2611, 2015

Event – CGS Seminar Series – The Macabre Mode: Using Death to Make Gendered and Raced Morality Sensible

By Akanksha Mehta|November 26, 2015|CGS Seminar Series, Events|0 comments

The Macabre Mode: Using Death to Make Gendered and Raced Morality Sensible 26 November 2015 5 PM, DLT, SOAS In the immediate aftermath of the Chechen siege and hostage-taking of the Moscow theatre in 2002, photos of the dead hostage-takers emerged. The siege ended after Russian forces pumped (illegal) nerve gas into the theatre, killing 130 of 850 hostages and all 40 hostage-takers. The security forces then shot, post-mortem,

2411, 2015

Event – CGS Seminar Series – On the History of the History of Homosexuality: a Re-reading in the Lesbian Premodern

By Akanksha Mehta|November 24, 2015|CGS Seminar Series, Events|0 comments

Dr Samar Habib: On the History of the History of Homosexuality: a Re-reading in the Lesbian Premodern 24 November 2015 7 PM, 4429, SOAS Abstract: In conversation with the theoretical paradigms that have dominated the study of premodern sexuality in the Western canon, this paper explores what medieval homoeroticism in Arabic letters illuminates on the subject more broadly. Dr. Habib revisits the literature on same-sex desire among women and asks

1211, 2015

Event – CGS Seminar Series – Who Gets to Be at Home in Britain?: Attachment and disgust in narratives of UK family migration policy

By Akanksha Mehta|November 12, 2015|CGS Seminar Series, Events|0 comments

Who Gets to Be at Home in Britain?: Attachment and disgust in narratives of UK family migration policy 12 November 2015 5 PM, DLT, SOAS CGS Seminar presented by Irene Gedalof http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/faculties/faculty-of-social-sciences-and-humanities/people/surnames-d-to-j/irene-gedalof/ In her latest policy statement on migration at the recent Conservative Party conference, Home Secretary Teresa May claimed that ‘when immigration is too high, when the pace of change is too fast, it’s impossible to build a cohesive