College of Social Sciences Alumni Lecture and Reception Join us for an inspiring evening celebrating the work of SOAS’s College of Social Sciences.
Inaugural Lecture Series: Professors Scott Newton and Eddie Bruce-Jones In this Inaugural lecture, Professor Scott Newton and Eddie Bruce-Jones will be presenting 'Double Exposure: Post‑Soviet Imperiality, Archipelagic Blackness' and 'Indenture Post Mortem' respectively.
Book launch: 'Human Capital: The Tragedy of the Education Commons' Does today’s education system make better people or just better workers? Join Guy Standing as he explores how education has been reshaped by market logics, and what it would take to revive it for the common good.
Coming of Age In- and Out-of-Place: Frictions of Adolescent Mobility in Island Southeast Asia This talk concerns adolescent mobility and immobility in island Southeast Asia. It argues for the value of attending to the spatiality of adolescence as a period of biocultural development.
Reimagining Development: Bold Directions Towards a Thriving World What if development were imagined differently? Join Peter Sutoris as he explores bold alternatives, from degrowth to Indigenous knowledge, based on his book co-authored with Uma Pradhan, envisioning more just and ethical futures.
From loneliness to connection in later life: insights from Thailand and Myanmar This presentation explores how practices of everyday life shape experiences of loneliness and care among older Thai and Myanmar adults living along the northern Thailand–Myanmar border.
Development Studies Masterclass for Years 12 and 13: A Class-relational Perspective of Global Development This masterclass, designed to widen participation to SOAS, will explore how class shapes the process of development.
Intimacies of Global Sufism: Ne‘matullahi Shrines and Material Culture Between Iran and India This talk highlights how Ne‘matullahi Sufi shrines connected people, objects, and ideas across Iran, the Deccan, and Mughal India, and reconciled Sufi material asceticism with investment in monuments.
Ta Utdanning Higher Education Fair Oslo Meet a SOAS representative in Oslo and learn more about life and study at SOAS.