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Join us for a compelling discussion on An African People’s Quest for Freedom and Justice: A Political History of Eritrea, 1941–1962, a groundbreaking account of Eritrea’s modern history under postwar ...

Upskilling future generations of researchers and key workers within private and public sectors is vital to the economies and future well-being, resilience, and prosperity of Small Islands Developing ...

One of the leading UK collections of archives, manuscripts and rare books on Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. We make available over 3 kilometres of archives, 60,000 rare books, and manuscripts in ...

In Carbon colonialism, Laurie Parsons provides an eye-opening, ground level view on climate breakdown in the Global South, drawing on the author’s fifteen years of research in the field. Climate ...

Book Launch with author, Quinn Slobodian and discussants, Lisa Tilley (SOAS), Ashok Kumar (Birkbeck) and Emil Huth (SOAS). A revelatory exploration of how today’s rightwing authoritarianism emerged ...

In this hands-on drawing workshop, for all Co-LAP students, we explore how drawing fosters modes of “being”, “seeing”, and “engaging”. You can bring your own themes that you would like to work on, if ...

In these lectures, two distinctive understandings of Wisdom, from the Zoroastrian and the Sufi Muslim traditions respectively, are discussed in juxtaposition, in a study of two of the most famous ...

This talk will explore Shiblī Nuʿmānī’s Aurangzēb ālamgīr par aik naẕar (1908), a revisionist history of Mughal emperor Aurangzeb, and its implications for thinking about secular politics in colonial ...

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