Rachel Harris wins 2022 BFE Book Prize Rachel Harris receives prestigious British Forum for Ethnomusicology Book Prize for her recent monograph Soundscapes of Uygur Islam
Applications for the Zoroastrian Summer School 2023 now open The course will take place in Rome from 26-30th June 2023.
Zeinab Badawi appointed as President of SOAS The award-winning broadcaster, journalist and SOAS alumna, Zeinab Badawi, has been appointed as the new President of SOAS.
SOAS economist listed as one of the world’s top thinkers in Prospect Magazine A SOAS expert has been nominated as one of the world’s top thinkers by Prospect Magazine for 2025, an accolade that spotlights individuals for their ideas and impact on the wider world.
SOAS Linguists Predict Unknown Words Using Language Comparison A new linguistic experiment uses computer-assisted techniques for historical language comparison to show how scholars can predict pronunciations of undocumented words
In Memoriam: Robin Munro (1952-2021) Robin Munro, human rights scholar and activist, and the author of pathbreaking studies of human rights abuses in China, passed away peacefully of complications from illness on May 19, 2021.
The SOAS China Institute welcomes new Visiting Scholars and Professorial Research Associate Professor Terry Sicular joins the SOAS China Institute as a Professorial Research Associate. Dr Yanwei Lin and Dr Hongxiang Li join the SOAS China Institute as Visiting Scholars from China.