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Huang Shan is a historian of material culture and sensory experience in medieval and early modern Asia. Her research explores how aromatic substances—particularly musk—shaped medical knowledge, commercial networks, and cross-cultural encounters across the Silk Road. Drawing on sources in Chinese, Tibetan, Arabic, and Persian, her work brings together sensory studies, the history of science and medicine, and global history. Her current project traces the trajectories of musk through imperial pharmacopoeias, merchant caravans, and ritual spaces, analyzing how this singular olfactory commodity became entangled in ethical, religious, and political discourses across the medieval and premodern periods.

'On the Train' is a moving reflection on the South Link Line and the engineers, drivers, and communities whose lives have been shaped by one of Taiwan’s most remote and storied railways.

The Department of Economics at SOAS and the Embassy of Brazil in London present Amazon Dialogues: three panels bringing together policymakers, academics and civil society organisations to discuss the challenges faced in the Amazon.

Hosted by SOAS University of London’s Centre for Sustainable Finance, the event marks the launch of Climate Policy Initiative’s (CPI) upcoming Global Landscape of Climate Finance 2026, which will provide an in-depth analysis of the state of climate finance worldwide, including the scale and distribution of adaptation finance and persisting gaps in vulnerable regions.

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This panel discussion, drawing on expertise from within SOAS, will explore the effect of the US-Israeli campaign against Iran on the major East Asian countries.

The project explores how freedom of the seas affects protection of human rights at sea.