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This seminar explores the complexities of repatriating cultural objects that are often overlooked or considered insignificant by Western institutions and capitalist markets, yet hold immense cultural significance for source communities.

The SOAS Pro-Bono Environmental Law and Policy Clinic has released a new report mapping and analysing global 'Rights of Nature' case studies.

This is part of a two-day event. Following the lecture titled "Chinese Visitors at the Navel of the World: Transregional Travels to Bodhgaya in the Long First Millennium", this seminar aims to explore Chinese sources on Bodhgayā.

This lecture will give an overview of Chinese travelers and pilgrims to Bodhgayā and trace the history of Bodhgayā through records or left inscriptions in situ.

This seminar examines the Manchu Qing promotion of the Tibetan Buddhist literary and artistic genre of incarnation lineages (’khrungs rabs or skyes rabs) during the reign of the Qianlong emperor.

This lecture offers a new reading of the images by situating them within the visual and material world of eighteenth-century Tibetan Buddhist devotional practices.

This lecture will demonstrate how Kadampa monasteries transformed from networks of teaching institutions rooted in the master–disciple relationship towards an emphasis on teaching lineages and ultimately reincarnation.

In this talk, Dr Yeung will talk about the mutual influences between Taiwan cinema (Taiyu, Mandarin) and Hong Kong (Amoy, Cantonese, Mandarin) in the post-war period (1950s-60s) with a focus on two pairs of female spy films.

In this talk, Christopher Brown examines designer aesthetics in post-2008 cinematic depictions of Taipei.