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China’s newly-amended arbitration law: progress and challenges

Join us for a discussion hosted by the SOAS Arbitration and Dispute Resolution Centre with Dr Wei Sun, Partner at Zhong Lun Law Firm, who specialises in international investment and commercial arbitration.

Ancient Kedah As A Trans-Oceanic Economic Hub: Recent Findings In The Bukit Choras Archaeological Site

This lecture presents Ancient Kedah, specifically the Bujang Valley complex, not as a peripheral entity but as a pivotal trans-oceanic economic hub within the maritime Silk Road.

Ancientness, Myth, and Sonic Imagination: Making Persian Music Legible in Israel

In this talk Edoardo Marcarini will discuss how, through the mobilisation of a discourse of ancientness, Persian music has gained legitimacy in Israel.

Dialogue of the Present

An introduction to North Korean art and challenges in assembling a collection

Nicholas Bonner has been collecting North Korean art since 1993 and will discuss his history of collecting and the challenges he has faced over the years.

Book launch: 'Taiwan Undaunted'

MA Taiwan Studies alumnus Neal E. Robbins gives a talk on his new book, “Taiwan Undaunted: In Search of the Nation That Cannot Call Itself a Nation”.

'On The Semicivilized: Coloniality, Finance, and Embodied Sovereignty in Cairo'

An in-depth conversation with Julia Elyachar about her book, 'On the Semicivilized: Coloniality, Finance, and Embodied Sovereignty in Cairo'.

The Futures of Animism

This forum invites participants to reconsider the entanglements of materiality and life through the lens of animism as a mode of thought for the future.

Inaugural Lecture Series: Professors Awino Okech and Dan Plesch

In this Inaugural lecture, Professor Awino Okech and Professor Dan Plesch will be presenting lectures on "Feminist worldmaking: On knowledge infrastructures and social transformation" and "Weapons controls and Human Rights: Thinking globally acting globally" respectively.