Join us for a deep conversation with Catherine Hall about her newest book, Lucky Valley: Edward Long and the History of Racial Capitalism (2024) - Thursday, 15 Oct, 6pm @soasuni.bsky.social For more information and to register go to: www.soas-walter-rodney-collective.com/events/cathe...

More on Endangered Archives: Dr Elizabeth Lhost (UCLA Library) who will speak about 'From Communities to Collections: The Modern Endangered Archives Program in South Asia and Beyond.' The talk will take place today, Tuesday 14 October, 5pm, room C 325. All welcome! www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...

Please join us for the next SOAS History seminar tomorrow, Wed 15 Oct, at 5pm when Dr. Mohamad  El-Merheb will speak on France’s Imagined Mission in the Levant: Louis IX’s Crusade in Religious, Colonial, and Nationalist Discourses (1693–2025). For more info see: www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...

Join us for a deep conversation with Catherine Hall about her newest book, Lucky Valley: Edward Long and the History of Racial Capitalism (2024) - Thursday, 15 Oct, 6pm @soasuni.bsky.social For more information and to register go to: www.soas-walter-rodney-collective.com/events/cathe...

The Histories of Capitalism and Race series @soasuni.bsky.social is back with a stellar line-up! Join us for exciting book discussions with @esmat.bsky.social, Catherine Hall, @omarcheta.bsky.social, Nicky Falkof, Tithi Bhattacharya, Françoise Verges, and Hafsa Kanjwal.

"We are told that AI is inevitable, that we must adapt or be left behind. But universities are not tech companies. Our role is to foster critical thinking, not to follow industry trends uncritically." www.ru.nl/en/research/...

An upcoming international conference at Oxford in honour of Craig Clunas brings together leading scholars in the field of Ming studies and art history stephenjones.blog/2025/09/07/e...

For people interested in the creation of #archives: look forward to the research of this year‘s BACS ECR Prize awardee Matthew Hurst on the intricate history of the migration of Hong Kong’s colonial archives - an amazing story! #BACS2025 #HongKong

‘What do we need, not to scale, but to survive?’ #DigHum #MinimalComputing

When you have 20 mins, here is our latest podcast with Phil Clark, who talks about his experience working with public media as a social scientist, gacaca courts in post-genocide Rwanda, & History - recorded a year ago but non the less interesting & enjoyable: #SOAS blogs.soas.ac.uk/soashistoryb...

Umoja The Game, an educational project developed in partnership with Pwani University, UNESCO, SOAS & JIWE Studios, is an interactive journey along the Swahili Coast that brings together histories of resistance with innovative storytelling and gameplay: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ifzl...

Oxford Studies in Medieval History is now Oxford Studies in the New Medieval History. Glad to be part of the opening up of this great series to global approaches. We are looking forward to receiving book manuscripts in global #medieval history. More info in the flyer: fdslive.oup.com/www.oup.com/...

📢 2 days to go! We can't wait to see everyone at our annual conference either in-person or online! 💻 In-person tickets are sold out but you can still sign up to join us online for the entire day! Use the link below to register... www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Don't forget that we are recruiting for our new committee! If you have any questions, please email us as we are happy to answer. Keep on scrolling to see what roles we are recruiting for the next academic year!

Postdoctoral position in Chinese history - the social history of material infrastructures: #Sinology www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...

For #SouthAsian #cinema aficionados in London: South Asian Heritage Month at the Garden Cinema, 17 July to 17 August: www.thegardencinema.co.uk/season/south...

I'm so proud to be part of the History Workshop project, supporting a brilliant team of Early Career historians who have built the best site for radical, engaged history online. Do consider applying for this opportunity! www.historyworkshop.org.uk/article/hist...

SOAS is currently advertising a one-year fixed-term position in the History of the Middle East for 2025-2026. If this is for you, apply by 27 July 2025. For more info, go to vacancies.soas.ac.uk/job/727934

Congratulations, Ettore - looks fabulous!

We are hiring! Fully tenured associate professorship in environmental history! We are looking for someone who can be a strong contributor to the history group, to a new #envhum related MA program (if all goes well), and to @greenhouseuis.net. #envhist

You already missed the first film, but there are five more to come at the Mongolian Movie showcase at #SOAS Gallery this weekend (7 and 8 June 2025). For more info go to www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/mongolian-...

Upcoming in the Robert H.N. Ho Foundation Lecture Series in Chinese Buddhism: 'The Women and the Woman: Building the Backstory to the Rise and Rule of Empress Wu (r. 690–705)' Thursday 22 May | 17:30−19:00 (BST) | ONLINE For more info & registration see: www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...

Today (14 May):

Submit nominations by May 15 for the Roy Rosenzweig Prize for Creativity in Digital History, sponsored jointly by the AHA and @rrchnm.bsky.social. This prize is awarded annually to honor and support work on a creative and freely available new media project. 🗃️

Free, online - 2025 Plant Humanities Conversations: Plant Extinction & Resurrection, May 14, 2025, 12-1:30pm ET. With award-winning artists Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg and Debora Hirsch. From @nybg.bsky.social and @dumbartonoaks.bsky.social. www.nybg.org/event/2025-p...

If you're in London next week, please join us for a seminar with Ling Zhang (Cambridge), who will speak about 'Rocks that Made Bodies: Doing Environmental History by Following Things'. Wed 14 May, 5pm at #SOAS, C325. All welcome! For more information see: www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/... #envhist

For our 2025 AGM lecture on Thurs, 15th May, Susan Stronge, the brains behind V&A’s recent exhibition The Great Mughals: Art, Architecture and Opulence, will take us through the major discoveries and challenges of putting together this landmark exhibition. Come and join us!

Great to see this interview with Jenny Bond (UCL) on her recently published book Dreaming the New Woman: an Oral History of Missionary Schoolgirls in Republican China (OUP 2024) based on her SOAS PhD thesis. chinesebooksforyoungreaders.wordpress.com/2024/10/20/1...

Congrats to all three awardees and to our own Dr Junda Lu in particular! royalasiaticsociety.org/the-bayly-pr....

Our next seminar will be on Wed 7 May with Jaffar Abid (NYU London) who will speak on 'The Many Lives of a Mughal King: Secularizing Aurangzeb in Communal India.' All Welcome! For more information see www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...

A day with Mongolian Studies events upcoming at #SOAS, this Thursday, 8 May 2025. See ALT text for more detail. #MongolianStudies #Mongolia

This summer, June 7-August 7, I'll be running an online course in "Introduction to Chaghatay!" 12 meetings. $280 for the whole thing. Open access textbook + videos to walk you through grammar and readings. Fees will support GW's Uyghur Studies Initiative. Apply here! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Ruling and Healing: Managing Health and Empire in Qing China 1644-1912 A hybrid seminar with Nora Qiu (UCL) May 6 www.history.ac.uk/events/rulin...

Our next seminar will be on Wed 7 May with Jaffar Abid (NYU London) who will speak on 'The Many Lives of a Mughal King: Secularizing Aurangzeb in Communal India.' All Welcome! For more information see www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...

Today: www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/... #Sinology #EnvHist

Join us next Wed, 23/4/2025, 5pm at #SOAS for a seminar with Christian Schwermann (Bochum) about resource use in early China: “By Nurturing Useful Resources He Let the Land Work [for him]”: Conceptualizing and Managing Resources in the Warring States and Early Empires All welcome!

We are delighted to learn that 'All Equal' based on Marie Rodet's #AHRC -funded research won the Best Animation Prize at the International Film Festival Vues d'Afrique in Montreal last week. Here is the FilmFreeway page: filmfreeway.com/AllEqual Congratulations!

Home Office spent £22,000 on external legal advice in failed attempt to stop Windrush report release www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

'All Equal!' Sat 5 April, 11am in Brixton, Rapport Festival, Kid's Corner. An animated tale of a journey from enslavement to liberation, directed by Cheikh Ahmadou Bamba Diop, based on research by and co-produced with Dr Marie Rodet (SOAS) and Mamadou Sène Cissé: rapportfestival.com/saturday-5-a...

We are back with a piece by Lennon Aviss on the controversy about the 'correct' version of Qing history and the uses & abuses of history, with examples from China and Russia: Who Controls History? The Case of the National Qing History Project. Enjoy! blogs.soas.ac.uk/soashistoryb... #NewQingHistory

It's the final day of Women's History Month! Last month we shared the story of our alumna Catherine Duleep Singh, who helped Jewish Families escape Nazi Germany. Catherine's sister Sophia was a formidable figure in the suffrage movement. Read this feature by the National Archive to find out more.

The AHA has released a statement in support of the Smithsonian Institution, the target of the recent EO, “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History.” This order “egregiously misrepresents the work of the Smithsonian Institution” and “completely misconstrues the nature of historical work.” 🗃️

Women's and gender history is thriving in HE, but very little of this new work appears in schools history. Mid-way through the gov't's curriculum review, Natasha Hodgson considers the barriers to the take up of new work in schools, and how she seeks to overcome these bit.ly/4lf0Xm4 1/2 #Skystorians

Job alert: Cambridge has an opening for a two-year post in Modern Chinese History (teaching associate): www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50752/

We are back with a piece by Lennon Aviss on the controversy about the 'correct' version of Qing history and the uses & abuses of history, with examples from China and Russia: Who Controls History? The Case of the National Qing History Project. Enjoy! blogs.soas.ac.uk/soashistoryb... #NewQingHistory

Since joining BlueSky we've been building a Starter Pack to highlight the work of fellow historical societies and associations. We've now reached our 150 limit, so have divided the list into 2 packs: the first covers societies in the UK and Republic of Ireland go.bsky.app/AZaYQDd ... #skystorians

Join us for our final #SOAS History Seminar this term on Wed, 12 Mar 2025, where Faisal Chaudhry will speak about 'Property and Law in the (Re-)Making of Colonial Rule: Reconsidering the Case of Britain's India'. For more information visit: www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/... #SouthAsia #ColonialHistory

Join us for our final #SOAS History Seminar this term on Wed, 12 Mar 2025, where Faisal Chaudhry will speak about 'Property and Law in the (Re-)Making of Colonial Rule: Reconsidering the Case of Britain's India'. For more information visit: www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/... #SouthAsia #ColonialHistory

📣SOAS Event 10 March To mark Women's History Month 2025, the SOAS Library’s Special Collections will be open to all SOAS students and staff to view and celebrate the contributions of women through history. Find out more bit.ly/3FlCef3

📚 6 books to read for International Women’s Day at SOAS Library. Our librarians at @soaslibrary.bsky.social have handpicked a reading list featuring women from countries across Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Explore the list: bit.ly/4kqYbtj #InternationalWomensDay