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Ramla Ali's story is one of unwavering resilience and determination. Born in war-torn Somalia, she defied cultural norms to pursue her passion for boxing, training late at night and challenging societal expectations.

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.  

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Dr Nana Sato-Rossberg, Head of the School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics and Chair of the Centre for Translation Studies at SOAS University of London, has published a new edited volume 『翻訳と文学 (Translation and Literature)』 : 翻訳と文学 | みすず書房 (msz.co.jp). The volume explores translation as creation, identity-construction, the vehicle of world-literature and beyond. 

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It is with great sadness that the department has learnt of the untimely death of Savitri Sperl on Saturday, 15 February 2020.

A number of SOAS scholars, including SOAS Director Professor Adam Habib, have contributed to the co-authored, The Oxford Handbook of the South African Economy, which was launched on 6 April 2022 with a keynote address from South Africa’s President, Cyril Ramaphosa. 

Professor Ashley Thompson delivered the 13th Frank H. Golay Memorial Lecture, on 'Restitution in the Making of Southeast Asia Today'.

Prof Bence Nanay on against the myth of rationality