Pan-Africanism: A History This lecture will highlight the pivotal role of British-based activists in the emergence of modern Pan-Africanism since the founding of the African Association in 1897.
Rights on the line: Big Tech and the future of human rights Head of Big Tech Accountability for Amnesty International and Deputy Director of Amnesty’s global technology and human rights programme
'Claim No Easy Victories’: Centennial Reflections on Amilcar Cabral's Legacy Book Launch with co-editor Dr. Firoze Manji: Claim No Easy Victories: The Legacy of Amilcar Cabral
The year of the big vote: International relations after the 2024 polls Join us for this next Director’s Lecture Series to discuss the year of the big vote and international relations after the 2024 polls. Our experts will discuss elections in the US, India and South Africa in an event hosted by SOAS Director Professor Adam Habib.
My journey towards spiritual ecology in Taiwan: Some cases from Huan-Bao (environmental protection) and TEK (traditional ecological knowledge) This is a talk related to issues about Taiwanese Buddhists’ environmental practices and indigenous peoples’ ecological knowledge.
Debt and Development This event will host a discussion with Marcos Athias Neto, United Nations Assistant Secretary General, about high indebtedness which has created a negative debt-development feedback loop in many developing economies.
Film screening: Life is Wonderful - Mandela’s Unsung Heroes Life is Wonderful tells an inspiring story of immense courage and self-sacrifice on the part of a small group of idealists from a range of cultural heritages who said: ‘Not on my watch’ and ‘Not in my name’.
Maritime Heritage Diplomacy: Sunken warships in Southeast Asia Dr Natali Pearson introduces the concept of heritage diplomacy, using it as an analytical tool to consider the strategic implications of sunken warships not only in but as diplomacy.
Dr Zerrin Özlem Biner Turkey, Middle East, UK, political anthropology, legal anthropology, political violence, post-conflict environments and ruination, justice and reconciliation processes, ethnographies of state, memory studies, subjectivity, materiality, border, migration and refugee studies, youth studies, solidarity movements, archival activism, multi-modal ethnography.