External Event: Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series - Carlo G. Cereti Narseh’s Diadem: Religion, Royalty, and Power under the Early Sasanians
SOAS-led University Network Convenes Research Workshop on Climate Adaptation and Resilience The RAMP University Network for Strengthening Macrofinancial Resilience to Climate and Environmental Change held a two-day online workshop on 8-9 July 2024 where faculty from member universities presented their findings from research supported by the Resilience and Adaptation Mainstreaming Program (RAMP).
SOAS-led climate change network organises teacher training for universities across Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean The University Network for Strengthening Macro-financial Resilience to Climate and Environmental Change and the Resilience Adaptation Mainstreaming Program (RAMP) organised a four-day teacher training workshop on Climate Change Adaptation in Accra from 13 to 16 February 2024.
Talking shit: discussing the centrality of excrement to the modern world Ed Emery writes on the centrality of excrement, both metaphorical and literal, to the modern world.
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.
Professor Lucy Durán Music in the Mande world; Music of Mali, Guinea, Guinea Bissau; gender and music in West Africa; popular musics of Atlantic Africa; childhood music learning in West Africa; Cuban music, especially son and rumba; radio as a medium; and the world music industry.
From SOAS to Shibuya: Broadcaster Peter Barakan discusses his journey in Japan Acclaimed DJ, radio host, and broadcaster Peter Barakan chats about his life in Tokyo, from studying Japanese at SOAS to presenting cult programmes Japanology Plus and Barakan Beat.