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Call for Papers: Imitation or Appropriation? Intermediality in Qing Imperial Art and Culture
Call for Papers: Imitation or Appropriation? Intermediality in Qing Imperial Art and Culture
22nd September 2020
SOAS Alumni Panggah Ardiyansyah and Wieske Sapardan take part in conversation about the history of restitution in Indonesia, its meanings as well as future challenges
Hosted by SERAYA - a podcast on cultural heritage, art and history, Panggah Ardiyansyah and Wieske Sapardan take part in a conversation about the history of restitution in Indonesia, its meanings as well as future challenges.
9th July 2020
Vivek Gupta awarded Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Cambridge
History of Art and Archaeology student Vivek Gupta completes PhD and begins as Postdoctoral Associate in Islamic Art at the University of Cambridge.
23rd June 2020
School of Arts PhD student awarded Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
School of Arts PhD candidate Chih-En Chen has been award The Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation (CCKF) Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships (2020-2021) to support his fourth year at SOAS.
6th June 2020
Kasia Ploskonka nominated Winner of CAPture Central Asia Photo Contest
SOAS PhD student Kasia Ploskonka has been nominated as one of the winners of the 2020 CAPture Central Asia Photo Contest, run by the Central Asia Program (CAP) at George Washington University.
25th May 2020
SOAS History of Art and Archaeology student interviewed on CNN
SOAS History of Art and Archaeology MA student Kaoru Akagawa gives interview with CNN on her challenge to revive ancient forms of Japanese calligraphy
17th April 2020
Sites of Encounter - School of Arts Photography Competition 2020
7th February 2020
Beyond Boundaries - School of Arts Photography Competition 2019
22nd March 2019
SOAS scholar publishes major new work on art in the Medieval Islamic Mediterranean
Anna Contadini, Professor of the History of Islamic Art at SOAS, University of London has edited and contributed to a new volume which seeks to change the understanding of medieval art and metalwork production around the Mediterranean.
1st October 2018
Call for Abstracts: Decolonising the Self: Representations of the Self in Art Theory and Practice across Cultures (Postgraduate Workshop)
7th August 2018
SOAS partners with OCR Exam board to boost teaching resources on implications of British colonial rule
The Department of History at SOAS University of London has partnered with OCR, a leading examinations board for secondary education, to create a ‘one-stop’ shop for A-level history teachers teaching the British Empire.
26th June 2018
SOAS scholar tackles taboo of internal slavery in West Africa with documentary on slavery in Mali
Dr Marie Rodet, Senior Lecturer in the History of Africa at SOAS University of London, has been helping to lift the taboo of internal slavery in West Africa with a documentary on the history of slavery in Kayes, Mali that has been screened to villages and schools in the region.
4th June 2018
Philanthropic donation to research the histories of objects from China’s Yuanmingyuan or ‘Summer Palace’
Louise Tythacott, Pratapaditya Pal Senior Lecturer in Curating and Museology of Asian Art, has been awarded a major philanthropic donation to undertake research on the histories and displays of objects from the Yuanmingyuan, or old ‘Summer Palace’, in Beijing.
The project will run until January 2019, and will result in a publicaton which traces the diaspora and displays of Yuanmingyuan artefacts in Britain and France.
9th March 2018
Newton Mobility Grant Project
12th December 2017
SOAS celebrates partnership with Sir Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art to secure future loan of Percival David Library and archives
SOAS University of London this week celebrated the strengthening of its relationship with the Sir Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art through the signing of a new Loan Agreement. The Agreement, signed by the School’s Director Baroness Valerie Amos CH and the Chair of the Percival David Foundation, Colin Sheaf, coincided with the inaugural Professorial Lecture by Professor Shane McCausland, who has held the Percival David Chair in Chinese Art since 2015.
11th December 2017
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