SOAS in the Media: August 2026 Highlights of SOAS experts in the media discussing key issues and topics this month.
Meet the Collector: Embroidery Traditions of Afghanistan with Karun Thakar Join collector Karun Thakar for a special event exploring Embroidery Traditions of Afghanistan at the SOAS Gallery.
Time, Space and Contexts: Multiple Perspectives on Museums, Heritage, and Art This two-day conference organised by Thammasat Museum of Anthropology in conjunction with the Centre of Southeast Asian Studies explores pertinent topics in the field of museum studies and heritage from a Southeast Asian perspective and includes a keynote by Centre Chair, Stephen Murphy on “The Geopolitics of Restitution: An analysis of recent disputes between Thailand and Cambodia”.
How the UK Home Office turns immigration enforcement into TikTok entertainment Why is the Home Office on TikTok? Dr Shreeta Lakhani explores how Secure Borders UK turns immigration into a viral spectacle, using rapid editing and recurring imagery of "dangerous migrant men" to normalise border enforcement and make it seem like protection rather than violence.
'Governor, Traveller, Scholar, Spy': Sir Cecil Clementi and the making of 'modern' Hong Kong In this talk, Graham Hutchings will introduce his new biography of Sir Cecil Clementi.
Professor Diana Barrowclough Dr Diana Barrowclough is a Research Professor of Financing Sustainable Development at the SOAS Centre for Sustainable Finance.
Selling 'Severance': What happens when Apple offers us a critique of capitalism? MA Global Media and Digital Cultures student, Claudio Antonio de Angelis, discusses the irony at the heart of the dystopian workplace thriller Severance, available on Apple TV.
Challenging corporate concentration in poultry systems – linking global to local level The project will examine the links between global corporate concentration of chicken genetics and local lived realities for smallholder farmers in Southern Africa and India.
Dr Nishmeet Singh Nishmeet Singh is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Economics at SOAS, University of London.