Research and Evidence Facility: Informing migration policy in the Horn of Africa Collating and producing evidence and policy relevant knowledge to generate a better understanding of the drivers of instability, migration, and displacement in the greater Horn of Africa, and the dynamics of cross-border economies and centre/periphery relations.
Julia Taylor Climate justice, Energy transition, Social reproduction, Feminist economics, Inequality.
SOAS-QFC Islamic Finance Public Lecture and Workshop on Islamic Cryptocurrencies This year’s SOAS-QFC Islamic Finance Public Lecture and Workshop gathered outstanding luminaries of Islamic finance and jurisprudence (fiqh) to discuss cryptocurrencies from an Islamic perspective and its latest developments in the United Kingdom, MENA and MESEA regions.
Irem Cihan Irem Cihan is a Ph.D. candidate in in Politics and International Studies at SOAS University of London, researching how aesthetic imaginaries and performances of nostalgia and the future shape post-imperial and post-colonial national biographies and ontological security in South Korea and Turkey.
Life Beyond the Border: Film & Stories of Escape from North Korea Join us for a film screening of 'On The Way To South', followed by a panel discussion and Q&A with the film directors who document the heroic stories of escapes from North Korea, together with first-hand testimonies from North Korean escapees.
Professor Rebecca Gould brings research on comparative poetics beyond Europe to SOAS Rebecca Ruth Gould, currently Professor, Islamic World and Comparative Literature, at the University of Birmingham, will join SOAS University of London as a Distinguished Research Professor of Comparative Poetics and Global Politics in the School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics