Event Update: "The Backstage of Democracy: India's Election Campaigns" has been rescheduled to 21 Oct 2025, 5:00pm at Room S312, Paul Webley Wing, SOAS. All registrants have been notified via email. Your registration remains valid. We apologise for any inconvenience.

Join us for webinar on "Ways of Remembering: Law, Cinema and Collective Memory in the New India" 🗓️ 30 October 2025 🕧 12:30 PM 📍 Online via Zoom www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...

From Communities to Collections: The Modern Endangered Archives Program in South Asia and Beyond 📅 14 Oct 2025, 5:00 PM 📍 MB C 325, SOAS Register 👇 www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...

What is the reality of caste in Canada? Join us for a panel discussion with the Chetna Association & UBC's "Caste in Canada" project that documents the history and experience of caste in Canada. 🗓️ 6 Oct 2025 🕔 5:00 PM 📍 Room B202, SOAS Register 👇 www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...

"Parting Gifts of Empire" reveals the story of South Asians & Arab intellectuals forging new horizons against imperial legacies. Talk by Esmat Elhalaby at @SOAS 📅 9 Oct 2025 🕔 5:00 PM Register: www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...

How is democracy really won? Behind India's elections: a hidden world of strategists, data gurus, and spin doctors. Join us on 22 Oct 2025, 5pm for: "Backstage Democracy: India’s Election Campaigns and the People Who Manage Them" Register 👇 www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...

Susan Banki’s book explores the Bhutanese refugee crisis and diaspora activism. It highlights how proximity to the homeland strengthened advocacy but also exposed activists to greater risks - a dynamic of both power and precarity. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHWZ...

Indian development at a crossroads – part 2 📅 3 October 2025 Join @ids.ac.uk for this in-person and online event that explores how top-down modes of development are challenged from below. www.ids.ac.uk/events/india...

Opportunity for Pakistani Scholars The Charles Wallace Pakistan Trust offers a 3-month fellowship at SOAS (Jan-May 2026) for PhD researchers in Pakistan Studies. Deadline: 22 September 2025 Eligibility and application procedure 👇 www.soas.ac.uk/study/studen...

From Pastures to Cities: Skills and Youth Social Mobility in Urban Gujarat 📅 15 Sept 2025 🕔 5:00 PM 📍 Room MB C429, SOAS, Univ. of London Registration www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...

Subir Sinha explains why BJP's communal playbook struggles in Bihar www.outlookindia.com/national/an-...

The Engine of History: Writing Calcutta & Bangladesh into the Novel Authors Ruchir Joshi & Manzu Islam will discuss their novels The Great Eastern Hotel & Godzilla and the Songbird 📅 14 July 2025 | ⏰ 6:00 PM 📍Room B103, SOAS Register 👇 www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...

We are proud to announce a new joint PhD with BRAC University, Bangladesh, aimed at nurturing a new generation of scholars dedicated to transformative global development. Pic: SOAS Vice-Chancellor Adam Habib with Chairperson of BRAC University's Board of Trustees Tamara Abed. 👉 bit.ly/4jSyTmu

📸 PHOTO EXHIBITION: Authoritarianism, Law & the Remaking of Society 📍 Wolfson Gallery, SOAS Library 🗓 4 June - Sept 2025

Opportunity for Pakistani Scholars The Charles Wallace Pakistan Trust offers a 3-month fellowship at @SOAS (Jan-May 2026) for PhD researchers in Pakistan Studies. Deadline: 22 September 2025 Eligibility and application procedure 👇 www.soas.ac.uk/study/studen...

We invite you to join us for SOAS South Asia Institute Annual Lecture 2025: 'Ruin Aesthetics and the (Post)colonial State: Reading a South Asian Palimpsest' 📅 18 June, 5pm (BST) 📍 Alumni Lecture Theatre, SOAS University of London www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...

📣 USF International Fellowships 2025 - apply now! This fully-funded program offers 3-9 month sabbatical research visits for urban scholars from the Global South. Read more & apply here: urbanstudiesfoundation.org/funding/inte... Deadline 16th July 2025

Join us for a book talk w/ Susan Banki: "The Ecosystem of Exile Politics: The importance of physical location in diaspora mobilisation" 🗓️ 20 June 2025 ⏰ 5:00 PM 📍 Room B103 (2nd floor, SOAS Gallery Building) Register 👇 www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...

Join us at SOAS on 16 May 2025, 5pm for the international premiere of "Deepak Kumar Goswami Speaking", a powerful 21-minute documentary narrated by a member of Bangladesh’s Hindu minority. Registration 👇 www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...

Workshop on authoritarianism, law, and the remaking of society 🗓️19 - 20 June 2025, 10am 📌S312 (Paul Webley Wing), SOAS Registration: shorturl.at/w9XPG Programme 👇

Dr Subir Sinha featured on @bbc5live.bsky.social to provide insight on the current happenings within the Kashmir region. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Faith, fear and the force of nature: Cinematic representations of natural disasters in Bangladeshi screenwriting practice 📅2 May 2024, 5pm 📍Room B202, SOAS University of London Register 👇 www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...

Launch of the Christina Noble Archive – an online collection of photographs 5 June, 2025. 5:15pm Room B103, SOAS University of London www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...

William Radice Memorial 📆24 May 2025, 4:00 pm 📍Khalili Lecture Theatre. SOAS, University of London www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...

PhD scholarship for candidate who wants to create and pursue their own socio-legal research project on sectoral water conflicts in South Asia as part of a major new research project at SOAS - (WATCON). Candidate criteria and application procedure 👇 www.soas.ac.uk/study/studen...