SOAS Alumni Receptions in Southeast Asia Join our annual Vice‑Chancellor Alumni Receptions in Southeast Asia this April & May!
Book Launch: Lara Sheehi, From the Clinic to the Streets: Psychoanalysis for Revolutionary Futures Join us for an in-depth and interdisciplinary conversation with Lara Sheehi, Ghassan Abu-Sittah, Louis Allday, and Rami Rmeileh about Dr Sheehi’s new book, From the Clinic to the Streets: Psychoanalysis for Revolutionary Futures (Pluto, 2026).
ReSIA: Sacred Power: The Motif of the Seven Magical Signs The motif of the Seven Magical Signs is a set of seven symbols believed to represent the Most Exalted Name of God. They are discussed in texts on magic such as the Shams alma‘arif al-kubra and appear on amulets and various talismanic objects.
Editor and chapters talk: 'Routledge Handbook of Chinese Media', 2nd Edition Dr Ming-Yeh T. Rawnsley, Dr Hsin-I Sydney Yueh, and Dr Jens Damm discuss the second edition of the Routledge Handbook of Chinese Media.
Postgraduate Student Panel Discussion: Life at SOAS Get an authentic feel for SOAS, directly from the students who live and study here every day.
The everyday lives of gay men in Hainan: sociality, space and time This talk presents ethnographic research on gay men in Hainan, an economically and socially marginal Chinese province.
BATA 2026 International Conference The BATA 6th Annual International Conference, on the study of Arabic language, literature, linguistics, translation, and culture, is hosted by SOAS.