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Dr Stefania Travagnin gives a talk on how the Taiwanese Buddhist charity Tzu Chi adapts, integrates, and finds recognition across diverse cultural and religious contexts worldwide.

This event is part of the SOAS Economics Seminar Series 2025/26.

Professor Paul Bramadat discusses the topic 'yoga keeps the score', and his most recent publication, 'Yogalands'.

The early modern history of the Joseon dynasty (1392–1910) in East Asia is often depicted as an era of political conflict between the king, the Hun’gu faction, and the Sarim faction.

This collaborative workshop explores the impact of ecocides in Lebanon.

Dr Kasia Szymanska talks about her book 'Translation Multiples: From Global Culture to Post-Communist Democracy'.

Dr Brett Parris will discuss the metaethical positions of the major yogic traditions and how these cohere with modern concerns and values.

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.