In Memoriam: Robin Munro (1952-2021) Robin Munro, human rights scholar and activist, and the author of pathbreaking studies of human rights abuses in China, passed away peacefully of complications from illness on May 19, 2021.
The year of the big vote: Do we have the world leaders we need? More than 2 billion people in 50 countries will be invited to vote in 2024. Saleeta Akbar reports on what was discussed during latest Director’s Lecture Series on the year of the big vote.
Cross university programme Bloomsbury SET awarded £1. ... The Bloomsbury SET – of which SOAS is a member– has been awarded further funding from Research England, totalling £1.9 million. Beginning in July 2021, the year-long project will help commercialise research into infectious disease and antimicrobial resistance.
The 2024 Nobel Laureates are not only wrong about China, but also about the West This essay by Yuen Yuen Ang was first published in The Ideas Letter, a project of the Open Society Foundations.