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Inaugural Lecture Series: Professors Awino Okech and Dan Plesch

In this Inaugural lecture, Professor Awino Okech and Professor Dan Plesch will be presenting lectures on "Feminist worldmaking: On knowledge infrastructures and social transformation" and "Weapons controls and Human Rights: Thinking globally acting globally" respectively.

The Backstage of Democracy: India's Election Campaigns and the People Who Manage Them

Over the past decade, Indian election campaigns have been reshaped by data-driven strategists and political consultants, moving beyond mere technological change. This talk explores how this hidden world of professionalised campaigning is transforming power structures, expertise, and public participation in democracy.

The Evolution of the Sri Lankan Mind: The Life and Work of Martin Wickramasinghe (1890–1976)

In this talk, Uditha Devapriya will present an overview of Wickramasinghe’s life and work in the context of cultural modernism in South Asia. The presentation draws on Devapriya’s research on Wickramasinghe, including his contribution to South Asian art, culture, and society.

From K-dramas to K-Speech Contest win: “Learning Korean changed my life”

Korean Speech Contest winner Lindy Coxon, reflects on her language learning journey at SOAS.

Spiritual Pollution in the Sewers: Towards an Aesthetic Theory of Chinese Netfic

Chinese internet fiction ('netfic') tends not to be highly regarded for its aesthetic accomplishments; however, this talk explores the aesthetic functions of netfic from a premodern perspective.

Legal experts underscore death penalty's incompatibility with African human rights charter

Experts at the SOAS Centre for Human Rights Law have contributed to a growing pool of evidence on the abolition of the death penalty in Africa, in a submission to the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights.

“The world needs you.” Advice to the class of 2025

Our SOAS Honorary Graduands share life and career advice for 2025 graduates navigating their next chapter.

Gifted: Selected Artworks from the SOAS Collections

‘Gifted’ is an exhibition drawing upon SOAS's remarkably rich but relatively little-known art collection. Concentrating on modern and contemporary artworks, it displays a selection of works given as gifts and donations to SOAS and provides the opportunity to share and display many of these for the first time to encourage wider engagement with the SOAS Object and Artwork Collection.

International Arbitration, Public Policy and the MENA Countries

SOAS Arbitration and Dispute Resolution Centre (SADRC), in collaboration with RAGAB Law, invites you to an in-depth discussion on the role of public policy in international arbitration in the MENA region.