The historic legacy of Taiwan's sugar railways explored in book ‘The Twilight Years of Taiwan's Sugar Railways: The World's Most Extraordinary Industrial Railway’ is set against the backdrop of rapid closure to industrial railway systems throughout the 1990s.
Cesilia Sinur Cesilia is a doctoral researcher in the Department of Politics and International Studies, with her research focusing on the colonial legacies of artificial intelligence in Indonesian journalism.
Ilyas Khan Ilyas Khan, School of Arts, Doctoral Student studying Music and interested in investigating whether Music has meaning. He will examine this by looking at the music of two prominent 20th century artists and composers, John Coltrane (Jazz) and Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan (Sufi/Qawwali) and link this back to the work of 19th century Music critic and philosopher Eduard Hanslick
Community-sourcing project brings 200-year-old Malay poem back into circulation Dr Mulaika Hijjas, Senior Lecturer in South East Asian Studies at SOAS University of London, launched an edition of a 200 year old poem produced through community-sourcing at the Kuala Lumpur Alternative Book Fair in Malaysia.
Lan Feng Lan Feng, Anthropology and Mental Health, Research Title: Ontological Bipolar Disorder: An Ethnographic Study on the Lived Experiences of Female Adolescents with Mood Disorders in Chinese Middle-Class Families. My research interests: the anthropological perspective of mental health in China urban areas.
New director named at the SOAS South Asia Institute We are pleased to announce that Dr Subir Sinha, a specialist in South Asian politics, has been appointed as the new Director of the SOAS South Asia Institute (SSAI).
SOAS hosts 2022-23 National Student Mediation Competition SOAS University of London hosted this year’s UK National Student Mediation Competition, with Alina Khan winning second place for the Individual Mediator award.