More than 2 billion people in 50 countries will be invited to vote in 2024.

⬇️ SOAS student Saleeta Akbar shares insights from the Director's Lecture Series, where academics and policymakers met to discuss the key elections and what's at stake.

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What are the global challenge posed by #COVID -19 and future #pandemics ? Medical practitioners, public health experts and social scientists at SOAS tomorrow for joint The British Academy conference to discuss vaccine inequity: bit.ly/3U9ZfXA

Eid Mubarak to everyone celebrating! We wish you and your loved ones a joyful day filled with blessings, peace, and happiness.

Here are some images from Open Iftar & Ramadan Tent Project's visit to SOAS.

Credit: Photography by Omar Salha (Omar Salha).

We're ranked in global top three universities for Development Studies SOAS Development Studies and in top 20 for Politics SOAS Politics and SOAS Department Of Anthropology in latest #QSWUR QS World University Rankings bit.ly/4aSpMhH

'The day began with shodō, continued with mon-kiri and ended with us presenting in Japanese to the students.'

🇯🇵 BA student Masami shares her recent class trip to the unique Japanese School in London.

#UCAS #Japan

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When three brass Buddha statues turned up at Brunei Gallery SOAS exhibitions, the team had to find out what they were and where they came from.

In a new blog, Lucy Kauser takes us on a journey of what happened next.

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'This role will challenge my assumptions about contemporary Britain as much as the Indian subcontinent'

Avinash Avinash Paliwal अविनाश पालीवाल awarded a The British Academy Innovation Fellowship with a secondment to Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, focusing on policy priorities in South Asia.

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How can we better organise society & reduce vaccine inequity around the world?

Christine Oughton will be speaking at the The British Academy and Wellcome conference:

💉 Resolving Global Vaccine Inequity
📅 11-12 April
🎟️ Ticketed

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'Since the global financial crisis...new powers have come forth with potential challenges to the current distribution of power.'

In a new blog, Matteo Giordano sheds light on some of the key economic analyses by SOAS scholars and the EReNSEP.

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Dr Paul Giladi on what makes Philosophy at SOAS unique and why being woke is a good thing. Plus, we discover the quote he lives by, his go-to coffee stop, and the answer to the age-old question: What's the best floor of the SOAS Library? ☕📚

Who's on the mural wall at SOAS Students' Union?

Students chose to memorialise activists, artists, lawyers and writers who were involved in radical change. BA student Jacob Winter delves into how their stories are a testament to global liberation movements.

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Addressing oil palm, food insecurity and malnutrition in West Papua, Indonesia, Dr Sophie Chao SophieMHChao will be leading this seminar at SOAS:

Metabolic (In)justice: Food, Hunger, and Ecology on the West Papuan Oil Palm Frontier

📅 8 May
🕞 3.30pm
📍 KLT

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Established in 2013 by then SOAS student Omar Salha Omar Salha, Open Iftar has since been uniting people across the UK in the spirit of generosity and togetherness.

Yesterday they returned to where it all began, and they'll be back at SOAS University of London again tonight✨

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Welcome back 💛

'My daughter is also at SOAS. When I hesitantly mentioned that I, too, was thinking of taking up a place here, she said, 'Can't you find any other university to study at?' The answer was no - surprisingly, not many places teach Persian.'

Read more ⬇️

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For Ramadan, Dr Alia Amir Dr Alia Amir (Suharwardy) ڈاکٹر عالیہ عامر curates a list of her favourite eating places in London to break your fast, with options close to SOAS campus and further afield.

#Ramadan #Iftar

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SOAS Chair of the Board of Trustees Lord Dr. Michael Hastings of Scarisbrick CBE Lord Dr Michael Hastings CBE reflects on the importance of the #humanities and SOAS realising its strategic vision: bit.ly/43O68kF

SOAS students Peter and Callum won top prizes in the Japanese Speech Contest 🎉

The final was the culmination of a thorough selection process in the months prior, with five finalists in the Speech category and five finalists in the individual category.

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The foundational values that are central to university life – free speech and academic freedom – are under attack, said SOAS Vice Chancellor Adam Habib addressing a conference on academic freedom at Cambridge University.

#academicfreedom #FreeSpeech

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Join us for SOAS's 23rd Annual Lecture on Jaina Studies.

Prof Christine Chojnacki will discuss the role of kings in religious matters, their intervention in the internal affairs of Jainism & the role of monks in the political development of the kingdom.

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