EmpowerED Africa Study Abroad Fair - Abuja Meet Tolani Shodehinde our In-Country Recruitment Officer (Nigeria) at the upcoming EmpowerEd Africa Study Abroad Fair in Abuja.
Korean Artist Lee Qoede After the Divide: Mexico, Socialism, and Another Modernism Lee Qoede is a well-known name in modern Korean art—but how much do we really know about him? Much of what we do know ends with his time as a prisoner during the Korean War and then his move to North Korea. Drawing on her book Art, War, and Exile in Modern Korea: Rethinking the Life and Work by Lee Qoede, Jinyoung Anna Jin picks up the story where it usually stops, tracing Lee’s life and work after the division of Korea.
Linguist translates Olly Richards' collection of short stories Zhaoxia Pang, Lecturer in Chinese has worked on the Mandarin translation of ‘Short Stories in Mandarin Chinese for Intermediate Learners’.
The purpose of parahistory in postsocialist Vietnam While it has become increasingly common for contemporary artists to emphasize polyvocality in historical representation and to test the possibilities of giving form to memory, this essay examines specific approaches to historical narration in the context of postsocialist Vietnam.
How the Confucian Classics Became Sacred: Rhetorical Exegesis across East Asia This talk explores rhetorical exegesis – close attention to language, literary form, textual structure, and rhetorical technique – as a distinctive mode of engaging with the Classics across premodern East Asia.
A life with the sea: Liao Hung-chi on Taiwanese literature and the ocean Liao Hung-chi, one of Taiwan’s leading ocean writers, gives a talk on how decades of life at sea have shaped his writing, marine work, and understanding of Taiwan’s relationship with the ocean.
Adapted literature from the eve of the Iranian Constitutional Revolution This study examines the role of literary adaptations in pre-revolutionary Iran during the late Qajar period. It demonstrates how Persian intellectuals transformed translated European works into dynamic sites of political thought, language reform, and social critique.
SOAS Concert Series 2026/27 artists announced The series welcomes a range of artists that are both local to London and from around the world; from the Central Asian regions of Uzbek and Uyghur, Bangladesh, South America, Georgia, and beyond.
Chinese (Mandarin) Proficiency Course Chinese (Mandarin) Proficiency online course at SOAS University of London