Grietje (River) Baars Grietje (River) Baars (they/them) is a Reader at SOAS and a founder and co-director of the Centre for Law and Social Change.
Professor Fareda Banda Fareda Banda is a human rights lawyer focusing on women and children's rights and a Professor in law at SOAS. She is the author of African Migration, Human Rights and Literature.
Dr Lizzie Ogle Dr Lizzie Ogle is a lecturer in music with a special interest in Afro-Brazilian percussive soundworlds, collaborative ethnography and eco-musicology
Stephen Murphy takes part in Cultural Property Anti-Trafficking Workshop A lintel returned in 2021 on display at the Skok Kok Thom Museum, Thailand. This is one of two lintels that formed the basis of a restitution claim by the Thai government from Asian Art Museum San Francisco which was discussed at the workshop. Courtesy of Stephen Murphy.
Kiyoko Mitsuyama-Wdowiak Kiyoko is an art historian specialising in post-war Japanese art. Born and educated in Tokyo, she took a curatorial role (1983-1991) at the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo: at the time a pioneering art museum promoting contemporary art in Japan.
Dr David W Hughes Ethnomusicology; music of East Asia especially Japan; Japanese folk and theatre music; music and linguistics; Indonesian gamelan and Javanese street music