Generative AI, Agency, and the Imperative of Virtuosity: A Buddhist Perspective
Thursday, 15 October 2026 at 18:00
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SOAS talks in London
36 upcoming talks
Upcoming Talks
Transmission as a Creative Act: Pluriversalizing contemporary art’s relationship/s to the past
Thursday, 15 October 2026 at 19:00
SOAS and Online / Khalili Lecture Theatre (KLT), Lower Ground FloorLocal Voices, Living Words: exhibition launch, talk and guided tours
Friday, 16 October 2026 at 18:00
SOAS University of London / KLT'Governor, Traveller, Scholar, Spy': Sir Cecil Clementi and the making of 'modern' Hong Kong
Monday, 19 October 2026 at 17:00
TBCReligion, Science, and Truth: where does Yoga fit within a context of contested and competing epistemes?
Monday, 19 October 2026 at 19:00
SOAS University of London / Khalili Lecture TheatreThe Purpose of Parahistory in Postsocialist Vietnam
Tuesday, 20 October 2026 at 17:30
Russell Square: College Buildings / RG01Can multilateralism survive the planetary crises?
Tuesday, 20 October 2026 at 18:30
SOAS Gallery Building / BGLT“Japanese cozy fiction”, does it make sense?
Wednesday, 21 October 2026 at 18:00
Russell Square: College Buildings / Khalili Lecture Theatre (KLT)Book talk: 'Ashura as Submission and Rebellion: An Ethnography on Shia Rituals in Contemporary Iran'
Friday, 23 October 2026 at 19:00
Speaker: Kenichi Tani
SOAS University of LondonBook talk: 'Twelve Days that Shook the Middle East'
Monday, 26 October 2026 at 18:30
Paul Webley Wing, Senate House, SOAS / Wolfson Lecture Theatre (SWLT)"Houses of health" and monastic infirmaries: communal health in premodern South and Southeast Asia
Tuesday, 27 October 2026 at 12:00
OnlineMaking sense of the many Chinas: a dialogue between Xiaolu Guo and Jeffrey Wasserstrom
Tuesday, 27 October 2026 at 19:00
Paul Webley Wing / Wolfson Lecture Theatre (SWLT)Bringing my small town to the world: the journey of 'Ghost Town'
Wednesday, 28 October 2026 at 12:00
TBCForeign correspondents in Taiwan's diplomatic ecosystem: role awareness, identity, and contested statehood
Wednesday, 28 October 2026 at 17:00
Speaker: Dr Jonathan Sullivan
SOAS Main Building, Room KLTPoetry reading with Stewart Sanderson
Thursday, 29 October 2026 at 18:30
SOAS University of London / TBAThe Genocide in Gaza and Israel’s Deliberate Targeting of Children
Thursday, 29 October 2026 at 19:00
SOAS Gallery / BGLTBeyond categories: intimacy, agency, and identity in Taiwan
Friday, 30 October 2026 at 11:00
OnlineBook Talk - Korean Youth Migration to Australia
Friday, 30 October 2026 at 17:00
Russell Square: College Buildings / RG01How sustainable (or unsustainable) is China's miracle growth since Deng's reforms?
Monday, 2 November 2026 at 17:30
TBCDistinguished Lecture Series: Professor Craig Clunas
Wednesday, 4 November 2026 at 18:00
Khalili Lecture Theatre (KLT), SOAS, Russell SquareKnit & 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 / RG01Sudan’s War: Political Economy, Regional Interests and the Search for a Viable Peace
Tuesday, 10 November 2026 at 17:00
SOAS Main Building (RB01) & Online / Main Building RB012026 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)Korean 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 / RG01The 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)'Dialogue and Dissent': changemaking and transformative power in Africa
Wednesday, 18 November 2026 at 17:30
Main Building / RB01Understanding 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 / DLT'Gudri' to Relove: Taking India's Upcycled Textile Practices Global
Saturday, 21 November 2026 at 13:00
SOAS, University of London / MB R201The Study of Industrial Policy beyond the Hegemons
Wednesday, 25 November 2026 at 17:00
SOAS Main Building (R101) & Online / Main Building R101'Queer Resistance: Contesting State, Family and Inequality in Post-Socialist China'
Monday, 30 November 2026 at 17:00
TBCBook 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)Between Light Novels and Healing Fiction
Wednesday, 3 February 2027 at 17:00
Russell Square: College Buildings / Khalili Lecture Theatre (KLT)