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📣 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...
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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
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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.’

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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
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
November 19, 2025 at 9:42 AM
📣 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
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November 18, 2025 at 9:04 AM
⚡ 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
The Lost Heer: Women in Colonial Punjab by Harleen Singh
As a province hailed by the British as the ‘sword arm of India’, masculinity remained a key pillar of Punjabi identity in colonial times. Observers largely looked at Punjab’s women through this blurre...
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November 13, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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Landscapes of the Saal Valley, Chamba District, Himachal Pradesh
November 13, 2025 at 9:37 AM
📣 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
CAMHRA Doctoral scholarships
This prestigious scholarship offers the opportunity for successful applicants to pursue a fully-funded 3-year PhD under the mentorship of leading experts in the fields of anthropology and mental healt...
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November 12, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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:
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November 10, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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 👇
November 6, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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...
November 4, 2025 at 7:58 PM
🎬 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
November 4, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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...
Cooperation in Polarized Legislatures: Learning from the Case of the Texas State House of Representatives | State Politics & Policy Quarterly | Cambridge Core
Cooperation in Polarized Legislatures: Learning from the Case of the Texas State House of Representatives
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October 28, 2025 at 12:11 PM
📣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...
Heat on the mind - CAMHRA
For both anthropologists and artists, conceptualisations of heat and the body-mind are not new. Heat can be illusive, overly present…
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October 23, 2025 at 6:27 PM
📚 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
‘Raciological thinking’: Poland’s narratives of race, eugenics, and nation-formation
Drawing on Polish state archives on eugenics, this article reveals the global dimensions of eugenic practices and the intersected narratives of cleansing, hygiene, and nation-formation in Poland. B...
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October 21, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Discover South Omo through the eyes of its people.

“Learning from South Omo” showcases community-led research from Ethiopia’s agro-pastoralists. On now at SOAS Gallery, London.

Free entry.

Curated by @richaxe.bsky.social, Hannah Bennet and Mercy Mulugeta

🔗 soas.ac.uk/event/learning-south-omo
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October 21, 2025 at 8:24 AM
🌀 What does it mean to become-other in a world of borders, sovereignty, and displacement?

In his latest article, Kostas Retsikas explores Theo Angelopoulos’s 'The Suspended Step of the Stork' as a cinematic vision of becoming-other & a people to come.

📖 Open access: www.euppublishing.com/film
Edinburgh University Press Journals - Journal Home - Film-Philosophy Home
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October 20, 2025 at 1:45 PM
📢 Book launch at SOAS: Towards Decolonising Political Communication in the MENA

🗓️ 30 Oct, 5–7pm
📍SOAS Gallery

Roundtable with Prof. Dina Matar & contributors.

🔗 Info & register: www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...
Towards decolonising political communication in the MENA
This book launch will be in the form of a roundtable discussing the necessity to respond to the gap in mainstream political communication scholarship in reference to the Middle East and North Africa.
www.soas.ac.uk
October 17, 2025 at 10:39 AM
📣 The CGS Seminar Series kicks off next Tuesday with a vibrant student-led event on 'Gay School - Learning Otherwise.'

🗓️ Tuesday 21 October, 5-7pm
📍 R201, SOAS

Join for a discussion about study and knowledge production beyond the university and its radical potentialities.

Info & registration 👇
October 16, 2025 at 7:48 AM
📣 Our departmental research seminar continues tomorrow!

Seminar theme: 'Survey City: A Film (and a story) about the Mysterious Life of Documents.'

📅 Wednesday 15 October 3–5pm (UK time)
📍 Main Building, RB01 | In-person & hybrid

Join virtually here:
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October 14, 2025 at 2:52 PM