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Professor Carlos Oya

Carlos Oya is Head of the Department of Development Studies and is Professor of Political Economy of Development at the College of Social Sciences.

Japonisme Across Time: From 19th Century Inspirations to Contemporary Visions

Monika Hinkel's lecture will examine how the phenomenon of Japonisme—the Western reception and adaptation of Japanese visual culture—significantly changed the course of modern art.

Dr Althea-Maria Rivas

Althea-Maria Rivas is Senior Lecturer in Global Development, Peace and Conflict at SOAS.

The College of Law brings together a range of subjects to explore legal systems and the legal challenges of the developing world, alongside human rights, international law and institutions, environmental law and international trade and commerce.

Public Diplomacy as a contributing factor to managing identity-based conflict: Taiwan repositions its identity and security status (2000 – 2020)

Dr Yung Lin examines whether public diplomacy can contribute to resolving the identity-based conflict between China and Taiwan regarding Taiwan’s political status.

MPhil/PhD in Religions

Research Degrees: Religions and Philosophies at SOAS University of London

Clearing: What to expect and how to navigate the process

In our latest Student Clearing series blog, final year BSc Accounting and Finance student Khadeeja Shah discusses why she used Clearing to join SOAS, what her experience was like and what advice she'd give to students going through clearing.

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.

The Precarious Past in Premodern Java

In this talk, Wayan Jarrah Sastrawan examines how communities in Java between the fifth and fifteenth centuries CE responded with distinctive strategies to record and transmit knowledge of the past. Drawing on sources in Javanese, Sanskrit, Malay, and related languages from the Indonesian archipelago, he provides a detailed account of diverse forms of history-making in premodern Java, reconstructing a dynamic culture in which written and nonwritten modes of transmission coexisted and intersected.