The 'Strangers' Home Screening of a documentary exploring how sailors from across the British empire and beyond built a community around London's Docks in the late 19th and mid-20th centuries.
Meet your future classmates Join our upcoming webinar to discover how to meet your future classmates, start building connections, and stay in the loop with life at SOAS.
Violence, conflict and changing global orders: Marking 25 years of the MSc in Violence, Conflict and Development at SOAS SOAS is convening a half day event to mark 25 years of the MSc Violence, Conflict and Development (VCD) to discuss these issues, and bringing together scholars, current students, alumni, and practitioners.
The Backstage of Democracy: India's Election Campaigns and the People Who Manage Them Over the past decade, Indian election campaigns have been reshaped by data-driven strategists and political consultants, moving beyond mere technological change. This talk explores how this hidden world of professionalised campaigning is transforming power structures, expertise, and public participation in democracy.
Swooning Sufis and Roaming Bicycles: A Roundtable on Translating South Asian Literature Join us for a roundtable exploring new translations of South Asian literature. Hear from scholars and translators working on texts from 17th-century Urdu poetry to contemporary Hindi fiction, and the creative and critical challenges of bringing historic and modern South Asian voices to global readers.