How can AI better serve people in the Global South? SOAS to launch Centre for AI Futures, a centre striving for a globally equitable and environmentally sustainable future.
Moving as Labour The webinar will explore the gig workers mobility, platform labor in India, and comparisons with British and Brazilian contexts.
5 places to eat lunch in the sun near SOAS There’s nothing better than enjoying some delicious food outside while soaking up the sun. Here are my go-to places near campus.
Disrupting the narrative on Palestine This lecture by Ilan Pappé will discuss the power of vocabulary and language in the struggle for freedom in Palestine.
Book launch: 'Cross-Border Intimacies' Dr Lara Momesso launches her new book, 'Cross-Border Intimacies: Affect and Emotions in Marriage Migration Between China and Taiwan'.
Book Talk - Relational Pasts: The Conflictual International Politics of Memory and the Japan-South Korea History Problem This book draws on literature concerning memory, national identity and ontological security to develop a theoretical framework that seeks to explain how and why international conflict concerning the past arises and endures and how it may be transformed, and applies this to the so-called 'history problem' in Japan-South Korea relations through a discourse analysis of a vast dataset of primary sources, from both South Korea and Japan, across politics, media and culture.
CPS Annual Lecture: history, Gaza, and the question of genocide Ussama Makdisi asks why, across so many parts of the liberal West that so solemnly proclaims the universality of law and human rights, is Palestinian life consistently devalued?
The Mekong: A confluence of power, survival, and change The Mekong is a vast river system, winding from the roof of Asia through thick jungle and into one of the most fertile rice deltas in the world. A vital artery, the river has long stood at the confluence of profound historical change. At once shaped by trade, conflict, and colonialism, since the 1960s it has become a locus of development and geopolitics.
Language proficiency levels (CEFR) Language proficiency level framework for Language Centre short courses at SOAS University of London