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When is a temple a museum? How is a museum in the temple? I explore these and other questions through the lens of Buddhist merit-making. This focus on Shan temples in Myanmar and northern Thailand, invites responses to the notion that localised practices of collecting and curating, challenge conventional narratives about Shan Buddhist culture in Southeast Asia. 

Join us for the screening of 'Tegkang' directed by Josh Nawan, Director, an award-winning Sarawakian filmmaker.

As part of the 'Global Taiwan—Literature and Translation Workshop', Dr Aoife Cantrill and Kiera Johnson shares their experiences working with Taiwanese literature and scholarship.

Professor Rosa Lombardi shares how Taiwan Studies can expand in a European context through a dynamic interaction between research, pedagogy, and cultural dissemination.

This seminar explore approaches to the premodern care and treatment of Buddhist material culture from Dunhuang through selected case studies.

The 2025 SOAS Artist-in-Residence Fellowship of the Shapoorji Pallonji Institute of Zoroastrian Studies presents a new major solo exhibition of Karl Singporewala’s sculptural interpretations of Zoroastrian symbolism.

Join us for a film screening of 'On The Way To South', followed by a panel discussion and Q&A with the film directors who document the heroic stories of escapes from North Korea, together with first-hand testimonies from North Korean escapees.

Wael Al-Dahdouh will reflect on his experiences reporting from Gaza—balancing the demands of war journalism with the personal struggles faced by Gazan reporters.

Author Elaine Chiew will discuss the academic research she conducted as an early historian into the self-imaging of Chinese women in early Singapore photography as a limited exercise of agency that formed the background of her novel The Light Between Us.