Yair Wallach wins the Jewish Studies Jordan Schnitzer book prize 2022 Dr Yair Wallach, Senior Lecturer in Israeli Studies, has won the Jewish Studies Jordan Schnitzer book prize 2022 for his book, ‘A City in Fragments: Urban Text in Modern Jerusalem’.
Call for Papers for the Fifth Annual Conference of the SOAS-led Japan Economy Network hosted by Columbia Business School March 2023 The SOAS-hosted Japan Economy Network (JEN) and the Center on Japanese Economy and Business (CJEB) at Columbia Business School invite submissions of papers and extended abstracts for the Fifth Annual JEN Conference taking place at Columbia University, New York from 23-24 March 2023.
SOAS Centre for Sustainable Finance co-organises conference with the Asian Development Bank Institute on Sustainable Finance for Asia’s Net Zero Transition The Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI) and the Centre for Sustainable Finance at SOAS, University of London are seeking original, unpublished papers on sustainable finance and Asia’s transition to net zero carbon emissions.
Empires of Complaints: Mughal Law and the Making of British India, 1765-1793 This paper, based on Prof. Travers' recently-published book (Cambridge, 2022), reinterprets the transition from Mughal to British rule in eighteenth-century eastern India, showing how colonial state-builders sought to expropriate and transform precolonial, Persianate routines for doing justice to petitioning subjects.
Workshop on Economic Stagnation and Deflation: Challenges for Japan in comparative perspective Analysing the causes of and remedies for economic stagnation and deflation in Japan from a comparative perspective.