Rebel English Academy (Book talk) From the brilliant Booker-longlisted Mohammed Hanif comes a lively, rich novel about the power of language, friendship, and protest in the face of political turmoil
Studying MA Global Media at SOAS: Challenging Western hegemony in the digital age After working in Washington, D.C., Houlton decided that they wanted to learn the mechanisms behind media power and how to empower new voices. So they chose to study an MA in Global Media and Digital Communications at SOAS.
Mango UK University Exhibition March 2026: Bangkok Meet SOAS at the upcoming Mango Learning UK University fair in Bangkok, Thailand.
Indians are just marvellous: painted tropes from Early Modern wonder manuscripts This lecture unravels what it meant to be a gharib (rare) Indian in the Islamicate cosmos, how artists in Hindustan visualised and replicated popular tropes of wisdom, eros and idolatry.
'Rabindrasangeet and its Performative Afterlives during the Marxist Cultural Movement of 1940s Bengal' The SOAS Public Music Research Seminar Series is a valuable forum for ethnomusicology and related fields in London, bringing rising and established scholars to share innovative music research with SOAS audiences.
The Resilience and Adaptation Mainstreaming Program (RAMP) convened its third online teacher training course on Program Design: Economic and Financial Appraisal The Resilience and Adaptation Mainstreaming Program (RAMP) recently convened its third online teacher training course on Program Design: Economic and Financial Appraisal for climate-resilient public investment, strengthening the capacity of university partners to deliver high-quality practitioner training to ministries of finance, planning and economics across the Global South.
The Mekong: A confluence of power, survival, and change The Mekong is a vast river system, winding from the roof of Asia through thick jungle and into one of the most fertile rice deltas in the world. A vital artery, the river has long stood at the confluence of profound historical change. At once shaped by trade, conflict, and colonialism, since the 1960s it has become a locus of development and geopolitics.
Energy transitions, social frictions and the need for community inclusion Sustainability is not only about achieving environmental goals, but also about reaching social outcomes. As the UK moves toward a New Zero goal, we must not repeat the errors of previous transitions.