News

SOAS academic co-edits book exploring breakdown of trust between Muslim and non-Muslim communities in West

Dr Amina Yaqin, Senior Lecturer in Urdu and Postcolonial Studies at SOAS University of London, has co-edited the book Muslims, Trust and Multiculturalism: New Directions with Palgrave MacMillan which explores the themes of trust and multiculturalism across a range of perspectives, employing insights from political science, sociology, literature, ethnography and cultural studies.

12th June 2018

Dr. Hany Rashwan signed a publishing contract with the AUC University Press to publish his CCLPS Ph.D. thesis under the title: "Literariness and Aesthetics of Ancient Egyptian Literature: Arabic Jinãs in Postcolonial Poetics"

4th April 2017

ERC PhD studentship: Literature in the Horn of Africa

ERC funded PhD studentship opportunity as part of the Multilingual Locals and Significant Geographies project. The Horn of Africa case study will examine the history of literary production, circulation and reception in multilingual Horn of Africa.

6th March 2017

PhD candidate Hany Rashwan presents his paper 'Rediscovering the Ancient Egyptian forms of wordplay by using Arabic Jinās'

20th February 2017

Post-doctoral Researcher in the Literatures of the Maghreb announced

Opportunity for a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Literatures of the Maghreb for ERC-funded MULOSIGE project

2nd November 2016

Three PhD Scholarships on ERC MULOSIGE project

Three 3-year PhD scholarships on the ERC-funded MULOSIGE project

4th April 2016

SOAS scholar explores UK and China relations through Shakespeare and Tang Xianzu

Dr Tian Yuan Tan, Reader in Chinese Studies at SOAS University of London, has co-edited a book that explores cross-culturally the worlds of theatre in the time of William Shakespeare and Tang Xianzu.

10th March 2016

MULOSIGE Project Update March 2016

News from the ERC Multilingual Locals and Significant Geographies research project

7th March 2016

Post-doctoral positions on ERC MULOSIGE project announced

Two 3-year post-doctoral fellowships on the ERC-funded MULOSIGE project

23rd February 2016

Mind the literary gap: conference to examine absence of non-English literature in the west

SOAS Centre for Cultural Literary and Postcolonial Studies will co-host a conference exploring the absence of non-English literature in the western world. Writer and literary critic Marina Warner, chair of 2015 Man Booker International Prize, will be the keynote speaker.

20th November 2015

Francesca Orsini awarded €2.5 million grant to study world literature

Professor Francesca Orsini, Chair of the Centre for Cultural, Literary and Postcolonial Studies (CCLPS), has been awarded an ERC advanced grant of €2.5 million to study world literature from the perspective of multilingual societies.

28th October 2015

PhD candidate Hany Rashwan presents his paper, "Philosophical and literary argumentation methods in the Ancient Egyptian rhetorical system".

4th June 2015

CCLPS PhD Student Hany Rashwan wins International Society for the History of Rhetoric’s (ISHR) 2014 Research Fellowship

SOAS doctoral student, Hany Rashwan, PhD Cultural Literary and Postcolonial Studies, has been announced as one of just four winners of the International Society for the History of Rhetoric’s (ISHR) 2014 Research Fellowship.

16th January 2015

SOAS student playwright’s production on Olaudah Equiano to cap off Black History Month season at historic National Trust venue

SOAS student Adam Tulloch, BA History, will be directing his original piece entitled Olaudah Equiano, The Enslaved African from 26-29 November at the National Trust’s Sutton House in east London.

4th November 2014

PhD candidate Hany Rashwan presents at the Royal African Society’s annual African literature and book festival, "Africa Writes 2014"

Hany Rashwan will present papers in: The Royal African Society’s annual African literature and book festival, "Africa Writes 2014"; the “14th Conference of the International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature and Media"; in “The Language of Persuasion: Linguistic Approaches to Its Theory and Practice in the Classical World"; and in the workshop of “Ancient Egyptian Language and Texts 6."

26th July 2014