Shengnan Dong Shengnan Dong is a PhD candidate in the Department of History of Art and Archaeology at SOAS University of London. Her research focuses on Buddhist art, architecture, and visual culture in Tibet from the 10th to 15th centuries. Her current project examines a fifteenth-century chorten (stupa) at Chung Riwoche in Central Tibet.
Fashioning Lesbianism: Seitō (1911-1916) and the global New Woman Seitō (1911–1916) was a ‘proto-feminist’ magazine, published in Tokyo by a group of five women and was contributed to by over one hundred. Included among them were Hiratsuka Raichō and Otake Kōkichi—both no stranger to making their own way in life, despite what was expected of them.
SOAS 11th in the UK for peace, justice and strong institutions in THE rankings SOAS University of London is one of the world’s top performing universities for one of the UN’s sustainable development goals, according to the Times Higher Education impact rankings.
SOAS 7th in the UK for gender equality according to latest THE impact rankings SOAS University of London has been ranked 7th in the UK and in the top 100 globally for its work advancing gender equality, one of the UN’s Sustainable Develpment Goals, according to the latest Times Higher Education.
CO-OP research cohort visits sites, museums in northeast Thailand From 5 to 14 January 2024, the Circumambulating Objects: on Paradigms of Restitution of Southeast Asian Art (CO-OP) research cohort attended the first of three critical thinking labs in northeast Thailand.
Anna Britt Gordon Löfstrand Anna Löfstrand is a PhD researcher at SOAS, focused on the connections between education, migration, belonging, and the future.
New director named at the SOAS South Asia Institute We are pleased to announce that Dr Subir Sinha, a specialist in South Asian politics, has been appointed as the new Director of the SOAS South Asia Institute (SSAI).