New book on India’s regional politics shortlisted for major accolade ‘India’s Near East: A New History’ by Dr Avinash Paliwal has been shortlisted in the prestigious 2025 Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay New India Foundation Awards.
CPAS hosts policy roundtable on vigilantism in the Lake Chad Basin On 29 April 2025, the Centre for Pan-African Studies (CPAS) at SOAS, led by Dr Abdul Wando, convened a policy roundtable in Abuja, Nigeria, to examine the role of vigilante groups in the Lake Chad Basin.
A statement on SOAS student Samaria Ayanle We urge members of the SOAS community who have been affected by this news to reach out if you need support.
Call for papers: Authoritarianism, law, and the remaking of society ‘Social life of Law in Authoritarian Contexts’, project funded by the Leverhulme Trust at SOAS, University of London invites applicants for a workshop that seeks to draw attention to the social life of laws used by authoritarian states and leaders to change the composition of societies.
SOAS Centre for Sustainable Finance co-organises acceleration dialogue on 'Scaling Up Green Investment in Morocco and the Global South' Professor Ulrich Volz and Dr Yuen Lo discuss their proposals for strengthening domestic financial resource mobilisation in an event with the Moroccan development bank.
SOAS-Alphawood Postgraduate Diploma in Asian Art opens applications for forum facilitators The SOAS-Alphawood Postgraduate Diploma in Asian Art is looking to employ several forum facilitators to participate in the online discussion fora that will be integral to our new online programme being launched in October 2024.
Statements on the Palestine solidarity encampment at SOAS A serious incident took place on Tuesday 4 June that marked a significant escalation in the SOAS encampment’s protest activities.
Call for Papers: 2026 BRISMES Annual Conference Submissions are now open for the 2026 British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES) Conference, co-hosted by the SOAS Middle East Institute on 23–25 June 2026.