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Hudood, a collaborative exhibition led by SOAS students at the SOAS Gallery, introduces contemporary art from the Barjeel Foundation, with a focus on the overarching theme of "Boundaries" as both a subject and a tool for meaningfully accessing a diverse array of art from the SWANA region.

Drawing on Ian Manners’ notion of “Normative Power Europe,” this talk evaluates the ability of the EU to influence the behavior of other actors while considering Taiwan as a special case due to its contested statehood.

This seminar will feature a discussion with Abdul Mohammed led by Nuur Mohamud Sheekh on Conflict and Humanitarianism in the Horn of Africa

This exhibition presents the emergence of Indian modern art as a quest for cultural independence, exploring this through the work of the artists Jamini Roy, Rabindranath Tagore and Hemen Mazumdar, as well as a number of their contemporaries.

Teachers from the SOAS Language Centre share their favourite tips for learning a language and sticking to it, from building confidence and setting goals to getting creative in your everyday practice.

In this talk, Kuukuwa puts forward the construction of social class hierarchies as an ironic and unexpected outcome of the post-independence nation-building in Ghana under the nation’s socialist president, Kwame Nkrumah.

Leah R Clarke will discuss how these material goods were not merely stationary objects in Renaissance princely collections but pointed to broader cross-cultural activities, acting as material memories of encounters, mercantile routes, and territorial expansion.

Francesca Orsini's East of Delhi: Multilingual Literary Culture and World Literature examines literature produced, practiced, and circulated in and out of North India, focusing on the region of Awadh, from the beginning of recorded vernacular literature in the late fourteenth century to the colonial era of the early twentieth century.