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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.

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.

As part of the 2025 SOAS Centre of Taiwan Studies Summer School, we are proud to present the restored version of The Woman of Wrath, a landmark in feminist Taiwanese cinema, adapted from Li Ang’s acclaimed novel The Butcher’s Wife.

In the 2025 Centre of Taiwan Studies Summer School, we are excited to feature Dr Lev Nachman’s book talk, which offers a timely analysis of how identity, territory, and external threats shape party politics and movement mobilisation in Taiwan.

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.

As part of the 2025 SOAS Centre of Taiwan Studies Summer School, we are delighted to screen Girls’ School, a groundbreaking yet often overlooked work by one of Taiwan’s early female directors, LEE Mi-mi.

Join us for a discussion of Oishik Sircar's "Ways of Remembering," exploring how law and cinema shape memory of the 2002 Gujarat pogrom. Featuring conversation with Manisha Sethi and Shohini Ghosh.