95th conference now fully booked - final programme below

We regret we cannot accept any more bookings for this event. 

June 21, 2016. 

SOUTH ASIA ARCHIVE AND LIBRARY GROUP

95^th CONFERENCE

Thursday 30 June 2016, 10.30-17.00

SOAS University of London, Main College Buildings, 1^st Floor, Room 116,

10 Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG

SOAS CENTENNIAL 1916‐2016: IN HONOUR OF SIR E. DENISON ROSS

10.30‐11.00     Arrival, networking and coffee

11.00‐11.10     SAALG chair’s welcome

11.15‐11.50     Christine van Ruymbeke, University of Cambridge

Sir William Jones and the Anvar‐e Sohayli: Containing a fortuitous but nevertheless essential note on the Orient Pearls

12.00‐12.35     Ursula Sims‐Williams, The British Library

‘Everlasting Flame’ at SOAS and in New Delhi: an exhibition case study

12.50‐14.00     Lunch and networking

14.00‐14.30     Dave Riley, University of Cardiff

@SouthAsia71: Archival Material finds a New Audience on Twitter

14.40‐15.15    Nilanjan Sarkar, The London School of Economics and Political Science

Ordering the Archive: Examining a ‘fatwa’ from medieval India

15.25‐16.00     Saqib Baburi, The British Library

Histories of Shāh Jahān: Reconstructing the Corpus of Royal Manuscripts

16.10‐16.20     Coffee

16.25‐17.00     SAALG business meeting

Contacts

Burzine Waghmar, bw3@soas.ac.uk

Farzana Whitfield, fq@soas.ac.uk