The SAALG Autumn Meeting will take place on Monday, 30. October 2023, at the SOAS Library.
Address: 10 Thornhaugh St, London WC1H 0XG
Planning your Visit: https://soas.libguides.com/c.php?g=704580
A charge of £20 is levied for attendance, luncheon and beverages.
There is an ATM located in the SOAS main building.
RSVP Hedley Sutton - hedley.sutton@bl.uk
PROGRAMME
10.30—11.00 Welcome & Registration (beverages provided)
Burzine Waghmar, SOAS Library
11.00—11.40 Arthur Arberry (1905-69): An everyman orientalist
Burzine Waghmar, SOAS Library
11.40—12.20 Thinking through music and cinema: SOAS Library’s treasured hidden
collections
Farzana Qureshi, SOAS Library
12.20—13.00 Listening in Libraries: Muted archives and histories of South Asian Music
Richard Williams, School of Arts, SOAS
13.00—14.00 Lunch & networking
14.00—14.40 Parsis and esotericism in modern India: The rise of Freemasonry, Theosophy and Ilm-e Kshnoom
Mariano Errichiello, SOAS Shapoorji Pallonji Institute of Zoroastrian Studies,
SOAS
14.45—15.15 Royal Asiatic Society Bicentenary Exhibition, Brunei Gallery (across
forecourt)
15.30—16.30 SAALG Business meeting
