The 34th Sir Peter Parker Awards for Spoken Business Japanese (SPPA) We are delighted to announce the 34th Sir Peter Parker Awards for Spoken Business Japanese.
The inclusive story of Tzu Chi Dr Stefania Travagnin gives a talk on how the Taiwanese Buddhist charity Tzu Chi adapts, integrates, and finds recognition across diverse cultural and religious contexts worldwide.
Disrupting the narrative on Palestine This lecture by Ilan Pappé will discuss the power of vocabulary and language in the struggle for freedom in Palestine.
The morphopragmatics of Modern South Arabian This talk will analyse the functions of some analogous morphological categories in the Semitic Modern South Arabian languages.
The sounds of Taiwan New Cinema Dr Andy Birtwistle gives a talk on sound and modernity in Taiwanese cinema.
Kundalini’s modern transformation and its nationalistic politicisation This talk will examine kundalini, a Hindu tantric energy concept and goddess, and explore how its evolution over the 19th and 20th centuries.
Physical conflict in the world's legislatures: Why do legislators brawl? Dr Nathan F. Batto gives an online talk about his recent book 'Making Punches Count: The Individual Logic of Legislative Brawls'.
The Struggle for Hong Kong: A Decolonisation Lens This talk offers a new interpretation of popular protests in Hong Kong since 1997, when Britain handed its sovereignty over the territory to China.
Graduation Day 2026 SOAS is excited to be hosting the Summer Graduation Day 2026 at Friends House, Euston, London on Tuesday 8, Wednesday 9, and Thursday 10 September 2026.