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Dr Yuri Stoyanov's research interests and teaching activities include comparative literature in the fields of apocalypticism, mysticism and heresy in Judaism, Christianity and Islam.

Japan, maritime anthropology, religion, gender, anthropology of tourism, mass media, local and global film traditions

Teaching Chinese as a foreign language; Norms and practice in translation

Public space, ritual studies, urban violence, urban transformation; Iran, India.

Armenian History and Culture

Dr Kamdem returns to SOAS as a Research Associate, having previously taught in the Linguistics Department and Africa Section.

SE Asia, in particular Borneo; environmental anthropology; food, particularly rice, and the use of food as an ‘ethnic marker’ in the context of migration; kinship and ‘relatedness’ through food.

Structural and descriptive linguistics, syntax, semantics, Bengali grammar and lexicography, philosophy of language