SOAS Centre of Taiwan Studies Summer School 2025 The SOAS Centre of Taiwan Studies is excited to present a 6-day Summer School programme filled with engaging talks, roundtables, film screenings, and student symposium.
'Archiving Gaza in the Present': Art, Memory, Erasure This event will mark the publication of the book 'Archiving Gaza in the Present', co-edited by Professor Dina Matar and Dr Venetia Porter.
'The Precarious Past in Premodern Java' Wayan Jarrah Sastrawan examines how communities in Java between the 5th and 15th centuries responded with distinctive strategies to record and transmit knowledge of the past.
Wen-chin Ouyang: 'Spectacle, spectator, spectacular: exuberant multilingualism in the 19th century Arabic print culture'
Economics Masterclass for Years 12 and 13: Economic Perspectives on Development This masterclass, designed to widen participation to SOAS, will explore the hidden social and environmental costs of the global fast fashion industry.
Public Diplomacy as a contributing factor to managing identity-based conflict: Taiwan repositions its identity and security status (2000 – 2020) Dr Yung Lin examines whether public diplomacy can contribute to resolving the identity-based conflict between China and Taiwan regarding Taiwan’s political status.
Sam McBean: Death, Care, and Queer Kinship This talk explores what it means to form kinship at the end of life - to build connection based not on the promise of futurity, but through endings.
The Serpent's Tale: Kundalini, Yoga, and the History of an Experience The SOAS Centre of Yoga Studies is delighted to bring together Ass. Professors Sravana Borkataky-Varma and Anya Foxen for a discussion about their most recent publication, The Serpent's Tale: Kuṇḍalinī, Yoga, and the History of an Experience.