Expert brings Shakespearian Hindi translations to big screen Dr Anandi Rao, Lecturer in South Asian Studies, provided her expertise in Hindi translations of Shakespeare for the ‘Hamlet’ film adaptation that stars Riz Ahmed.
SOAS in the Media: March 2026 A roundup of SOAS experts and research featured in the media this month.
SOAS-led report uncovers realities of community unrest in Leicester 2022 The inquiry 'Better Together: Understanding the 2022 Violence in Leicester' completed over the course of almost three years, represents the most comprehensive investigation into the Hindu-Muslim violence that occurred nearly four years ago.
Korea Foundation’s £2m endowed gift to advance Korean Studies SOAS has received a transformative endowment to establish a Chair in Korean Studies. The new post will drive forward innovation in research and teaching in this key field.
Call for Abstracts: BASAS Annual Conference 2026 The SOAS South Asia Institute is pleased to host the 2026 British Association of South Asia Studies (BASAS) Annual Conference, showcasing pioneering scholarship on South Asia from the Subcontinent and around the world.
The historic legacy of Taiwan's sugar railways explored in book ‘The Twilight Years of Taiwan's Sugar Railways: The World's Most Extraordinary Industrial Railway’ is set against the backdrop of rapid closure to industrial railway systems throughout the 1990s.
Call for Papers for the Eighth Annual Conference of the Japan Economy Network The Japan Economy Network (JEN) and the Japan Center for Economic Research with support from Hitotsubashi University and the German Institute for Japanese Studies invite submissions of papers and extended abstracts for the Eighth Annual JEN Conference, which will be held at the Japan Center for Economic Research in Tokyo on 27-28 August 2026.
Call for Papers: SOAS Centre for Palestine Studies 11th Graduate Research Seminar The Centre for Palestine Studies announces the call for papers for its 11th graduate research seminar, to be held on 22nd June 2026 in hybrid format, at SOAS, University of London and online.
The Resilience and Adaptation Mainstreaming Program (RAMP) convened its third online teacher training course on Program Design: Economic and Financial Appraisal The Resilience and Adaptation Mainstreaming Program (RAMP) recently convened its third online teacher training course on Program Design: Economic and Financial Appraisal for climate-resilient public investment, strengthening the capacity of university partners to deliver high-quality practitioner training to ministries of finance, planning and economics across the Global South.