Sam McBean: Death, Care, and Queer Kinship This talk explores what it means to form kinship at the end of life - to build connection based not on the promise of futurity, but through endings.
Decolonizing Economics: An Introduction Decolonization has long been debated across the social sciences, but the economics discipline has so far avoided such critical engagement. This book provides a much-needed intervention.
A Persian Archive of Early Modern Diplomacy: Letters and Emissaries between Golkonda and Isfahan This talk discusses select episodes in diplomatic exchange between the Safavid empire in Iran and the Quṭb Shāhī sultanate of Golkonda in the Deccan (peninsular southern India) in the first half of the seventeenth century.
Meeting Batul: Navigating multiple identities in contemporary India Conversation with Batul, a Delhi-based Muslim Indian LGBTQIA+ activist in transition, as she reflects on her powerful personal story and the causes she defends.
Gifted: Selected Artworks from the SOAS Collections ‘Gifted’ is an exhibition drawing upon SOAS's remarkably rich but relatively little-known art collection. Concentrating on modern and contemporary artworks, it displays a selection of works given as gifts and donations to SOAS and provides the opportunity to share and display many of these for the first time to encourage wider engagement with the SOAS Object and Artwork Collection.
Batul Batul is a compelling photography exhibition and documentary following the journey of Sambhav, a Sikh man from Old Delhi, as he transitions to Batul, a Muslim woman in Kashmir.
The concept of wabi in the tea ceremony In this lecture, Dr Kōzu will reconsider the fundamental interpretation of wabi in the Tea Ceremony.