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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 seminar examines the history behind the author’s new historical novel on Majapahit.

A specially commissioned performance by Xie Rong (aka Echo Morgan), who draws on autobiography to share thought-provoking narratives through body, gesture, and voice, interwoven with classical Chinese aesthetics.

This masterclass, designed to widen participation to SOAS, will examine the origins and fortunes of the Arab uprisings that unfolded in Tunisia, Egypt, and beyond in 2010–11.

This presentation draws on extensive ethnographic fieldwork to examine the difficulties Japanese female mountain practitioners have encountered within religious organisations that perpetuate patriarchal customs and hierarchical systems.

This lecture focuses on the compositional patterns of Vessantara Jātaka bas-reliefs scenes carved during this period and compares these visual representations with corresponding literary sources.

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.

This lecture explores how ornamental objects and surfaces move through multiple significations, reinforcing and complicating the nationalist histories of Korean women.

This lecture ventures into the realm of Japanese sonic imaginations, unveiling hidden connections between heritage discourses and the materialization of nostalgia through sound.