Yoga keeps the score Professor Paul Bramadat discusses the topic 'yoga keeps the score', and his most recent publication, 'Yogalands'.
Repentance ritual in East Asian Buddhism Join us for a discussion between several scholars and practitioners exploring the performance of repentance in East Asian Buddhism.
Stranger things: supranormal events in modern Chinese Buddhist autobiography This talk focuses on the autobiographical writings of the eminent 20th century Chan master Laiguo Miaoshu.
From Subordination to Revolution: A Gramscian Theory of Popular Mobilization What drives subordinated groups to challenge power? Join us as John Chalcraft unveils a groundbreaking theory of popular mobilization, tracing the path from subordination to revolution across the globe.
Workers’ Voices on Trade Union Education 2026 launched by SOAS & GFTU Educational Trust The General Federation of Trade Unions Educational Trust launched a survey Workers’ Voices on Trade Union Education 2026, in partnership with the Department of Economics, SOAS University of London. The survey is conducted as part of a Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) project funded by Innovate UK (UKRI). The project aims to strengthen trade union education by informing academic research with the lived experiences of workers.
How We Appear and How We Are Felt: in conversation with Dr Khairani Barokka about 'Annah, Infinite' A reading and discussion of 'Annah, Infinite', an experimental work of creative non-fiction which challenges art history, confronts colonial ableism, and reclaims a stolen spirit.
Celebrating 20 years of the Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation Join Boyd Tonkin for a keynote lecture reflecting on 25 years of literary translation, followed by a discussion with prize‑winner Marilyn Booth about her translation of Omani novel 'Honey Hunger'.
SOAS boosts access to university-style learning through schools SOAS celebrates another year of transformative engagement with The Brilliant Club - delivering scholar programmes to over 300 students across the UK.
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.