SOAS academic's community network, ATLAS Women receives Pro-bono Publico award

22nd October 2021

SOAS in the Media: 12-18 October

19th October 2021

Documenting collections in the remote 15th century Tibetan Buddhist Chödzong Monastery, Upper Mustang, Nepal

Christian Luczanits provides an update on his latest fieldtrip to Nepal in summer 2021.

18th October 2021

SOAS researchers awarded Leverhulme Trust funding for project ‘Grammatical variation in Swahili: contact, change and identity’

Professor Lutz Marten and Tom Jelpke to collaborate on four year project with researchers from University of Essex, Kenyatta University and the University of Dar es Salaam.

15th October 2021

SOAS in the Media: 5-11 October

12th October 2021

Emeritus Professor Richard Widdess receives grant from British Academy to fund research on music in Nepal

Emeritus Professor Richard Widdess receives grant from British Academy to fund research project entitled "Singing histories: a comparative survey of devotional singing groups (dāphā) in the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal". 

12th October 2021

SOAS congratulates Nobel Prize winner, Abdulrazak Gurnah

SOAS University of London has warmly welcomed the award of the 2021 Nobel Prize for Literature to Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah.

7th October 2021

SOAS hosts inaugural Climate Summit in partnership with Standard Bank

The two-day summit took place under the important and topical theme of Africa’s transition to net-zero.

6th October 2021

Zeinab Badawi appointed as President of SOAS

The award-winning broadcaster, journalist and SOAS alumna, Zeinab Badawi, has been appointed as the new President of SOAS.

5th October 2021

SOAS in the Media: 28 Sept - 4 Oct

5th October 2021

Ebony Initiative celebrates the end of its first Junior Research Summer Programme with end of programme ceremony

The Ebony Initiative celebrated the inaugural cohort of Junior Research Summer Programme scholars at SOAS on Thursday 30th September.

1st October 2021

€1.5 Million Research Grant awarded to the project ‘Heritage as Placemaking: The politics of Solidarity and Erasure in South Asia’

1st October 2021

SOAS academic wins Sussex International Theory Prize

SOAS's Rahul Rao won the prestigious Sussex International Theory Prize and Hagar Kotef is runner up. 

1st October 2021

SOAS academic awarded £733,597 AHRC grant to complete four-year project studying the grammatical marking of the conscious self in two Himalayan languages.

1st October 2021

SOAS to host book launch: Women and the UN: a new history of women’s international human rights

30th September 2021