The Aceh Punx Compilation: co-creative research, resistance and cultural production in Banda Aceh Jim Donaghey's ongoing research project, "Failed States and Creative Resistances," explores the punk communities in Belfast, Banda Aceh, and Kosovo, with a focus on the shocking abduction of 64 punks in Aceh in 2011 and its global impact on punk solidarity campaigns.
A radical reading list: How can we decolonise our education? Co-creator intern Shloka Murarka describes her work with the SOAS Library in creating a 'radical reading list', highlighting independent publishing from around the work.
Malay studies abroad: A way forward The focus of the talk is on the Malay Language and its journey on the international stage, which aims to explore and share a variety of approaches that have been instrumental in enhancing the global profile of this beautiful language.
How studying Middle East Politics helped my career as a BBC journalist Layla Bashar Al-Kloub spoke to us about her time studying at SOAS as a Chevening Scholar, how it helped her career and what she’d advise aspiring journalists.
Major grant awarded for new mental health research centre in London SOAS University of London anthropologists have secured a Research England grant worth nearly £8 million to help reshape mental healthcare in London and globally.
Ethics in Economics: A conversation This seminar will host a discussion about Ethics in Economics, drawing around Ioana Negru's Handbook of Teaching Ethics to Economists: A Plurality of Perspectives and The Tragic Science: How Economists Cause Harm (Even as They Aspire to Do Good) by George F. DeMartino.
From Repatriation to Exodus: Cross-Border Migrations in the Sino-Soviet frontier in the 1950-1960s The lecture will discuss one of the largest cross-border migrations of the 20th century in the Sino-Soviet frontier, which resulted in the mass relocation of different ethnic groups (Russians, Uyghurs, Kazakhs, Tatars, Dungans etc.) from the Xinjiang-Uyghur autonomous region of the People’s Republic of China to Soviet Kazakhstan.