SOAS Department of Anthropology and Sociology

Prof Sanjay Srivastava and Dr Romit Chowdhury - Masculinities and City-Life in India and Beyond - Now and Men How do different groups of men navigate urban life, and how is masculinity threatened and re-asserted in the metropolises of contemporary Indian society?

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Have a listen to Sanjay Srivastava on the Now and Men podcast discussing his book ‘Masculinity, Consumerism, and the Post-National Indian City: Streets, Neighbourhoods, Home.’

nowandmen.net/episode/city...

Book Launch:
Archiving Gaza in the Present: Memory, Culture and Erasure
📅 6.30pm, 11 December 2025
📍 P21 Gallery
Join us for an evening celebrating the publication of ‘Archiving Gaza in the Present’, edited by Dina Matar and Venetia Porter.
Registration required. Book here ➡️ p21.gallery/node/479

What does deportation look like in a context of radical right government?

Join the SOAS Centre for Migration and Diaspora Studies today for this timely talk with Luke De Noronha (UCL):

'Deportation fever: expulsion and sadism at the border'

📅 November 19th, 5-7pm
📍 RG01, SOAS Main Building

Part of a collaboration between the Mursi, South Omo Theatre Company, Addis Ababa University, and SOAS, University of London. Check out the Learning from South Omo exhibition in the SOAS Gallery, of the same project:

www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...

@emmacrewe.bsky.social @richaxe.bsky.social

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📣 Don't miss tomorrow’s Research Seminar
Mursi Encountering the Other: Collaborative Research in South Omo, Ethiopia
Speakers: Mercy Fekadu, Bardoley Tula & Barkede Kulumedere (Addis Ababa University)
📅 Wed 19 Nov, 3–5pm (UK)
📍 Main Building RB01
🔗 Join online: soas-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/9374936443...

The Lost Heer: Women in Colonial Punjab by Harleen Singh As a province hailed by the British as the ‘sword arm of India’, masculinity remained a key pillar of Punjabi identity in colonial times. Observers largely looked at Punjab’s women through this blurre...

⚡ Happening today! ⚡

Women in Colonial Punjab (India & Pakistan) - Author's Talk and panel discussion with Harleen Singh

📅 13th November, 5:30pm
📍 KLT (Khalili Lecture Theatre) Main Building, SOAS

Organised by Fiza Murtaza and SOAS Anthropology Students' Association

Landscapes of the Saal Valley, Chamba District, Himachal Pradesh

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: CAMHRA PhD Scholarship Webinar. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: CAMHRA PhD Scholarship Webinar. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.

Members of the CAMHRA team will share information about building a strong application during the ‘CAMHRA Doctoral Scholarships Webinar’ on Wednesday December 03rd 2025 at 2 pm GMT (London time). Registration is here: soas-ac-uk.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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Check out this review of our own Sanjay Srivastava's 'Masculinity, Consumerism and the Post-national Indian City: Streets, Neighbourhoods, Home':

"The prolific scholar offers unparalleled insight into the growth and shaping of Indian cities."

Read in full here:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

The SOAS Food Forum continues this Monday with Professor Hanna Garth (Princeton University):

‘The Los Angeles Food Justice Movement as Placemaking or Problematic Inclusion’

📅 13:15-14:45, 10 November
📍 Room R301

See the full line-up of talks below 👇

Next week!

The SOAS Centre for Migration and Diaspora Studies continues its theme of Return with a specially scripted performance by Ice&Fire

📅 14 November 7pm
📍 SOAS Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre
➡️ To attend, register for free here: www.eventbrite.com/e/on-the-way...

🎬 This new publication by Bolaji Balogun & Konrad Pedziwiatr explores Black Polish activism via the grassroots movement Czarne jest Polskie (Black is Polish), highlighting anti-racist mobilization in Poland post-BLM & Covid.
Read more ➡️https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-032-00002-6_3

How do alliances survive in times of polarised politics?

Our own @emmacrewe.bsky.social & Michelle M. Taylor-Robinson explore this question in an article for State Politics & Policy Quarterly blending ethnography and network analysis.

Read here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

📣Join CAMHRA for a panel on climate & mental health, linked by the theme of heat. Scholars & artists explore global, creative takes on heat, distress & wellbeing.

💡Heat on the Mind

📅 27 Nov, 5–7pm
📍 G3, SOAS

For further details and registration: camhra.soas.ac.uk/event/heat-o...

‘Raciological thinking’: Poland’s narratives of race, eugenics, and nation-formation Drawing on Polish state archives on eugenics, this article reveals the global dimensions of eugenic practices and the intersected narratives of cleansing, hygiene, and nation-formation in Poland. B...

📚 New open-access article by our own Bolaji Balogun:
‘Raciological thinking’ explores race, eugenics & nation-formation in Poland, challenging Western-centric narratives.

Read here ➡️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#Anthropology #RaceStudies

Discover South Omo through the eyes of its people.

“Learning from South Omo” showcases community-led research from Ethiopia’s agro-pastoralists. On now at SOAS Gallery, London.

Free entry.

Curated by @richaxe.bsky.social, Hannah Bennet and Mercy Mulugeta

🔗 soas.ac.uk/event/learning-south-omo

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🌀 What does it mean to become-other in a world of borders, sovereignty, and displacement?

In his latest article, Kostas Retsikas explores Theo Angelopoulos’s 'The Suspended Step of the Stork' as a cinematic vision of becoming-other & a people to come.

📖 Open access: www.euppublishing.com/film

📢 Book launch at SOAS: Towards Decolonising Political Communication in the MENA

🗓️ 30 Oct, 5–7pm
📍SOAS Gallery

Roundtable with Prof. Dina Matar & contributors.

🔗 Info & register: www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...

📣 The CGS Seminar Series kicks off next Tuesday with a vibrant student-led event on 'Gay School - Learning Otherwise.'

🗓️ Tuesday 21 October, 5-7pm
📍 R201, SOAS

Join for a discussion about study and knowledge production beyond the university and its radical potentialities.

Info & registration 👇

📣 Our departmental research seminar continues tomorrow!

Seminar theme: 'Survey City: A Film (and a story) about the Mysterious Life of Documents.'

📅 Wednesday 15 October 3–5pm (UK time)
📍 Main Building, RB01 | In-person & hybrid

Join virtually here:
soas-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/9374936443...

Ever wondered what’s inside SOAS Library’s Special Collections? 👀

Special Collections Open Day
🗓️ 20 Oct | 🕚 11am–3pm | 📍 Floor F, Reading Room
Meet our curators & explore rare books, archives & manuscripts. All welcome! #SpecialCollections #SOASLibrary #Archives @soas-speccoll.bsky.social

Our colleagues in the Media Studies Department are co-organising this event on the importance of documenting international crimes and human rights violations in Palestine.

📍 DLT, Main Building, SOAS
📅 28 October, 5 to 7pm

For further information and to register ➡️
www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...

YouTube video by SOAS University of London Mursi Voices: A film by Olisarali Olibui and Ben Young

Mursi Voices: A film by Olisarali Olibui and Ben Young that features in the @soasgallery.bsky.social exhibition Learning from South Omo youtu.be/lMA8pJOuxDY?... @soasanthro.bsky.social

Anyone hungry?

Our Food Studies Centre Food Forum continues this Monday!

Santiago Lastra, Chef Patron of KOL, London, will speak about ‘Culture as an Ingredient’

📅 Monday 13 October, 1:15-2:45pm.

📍 SOAS, R301 (Main Building)

See below for the full series lineup 👇

ICA | Ulysses' Gaze The Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) is London’s leading space for contemporary culture. We commission, produce and present new work in film, music, performance and the visual arts by today’s most...

On Sunday 23 Nov our own Kostas Retsikas will introduce a screening of Theo Angelopoulos' Ulysses' Gaze at the Institute of Contemporary Arts.

The event is part of a retrospective of Angelopoulos' work running through October and November at the ICA

Don’t miss it!

Details ▶️ ica.art/ulysses-gaze

What does it mean to return?

Join leading scholars in SOAS to explore 'return' as an idea, practice & contested horizon.

🗓️ 17 Oct, 5:30pm & 18 Oct, 1–5pm
📍SOAS

Hosted by the Centre for Migration & Diaspora Studies.

Further information and registration:
www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...

The Student Endowed Award deadline for abstracts is soon approaching.

Abstracts are due October 15. More info: appliedanthro.org/awards-prize...

#SfAA #socialscience #anthropology #appliedanthropology #SfAA2026

Opening next week!

Be sure to check out the Learning from South Omo exhibition while it is on display in the SOAS Gallery from 14 October to 13 December.

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Hi David, yes we will be using this link for each seminar soas-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/9374936443...