Celebrating LGBTQIA+ History Month at SOAS SOAS will once again participate in LGBTQIA+ History Month, an annual celebration of lesbian, gay, bisexual trans, and non-binary history.
Repositioning women in Buddhist history: Voices and sites from modern Sichuan The history of Chinese Buddhism has been narrated too often as a story of male monks, with attention given especially to a selected group of “eminent” male figures. Dr Stefania Travagnin proposes a different approach, and to shift our attention to female communities, bringing especially small nunneries to the center, and listening to the – so far – unheard voice of nuns.
What fuels Islamophobia? A perspective for World Hijab Day New SOAS research takes a reformed perspective on Islamophobia and explores how the hijab is often used in discriminatory narratives.
Policies for Sustainable Structural Transformation: A research symposium Professors Ha-Joon Chang and Antonio Andreoni present SOAS's new Centre for Sustainable Structural Transformation, and convene thought leaders from academia, business and government to discuss how to make structural transformation sustainable in Africa and beyond.
In the shadow of the constitution: The micropolitics of constitutional contestation in Cambodia Launch of Ben Lawrence's new book on the dynamics of Cambodia's constitutional landscape.
Legal pluralism in Qing China and its transplantation and transformation Max WL Wong argues that in traditional Chinese legal culture, the pluralistic normative orders – derived by the interaction of different orders (including Legalism, Confucianism and state law) – had been adapted and adopted by the local communities for many centuries.
Book club – Life as a Unicorn Join this Enough is Enough campaign’s LGBTQIA+ month event looking at sense of belonging within LGBTQIA+ communities.
Pride screening and discussion on solidarity between queer and working class communities Join the Enough is Enough campaign’s LGBTQIA+ History Month event, and come together to watch pride and join a discussion on solidarity between queer and working class communities.
LGBTQIA+ month pub quiz and social Join us in the SU Bar for an LGBTQIA+ month edition of the weekly pub quiz, stay around for a drink and meet other members of the LGBTQIA+ SOAS community.