The SOAS blog is a place for students, alumni and academics to share their SOAS experiences and weigh in on some of the most important issues in the world today.
Five Master’s students in the Department of Economics tell us about their programmes – and why studying at SOAS is unique.
Alum Yewá Ogunseye talks about her experience of learning Yorùbá at SOAS.
We talk to MA International Studies and Diplomacy graduate, Alexandra, about her time at SOAS and her career at Global Affairs Canada.
Join a programme of virtual events exploring decolonising knowledge at the SOAS Festival of Ideas.
Find out more about language activism at the SOAS Webinar: Promoting Your Language on Social Media.
Do you feel strongly about social justice? Are you passionate about a cause? An inter-disciplinary studies approach could be the answer.
Find out what the programme at the prestigious Cumberland Lodge involves.
How are campus-based lecturers and students adapting to teaching online, as the new ‘norm’?
A week of films delve into the ‘diversity, nuance and subjective experience within migration’.
A safe space for students to talk about, bring awareness of, and highlight the voice of Kashmiris.
The report of a conversation on decolonising research started at SOAS University of London.
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]
A brief guide to a practice that sits at the heart of Japanese life.
“Studying at SOAS has changed me, undoubtedly.”
Although SOAS lawyers do rank among the country’s top earners.
Samia Omar shares her experience of the MA International Studies and Diplomacy.
Koyanagi Tanekuni, the lacquer artist, learnt his art “under three holders of the title Ningen Kokuhō (Living National Treasure)”
SOAS alumna Inès Huynh describes her internship at Humanitarian Affairs Asia.
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.
Think you know all about climate change? Take our quiz to find out just how clued up you really are.
SOAS alumna Sharifah Alhinai talks about Sekka Magazine.
MA Translation students Luna Chiaverini and Megumi Sakata discuss video game localization and International Women’s Day protests.
Art Breath founder Nour Saleh shows how the arts can convey powerful messages about identity and politics.
Over 150 film posters are displayed in the exhibition Africa Gaze in the Brunei Gallery.
Asma’ Jawabreh describes her academic journey from the Arroub refugee camp to SOAS
Test your knowledge of Christmas traditions in this fun festive quiz.
Showcasing three films depicting female experiences in contemporary China.
Ella Al-Shamahi joins an MBI Al Jaber expedition to the island of Socotra.
Test your knowledge of recent world events with the SOAS Topical News Quiz.
International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists.
The K-Music Festival 2018 at London’s Southbank runs until 20 November.
Take the SOAS BHM Literary Quiz to find out if you know your Linton Kwesi Johnson from your Phillis Wheatley.
Check out the calendar of BHM events happening around the capital
1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair runs from 4-7 October
Think you know your way around SOAS? Take this fun quiz to find out.
Dr Nimer Sultany has been awarded the Peter Birks Book Prize for Outstanding Legal Scholarship
Student experience is more nuanced than the Gold, Silver and Bronze ratings of TEF suggest.
Test your knowledge of recent world events with the SOAS Topical News Quiz.
Dr Christopher Lucas explains how attitudes can get transferred onto language.
A quiz to celebrate the achievements of some of SOAS’s Honorary Fellows and Honorary Graduates.
SOAS student Mattho Mandersloot wins the WLT Translation Prize for his translation of Zopor
