Festival of Social Science 2024: SOAS Impact Acceleration Account The 2024 edition of SOAS Festival of Social Science will take place on the 7th and 8th November 2024.
Statements on the Palestine solidarity encampment at SOAS A serious incident took place on Tuesday 4 June that marked a significant escalation in the SOAS encampment’s protest activities.
33rd PKES Annual Workshop SOAS is hosting the 33rd Annual Workshop of the Post-Keynesian Economics Society. The workshop will cover a wide range of contemporary topics, including financialisation, housing, industrialisation, macroeconomic policies, commodity markets and the environmental crisis.
Workshop: Marking 100 years of the ban on cameras in courtrooms Join us for a 1-day workshop examining the relation between law and images in light of the rise of digital courtrooms in diverse jurisdictions such as the UK, Australia, India and China.
Towards a green and just transformation of finance in the Anthropocene: The role of the SOAS Centre for Sustainable Finance We are living in times of ecological crisis. Over the last decades, humans have been causing global warming, deforestation, water scarcity, biodiversity loss and other harmful, and potentially irreversible, changes to ecosystems. The rules that govern finance need to change. Discover SOAS Centre for Sustainable Finance.
Dr Federica Sona Federica Sona is a Senior Research Fellow in the Law & Anthropology Department at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, in Halle (DE)
Chinese Perspectives on AI in Global Context: Towards a New Ethical Eco-System A multi-year and interdisciplinary project where diverse scholars and practitioners, from AI engineers to Sci-fiction novelists, from philosophers to Sinologists aim to discuss Chinese perspectives on AI in a global dialogue and explore its implications for humanity and its future.
Book Talk - Strangers in the Family In Strangers in the Family, Guo-Quan Seng provides a gendered history of settler Chinese community formation in Indonesia during the Dutch colonial period (1816–1942). In dialogue with critical studies of colonial Eurasian intimacies, this book explores Asian-centered inter-ethnic patterns of intimate encounters. It shows how contestations over women's place in marriage and in society were formative of a Chinese racial identity in colonial Indonesia.