Poetics of Rebellion: Hybridity, Minor Narrative, Yang Mu This lecture attempts to respond critically to the birth of Taiwanese identity through a fastidious reading of Yang Mu’s works.
Remembering and Repurposing the Japanese Colonial Legacy in Taiwan This lecture will reflect on the 50 years of Japanese colonial rule in Taiwan (1895-1945).
Exploring the Historical Narrative of Taiwan in the 17th Century How to comprehend Taiwan historiography against the background of ‘a divided nations’ framework the island has been discussed in history textbooks?
Ecodocumentary Making and Taiwanese Environmental Movements in the Early 21st Century This talk traces the development of environmental discourse in Taiwan as reflected in two activist eco-documentaries produced by Taiwan’s Public Television in 2010 and 2020.
32nd PKES Annual Workshop SOAS is hosting the 32nd Annual Workshop of the Post-Keynesian Economics Society. The workshop will cover a wide range of contemporary topics, including financialisation, asset manager capitalism, gender effects on economic development and the political economy of exchange rates and inflation.
Managing supercycles: globalisation and institutional change This project explores a ‘third’ cycle in macroeconomics that has a longer horizon than the standard business and financial cycles, and is anchored in institutional and ideational struggles.
Climate change and central bank asset purchases This project provides the first integrated analysis of how the corporate bond holdings of the Bank of England and the European Central Bank can become climate-aligned.
Artist Talk: Simin Keramati In this talk, Iranian-Canadian artist Simin Keramti will talk about the trajectory of her artistic career from the 1990s onward and introduce a number of her projects, with particular attention paid to her most recent projects.