ETHNOGRAPHIC STORYTELLING
In this innovative short course, exclusively hosted by the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at SOAS, an award-winning screenwriter reveals how to enrich ethnographic writing with best-in-class storytelling methods.
Book now:
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Have a read of Marloes' blog post in which she expands on the Eurocentrism of African football commentary: www.soas.ac.uk/about/blogs/...
Why is it called 'faith' when European football players pray but 'voodoo' when African players perform faith-based rituals?
Listen to Professor Marloes Janson of our Department explore how colonial language still shapes football coverage today 👇
www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6-C...
📣Save the date: CAMHRA Annual Lecture 2026
🗓 Wed 18 March
📍SOAS Gallery
⏰Reception 5pm; Lecture 6.30–8.30pm.
“From me it is born: Psychic life and a politics of the ordinary” (Prof Clara Han, John Hopkins University)
For further details and registration: camhra.soas.ac.uk/event/camhra...
📣 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...
📣 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.
📣 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...
Great to see these South Omo policy briefs on health, education, culture and tourism, and land, livestock and livelihoods. Produced by our partners IPSS as part of a @soasanthro.bsky.social research programme bit.ly/4sNJrsC
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“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
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...
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 👇
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)
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/
Read the article that the interview is based on here: www.thedailystar.net/news/nationa...
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:
youtu.be/WmnN6bUBLNc?...
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/
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/
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-...
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/...
"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:
scroll.in/article/1088...
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
doi.org/10.1080/0018...
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📣 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 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/...
📖 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/...
📣 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...
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 👇
issblog.nl/2025/11/20/b...
📰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
📣 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...
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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.’
nowandmen.net/episode/city...
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
