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The workshop is dedicated to Jaina material culture in the widest sense.

Seitō (1911–1916) was a ‘proto-feminist’ magazine, published in Tokyo by a group of five women and was contributed to by over one hundred. Included among them were Hiratsuka Raichō and Otake Kōkichi—both no stranger to making their own way in life, despite what was expected of them.

To launch the SOAS History Seminar 2025/26, a roundtable with SOAS historians will reflect on their research journeys and the questions which inspire them today.

In the 2025 SOAS Centre of Taiwan Studies Summer School, we are delighted to welcome Dr Ratih Kabinawa to discuss Southeast Asian migrant workers’ activism in Taiwan.

This presentation draws on extensive ethnographic fieldwork to examine the difficulties Japanese female mountain practitioners have encountered within religious organisations that perpetuate patriarchal customs and hierarchical systems.

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.

Launch of Ben Lawrence's new book on the dynamics of Cambodia's constitutional landscape.

In the next Indian Art Circle lecture, Dr Henry Noltie (Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh) discusses an exhibition of botanical drawings by Indian artists currently on show at the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew.

As part of the 2025 SOAS Centre of Taiwan Studies Summer School, we are honoured to screen the award-winning film Super Citizen Ko, directed by Wan Jen, one of Taiwan’s most important social realist filmmakers.