Siobhán Shilton: 'Creative Multilingualism in the Visual Arts: Photography, Performance and the ‘Arab Spring’'
Agrarian Change and Development Cluster Focusing on the role of agriculture in development processes; capitalist development and agrarian transitions; rural labour markets and poverty; globalisation and agrarian change; land dispossession; movements of agrarian resistance; dynamics of agrarian accumulation in the neoliberal order; rural migration among other questions.
Centre of Taiwan studies summer school roundtable: Women in Taiwan cinema As part of the 2025 SOAS Centre of Taiwan Studies Summer School, we are delighted to host a roundtable discussion on women in Taiwan cinema.
Dr Kostas Retsikas The anthropology of personhood, social theory and poststructuralism, religion (especially Islam), the anthropology of the gift and of Islamic economics, Indonesia and South East Asia.
Dr Ret’sepile Makamane Ret'sepile Makamane is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow whose focus is on African literature aesthetics in Sesotho novels.
Celebrating stories from SOAS research in 2024 As the year draws to a close, read some of the highlights from our 2024 research projects.
Rules of the Accra Club: An exclusive look at a rare pamphlet for the colonial social club The Special Collections team have acquired the only known surviving copy of a pamphlet showing the social life of British administrators and other European expatriates in West Africa.