www.soas.ac.uk/ltu The review of course provision was a central focus for the of course was provision The review for provided School in 2002/3. Better data has been and for the Strategic Priorities Team committees relevant curriculum.which has made recommendations on the further,The range of programmes has also developed in particular at Masters level, where numbers continue to expand. In 2003-04, SOAS will be the first UK institution to offer taught masters in all major East Asian programmes literatures, pre-modern and modern. MAs include new Other (associated with the Language Documentation and Description Hans Rausing Endangered Languages project), Gender Studies and Religion, Buddhist Studies (the most extensive programme of its kind in Europe), Migration and Diaspora Studies, the BA level, of Asia. At and the International Politics in Arabic Cultural Studies allows students programme the new an to combine the study of Arabic language alongside world.increased focus on the culture of the Arabic-speaking of virtualThe School began the development learning Unit (LTU) (VLE). The Learning and Teaching environments organized a number of seminars on the topic, and Ms Zoe introduced a VLE for students on the MA in Linguistics, Toft later jointly awarded (She was Phonology and Morphology. one of eight teaching prize.) SOAS was the Director’s of VLEs as partinstitutions chosen for its development of the Joint Information Systems a major national study by 2003,Committee (JISC). In November the Curriculum Advisor experience at a national event will be speaking on SOAS’s Support the JISC and the Learning and Teaching organized by VLEs will be piloted in a small number of Network (LTSN). undergraduate and postgraduate courses in 2003-04. Details can be found at that of ‘broad confidence’. that of We received the highest judgment possible, received We Higher Education visited the School in 2003. the School in visited Higher Education A team from the Quality Assurance Agency for Agency Assurance from the Quality A team Professor Tomlinson Professor Furniss Professor Chan

In December 2001 SOAS Governing Body gave the Governing SOAS 2001 In December gave Body restructure for the go ahead into three School of the of Arts - Faculty & Humanities,Faculties of Faculty & Social Law of & Cultures and Faculty Languages are at the heart Faculties The new Sciences. of the been created strategySchool's academic and have departmentsfrom academic were They and centres. 1st August 2002. officially launched on appointed: Professor Deans were Faculty Three new Tomlinson,Tom Dean, of Arts Faculty Humanities, & Professor Graham Furniss, Dean, of Languages Faculty Stephen Chan,& Cultures and Professor Dean, Faculty was Social Sciences. Professor Tomlinson & of Law formerlyEconomic History, Professor of University of Strathclyde, Head of the Professor Furniss was Department Africa of the Languages and Cultures of Professor Chan had been at SOAS and since 1996 Professor in International Relations and Ethics, Head of International Studies, and Dean of Humanities at University. Nottingham Trent

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departmental reviews departmental reviews 11 The Elephant, from Ibn Bakhtishu` Kitab Na`t al-Hayawan, North Jazira © The British Library The Lens within the Heart The Lens within Timon Screech Curzon Building Jaipur Giles Tillotson and Vibhuti Sachdev Reaktion 24th October 2002 Inaugural Lecture ‘On memory in Islamic art and culture: the monument and the book’ Doris Behrens-Abouseif, Nasser D. Khalili Professor Art – of Islamic Dr Youngsook Pak has been promoted to Senior Lecturer in has been to Senior promoted Lecturer Pak Youngsook Dr History. Art with Studies to Korean reference Korean in the History has been to Reader promoted Tillotson Dr Giles of with to India. Art reference The Admonitions Scroll: First Masterpiece The Admonitions of Chinese Painting Shane McCausland BMP Ceramics for the A Collector's Vision: Qianlong Emperor Pierson Stacey PDF Department of Art and Archaeology In April 2003, Doris Abouseif Khalili Professor (Nasser D. of Islamic Art) a major convened international conference at SOAS, on the subject: '19th- Century Islamic Art & or Architecture: Innovation Eclecticism?' Three other members of the Department also contributed papers. In the same month, Shane McCausland and Dr Tribe Dr Tania a panel at the 29th Annual Conference of the convened Association of Art Historians, and held in London; and they three other membersthe Department of contributed papers. research project Dr Anna Contadini's two-year AHRB-funded on '13th and 14th century Books Illustrated Arab and Persian on Animals' got underway, appointed as was Carey and Moya a concurrentResearch Assistant. Dr Contadini is also leading in Italy,research project on 'The Domestic Interior 1400 – 1600', King the Getty Grant Program. Dr Geoffrey funded by and directed spent the session on sabbatical leave in Abu Dhabi and Oman. archeological excavations The end of the session regrettably marked the retirement of John Picton (Professor of African Art); but the Department delighted to be able to announce the appointment of was Professor of Chinese David Percival Craig Clunas as the new and East Asian Art. In the course of the session the Department its also launched own website, Yeoh: John Carpenter Dr and Peter designed by www.soas.ac.uk/art This year’s publications for the Department publications for This year’s include: Archaeology of Art and , (published in Nomadic Peoples of Nomadic Peoples The Gold and Silver Road of Trade and Road of Trade The Gold and Silver and edition of the Friendship (a study missions in journals of two diplomatic Thailand) nineteenth century Grabowsky) (with Volker Turton Andrew Silkworm Books Death In Abeyance Abeyance Death In Africa: Journal of the International African Institute of the International Africa: Journal (published in 2002). Inaugural Lecture imaginings: 'The Congo' in popular culture, ‘Fevered globalisation, conflict and diplomacy’ Pottier,Johan with reference Anthropology Professor of 2003 Africa – 7th May to Dr in David has been to Senior promoted Lecturer Mosse Social Anthropology. Department of Anthropology and Sociology This year numbers on all taught coursesstrong. remained recovery a welcome in the numbersThere was MPhil of new area. students with growing strength in the Media Medal in Medical the Wellcome awarded was Dr Kit Davis Anthropology for her book FACULTY OF ARTS AND HUMANITIES OF FACULTY 2000), received a prize from and Professor Richard Tapper the Iranian Embassy for his edited book Iran the International by Dr Stephen Hughes won an award Association of Media History music, for an article on Tamil judged the outstanding article in the field for 2002. Rappaport H. the Roy gave Lecture in Peel Y. Professor J. D. the Anthropology of Religion in April, and the Galton Lecture give to invited Marchand was in September 2003. Dr Trevor Institute Public talks at the British Museum and in the Getty to servingLecture Series at Los Angeles. In addition as Chair of the Centre of African Studies,Richard Professor engaged in external arenas: as remained heavily Fardon Editor of and as Chair of the Association of Social Anthropologists organized its big Decennial Conference at Manchester in Mosse organized a conference June. In September Dr David on ‘Order and Disjuncture: the Organization of Aid and Development’, Research a Leverhulme awarded and was for a project on Christianity and the politics of Fellowship religious identity in South India for 2004-05. gained have more of our recent doctoral students Two permanent posts at other universities: Dr Ian Harper at Pratten at Sussex. Edinburgh and Dr David The Rule of Water: Statecraft, Ecology Statecraft, The Rule of Water: in South India and Collective Action Mosse David Oxford University Press Knowledge: Negotiating Local in Development Power and Identity Pottier Johan Pluto Press This year’s publications for the Department publications for This year’s Sociology include: and of Anthropology Bonang Panerus – part of a Central Javanese Gamelan Bonang Panerus – part of a Central Dr Keith Howard has been promoted to Reader in Music. has been to Reader promoted Howard Dr Keith Department of Music Research activities, greatly facilities and teaching were the receipt of major funding for five years for enhanced by Music and the AHRB Research Centre in Cross-Cultural The firstDance Performance. year of operation for the studio and Centre has seen the establishment of a recording the creation of a performance studio. Other developments under review related to the Centre are highlighted in this Centre Activities. Three The Department during the year. events hosted many diverse examples: a concert featuring rarely heard devotional music from an African community in India, the Sidis; Mu- young! International Evening, Dance various showcasing types of dancing from around the world performed largely by SOAS students; and a music summer school, the SOAS participants The latter gave Music. Summer of World the opportunity nine distinctive cultures and a to experience The school wide range of music and dance traditions. master teachers,included intensive tuition by workshops, master classes, concerts, language, food and film. Crime, Punishment and the Prison Crime, Punishment in Modern China Frank Dikötter Columbia University Press and Politics Historians, State Egypt Century in Twentieth Gorman Anthony RoutledgeCurzon The Indian Army and the Making of Punjab Rajit Mazumder Permanent Black Asian Migrants and Education: The Asian Migrants and of Education in Immigrant Tensions Migrant Groups Societies and Among W. Michael Edited by Charney, Brenda S. A. Chee Kiong Tong and Yeoh Kluwer Studies Approaching Transnationalisms: Societies, Multicultural on Transnational Contacts, and Imaginings of Home Brenda S.Edited by A. Yeoh,W. Michael Chee Kiong Tong and Charney Kluwer 12th December 2002 Following the White Paper on Higher Education, the White Paper Following the Department, the highest possible research obtained having Research Exercises,rating (5*) in the two previous was highest rating of 6. Only three other new to the elevated History departments in the country this rating. have organised, Powell Dr Avril together with Professor Sonia Amin of Dhaka University, a workshop on ‘Rhetoric and Reality: Asia’. Gender and the Colonial Experience in South The workshop, held in Dhaka in December 2002, funded was Universities and SOAS the Association of Commonwealth by Research Committee. The papers from the workshop will be OUP Delhi. published by Members of the Department successful in two bids were Dikötter obtained for major research funding. Professor Frank support the Economic and Social of £230,000 from Culture and Research Council for a project on ‘Material Everyday Life in China’, and Professors Ian Brown and Frank ArtsDikötter won a grant of £195,000 from the and into ‘Cultures of Humanities Research Board for research Confinement: the history of the prison in Asia and Africa’. Professor Richard Rathbone and Dr Richard Sims retired, up an appointment and Dr Christopher Cullen resigned to take appointed Lecturer in the Dr James Brennan was elsewhere. History of Eastern Africa, and Dr Nelida Fuccaro Lecturer in the Modern History Robb Peter of the Arab Middle East. Professor appointed Pro-Director of the School. was Inaugural Lecture ‘Call Me Ishmael: on the construction of an Arab-Muslim identity’ G.R.Hawting, History Professor of the of the Near East – and Middle Department of History This year’s publications for the Department of History include: of History the Department publications for This year’s Economy in Africa, The Global Coffee Asia and Latin America William G. edited by Clarence-Smith Topik and Steven University PressCambridge Abroad: Cultural, Chinese Migrants of Educational and Social Dimensions the Chinese Diaspora W. Michael Edited by Charney, Brenda S. A. Chee Kiong Tong and Yeoh University PressSingapore 12

departmental reviews departmental reviews 13 Colloquial Swahili. The complete course Colloquial Swahili. for beginners Marten McGrath and Lutz Donovan Routledge of Herero A Grammatical Sketch Wilhelm J.G. Möhlig, Lutz Marten, Kavari and Jekura Köppe This year’s publications for the Department publications for This year’s include: Cultures of Africa and of the Languages Chadic and Hausa Linguistics: Chadic and Hausa of Paul Newman The Selected Papers with Commentaries and H. Philip J Jaggar (eds) Wolff Ekkehard Köppe – Español Diccionario Swahili (Swahili-Spanish Dictionary) Githiora Chege El Colegio de Mèxico AND CULTURES OF LANGUAGES FACULTY Department Languages and Cultures of the of Africa the The Department audited by one of four which were was Quality Assurance Agency of HEFCE as part of the been awarded institutional audit of SOAS. The School has the highest category QAA. the Confidence’ by of ‘Broad College, Bay Research and teaching ties with Fourah Sierra Leone, further were the strengthened during the year by visit of two scholars the British Council Higher under taught courses,Education LINK programme. They and a produced for a conference at the University joint paper was of Wisconsin, Madison. and five Manuscripts project has progressed well The Swahili now been electronically catalogued. major collections have the Dr Lutz Marten a major grant by has been awarded AHRB to work grammar on comparative Bantu-Romance research Two (together with Professor Ruth Kempson). the grant. by students are covered members of the organised by conferences were Two Dr Phil Jaggar organised a Department during the year. ‘Roundtable on Chadic and Hausa Linguistics’ (in association with the Centre of African Studies and the Centre for Language 2002; the Roundtable Research at SOAS) in November the currentexplored and evaluated state of Chadic/Hausa linguistic knowledge and future research directions (in the light contribution to the field). Newman’s of Paul workshop on orality and literacy in the HornIn July a two-day of Africa entitled ‘Language, and Society’, Power by convened in Doctoral Fellow) Post Dr Cedric Barnes (British Academy association with the Centre of African Studies took place at the School. Participants from Northeast as the Africa as well UK, European countries presented a wide USA and several range of papers exploring the complex relation between a orality and literacy in the region. The themes also allowed critical assessment of state, and society in a region power cultural,often beset by ethnic and national divides. National narratives equally explored, and local perspectives were and Kriyasamgraha, Compendium of Kriyasamgraha, Buddhist Rituals Skorupski Tadeusz Studies The Institute of Buddhist and Process in Ancient Judaism Time Sacha Stern Littman Library Ghana's New Christianity: Pentecostalism Ghana's New Christianity: African Economy in a Globalising Gifford Paul Hurst The Six Perfections Skorupski Tadeusz The Institute of Buddhist Studies This year’s publications for the Department publications for This year’s include: of Religions of the Study Department of the Study of Religions MA programmes, new Two the MA in Buddhist Studies and during developed the MA in Gender Studies and Religion were the year, accepting their first students in September 2003. Teaching Director’s joint winner of the was Proferes Dr Ted Prize for his courses Indian religions. A major in ancient to Dr Julia Leslie for a awarded AHRB research grant was three-year project entitled ‘Epic Constructions: Gender, Myth and Society in the Mahabharata’. This interdisciplinary and in which the text uses myth project focuses on the ways narrative to construct normative gendered social roles, from one movement reflecting and facilitating society’s researchers the from Two historical paradigm to another. Department,work Dr Simon Brodbeck and Brian Black will on the project, international which includes an conference and (Buddhist Crosby result in a series of publications. Dr Kate Studies) were Studies) and Dr Almut Hintze (Zoroastrian funding for 2003-4. AHRB Research Leave each awarded The Department visiting researchers, hosted two Dr Jun’ichi Isomae (Theory in the study of religion) and Dr and Method funded a Trust Shin Fujinaga (Jain Studies). The Leverhulme 10-month Visiting Professorship for Professor Geoffrey Samuel commencing in August 2003. 2002 the DepartmentIn November organised a conference on ‘Visions on Tibetan Perspectives of Enlightenment: New in the Art’ and Power and in February 2003 ‘Asceticism Asian Context’. Department of the Languages and Cultures of the Near and Middle East teaching team Five the Department’s colleagues joined new (Arabic) and Dr Enrico El-Desouky this session. Dr Ayman Iranian languages) arrivedMorano (mediaeval as fixed-term replacements for Professors Abu Deeb and Sims-Williams, Major of teaching as Leverhulme who are both relieved appointed Lector was Rawan Ms Fatima Research Fellows. in Arabic. Dr Serpil Bagci of the University of Hacettepe Studies. succeeded Dr Çetin as Ataturk in Turkish Fellow Dr Abdul Hakim Ibrahim al-Matroudi came from Leeds to up a visiting lectureship in Arabic. take The Department also hosted Professor Stefan Maul of the University of Heidelberg, who spent March 2003 with us as VisitingBritish Academy Professor of Assyriology, and back Professor Elsaid Badawi,welcomed who returned from Centre the American University in Cairo to the Department’s Research Fellow. of Islamic Studies as Zaki Yamani the Sir In December Professor Nicholas Sims-Williams gave Memorial Lectures in Cambridge. In the New Harold Bailey him a grant of £19,712 to awarded the British Academy Year Cheung as research assistant in a pilot Dr Johnny employ confirms This award project on Bactrian palaeography. standing,Professor Sims-Williams’s as measured in awards March the on 20 external Year funders.by New At the Persian Department opened was The event held its first party. Norouz Judy Pattison,by of Camden and organised in the Mayor Indo-Iranian Languages and Peoples Indo-Iranian Languages the British Academy 116) (Proceedings of Sims-Williams Nicholas Edited by Oxford University Press Epic: The Babylonian Gilgamesh edition and Introduction, Critical Cuneiform Texts George Andrew Oxford University Press in has been to Senior promoted Lecturer Yeon Dr Jaehoon Language and Literature. Korean This year’s publications for the Department of the Department for the publications This year’s East include: and Middle of the Near and Cultures Languages two smaller units, for the teaching of one responsible Chinese and Tibetan, and one for the teaching of Japanese Governing Body granted this The School’s and Korean. permission As of 1 August 2003, in June 2003. the SOAS Department and Cultures of East Asia has of the Languages ceased to exist. In its place, departments: there are two new the Department and Cultures of China and of the Languages Inner Asia, Dr Bernhard Fuehrer, headed by and the Department and Cultures of Japan and of the Languages Korea, Dr Stephen Dodd. headed by and Shinto: A Short History with Breen (translated and adapted John Ed.Teeuwen) Mark Nobutaka Inoue RoutledgeCurzon Literary Societies Questions of Style: in Modern China, and Literary Journals 1911-1937 Michel Hockx Brill Journal of African Cultural Studies of Journal in 2005. weight of historyweight counterbalanced by in the region was A selection of the papers will attention to the contemporary. be published in the Africa Both the Chinese and Japanese sections of the DepartmentBoth the Chinese and Japanese sections of started reform a process of far-reaching of the undergraduate and curriculum. approved BA Japanese curriculum The new was BA The new will be implemented as of the 2003/04 session. 2004/05. Chinese curriculumby is expected to be in place MA coursesNew and programmes in Chinese, and Japanese launched, literature were Korean making SOAS the first university programmes in the UK to offer postgraduate degree in all major East Asian literatures. abroad students in China, year The Department’s studying in Beijing and Lhasa, through a difficult Spring as the went Finally,SARS epidemic spread through the country. on 24 April 2003, recalled all year abroad students in China were ahead of time, logistic and with the School providing financial support No SOAS students were where necessary. the virus.infected by the second year running,For the Japanese language teaching team, consisting of Mrs Kazumi Tanaka, Mrs Kashiwagi, Kanehisa and Mrs Miwako Misako second came Their Prize for Teaching. in the competition for the Director’s efforts the Director and they highly commended by were received a special award. The Department as Lecturer in Ms Grace Koh welcomed made Literature. Her three-year appointment was Korean a verypossible by generous grant from the Korea Pak, Dr Youngsook Foundation. held a half- who previously time post in the Department, left to become a full-time member of the Art & Archaeology Department. At the end of the year, the Department to Dr Gary also said goodbye Scott, who had been replacing Dr Hiroto Hoshi. Dr Scott accepted a full-time position at Southwark College, London. the implementation of the faculty system,Following the Department applied for official permission into to dissolve Department Languages and Cultures of the of East Asia Korean Grammatical constructions: Korean Grammatical Meaning Their Form and Jaehoon Yeon Saffron Books Series Saffron Korean Linguistics (series editor) Yeon Jaehoon Saffron Books,Art Eastern Publishing (EAP) in Centre of Korean conjunction with the SOAS Studies This year’s publications for the Department publications for This year’s Asia include: Cultures of East and of the Languages 14

departmental reviews departmental reviews 15 Staff at the American Institute of Indian Studies, Jaipur Staff at the American Institute of Persian New Year Celebrations Persian New Year Department Languages and Cultures of the of South Asia The South Asia and South East Asia Departments, having period,been joined under one Head for an experimental were formallythe beginning of 2002-03. separated from Dr William Radice stood down as Head, replaced and was Dr Rupertby Snell as Chair of the South Asia Department. Abroad programme for its The Department Year has a new Hindi BA. The programme is run the American for SOAS by centre Institute of Indian Studies (AIIS) at its Hindi-teaching in Jaipur, Rajasthan; our students live and study in an entirely from September to March,Hindi-speaking environment and are given a very and wide-ranging course thorough in all arrangeaspects of the Hindi language. The AIIS staff the guest’ basis with local students’ accommodation on a ‘paying families, and also arrange visits to local places of interest. Abroad schemes in false startsAfter several with Year ‘Hindi belt’ in recent years,various other parts of India’s we an excellent arrangement in place,finally have and the first cohort of students has returned enthusiasm and with a new confidence in their knowledge of Hindi. a new the early retirement of Dr StuartThis year saw Blackburn, Our arrangements for the teaching Senior Lecturer in Tamil. been language and literature have of Sinhala and Pali the two-year secondment to the Departmentmaintained by Meddegama,of Professor Udaya from the Department of Sinhalese, University of Peradeniya. Research a Leverhulme Dr Michael Hutt has been awarded Grant of £116K for a three-year project to compile a descriptive catalogue of the Hodgson Collection in the British Library. and Dr Dr Hutt is directed by The project (Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Gellner David to the first Westerner Oxford). Brian Houghton Hodgson was conduct scholarly research in Nepal, which remained closed Inaugural lecture ‘The inadvertent dead languages’ philologist: pitfalls in reading George,Andrew – 19th March 2003 Professor of Babylonian Epic of 49e Rencontre Assyriologique 49e Rencontre ‘Nineveh’. The congress,‘Nineveh’. which attracted almost in the Brunei Gallery, and West Timothy led by ‘Lost Tribe’ in Papua New Guinea, photography by Kevin Evans taken from Dr Tudor in Papua New Guinea, photography by Kevin Evans taken from ‘Lost Tribe’ of Israel: The History of a Myth’ book ‘The Lost Tribes Parfitt’s Unbecoming Citizens: Culture, Unbecoming Citizens: the Flight of Refugees Nationhood, and from Bhutan. Michael Hutt Oxford University Press Directors’ series) Chopra (‘World Yash Rachel Dwyer British Film Institute This year’s publications for the Department publications for This year’s Asia include: Cultures of South and of the Languages At the end of the session the Department hosted, with the London Middle East Institute at SOAS, in events several connection with the Prunella Scales. Most of the 149 academic papers on ancient Clore Education Centre at the Iraq took place in the new British Museum, apart workshop at the Brunei from a day-long Gallery on Sumerian statecraft in the third millennium BC. Internationale 500 participants Professor Andrew by organized and was George, with a dramatic reading of the began Gilgamesh conjunction with MTO college. In the summer Dr Tudor Parfitt college. In the summer Dr Tudor conjunction with MTO securing an by added to his excellent record of winning grants in aid of a project on of £115,662 from the AHRB award relations in Pakistan. Muslim-Jewish departmental reviews departmental

This year’s publications for the Department of the Languages and Cultures of South East Asia and the Islands include:

Classical Civilizations of Southeast Asia No Way Out Vladimir Braginsky (ed.) Chart Korbjitti RoutledgeCurzon Translated by David Smyth Howling Books Cac khia canh van hoa Viet Nam (‘Aspects of Vietnamese Culture’) Dana Healy and Nguyen T.T. Binh The Gioi

to foreigners until the 1950s. The collection Hodgson presented to the British Library consists of nearly a hundred bound volumes containing over 5,000 different manuscripts Wa-speaking children in a Burmese charity school in Rangoon (picture courtesy of Dr Justin Watkins) in at least nine different languages. curriculum; the course covers both Western films set in South They include lists of kings, descriptions of rituals, historical East Asia and the works of major South East Asian directors. chronicles, tax lists, lists of land holdings, caste lists with explanations, accounts of festivals, lists of questions and Professor Vladimir Braginsky, Professor E. Ulrich Kratz and answers about the legal system, route descriptions, accounts Ben Murtagh hosted a one-day international seminar on of the customs of different ethnic groups, and much more. Malay literature, to coincide with a visit to SOAS by a The primary aim of the project is to open up and document delegation from Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka (DBP), the these archives in order to promote and facilitate their use by Institute of Language and Literature of the Government of researchers. It will aim to produce a comprehensive Malaysia, in May 2003. descriptive catalogue, and to make this, along with selected The Department was sorry to lose Mrs Nguyen T. T. Binh, documents, available on the worldwide web. Lector in Vietnamese, who returned home after teaching at The Department ran a series of open lectures under the SOAS for six years. heading ‘Personal Perspectives on South Asia’. The speakers Dr David Smyth has been promoted to Senior Lecturer in Thai. included members of staff both past and present, alumni, and others associated with the Department and its work. Each speaker gave an account of his or her personal and Department of Linguistics academic engagement with South Asia, often revealing This year saw the official commencement of the Endangered autobiographical details hitherto unknown to the audience. Languages Documentation Programme. The programme was A primary purpose of the series was to show to our own launched in February with a public lecture by well-known students something of the range of approaches to the language specialist Professor David Crystal. Professor Peter subjects we teach, and publicly to celebrate the work we do. Austin took up his post in the Department as the Director of This purpose also underlies the 2003-04 lecture series the Endangered Languages Documentation Programme and entitled ‘South Asian Masterworks’. the Endangered Languages Academic Programme.

A new one-year MA in Language Documentation and Department of the Languages and Cultures Description was established. This degree is unique and of South East Asia and the Islands nothing like it is offered elsewhere in the world. A new PhD Dr Justin Watkins was awarded a grant of £220k by the in Field Linguistics was also established. Endangered AHRB for a three-year Wa Dictionary Project. Using current Languages Archive (ELAR) will be established at SOAS and it corpus-based lexicographical methods, the project will will be one of the prime resources for study and compile an electronic database of Chinese, Burmese and methodology in the field of digital language archiving. In English translations for Wa words and phrases, which will be March a workshop entitled ‘Endangered Languages – what designed to enable similar work to be carried out for other do we do now?’ was held with presentations by a number of minority languages of Burma. The grant funds a three-year distinguished British and international specialists. A volume Research Assistantship for Dr Richard Kunst, himself an of papers arising from the workshop, together with Professor expert in linguistic applications of computer technology. Crystal’s lecture and Dr Lisbet Rausing’s speech at the launch event is currently being edited for publication by Dr Rachel Harrison introduced and convened a new Professor Austin. Dr Eva Schultze-Berndt was appointed as undergraduate course, ‘South East Asia on Film’, which Lecturer in Language Documentation, and Dr Friederike should prove a popular addition to the Department’s Lüpke was appointed as Post Doctoral Fellow.

16 departmental reviews 17 FACULTY OF LAW AND SOCIAL SCIENCES OF LAW FACULTY Department Studies of Development The Department to be the largest recruiter continued of students in the School,Master’s successful through its highly Studies and in Violence,MSc programmes in Development members new of staff joined Four Conflict and Development. the Department, Mr Jonathan Goodhand (Development Practice, Conflict and Development), Kaiser (Refugee Dr Tania Studies), (Globalisation and Development), Kiely Dr Ray and of Development). Economy Dr Carlos (Political Oya Members of the Department again in demand for were applied research, policy and advisory work with a number of UN and bilateral donor agencies, and with government and non-government organisations. This included a study of Poverty Reduction Strategy development and national Papers strategies in India, Nepal and Vietnam for DFID (Department for International Development), the conclusion of a research project on rural labour markets and poverty with the Ministry of Finance in Mozambique, of a study for the conclusion International Agency) of national Development (Swedish SIDA Aid in East Africa,‘ownership’ of Swedish an assessment of strategy development the potential of the new of the ACBF (Africa Capacity Building Foundation), of and the involvement members of the Department in various aspects of reconstruction in Afghanistan. Social and Political Change in Uttar Pradesh: Social and Political European Perspectives Lerche (ed,Jens Jeffery) Roger with Manohar A Marxist Introduction Anti-Capitalism: Alfredo Saad-Filho (ed) Pluto Press Language Centre non-degree coursesThe Language Centre provides in the 3,000 for over languages of Asia and Africa at all levels students. The Centre offers Diploma and Certificate courses launched at the beginning in Arabic (successfully of this session), Chinese and Japanese and also works with departments teaching of certain in the joint BA courses. Interest in the learning Asian and African languages of now teaches continues to rise and the Language Centre more than thirtystudents are beginners, Many languages. however, special courses, courses intensive and intermediate, continuing and advanced courses taken together, account for nearly a third of classes. This year’s publications for the Department publications for This year’s include: Studies of Development Dr of Bruce has been to Professor Ingham promoted Arabic Dialect Studies. Functional Structures, Form and Functional Structures, from East Interpretation: Perspectives Asian Languages Simpson Andrew RoutledgeCurzon This year’s publications for the publications for This year’s include: of Linguistics Department From left to right: Professor Graham Furniss, Dean of the Faculty of Languages and Cultures; Mrs Hilary Crystal; Professor Peter Austin, Märit Rausing Chair in Field Linguistics and the Director of the Endangered Languages Academic Programme; Professor David Crystal; and Professor Barry Supple, Consultant to the Lisbet Rausing Charitable Fund and Chair of the International Panel Undergraduate students from the DepartmentUndergraduate students took part in the SOAS-University of California exchange scheme for the first time, to study for part and went of the year at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Linguistics Department. receiving exchange students from SOAS is now different universities University in the of California system, and in return the SOAS departments students from of UCLA. The firstlinguistics and music can apply to study at veryyear of this pilot scheme was the successful and able to enrol in a range students who studied at UCLA were in London. of courses that are not available Bennett, the retirement of Dr David Following the Linguistics into the full-time Department Ms Zoe Toft welcomed teaching-staff of the Department on a one-year contract. the use of a virtual teaching involving innovative Ms Toft’s SOAS’s resulted in her (jointly) winning learning environment Prize for outstanding contributions to teaching Teaching within the school. Professor Sam Mchombo from the Department of Linguistics in the University of California visited the Department from January offered special classes on Bantu to April 2003 and departure,linguistics. Prior to Professor Mchombo’s a one- workshop held in SOAS which on Bantu linguistics was day contributors from Europe and America. attracted many This year’s publications for the Department publications for This year’s include: Studies and Management of Financial Dr Massoud Karshenas has been to Professor promoted Dr Karshenas Massoud of Economics. Department of Financial and Management Studies The Department of Financial and Management Studies continued to expand its Masters degree programmes Internationaland PhD programmes on campus. The MSc Management for China has become recognised, in its second year, postgraduate qualification in as a unique of business management that gives specialist knowledge issues in China. An addition to the Masters programmes the MSc in Financewas and Financial to which the Law Department the first to study on this students welcomed programme. innovative At the same time the Department continued to strengthen distance learning.the Masters degrees it teaches by A landmark the successful full launch of our Online was Study Centre which greatly enriches the experience of our students overseas, access to the digital giving them web resources of the University of London and to their tutors. active research and publishing in finance, The Department’s corporate governance, of business in Asia and the environment is reflected in the publication of two major volumes (see above). Inaugural Lecture to the ‘The China business: from the Great Leap Forward up?’ Organisation. Can academics keep Trade World Professor Christopher Howe, MBE, January FBA – 21st 2003 programme on ‘Rural Povertyprogramme on ‘Rural and Institutions in a Globalising Economy’, for Advanced Studies on the Foundation by funded International (FASID, Development Japan). the Department.Dr Mona Said and Dr Deborah Johnston joined China’s Economic Reform: A Study with Economic Reform: China’s Documents Christopher Howe,YY Kueh Ash and Robert (editors) RoutledgeCurzon of Enterprises: Ownership and Governance Recent Innovative Developments Laixiang Sun (editor) Macmillan Palgrave The New Poverty Strategies: What Have The New Poverty Learnt Have We they Achieved: What Mosley Anne Booth and Paul Edited by Palgrave Swedish Supporting Ownership: with Kenya, Development Cooperation two volumes) and Uganda (in Tanzania, and others Weeks John Agency Swedish International Development Dr Deniz Kandiyoti serves as Chair of the School’s Centre for Dr Deniz Kandiyoti serves as Chair of the School’s Contemporary and the Caucasus, Central Asia and Professor the United Nations Elisabeth Croll as Chair of the Council of Croll also serves Professor as Vice-PrincipalUniversity. (External) of the School. Department of Economics The Economics Department had another very successful year in termsrecruitment of student and research output. In particular, a very there was dynamic cohort of students on all Economics,MSc programmes (in Development Political of Development,Economy and Finance of Development). a veryThese programmes are unique in UK in offering broad field. range of economic thoughts in the development graduated they Students continued to be successful when pursuing careers in economic development, international of this can be economics or financial economics. Evidence ODI Fellowships found in their continuing success in winning technical assistance in the public sectorsin providing of countries in Africa,developing the Caribbean and the Pacific. yearsAs in previous involved various members of staff were in high profile international research and advisory activities. Professor John Sender continued to work on a research programme into rural labour markets and poverty in Mozambique, the Ministry funded by of Finance and Planning in Mozambique. Professor Sender and Dr Jonathan Pincus writing up their research on poverty been have and insecurity in post-crisis Indonesia, the International Labour funded by Organisations. Professor John Weeks, as a team leader, ownershipcompleted a study of evaluating of Swedish Assistance. Professor Weeks,Development Dr Sonali participated and Dr Rathin Roy Deranyiagala in the UNDP study on Macroeconomics and Poverty in Asia. Dr Mushtaq Khan completed a three-year research project on Palestinian state formation, Dr Ministry. Foreign Norwegian funded by Dick Lo organised an international conference on Contemporary Capitalism, World and Socialist Political Economy, in Beijing, Nissanke 2002. Dr Machiko April completed an international collaborative research Dr has been to Senior Christopher promoted Lecturer Cramer in Development Economics. This year’s publications for the Department publications for This year’s include: of Economics in the Twenty-First Development Policy the Post-Washington Century: Beyond Consensus Ben Fine,Edited by Lapavitsas Costas Pincus and Jonathan Routledge in Comparative Development Experiences An East Asia and Sib-Saharan Africa: Institutional Approach Aryeetey and Ernest Nissanke Machiko Edited by Ashgate 18

departmental reviews departmental reviews 19 complement of three staff memberscomplement of three specialising in international the appointment of Dr Stephen politics. With and Social Sciences, of Law Chan as Dean of the Faculty with affiliation to the Department, the Department gained a valued importantcolleague who is providing with our assistance Within the Faculty,teaching of African Politics. Phil Deans Dr also appointed Associate Dean for Learning and Teaching. was obtained important research grants from the Dr Charles Tripp for his work on Islamic Trust AHRB and the Leverhulme Responses to Capitalism in the 20th century, while Dr John the British a Research Readership by awarded Sidel was for his work on liberalism,Academy communism and Islam on study Dr Tripp in Southeast Asia. During the absence of leave,Dr Eberhard Kienle, and following the resignation of the Department fortunate was be able to appoint Dr Paul to of the Middle East. Lecturer in Politics Lalor as a Temporary Dr Martin also appointed Temporary Gainsborough was of Southeast Asia during Dr Sidel’s Lecturer in Politics Heder also continued his importantabsence. Dr Steve work on Cambodia, being appointed an Election Human Rights the Cambodia Office of the UN Commissioner for Monitor by Taylor,Human Rights in June-August 2003. Dr David to whom both the Department an enormous debt, and the School owe unfortunately left us at the start up a take of the session to senior appointment at the Aga Khan University, Karachi. Professor Joel Migdal, was of the University of Washington as a visitor to the Departmentwelcomed and, as a Research Associate,Alaa el-Din Arafat, Dr holder of a two-year grant in Cairo. Foundation from the Ford Readings in African Politics Readings in African Young Edited Tom by Currey James a Life of Power Robert Mugabe: and Violence Stephen Chan Tauris I B , Department Law where the SOAS came 6th, and , school in the it as the 5th best law which rated Guardian Times The Department its undergraduate and continued to revise postgraduate teaching programmes, with particular focus on the teaching of international politics, in which a separate in the BA programme has now been developed. pathway continued with the Centre for A close collaboration was International Studies and Diplomacy (which is attached to the Department) and its very successful MA programme. As part of this process, the Department has greatly benefited from the appointment of Dr Louiza Odysseos, who adds to a Department Studies of Political Department of Law year for the Law This year has been an exciting and successful Department. The Department's a challenging ability to provide degree has been confirmed by and top-quality qualifying law two surveys respectively by schools conducted of all UK law the the Capitalism and Citizenship: the Capitalism and Citizenship: Impossible Partnership Kathryn Dean Routledge Economy of Vietnam: Changing Political Minh City the Case of Ho Chi Martin Gainsborough RoutledgeCurzon Reform in Enterprise and Welfare Communist Asia and Martin Ferdinand Peter Edited by Gainsborough Cass Frank This year’s publications for the Department publications for This year’s Studies include: of Political country. The Department'scountry. importance as one of the world's leading research centres for international, comparative and has received furthernon-European law recognition with the Internationalinauguration of the Sir Joseph Hotung Annual Human Rights lecture. The first lecture, entitled ‘Memory, Universality and the of Human Palestine Inequality and Power: Rights’, Said in January Professor Edward delivered by was 2003. Sadly, in September 2003. Professor Said passed away of £226k award Significant research grants including an AHRB year research project on ‘Jain Menski for a three to Dr Werner UK’ confirm and Identity in India and the the Law important role in the study of comparative law. Department’s research centre at the opening of a new 2002/03 also saw the Department. and Conflict is Centre of Law The new inaugurated with a Jenkins and was Ms Cathy chaired by lecture on ‘Legal Reconstruction in Afghanistan’ delivered by Dr Martin Lau in October 2002. Cutting edge research, courses at both postgraduate and exciting and challenging law undergraduate level, in and a commitment to the study of law a global context will remain at the top of the Department’s agenda for the next academic year. centre activities centre 20

centre activities centre activities 21 ed with speakers with the Institute of War Black Garden: Armenia and Black Garden: has continued to provide hosted some twenty speakers hosted some twenty ), Kate Clark (BBC), Behrouz Afagh The Guardian Centre of Contemporary Asia and the Caucasus Central Japan Research Centre Studies Centre of Korean both from SOAS and other British institutions attended the both from SOAS and Also during this session, event. successful two-day the Centre entered into a partnership with the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS) in Leiden, agreed who have five years.to fund the CCS Annual Lecture for the coming The alongside its regular high profile events staged several seminar series. Today’, conference on ‘Chechnya A one-day co-sponsored Children in with MARCCH (Medical Aid and Relief for Chechnya), a panel of 2002 with November held in was and distinguished expertsspeakers setting the present 2003: ‘Afghanistan conflict in context. A panel discussion on Lessons for the Future’ in January 2003 featured Polly ( Toynbee Tabrizi (BBC),Tabrizi with Jonathan Ludin (BOND) and Jawed Hyman The first Anthony Goodhand (SOAS) as chair. Justice in Afghanistan’ Memorial Lecture titled ‘Transitional Barnett Rubin in February delivered by was 2003 and drew co-sponsored a large and varied audience. The Centre also book de Waal’s the launch of Tom War and Azerbaijan through Peace Reportingand Peace in June 2003. The from Europe, topics the United States and Japan addressing as diverse as film, painting and poetry, outcastes, actors and female labourers. The Centre hosts a number of visiting Japanese academics whose contribution, especially to the series of 'Seminars in Japanese', the is much valued. The Centre also organised again this year, Japanese Language Proficiency Test attracting 650 candidates, the largest number ever. The academics on sabbatical in a research base for Korean London and has maintained its research seminar series and scholars and English. Speakers around in both Korean presentations at the seminarsthe world including: gave author & novelist), Yi (Korean Mr Munyol Dr James Lewis (Oxford University), Prendergast (Cambridge Dr David University), University, Professor Chung-in Moon (Yonsei Muhyun). advisor to President Roh Political . and the Centre of Chinese Studies Association (UK) and International African together Institute– drew scholars from Northeast as the UK, Africa as well European USA and several they countries. Together explored the bearing of the study of orality and literacy and statehood upon power Professor George Hewitt of the Centre of Contemporary Central Asia and the Caucasus (front row, fifth from the right) is pictur of Contemporary Central Asia and the Caucasus (front row, Professor George Hewitt of the Centre conference ‘Chechnya Today’ and distinguished experts at the Contemporary China Institute Centre of African Studies was merged with the was Department Cultures of Africa. Concentrating of Languages and on the Horn of Africa, this highly successful meeting – supported the British Academy, by British Council, African divisions of cultural,in a region often beset by ethnic and A number of publications are anticipated. national identity. African Society,The Royal in association with the Centre, invited H. Kansteiner III,Walter US Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs,Bob Geldof) to address with Sir (pictured above an audience at the University of London in April on the subject Africa. of current policy towards American foreign audience Mr Kansteiner also fielded questions from a packed a lively combination of the Africa-experienced,that was the illustrious, and interested students. At the start of the 2002/03 session, the Studies The latter will continue its publishing activities as an independent part of the Centre with Dr Phil Deans appointed editor of the CCI Series. In October 2002,as the new the Office held their and Commonwealth Centre and the Foreign annual joint seminar, with six scholars briefing the audience on the ‘challenges for the fourth-generation Chinese Communist Party leadership’. 2003,In May the Centre organised the third in its series of Master Classes, supported generous funding from the by The Class,Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation. on the topic of politics,contemporary Taiwanese Professor taught by was Research students University. Rigger of Davidson Shelley In addition to 16 academic departments,In addition to 16 academic the School has regional and interdisciplinary centres. Research Fellow, British Academy In July SOAS’s Dr Cedric Barnes, workshop organised a on ‘Language, and Power Society’ with the centre activities

Professor Hermione Lee, Nobel Laureate Nadine Gordimer and Professor Colin Bundy

The Centre also hosted a one-day conference on the theme The usual series of seminars focussed on Thailand, with of ‘Korea in the New Millennium: Culture and Society’ at seminars on the economy (Professor Medhi Krongkaew of SOAS, organised in conjunction with the British Association NIDA, Bangkok), constitutional reform (Professor Andrew of Korean Studies (BAKS) in December 2002. The former Harding, SOAS), and poststructuralism and cultural studies (Dr Ambassador Dr Jong Il Ra gave an opening speech for the Peter Jackson from ANU, Canberra); Philippines, with a seminar conference. Former British Chargé d'Affaires in Pyongyang, on socio-economic problems (Professor Dante Canlas, Dr James Hoare also gave a speech on ‘Two years of the Economic Secretary of the Philippines Government); and British Embassy, Pyongyang’. Burma, with a seminar on banking (Dr Sean Turnell, Macquarie) and economic development (Professor Anne Booth, SOAS). The Centre also launched Saffron Korean Linguistics Series, published by Saffron Books, Eastern Art Publishing. As an As a result of meetings between the Centre Chair Professor inaugural volume, Dr Jaehoon Yeon published Korean Andrew Harding, the Director Professor Colin Bundy, and the Grammatical Constructions: Their Form and Meaning in Philippines Ambassador, Mr Cesar Bautista, it was agreed that June 2003. a continuing Fellowship in Philippine studies would be based at SOAS, the holder being chosen by SOAS from amongst The Centre of South Asian Studies launched two new promising Philippine academics and funded by the Government projects - ‘The cultural meaning of food in South Asia’ and of Philippines. ‘Keywords in South Asian Studies’. ‘The cultural meaning of food in South Asia’ aims to provide a forum to discuss SOAS-based journals South East Asian Research and key issues concerning food and South Asia, such as food Indonesia and the Malay World continue to be published and religion, food and the body, food and the diaspora, and three times a year. The November issue of Indonesia and the the commodification of food. ‘Keywords in South Asian Malay World, edited by Reimar Schefold and Gerard A. Studies’ began the new series of occasional seminars. Persoon, brought together a number of papers presented Denis Vidal’s lecture on ‘darshan’ was followed with Dipankar at the 3rd EUROSEAS conference held at SOAS in 2001 Gupta on ‘ethnicity’ and Faisal Devji on ‘qawm/community’. focussing on the islands of Nias, Mentawi, and Enggano. The keywords are terms which have been used and abused The Centre for Language Research was established in the in South Asian Studies and beyond. At present over eighty summer of 2002. This year a number of seminars were co- words have been commissioned, with short essays of about hosted with the Africa Department on language-oriented 2000 words due to be submitted in July 2004. Given the themes. The Centre also lent its support to a workshop on length of the collection, the current plans are for a full computer-assisted language learning held at SOAS in August edition online and a smaller book of some of the entries. 2003. Professor William Clarence-Smith, outgoing Chair of the The AHRB Centre for Asian and African Literatures had its Centre of South East Asian Studies, organised a very busiest and most fruitful year with all eight of the Centre's successful two-day workshop on the ‘Islamic Heritage of projects running. The projects are: ‘Literature and Sumatra in the Pre-modern Period’ in November 2002. Performance’, ‘Narrating and Imaging the Nation’, ‘Genre Speakers included Professor Clarence-Smith himself and Ideologies and Narrative Transformation’, ‘Translations and Professor Vladimir Braginsky of SOAS, as well as a Translation Theories East and West’, ‘Gender and Literature presentation at the British Library on Sumatran manuscripts. in Cross-Cultural Contexts’, ‘Tradition and the Modern’ and The eminent Vietnam scholar Mark Sidel from the University ‘The City and Literature’. of Iowa, delivered the WG Hart Lecture in March 2003. In addition, the Centre collaborated on several conferences This lecture, organised in conjunction with the Department held by other institutions in London as well as hosting a of Law, was on ‘Foreign Donor Support for Legal Reform in series of seminars by visiting Leverhulme Professor Harish Socialist Transitional states: the Changing Nature and Trivedi of the University of Delhi in conjunction with the SOAS Continuing Dilemmas of Legal Reform Assistance in Vietnam’.

22 centre activities 23 came into being with and a performance The nine Tamu Shamans outside the The nine Tamu of Kathmandu Department of Music, University Epic of Gilgamesh London Middle East Institute (LMEI) the appointment of Professor Robert Springborg as its first Director in October 2002. Incorporating the Centre for Near and Middle Eastern Studies, the LMEI immediately undertook a initiatives while expanding existing programmes variety of new Centre. These initiatives include executive of the previous training and consultancy services for the public and private sectors, with clients including the UK Department for International Development, and Commonwealth the Foreign Office, the Ministry Defense, of for the International Foundation Electoral Systems, the United States Agency for International and various European and US corporations.Development As part of its organizational expansion the LMEI formed working groups comprised of volunteers dedicated to expanding activities in diverse heritage areas ranging from cultural preservation to research on contemporary political economies of the region. The existing publication programme is being periodical focused on upgraded and expanded to include a new projects were connections to the Middle East. New London’s launched to create Centres within the LMEI, including those for Gulf and Iranian Studies. During the year the LMEI hosted a number of events, lecture series, including a regular Tuesday of Humanitarian special lunchtime briefings on ‘The Politics Relief in Iraq’ and ‘Iraqi Reconstruction: the challenges ahead’; of Arabia’; a panel a lecture series ‘Mapping the Treasures debate, ‘The Israel Elections 2003’; conferences: ‘Modern Boundaries of Iran; Islamic Art in the Nineteenth Century’, a dramatic reading of the the Zaman e-Salam quintet. by education was also held,education was from WOMAD, with speakers Asian and,Music Circuit and the University of Washington jointly with Institute, Music the Jewish Centre hosted an interview the and performance with Maurice El Medioni, a 75-year old Jewish Algerian pianist. Three resident performer-researchers are currently in residence, Khan working on a music Wajahat with Dr Richard analysis project based around the Indian sarod Widdess, and two Balinese performers working with Dr and British-based gamelan musicians Alessandra Lopez y Royo choreography, and dancers compositions and new to create new All Made Pujawati. the composer I Made Sila and the dancer I core projects are now up and running, of the Centre's seven and details can be found on our website: www.soas.ac.uk/musicanddance The has seen (copies of this and other Sounds for Divine Ancestors: Sounds for Divine AHRB Research Centre SOAS CDs are available from the Research Centre office or SOAS CDs are available from the SOAS Bookshop, priced at £10.00). During the year from Zimbabwe resident performer-researchers welcomed were (Chartwell Dutiro), K. Tamu), Kiaras), Nepal (Yarjung Iran (Touraj China (the Uyghur musicians Gulemdem Abbas, Kamil Abbas and Abdullah Majnun) and, in residence at our partner institutions -- the University and Roehampton of Surrey University Khoo, -- the dancers of Surrey Mavin Sheena A workshop on world music in Maslov. Chundee and Benny The Music of Nepal's Tamu Shamans Tamu The Music of Nepal's Centre of South Asian Studies. Research Assistant Centre of South Asian Stephanie Jones, with the Centre of South in collaboration Studies,Asian Studies and the Institute of Ismaili organized and the South Asian conference on ‘Literature a one-day Communities of East Africa’ in March 2003. visited,A range of speakers the writers including Nadine Gordimer,Gurnah, Abdulrazak Buchi Emecheta, and Michael Arditti, the scholars and and critics Luce Irigaray, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Ann Laura Stoler, The Centre and Robert Young. Under also hosted a visiting scholar from Azerbaijan. sponsorship from UNESCO, of the Gheybullayev Dr Rahilya in residence at the of Sciences was National Academy Centre during winter and spring 2003. The Centre sponsored its first student colloquium in 2002-3. and PhD students This colloquium offered a chance for MPhil interdisciplinaryto present aspects of their research in an The enticing topics ran the gamut from environment. Indian Christians in ‘Speaking in Song: Christian Hymns by and Jagger: Experience in the Gay Colonial India’ to ‘Yossi rounds of funding for the Centre’s Israeli Military’. Two for students to money fieldwork grants scheme provided explore their research interests in areas as varied as ‘Architecture, City and the Nation, 1861-1911’ and Italy Poetry’. in Folk ‘Images of Vietnamese Women The first year of operation for the for Cross-Cultural Music and Dance Performance remarkable including the establishment of a developments recording studio and the creation of a performance studio been CDs have which houses a Balinese gamelan. Three new recorded, the first which, of Dr Keith in Nepal by recorded Glasgow, Jeremy and at SOAS by Howard recently released was shamans: and features nine Tamu

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other developments other developments 25 Journal of Journal and the top 3 gardens are: 1st: Tatton Japanese-style roof garden with a checkboard motif similar to the one seen at Tofuku-ji Japanese-Style Roof Garden The SOAS Japanese-style roof garden, which opened in 2001, has won second place in a recent survey of 50 public Japanese-style gardens in the UK and Ireland. the internationalThe survey conducted by was Gardening Japanese Park, Cheshire, 2nd: SOAS, 3rd: Lauriston Castle, Edinburgh The SOAS roof garden is open to everyone during Brunei Gallery opening hours the and can be accessed through open to the public in June as part The garden was Gallery. 900 visitors. and attracted over of the London Squares Day IFCELS recorded its highest intake of students ever in of students ever IFCELS recorded its highest intake September 2002 with 335 students joining one of 5 programmes, joint Science 31 students on the new including and Engineering foundation course with UCL (UCL unfortunately from this collaboration during the year). withdrew decided at the beginning of the year that SOAS would It was give automatic conditional offers to students on the undergraduate foundation course (Intermediate Certificate Course in Comparative International Studies) and automatic interviews to students on the postgraduate foundation course Studies) to try Diploma for Postgraduate (Foundation to boost the numbers of IFCELS students continuing their studies at the undergraduates completed their foundation School. 12 new course taught masters with IFCELS and 10 new students. International Foundation CoursesInternational and English Foundation Language Studies (IFCELS) OUTREACH – SOAS Interface OUTREACH for briefing SOAS Interface expanded its range of clients services companies including Nomura during the year with International, Motorola, Brothers, Warner Standard Life Insurance and the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants. continued with DFID with briefings on India,Work Pakistan and Irish and the Middle East and both the Swedish Affairs new continued to send their Ministries of Foreign Ambassadors Africa for in-depth briefings. to Asia and HEFCE to workSOAS Interface is also funded by on with community projects. A joint EU funded project Learning for an Associates entitled ‘Women MBA Training and encouragement to put women skills Active Life’ gave for positions in public life. The themselves forward including high profile speakers programme attracted several Abdela MBE,Lesley right campaigner and journalist women’s and Monica Nashandi, High Commissioner for Namibia. Baker, the retirement of Professor Hugh The end of the year saw to our briefings. Dean SOAS Interface and regular contributor SOAS Interface: Louise Roberts, Business Development Manager, Professor Hugh Baker Business Development Manager, SOAS Interface: Louise Roberts, Director of Business Development and Rachael Robson Dean of Interface, Susan Yates Executive Officer The Library at Finsbury Circus in the 1930’s SOAS Since SOAS for more information. www.soas.ac.uk/publications www.soas.ac.uk/Library gives an overview an extraordinary of four decades which saw expansion Alumni associations throughout the world have been busy this year, been Alumni associations throughout the world have with successful events and reunions in Belgium, India, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. The Hong has increased. re-launched and activity in France Association was Kong Members Park, of the London SOAS Alumni Association (LSAA) visited Caversham home of Taha,BBC Monitoring. LSAA member Youssef Editor in the Middle East Department at BBC Monitoring, talks on different aspects of their work. organised tours of the facility as well Alumni Associations SOAS Since the Sixties of its historyThe School has published an updated volume to follow on from Sir in 1967. brief account published Cyril Philips’s Arnold Shackle, and Professor Christopher Professor David Edited by The Library project has Christmas 2002. This HEFCE-funded completed by was refurbishment extensive modernisation lighting, including improved allowed issue desk, new membership and enquiry period, areas. During this the Librarythe issuing of ID cards for the also took on been enhanced furtherSchool. Electronic access to materials has the mounting of a CD- by and launched in redeveloped pages were web networkROM on School PCs. The Library’s 2003 and include electronic versions charter. disability policy and customer of our new Please visit the Sixties assessment of future an also provides of SOAS in its size and academic remit. It the School. issues faced by been associated with the The contributors SOAS staff (four of whom have are senior School throughout the whole thirty-five years and chapters covered) focus on the of Directorsstyles and achievements and their senior managers; the main areas of internationally renowned Library and archives; and academic expertise; the School’s history of the SOAS estate. The volume contains a summary of Sir Cyril Phillips’s SOAS 1917-1967, and ends with a personal by account of the period to the present Professor Hugh Baker. 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other developments honorary fellow 27 The Rt Hon Lord Howe of Aberavon,Howe The Rt Hon Lord QC CH first Visitor, the School’s was Howe Geoffrey and presided at graduation ceremonies for a decade. born in Port was Lord Howe Talbot, in 1926, South Wales Hall, educated at Winchester and Trinity and was Cambridge. Counsel in Queen’s Called to the Bar in 1952 and appointed 1965, government as Solicitor he served Heath’s in Edward & Consumer Affairs General (1970-72) and Minister for Trade served(1972-74). Lord Howe for all as a Cabinet Minister government: of Margaret Thatcher’s but the last three weeks as Chancellor of the Exchequer (1979-83),and as Foreign SecretaryCommonwealth (1983-89), and finally as Deputy House of Lords in Prime Minister (1989-90). He entered the July 1992. responsible for the preparation and passage was Lord Howe for of the principal legislation providing through Parliament membership of the EC and for the 1986 enlargement Britain’s Secretary, and 1992 Single Market Programme. As Foreign responsible for the negotiation with the Peoples’ he was on the future Republic of China of the 1984 Joint Declaration of Hong Kong. has served Howe Geoffrey as Chairman of the International Monetary Fund Interim Committee (1982-83) and attended Economic Summits (1979-89). International World eleven advisory boards on which he has served include those of J P Morgan, Stanford University, the Carlyle Partnership and Fuji Russian (Mitzuho) Bank. He is Chairman of the Framlington Fund,Investment President of the Great Britain China Centre, of Experts.the Consumers’ Association and the Academy is an HonoraryLord Howe Graduate of the Universities of as an City of London (DCL) as well (LL.D) and of the Wales Hall,Honorary of Trinity Fellow Cambridge and of the American Bar Foundation. honorary fellow bookshelf 28

bookshelf bookshelf 29 Frank Dikötter is Professor of Dikötter is Professor Frank the Modern History of China at SOAS. Crime, Punishment and the Prison in Modern China Dikötter Frank Columbia University Press discovered newly Based on extensive research and many sources, this book examines the radical changes in Chinese centurysociety during the first of the twentieth half through than a simple the lens of the Chinese prison system. More history of prison rules or penal administration, book this repercussions explores the profound effects and lasting models of of the superimposition of Western-derived Chinese repentance and rehabilitation on traditional prisons categories of crime and punishment. A society’s and order law reflect much about its notions not only of nature itself, and the rights of the individual but of human during the its tractability and capacity to change. In China tumultuous years to 1949, from 1895 these notions were transformedways. in dramatic This book identifies penal reform as a radical modern tool to Chinese vision of social cohesion and an indigenous achieve the rule of virtue. the Modernizingviewed elites in China reformation of criminals as a constitutive part project of a of a national regeneration in which good order, economic development, could only be obtained by and state power shaping obedient subjects. This groundbreaking account of of Chinese penal theorythe evolution is combined with a richly textured portrait villains, of daily life behind bars. Petty abusive guards, ambitious wardens, and idealist reformers complicated movement people its pages and live out China’s from empire to republic to communist state. Stephen Chan is the Dean of of the Faculty and Social Law Sciences of and Professor at SOAS. International Relations Robert and violence Mugabe: a life of power Stephen Chan Tauris I B Stalin or a patriot fighting Robert Mugabe – modern Africa’s to reverse the effects of colonialism and white domination? but to explain and This book seeks not to demonise Mugabe and in Zimbabwe player interpretas a key him in his role Southern Africa. In this masterly portrait, character Mugabe’s crisis over unfolds with the ebb and flow of triumph and more than 22 years rule. of his post-independence from the story is Zimbabwe’s Mugabe’s of idealism and reconciliation,honeymoon through electoral victory, successful intervention in the international politics policy of of Southern to South Africa’s Africa and resistance apartheid. But a darker emerged early picture with a savage crushing rising, of the Matabeleland the elimination of political opponents, growing corruption, disastrous intervention war, in the Congo drought and all worsened by a beleaguered president and the HIV/AIDS crisis. Here was in the face of growing unrest resorting to increasingly desperate measures – seizing white-owned farms, increasing presidential constitutional powers, muzzling the press and intimidating opposition. This tightly argued and rigorous narrative, which is based on close personal knowledge of Zimbabwe, depicts the emergence of a ruthless and single-minded despot amassing The book follows the and firmly clinging to his power. triumphant nationalist leader, multi- reconciling all in the new racial Zimbabwe, degenerate into a petty tyrant consumed by hubris and self righteousness facing an endgame of potentially horrifying dimensions. Peter Ferdinand is Director of Ferdinand Peter in for Studies the Centre Democratisation of at the University Warwick. Martin of in the Politics Gainsborough is a Lecturer Asia South East at SOAS. Enterprise and Welfare Reform in Communist Asia Enterprise and Welfare and Martin Ferdinand Peter Gainsborough Edited by Cass Frank is wide. It surveysThe geographical scope of this collection reformsenterprisein all the remaining four and welfare Asian communist states: China, Vietnam, Laos and North can no Union they Since the collapse of the Soviet Korea. from other longer place major reliance upon assistance their own strategies to devise ‘fraternal’ states and have for survival. greater reliance shown a trend towards All have on market forces, and to varying though in different ways degrees. Enterprise management has to adapt to this. become In some of these states entrepreneurs have begin to even may politically and socially acceptable. They since state enterprises Yet set trends for social evolution. to payments used to be responsible for all welfare and their families,employees management reforms cannot arrangements. Reducing be separated from those of welfare of non-commercial obligations for the sake an enterprise’s provision. greater market efficiency is bound to affect welfare It also reopens the role of official trade unions. How these regimes cope with these conflicting pressures are vital factors in their long-term viability Martin Gainsborough is a Lecturer in the Politics of in the Politics Martin Gainsborough is a Lecturer South at SOAS. Asia East business appointments, on speculative clampdowns business activity,major and the prosecution of two corruption cases. Particular is placed on piecing emphasis of informal that dominate practices together the myriad business and political life in Vietnam. the preconceptions about of This book challenges many reform in Vietnam. The Bulletin of SOAS The Bulletin of The School of The Bulletin of coverage of South East Asian coverage and whose importance by borne is out today The Bulletin, the frequency with which they are cited in contemporarythe frequency with which they a provides studies on South East Asia. The collection the classical multifaceted and representative picture of civilisations of South East Asia, which will be of interest for comparative and cross-disciplinary studies in this field. This is the first the history book to trace of British South East Asian studies in their international a context. It also provides number of historical and literary documents and translations of great scholarly value. Vladimir Braginsky is Professor ofVladimir Braginsky is Professor Languages and Literatures of at SOAS. Asia South East of Vietnam Economy Changing Political The case of Ho Chi Minh City Martin Gainsborough RoutledgeCurzon Based on years of painstaking research, this book offers of of the politics and political economy a rarely seen view second city during the reform era. Vietnam’s in which the state has become It explores the way commercialised under reform as party and government gone into business and considers the impact officials have that this has had on politics within Ho Chi Minh City and on the city and Hanoi. The book chartsrelations between the has been decentralised to the lower in which power way of the party-statelevels but argues that the central state These issues are explored through retains significant power. a variety of case studies, of including the implementation different reform policies, struggles political and over civilisations over the years,civilisations over particular with emphasis on history, religion, literature and arts, the this book presents work of some of the most eminent scholars who published in Edited by Vladimir Braginsky Vladimir Braginsky Edited by RoutledgeCurzon Reflecting on the breadth of African Studies’ Oriental and Classical Civilisations of South East Asia Classical Civilisations An anthology of articles published in 30

bookshelf bookshelf 31 eriodically to take most ancient Mesopotamian Volker Grabowsky is Professor of is Professor Grabowsky Volker historyAsian at South East Münster. Wilhelms-Universität the Westfälische Andrew at SOAS. Anthropology in is Reader Turton Gilgamesh Epic The Babylonian Introduction, Critical Edition and Cuneiform Texts I Volume George Andrew UniversityOxford Press heroic struggle for eternal life,The story of one man’s the Gilgamesh epic is the acknowledged masterpiece Babylonian of ancient Mesopotamian literature. But Assyriology is still in its pioneering age. The task of processing the thousands of cuneiform the world tablets in museums all over is mostly in Iraq,still to be done and modern excavations Syria, and regularly more. So provide Turkey to be re-edited p cuneiform texts have account of the enormous increase in our knowledge of basic knowledge of Tai. They wrote superbly of their journeys They basic knowledge of Tai. and diplomatic exchanges. Their journals are published here in full, detailed notes, with for the first time. The richness of their narratives, their records of scientific, social and cultural detail, their engaging insights, and some prejudices, reading for the enthusiast this engrossing make and adventure literature. More than this,of travel it is an – kinds resource for scholarsessential new of many historians, anthropologists, geographers, and botanists, to name a few. an analytical commentaryThis book provides on the journals, on the conditions and contexts of their writing and and subsequent use. It sets the information in the journals language sources and in the context of indigenous Tai research on the British settlement presents completely new Burma, of peninsular Provinces in the Tenasserim along with the biographies of McLeod and Richardson, who appear, for the first time, as three-dimensional individuals. This volume is a state-of-the-art example of how to make these journals accessible to a broad archival material like audience. The McLeod and Richardson Diplomatic Missions to Tai States in 1837 Turton and Andrew Grabowsky Volker Silkworm Books When British diplomats McLeod and Richardson set out on their states in December 1836,missions to the Tai their aim was trade and friendship. Captain William Couperus McLeod and Dr Richardson,David Madras Army, both of the East India Company from Moulmein on elephants,travelled horses, and in the of traders,caravans of the Shan regions to the present-day States in Burma, northern Thailand, in and Sipsong Panna China. As the first Europeans to officially visit the region, they experienced some extraordinary social and cultural encounters. McLeod and Richardson had been in action in the first Anglo- (1824-6) and had experience of other missions Burmese War in Burmese fluent and had a were in Burma and Siam. They The Gold and Silver Road of Trade and Friendship The Gold and Silver Road of Trade Michel Hockx is Professor of is Professor Hockx Michel Chinese at SOAS. Questions of Style. Literary Societies and Literary Journals in Modern China, 1911 – 1937 Michel Hockx Brill central issue This groundbreaking study deals with the as a point of departureof style in literature. It takes the observation that most writers of the Republican period of gathering in adhered to a distinctly traditional practice literary societies, a while at the same time displaying marked preference for publishing their works through the modern medium of the literary journal. The first part of the book analyses different types of societies and their journals. The case studies in part two the wider impact of literary convey collectives and journal publications on literary breaking with practice. Convincingly Fourth’the ‘May paradigm, the book proposes a radically New of understanding the relationship between way new Literature and other styles of modern Chinese writing. bookshelf

primary sources that occurs every generation. The Until now, debates about indigenous knowledge have largely Babylonian Gilgamesh epic is no exception. The previous been conducted in terms of agricultural and environmental critical edition (1930) utilized 112 fragments of the epic. issues such as bio-piracy and gene patenting. The contributors Now we have 218. These are collected in this book, to this volume break new ground by opening up the theoretical including twenty-three published for the first time. debate to include areas such as post-war traumatic stress counselling, representations of nuclear capability, architecture, Every available extant fragment of the text has been studied mining, and the politics of eco-tourism. to produce a critical edition that is definitive but also honest about the many problems of decipherment that still beset Johan Pottier is Professor of Anthropology at SOAS. Alan the reader. Essentially a task of old-fashioned philology, the Bicker is a Research Fellow and Lecturer at the University of work involved reconstructing a reliable text from the different Kent at Canterbury. Paul Sillitoe is Professor of Anthropology fragments and presenting it as a variorum edition. The at the University of Durham. sources are segregated by period: Old Babylonian, Middle Babylonian, early Neo-Assyrian, and Standard Babylonian. The Rule of Water The edition is prefaced by four introductory chapters that place Statecraft, Ecology, and Collective Action in South India the various versions of the epic in the context of the history of Babylonian literature and the scribal cuneiform tradition, and David Mosse document the name, person, and traditions of Gilgamesh and Oxford University Press other characters in the poem. The plates present the This volume explores the changing ecology, political cuneiform text of all the extant fragments of the epic, mostly significance, and cultural meaning of water in South India in hand-copies prepared especially for the volume. using long-term anthropological field study, oral histories, and Andrew George is Professor of Babylonian at SOAS. detailed archival work. Focusing on the ancient and complex ‘tank’ irrigation systems of a coastal plains region, the book develops an account of the interplay between social and Negotiating Local Knowledge political organization and the ecology of water flows. Power and Identity in Development It highlights the importance of water in the idioms and Edited by Johan Pottier, Alan Bicker and Paul Sillitoe organizations of power and explores the centrality of water Pluto Press resources to the organization of a pre-colonial warrior state as well as the conflicts and contradictions that emerged This volume offers an original approach to debates about under colonial rule. The cultural practices and ritual systems indigenous knowledge. Concentrating on the political within and between inter-linked villages are also explored as economy of knowledge construction and dissemination, this well as the contrasting levels of collective action across a book looks at the variety of ways in which development catchment, and underlying ‘cultural ecologies’ and the policies are received and constructed, to reveal how local intricate technology, ecology and politics of water in the wider knowledges are appropriated and recast, either by local context of colonial, ecological and development visions. elites or by development agencies. The book’s historical and social analysis challenges narrow economistic interpretations of common property resources. It argues for a more historically grounded understanding of landscapes, rights and rules for resource use. David Mosse is Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at SOAS.

32 bookshelf 33 Michael Hutt is Reader in Nepali and Himalayan Studies and Himalayan in Nepali is Reader Hutt Michael of in the Faculty Associate DeanTeaching) and (Learning and at SOAS. Languages and Cultures Unbecoming Citizens. Culture, Nationhood and the Flight of Refugees from Bhutan Michael Hutt UniversityOxford Press the arrival in Nepal during the prompted by This book was early Nepali ethnic origin 1990s of some 95,000 people of who claimed to be citizens of Bhutan, who had been These claims were from their country. wrongfully evicted contested from the very beginning, years twelve and even later not a single one of them had returned to Bhutan. left they why The book explains who these people are and as examining the broader implications of Bhutan as well their story with refugees. for a world awash in Bhutan and The book is based on research conducted 1992 and visits to the region between Nepal during seven 2001, and particularly on interview-based life history research in the refugee camps in Nepal. The book reconstructs the history of the Nepali community in Bhutan, from the first settlers’ migration to its southern belt in the late nineteenth century up to the exodus of many of their descendants to Nepal in the late twentieth. policies on citizenship,It analyses the new language, and the Bhutanese government in adopted by dress which were the 1980s, and the political resistance to these measures which ultimately led to the denationalization and flight of erstwhile citizens. many As it describes these developments, the narrative pauses at intervals national, to reflect on the relationship between cultural and ethnic identities, in ways and on the different which history can be constructed to buttress and utilized competing claims. Kathryn Dean is Lecturer in Politics at SOAS. in Politics DeanKathryn is Lecturer Capitalism and Citizenship The Impossible Partnership Kathryn Dean Routledge live in a world riches and poverty. of unprecedented We The riches are those of material comfort and splendour; in the past were of easy access to things and places which population but of the world’s minority granted only to a tiny increasing numbers of so-called by which now are enjoyed ordinary people. The poverty miseries includes the obvious of acute material need, sickness and ignorance, but also, and increasingly, poverty a of popular political engagement in the richest countries in the world. This book is about the It argues that this poverty latter form is the direct of poverty. result of a system which has yielded our unprecedented riches, become materially have capitalism. As we namely rich, become socially poor and this social poverty have we has undermined and ability to become our willingness politically engaged. By studying the work of political and social theorists, mainly Karl Marx, and Sigmund Freud Hannah Arendt, but including also Norbert Elias, Jürgen Habermas and Manuel Castells, a this book provides historical analysis of the different manifestations of brought us to our present situation of capitalism which have social and political poverty. At the same time, of the the book offers an investigation kind of citizenly sociability arising out of potential for a new our societies of ‘uncertainty’ in which states and the existence of uncertaintycorporations are either denying (as in the field of genetic engineering) or attempting to transfer it to individuals (as in public and private pensions considering what form the The text concludes by provision). citizenly sociability might take. new exhibitions 34

exhibitions exhibitions 35 Jug by Bernard Leach Mapping the Treasures of Arabia Mapping the Treasures at the changing of Arabia looked Mapping the Treasures through face and knowledge of the Arabian Peninsula European maps, photographs and engravings. Marian Bukhari together by drawn The collections were and had three main areas of focus: Maps of the Arabian (the Haramain) and the Makkah and Madinah Peninsula; Hajj Pilgrimage; Images of Life in the Desert. The maps ranged from some of the earliest woodcuts of the late 15th century AD to the end of the 19th century 18th and 19th showed lithographs while the engravings century of the Grand Mosque of Makkah, views Madinah engravings and the pilgrimage. Combined with these were illustrating desert life scenes from the same period. Contemporary Sanders and Turkish Peter photographs (by photographer Faruk Aksoy) of sites shown in the engravings were also displayed. An extensive also displayed. were of sites shown in the engravings Aksoy) photographer Faruk programme of lectures accompanied the exhibition. from 28 January ran - 21 March 2003 programme The exhibition and lecture Aramco. Saudi by sponsored and were Bernard & Form Leach: Concept Bernard acknowledged as the father of studio Leach is generally Born in the east and educated in the west,pottery. among the he was first to see pottery as an art form. exhibition took a broad look at This on major activities drawing the diverse range of Bernard Leach’s of works as examples as well by collections from England and Wales Japanese potters associated with Bernard as Hamada Shoji Leach such 180 exhibits of pots, over There were Kanjiro. and Kawai drawings, etchings and jewellery shown in public. previously with some pieces not of Leach's artisticThe exhibition presented a fresh assessment output century. that places him among the foremost modernists of the twentieth and in the development In identifying the pivotal role he played appreciation of 20th century decorative art,show affirmed the him as one of the most important artists and theorists of modern times. A series of lectures and Gallery the exhibition. talks accompanied the potter and art curated by Cooper, The exhibition was critic Emmanuel House Gallery in conjunction with Penlee Asia House and by and presented Museum, Penzance. from 8 October – 30 Bonhams and ran by sponsored The exhibition was 2002. November ‘Cinders of an Archaelogists Notebook’ by Mohammed Abouelouakar h, An Exhibition of Contempory Moroccan Art h, An Exhibition of Contempory Moroccan HRH Princess Lalla Hasnaa of Morocco opened presented under the this exhibition which was of His Majesty,High Patronage King Mohammed VI of Morocco. Moroccan contemporary art is a recent phenomenon dating largely from the second half of the frequently exhibited Though century. twentieth throughout Europe, particularly and in France Spain, is largely unknown in Britain. it The exhibition featured the work of twelve contemporary Moroccan artists living and working out of Morocco and whose work had not been exhibited in this country before. The participants from a geographical and generational range. were explored a cross section of media embracing They painted canvases, drawings, collages, sculptures, installations and video art. The exhibition did not attempt to define Moroccan art, it simply revealed something of the scope, and the the innovation exuberance of artists working in Morocco today. a ‘troika’ consisting of organised and curated by The exhibition was Sylvia Belhassan, the Director of Villa des Arts, ONA, Foundation Hassan Slaoui, one of the participating artists and Arlene Fullerton, British Ambassador to Rabat, the wife of a previous herself a former Curator of the Brooklyn Museum, and the originator of the concept York New the Myth. of Beyond dedicated to the music, of cultural events A week art, was cuisine and crafts of Morocco the Embassy of the Kingdom of Garden to coincide with the exhibition by staged in Covent Office. Morocco and The Moroccan National Tourist support the generous made possible by was 2003 and - 29 June The exhibition ran from 28 May of: ONA Group, Office,Tourist The Moroccan National Air Moroc, Royal Insurance The United Brokers,The Office d’Exploitation des Ports.Arts and Visiting Beyond the Myth – An Exhibition the Myth – An Beyond of Contemporary Art Moroccan 36 HRH Princess Lalla Hasnaa of Morocco talking to artist Hicham Benohoud and discussing his work at the opening of Beyond the Myt talking to artist Hicham Benohoud and discussing his work HRH Princess Lalla Hasnaa of Morocco

exhibitions exhibitions 37 Out of the Box - Tribal Communities Out of the Box - Tribal of Modern Tanzania Colin Hastings An exhibition of photographs by produced jointly,This exhibition was and at the request of, the people depicting their from eight tribal societies in Northern Tanzania everyday life. The photographs included some unusual aspects of the iconic Maasai, but also insights into the lives of lesser known but equally interesting societies such as the Barbaig, Arusha, Wa Gorowa, Chagga, Pare, as the mixed tribal communities and Sambaa as well Babati,of Lake coast. Mungu dam and the Swahili Nyumba ya put together with the help of kijiji (meaning The exhibition was Vision,‘village’ in Kiswahili) a young not for profit organisation. profit going to sold with any from the exhibition were Postcards Programme. This Programme attracts Cultural Tourism the Tanzanian In each member village visitors to remote rural villages in Tanzania. nominated by project in a development are invested the revenues the villagers themselves, so that the whole community benefits. The exhibition ran from 10 February - 21 March 2003. Djenne Mosque by James Morris Butabu – Adobe Architecture in West Africa Architecture in West Butabu – Adobe James Morris An exhibition of photographs by James Morris whose work is a photographer is largely concerned the built environment with and the cultural landscape. Based in Britain, such architects he has been commissioned by as Norman Foster, Richard Rogers and Claudio Silvestrin. In this exhibition he aimed to dispel comprises little more than mud huts. the misconception that African architecture Africa in which architects in West an insight into the creative ways This exhibition provided of earth materials shape the available into vibrant works and water of art feats and incredible African earthenof engineering. of West It highlighted how the visual features architecture — of texture,its unique play shadow, profile, and primary geometries — are enhanced by itself. elements of the environment pictures of buildings from Mali,Included in the exhibition were Niger, Togo, and Burkina Fasso. Among the Batammaliba peoples of Togo, one of the important cultures whose architecture featured,was the term the process of moistening earth Butabu describes in with water preparation for building. supported – 19 September 2003 and was Fuji Hunt. The exhibition ran from 14 July by Tribal Communities of Modern Tanzania by Colin Hastings Communities of Modern Tanzania Tribal Instant Art Marzo To by A Chinese artist from Hong Kong, studied at the National Marzo To of FineAcademy Arts, Paris, before during the late 1980s becoming an Artist Arts in Residence in the Hong Kong & ArtsPerformance in the early an This was 1990s. Academy exhibition in which, for the first time,paper traditional Chinese rice to feature pictures used hanging scrolls were hand scrolls and silk blending modern images and digitally manipulated created by traditional brushwork. 2003.April – 29 June The exhibition ran from 25 followed This was Art - 19 14 July collection which ran from II - an all new Instant by September 2003. 50 Different Packets, mixed media, limewash, silk and card by Khalil El Ghrib from An exhibition of contempory Moroccan Art Guide to the Percival David Foundation David Guide to the Percival A three-day conference on ‘Song Ceramics: ArtA three-day History, Archaeology part held in June as was and of the ‘Art and Technology’ Archaeology complemented by in Asia’ series. The conference was on ‘Song Ceramics: Objects of an exhibition at the Foundation Admiration’. The exhibition featured ceramics produced in China from 960-1239 and widely admired for their beautiful glazes and classic forms. ‘Colours in opened another exhibition in February. The Foundation highlighted the advanced technology of Chinese Chinese Porcelain’ potters enabling a wide variety of stunning colours to be produced. on ‘Chinese Art study day A fully booked in London in the 1930s’ also held in October 2002. was full-colour A completely new published along with a range of notecards which including was visitors. details of blue and white ceramics not usually seen by Old Facial by Marzo To of Chinese Art Foundation David Percival 38

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96/97 96/97 Full details of the School’s financial position are given in the School’s Annual Accounts which are published separately Accounts which Annual in the School’s financial position are given Full details of the School’s 0 0 Tuition fee income £17.4 million Tuition Other £7 million HEFCE Grants £12.1 million 18 16 14 12 10 40 35 30 25 20 INCOME NB 99/00 and 00/01 income figures include extraordinary profits on the sale of student residences TUITION FEE INCOME INCOME 2001/02 finances S Library) (Pro-Director) (Warden, College) Goldsmith’s (Samuel Davidson (Old Emeritus Professor Professor M A Knibb Studies),Testament College) King’s Professor B Pimlott FBA Professor P G Robb BA PhD FRHISTS The Hon Barbara S Thomas BA JD (Chairman, plc) Group Axon MA,Professor B R Tomlinson PhD (Dean, of Faculty & Humanities) Arts Ms E Wright BA MA Service,World (BBC of Head & the Pacific) Asia Clerk to Governing Body: Mr F L Dabell BA members of Governing Body Committees: Lay Finance and General Purposes Committee: Mr D C G Brown, Mr N H Green & Professor M A Knibb Estates Committee: Mr M O’Hara, Mr D C G Brown & Ms R Jermy Audit Committee: Mrs J Ross, John Mr A Bhanji & Sir David (Director, AHRB Professor Colin Bundy (Faculty of(Faculty Social Science, Opposite: Apsaras or celestial dancer. Rubbing of a relief from the Bayon temple, Angkor Thom, Cambodia. Late 12th century (SOA Opposite: Apsaras or celestial dancer. (Founder, Collection) Khalili (Hon Doc Soc Science(Hon (Natal), Beit (Chairman, Oil plc) Premier (Metdist Group of Group (Metdist Companies) Mr R D A Pick BA MA (Trustee, British Museum) (PricewaterhouseCoopers) Professor R Finnegan FBA Baroness Helena Kennedy QC Baroness Helena Kennedy Her Majesty the Queen The Rt Hon Sir Anthony Evans QC BA MA LLM Evans The Rt Hon Sir Anthony Mr Jonathan F Taylor BA MA Mr Jonathan F Taylor Dr K Howard BA MA PhD PGCE LTCL FRSA BA MA PhD PGCE LTCL Dr K Howard and Dance Performance) Music for Cross-Cultural Centre G John KCMG Sir David Dr Nasser D Khalili BA PhD Professor ofProfessor History, Commonwealth Balliol College, Oxford) Professor S Chan BA MA PhD (Dean, of Faculty & Social Sciences) Law Mr P Collecott (Chief Clerk, Office) and Commonwealth Foreign Professor E J Croll MA MA PhD (Department of Development Studies) Dr P Deans BA PhD (Associate Dean, Of Faculty & Social Sciences) Law Professor G Furniss BA PhD (Dean, of Faculty Languages and Cultures) Professor M Hockx DRS PhD (Chair,Of Centre Chinese Studies) Sir Joseph Hotung Patron: President: Visitor: Chair: (Chairman, Booker Prize Foundation) Vice Chair: The Open University) Honorary Treasury: BA MPHIL DPHIL The Lord Bagri CBE Mr A Bhanji CMG Mr D W Brewer (International Financial Services, London) Professor J Brown MA PhD The Director & Principal of the School: governing body 42

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