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Indonesia Film Weekend

Indonesia Film Weekend aims to address these perceptions through film screenings, featuring films that showcase Indonesia.

Public Diplomacy as a contributing factor to managing identity-based conflict: Taiwan repositions its identity and security status (2000 – 2020)

Dr Yung Lin examines whether public diplomacy can contribute to resolving the identity-based conflict between China and Taiwan regarding Taiwan’s political status.

Asymmetries in language and power - translation insights from Henning Bochert, Inua Ellams and Eve Leigh

In this talk, Henning Bochert is joined by Eve Leigh Writer and Inua Ellams Poems whose work Henning has translated. He will examine translation as a dynamic cultural practice that influences how societies perceive and engage with each other.

'The Gaza Catastrophe: The Genocide in World-Historical Perspective'

Book launch of SOAS professor Gilbert Achcar's new publication, 'The Gaza Catastrophe: The Genocide in World-Historical Perspective'.

The Manor House and Other Homes of William Adams: The English Samurai in Japan

This presentation explores the variety of environments where William Adams lived during his life in Japan, from 1600-20.

Linking critical minerals to economic transformation: how to move from wishful to strategic thinking

A large proportion of the minerals and metals deemed critical for low-carbon technologies/green transition are held in low and middle-income countries.

The sounds of Taiwan New Cinema

Dr Andy Birtwistle gives a talk on sound and modernity in Taiwanese cinema.

Coming of Age In- and Out-of-Place: Frictions of Adolescent Mobility in Island Southeast Asia

This talk concerns adolescent mobility and immobility in island Southeast Asia. It argues for the value of attending to the spatiality of adolescence as a period of biocultural development.