Advice for SOAS graduates: “Don’t become contented, become determined" This year's SOAS Honorary Graduands share their life and career advice for graduates navigating the next chapter.
‘New and additional’: why funding climate finance from aid budgets is a problem Professor Michael Jennings argues that donors have failed to provide the promised new and additional funding, which risks undermining action on climate and poverty.
SOAS-Alphawood Postgraduate Diploma in Asian Art opens applications for forum facilitators The SOAS-Alphawood Postgraduate Diploma in Asian Art is looking to employ several forum facilitators to participate in the online discussion fora that will be integral to our new online programme being launched in October 2024.
Nasim-e Tarab Ensemble A cross-cultural approach by the Nasim-e Tarab Ensemble of virtuoso musicians from Iran as part of the Maqam Beyond Borders project.
Fashioning Lesbianism: Seitō (1911-1916) and the global New Woman Seitō (1911–1916) was a ‘proto-feminist’ magazine, published in Tokyo by a group of five women and was contributed to by over one hundred. Included among them were Hiratsuka Raichō and Otake Kōkichi—both no stranger to making their own way in life, despite what was expected of them.
Dr Takako Kawabata Takako is an Associate Professor and Head of English Education at the International Professional University of Technology in Nagoya, Japan.
SOAS delivers capacity building on the economics of climate change adaptation for the Ugandan government The Resilience Adaptation Mainstreaming Program (RAMP), a collaboration between the SOAS Centre for Sustainable Finance and the World Resources Institute, convened a five-day practitioner training workshop on the economics and finance of climate adaptation in collaboration with faculty from Makerere University in Entebbe, Uganda, 22-26 July 2024.
Dr Mizuho Ikeda The material and visual cultures of Myanmar’s diaspora communities in the UK: Media of remembering and identity.
Dr Olivia Porter Dr Olivia Porter's research focuses on Tai (Shan) Buddhism practiced by communities living on the Myanmar-China border.