Home, Elsewhere: Objects That Carry Us – ZTFE performance This is the second performance exploring how Zoroastrian devotional objects and domestic ritual spaces carry memory, belonging and identity across migration.
SOAS GSMA Workshop: Exploring African language models Two-day workshop by SOAS and GSMA on African languages, language models and Artificial Intelligence
Film screening: 'I Dream of the Ocean' Documentary screening of 'I Dream of the Ocean,' a meditative film on Syaman Rapongan, Tao boat-building, and the transmission of Indigenous memory, language, and oceanic knowledge across generations.
A different way at looking at art history Spin a colour wheel and all the colours blur together. It looks white, but it contains everything. Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet. That’s what it’s like studying Art History at SOAS.
Dr Eugene Kim Gothic studies; Asian Gothic; affect and empathy; transnational aesthetics; modernity; terror and the sublime; Korean literature and popular culture; visual culture; public humanities; translation and literary circulation.
Shan Huang Huang Shan is a historian of material culture and sensory experience in medieval and early modern Asia. Her research explores how aromatic substances—particularly musk—shaped medical knowledge, commercial networks, and cross-cultural encounters across the Silk Road. Drawing on sources in Chinese, Tibetan, Arabic, and Persian, her work brings together sensory studies, the history of science and medicine, and global history. Her current project traces the trajectories of musk through imperial pharmacopoeias, merchant caravans, and ritual spaces, analyzing how this singular olfactory commodity became entangled in ethical, religious, and political discourses across the medieval and premodern periods.