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Monika Hinkel's lecture will examine how the phenomenon of Japonisme—the Western reception and adaptation of Japanese visual culture—significantly changed the course of modern art.

1980s South Korea saw many reports promising a 'new office revolution' or a 'new wind' that would dramatically change South Korean work life through automation (jadonghwa). Drawing on newspaper archives from the 1980s and 1990s, this presentation looks at some of the technological promises and narrative tropes that were used in this period to show how offices would allow greater connections to developed countries.

In this talk, Wayan Jarrah Sastrawan examines how communities in Java between the fifth and fifteenth centuries CE responded with distinctive strategies to record and transmit knowledge of the past. Drawing on sources in Javanese, Sanskrit, Malay, and related languages from the Indonesian archipelago, he provides a detailed account of diverse forms of history-making in premodern Java, reconstructing a dynamic culture in which written and nonwritten modes of transmission coexisted and intersected.

In this talk, Uditha Devapriya will present an overview of Wickramasinghe’s life and work in the context of cultural modernism in South Asia. The presentation draws on Devapriya’s research on Wickramasinghe, including his contribution to South Asian art, culture, and society.

Book launch of SOAS professor Gilbert Achcar's new publication, 'The Gaza Catastrophe: The Genocide in World-Historical Perspective'.

The first symposium organised by jointly the SOAS Centre of Korean Studies and Sungkyunkwan University K-Academic Expansion Center will offer an opportunity for both established academics and PhD students from the two institutions to present their current work on topics related to Korean Confucianism and the roles of women in Chosǒn society.

This event explores how historians have shaped the ways we think about international politics and diplomacy.

In the 2025 Centre of Taiwan Studies Summer School, we invite you to join us for a powerful night of screenings that centre care, kinship, memory, and womanhood in everyday life.