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This Seminar is part of the SOAS Economics Seminar Series - Autumn Term 2026.

Speakers: Dr Rosa Abraham (Azim Premji University), and Dr Yamini Aiyar (Brown University).

The SOAS Music Research Seminar Series explores a broad range of topics in music studies, including ethnomusicology, and music history, theory and analysis, across different regions and traditions.

This Centre for Palestine Studies book event brings into conversation the Pulitzer Prize winner Benjamin Moser and the award-winning novelist Ahdaf Soueif.

How does Hindutva turn festivals into spectacles of power? Drawing on his book Spectacle State, Brahma Prakash argues that this ritualisation of both tradition and secular values empties them out, allowing the state to prioritise ceremony over real socio-political questions.

Leila Aboulela: Writing as Refuge is the first full length biography of critically acclaimed Sudanese writer, Leila Aboulela as well as the first in a forthcoming series of African writers’ biographies.

This talk re-examines the textual and philosophical evidence to shed new light on the origins of classical Yoga philosophy.

The event celebrates the publication of the facsimile edition of the oldest surviving Pahlavi manuscript, the codex MK, copied by the priest Mehrabān Kayhusraw in 1322 CE.

Amid growing youth activism in South Asia, Fayyaz Yaseen reflects on Pakistan's democratic challenges and whether Generation Z can drive real change.

'Becoming Agarwal' traces the gendered and generational labour that sustains caste privilege.