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Oxford Studies in Medieval History is now Oxford Studies in the New Medieval History. Glad to be part of the opening up of this great series to global approaches. We are looking forward to receiving book manuscripts in global #medieval history.
More info in the flyer:
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📢 2 days to go!

We can't wait to see everyone at our annual conference either in-person or online! 💻

In-person tickets are sold out but you can still sign up to join us online for the entire day! Use the link below to register...

www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Don't forget that we are recruiting for our new committee! If you have any questions, please email us as we are happy to answer.

Keep on scrolling to see what roles we are recruiting for the next academic year!

Postdoctoral position in the social history of material infrastructures The Early Modern History (EMH) Research Group at KU Leuven invites applications for a postdoctoral position in the social history of material infrastructures (Chinese and East Asian history, 1000-1800...

Postdoctoral position in Chinese history - the social history of material infrastructures:
#Sinology

www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...

South Asian Heritage Month 2025 / The Garden Cinema Throughout July and August, join us for an array of screenings and partnership events around South Asian Heritage Month 2025, which is themed ‘Roots to Routes.’ Expect restored classics, contemporary ...

For #SouthAsian #cinema aficionados in London: South Asian Heritage Month at the Garden Cinema, 17 July to 17 August:

www.thegardencinema.co.uk/season/south...

Call for Applications: Editorial Fellowships at History Workshop, 2025 History Workshop is advertising two part-time, paid Editorial Fellowships in 2025, open to early career historians.

I'm so proud to be part of the History Workshop project, supporting a brilliant team of Early Career historians who have built the best site for radical, engaged history online. Do consider applying for this opportunity! www.historyworkshop.org.uk/article/hist...

SOAS is currently advertising a one-year fixed-term position in the History of the Middle East for 2025-2026. If this is for you, apply by 27 July 2025. For more info, go to
vacancies.soas.ac.uk/job/727934

Congratulations, Ettore - looks fabulous!

Associate Professor in Environmental History (281801) | University of Stavanger Job title: Associate Professor in Environmental History (281801), Employer: University of Stavanger, Deadline: Thursday, August 7, 2025

We are hiring! Fully tenured associate professorship in environmental history! We are looking for someone who can be a strong contributor to the history group, to a new #envhum related MA program (if all goes well), and to @greenhouseuis.net. #envhist

Trailer screenshot for Mongolian Movie Showcase, showing six figures and a horse in yellow, red and blue framing the image. Text: 'Mongolian Cinema' at the center, wine red background. Logos of Gangara Pictures, SOAS University of London, Nomadia Pictures, Hulegu Pictures, Playmo, and Really Nice Films LTD lined up at the top.

You already missed the first film, but there are five more to come at the Mongolian Movie showcase at #SOAS Gallery this weekend (7 and 8 June 2025). For more info go to
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Flyer: The Robert H.N. Ho Foundation Lecture Series in Chinese Buddhism Inserted image: detail of stone relief showing a women's imperial procession in the Huangfu Gong Grotto at Longmen. Ca 527. From the cover of the speaker's book. The Women and the Woman: Building the Backstory to the Rise and Rule of Empress Wu (r. 690–705) Dr. Stephanie Balkwill (University of California, Los Angeles) 22 My 2025, 5:30-7:00pm (GMT)

Upcoming in the Robert H.N. Ho Foundation Lecture Series in Chinese Buddhism:

'The Women and the Woman: Building the Backstory to the Rise and Rule of Empress Wu (r. 690–705)'

Thursday 22 May | 17:30−19:00 (BST) | ONLINE

For more info & registration see: www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...

Today (14 May):

Roy Rosenzweig Prize for Creativity in Digital History – AHA This prize is awarded annually to honor and support work on a creative and freely available new media project, and in particular for work that reflects thoughtful, critical, and rigorous engagement wi...

Submit nominations by May 15 for the Roy Rosenzweig Prize for Creativity in Digital History, sponsored jointly by the AHA and @rrchnm.bsky.social. This prize is awarded annually to honor and support work on a creative and freely available new media project. 🗃️

Free, online - 2025 Plant Humanities Conversations: Plant Extinction & Resurrection, May 14, 2025, 12-1:30pm ET. With award-winning artists Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg and Debora Hirsch. From @nybg.bsky.social and @dumbartonoaks.bsky.social. www.nybg.org/event/2025-p...

Seminar announcement (in insta post format), rock formations in different shades of grey, looking like a dried up river valley, brownish-black frame at the top and bottom margin, with text saying: 'Rocks that Made Bodies: Doing Environmental History by Following Thing, Ling Zhang (University of Cambridge), SOAS History Seminar, Wed, 14 May 2025, 5pm, C325. ALL WELCOME!'

If you're in London next week, please join us for a seminar with Ling Zhang (Cambridge), who will speak about 'Rocks that Made Bodies: Doing Environmental History by Following Things'. Wed 14 May, 5pm at #SOAS, C325.

All welcome!

For more information see: www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...

#envhist

For our 2025 AGM lecture on Thurs, 15th May, Susan Stronge, the brains behind V&A’s recent exhibition The Great Mughals: Art, Architecture and Opulence, will take us through the major discoveries and challenges of putting together this landmark exhibition. Come and join us!

168. Interview with Jenny Bond – on the complex identities of Chinese girls who attended western Christian missionary schools in Republican China Jenny Bond is a Lecturer at University College London. She recently gave a fascinating paper titled ‘Pedagogical Experiments: Christian Kindergarten Education in Republican China (1912-49)&#8…

Great to see this interview with Jenny Bond (UCL) on her recently published book Dreaming the New Woman: an Oral History of Missionary Schoolgirls in Republican China (OUP 2024) based on her SOAS PhD thesis.

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Congrats to all three awardees and to our own Dr Junda Lu in particular!
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Portrait of Prince Aurangzeb (17th c), Metropolitan Museum of Art (https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/454817) on the right hand side. On the left: 'The Many Lives of a Mughal King: Secularizing Aurangzeb in Communal India, Jaffar Abid (NYU London), SOAS History Seminar, Wed 7 May, 5pm, C325, All Welcome!

Our next seminar will be on Wed 7 May with Jaffar Abid (NYU London) who will speak on 'The Many Lives of a Mughal King: Secularizing Aurangzeb in Communal India.'

All Welcome!

For more information see www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...

Flyer for event at SOAS: Introduction to Mongolian Studies Day at SOAS. Seminars - Book Launch - Musical Performances. Thursday 8 May 2025. Seminar: Studying Traditional Mongolia in a Modern World 12:00-14:30 Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre Introduced by Dr Lars Laamann, Senior Lecturer in the History of China and Central Asia, and Guest Professor, Manchu Studies, Jilin University - Dr Uradyn E Bulag (Cambridge): Mongolia in Parallax: Insights from Inner Mongolian nd Western Vantage Points - Dr Shane McCausland (SOAS): Arts of the Mongol World - Dr Terigele Teneg (Cambridge): Unicode and the Reintroduction of Traditional Script in Mongolia - Dr George Lnde (SOAS): Revising Perceptions of the Mongols in World History Book Launch & Musical Performance "Conquering the North - Chin, Russia, Mongolia: 2000 Years of Conflict, by John Man Musical Performance by Nomadic Tunes 16:00-18:00 BGLT Welcome and Remarks by Dr Lars Laamann H.E. Enkhsukh Battumur, Ambassador of Mongolia Garid Bandii, First Secretary of Education and Cultural Affairs Unurmaa Janchiv, Cultural Envoy of Mongolia

A day with Mongolian Studies events upcoming at #SOAS, this Thursday, 8 May 2025. See ALT text for more detail.

#MongolianStudies
#Mongolia

Introduction to Chaghatay, Summer 2025 This is an application form for the not-for-credit summer course in introductory Chaghatay language to be held through the Sigur Center for Asian Studies at the George Washington University in Summer ...

This summer, June 7-August 7, I'll be running an online course in "Introduction to Chaghatay!" 12 meetings. $280 for the whole thing. Open access textbook + videos to walk you through grammar and readings. Fees will support GW's Uyghur Studies Initiative. Apply here!

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Ruling and Healing: Managing Health and Empire in Qing China 1644-1912
A hybrid seminar with Nora Qiu (UCL) May 6
www.history.ac.uk/events/rulin...

Portrait of Prince Aurangzeb (17th c), Metropolitan Museum of Art (https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/454817) on the right hand side. On the left: 'The Many Lives of a Mughal King: Secularizing Aurangzeb in Communal India, Jaffar Abid (NYU London), SOAS History Seminar, Wed 7 May, 5pm, C325, All Welcome!

Our next seminar will be on Wed 7 May with Jaffar Abid (NYU London) who will speak on 'The Many Lives of a Mughal King: Secularizing Aurangzeb in Communal India.'

All Welcome!

For more information see www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...

Today:
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#Sinology
#EnvHist

Background image in darkish brown-gray: Brick Relief with Salt-mining Scene Eastern Han Dynasty National Museum of China (Wikimedia Commons) Text: "By Nurturing Useful Resources He Let the Land Work [for him]”: Conceptualizing and Managing Resources in the Warring States and Early Empires SOAS History Seminar, Wednesday 23 April 2025, 5pm, C325. All welcome!

Join us next Wed, 23/4/2025, 5pm at #SOAS for a seminar with Christian Schwermann (Bochum) about resource use in early China:
“By Nurturing Useful Resources He Let the Land Work [for him]”: Conceptualizing and Managing Resources in the Warring States and Early Empires
All welcome!

We are delighted to learn that 'All Equal' based on Marie Rodet's #AHRC -funded research won the Best Animation Prize at the International Film Festival Vues d'Afrique in Montreal last week.

Here is the FilmFreeway page: filmfreeway.com/AllEqual

Congratulations!

Home Office spent £22,000 on failed attempt to stop Windrush report release Hard-hitting internal investigation found roots of scandal lay in racist immigration legislation

Home Office spent £22,000 on external legal advice in failed attempt to stop Windrush report release www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Image from an animated film showing an older black man clad in white sitting on a chair, a storyteller facing a group of children listening intently.

'All Equal!' Sat 5 April, 11am in Brixton, Rapport Festival, Kid's Corner. An animated tale of a journey from enslavement to liberation, directed by Cheikh Ahmadou Bamba Diop, based on research by and co-produced with Dr Marie Rodet (SOAS) and Mamadou Sène Cissé:

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Densely printed double page from a Chinese woodblock print (a Ming edition of the Shiji) as background for the following text: New on the blog: Who controls history? The case of the National Qing History Project, by Lennon Aviss.

We are back with a piece by Lennon Aviss on the controversy about the 'correct' version of Qing history and the uses & abuses of history, with examples from China and Russia: Who Controls History? The Case of the National Qing History Project. Enjoy!
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#NewQingHistory

Sophia Duleep Singh Sophia Duleep Singh (1876–1948) was an Indian princess and a formidable figure in the women's suffrage movement.

It's the final day of Women's History Month! Last month we shared the story of our alumna Catherine Duleep Singh, who helped Jewish Families escape Nazi Germany. Catherine's sister Sophia was a formidable figure in the suffrage movement. Read this feature by the National Archive to find out more.