Keen to improve your understanding of Islamic Literary Heritage? This course will give you the opportunity to study manuscripts from a wide range of periods, locations and textual genres across the Islamic world.
Book now 👉️ ies.sas.ac.uk/study-traini...
#palaeography #paleography #LIPS26
Black and white Photo of Deng Yuzhi with caption (white on grey): Labour Activist and Christian Diplomat: Deng Yuzhi's International Thought. A SOAS History Seminar with Jennifer Bond (UCL), Wed 15 APril 2026, 5pm, C426 Image: public domain - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deng_Yuzhi#/media/File:%E9%84%A7%E8%A3%95%E5%BF%97.jpg
We are happy to announce our next SOAS History seminar on Wednesday 15 April 2026, 5pm in C426 or online.
Jennifer Bond (UCL) will speak about 'Labour Activist and Christian Diplomat: Deng Yuzhi's International Thought'.
Go to www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/... for more info and registration link.
In "Digital Humanities Approaches to Navigating the Early Colonial Hong Kong History", Eric H. C. Chow and Ryan Iu survey digital humanities tools for studying early colonial Hong Kong history.
Read more on our website!
digitalorientalist.com/2024/02/02/d...
Screenshot of MA Global Histories (Online) landing page; upper half of image black background with MA Gobal Histories (Online) in white letters; lower half bottom up view of an alcove with turquoise tile decorations, Islamic style
The @soasuni.bsky.social MA Global Histories (Online) is launching today. It promises to be a fabulous programme, part of a brand new suite of online distance learning offers.
Explore here:
www.soas.ac.uk/study/find-c...
It was twilight on a Wednesday, and the room was full of people listening to medieval Arabic poetry...
HUGE thanks to @soashistory.bsky.social for hosting this, and to everyone who attended, in person or online. Some great, thought-provoking questions too. You were inspiring!
#Arabic #medieval
Join us today (Wed 18 March 2026 @soasuni.bsky.social, C426) for Kate Arnold's talk on Arabic 'Anti-Frankish' Poetry of the Crusading Era.
To participate remotely, register here: www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...
Illustration from a British Library manuscript (probably 13th century CE) of the Maqāmāt of al-Harīrī, Add. MS. 22114. f.94. The Maqāmāt were supposedly written to demonstrate mastery of grammar and vocabulary. The picture shows the character Abu Zayd (an eloquent rogue!) as an orator/preacher; so representing the power of recitation to persuade.
This is on Wednesday! Looking forward to returning to SOAS (where I did my MMus, rather too many years ago) to talk about Arabic poetry from the crusading period.
It's hybrid and free (but you need to register).
Warning: may include performance! 🎶🎵
www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...
#medievalsky #Arabic
Join the author in discussion with Adam Hanieh (SOAS), Katayoun Shafiee (Warwick) and Asma Abda (Warwick) this Thursday, 5 March 2026, 5-7pm at SOAS (R201).
The book launch is part of the Histories of Capitalism and Race Seminar Series.
www.soas-walter-rodney-collective.com/events/fle84...
Congrats to @mattinbiglari.bsky.social on the publication of Nationalising Oil and Knowledge in Iran: Labour, Decolonisation and Colonial Modernity, 1933–51!
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-nationa...
We will meet in person in room C426 in the main SOAS building and online - please register here to receive online joining information:
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Seminar announcement: 'The “Geographical Mission”: Europe, the Mediterranean, Islam and the World'. A SOAS History Seminar with Alexis Norman Wick (Koç University), Wed 4 March 2026, 5pm, C426. Background image: Map of the Eastern Mediterranean, Aegean and the Black Sea, The Walters Art Museum. https://art.thewalters.org/object/W.658.63B/ Map of the Eastern Mediterranean, Aegean and the Black Sea
Please join us at 5pm this Wednesday, 4 March 2026, for the next SOAS History Seminar when Dr. Alexis Norman Wick (Koç University) will speak on The “Geographical Mission”: Europe, the Mediterranean, Islam and the World.
For more info see:
www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...
Hosted and co-sponsored by @fcrj.bsky.social, SOAS Centre for African Studies, SOAS Centre for Pan-African Studies, SOAS History Seminar and SOAS Centre for Global and Comparative Philosophies.
The SOAS History seminar series continues next Wed, 18 Feb, 4pm: @proftjcurry.bsky.social will speak on Under-MAN: A Genre Analysis of the Ethnological and Psycho-analytic Demonization of the Black Male.
Hosted & co-sponsored by (see next skeet):
Register here:
www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...
The programme is eligible for the SOAS New Programme Scholarships which awards a fee waiver of £10,000 for international students. For more info see: www.soas.ac.uk/study/studen...
#scholarships
We're excited to announce the launch of the MA Race and Empire at @soasuni.bsky.social convened by our very own
Samia Khatun & Henny Ziai. The MA is enriched by the Histories of Capitalism and Race seminar series, running since 2022. For more info see:
www.soas.ac.uk/study/find-c...
Delighted to inform you I will be back at my alma mater @soasuni.bsky.social next month talking about medieval Arabic poetry related to the Crusades, and possible musical /sonic approaches to it.
Hybrid event. More details nearer the time!
www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...
@soashistory.bsky.social
The SOAS History Seminar continues this week on Wed 4 Feb 5pm in C426 (SOAS Main Building). Uditi Sen (Nottingham) will speak on 'From Extermination to Containment: Mapping the history of Ang/Jarawa Survival in the Andaman Islands (1925-1956).'
All welcome! In person or online.
For more info see
2022 💥 ''Language matters. Terminology matters. Language matters because it shapes our understanding of the world and because it constitutes an integral part of (neo-)colonisation and the products of (neo-)colonialism, including racism..'' blogs.soas.ac.uk/soashistoryb... @soashistory.bsky.social
'There is a phenomenon in artificial intelligence and deep learning called model collapse. Model collapse is the slow erosion of a generative AI system grounded in reality as it learns more and more from machine-generated data rather than from human-generated content.' 1/3
Alongside the exhibition, there will be a series of events, starting with a talk by Malavika Kasturi titled Contextualising Jahandar Shah and the 'Later' Mughals of Banaras.
Wed 21 Jan, 6.15pm, KLT. Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/contextual...
📣SOAS Event 15 Jan 2026
Mughal Banaras - a new gallery exhibition exploring the diversity and forgotten history of the community in North India.
Find out more: bit.ly/4pvRfg1
Thrilled to unveil our first-ever digital exhibition on our brand‑new digital library — celebrating 50 years of the Swire Archive at SOAS. A milestone worth exploring! soas.quartexcollections.com/john-swire-sons-exhibiti...
Just published: OA piece about #inclusion and #attainment in HE based on concrete practice at #SOAS by my fabulous colleagues @e-newbigin.bsky.social and Sarah Tucker:
Two stacks of books and three open books in the centre. The books are not identifiable.
It's that time of year again... the History Workshop team present our "Radical Reads" for 2025!
www.historyworkshop....
Image source: Openverse.
I really enjoyed this article, both for the interesting discussion of course creation and especially the methodological focus on evaluative frameworks and building that into design. I've already shared it with 2 sets of colleagues this morning!
Front cover of 'Transactions of the Royal Historical Society', Seventh Series, Volume 3 (December 2025)
Eleanor and Sarah's new article is available free Open Access, as is all 'Transactions' content bit.ly/486BF5d
The journal's editors welcome submission of research articles and comment pieces, on historical practice and debate, from historians working within and outside education 2/2 #Skystorians
Front page to the Transactions article: 'Teaching History Inclusively: A Pedagogical Case Study from an Institution Shaped by Empire'. Abstract in full: 'The Royal Historical Society’s June 2024 Update to the ‘Race Ethnicity & Equality in UK History: A Report and Resource for Change’ notes some important progress in terms of increased ethnic and racial diversity amongst history students and staff but acknowledges that more work is needed to both sustain and further advance these changes. In this Comment we argue that colleagues and the RHS should prioritise the development of critical pedagogies in history university education and evidence their impact on student outcomes. We share reflections on and data from our collaborative work between September 2021 and August 2024 developing an innovative module with the highly diverse history student cohort at SOAS, University of London, to help colleagues consider how they might undertake related projects in their own institutions.'
New today in Transactions: 'Teaching History Inclusively: A Pedagogical Case Study from an Institution Shaped by Empire' bit.ly/4pHzECD
Eleanor Newbigin and Sarah Tucker on the value of developing critical pedagogies in history for HE education @soashistory.bsky.social #Skystorians 1/2
Can studying the past really prepare you for shaping public debate or navigating complex global issues? In this @soashistory.bsky.social podcast, Prof Phil Clark shares what history students can bring to the table. media.leverhulme.ac.uk/podcast/pcla...
Excited to end the year with the publication of this article about the critical pedagogies for history teaching at an institution like SOAS. I’m keen to know how this resonates with work on these issues in other contexts
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