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This sharing session resurfaces the connection between Southeast Asia and Hong Kong in co-producing the national and Sinophone cultures across the region.

‘Gifted’ is an exhibition drawing upon SOAS's remarkably rich but relatively little-known art collection. Concentrating on modern and contemporary artworks, it displays a selection of works given as gifts and donations to SOAS and provides the opportunity to share and display many of these for the first time to encourage wider engagement with the SOAS Object and Artwork Collection.

Join us for an in-depth and interdisciplinary conversation with Lara Sheehi, Ghassan Abu-Sittah, Louis Allday, and Rami Rmeileh about Dr Sheehi’s new book, From the Clinic to the Streets: Psychoanalysis for Revolutionary Futures (Pluto, 2026).

From the end of the 17th century, the British increased their incursions into the Pacific. From the Indian Ocean, British navigations had advanced towards the coasts of China to trade, while from Tierra del Fuego, Buccaneers from Jamaica or Virginia headed for the coasts of Peru and New Spain in search of booty. The Buccaneers later also became interested in extending their voyages to the coasts of Asia.

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

This event is part of the SOAS Economics Seminar Series 2025/26.

Launching the most comprehensive survey of the field of Bantu linguistics to date.

Author and documentary filmmaker Sada Malumfashi will speak about his practice as a writer, translator, and curator of the Hausa International Book and Arts Festival.

This two-day conference will address the future of the study of art, craft and design in a transnational perspective. This event is held in honour the memory of Toshio Watanabe (1945-2025), late Emeritus Professor of Japanese Arts and Heritage at the Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures, Founding Director of the Research Centre for Transnational Art, Identity and Nation (TrAIN) at University of the Arts London (UAL), and former President of the Japan Art History Forum.