COVID-19 and the crises of capitalism: Intensifying inequalities COVID-19 exposed how global capitalism is fundamentally built on the exploitation of gendered and racialised global working classes.
What my typical week as a SOAS student looks like Ever wondered what it's like to study at SOAS? Final-year BA Chinese student Daisy shares her typical week balancing study, work, a social life, and planning for the future.
Professor Robert F Ash China’s economic development in the 20th and 21st centuries; evolution of ‘Greater China’; economic development of Taiwan and cross-Strait economic relations
Consultancy The Enterprise Office helps to match clients’ needs to the most appropriate expertise within SOAS.
Dr Kota Suechika Dr. Kota Suechika is a scholar of Middle Eastern politics, Professor at the College of International Relations, and Director of the Center for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies (CMEIS) at Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto, Japan.
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.
Professor Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak This year Professor Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak, University of Maryland, is Leverhulme Visiting Professor in the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures at SOAS and the Centre for Iranian Studies (CIS) at the London Middle East Institute where he will be offering several lectures, completing his research project on the exilic mode in Persian literature, and providing consultation in the process of the expansion and updating of the Department's course offerings and areas of research development.