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SOAS Inaugural Lecture Series: Professors Marloes Janson & Jieyu Liu
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Join us to celebrate a special milestone for our new professors and hear about their innovative research.
Join us to celebrate a special milestone for our new professors and hear about their innovative research. Doors for this event will open on 5:15 PM with the lectures to commence at 5:30 PM. A post drinks reception will be held at 6:45 PM immediately after the lecture.
Professor Marloes Janson, Professor of West African Anthropology
Lecture title: Rewriting Africa's Narrative
Lecture abstract: Media portrayals of West Africa focus disproportionately on conflict, corruption, and poverty, thereby creating a monolithic view of the continent. By means of four examples of my ethnographic research in the Gambia and Nigeria. In this lecture Professor Janson will highlight how she has endeavoured to rewrite detrimental anti-African stereotyping with more balanced narratives of how people cope with the contingencies of everyday living.
Professor Jieyu Liu, Professor of Sociology and China Studies
Lecture title: Doing Intimacy: Family Life and Social Change in China
Lecture abstract: This lecture examines the intimate workings of family life in China since the 1949 Communist Revolution. Drawing upon extensive fieldwork and multi-generational life history narratives. Professor Liu presents an interconnected, nuanced and nonlinear view of Chinese family life over the last seven decades, countering dominant Eurocentric accounts of modernization and family change.
