What does archiving mean during genocide and erasure? Book launch event: 'Archiving Gaza in the Present': Art, Memory, Erasure' Co-edited by Professor Dina Matar and Dr Venetia Porter. 📍 SOAS Gallery 📅 21 January, 6 to 7.30pm For further information and registration: www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...

"How a university stint in Nehruvian India helped a young Somalian writer imagine alternative futures" Insightful read from Sanjay Srivastava of the SOAS Anthropology and Sociology Department: scroll.in/article/1088...

New from #HumanOrganization: Community-Based Conservation in Eastern Madagascar: The Centre ValBio’s Conservation Club Program by Sydney VanWinkle, Andrianirina J. Odile Rafanambinantsoa, Lovasoa E. Razafindravony & Kristoffer Whitney doi.org/10.1080/0018... #SfAA #Anthropology #AppliedAnthropology

📣 Our departmental research seminar continues continues tomorrow: Our own Naomi Leite will be speaking about 'Doubt, Dissonance and Divided Selves in the "Rational" West' 📅 3 December, 3–5pm 📍 Main Building, RB01 | In-person & hybrid Join online at this link: soas-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/9374936443...

📣 Join us for a screening of Berke Baş’s 'Hold Still' and a discussion with the director and scholars. The discussion marks the public launch of Archives of Solidarity, an AHRC-funded project at SOAS. 📅 3 Dec, 5–8pm 📍 RG01, SOAS Main Building Details & registration: www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...

📖 Book Launch at SOAS on Monday 1 December. 'Food Beyond Terroir' Join us for a seminar at 13:15 in R301 (see below), and for an evening launch & wine reception, 18:00–20:00 in DLT. For further details & booking the evening event, see here: www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...

📣 Our departmental research seminar continues continues today: Kelly Fagan (Cambridge) will be presenting a paper on 'The ABCs of "Ghost Children"' 📅 Wednesday 26 November, 3–5pm (UK time) 📍 Main Building, RB01 | In-person & hybrid Join virtually at this link: soas-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/9374936443...

The latest instalment of the 'The politics of food and technology' blog series, jointly organised by the SOAS Food Studies Centre, is now available to read. 'Beyond the Numbers: Humanitarian Response in the Absence of Data', by Jeremy Taylor. See below 👇 issblog.nl/2025/11/20/b...

📰A new book, lead by Prof Jieyu Liu, reveals the trends and patterns in family life in China since the Chinese Communist Revolution of 1949 - bringing together findings from the first detailed study on sex, marriage and intimacy in China, seen through three generations. Read more: bit.ly/48bXMFP

📣 Publication day! The first detailed study on sex, marriage and intimacy in China since the Chinese Communist Revolution of 1949 has been published in a new book by Jieyu Liu, Professor of Sociology and China Studies at SOAS. Read about 'Embedded Generations' below🔽 www.soas.ac.uk/about/news/t...

📻 Have a listen to Sanjay Srivastava on the Now and Men podcast discussing his book ‘Masculinity, Consumerism, and the Post-National Indian City: Streets, Neighbourhoods, Home.’ nowandmen.net/episode/city...

Book Launch: Archiving Gaza in the Present: Memory, Culture and Erasure 📅 6.30pm, 11 December 2025 📍 P21 Gallery Join us for an evening celebrating the publication of ‘Archiving Gaza in the Present’, edited by Dina Matar and Venetia Porter. Registration required. Book here ➡️ p21.gallery/node/479

What does deportation look like in a context of radical right government? Join the SOAS Centre for Migration and Diaspora Studies today for this timely talk with Luke De Noronha (UCL): 'Deportation fever: expulsion and sadism at the border' 📅 November 19th, 5-7pm 📍 RG01, SOAS Main Building

📣 Don't miss tomorrow’s Research Seminar Mursi Encountering the Other: Collaborative Research in South Omo, Ethiopia Speakers: Mercy Fekadu, Bardoley Tula & Barkede Kulumedere (Addis Ababa University) 📅 Wed 19 Nov, 3–5pm (UK) 📍 Main Building RB01 🔗 Join online: soas-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/9374936443...

⚡ Happening today! ⚡ Women in Colonial Punjab (India & Pakistan) - Author's Talk and panel discussion with Harleen Singh 📅 13th November, 5:30pm 📍 KLT (Khalili Lecture Theatre) Main Building, SOAS Organised by Fiza Murtaza and SOAS Anthropology Students' Association

Landscapes of the Saal Valley, Chamba District, Himachal Pradesh

📣 CAMHRA is offering 5 fully funded PhD #scholarships for researchers looking to conduct anthropological research in the broad field of #mentalhealth @SOAS. 📅 Apply by 5th January. Find out more here ▶️ bit.ly/camhra

Check out this review of our own Sanjay Srivastava's 'Masculinity, Consumerism and the Post-national Indian City: Streets, Neighbourhoods, Home': "The prolific scholar offers unparalleled insight into the growth and shaping of Indian cities." Read in full here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

The SOAS Food Forum continues this Monday with Professor Hanna Garth (Princeton University): ‘The Los Angeles Food Justice Movement as Placemaking or Problematic Inclusion’ 📅 13:15-14:45, 10 November 📍 Room R301 See the full line-up of talks below 👇

Next week! The SOAS Centre for Migration and Diaspora Studies continues its theme of Return with a specially scripted performance by Ice&Fire 📅 14 November 7pm 📍 SOAS Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre ➡️ To attend, register for free here: www.eventbrite.com/e/on-the-way...

🎬 This new publication by Bolaji Balogun & Konrad Pedziwiatr explores Black Polish activism via the grassroots movement Czarne jest Polskie (Black is Polish), highlighting anti-racist mobilization in Poland post-BLM & Covid. Read more ➡️https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-032-00002-6_3

How do alliances survive in times of polarised politics? Our own @emmacrewe.bsky.social & Michelle M. Taylor-Robinson explore this question in an article for State Politics & Policy Quarterly blending ethnography and network analysis. Read here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

📣Join CAMHRA for a panel on climate & mental health, linked by the theme of heat. Scholars & artists explore global, creative takes on heat, distress & wellbeing. 💡Heat on the Mind 📅 27 Nov, 5–7pm 📍 G3, SOAS For further details and registration: camhra.soas.ac.uk/event/heat-o...

📚 New open-access article by our own Bolaji Balogun: ‘Raciological thinking’ explores race, eugenics & nation-formation in Poland, challenging Western-centric narratives. Read here ➡️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #Anthropology #RaceStudies

Discover South Omo through the eyes of its people. “Learning from South Omo” showcases community-led research from Ethiopia’s agro-pastoralists. On now at SOAS Gallery, London. Free entry. Curated by @richaxe.bsky.social, Hannah Bennet and Mercy Mulugeta 🔗 soas.ac.uk/event/learning-south-omo

🌀 What does it mean to become-other in a world of borders, sovereignty, and displacement? In his latest article, Kostas Retsikas explores Theo Angelopoulos’s 'The Suspended Step of the Stork' as a cinematic vision of becoming-other & a people to come. 📖 Open access: www.euppublishing.com/film

📢 Book launch at SOAS: Towards Decolonising Political Communication in the MENA 🗓️ 30 Oct, 5–7pm 📍SOAS Gallery Roundtable with Prof. Dina Matar & contributors. 🔗 Info & register: www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...

📣 The CGS Seminar Series kicks off next Tuesday with a vibrant student-led event on 'Gay School - Learning Otherwise.' 🗓️ Tuesday 21 October, 5-7pm 📍 R201, SOAS Join for a discussion about study and knowledge production beyond the university and its radical potentialities. Info & registration 👇

📣 Our departmental research seminar continues tomorrow! Seminar theme: 'Survey City: A Film (and a story) about the Mysterious Life of Documents.' 📅 Wednesday 15 October 3–5pm (UK time) 📍 Main Building, RB01 | In-person & hybrid Join virtually here: soas-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/9374936443...

Ever wondered what’s inside SOAS Library’s Special Collections? 👀 Special Collections Open Day 🗓️ 20 Oct | 🕚 11am–3pm | 📍 Floor F, Reading Room Meet our curators & explore rare books, archives & manuscripts. All welcome! #SpecialCollections #SOASLibrary #Archives @soas-speccoll.bsky.social

Our colleagues in the Media Studies Department are co-organising this event on the importance of documenting international crimes and human rights violations in Palestine. 📍 DLT, Main Building, SOAS 📅 28 October, 5 to 7pm For further information and to register ➡️ www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...

Mursi Voices: A film by Olisarali Olibui and Ben Young that features in the @soasgallery.bsky.social exhibition Learning from South Omo youtu.be/lMA8pJOuxDY?... @soasanthro.bsky.social

Anyone hungry? Our Food Studies Centre Food Forum continues this Monday! Santiago Lastra, Chef Patron of KOL, London, will speak about ‘Culture as an Ingredient’ 📅 Monday 13 October, 1:15-2:45pm. 📍 SOAS, R301 (Main Building) See below for the full series lineup 👇

On Sunday 23 Nov our own Kostas Retsikas will introduce a screening of Theo Angelopoulos' Ulysses' Gaze at the Institute of Contemporary Arts. The event is part of a retrospective of Angelopoulos' work running through October and November at the ICA Don’t miss it! Details ▶️ ica.art/ulysses-gaze

What does it mean to return? Join leading scholars in SOAS to explore 'return' as an idea, practice & contested horizon. 🗓️ 17 Oct, 5:30pm & 18 Oct, 1–5pm 📍SOAS Hosted by the Centre for Migration & Diaspora Studies. Further information and registration: www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...

The Student Endowed Award deadline for abstracts is soon approaching. Abstracts are due October 15. More info: appliedanthro.org/awards-prize... #SfAA #socialscience #anthropology #appliedanthropology #SfAA2026

Opening next week! Be sure to check out the Learning from South Omo exhibition while it is on display in the SOAS Gallery from 14 October to 13 December.

📣 Our departmental research seminar series kicks off tomorrow! Prof Ash Amin (Cambridge) will be speaking about 'Foreclosure and its Foreshadows: Inside the 'Black Heart' of Naples'. 📅 Wednesday 8 October 3–5pm (UK time) 📍 Main Building, RB01 & online: soas-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/9374936443...

Using luminescence dating, @abistone.bsky.social and her colleagues aim to shine a light on a neglected part of Africa’s archaeological record, out in the remote, hyper-arid landscapes of the Namib Sand Sea. @pans-river-namib.bsky.social 👉 media.leverhulme.ac.uk/feature/astone

🎨Artistry@Work returns! Monthly online seminars on artists & artisans, hosted by RAI & MSH Clermont-Ferrand. 🗓️ Starts 07 Oct – Free with registration. 🔗 therai.org.uk/series/artistrywork #Anthropology #Craftwork

📣Our weekly departmental research seminar lineup is now live! This year we are running the series with our own Centre for Mental Health Research in Action (CAMHRA). Talks will invite us to think in new ways about forms of life, distress, wellbeing and personhood. Wednesdays 3-5pm, RB01, SOAS.

Check out some footage from the launch of the Learning from South Omo exhibition in Addis Ababa! The exhibition is also coming to London in October. Watch this space 👀 @emmacrewe.bsky.social @richaxe.bsky.social @soasuni.bsky.social

🎙️Have a listen to Dr Naomi Leite speaking to the New Books Network podcast about her work 'Unorthodox Kin', an exploration of "chosen" identity, kin, and community in a global era. 📚 Available here: newbooksnetwork.com/unorthodox-kin

📢 New publication alert! In The Sociological Review, Prof Jieyu Liu explores how young people in urban China navigate marriage decisions within complex social and cultural frameworks. Read here 🔽 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/0038... #Sociology #ChinaStudies #Marriage

Covering a range of cases, this book critically explores the intersections of #SocioEconomic, #Political, #Climate, and #Health factors to unravel the dynamic and transformative forces of crisis.

The NACCH 2025 International Academic Conference on Newah Cultural Heritage convenes 6 Sept (online) & 13–14 Sept (in person). With 31 papers from 18 countries, scholars, community leaders and activists will examine continuity, change & global significance of Newah culture. More info here: nacch.org

New #OpenAccess entry on 'Sustainability' out in @anthroencyclo.bsky.social Written by Prof. @alicerudge.bsky.social at @soasanthro.bsky.social Find it here: www.anthroencyclopedia.com/entry/sustai...

Good luck to all students getting results today! Really looking forward to meeting our new students in September! For students who did not initially select SOAS but got higher grades than expected, or just missed their offers do consider us in clearing! x.com/HannahBAnthr...

Award-winning screenwriter and story consultant James Moran offers an innovative five-session course at @soasanthro.bsky.social, drawing on exceptional storytelling such as Pixar animation, Iranian cinema, and Chekhov. I have heard amazing things about James and his courses so really recommend this.

Saad Quassem explains how the word "Mofiz" belittles people from Rangpur, Bangladesh, assuring stereotyping. He details the history of struggle and survival despite persistent colonial stereotypes. www.thedailystar.net/ds/big-pictu...