🧐 Looking to understand the world differently? SOAS is launching an online MA degree in Social Anthropology that explores a range of ways of studying the social and everyday life. Join us on 19 June for a virtual briefing about our online MA programmes: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/soas-onlin...

Not to be missed!

Orkideh Behrouzan, director of the SOAS MA in Medical Anthropology and Mental Health, delivers the 16th Annual Strathern Lecture in Cambridge this evening. Congratulations Orkideh! 📅 12 May - 17:00 to 18:30 📍 Auditorium at Pembroke College More information: www.socanth.cam.ac.uk/events/strat...

Tension explores how rapid development in the Western Himalayas affects the minds and bodies of the Gaddi people through the multifaceted state of distress they call “tension.” 🗓️ 19th March 2026 🔗 buff.ly/EGRuIBP 📍SOAS University of London @soasuni.bsky.social @dukepress.bsky.social

'Defending Indigenous Peoples’ Human Rights and Territories in Peru' - Dr César Bazán Seminario (Instituto de Defensa Legal, Peru) 📅 Tuesday 17 March, 19:00–20:30 📍 MB P G3, SOAS For further information and registration 👇 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/defending-...

📣 'Creative Conversations on Vitality and Distress: A New Dialogue for Mental Health' Join CAMHRArts next week for a discussion of art, academia and mental health 📅 6.45-8pm,17 March 📍 Paul Wembley Wing of Senate House, SOAS University of London Further details ➡️ camhra.soas.ac.uk/event/creati...

Deep Focus is coming to SOAS 💫 Deep Focus is a periodic screening event that supports artists working with moving image. 📅 7 - 9:30pm, 12 March 📍 RB01, SOAS Screening time will be 90 minutes, followed by a panel discussion. For further details and to register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/deep-focus...

📣Our Department Seminar continues tomorrow 'A good enough life in the digital age?' - Prof Daniel Miller (University College London) 📅 11 March, 3pm till 5pm 📍 RB01, Main Building, SOAS University of London For registration, zoom link, and further details ➡️ camhra.soas.ac.uk/event/a-good...

☀️ SOAS Food Studies Centre Alumni Network Reunion ☀️ Join us for a day of conversation, inspiration and reconnection. See below for a packed and fascinating programme of events, and to book your ticket. Early bird sales end this Saturday! www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...

📣 Our own Nikita Kaur Simpson will be discussing her forthcoming book Tension in roundtable format next week. 📅 6.30 - 8pm, 19 March 📍 KLT, SOAS Main Building Not to be missed! Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/book-previ...

ETHNOGRAPHIC STORYTELLING In this innovative short course, exclusively hosted by the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at SOAS, an award-winning screenwriter reveals how to enrich ethnographic writing with best-in-class storytelling methods. Book now: store.soas.ac.uk/product-cata...

Why is it called 'faith' when European football players pray but 'voodoo' when African players perform faith-based rituals? Listen to Professor Marloes Janson of our Department explore how colonial language still shapes football coverage today 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6-C...

📣Save the date: CAMHRA Annual Lecture 2026 🗓 Wed 18 March 📍SOAS Gallery ⏰Reception 5pm; Lecture 6.30–8.30pm. “From me it is born: Psychic life and a politics of the ordinary” (Prof Clara Han, John Hopkins University) For further details and registration: camhra.soas.ac.uk/event/camhra...

📣 Our departmental research seminar series continues tomorrow: 'Recursive Mediation and the Limits of Mental Health Knowledge' - Dr Stefan Ecks 📅 11 February, 3pm till 5pm 📍 RB01, Main Building, SOAS University of London For registration and further details ➡️ camhra.soas.ac.uk/event/recurs...

📣 Our colleagues in the media studies department are holding their next seminar series event this evening: "Joyride": Centring queer joy for/as human flourishing in a 'late digital age' - Prof Lexi Webster (Southampton) 📅 5pm - 7pm, 5 February 📍 SALT, Senate House, SOAS All welcome.

📣 Our departmental research seminar series continues tomorrow: "Life in the Cracks: Law, Violence, and Resistance in Haiti" - Prof Marco Motta (University of Lausanne) 📅 4 February, 3pm-5pm 📍 RB01, Main Building, SOAS See here for registration and further details: camhra.soas.ac.uk/event/life-i...

Great to see these South Omo policy briefs on health, education, culture and tourism, and land, livestock and livelihoods. Produced by our partners IPSS as part of a @soasanthro.bsky.social research programme bit.ly/4sNJrsC bit.ly/4qW2Gi6 bit.ly/3YLGUl8 bit.ly/4pOjcje bit.ly/3Nxuzi0

“Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling.” Join the SOAS Centre for Migration and Diaspora Studies this Wednesday for a public talk with Prof Jason De León (via Zoom). 📅 Wed 4 Feb, 5–7pm 📍 RB01, SOAS More info: jasonpatrickdeleon.com

Our departmental research seminar series continues tomorrow! "Museums without Object: ‘Revolutionary Museums’ in Midwestern Nepal" - Stefanie Lotter (SOAS) 📅 28 January, 3-5pm 📍 RB01, Main Building, SOAS University of London For registration and further details ➡️ camhra.soas.ac.uk/event/museum...

This Thursday! Our colleagues in the Gender Studies Department are holding their first research seminar of the semester. 📅 29 January, 5-7pm 📍 RB01, Main Building, SOAS Register with the QR code below 👇

The semester 2 SOAS Food Forum continues next Monday with our own Charlotte Sanders: 'Hard to Stomach: Food and Embodied Violence in UK Asylum Hotel Accommodation.' 📅 26 January, 1:15-2:45pm 📍 SOAS, R301 (Main Building)

Our Semester 2 Department Seminar Series line-up is now live! Join us on Wednesdays from 3 to 5pm (UK time) in RB01, SOAS Main Building, for a vibrant set of talks that explore new ways of thinking about forms of life, distress, wellbeing and personhood. Further details: camhra.soas.ac.uk/events/

What can the entanglement of human and non-human life tell us about navigating an era of climate collapse? Listen to Saad Quasem of SOAS Anthropology and Sociology speaking to the Daily Star news about this question in the context of his research in Bangladesh: youtu.be/WmnN6bUBLNc?...

Join us this Wednesday for Dr Richard Irvine’s talk: “The scourge that lays waste at noon: Monks, acedia, and the anthropology of depression.” 📅 21 Jan, 3–5pm | 📍 RB01 & hybrid More info: camhra.soas.ac.uk/event/the-scourge-that-lays-waste-at-noon-monks-acedia-and-the-anthropology-of-depression/

Have you every wondered why Japanese toilets play a recording of flushing water? Read our own Fabio Gygi's piece on the Otohime device on the Object Impression series! pghrev.com/otohime/

Is digitalisation helping or hindering food assistance? Come to this event for insights into this crucial question. 12 February, 6-8pm at SOAS, University of London. Further details and registration here: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-risks-...

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