Arts of Modern and Contemporary China students visit SOAS Special Collections Panpan Yang, SOAS lecturer in the arts and visual cultures of modern China, recently took students to view two very special items in the SOAS Library's Special Collections.
Chinese sources on Bodhgaya from the Long First Millenium Join us for a reading and discussion of selected passages from Chinese sources on Bodhgayā.
Thomas Summers Thomas Summers is a PhD candidate in African Studies in the department of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics. His PhD thesis, titled "Digital Swahili: Tracking Language Innovations in Tanzanian Swahili from 2013 to 2023 on X", analyses a corpus of circa 11,000 X posts (circa 120,000 individual lexical units) to find patterns in use and spread of linguistic innovations. His research interests include: African languages in digital spaces, Swahili language and culture, Tanzanian minority languages and the wider East African community.
Zhang Hanxiang Hanxiang Zhang is a London-based filmmaker currently pursuing a PhD in Film Studies at SOAS, University of London. His current practice-based project, Diasporic Chinese Identities in Southeast Asian Tropical Space – A Visual Representation, is related to his previous research on the Chinese diaspora, and continues to explore the identities of overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia through documentary filmmaking. Their current PhD research u
Jennifer Fleming Doctoral candidate researching artists of Hong Kong descent living and working in Britain. Other research interests include modern and contemporary Chinese art, diaspora art in Britain, and phenomenology as a tool for art historical research.
Mireille Marcia Karman Mireille is a PhD researcher at the Department of Politics and International Studies.
New Year honour for SOAS expert on Korea Academic and research associate Dr James Hoare from SOAS’s Centre of Korean Studies has been awarded an OBE for his dedication and services to UK interests on the Korean peninsula.
Muhammad Nabil Muhammad Nabil currently researches contemporary institutional praxis of British Muslim charities in a multicultural and cosmopolitan society (i.e., the UK), and the similitudes and innovativeness of charitable endeavours in contrast to canons and generations of Islamic traditions.