Tangling and untangling a renewable energy frontier in Northern Colombia This seminar will host a discussion with Pablo Jaramillo (Universidad de los Andes, Colombia) about Energy Transition (ET) in Colombia.
Crisis of Masculinity in 'Curiosity Kills the Cat' (2006, dir. Zhang Yibai) and 'Fireworks Wednesday' (2006, dir. Asghar Farhadi) Looking at one Chinese film and another Iranian, Chinese film 'Curiosity Kills the Cat' and Iranian film 'Fireworks Wednesday', this presentation brings into dialogue the differing but overlapping experiences of men and women to nuance our understanding of women’s agency in the Global South.
Women who Kill: The Female Serial Killer in the global novel This talk will explore two female serial killer novels, Oyinkan Braithwaite’s My sister, the Serial Killer (2017), and Perihan Mağden’s novel, Biz Kimden Kaçıyorduk, Anne? (2007), drawing additionally from scholarship on true crime and gender studies.
Exploring the Southeast Asian art collection donated by Emeritus Professor Elizabeth Moore The SOAS Gallery has over 100 Southeast Asian artworks and objects kindly donated by the academic and teacher Emeritus Professor Elizabeth Moore and used every year by MA Curating Cultures students.
Gender as Affect: A cross-cultural aesthetics of gender This talk will bring together Japanese Aesthetics and American Pragmatism to demonstrate gender as an affective quality that emerges from the integration of embodied habits.
A History of International Thought Without Men In this talk, Patricia Owens will preview her forthcoming book, Erased: A History of International Thought Without Men (Princeton), which interweaves interpersonal, institutional, and intellectual stories of a cohort of women to recast the history of international relations in a new kind of critical disciplinary history.
Women's History Month: Activists, scholars and leaders with legacies preserved in our archives The SOAS Special Collections team focuses on four distinguished women whose legacies are preserved within our archives, manuscripts, and rare book collections.