Full disclosure: I am two exams away from graduating next month with a BA in Politics and Economics from the School of Oriental and African Studies. The experiences alluded to in this clip are all things that have actually happened to some of my wonderful friends in the past three years. Happy graduation! Funny to think we were all this adamantly idealistic once. SOAS, I love you anyway. -Lily twitter.com facebook.com paintedlily.tumblr.com
Graduation 2011: A Celebration A look back at the thoughts of our Class of 2011 about their time at SOAS. With thanks to the students and musicians involved.
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Protest at Dave Willetts lecture at SOAS, London on 13 June 2011: Seemingly arbitrary arrests at 1:00 - police officer prevents documenting events and noting down shoulder numbers at 3:00 - Man lying on ground is kicked by police officer (EK 751) at 6:22
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Raw video from the office of SOAS director as students argue with him to use his influence to secure the release of cleaning staff kidnapped by immigration police on Friday morning. Press Release: Ken Loach, director of the film Looking For Eric, stated: "This raid is the action of a bully. Migrant workers are amongst the most vulnerable - poorly paid and far from home. Recent action by Unison to secure better wages and conditions at SOAS was good news. Now we wonder if the SOAS cleaners are being targeted because they dared to organise as trade unionists. We should all stand with them in solidarity in the face of this victimisation." Full, updated press release below - please circulate far and wide. *********************************** Without any advance warning from their ISS bosses nor the university management, SOAS cleaning staff were confronted by a hefty team of immigration officers at 6.30am this morning (Friday 12 June). Fearful cleaners were detained on SOAS premises as the officers demanded to see their papers. Some were taken into rooms of the university to be interviewed. A shocked witness said that someone had to intervene when a heavily-pregnant cleaner was being manhandled by immigration officers. Nine cleaners were taken away by Immigration Officers. SOAS staff and students, many who had been at a protest at the sacking of another cleaner and UNISON Branch Chair, Jose Stalin Bermudez, were shocked and outraged by the raid and fear that the cleaners may be <b>...</b>
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Showcase your university using WinkBall Student Video Services. www.winkball.com have a large network of video reporters who are specialists in interviewing students and staff on video to deliver valuable content for inclusion in prospectuses, websites, mobile apps and marketing communications. The School of Oriental and African Studies -- SOAS. Founded in 1916 as a place to train British administrators for postings across the empire. SOAS is internationally recognized as a leading centre for the study of a highly diverse range of pressing issues - democracy, development, human rights, identity, legal systems, poverty, social change - confronting Asia, Africa and the Middle East. It is consistently ranked amongst the top universities in the UK, having produced several heads of state, Supreme Court judges, a Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, and many other notable leaders in emerging markets.
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Philip Stott is Britain's leading climate-change denier and Professor of Biogeography at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. He has built a career on slating environmentalists and displays an extreme antipathy towards those with concerns about genetic engineering, portraying them as left-wing extremists. In May 2001, the American Embassy and SOAS jointly hosted a Conference that advanced the interests of Genetically Modified crop manufacturers. Stott chaired the conference, and not a single representative from any environmental organisation spoke at the event. The environment correspondent of The Guardian has described Prof. Stott as 'an alarming academic' who pushes George W. Bush's agenda. The Director of the Environmental Research Foundation has said of Stott: 'It is evident that Professor Stott has abandoned his role as a serious scholar and has become a cheerleader for the biotech industry.' In this videoed speech to a largely American audience, Stott presents his case against climate change, styling himself as an expert on the issue, despite his never having had a single paper published in a scientific journal in the fields in which he most frequently applies this 'expertise', eg climate change or tropical ecology.
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Leading academics joined SOAS students on Tuesday 21 February to explore the legacy and vision of Malcolm X and mark 47 years since his assassination. The student organisers teamed up with the Malcolm X and Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial and Educational Center, in New York, to host a lecture exploring his misunderstood legacy. The event will explored his vision, his evolution and his achievements. The panel included: Paul Gilroy, Professor of Social Theory at LSE and writer of the introduction of the autobiography of Malcolm X Tariq Ramadan, Professor of Contemporary Islamic Studies at Oxford University Zead Ramadan from the Malcolm X and Dr Betty Shabazz Center.
17 Students touring Ghana. Development through education and exchange using football as a vehicle for change. Supported by Pearson Diversity. Student led NGO. Are you a Final Year Student or New Graduate interested with Journalism/ Marketing/ Media/ Business with FTSE 100 Company? summerinternships.pearson.com
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Lecturer in Central Asian Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, Dr Shirin Akiner has been condemned by human rights groups, liberty campaigners and Craig Murray (ex-UK Ambassador in Tashkent) as an apologist for brutal Uzbek dictator President Karimov. This short report on the Andijan massacre concludes with an interview with Dr Akiner in which she attempts to downplay and justify the horrific murders by Karimov's regime. In late 2005, shortly after this video was first broadcast, complaints against Akiner flooded in to the then Director of SOAS, Colin Bundy. Mr Bundy, to the outrage of many, publicly defended Akiner in her justification of the massacre of the peaceful Uzbekistan opposition. SOAS continues to employ Akiner in a prominent role, whilst mainstream British broadcast media outlets appear to have decided to no longer invite her to comment on Central Asian affairs. Viewers may wish to complain to her present boss: Professor Paul Webley, Director and Principal of SOAS Email Address: pw2@soas.ac.uk Telephone: +44 207 898 4014 Fax: +44 207 898 4019 A further interview with Akiner may also be of interest: www.youtube.com
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Steel on SteelI started doing stand-up in 1982, around the circuit of bizarre gigs, going on after jugglers and escapologists and people that banged nails into their ear. Then came the Comedy Store and Jongleurs and getting bottled off at The Tunnel, and then a regular slot on Radio 4's Loose Ends, where I met Joseph Heller, Christopher Lee and Gary Glitter.I did 4 series of 'The Mark Steel Solution', one for Radio 5 and the others on Radio 4, and a radio series about cricket, which provoked a whole page of fury in the Daily Express. I presented three series of a sports programme called 'Extra Time' which I was very proud of, especially as it went out on Tuesday nights on Radio 5 to possibly no listeners whatsoever. Then there was four series of the lectures on Radio 4, a book called 'It's Not a Runner Bean', another one called 'Reasons to be Cheerful', and 3 television series of the lectures on BBC 4 and BBC 2.I've done weekly columns in Socialist Worker, the Guardian and the Independent. There was a book called 'Vive le Revolution', and I've been on various panel shows like Have I Got News For You and QI, and on Room 101, and on Question Time I got very confused when I insulted a member of the Tory shadow cabinet, and afterwards he said I was splendid and invited me for a drink. And I've spoken at lots of demonstrations and union meetings and protests, and appeared at quite a few benefits, and yet capitalism still seems to rule the world. Maybe I'm a jinx.
Arabic-Islamic Science and the making of the Renaissance. Date: Tuesday May 29th 2007, 6.30 pm
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Arabic-Islamic Science and the making of the Renaissance. Date: Tuesday May 29th 2007, 6.30 pm
Arabic-Islamic Science and the making of Renaissance George Saliba Lecture
Islam and Reformation: What is the way forward? 16th March 2012 School of African and Oriental Studies (SOAS) Can Islamic civilisation be revived? What are the solutions for the problems in the Muslim world? Does Islam need reformation? Should Muslims borrow from Western Political systems? What is the way forward? Witness two speakers, with radically opposing views, debate and discuss this highly topical issue. Attendees will be able to ask questions and voices their opinions at the event. Abdullah al Andalusi - Muslim revivalist thinker and International speaker Mustafa Akyol - Political commentator and Author of "Between Extremes: A Muslim case for Liberty"
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This is the first of three successive clips of Akbar Ganji's presentation at the School of Oriental an African Studies (SOAS), University of London on Friday 14 July 2006. Each clip is ca. 10 minutes long. This event was dedicated to Akbar Ganji and it was co-organized by SOAS, Amnesty International's international secretriat and Forum Iran.
SOAS 'Beyond Borders' Football Tour to Turkey and Syria and Lebanon 2009. The trip will see 16 SOAS Student footballers flying to Istanbul on the 1st September. The team will play nine matches against some of the best universities in the region during the 27 day tour. For more, check out: www.soasbeyondborders.co.uk
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SOAS Students & Staff show us their instruments and speak candidly about SOAS musical life.
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For a higher-resolution version of the clip, click on "watch in high quality". The band plays the "Orient Express" festival at the Arcola Theatre, Stoke Newington, London. To join our mailing list, e-mail rebetiko [@] soas.ac.uk The Famous SOAS Rebetiko Band ISTANBUL--ATHENS--HYDRA TOUR -- OCTOBER 2008 "Rebetiko: Music without Frontiers" Outline document: The Famous SOAS Rebetiko Band is based at London's School of Oriental and African Studies. It developed out of four years of music seminars held at SOAS by the Band's organiser, Ed Emery. In 2007 we toured to Italy (Rovigo Festival). This year a more ambitious tour will take us to Istanbul (10-14 October), Athens (15-16) and the Greek island of Hydra (Hydra Rebetiko Conference, 17-19). We play the Rebetiko music of Greece, a broad genre of urban songs and instrumental music which developed in and around the major port areas of the Eastern Mediterranean -- Smyrna/Izmir, Istanbul, Syros, Piraeus and Thessaloniki. Rebetiko is hard to define as a genre, not least because it incorporates elements from all the musical cultures of that area. Music has been a matter of censorship in both Greece and Turkey, with rebetiko in particular being banned in both countries in the 1930s, and it is still a battlefield for contending nationalisms. Our band is a mixed ensemble of Greeks, Turks, Cypriots, British and other nationalities and hyphenated identities in-between. For us, music is promiscuous, prolific and flows where it will. Music <b>...</b>
Naila Kabeer speaks at an Overseas Development Institute event on new challenges in development - jobs and growth held in London on 11 May 2011.
Noam Chomsky gave a lecture at the School of Oriental & African Studies (SOAS) - Univ. of London on 27 October 2009. During the Q&A i asked a question about the Genocide taking place in Sri Lanka
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London's Russell Square hosted the SOAS World Music Stage and a world class international programme of music during the Bloomsbury Festival weekend. She'Koyokh is London's award-winning klezmer ensemble performing Ashkenazi Jewish, Eastern European, Balkan and Turkish folk music at international festivals and concert halls, while keeping it real at weddings, other special occasions, and on the streets.
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Azerbaijani violinist, PhD candidate at University of London -SOAS, Sabina Rakcheyeva's traditional & classic concert program at SOAS with Ben Sellers (Clarinet) and Khayam Allami (Ud, Daf).
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This footage, stored in the SOAS library, is amongst the first ever recorded in China. Money raised by the SOAS Alumni & Friends Fund has enabled us to digitalise the film for the first time. This means it can now be included in our unique archive of digitised treasures, which can be found here: digital.info.soas.ac.uk To all those who have given to the fund, please accept our sincere gratitude. Your contribution has enabled many more people to appreciate this rare snapshot of life in China in the early 20th century. To find out more about the fund click here: www.soasalumni.org
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[Click "more info" for full details] Dear Colleagues, It gives us much pleasure to issue the formal Call for Papers for our SOAS conference entitled 'CAMEL CULTURES: HISTORICAL TRADITIONS, PRESENT THREATS, AND FUTURE PROSPECTS' to be held at the School of Oriental and African Studies [SOAS, London] on Tuesday 24th - Wednesday 25th May 2011 The conference will address all aspects of camel culture, past, present and future and in all continents. It will deal with both material and cultural concerns, and will cover both Dromedaries and Bactrians, in all continents, but not the related camelid species of the Americas. The aim of the conference is to examine, document and celebrate camel cultures wherever they exist, and we welcome papers on every possible aspect of the camel and its development through the ages. The "Future Prospects" section of our title is particularly important to us, and we encourage contributions that look at the camel in terms of sustainable agriculture in times of global warming and desertification, sustainable transport solutions, and the valorization of nomadic / herding cultures. If you wish to present a paper at the 2011 conference, please send your proposal to the conference organiser at camelconference@soas.ac.uk The proposal should include: (1) Title of proposed paper; (2) Your name; (3) Institutional affiliation, if you are connected to an institution; (4) A summary of your proposed paper [maximum 200 words]; (5) A brief CV [maximum 100 words <b>...</b>
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This programme is an improvisation based on Kurdish & Greek music. We start with a Greek song "Χαράματα η ώρα τρεις". We then move to Kurdish improvisatory melodies, starting and finishing with "Aman Hey Aman". I should add that this band was established just 2 hours before the performance, as Dimitris Chiotis, our Lyra player (Greek fiddle) came to London on the day of performance and we rehearsed for just 1 hour.
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Introduction to the She' Koyokh ensemble at the Bloomsbury Festival on 23 October 2010.
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This is a video clip of the Iranian writer Mahshid Amirshahi reading from her literary works. The clip was recorded at a panel organized in Mahshid Amirshahi's honor during the 6th biennial conference of the International Society of Iranian Studies (ISIS) at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London on Thursday 3 August 2006.
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SOAS Students Occupy College after Bosses Refuse to Condemn Mass Murder SOAS Director: ''inappropriate'' for SOAS to denounce slaughter of Arabs Courtesy: Islam Channel News, January 2009
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