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Launch of SOAS Taiwan Studies Summer School 2026, bringing together scholars, practitioners, filmmakers, and students for a week of discussion on some of the most pressing and generative questions in Taiwan studies today.

Dr Evan Dawley gives a talk on his book ‘Becoming Taiwanese: Ethnogenesis in a Colonial City, 1880s–1950s’, reflecting on its making, arguments, and afterlives.

Dr Evan Dawley gives a talk on Taiwan’s history from a people-centred perspective, tracing the long-term formation of the island’s contemporary polity.

Professor Lee An-Ru gives a talk on the book 'Why Taiwan', which asks why Taiwan matters as an object of scholarly inquiry beyond China-centred frameworks.

Professor Lee An-Ru gives a talk on her book 'Haunted Modernities', exploring women workers, public memory, and the remaking of heritage in postindustrial Taiwan.

This event explores what AI is, what it can and cannot do, and why there is so much scepticism around it.

Hosted by the SOAS Library, 'Insistent Focus' presents an evening of short films by women filmmakers from the global majority, featuring works that explore displacement, identity, memory, and political imagination across diverse cinematic styles.

A roundtable on the death penalty in Taiwan, bringing together legal, activist, and film perspectives on public debate, punishment, and abolition.

Join us for an afternoon of Urdu poetry exploring Muharram traditions in South Asia.