The 34th Sir Peter Parker Awards for Spoken Business Japanese (SPPA) We are delighted to announce the 34th Sir Peter Parker Awards for Spoken Business Japanese.
Film screening of "XiXi," "My homework," and "Hard good life" In the 2025 Centre of Taiwan Studies Summer School, we invite you to join us for a powerful night of screenings that centre care, kinship, memory, and womanhood in everyday life.
SOAS is 2nd in UK for International Faculty in QS Europe Rankings SOAS University of London’s global appeal and student diversity has been recognised in the QS World University Rankings: Europe 2025.
Dr Nick Westcott Nick Westcott is a Professor of Practice at the Department of Politics and International Studies. He worked at the FCO for nearly 30 years, and is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and the Royal Historical Society.
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.