Safety Regulation: For Whom? The Effects of Poultry Slaughter Line Speed Regulation on Firm Profits This event is part of the SOAS Economics Seminar Series 2025/26.
Examination culture: meritocracy and aspiration in a Thai monastic school This talk will explore the lives of adolescent novice monks studying at a Buddhist monastic school in northern Thailand.
'Taiwan Travelogue' in conversation Novelist Yáng Shuāng-zǐ and translator Lin King will discuss 'Taiwan Travelogue' (shortlisted for the 2026 International Booker Prize), historical fiction, translation, and the global reach of Taiwanese literature.
Book launch: 'Languages, Cultures, and Health in a Global City' Looking back on the COVID-19 era, this event will discuss how multilingual communities can prepare for unexpected situations.
Generative AI, agency, and the imperative of virtuosity: a Buddhist perspective In this talk, the speaker argues that humanity is nearing an evolutionary and ethical tipping point—an existential crisis that is most clearly manifest along the agential frontiers of human-AI interaction.
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.
Book Talk - Evolution of Migration (이민의 진화) 'Evolution of Migration' introduces the last 150 years’ history of Korean migration to Australia. It discovers the first Korean immigrant in Australia, John Corea who landed in Australia in 1876, and the first Korean international student, Kim Ho Yul who studied in Melbourne in 1921-1924.