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Earth Day at SOAS: should corporate owners be held to account for nature loss and the climate crisis?

Join a new initiative by SOAS University’s Department of Politics and International Studies to assess whether and how corporate owners should be held to account for nature loss and the climate crisis.

New Materialism, Buddhism, and the question of reflexivity

Join us for this fresh perspective on how Buddhist thought can contribute to contemporary debates about identity, knowledge, and relational existence.

Introduction to MA History at SOAS

Discover what makes the MA History at SOAS unique, with its focus on global, interconnected histories beyond the West.

Digital Sovereignty in Taiwan: Controlling the Internet in the Tsai and Lai Era

Sam Robbins gives a talk on how questions of internet access, control, and security have reshaped relations between activists, policymakers, and the state in the Tsai and Lai eras.

Digital democracy in Taiwan: opening the internet in the Ma and Tsai era

Sam Robbins gives a talk on the rise of g0v, civic tech, and the changing relationship between technology, activism, and the state during the Ma and Tsai eras.

Water Security: Transboundary Challenges

Join us for panel discussion and the launch of the WATCON hub as we explore evolving dynamics and the implications for water security, water justice and the human right to water.

The human in the loop: relay literary translation and minoritised languages in the AI era

Dr Darryl Sterk delivers the keynote lecture for this year’s Centre of Taiwan Studies Summer School on literary translation, AI, and the future of minoritised languages.

On the adoption of the cult of the serpent deities (nāgas) in Nepalese Buddhism

This talk examines how the Buddhist traditions of the Nepal Valley have adapted to autochthonous forms of practice, with a focus on the cult of the serpent deities (nāga).

Mapping, Transparency and Accountability on Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs)

As industrial livestock systems expand across regions and sectors, the lack of publicly accessible, reliable data on concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) poses major challenges for research, community advocacy, and regulatory oversight. This workshop brings together perspectives from research and practice to examine how better mapped CAFO data could support transparency, strengthen accountability processes, and enable communities to navigate and contest the impacts of industrial animal agriculture.