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The General Federation of Trade Unions Educational Trust (GFTU ET) is hosting the first-ever conference dedicated to political economy, in collaboration with the Department of Economics at SOAS, University of London.

Dr Satona Suzuki, Senior Lecturer in Japanese and Modern Japanese History, featured and provided expertise to the new BBC Two documentary, 'Civilisations: Rise and Fall'.

This presentation explores the variety of environments where William Adams lived during his life in Japan, from 1600-20.

A live presentation of recreated costumes of Nubian kings, royal mothers, and bishops based on wall paintings from the cathedral of Faras.

Dr Marie Rodet on what led her to examine the colonial coding in Minecraft and why we must question the stories we encode in our digital worlds.

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.

Join us for panel discussion and the launch of the WATCON hub as we explore evolving dynamics and the implications for water security, water justice and the human right to water.

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

The first detailed study on sex, marriage and intimacy in China has been published revealing the trends and patterns in family life since the Chinese Communist Revolution.