Campaigning and Counter-Insurgency in the Creole Archipelago: The British Struggle in the Revolutionary Caribbean
Utopia Reading Group: Marge Piercy, Woman on the Edge of Time
Week Four (13 February, Lecture Room VII)
Primary: Marge Piercy, Woman on the Edge of Time, Chapters 10-12
Supplementary: Shulamith Firestone, The Dialectic of Sex (1970), Chapter 1
Primary: Marge Piercy, Woman on the Edge of Time, Chapters 10-12
Supplementary: Shulamith Firestone, The Dialectic of Sex (1970), Chapter 1
Italian Fascism, the Holy See and the Nationalist Government During the First Apostolic Delegation to China (1922-1933)
Bureaucracies of Violence: Asians leaving Uganda in 1972
CONCERT: Music Transmission and the Modern Encounter in the Late Ottoman Era
Musical Performance (8-9.30pm), Nissan Theatre - book your spot (£10-7 concessions):
A musical performance with Oxford Maqam, with an instrumental part inspired by the early recording performances of prominent musicians of the late Ottoman period based in Egypt, such as Amin Buzari (Ney), Mohammad al-Aqqad (Qanun), Sami Shawwa (Violin), Mansur Awad (Oud), and others. The second part will explore a Wasla in the late 19th century Egypt genre (which includes instrumentals such as Bashraf and Semai, and singing through Muwashshahat, Adwar, and Qasidas).
A musical performance with Oxford Maqam, with an instrumental part inspired by the early recording performances of prominent musicians of the late Ottoman period based in Egypt, such as Amin Buzari (Ney), Mohammad al-Aqqad (Qanun), Sami Shawwa (Violin), Mansur Awad (Oud), and others. The second part will explore a Wasla in the late 19th century Egypt genre (which includes instrumentals such as Bashraf and Semai, and singing through Muwashshahat, Adwar, and Qasidas).
PANEL: Music Transmission and the Modern Encounter in the Late Ottoman Era
When the Ney was not sad: Music Transmission and the Modern Encounter in the Late-Ottoman era
Towards a Supernatural History of the British Empire
The Renewal of Islam
Utopia Reading Group: Marge Piercy, Woman on the Edge of Time
Week Eight (13 March, Old Library)
Primary: Marge Piercy, Woman on the Edge of Time, Chapters 19-20
Supplementary: Sara Ahmed, ‘A Killjoy Manifesto’ (2017)
Primary: Marge Piercy, Woman on the Edge of Time, Chapters 19-20
Supplementary: Sara Ahmed, ‘A Killjoy Manifesto’ (2017)