Advice for SOAS graduates: “Don’t become contented, become determined" This year's SOAS Honorary Graduands share their life and career advice for graduates navigating the next chapter.
SOAS Linguists Predict Unknown Words Using Language Comparison A new linguistic experiment uses computer-assisted techniques for historical language comparison to show how scholars can predict pronunciations of undocumented words
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.
OPINION: How Suella Braverman's fight to "stop the boats" breaches human rights The UK government wants to remove the right to claim asylum from people who arrive without the right of entry, whom they call “illegal”. But it does not address the nation's international human rights obligations and echoes the anti-migrant discourse of previous generations.
Why are we still labelling it “Black” History Month in 2022? What if the practice of naming Black things, far from helping to break the walls, real or imagined, between us, was a de facto agent of the status quo?