Search results

Charlotte Horlyck received her PhD from SOAS in 2006, and was appointed Lecturer in Korean Art History at SOAS in 2007.

Premodern Indian and Tibetan Buddhist art and its context

Imad Khan is a researcher at the SOAS School of Languages, Cultures and Lingusitics. His research focusses on the concept of affective speech in the Quran and pre-Islamic cultures. His research interests include Quranic epistemology, i'jaz (inimitability), philosophical poetics, belief formation.

Sunthorn Phu (1786–1855) is an unlikely figure through which to understand nineteenth-century Buddhism in Siam. Despite being described as a “drunken writer” by the court astrologer after his death, he is now the national poet of Thailand. In this talk, Paul Lewis McBain shall explain how his newly-published book A Drunken Bee argues that the irreverent, rebellious, and parodic voice of Sunthorn Phu is an invaluable resource for understanding the Buddhism of early Bangkok.

SOAS University of London has broken into the top 30 best universities, according to the Times UK University Rankings for 2024.

Imperial and settler-colonial projects cannot be understood outside the grammar of race; 'Race and the Question of Palestine' explores how race operates as a framework for oppression in Palestine.