Languages, Cultures and Linguistics News

Swahili students interviewed on BBC Focus on Africa and BBC Swahili to celebrate World Mother Tongue Day

Swahili students were interviewed on BBC Focus on Africa and BBC Swahili to celebrate World Mother Tongue Day.

1st March 2019

ERC funding for Dr. Alena Rettová's research on African philosophy

29th January 2019

SOAS works with N4 Library Islington to expand multilingual book collection

MULOSIGE, a SOAS University of London project exploring multilingualism is working with N4 library in Islington to expand their book collection in languages chosen by the local community.

19th November 2018

SLCL announces a number of PhD scholarships for academic year 2019/20

We are happy to announce that a number of PhD scholarships are available for the academic year 2019/20 for research on SLCL core fields.

7th November 2018

SOAS scholar receives The Bengal’s Pride Award for service to art and culture

Sahana Bajpaie, Senior Teaching Fellow in Bengali, at SOAS University of London has been awarded the Bengal’s Pride Award for her contribution to arts and culture with Tagore songs and folk music.

12th June 2018

SOAS Teaching Fellow meets the Prince of Wales to discuss tolerance and countering extremism

HRH the Prince of Wales welcomed a group of UK-Al-Azhar scholar's programme, including SOAS Teaching Fellow Mohammed Gamal Abdelnour, to share thoughts and offer reflections on ways of promoting religious tolerance and countering extremism.

8th May 2018

SOAS secures £5 million for strategically important and vulnerable languages

SOAS University of London has been awarded major funding from HEFCE’s Catalyst fund for a project to safeguard UK provision in strategically important and vulnerable languages (SIL) of Africa, Asia and the Middle East.

28th September 2017

British Academy honour for SOAS scholar and School’s President

SOAS University of London scholar Francesca Orsini, Professor of Hindi and South Asian Literature, and SOAS President Graça Machel have been honoured with fellowships by the British Academy.

25th July 2017

SOAS enhances place among London’s elite universities in 2018 Guardian Guide

SOAS University of London has risen 5 places to 25th in the latest Guardian University Guide and is also rated in the UK’s top 15 for students’ satisfaction with teaching.

16th May 2017

SOAS scholar publishes book on the social history of Hebrew

Lewis H Glinert, Professorial Research Associate at SOAS University of London, has published a book exploring the extraordinary hold that Hebrew has had on Jews and Christians, who have invested it with a symbolic power far beyond that of any other language in history.

28th February 2017

Writer and pioneering human rights lawyer Raja Shehadeh to speak at SOAS

Writer and lawyer Raja Shehadeh will be speaking at SOAS University of London on 9 March as part of SOAS’s Centenary Lecture Series. The lecture ‘Reflections on the failures of international law and human rights, and on sources of hope’ will focus on Israel and Palestine.