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Calling all SOAS Development Studies Master's students, and all applicants to our exciting MScs Programmes! Join us in person or online to hear from successful Development Studies alumni and learn from their career journeys.

Step into the radiant sound world of Pcha (Siaka Traoré), the son of balafon master Neba Solo, as he brings both heritage and innovation to the stage.

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.

Talk and discussion with Dr Mehak Faisal Khan on Saim Sadiq’s 2022 debut film 'Joyland' and its international impact.

This talk explores how motorcycle drivers and market traders create stability and order in their daily lives, despite a lack of formal jobs and support.

Is there any hope left for development? Is ‘small’ beautiful and are ‘mega-projects’ necessarily calamitous? Can intellectual trespassing be more helpful in guiding policy design than fashionable instruments with their often-bogus claims to ‘rigour’? Join us for what promises to be an engaging and thought-provoking conversation.

The book launch of Professor Jieyu Liu's latest book Embedded Generations will begin with an introduction of the book, followed by a Q&A session and drinks reception.

A compelling exploration of why some nations thrive while others stagnate, Jawied Nawabi will discuss how the power of the state, and its early struggles with landed elites, shapes long-term economic development.

Imperial and settler-colonial projects cannot be understood outside the grammar of race; 'Race and the Question of Palestine' explores how race operates as a framework for oppression in Palestine.