How the UK Home Office turns immigration enforcement into TikTok entertainment Why is the Home Office on TikTok? Dr Shreeta Lakhani explores how Secure Borders UK turns immigration into a viral spectacle, using rapid editing and recurring imagery of "dangerous migrant men" to normalise border enforcement and make it seem like protection rather than violence.
Hands-on with history: Curating Vietnamese blue-and-white ceramics at SOAS Gallery SOAS-Alphawood Postgraduate Diploma of Asian Art student, Yee Wai Than, puts theory into practice when she curates an exhibition of Vietnamese blue-and-white ceramics.
Fifth Annual Conference of the Japan Economy Network held at Columbia University, New York City, 23-24 March 2023 The SOAS-hosted Japan Economy Network (JEN) held its Fifth Annual Conference at the Center on Japanese Economy and Business at Columbia Business School in New York City.
Annmarie van der Voort Anne Marie is undertaking a Ph.D in Politics and International Studies, she has an interest in transnational solidarity, pan-Arabism, Afro-Arab solidarity, women's networks, global Cold War
AI begins and thrives with the humanities The key to understanding AI's place in human society is the humanities, whose scholars have been studying the human-nonhuman relationship for centuries, argues Dr Elvis Imafidon.
Beyond repatriation: Building value through community spaces Repatriation is shifting from returning objects to restoring relationships, as seen in the Gónô Tmutul Storytelling Festival, which fosters cultural continuity and community empowerment.