Transnational advocacy: big law, pro bono, and the rule of law This Masterclass examines the changing landscape of transnational advocacy at a moment of rising authoritarianism and shrinking civic space.
Cross-border Insurgent Solidarities and Abolitionist Infrastructures of Care This talk emerges as collaborative work with organising at the intersection of migrant justice, abolitionist and decolonial praxis.
Indigenous Knowledge Production: Promoting Hausa cultural Production through festivals and translation Author and documentary filmmaker Sada Malumfashi will speak about his practice as a writer, translator, and curator of the Hausa International Book and Arts Festival.
SOAS Public Music Research Seminar Series: Hearing the Spirits of the Dead as the Theorists of the Living in Zimbabwe The SOAS Public Music Research Seminar Series is a valuable forum for ethnomusicology and related fields in London, bringing rising and established scholars to share innovative music research with SOAS audiences.
MA Global Journalism - Truth to Power Discover how the MA Global Journalism helps you build a confident, impactful journalistic voice.
Climate and Development Finance in a Fast-Changing World This lecture is delivered by Mahmoud Mohieldin, the editor of Policy-Driven Climate and Development Finance: Strategies for Equitable Solutions, and draws directly on the book’s analysis to examine why current climate finance arrangements are failing and how they can be reformed.
Book launch: 'Ocean, As Much As Rain: Stories, Lyrical Prose, and Poems from Tibet' Join the editors and translators for the launch of 'Ocean, As Much As Rain: Stories, Lyrical Prose, and Poems from Tibet' by Tsering Woeser.
The representations of Luzon and Formosa in William Hacke's atlas (c.1690): New projects for British navigation in the Pacific From the end of the 17th century, the British increased their incursions into the Pacific. From the Indian Ocean, British navigations had advanced towards the coasts of China to trade, while from Tierra del Fuego, Buccaneers from Jamaica or Virginia headed for the coasts of Peru and New Spain in search of booty. The Buccaneers later also became interested in extending their voyages to the coasts of Asia.
The Cost of Protection: Rethinking the Philippine State and Its Regional 'Proactive' Labor Migrant Protection Standards in the Gulf (1974-2024) When the 1970s oil boom emerged in the Gulf region, Asian labor- sending states strategically implemented labor export policies to exploit regional labor shortages and support long-term economic growth amid their financial crises.