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📣 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...
Recursive Mediation and the Limits of Mental Health Knowledge - CAMHRA
Event Abstract This talk introduces recursive mediation as a description of how being in the world actually unfolds. Drawing on…
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February 10, 2026 at 5:21 PM
📣 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.
February 5, 2026 at 2:34 PM
📣 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...
Life in the Cracks: Law, Violence, and Resistance in Haiti - CAMHRA
Event Abstract Drawing on ethnographic portraits of law, violence, and resistance in Haiti, this talk examines what it means to…
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February 3, 2026 at 7:14 PM
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January 29, 2026 at 6:59 PM
“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
Jason De León
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January 30, 2026 at 12:17 PM
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...
Museums without Object: 'Revolutionary Museums' in Midwestern Nepal - CAMHRA
Event Abstract Twenty years after Nepal’s civil war, a vast memorial landscape has been developed across the remote villages of…
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January 27, 2026 at 5:04 PM
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 👇
January 26, 2026 at 5:24 PM
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)
January 23, 2026 at 2:35 PM
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/
January 21, 2026 at 12:15 PM
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:

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National sovereignty in the climatic age | Climate Change | News Today
YouTube video by The Daily Star
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January 21, 2026 at 11:32 AM
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/
The scourge that lays waste at noon: Monks, acedia, and the anthropology of depression - CAMHRA
Event Abstract Attentive to the ways that inertia can take hold of life, Catholic monks recognise despondency as a potential…
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January 19, 2026 at 4:29 PM
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/
Otohime - Pittsburgh Review of Books
Lately in the news, Otohime is a small device with one button, usually attached to walls of public toilet cubicles in Japan. Square and white, with a
pghrev.com
January 19, 2026 at 11:44 AM
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-...
The risks of digitalisation: Implications for access to food in England
Join us as we explore how digitalisation policies help and hinder access to food for marginalised communities.
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January 19, 2026 at 11:09 AM
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/...
'Archiving Gaza in the Present': Art, Memory, Erasure
This event will mark the publication of the book 'Archiving Gaza in the Present', co-edited by Professor Dina Matar and Dr Venetia Porter.
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December 18, 2025 at 10:42 AM
"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:

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How a university stint in Nehruvian India helped a young Somalian writer imagine alternative futures
In the mid-1960s, Nuruddin Farah chose to study at the University of Panjab instead of in the US. He was nurtured by the environment of debate and discussion.
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December 5, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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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
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December 5, 2025 at 1:06 PM
📣 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 our Cloud HD Video Meeting
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December 2, 2025 at 3:09 PM
📣 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/...
Film Screening and Public Launch Discussion: 'Dargeçit' (Hold Still) and Archives of Solidarity
The Archives of Solidarity project team presents a film screening and discussion on archives of disappearance, violence and solidarity.
www.soas.ac.uk
November 28, 2025 at 3:55 PM
📖 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/...
November 28, 2025 at 1:36 PM
📣 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...
Join our Cloud HD Video Meeting
Zoom is the leader in modern enterprise cloud communications.
soas-ac-uk.zoom.us
November 26, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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 👇
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Politics of Food and Technology Series| Beyond the Numbers: Humanitarian Response in the Absence of Data - Bliss
In this blog, Jeremy Taylor (PhD), Regional Head of Advocacy at the Norwegian Refugee Council, looks at some of the programming issues inherent within a reliance upon (good!) data in the humanitarian ...
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November 25, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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📰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
November 25, 2025 at 12:02 PM
📣 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...
Trends and patterns in family life since the Chinese Communist Revolution revealed in new book
The first detailed study on sex, marriage and intimacy in China has been published revealing the trends and patterns in family life since the Chinese Communist Revolution.
www.soas.ac.uk
November 25, 2025 at 11:49 AM
📻

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...
Prof Sanjay Srivastava and Dr Romit Chowdhury - Masculinities and City-Life in India and Beyond - Now and Men
How do different groups of men navigate urban life, and how is masculinity threatened and re-asserted in the metropolises of contemporary Indian society?
nowandmen.net
November 24, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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
Archiving Gaza in the Present: Memory, Culture and Erasure | P21 Gallery
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November 19, 2025 at 7:49 PM