It's the Leeds Symposium of Food History & Traditions' big 4-0. It's on Friday 24 April & the topic is 'Food and War'. There are some great speakers inc BFHP podcast alumni @alessandrapino.bsky.social & Marc Meltonville. REMEMBER, IT'S IN YORK! Book here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/food-and-w...

An essay I wrote for The Dial about Wikipedia's humanity in the age of AI informational slurry is out now!

I forget how long I have been working on this, I started it during lockdown and have worked on it sporadically over the summers since then. Transformative Economics Education: Decolonising Economics Through a Multidimensional Approach osf.io/4sp8y/

Interesting piece from @idemamba.bsky.social wonkhe.com/blogs/ai-sha...

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 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...

📣 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.

Dr. Stefanie Lotter (SOAS, University of London) was a Co-Investigator on the British Academy-funded research project titled 'Dignity Without Danger: Collaboratively Analysing Stigma and Taboos to Develop Innovative Strategies to Address Menstrual Exclusion in Nepal'.

“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

'A metadata-only version of the British Library’s sorely missed PhD thesis repository will be a pale imitation of the service that disappeared more than two years ago after a cyberattack, experts have warned.' 1/2

Tomorrow!

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...

Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She was 95.

Cat wandered in front of the camera during the #aurora long exposure

Honored to be speaking February 12th in London as part of the Histories of Capitalism and Race series of the SOAS Walter Rodney Collective Spring 2026 series. www.soas-walter-rodney-collective.com/events. www.dukeupress.edu/on-the-semic....

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-...

Thrilled to unveil our first-ever digital exhibition on our brand‑new digital library — celebrating 50 years of the Swire Archive at SOAS. A milestone worth exploring! https://soas.quartexcollections.com/john-swire-sons-exhibition

The schedule for the Food History seminar series (Institute of Historical Research/University of London) is out: www.history.ac.uk/seminars/foo... Great program for everyone interested in food studies from a historical perspective!

Sign up now for the @huygensknaw.bsky.social x @nybg.bsky.social Humanities Institute historical food preservation seminar series! It's going to be a lot of online fun with great speakers, every month starting on February 25 with fermentation! Sign up via www.nybg.org/event/histor... #foodhistory

This was excellent - lots about culture and history and DJ is a great interviewee. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Bet it's lighter than the original xbox controller

Absolute genius.

Council for British Research in the Levant grants of up to £7000 for UKHEI-based early career researchers. Deadline 9 January.

By a leading scholar on energy geopolitics >>

"The bias we see on The Traitors only highlights just how discriminatory society is on the whole" I wrote about the unconscious racism and ableism on The Traitors for @thecanaryuk.bsky.social www.thecanary.co/trending/202...

If you wanted to end America’s supremacy in space this is exactly how you would do it. A book burning on this scale would also take too long so it will just be “disappeared.” #HGT #booksky #libraries #krasnov smnewsnet.com/archives/554...

Brigitte Bardot, actress, 1934-2025 ft.trib.al/IWUezpC

It's not as if we weren't warned.

The story of Farage and Putin, told by British-Ukrainian soldier Shaun Pinner on a destroyed apartment block in Kyiv.

@startribune.com finally stands up for the truly forgotten! White men! Can't make this shit up www.startribune.com/2026-reading...

Here are the latest trends in comics censorship from 2025. As you might expect, more comics are being targeted and in particular, manga is feeling the heat. So, too, are adaptations, women's non fic, and more. Big thanks to @anuncivilphd.bsky.social for her insights. bookriot.com/trends-in-co...

A very happy Christmas from all of us at SOAS Gallery 🎄✨ Whether you celebrate or not, we hope you are enjoying a restful break with family, friends, or some well-earned quiet time. We look forward to welcoming you back in the new year.

2025's last advent book is Death of the Author by @nnedi.bsky.social, a dazzling & completely captivating weave of stories: the tale of a disabled author, & the scifi book she decides to write. Nigerian culture and folklore, discrimination, ai, robots, publishing - brilliant & thought-provoking! 💙📚

What’s even better is that you can read the online version for FREE here: uclpress.co.uk/book/teachin...

Titles by Miriam Toews, Margaret Atwood, James Baldwin, Yiyun Li, and more are among the best reviewed nonfiction books of 2025.

"Historians will study how bad this book is. English teachers will hold this book aloft at their students to remind them that literally anyone can write a book" Round up from @literaryhub.bsky.social's Bookmarks lithub.com/the-most-sca...

Festive shrimp? Erm...OK. #foodart

Need some encouragement getting into the festive spirit? Well, here's a link to last year's British Food History Podcast Christmas special: A Tudor Christmas with the fantastic Brigitte Webster ( @tudorfoodrecipe.bsky.social ) podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...

Would you like to know how to make a zine? Here's easy step-by-step instructions on how to make your own without the use of a computer by @thorazos.bsky.social

It literally cannot come up with new ideas though

Buy people books for Christmas. Fin.

If you can't come tonight, this is being recorded and will be on SOAS' YouTube after 7 days www.youtube.com/@soasuni/vid...

@4cat.nl Hi, Are there any legal issues with using 4Cat pull data from social media platforms when their terms of use prohibit scraping? Thanks

Kedgeree originated in fourteenth century India with a dish of rice, lentils and fish called Khichuri. A perfect breakfast for Christmas morning! You can find the recipe at piespuddingsandpottages.com/recipe-post/... #britishfood #foodhistory #recipe #rice #smoked haddock #breakfast

@deepvellum.bsky.social Hello, Do you have a UK distributor? I ask because Wei Tchou's Little seed isn't readily available from UK suppliers

Inaugural Lecture from SOAS @soasuni.bsky.social Linguistics Professor Julia Sallabank, titled 'Language revitalisation and reclamation: theorising processes and ideologies' Dec 11 · 5:30 pm GMT #linguistics #language #Languagerevitalisation #Endangeredlanguages #Languagedocumentation

Here’s my Spotify Wrapped 🎵✨