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Occasional Seminars

Upcoming Occasional Seminars

Upcoming Occasional Seminars will be announced on the first page.

A selection of past Occasional Seminars

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Orientalism and the Philology of the New Human

Professor Wael Hallaq, Columbia University

Join us for an opportunity to discuss the central ideas of Professor Wael Hallaq's most recent works, Restating Orientalism (2018) and Reforming Modernity (2019), with the author himself. The seminar will start with a short presentation by Professor Hallaq, analysing the subjective formation and…

Librarylecture

Picturing the Court: Mughal Artists and Material Culture in the 17th Century

Ms Susan Stronge, Senior Curator, Victoria & Albert Museum

Library Lecture, MT2019

Malcolm X in Retrospect: A Panel on his Contemporary Resonance

Speakers: Dr Arun Rasiah (Holy Names University), Judith M. Okely (Hull), Chloe Stallibrass (Oxford)

This seminar is open to members of the public.

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Systems of religion and morality in the collections of the Royal Asiatic Society

Mr Edward Weech, Librarian at the Royal Asiatic Society

The Moral Economy: Why good incentives are no substitute for good citizens

Professor Samuel Bowles, Santa Fe Institute

Seminar, at 5.00 pm. All welcome. Please follow the link to register.

A Baroque Jesuit and the Qur’an: The Translation and Commentaries of Ignazio Lomellini, SJ (1622)

Dr Paul Shore (University of Regina)

Seminar by Dr Paul Shore (Adjunct Professor of Religious Studies, University of Regina), at 5.00 pm. All welcome.

David Quarrey

The Arab Awakening: Lessons for Western Engagement in the Middle East

Mr David Quarrey (Director for the Middle East and North Africa in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office)

Seminar, at 5.00 pm. All welcome.

Rory Stewart

Intervention in the Middle East: Lessons from Iraq to Libya

Mr Rory Stewart MP

Seminar, at 5.00 pm. All welcome.