Ageing bodies and the carceral circuitry of 'post-welfare' Japan This talk describes the lives of formerly incarcerated older adults in urban Japan, drawing together age, repetition, the uncanny and the carceral.
SOAS stands against the Iranian state’s brutality Professor Adam Habib joins national calls to condemn the Iranian authorities following the death of a young Kurdish woman who was arrested for wearing a hijab ‘improperly’. The incident has sparked world-wide protests.
Artery. A podcast on art, authorship and anthropology Robert Simpkins (Research Associate, SOAS Japan Research Centre) and Iza Kavedžija (University of Cambridge) are delighted to announce the publication of Artery, a podcast on art, authorship and anthropology.
Cairo 1921: Ten Days that Made the Middle East Called by Winston Churchill in 1921, the Cairo Conference set out to redraw the map of the Middle East in the wake of the First World War and the collapse of the Ottoman Empire.
Book launch for a Festschrift in honour of David W. Hughes Join us for a book launch celebration of David Hughes' musical endeavours and influence.
‘Ordinary’ readers’ reviews on retranslation: A case of retranslation by Haruki Murakami This study presents an example of ‘ordinary’ readers’ reviews that illustrates the changing views of (re)translation and the negotiation of translation norms in 21st-century Japan. The seminar will focus on the third Japanese version of J. D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye (1951), published in 2003 and translated by Haruki Murakami.