Food and heritage: the politics of food Dr Asma Khan, founder of Darjeeling Express, will deliver the Food Studies Centre's Annual Distinguished Lecture of 2026
Rethinking the economy: ideas, power and the choices shaping our world Join us for this interdisciplinary academic panel exploring how the global economy is shaped and who it really works for.
A Night for Venezuela: Food, Music and Fundraising An evening of Venezuelan food, live music, DJ sets and solidarity at SOAS Student Bar, raising emergency funds for Venezuela after the devastating double earthquake of 24 June.
The Energy Body: Yoga between Evidence and Experience What is the subtle or 'energy' body in Yoga, and what relevance does it have for contemporary practice? This summit brings together historians, scholars, researchers, and experienced practitioners to explore Yoga’s unseen dimension.
Exploring Rāmacandra’s Tattvayogabindu: Implications for Late Medieval and Pre-Modern Yoga Research This online webinar explores Rāmacandra’s Tattvayogabindu, a previously little-studied Sanskrit work on Rājayoga composed in northern India during the first half of the 16th century.
The authorship of the Yoga Sutra and its oldest commentary This talk re-examines the textual and philosophical evidence to shed new light on the origins of classical Yoga philosophy.
The Kenshoku Collection: A Unique Archive of Japanese Food Culture The presentation introduces the Kenshoku Collection, a unique archive of more than 200,000 materials related to Japanese food culture, accumulated over approximately forty years.
Book talk: 'Monarchies of Extraction: The Gulf States in the Global Food System' Charting the economics and politics of the Gulf through an examination of its food system, Christian Henderson demonstrates how these states constitute a distinct social metabolism.
Language Centre film evening: Tamil Join the Language Centre for their Language of the Month film evening. This June, they are celebrating Tamil.