New Research Professor to join Development studies Professor Naomi Hossain will join SOAS as a Research Professor in Development studies from September 2023.
SOAS team awarded grant of over £250,000 for Southeast Asian art restitution project The Getty Foundation has awarded Professor Ashley Thompson and Dr Stephen Murphy a grant of $315,000 (approximately £280,000) for the project, ‘Circumambulating Objects: Paradigms of Restitution of Southeast Asian Art.’
SOAS hosts one day festival to remember Partition On Saturday 15 October, SOAS hosted a one-day festival celebrating South Asian culture through film, music, food and dance, in memory of the Partition of the Subcontinent 75 years ago.
SOAS President Zeinab Badawi to publish new book on African history SOAS President, Zeinab Badawi will publish a new book on African history in 2024.
Nobel Laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah to deliver keynote speech at BARAZA Swahili studies conference 2021 Nobel Prize winner for Literature and Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah will deliver the keynote speech at the SOAS BARAZA Swahili studies conference on 29 October 2022.
Professor Olivette Otele nominated for 2023 Harriet Tubman Prize and Laura Shannon Prize Professor Olivette Otele has been nominated for both the Lapidus Center’s Harriet Tubman Prize and the Nanovic Institute’s 2023 Laura Shannon Prize for Contemporary European Studies, for her book, African Europeans: An Untold Story.
Thinking through music: SOAS Festival of Ideas 2022 The latest SOAS Festival of Ideas presents a month of music and a varied programme of dance, film and visual arts events running from 29 October - 30 November.
Anthropology and International Relations hit the top 5 The study of Anthropology and International Relations at SOAS University of London are now among the country's top five after appearing in the latest national league tables.
New scholarship for Black British students pursuing an undergraduate degree We are proud to announce an exciting new partnership with The Cowrie Scholarship Foundation to offer talented Black British students funding to undertake a three-year undergraduate degree programme at SOAS. This year the inaugural Cowrie Scholarship was awarded to Remaya Robinson-Beckford.