Return Workshop: An idea, practice, and contested horizon CMDS invites you to a two-day workshop centred on the concept of return, understood as an idea, practice, and contested horizon.
MA Global Affairs and Eurasian Studies (Joint Degree with Nazarbayev University) MA in Global Affairs and Eurasian Studies in partnership with Nazarbayev University, Astana.
Call for Papers for a CEPR-IDOS-SOAS-UCT Workshop Submit your work to the Call for Papers for a Workshop on Fostering Sustainable Finance and Investment for Just and Resilient Transitions in the Global South, hosted by SOAS, University of London, 27-28 November 2025.
From green living to Buddhist environmentalism: Exploring Buddhism for a sustainable future This conference is part of a multi-year research project that has explored the potentials of Buddhism to advance the practice of environmental protection and mitigate climate change.
Hossein Bastani Hossein Bastani is an academic researcher and investigative journalist with BBC Persian, specialising in Iranian political affairs. Over the past two decades, he has produced dozens of investigative television programmes and authored more than two thousand in-depth reports and analytical articles on Iran’s domestic and foreign policy.
Ishret Wahid Ishret Binte Wahid is a PhD candidate in Development Studies at SOAS, exploring how transnational flows of social remittances and sexual norms between Bangladesh and the United Arab Emirates reshape masculinities among Bangladeshi male labour migrants. Her research examines the intersections of migration, masculinities, and sexualities in the Bangladesh–UAE migration corridor.