Distinguished Lecture Series: Professor Craig Clunas SOAS-Alphawood Asian Art Programme alumni reception with a lecture from Professor Craig Clunas.
After equality: queer television, fan labour, and sapphic memory in Taiwan Dr Eva Cheuk-Yin Li gives a talk on queer fandom, sapphic media, and the gap between legal recognition and cultural representation in Taiwan.
Violence, conflict and changing global orders: Marking 25 years of the MSc in Violence, Conflict and Development at SOAS SOAS is convening a half day event to mark 25 years of the MSc Violence, Conflict and Development (VCD) to discuss these issues, and bringing together scholars, current students, alumni, and practitioners.
Local Voices, Living Words: exhibition launch, talk and guided tours Join us to celebrate the opening of 'Local Voices, Living Words', a new SOAS Library exhibition that brings to light the translators, teachers and collaborators behind missionary linguistics in the Asia Pacific.
Hudood: Rethinking boundaries symposium Hudood: Rethinking Boundaries introduces contemporary art from the Barjeel Art Foundation, with a focus on the overarching theme of ‘boundaries’ as both a subject and a tool for meaningfully accessing a diverse array of art from the Southwest Asia and North Africa (SWANA) region.
New Frontiers of Sustainable Structural Transformation and Industrial Policy A two-day hybrid conference exploring new frontiers in sustainable structural transformation and industrial policy in the Global South.
Graduation Day 2026 SOAS is excited to be hosting the Summer Graduation Day 2026 at Friends House, Euston, London on Tuesday 8, Wednesday 9, and Thursday 10 September 2026.
The Penrose Lectures 2025/26 Christos Pitelis, Professor of Strategy and International Business at University of Southampton Business School will deliver two public lectures.
Birds, wings and diadems: Zoroastrian symbols in Parthian and Sasanian art This lecture will explore the intricate relationship of kingship and religion in the art of Parthian and Sasanian Iran.