Alifia Marina Syarfi Labour Economics, Gender, Informal Economy, Political Economy, Monetary Economics
SOAS Digital Research Network The SOAS DRN is uniquely positioned to understand the impact of digital technologies across Africa, Asia and the Middle East.
Fragments and Missing Pieces: The Puzzle of Editing a Kharoṣṭhī Birch-bark Manuscript The workshop explains the process of editing a birch-bark manuscript, using the example of the Mahāyāna sūtra.
Mahāyāna Without the Concept of Mahāyāna: Evidence From an Early Kharoṣṭhī Manuscript from Gandhāra This lecture will present the content of the Kharoṣṭhī manuscripts from Gandhāra, discussing parallels and its broader context within Mahāyāna literature.
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.
Call for Papers: 2026 BRISMES Annual Conference Submissions are now open for the 2026 British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES) Conference, co-hosted by the SOAS Middle East Institute on 23–25 June 2026.
Continuous Clarity: Strategic Knowledge without Falter Arthur Mason explores the kinds of knowledge and visuality that enables the reduction of complexity into forms of simplicity to make a judgement about tomorrow.