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Wael Al-Dahdouh will reflect on his experiences reporting from Gaza—balancing the demands of war journalism with the personal struggles faced by Gazan reporters.

1980s South Korea saw many reports promising a 'new office revolution' or a 'new wind' that would dramatically change South Korean work life through automation (jadonghwa). Drawing on newspaper archives from the 1980s and 1990s, this presentation looks at some of the technological promises and narrative tropes that were used in this period to show how offices would allow greater connections to developed countries.

Stefania Barca uncovers the environmental history and political ecology of labour to shed new light on the potentiality of workers as ecological subjects

Dr Willy Lam will focus on Xi Jinping's relations with the people's Liberation Army (PLA) top brass.

In the 2025 SOAS Centre of Taiwan Studies Summer School, we are pleased to welcome Professor Ling-fang Cheng to share her insights on gender politics and reproductive rights in Taiwan.

Chinese internet fiction ('netfic') tends not to be highly regarded for its aesthetic accomplishments; however, this talk explores the aesthetic functions of netfic from a premodern perspective.

This talk will historicise the anxieties that nation-states encode in their body politic, examining relations between China and India across their Himalayan border.

Michelle Ho traces the genders manifesting alongside Japanese popular culture in Akihabara, an area in Tokyo renowned for the fandom and consumption of anime, manga, and games.

This panel explores the intersection of two, usually siloed, global crises: climate and mental health, around the connecting thread of heat.