School of Arts News

SOAS scholar publishes major new work on art in the Medieval Islamic Mediterranean

Anna Contadini, Professor of the History of Islamic Art at SOAS, University of London has edited and contributed to a new volume which seeks to change the understanding of medieval art and metalwork production around the Mediterranean.

1st October 2018

Call for Abstracts: Decolonising the Self: Representations of the Self in Art Theory and Practice across Cultures (Postgraduate Workshop)

7th August 2018

Philanthropic donation to research the histories of objects from China’s Yuanmingyuan or ‘Summer Palace’

Louise Tythacott, Pratapaditya Pal Senior Lecturer in Curating and Museology of Asian Art, has been awarded a major philanthropic donation to undertake research on the histories and displays of objects from the Yuanmingyuan, or old ‘Summer Palace’, in Beijing.

The project will run until January 2019, and will result in a publicaton which traces the diaspora and displays of Yuanmingyuan artefacts in Britain and France. 

9th March 2018

Dr Richard Williams embarks on US lecture tour

SOAS ethnomusicologist Dr Richard Williams embarks on US lecture tour

7th March 2018

Newton Mobility Grant Project

12th December 2017

SOAS celebrates partnership with Sir Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art to secure future loan of Percival David Library and archives

SOAS University of London this week celebrated the strengthening of its relationship with the Sir Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art through the signing of a new Loan Agreement.  The Agreement, signed by the School’s Director Baroness Valerie Amos CH and the Chair of the Percival David Foundation, Colin Sheaf, coincided with the inaugural Professorial Lecture by Professor Shane McCausland, who has held the Percival David Chair in Chinese Art since 2015.

11th December 2017

SOAS student wins prize in the prestigious TIAA All Japan Composition Competition

SOAS PhD student Taichi Imanishi has won second prize in the prestigious TIAA All Japan Composition Competition for his composition All Living Things Amid the Swirl of Time for flute, clarinet, harp, violin and cello.

28th November 2017

SOAS Honorary Graduate and Nobel Prize-winning author J M Coetzee to give public reading at Senate House

SOAS University of London Honorary Graduate and Nobel Prize-winning author J M Coetzee will give a public reading from his most recent novel, The Schooldays of Jesus, this week on 6 October as part of the two-day Coetzee & the Archive conference at Senate House, London.

3rd October 2017

Trio Da Kali & Kronos Quartet - New album out now!

"Ladilikan" a unique collaboration between the Malian super group Trio Da Kali (Lassana Diabaté on balafon; Hawa Kassé Mady Diabaté (vocalist; the daughter of Kassé Mady Diabaté, Mali's celebrated male singer); and Mamadou Kouyaté on bass ngoni (the eldest son of ngoni virtuoso Bassekou Kouyaté), together with the renowned Kronos Quartet from San Francisco.

26th September 2017

SOAS History of Art scholars begin work on Tibetan Buddhist Museum Collections

From March-April 2017, Christian Luczanits, Louise Tythacott and Kunsang Namgyal Lama undertook their first research trip to Ladakh as part of a 3-year AHRC-funded project documenting Tibetan Buddhist Monastery Collections and Museums. 

18th August 2017

Scholars begin work on Tibetan Buddhist Museum Coilections

18th August 2017

The Culture of Partition

The Essay series

16th August 2017

SOAS World Music Summer School

15 years of SOAS World Music Summer School!

For well over a decade now, SOAS is proud to offer an exciting summer school of world music. Our course programme is unique, varied and truly multi-cultural. If you are passionate about music and cultures, there is something for everyone. Take your pick!

21st June 2017

Book launch and public talk on Malay Magic and Divination

Farouk Yahya, SOAS Postdoctoral Research Associate, will be launching his new SAAAP-sponsored publication, "The Arts of Southeast Asia from the SOAS Collections" at a talk and launch event in Malaysia next month.

16th June 2017

Call for Applications: Civil Society Leadership Awards 2018-2019

We are pleased to announce that, for the first time, SOAS will be a host university for the Open Society Foundations Civil Society Leadership Awards.

The Civil Society Leadership Awards (CSLA) provides fully-funded scholarships for master’s degree study to individuals who clearly demonstrate academic and professional excellence and a deep commitment to leading positive social change in their communities.

26th May 2017