How 'woke' is EDI? Join our expert panel to explore how universities can better balance inclusion and free expression around culturally sensitive issues.
London Alumni Gathering Your SOAS Alumni London group invite you to an alumni gathering to connect with your fellow alumni on Thursday 25 June 2026
“Covid taught us that equity is what is needed": Winnie Byanyima speaks on global health at SOAS SOAS welcomed Winnie Byanyima, Executive Director of UNAIDS, for a discussion on how nations across the world can challenge global health injustices and work towards a more equitable future.
Generative AI, agency, and the imperative of virtuosity: a Buddhist perspective In this talk, the speaker argues that humanity is nearing an evolutionary and ethical tipping point—an existential crisis that is most clearly manifest along the agential frontiers of human-AI interaction.
Doing fieldwork in Taiwan: from research design to writing and publication Roundtable discussion on doing fieldwork in Taiwan, bringing together scholars and researchers to reflect on how projects change from research design to writing and publication.
Colours of Water, Colours of Ground: Pigments, Landscape, and an Ecocritical Approach to Colour in Indian Painting What colour is water? Exploring this deceptively simple question through Indian manuscripts of the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries, Prof. Jinah Kim (Harvard University) reveals how artists’ choices of colour encode changing relationships between humans and their environment.