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With great sadness the SOAS Centre for Palestine Studies has received the news that the distinguished poet, scholar, translator, and anthologist Salma Khadra Jayyusi departed this life on 20 April 2023, having just celebrated her one hundredth birthday.

Professor Reinhard Bachmann gives interview to China Daily

Professor Joanna Newman MBE FRSA - currently the Chief Executive and Secretary General of the Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU) - has been appointed as Provost. 

From 27-31 March 2023, the University Network for Strengthening Macrofinancial Resilience to Climate and Environmental Change) convened the first Adaptation Finance and Risk Management Workshop co-organised with the Resilience and Adaptation Mainstreaming Program (RAMP) led by the World Resources Institute (WRI).

Alphawood Foundation Chicago announced this week a gift to SOAS University of London of over £1.8 million to support the SOAS-Alphawood Postgraduate Diploma in Asian Art programme, with a focus on expanding opportunities for students from Southeast Asia.

Tokyo-based think tank of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the SOAS Centre for Sustainable Finance organised a three-day virtual conference on Sustainable Finance for Asia’s Transition to Net Zero.

Director of the SOAS Centre for Sustainable Finance, Professor Ulrich Volz, was invited to speak at the Second G20 Sustainable Finance Working Group (SFWG) meeting under India’s G20 Presidency.

Funding has been awarded to two SOAS researchers: Professor Almut Hintze will be analysing prehistoric oral culture of the Indo-Iranians, and Professor Rachel Harris will be leading a project on a musical tradition found across Western and Central Asia.