SOAS Library

27/05/2026

SOAS Library welcomes Fatin Abbas to celebrate 'Ghost Season', a powerful debut novel connecting five characters caught in the crosshairs of conflict on the Sudanese border.

26/05/2026

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26/05/2026

15/05/2026

Step into the immersive world of Siu Wai Hang’s Cage Bridges (2021), currently on view in Invisible Spectrums at the SOAS Gallery.

Combining moving image, architecture, and memory, Cage Bridges reflects on Hong Kong’s densely built urban environment and the emotional experience of navigating spaces shaped by confinement, transition, and connection. Through layered video imagery and atmospheric sound, Siu Wai Hang invites viewers to consider the invisible structures that shape everyday life.

This work is located on the Ground Floor of the exhibition, alongside more video art exploring contemporary experiences across the Sinosphere.

Come and experience Invisible Spectrums before it closes on 20th June.
Open Tuesday–Saturday.

13/05/2026

London event alert!🚨

Join us for our next Inaugural Lecture Series with Professor Catherine Dolan from the Department of Anthropology and Sociology and Professor Michael Charney from the Department of History.

Professor Dolan will explore how ideas of ethical capitalism, such as sustainability and fair markets, work in practice in East Africa. Drawing on field research, the lecture looks at how these schemes are adapted and challenged on the ground, and how they affect people’s everyday lives and social relationships.

Professor Charney will examine how the study of Southeast Asia has changed over time. His lecture will trace the rise and decline of area studies and will show how knowledge is now produced globally, not just in Western universities.

📅Thursday 4 June, 6-8 pm
📍SOAS Gallery Lecture Theatre

👉 Sign up here: soas.ac.uk/about/event/inaugural-lecture-series-professors-catherine-dolan-and-michael-charney

12/05/2026

27/04/2026

Don’t miss the new exhibition at the SOAS Gallery!

‘In-/Visible Spectrums: Contemporary Video Art from the Sinosphere’ is a landmark survey exhibition showcasing contemporary video artworks by eleven artists: Huang Yuhui 黄宇辉, Li Nu 李怒, Liang Yue 梁玥, Liu Guoqiang 刘国强, Ma Haijiao 马海蛟, Ma Qiusha 马秋莎, Siu Wai Hang 萧伟恒, Tong Wenmin 童文敏, Xin Yunpeng 辛云鹏, Yi Lian易连 and Zheng Xinhao 郑新皓 produced between 2025 and 2026.

The exhibition will be accompanied by a series of screenings and panels exploring the making and significance of video artworks by Sinophone artists including several not included in the exhibition.

There will also be a plenary roundtable on the critical interpretation of contemporary video art from the Sinosphere.

📅Open until 20 June, 10:30am - 5pm
📍SOAS Gallery
👉Find out more: soas.ac.uk/about/event/visible-spectrums-contemporary-video-art-sinosphere

27/04/2026

Join us on Thursday 30th April for a special screening and panel exploring humour as a powerful mode of critique in contemporary Chinese video art.

As part of our public programme accompanying In-/Visible Spectrums: Contemporary Video Art from the Sinosphere, this event brings together artist Zheng Que and Paul Gladston for an in-depth discussion, followed by audience Q&A.

The screening features Zheng Que’s striking video work, filmed along Beijing’s Chaobai River during the COVID-19 lockdown, where the river became a boundary dividing the city. Through site-specific performance and a distinctive use of humour, her work reflects on space, control and everyday urban experience.

This series highlights diverse moving image practices by Sinophone artists, addressing themes from institutional critique and patriarchy to q***r identity, resistance and climate anxiety, while offering a more narrative and socially engaged counterpoint to the exhibition on view.

📍 Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS University of London
🕕 Followed by Q&A
🎟️ Free to attend, please register on eventbrite: https://ow.ly/G6bj50YO66m

Come along for an evening of thought-provoking video art and conversation.

Image: 'Chaobai River: Bait the Willing!' (2024), single-channel video, colour, sound, 5’42’’ by Zheng Que

24/04/2026

We are excited to announce that The Margaret Busby New Daughters of Africa Award is available for the third year for a Black, female student from Africa.

Made possible by individuals' donations and a generous grant from the Hawthornden Foundation, the award will provide full tuition for a master’s degree together with a contribution towards living costs.

Margaret Busby CBE said: “The award has already demonstrated just how much is possible when we join together to empower the creativity of others – from which the whole world can ultimately benefit.”

We are looking forward to welcoming the next scholar to our student's community.

👉 If you are a member of the alumni community based in Africa, or if you know someone who might be interested in applying, please share the link with your network: study/student-life/finance/scholarships/margaret-busby-new-daughters-africa-award