Freedom of the Seas and Human Rights Protection The project explores how freedom of the seas affects protection of human rights at sea.
The Qing court’s flight to Xi’an during the Boxer War: a turning point in famine relief This seminar explores the famine relief campaign in Shaanxi in 1900 to 1901.
Film screening - Ondas: Waves The Feminist Centre for Racial Justice (FCRJ) invites you to a public screening of Ondas: Waves at SOAS, a documentary produced by Dr. Phoebe Kisubi Mbasalaki and directed by Kurt Orderson as part of FCRJ’s Transnational Research Collaboratory.
Digital Sovereignty in Taiwan: Controlling the Internet in the Tsai and Lai Era Sam Robbins gives a talk on how questions of internet access, control, and security have reshaped relations between activists, policymakers, and the state in the Tsai and Lai eras.
Digital democracy in Taiwan: opening the internet in the Ma and Tsai era Sam Robbins gives a talk on the rise of g0v, civic tech, and the changing relationship between technology, activism, and the state during the Ma and Tsai eras.
Frankly: a conversation with Nicola Sturgeon Join us for a conversation with Nicola Sturgeon, Scotland’s first female and longest-serving First Minister.
A Crime Does Not Rot: Pan-African Reparations Jurisprudence and its British Colonial Suppression under the 19th‐Century Wars of Dispossession Dr Panashe Chigumadzi examines modern iterations of Britain's suppression of African reparations jurisprudence.
Climate Change, Society and Sustainable Futures Explore how sustainability and climate change are reshaping societies, laws and development pathways and why these challenges matter for your future studies and the world you will help shape.
A new economic model for securing the Strait of Hormuz The Strait of Hormuz is vital to global energy, but the US-led security model has become costly and uneven. Economists Massoud Karshenas, Hashem Pesaran, and Ron Smith propose a regional, transit-fee-funded security framework as a more sustainable alternative.