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SOAS University of London's new Centre for Pan-African Studies will be celebrating its launch with a lecture by the award-winning historian, Professor Hakim Adi.

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Avestan Ritual in India (AVINDIA) is a 5-year project will film the performance of a Visperad ceremony in India and will seek to detect, describe, visualise and analyse how the ritual is structured as systematically organised activity, and to reconstruct its genesis and historical trajectory.

This project is designed to train early career researchers (ECR) to create and manage digital data in agreement with the FAIR principle (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable).

This project proposes to lay the foundation for commercialising an annotation tool developed in Hintze’s MUYA-IIIF Proof of Concept project, using the vehicle of a new digital repository for previously unpublished sources held at the Royal Asiatic Society in London.

As part of this project we will run two writing workshops in Kenya for Early Career Researchers in linguistics to work with experienced editors, improve writing skills and strengthen scholarly networks.

Variation in Swahili: contact, change and identity investigates different ways in which Swahili is spoken, how its varieties are influenced by other languages, and what this means for speakers and their identities.

An 8-year research project on migration and displacement in the Horn of Africa sheds light on the complexities and calls for more inclusive strategies to address human mobility challenges.

This AHRC-funded research explores a distinct pattern of imagination: Chinese calligraphy in the transmedia context.