What the Water Tiger symbolises for the year ahead and how it is celebrated worldwide.
How can Black women go further? This Black History Month, join our discussion looking at Black women, higher education, and careers.
Do you feel strongly about social justice? Are you passionate about a cause? An inter-disciplinary studies approach could be the answer.
How are campus-based lecturers and students adapting to teaching online, as the new ‘norm’?
A third of a million Chinese labourers helped the Allies, but their huge unsung contribution ended in betrayal.
I got interested in Assyriology because I was fascinated by the many ‘firsts’ [world’s first civilizations, writing systems, literary texts]
Put it down to the Saharan heatwave on 25 July but a plan to try and find out more about what was happening in the
Koyanagi Tanekuni, the lacquer artist, learnt his art “under three holders of the title Ningen Kokuhō (Living National Treasure)”
When I was a kid, I saw Elvis on TV in Detroit and thought, “I will be like him.”
The majority of teachers will, at some point in their career, be teaching in a multilingual, multicultural school.
Multilingual Locals & Significant Geographies (Mulosige) is a five-year project to explore new approaches to world literature.
Gender Rights, Islamic Law, Right to Water Law, Self-Determination in International Law & The Supreme Court: be inspired by SOAS experts.
Make the most out of learning and training opportunities around you; build up a support network; and bring your passion and enthusiasm to work.
What is doing ‘a Bedou’? Who is the ‘Igbo/Yorkshire Warrior’? When was the first comprehensive history of African American photographers written?
At the end of a 10-week course in Mandarin Chinese, attending for two-hours a week, students could learn around 150 ideographs.
The study of politics is vast and the identification of a canon of key texts is itself a politically loaded act.
I’d recommend history books that are more specialised without losing sight of the big picture… texts that you enjoy reading and that make you curious to explore things further…
“I recommend acquainting yourself early on with some of the major controversies in the field of linguistics…then… investigate two of the most fascinating questions in language: why do languages change, and how does the language you speak influence the way you think?”
An interdisciplinary degree designed to give you the perspective, specialist knowledge, skills & adaptability to succeed in a broad range of professions
It is the only short course at degree level in the UK focusing on both the principles and practice of finance and risk management.
Pick up any newspaper on any given day and you will find reports of protests, strikes, demonstrations, occupations – some sort of resistance to capitalist crisis and the state of things, large or small, in practically any country around the world.
1/7th of the world, or around 1.1 billion people, speak 22 languages; in the UK, only SOAS teaches 13 of them to university level.
English at SOAS is truly international: interrogative, cutting edge, deeply committed to interdisciplinary research and teaching across the humanities, and engaged with metropolitan, cosmopolitan and island histories.
Is taking the year abroad worth it? Yes, certainly…Thanks to this programme I am not only studying the language but I am living it.
“It was a great opportunity to immerse myself in the SOAS community”
“During my extensive wanderings I used various methods of transport, from my own legs to an aeroplane”
The summer school in three words? Inspiration, learning and laughter.
On the lower half of the map (in light blue) is Nigel Farage, the centre of dense exchanges. Branching northwards from him, in red, is The Voice of Europe, and southwest of him, in blue, Donald Trump.
Throughout your three weeks at SOAS you will be asked to stretch, challenge and develop your skills of critical analysis. The intensive academic format will enable you to deepen your subject knowledge and/or regional area of choice.
What is development studies? It’s difficult to find a commonly agreed definition, as some scholars even reject the idea of development itself!
Why make your home here? “I answer that the undulating hills and heather belong to me. The curlew’s call belongs to me. The sea and sky belong to me.”
30 minutes to draw up a reading list via web and library bookshelf. What will an academic suggest?
Young female Kinshasans view the inherited traditions of la sape as a method of escape from rigid gendered roles and expectations.
What books do a 30-minute search via web and library ‘shelf test’ turn up, and how does an academic convenor of degree programmes respond?
‘Today, 4.5 billion people live without a household toilet that safely disposes of their waste.’ (UN Water website)
“Yet amid the horror stories of suffering and loss, small glimmers of hope and resilience have emerged.”
Celebrating ‘Africa on the Square’ – Saturday 14 October – as part of Black History Month in Trafalgar Square
“No matter which party wins, voters are more concerned about sustaining the peace”
Ranya Alakraa explores her journey from SOAS to the Civil Service
Charis McCarter takes an honest look at how she’s secured a job in the sustainability field
Around eighty years ago, Walter Simon fled Germany to come to the UK, where he took up a post as a lecturer at the School of Oriental Studies.
Walk past the walled garden at the British Museum end of Malet Street and hear the notes of a stick being run along metal railings in unison with your steps. The Phantom Railings are back!
‘Queer’ Asia 2017, the second annual conference, takes place 16-18 June 2017 at SOAS University of London
The 15th World Music Summer School opens on Monday 19 June 2017 with a programme of musical traditions from around the world.
An artistic snapshot of the city as it stands today, and a celebration of its culture and diversity
Enrol onto our summer school and pick the brains of our academic specialists about the issues that interest you most
Diversify your music library with these suggestions…
From Pieces of the Musical World: Sounds and Cultures to Celebrating Art and Music countless links – and echoes – occur between book and exhibition.
Wen-chin Ouyang outlines how she first became interested in Arabic-Chinese comparative studies, and her current interest in the Silk Road
