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Unlocking finance and managing climate risks for India’s transition to a resilient, Paris-aligned economy This project, led by the Climate Bonds Initiative (CBI), aims at engaging with and supporting the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on climate-related issues.
SOAS Impact Acceleration Account for migration, marginalisation and minorities launch We are pleased to invite you to the SOAS Impact Acceleration Account (SOAS IAA) which aims to develop impact in the areas of migration, displacement, minorities and marginalisation. This award will serve to raise the profile and achieve greater impact for SOAS’ work in these thematic areas, both as an institution and together with our international partners.
The End of Actor Prints (役者絵): How did the Meiji era's actor prints disappear? Ukiyo-e has recently received unprecedented attention in Japan, but there has been little research into how and why actor prints disappeared during the Meiji and Taisho periods. Prof Akama will present his findings.
Lena Gempke Social Reproduction Approaches, Feminist Economics, Subordinate Financialization, Economic Anthropology, Mixed Methods, Political Economy of Climate Change.
Mr Kiyoung Beom Research Area: The financial crisis of public broadcasting. The crisis of democracy centered on freedom of speech Date of Appointment: December 2023 - December 2024
Queer Muslim, Devout Muslim: the slippery politics of British homosecularism Muslims in the Global North are routinely categorised using ‘good/moderate’ and ‘bad/extreme’ labels that implicitly privilege secularism above overt religiosity, and political quietism over activism.
Race, gender, and Occidentalism in global reactionary discourses: China as method This talk seeks to contribute to a global understanding of reactionary discursive formations at the current historical conjuncture, foregrounding the centrality of global whiteness, masculinism, and a renewed imagination of “the West” as well as gendered East/West binaries.
Antiracist scholar-activism in the contemporary university Against a backdrop of multiple crises, this talk is concerned with the responsibilities of academics.