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• YouTube: what happens when an inconvenient question is asked at a SOAS seminar

  
  News World — Authority: 138
  ‘Tis the season to shout people down, it seems. A few days ago Ed West posted about the case of TV presenter Johnny Ball who was slow handclapped, booed and jeered until he was forced to leave a stage where he had had the temerity to make a joke about global warming. Now we [...]
  1 day ago

• BBC slanders pro-Palestine debate

  
  LENIN'S TOMB — Authority: 570
  A friend drew my attention to this story at the BBC. It alleges that one Jonathan Hoffman appeared at a SOAS debate on Palestine and, when he mentioned his name (they helpfully point out that it is of German-Jewish extraction) he was booed and called Jewish as if it were an insult. This is the video: The BBC ...
  2 days ago

• Would a G1G1 Fail in 2009?

  
  One Laptop Per Child News — Authority: 468
  While One Laptop Per Child only has XO laptop donations on Amazon , some of us yearn for years past when the Give One Get One programs brought geek joy to children and adults across the land. Jon really wants a G1G1 XO-1.5 Christmas , but I wonder if even that could recapture the magic. Technology has progressed ...
  5 days ago

• Sugar on a Stick v2 Blueberry Released - Download it now!

  
  One Laptop Per Child News — Authority: 468
  Sugar Labs has released Sugar on a Stick v2 Blueberry - the platform agnostic version of the Sugar Learning Platform. Sugar is in use by over one-million children around the world, Blueberry Updates This latest version of Sugar offers simpler navigation, improved wireless networking, streamlined updating ...
  1 week ago

• Transeurasian languages: are Japanese and Korean related?

  
  London Korean Links — Authority: 132
  Darren Southcott reports from the SOAS seminar given by Dr Martine Robbeets on 20 November: “Korean and the Transeurasian languages: similarities that make a difference”. With additional material from Peter Corbishley Korean and the Transeurasian languages was not the title of a talk designed to bring in ...
  2 weeks ago

• Melodrama of the Modern Girl: Jaesaeng by Yi Gwangsu

  
  London Korean Links — Authority: 132
  Further details of this Friday’s talk at SOAS: Friday, December 4th, 5pm, room G50 (main building) Dr. Michael Shin, University of Cambridge Melodrama of the Modern Girl: The Novel Jaesaeng by Yi Gwangsu (1924-25) Abstract: Yi Gwangsu’s Jaesaeng (Rebirth) was one of the most popular novels in colonial Korea ...
  2 weeks ago

• US-North Korean Relations and the Peace System in the Korean Peninsula: A Historical Inquiry

  
  London Korean Links — Authority: 132
  Please find below the abstract and bio for the talk at SOAS on Friday. Friday, November 27th, 5pm, room G50 (main building) Prof. Wookhee Shin, Seoul National University / SOAS US-North Korean Relations and the Peace System in the Korean Peninsula: A Historical Inquiry Abstract This seminar will deal with six ...
  3 weeks ago

• Is this The Age of Stupid?

  
  Rues de Bruxelles — Authority: 117
  Last night I went to SOAS with Chiara to see The Age of Stupid . A sharp drama-documentary-animation hybrid. Clever, well-edited, poignant, with a powerful message that manages to be heavy and alarmist without being too overwrought. In short, the perfect sermon for the choir. Click through for more, including the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Public meeting: David Ben Gurion, 1948 and the Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine

  
  Creative-i — Authority: 144
  London: 24 November, SOAS Palestine Society invites you to this fascinating talk, the only public event in our history seminars Readings in the History of Palestine/Israel
  4 weeks ago

• Korean and the Transeurasian languages: similarities that make a difference

  
  London Korean Links — Authority: 132
  More info about this Friday’s talk at SOAS: Friday, November 20th, 5pm, room G50 (main building) Dr. Martine Robbeets, University of Mainz Korean and the Transeurasian languages: similarities that make a difference Abstract: The term “Transeurasian” refers a group of geographically adjacent languages, ...
  4 weeks ago

• Sammy Sosa is the new Micheal Jackson

  
  THE BELGIUM FREE PRESS — Authority: 144
  Ive heard that TV Land is doing a Munsters remake. Sosa is the leading candidate for Eddie Munster . Since retired baseball player Sammy Sosa revealed his new complexion and then attributed it to a cream , debate has not stopped. Video here: Former basketball forward and colorful sports commentator Charles ...
  5 weeks ago

• “Asia! Asia!” – Stephen Epstein at SOAS

  
  London Korean Links — Authority: 132
  Stephen Epstein had a busy week last week giving lectures in Cambridge, Oxford and London. He is on a lecture tour of Europe, using the trip as an opportunity to test various chapters from his forthcoming book with a critical audience. Friday’s lecture at SOAS focused on the portrayal of some of Korea’s Asian ...
  5 weeks ago

• “Asia! Asia!” – Stephen Epstein at SOAS

  
  London Korean Links — Authority: 132
  Stephen Epstein had a busy week last week giving lectures in Cambridge, Oxford and London. He is on a lecture tour of Europe, using the trip as an opportunity to test various chapters from his forthcoming book with a critical audience. Friday’s lecture at SOAS focused on the portrayal of some of Korea’s Asian ...
  5 weeks ago

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