Lunar New Year Celebrations at SOAS | With Cheng Yu and Beibei Wang Join us for celestial and explosive music on traditional instruments from China to welcome the year of the Dragon.
Roundtable discussion: Comparing the partitions - India and Palestine 1947/1948 The recently published volume The Breakup of India and Palestine, examines the international and national circumstances of these decisions.
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.
American Empire and Ecclesiastical Property: The Friar Lands Purchase and the Fondo Filippine, 1903–1940 The Friar Lands Purchase of 1903 is one of the most notable facets of church-state relations in the Philippines under American rule (1898–1946), and yet its implications for US empire have not been fully parsed nor correctly understood.