Refuge and Resistance: Palestinians and the International Refugee System Anne Irfan traces the history and politics of UNRWA’s interactions with Palestinian communities, particularly in the refugee camps where it functioned as a surrogate state.
Director's Lecture Series - Divide and rule: the political weaponization of religion Exploiting our differences and sowing the seeds of division among people and communities – whether through religion, ethnicity, race, gender or age – has been used by people in power, or those seeking power, throughout history. But what is the cost to societies?
On the current ‘Boom’ of Contemporary Japanese Women's Writing in English Translations: Reading Care and Labour in Emi Yagi’s Diary of a Void (2022) Nozomi Uematsu (University of Sheffield) talks about Emi Yagi's recent novel Diary of a Void (2022) and the boom in translating Japanese women's writing.
Your guide to enjoying university while living at home Starting university while living at home can take some getting used to. The SOAS SU co-presidents Jamal Akram and Reem Walid are here to share their advice.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend: Ukrainian-Japanese cooperation in Manchuria against the Soviet Union (1932-1945) Join us for the Meiji Jingu Autumn Lecture 2023. This talk examines forgotten pages of collaboration between Ukrainians and Japanese in Manchuria under Japanese occupation (1932-1945). It focuses on the example of the life and intellectual works of Ivan Svit, a Ukrainian journalist and historian. After the Russian revolution he was forced to migrate from Ukraine first to the Far East and then to Harbin.