SOAS History Blog Podcast, Ep. 3: Sudanese History through Music
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SOAS History Blog Podcast, Ep. 3: Sudanese History through Music

More about this episode Samples of music in this podcast have been for research and academic discussion only. Podcast transcript This is a SOAS History Blog Podcast. In this installment, we bring you Walter Rodney Prize winner Saffa Khalil discussing her award-winning dissertation with SOAS staff member Henny Ziai. For further information about the music…

SOAS History Blog Podcast, Ep. 2: Histories of Childhood in Algeria – Researching an Undergraduate Dissertation During COVID-19
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SOAS History Blog Podcast, Ep. 2: Histories of Childhood in Algeria – Researching an Undergraduate Dissertation During COVID-19

More about this episode Podcast Transcription Hi Mia, thank you for being here. I’m Haritha Balasubramaniyan, second year undergraduate at SOAS in the Department of History, speaking to you on behalf of the SOAS History Blog. Hi, it’s so lovely to be here. My name is Mia Bellouere. I’m recently graduated from SOAS where I…

Remembering the French Nation through Colonial Forgetting: An Analysis of the Exhibition of Hervé di Rosa’s ‘1794 – L’abolition de l’an II’ (Part of the series ‘L’Histoire en peinture de l’Assemblée nationale’, 1991)
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Remembering the French Nation through Colonial Forgetting: An Analysis of the Exhibition of Hervé di Rosa’s ‘1794 – L’abolition de l’an II’ (Part of the series ‘L’Histoire en peinture de l’Assemblée nationale’, 1991)

by Darja Wolfmeier Résumé: Depuis 1991, une série de 13 fresques d’Hervé di Rosa est accrochée aux murs de l’Assemblée nationale française, représentant des étapes majeures de l’histoire constitutionnelle française – l’une d’entre elles étant l’Abolition de l’esclavage dans les colonies en 1794. Cette représentation ne reproduit pas seulement des stéréotypes racistes, mais s’inscrit également dans…

The Tigris Still Runs Black with Ink: Untangling the Myths Surrounding the Development of Islamic Thought
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The Tigris Still Runs Black with Ink: Untangling the Myths Surrounding the Development of Islamic Thought

A contemporary revision of the still prevalent narrative of the ‘Golden Age-Decline-Termination’ of the Islamic World. This examination of intellectual history highlights new and emerging figures in an attempt decolonise the history of Islamic Thought.