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📣SOAS Event 19 Feb

Joins us for this month's Inaugural Lecture series, exploring the history of the British colonial system and Post‑Soviet Imperiality.

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Who really holds the cards: Trump or the bond market? The US depends heavily on global bond markets to fund its public spending.

"Whilst European's can't just dump U.S Treasuries at the flick of a switch, its not like the U.S administration holds all of the cards either."

Doc. fellow Alex Dryden wrote for @theconversation.com on the US depending on global bond markets.

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Fighting climate change in the Sahel is worsening conflicts - new research shows how Climate action can ease or add to crises in the Sahel region.

"The interconnectedness of climate change, state fragility and conflict is a complex adaptive system."

Dr Folahanmi Aina wrote for @theconversation.com on climate change and its link to conflict in Africa's Sahel region.

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📣SOAS Event 23 Jan

Join us in examining the future of venture capital in Africa.
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📣 SOAS Event 21 Jan

Join us in conversation on how creative and archival practices resist cultural erasure.

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Migrants using more distant, riskier departure points to Canaries after Mauritania crackdown, Red Cross finds Migrants crossing from West Africa to Spain's Canaries started using more distant - and potentially more deadly - departure points in 2025 following a crackdown by Mauritania on irregular migration, a...

In an article with @reuters.com, Dr Hassan Ould Moctar provided insight on migration across Mauritania and the Canary Islands - alongside the EU's migration control policies in the region.

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📣SOAS Event 15 Jan 2026

Mughal Banaras - a new gallery exhibition exploring the diversity and forgotten history of the community in North India.

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📣 SOAS Event 19 Jan 2026 - So Long as the Sun

A new feature documentary exploring love and resilience under occupation. The screening is part of the SOAS Language of the Month series.

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📰 Inspiring the next generation through the arts.

Listen to the new interview on BBC Radio London with SOAS-based organisation PositiveNegatives, discussing a new exhibition that communicates complex social, humanitarian and environmental issues.

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‘Virginity battle’: Chinese women caught between old and new sexual values Research by Liu Jieyu examining three generations in China finds traditional ideas still play a key role in sexual relations and family life.

How have traditions of family life and relationships changed in China?

Prof. Jieyu Liu's new book and research explores this, with South China Morning Post.

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📣SOAS Event 11 Dec

Inaugural Lecture with Prof. Julia Sallabank: Preserving minoritised languages, cultures, and protecting language rights.

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📺SOAS expertise helps inform new BBC documentary!

Dr Satona Suzuki, expert in Japanese and Modern Japanese History – features in the new BBC Two Documentary: Civilisations: Rise and Fall.

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📰A new book, lead by Prof Jieyu Liu, reveals the trends and patterns in family life in China since the Chinese Communist Revolution of 1949 - bringing together findings from the first detailed study on sex, marriage and intimacy in China, seen through three generations.

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📣SOAS Event 27 Nov

Inaugural Lecture series: Africa, International Arbitration & Human Rights.

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🌐Ahead of the next G20 Summit, read our new alumni newsletter for perspectives on green transition.

Available now: soasworld.com/greentransition

📣SOAS Event 20 Nov

How are the diverging paths of Malaysia and Turkey taking shape in global finance?

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📣SOAS Event 19 Nov

Exploring 'City of Desire' - a portrait of the largest informal settlement in Bangladesh.

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🌍 The SOAS World Issue 7 is now available!

Featuring and exclusive interview with tech entrepreneur and SOAS alumnus Ilyas Khan, discussing his personal journey and career to date.

Find and more and read the latest issue: bit.ly/42SgDnD

Diplomacy in Practice: Lessons from a Career on the Frontlines.

Event marks the launch of How to Be a Diplomat, a new book by Dr Nicholas Westcott, Prof of Practice in Diplomacy at SOAS.

🗓️This Thursday 2 October - register to attend.

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SOAS event 📣 Polymath Robeson: American Renaissance Man

As part of the Polymath Festival, we are delighted to host a discussion of the life and work of Paul Robeson, a distinguished alumna of SOAS.

📆 25 September, 6pm

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The SOAS Concert Series has returned with events for the first semester of the 2025/26 academic year! 🎶

Showcasing music from around the world, the series features an array of both international legends and up and coming talent.

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A group of graduates in robes clap and smile.

A woman in a grey and gold graduation robe smiles while in a queue.

Zeinab Badawi smiles at a grad holding his baby.

A family pose for a photograph at graduation outside.

Congratulations to the Class of 2025 🎓.

Last week, we had the joy of celebrating the achievements of our graduates with the families and friends who supported them along the way.

To our newest SOAS alumni: We can't wait to see what you do next.

#SOASGrad #graduation #classof2025

Wael Al Dahdouh

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Reporting Gaza: A Public Talk with Wael Al Dahdouh - 8 Sept at SOAS.

Al Jazeera’s Bureau Chief in Gaza is hosted by the SOAS Department of Media Studies, in collaboration with Al Jazeera and the SOAS Islaah student society.

👉 Register to attend: bit.ly/47pH7Qz

We have been brainwashed into thinking there is no alternative to free market policy, says Ha-Joon Chang Ha-Joon Chang, professor of economics at SOAS University of London, discusses economic growth and challenges the orthodoxy of economics.

Prof. Ha-Joon Chang was interviewed by @cnbc.com on challenging the traditions around economics and free market policy.

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Judgement day for former Thai PM Thaksin Shinawatra in royal insult case Looming ‘lese majeste’ court ruling holds royal reckoning for Thailand’s former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra.

"A guilty verdict, could trigger a new round of political conflicts."

Thai Law & Policy Fellow Verapat Pariyawong spoke to @aljazeera.com on the forthcoming verdict for Thailand’s ex-PM Thaksin Shinawatra in a controversial royal insult case.

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📰 Our Japan Research Centre has partnered with Xebio Holdings, one of Japan’s largest sports enterprises to launch a new internship programme for SOAS students studying BA Japanese.

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As protesters and politicians call for the closure of asylum hotels, what are the alternatives? Long-term use of hotels poses numerous challenges to those living there.

As protesters and politicians call for the closure of asylum hotels, what are the alternatives?

Professor Giorgia Doná, Dr Charlotte Sanders, and Dr Paolo Novak provided insight to @uk.theconversation.com

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📰Professor @fionaadamson.bsky.social has received a special grant from The British Academy to boost collaborative efforts of migration research in Global South.

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China’s Leninist industrial policy is creating instability at home and abroad | George Magnus Overcapacity – from electric vehicles to high-speed rail to housing – is destroying profits as well as GDP

"The threat posed by low-price Chinese products to local jobs and communities, deskilling, and premature deindustrialisation is ubiquitous."

Research associate George Magnus wrote for @theguardian.com on the instability of China's industrial policy.

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