Portrait of Professor Olivette Otele on display as part of the Timeless Visions exhibition at the Zari Gallery
Professor Steve Tsang conferred as Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences Professor Steve Tsang, Director of the SOAS China Institute, has been conferred a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.
Professor Dzodzi Tsikata final recipient of SOAS Distinguished Research Professorship Professor Dzodzi Tsikata is one of five recipients of the Distinguished Research Professorship.
Dr Maria Kostoglou critical museum studies; artefact studies; heritage crafts; objects, place and identity; Mediterranean archaeology; sustainable archaeological collection management; museums and social justice.
Governance for Development in Africa Initiative – PhD scholarship The Centre of African Studies offers one PhD scholarship to African nationals as part of the Governance for Development in Africa Initiative funded by the Mo Ibrahim Foundation.
Contemporary Chinese colonialism and non-Chinese "progressive" hypocrisy While Chinese Communist Party state has long implemented a colonial mode of governance over Tibetans and Uyghurs, is doing the same in Hong Kong and publicly speaks of Taiwan using a colonial vocabulary, there is a curious phenomenon of large numbers of "progressives" - feminists, leftists, liberals - in other countries, otherwise claiming to be anti-colonialists, being apologetic about China.
China’s economy: towards self-reliance? China’s economy has exhibited an inward tilt since the 2008 Global Financial Crisis, but the nature of that tilt has changed in recent years, since geopolitics and ideology are increasingly shaping China’s economic policy decisions. As geopolitics and ideology are unlikely to lose their importance in Beijing’s policy choices, it is worth considering how the shape of China’s economy might change in the coming years.
Of Cosmological Visions and Creativity: Shaping Animism, Indigenous Science, and Forestry in Southwest China Drawing on her ethnography of the Nuosu, a Tibeto-Burman group of Southwest China, Dr Katherine Swancutt shows how an ethnohistorian and priest set out, at the request of a local official, to address deforestation by ‘re-animating’ their peers with a new cosmological vision.