Author Archives: Jotika Khur-Yearn

1010, 2019

New Acquisitions for SOAS Library: Collection for Gender Studies (September-October 2019)

By Jotika Khur-Yearn|October 10, 2019|Gender|

Ebooks Gender hate online : understanding the new anti-feminism / editors, Debbie Ging and Eugenia Siapera. Pedagogies of crossing : meditations on feminism, sexual politics, memory, and the sacred / M. Jacqui Alexander. Positive images : gay men & HIV/AIDS in the culture of ‘post crisis’ / Dion Kagan. Shimmering images : trans cinema, embodiment, and the aesthetics of change / Eliza Steinbock. The empire of love : toward a

0810, 2019

New Acquisitions for SOAS Library: Linguistics & Literature Collections (September-October 2019)

By Jotika Khur-Yearn|October 8, 2019|Linguistics, Literature|

Ebooks The Cambridge dictionary of linguistics / Keith Brown and Jim Miller. Fun for All : Translation and Accessibility Practices in Video Games /edited by Carmen Mangiron Implicatures / Sandrine Zufferey, Jacques Moeschler, Anne Reboul. Language contact in Europe : the perfect tense through history / Bridget Drinka. Philosophical semantics : reintegrating theoretical philosophy / by Claudio Costa. Translation and empire : postcolonial theories explained / Douglas Robinson. Paper Books

0509, 2019

New Acquisitions for SOAS Library: South East Asia Collections (July-August 2019)

By Jotika Khur-Yearn|September 5, 2019|South East Asia|

Ebooks Routledge handbook of Southeast Asian history / edited by Norman G. Owen. Japan’s colonial moment in Southeast Asia, 1942-1945 : the occupiers’ experience / by Satoshi Nakano. Myanmar media in transition : legacies, challenges, and change / edited by Lisa Brooten, Jane Madlyn McElhone, Gayathry Venkiteswaran. The Thiri Rama : finding Ramayana in Myanmar / edited by Dawn F. Rooney Chinese religion in Malaysia : temples and communities /

2404, 2017

SEAM Collections: New Subscription to Resources on Southeast Asia

By Jotika Khur-Yearn|April 24, 2017|South East Asia|0 comments

The Southeast Asia Materials Project (SEAM) was founded in 1970 by North American institutions specializing in Southeast Asian materials. SEAM’s microform and digital collections form a large pool of historical, political, linguistic, economic, and geographical data and primary source materials not available elsewhere. SEAM holdings include more than 300 historic newspapers from every country in the region, in national, minority, and English or other colonial languages, similar numbers of historic

2802, 2017

New Books on Southeast Asia recently arrived in SOAS Library

By Jotika Khur-Yearn|February 28, 2017|Anthropology and Sociology, Art and Archaeology, Development Studies, Economics, History, Politics and International Relations, Religions, South East Asia|0 comments

The politics of Shari’a law : Islamist activists and the state in democratizing Indonesia / Michael Buehler. Landscape, memory, and post-violence in Cambodia / James A. Tyner. Foundations of Islamic governance : a Southeast Asian perspective / Maszlee Malik. Migration, micro-business and tourism in Thailand : highlanders in the city / Alexander Trupp. (Ebook) Unresolved border, land and maritime disputes in Southeast Asia bi- and multilateral conflict resolution approaches and

2206, 2016

Journal of Indonesian Islam, Free Open Access Journal

By Jotika Khur-Yearn|June 22, 2016|Religions, South East Asia|0 comments

Journal of Indonesian Islam (ISSN 1978-6301 and E-ISSN 2355-6994) is peer-reviewed international journal published biannually by the Postgraduate Program (PPs) and the Institute for the Study of Religion and Society (LSAS), State Islamic University (UIN) of Sunan Ampel Surabaya. The journal puts emphasis on aspects related to Islamic studies in an Indonesian context, with special reference to culture, politics, society, economics, history, and doctrines. It cordially invites contributions from scholars

0803, 2016

Newly Launched Digital Library of Northern Thai Manuscripts

By Jotika Khur-Yearn|March 8, 2016|History, Literature, Religions, South East Asia|0 comments

The University of Pennsylvania and National Library of Laos have launched the Digital Library of Northern Thai Manuscripts at lannamanuscripts.net as a resource for the study of traditional literature from this region. At present, the digital library contains images of over 4,200 manuscripts which can be searched and viewed online or freely downloaded, and to which more manuscripts will be added. The database contains four collections: digitised microfilms from the

2112, 2015

The Shan New Year Event and the Exhibition of Shan Manuscripts at SOAS, University of London: A Report

By Jotika Khur-Yearn|December 21, 2015|South East Asia|0 comments

Shan Kinnari Bird Dance at Shan New Year event (SOAS, December 2015). Photo credit: Qingniao Li The Shan New Year event, held on 13th December 2015, was attended by about 70 people from different parts of the UK. As in previous years, the event programme comprised a mixture of academic presentations and cultural performances. The remark of the event this year is that, with the support from the SOAS Committee

1008, 2015

Remarkable Acquisitions for SOAS Library’s South-East Asia Collections

By Jotika Khur-Yearn|August 10, 2015|Art and Archaeology, History, Linguistics, Literature, Religions, South East Asia|0 comments

Here’s an update and good news from SOAS Library. We have recently purchased two remarkable acquisitions for the South-East Asia collections in the library. 1. The Papers of Lee Kuan Yew : speeches, interview and dialogues (1950-2011), comprising 19 volumes plus bibliographical references and index. All the 20 items are kept under the classmark: L. HI320 / 515961. Key features of the publication include: The most comprehensive collection of various

0306, 2015

A Trial Access to E-Journal Database for Burma/Myanmar Studies

By Jotika Khur-Yearn|June 3, 2015|Anthropology and Sociology, Art and Archaeology, History, Linguistics, Literature, Philosophy, Religions, South East Asia|0 comments

We now have a trial access to the online version of the Rare Journals of the Burma Research Society until the 2nd of July 2015. There are two options for you to access the online database: The link for on-campus access: http://portal.igpublish.com/iglibrary/ (no login required, when you are in SOAS buildings using SOAS Internet) The link for off-campus access: https://ezproxy.soas.ac.uk/login?url=http://portal.igpublish.com/iglibrary/ (login required with your normal SOAS Login) Note: external members