Women, life, freedom: achieving political change in Iran The latest Director's Lecture Series event on the ongoing protests in Iran will take place on Thursday 10 November from 6-7.30pm GMT on Zoom.
External event - The Many Faces of Alexander the Great Lecture by Ursula Sims-Williams for the Ancient India and Iran Trust.
SOAS and National Law University Delhi awarded grant for development of dual postgraduate degree on climate change SOAS University of London and National Law University Delhi have been granted a British Council Going Global Partnerships Exploratory Top-Up Grant of £15,000 to develop a joint degree programme on climate justice and climate law.
Kanika Sharma wins the Indian Law Review Best Article Prize The article seeks to rewrite important Indian legal judgments from a feminist lens
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.