Karachi, Pakistan

Various panellists

What is China’s strategy in the Korean Peninsula?  How do Seoul and Pyongyang see the role of China?  What should we expect of China’s role in helping to bring about peace and development on the Korean Peninsula.

Professor Sylvia Bashevkin (University of Toronto), Dr Jennifer Cassidy (Oxford), Marissa Conway (Centre for Feminist Foreign Policy), Chair: Afiyah Alim (SOAS)

2019 Bertha Lutz Prize winner Professor Sylvia Bashevkin asks do we trace the consequences of women’s participation in politics?

Karachi, Pakistan

Ayla Joncheere (University of Ghent)

Noha Aboueldahab

Dr Adam Hanieh (SOAS University of London)

Dr Donatella Della Ratta (John Cabot University, Rome)

From ISIS propaganda videos to popular regime-backed TV series and digital activism, the Syrian conflict has been dramatically affected by the production of media, at the same time generating in its turn an impressive visual culture.

Dr Harry Wu (HKU)

Donghyun Park (Asian Development Bank)

Dziga Vertov

Assistive Technology Trainer Nicholas Christodoulou and Paul Boateng

Runs weekly until the end of term 3 (Term time only).

Speaker: Polly Barton (Japanese - English translator)

Osaka, Japan

Dr Bill Mihalopoulos (School of Languages and Global Studies, UCLAN)

The talk investigates one of the rare moments when fundamental concepts that define the modern - property in person and contractual consent - are made and modelled in front of our eyes in Meiji Japan.

Paul Rollier (University of St. Gallen), Farzana Shaikh (Chatham House, London)

Julia Steinberger and Elena Hofferberth

Anne-Line Rodriguez, Queen Mary University London

Dr. Enze Han

Is the process of state building a unilateral, national venture, or is it something more collaborative, taking place in the interstices between adjoining countries? To answer this question, Asymmetrical Neighbors takes a comparative look at the state building process along China, Myanmar, and Thailand's common borderland area. 

Professor Robin Coningham, UNESCO Chair in Archaeological Ethics and Practice in Cultural Heritage, Durham University

Islamabad, Pakistan

Osaka, Japan

Mirza Waheed, Dr. Goldie Osuri

Dr Dan Plesch (SOAS) + More tbc

CISD & SCRAP Weapons co-host a screening of Stanley Kubrick's classic Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.

Ulrich Volz (SOAS), Signe Krogstrup (Danmarks Nationalbank), Heron Belfon (Jubilee Caribbean), Irene Monasterolo (Boston University), Paolo Mauro (IMF)

The SOAS Centre for Sustainable Finance and the Bretton Woods Project host a discussion at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) as part of the World Bank Group and IMF Annual Meetings’ Civil Society Policy Forum.

After the success of our second year in 2018-2019, the London chapter is pleased to launch the mentorship programme for its third year. We are calling for applications from early career young professionals in the YCW London network to participate in the Programme. 

Tokyo, Japan

Seby Ntege (Uganda)

Japanese Blended Learning Course

Tokyo, Japan

Tokyo, Japan