SOAS, University of London (The School of Oriental and African Studies)

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The Department of Development Studies (@SOASDevelopment) is now on Twitter.

15th October 2012

Forthcoming conference

12th October 2012

SOAS professor receives Friendship Medal of Diplomacy from Taiwan

Professor Robert Ash, Director of the Centre of Taiwan Studies at SOAS, University of London, has been awarded the Friendship Medal of Diplomacy by the Government of the Republic of China, Taiwan.

11th October 2012

SOAS congratulates Mo Yan – winner of the 2012 Nobel Literature Prize

SOAS, University of London, would like to congratulate Chinese author Mo Yan, who today (11 Oct) won the Nobel Literature Prize.  Mo Yan spoke at SOAS in April this year, and is well known by the SOAS Centre of Chinese Studies.

11th October 2012

SOAS receives new grant for research into major Indian religion

The Centre of Jaina Studies in the Department of the Study of Religion at SOAS, University of London, has been awarded a three-year research grant from the Leverhulme Trust to publish the work of librarian and indologist Johannes Emil Klatt.

8th October 2012

Border Crossings: New Directions in the Study of Gender at SOAS

Call for papers for a workshop in 'Border Crossings: New Directions in the Study of Gender at SOAS' on Saturday May 11, 2013. Deadline for submission Wednesday November 7, 2012.

3rd October 2012

October-November Edition of The Middle East in London Hits Newsstands

The October-November Edition of The Middle East in London, the bi-monthly magazine of the London Middle East Institute, is now available.

1st October 2012

Education: the Best Investment - A British Egyptian Education Conference

28th September 2012

New Research Associates in Gender Studies

Dr Geeta Patel and Dr Samar Habib will be hosted as research associates of the Centre for Gender Studies at SOAS until August 2014.

25th September 2012

SOAS students triumph in international Chinese language competition

Two SOAS University of London undergraduate students, Owen Churchill and Maximilian Sleigh-Parrot, represented the UK at the 11th International Chinese Bridge competition in Central China's Hunan province this summer, after taking first and second place in the UK preliminary competition.   

19th September 2012

SOAS scores well in world university rankings

SOAS qualities have been recognised this week by the new QS World University Rankings and the Which? university comparison website.

18th September 2012

Vietnamese Field School

Vietnamese Field School as first activity of SOAS/Monash MOU for co-operative work in field of Anthropology of Tourism and Pilgrimage.

11th September 2012

SOAS named as Higher Education social entrepreneurship partner

SOAS, University of London, has been chosen as a pioneering partner for the UnLtd and Higher Education Funding Council for England Support Initiative.

31st August 2012

SOAS launches new LLM in Law and Gender

24th August 2012

Professor Iain Scobbie participates in UN meeting in Bangkok

Professor Iain Scobbie recently participated in a two-day meeting organised by the United Nations.

9th August 2012