Campaign News
Monday 10th July 2017
SOAS secures £5 million gift to support Zoroastrian Studies
SOAS is delighted to announce a £5 million donation to create the world-leading SOAS Shapoorji Pallonji Institute of Zoroastrian Studies, and to support scholarships and public engagement.
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Tuesday 13 June 2017
SOAS celebrates Felix Scholarships
We were honoured to host the annual Felix Scholar’s reception last week welcoming more than 50 guests made up of Felix Scholars from SOAS, University of Reading and University of Oxford. The scholarships are supported by the Felix Scholarship Trust, for postgraduate students.
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Thursday 27 March 2017
Launch of Questions worth asking in Lagos
We were delighted to celebrate the launch of the Questions worth asking Campaign in Lagos, Nigeria with a large crowd of alumni, VIP guests and friends. A panel chaired by Dr Emilia Onyema, Senior Lecturer in International Commercial Law at SOAS discussed 'The Girl-Child education in Nigeria: problems and prospects' with Dr Simeon Obidairo, Aisha Muhammed-Oyebode and Aisha Ahmad, and we were honoured to be joined by Professor Wole Soyinka, Nobel Laureate and SOAS Honorary Fellow.
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Read a wonderful interview with SOAS ambassador HE Mrs Olutoyin Saraki in Life Today
View photographs from the Campaign launch and Centenary event
Donation from AXA Research Fund to create a new Professorial post
Professor Victor Murinde has been appointed AXA Professor in Global Finance in the School of Finance and Management at SOAS University of London. This is a new permanent academic position, created by SOAS and endowed by the AXA Research Fund.
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Wednesday 15 March 2017
Donation towards digitisation of endangered language
We are delighted to have received £2,500 from The Patron’s Fund to support the digitisation of over three hundred interviews carried out by Dr Sarah Stewart, mainly in the Dari language, recorded as part of a research project on contemporary Zoroastrian communities in Iran.
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Find out SOAS’s ambitions for the study of languages, and the study of religions
Wednesday 8 March 2017
Scholarships for African Students
SOAS University of London is delighted to announce a generous donation of £150,000 from the Allan and Nesta Ferguson Charitable Trust, renewing their support of scholarships for African students for the next three academic years.
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Tuesday 21 February 2017
Donation to the Centre of Buddhist Studies
We are grateful to the Khyentse Foundation for a donation to the Centre of Buddhist Studies at SOAS to launch a new programme of public events called Buddhism InsideOut, and to support its ongoing work such as the Buddhist Forum lecture series, which was established in 1987.
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Tuesday 17 January 2017
Launch of Questions worth asking in New Delhi, India
Baroness Amos, SOAS alumni, friends and other distinguished guests attend the launch of Questions worth asking: the Campaign for SOAS University of London, in New Delhi. The guests were treated to a debate on the question 'Is Diplomacy Dead?' by a panel including Mr C Uday Bhaskar - President of the Society for Policy Studies, SOAS alumnus Alexander Evans - Britsh Deputy High Commissioner for New Delhi, and Dr Hardeep Singh Puri -
Former Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations.
Read a report on the debate from our partners, the Society for Policy Studies
Thursday 15 December 2016
SOAS launches scholarship programme for students from West Bengal
Thanks to the generosity of the Government of West Bengal, we are delighted to announce the Bishwa Bangla Scholarships for postgraduates at SOAS.
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Wednesday 30 November 2016
What is the place of religion in the modern world?
A new five-year lecture series in Chinese Buddhism has been launched thanks to a donation from The Robert H N Ho Family Foundation. The lectures will allow a wide audience to approach Chinese Buddhism in its full richness and complexity, and encourage them to contribute their answers to what the place of this ancient religion is in our modern world.
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Tuesday 1 November 2016
SOAS celebrates scholarships and philanthropy
On the evening of 1 November, around 150 guests - scholars, donors, academics and other friends of the School - gathered to celebrate the impact of scholarships on SOAS and to meet with other scholars and donors. There were speeches from Director of SOAS Baroness Valerie Amos CH along with scholarship recipients Onen David Ongwech from Uganda and Donya Nasser from the US.
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Thursday 13 October 2016
New York Launch of SOAS Questions worth asking
We were delighted to launch the Campaign for SOAS in New York last night with Baroness Amos hosting the American Friends of SOAS (AFSOAS), and other alumni, friends and donors. Guests watched our thought provoking campaign film, and heard from David Miliband - President and CEO of the International Rescue Committee and former UK Foreign Secretary, and Laura Hammond - Reader in Development Studies at SOAS, speaking about the international refugee crisis.
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