Meet the SOAS History academics To launch the SOAS History Seminar 2025/26, a roundtable with SOAS historians will reflect on their research journeys and the questions which inspire them today.
Navigating politics across borders: Southeast Asian migrant workers’ activism in Taiwan In the 2025 SOAS Centre of Taiwan Studies Summer School, we are delighted to welcome Dr Ratih Kabinawa to discuss Southeast Asian migrant workers’ activism in Taiwan.
Dr Yuiko Asaba awarded prestigious American Musicological Society Subvention for Publication Dr Asaba received the award for her book, Tango in Japan: Cosmopolitanism beyond the West, which will be published in early 2025.
Access, participation and student success Widening access and participation at SOAS University of London
Barriers to Women's Religious Attainment in Japan: Issues and Prospects This presentation draws on extensive ethnographic fieldwork to examine the difficulties Japanese female mountain practitioners have encountered within religious organisations that perpetuate patriarchal customs and hierarchical systems.