The School hosted its first graduation celebration event in Singapore, marking the graduation of 40 Alphawood Scholarship students. The event included four cohorts of Alphawood Scholars who graduated from SOAS between 2014 and 2018, completing Masters and Postgraduate Diploma programmes in the Department of History of Art and Archaeology at SOAS. Graduates came from across the region to take part in the celebratory event at the Asian Civilisations Museum.
The scholarships are open to students wishing to study a range of courses from Postgraduate Diploma to Doctorate level. The purpose of the Scholarships programme is capacity building therefore support will be available to successful candidates who require extra English language training.
Please note that successful candidates will be asked to provide valid UKVI approved English language test results to demonstrate that they hold the minimum UK Borders Agency requirement to obtain a Tier 4 Student visa.
Please visit the Alphawood Scholarships web page for more information on candidate eligibility and how to apply.
Commissioning new works and developing ongoing projects by 11 artists from, or working in, the Philippines – each of whom examine transnational and temporal themes in their practice – as well as featuring a display of materials from the never before exhibited Ifor B. Powell archive held at SOAS, Motions Of This Kind will chart the historical and contemporary forces linking this archipelagic chain with other key spheres of global power. By placing the theme of belatedness as our principal concern however – as both a concept, reference, and argument – the project will underscore the way time has been used both as a weapon of power and a tool of everyday resistance, a way of dominating the marginalised and creating alternative imaginations alike.
The exhibition runs at the Brunei Gallery until 22 June.