Monday, 23 October 2023

SAALG Autumn Meeting 2023

 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

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