China and globalisation, Industrialisation, Soviet-type economic system and transformation, East Asian economic institutions and development, Comparative political economy. China.

The SOAS Shapoorji Pallonji Institute of Zoroastrian Studies was launched in June 2018 thanks to the generous donation from a Parsi benefactor, Mr Shapoor Mistry, in the name of his father, Mr ...

A new exhibition from The Centre for Yoga Studies launched the ‘ Embodied Liberation: The History of Physical Yoga ’, on the banks of the Pearl River in Guangzhou, China. Extending back across 1,000 ...

MA student Lilato Madiri shares why studying media through a critical, decolonial lens is vital in an era defined by digital disruption, misinformation, and contested power.

In the final Indian Art Circle lecture for 2024/25, Dr Sushma Jansari (Tabor Foundation Curator: South Asia, The British Museum) will discuss the context, scope, themes and highlights of this major ...

Join us for an informal reception where you’ll have the chance to meet and chat with professionals working in international diplomacy, governance, and policy, from governments, NGOs, and global ...

A new book from Arshin Adib-Moghaddam, Professor in Global Thought and Comparative Philosophies, casts a critical eye on AI technology; exploring its uses, limitations, and cases for human ...

SOAS University of London President Zeinab Badawi marked the launch of Humanitarian Action for Sudan (HAS) at SOAS, an initiative created to address the crisis in Sudan and improve humanitarian ...

The LLM/MA Environmental Justice in South Asia is an innovative 1-year course located in the Global North and the Global South to explore critical environmental and climate change issues from the ...

Qur’an, Hadith, Tafsir; Islam in society; classical and modern Arabic literature ...

Classical and modern Arabic literature and culture, with emphasis on narrative and storytelling, comparative narratology and critical theory, and gendered thinking and discourse.

Steve is the Director of the SOAS China Institute. Before taking on his current position in 2016, he was the Head of the School of Contemporary Chinese Studies at the University of Nottingham.