Distinguished Lecture Series: Professor Craig Clunas
Wednesday, 4 November 2026 at 18:00
Khalili Lecture Theatre (KLT), SOAS, Russell Square
SOAS talks in London
48 upcoming talks
Upcoming Talks
Environment, Resources and Representation in the Southwest and Northwest of the Qing Empire
Friday, 6 November 2026 at 09:00
SOAS, Main Building / C426hKnit & Knatter — 留白 / Beyond Emptiness edition
Monday, 9 November 2026 at 13:00
SOAS GalleryManufacturing Vulnerability in the Uyghur Region: State-Imposed Forced Labour and the Crisis of Corporate Complicity
Monday, 9 November 2026 at 17:00
SOAS Main Building / RG01Book launch: 'Decolonizing Afghanistan: Countering Imperial Knowledge and Power'
Tuesday, 10 November 2026 at 17:30
Main Building, SOAS / R1012026 BRISMES Annual Lecture: Beyond Bearing Witness: Palestine, Knowledge Production and the Political Economy of the Future
Thursday, 12 November 2026 at 17:30
Main Building, SOAS / Khalili Lecture Theatre (KLT)'Exit, Exception, and the Future of Sovereignty'
Monday, 16 November 2026 at 17:00
Main Building / R301Exit, Exception, and the Future of Sovereignty
Monday, 16 November 2026 at 17:00
SOAS KLT / Khalili Lecture TheatreChinese brands, chinese stories? Commerce, culture and a globalising China
Monday, 16 November 2026 at 17:00
SOAS Main Building / RG01Korean Artist Lee Qoede After the Divide: Mexico, Socialism, and Another Modernism
Tuesday, 17 November 2026 at 17:00
SOAS Gallery / BG01The Man Who Stole the Gods: A round table discussion on the looting and restitution of Khmer antiquities
Tuesday, 17 November 2026 at 17:30
Russell Square: College Buildings / RG01Lines of Fire: Poetry of the Afro-Asian Writers' Movement
Tuesday, 17 November 2026 at 18:00
SOAS, Main Building / Khalili Lecture Theatre (KLT)The geopolitics and macrofinance of AI: a race between the US and China
Tuesday, 17 November 2026 at 18:30
SOAS Gallery Lecture Theatre and Cloisters, Paul Webley WingThe Nawabs of Murshidabad under Colonial Rule: Political Interactions and Changing Status (1750–1850)
Wednesday, 18 November 2026 at 17:15
SOAS, University of London / Wolfson Lecture Theatre (Paul Webley Wing)Book Talk: Chapal Rani, the Last Queen of Bengal
Wednesday, 18 November 2026 at 17:15
SOAS, University of London / B104 (Gallery Building)'Dialogue and Dissent': changemaking and transformative power in Africa
Wednesday, 18 November 2026 at 17:30
Main Building / RB01Who gets to decolonise philosophy? Red Philosophy and the making of a new intellectual field in Hong Kong
Thursday, 19 November 2026 at 16:00
Brunei Gallery / B306Understanding Korea through Diaspora: Division, Identity and Coexistence among North Koreans, South Koreans and Joseonjok in the UK
Friday, 20 November 2026 at 17:00
Russell Square: College Buildings / RG01The Advent of Christianity and its Impact on the Legacy of Zoroastrianism in Georgia
Friday, 20 November 2026 at 19:00
SOAS Gallery / DLTBurning Across Borders: Lee Chang-dong’s Transnational Reading of Murakami Haruki’s Barn Burning
Friday, 20 November 2026 at 19:00
Russell Square: College Buildings / Khalili Lecture Theatre (KLT)'Gudri' to Relove: Taking India's Upcycled Textile Practices Global
Saturday, 21 November 2026 at 13:00
SOAS, University of London / MB R201This Map is an Archive: Making and Sharing Knowledge in Eighteenth-Century Gujarat
Monday, 23 November 2026 at 17:00
SOAS, University of London / C 325, Main BuildingThe transnational impact on identity formation in theatre across the Chinese-speaking world
Monday, 23 November 2026 at 17:00
SOAS Main Building / RG01Reinventing examination and the state in 20th century China and Taiwan
Tuesday, 24 November 2026 at 17:00
Speaker: Dr Jonathan Sullivan
SOAS Main Building, Room KLTFive Years On: Royal Power and Reform in Thailand after the 2020 Youth Protests
Tuesday, 24 November 2026 at 17:30
Russell Square: College Buildings / RG01The Non-Neutrality of Commodity Money: From a classical production economy to corporate cash hoards
Wednesday, 25 November 2026 at 17:00
SOAS University of London / B103The Study of Industrial Policy beyond the Hegemons
Wednesday, 25 November 2026 at 17:00
SOAS Main Building (R101) & Online / Main Building R101My Grandma is a Bigger Stan than Me: Generations and Fandom in Japan
Wednesday, 25 November 2026 at 17:00
Russell Square: College Buildings / Khalili Lecture Theatre (KLT)Afghan Precarity in Pakistan: From legal exclusion to ethnic cleansing
Wednesday, 25 November 2026 at 17:00
SOAS, Main Building / RG01Ethnographies of Dalit Life in the Songs of Gaddar - a talk by Prof Lisa Mitchell
Wednesday, 25 November 2026 at 17:00
SOAS, Main Building / C426Inaugural Lecture Series: Professors Matthew Nelson and Rochana Bajpai
Wednesday, 25 November 2026 at 18:00
SOAS Gallery / SOAS Gallery Lecture TheatreThe Political Economy of Central Asia: Industry and Production
Thursday, 26 November 2026 at 17:00
Main Building / CG03Political Crime Fiction in Persian: Why Is the Genre Poised to Flourish?
Friday, 27 November 2026 at 18:00
SOAS, Main Building / R101Political Belonging in the Ghana-Togo Borderlands: Citizenship and the Vote at the Margins of the State
Monday, 30 November 2026 at 12:00
SOAS, University of London / C 426 (Main Building)'Queer Resistance: Contesting State, Family and Inequality in Post-Socialist China'
Monday, 30 November 2026 at 17:00
TBCSOAS Music Public Research Seminar: Conversation in Creative Practice
Wednesday, 2 December 2026 at 15:00
SOAS, Main Building / G52Sudan’s War: Political Economy, Regional Interests and the Search for a Viable Peace
Wednesday, 2 December 2026 at 17:00
SOAS Main Building (RB01) & Online / Main Building RB01Let the Record Show: Storytelling, Genocide, and Palestinian Liberation
Monday, 7 December 2026 at 18:00
SOAS, Main Building / Khalili Lecture Theatre (KLT)Book talk: 'State Matters: Theorising state fragmentation and consolidation from Iraq'
Tuesday, 8 December 2026 at 17:30
Main Building, SOAS / R101Archives or their-chives? ‘Rebuilding the truth’ of the Second Sino-Japanese War
Wednesday, 9 December 2026 at 17:00
Russell Square: College Buildings / Khalili Lecture Theatre (KLT)Cleopatra in Japanese Manga and Animation: Reimagining Ancient Egypt and Rome in the Shōwa Era
Wednesday, 20 January 2027 at 17:00
Russell Square: College Buildings / Khalili Lecture Theatre (KLT)The Political Economy of Central Asia: Migration and Remittances
Thursday, 28 January 2027 at 12:00
Speaker: Bhavna Davé, Matthew Heneghan
OnlineBook launch of the oldest surviving Pahlavi manuscript, the codex MK
Thursday, 28 January 2027 at 19:00
SOAS Gallery / DLTBetween Light Novels and Healing Fiction
Wednesday, 3 February 2027 at 17:00
Russell Square: College Buildings / Khalili Lecture Theatre (KLT)Panel discussion: freedom of speech in Hong Kong
Monday, 8 February 2027 at 17:00
SOAS Main Building / RG01The Political Economy of Central Asia: Energy and Finance
Friday, 12 February 2027 at 12:00
OnlineMasculine imaginaries and imagined masculinities in China: the male marriage squeeze as discursive practice
Monday, 1 March 2027 at 17:00
SOAS Main Building / RG01The Political Economy of Central Asia: Agriculture and Land
Wednesday, 17 March 2027 at 12:00
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