Barriers to Women's Religious Attainment in Japan: Issues and Prospects This presentation draws on extensive ethnographic fieldwork to examine the difficulties Japanese female mountain practitioners have encountered within religious organisations that perpetuate patriarchal customs and hierarchical systems.
How to make the most of the SOAS Applicant Day An Applicant Day is an opportunity to visit campus and see if SOAS is the right place for you. We asked current students to share their experiences attending one and what advice they have to make the most of it.
New office revolutions: Tropes and technologies for open talk in South Korean offices since the 1980s 1980s South Korea saw many reports promising a 'new office revolution' or a 'new wind' that would dramatically change South Korean work life through automation (jadonghwa). Drawing on newspaper archives from the 1980s and 1990s, this presentation looks at some of the technological promises and narrative tropes that were used in this period to show how offices would allow greater connections to developed countries.
Professor Lindiwe Dovey Decolonial feminist approaches to filmmaking, film cultures and screen media industries globally; practice/artistic research through film; feminist and ethical leadership in the arts and academia; digital transformations in screen media production, distribution, exhibition, curation, and spectatorship; film festivals and film curating
Dr Carwyn Morris Carwyn Morris is a Senior Lecturer in Digital Society and Geography in the Department of Media and a Research Fellow in the SOAS China Institute.