SOAS Concert Series 2025/26 artists announced The SOAS Concert Series has returned with events for the first semester of the 2025/26 academic year.
The Excremental Imagination: Disgust, Compassion, and Laughter in Medieval Japan Join us for the Meiji Jingu Autumn Lecture 2025, in which Prof Rajyashree Pandey takes us on a journey into uncharted territory, tracking the presence of faecal matter in the diverse narratives of medieval Japan.
SOAS Middle East Institute names new Director Adam Hanieh, Professor of Political Economy and Global Development, has been announced as the new Director of the SOAS Middle East Institute (SMEI).
Call for Papers for a CEPR-IDOS-SOAS-UCT Workshop Submit your work to the Call for Papers for a Workshop on Fostering Sustainable Finance and Investment for Just and Resilient Transitions in the Global South, hosted by SOAS, University of London, 27-28 November 2025.
My travel photos: SOAS language learners abroad Learning a language comes to life when immersed in a country where it is spoken. SOAS Language Centre students share their photos from their time abroad.
Umoja: A new game exploring resistance to slavery on the Swahili Coast Launched in Kilifi, Kenya to coincide with the International Day for the Remembrance of Slave Trade and its Abolition, Umoja is a new video game bringing untold stories of resistance to slavery to life.
My childhood inspired me to study migration and diaspora studies - and a scholarship made that possible Felix Scholarship recipient, Apala Mandal, shares her experience studying for an MA in Migration and Diaspora Studies at SOAS University of London.
Five lessons the UK can learn from Italy’s asylum accommodation crisis Asylum accommodation is a political battleground: drawing on his research in Italy, Dr Paolo Novak shows how the UK’s case reveals that it is never just about housing, but about power, inequality, and belonging.