Arbitration Practitioner Training Event: Cairo 2025 SOAS Arbitration and Dispute Resolution Centre (SADRC) in collaboration with the Capacity Building Committee of the African Arbitration Association (AfAA) invite you to participate in a Joint Arbitration Practitioner Training Event.
Return Workshop: An idea, practice, and contested horizon CMDS invites you to a two-day workshop centred on the concept of return, understood as an idea, practice, and contested horizon.
A Drunken Bee – Sunthorn Phu and the Buddhist landscapes of early Bangkok Sunthorn Phu (1786–1855) is an unlikely figure through which to understand nineteenth-century Buddhism in Siam. Despite being described as a “drunken writer” by the court astrologer after his death, he is now the national poet of Thailand. In this talk, Paul Lewis McBain shall explain how his newly-published book A Drunken Bee argues that the irreverent, rebellious, and parodic voice of Sunthorn Phu is an invaluable resource for understanding the Buddhism of early Bangkok.
Life Beyond the Border: Film & Stories of Escape from North Korea 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.
Exploring Taiwan at Roma Tre: Development and Achievements Professor Rosa Lombardi shares how Taiwan Studies can expand in a European context through a dynamic interaction between research, pedagogy, and cultural dissemination.
Imaging of Asian women in historical photography 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.
Career Talk: Bringing Taiwanese Literature and Scholarship Across Languages 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.