Leverhulme Research Leadership Award: Mapping Sumatra’s manuscript cultures This project’s interdisciplinary team investigates manuscript libraries from the Indonesian island of Sumatra, the first landing point, geographically and historically, of Islam in South East Asia, to better understand the intellectual and writing traditions of the region.
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Book Talk - Relational Pasts: The Conflictual International Politics of Memory and the Japan-South Korea History Problem This book draws on literature concerning memory, national identity and ontological security to develop a theoretical framework that seeks to explain how and why international conflict concerning the past arises and endures and how it may be transformed, and applies this to the so-called 'history problem' in Japan-South Korea relations through a discourse analysis of a vast dataset of primary sources, from both South Korea and Japan, across politics, media and culture.
International Women’s Day 2023 at SOAS Celebrated annually on 8 March to bring attention to gender equality concerns, the United Nations observes International Women's Day with a specific theme and this year it is "DigitALL: Innovation and technology for gender equality".
The Cost of Protection: Rethinking the Philippine State and Its Regional 'Proactive' Labor Migrant Protection Standards in the Gulf (1974-2024) When the 1970s oil boom emerged in the Gulf region, Asian labor- sending states strategically implemented labor export policies to exploit regional labor shortages and support long-term economic growth amid their financial crises.
Book Launch: 'Reorientating Taiwan: Ocean, Selfhood, and the Pacific' Professor Niki Alsford and Dr Ti-Han Chang share the new edited volume, 'Reorientating Taiwan: Ocean, Selfhood, and the Pacific.'
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