The Department of Politics and International Studies at SOAS, University of London. Unrivalled expertise in the politics of Africa, Asia and the Middle East.
London, UK
Joined February 2011
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Know how to sell the value of your degree? Join the Careers Consultant-led workshop on how to showcase your skills in job applications, interviews and networking. For SOAS PGT students in Dev Studies, Econ, Finance & Management, and Pol & IR.
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📚 BOOK LAUNCH | 11 November, 5pm
Join Dr. Liza Weinstein for a discussion of Logics of Dispossession: Governing by Eviction in Indian Cities (UC Press, 2026), with Claire Colomb and Paolo Novak.
📍 R201, Main Building
Register: eventbrite.com/e/logics-of-d…
A huge welcome to @SOAS to our UG and PGR students. We are delighted to see so much energy, enthusiasm and curiosity at our welcome events. Here's to a wonderful academic year to come!
🌏 Starting at SOAS this year? Your learning can take you well beyond the classroom, and beyond London. This March, our postgraduate students travelled to Laos, exploring politics, development, heritage and regional integration. What will your with us look like? 🌍
📣SOAS students! We think you should know that applications for the @WorldBankGroup Young Professionals Program are now open. worldbank.org/ext/en/careers…
Hagar Kotef has received the 2026 Heinz I. Eulau Award from APSA for her article “Torture’s Bureaucracy and the ‘Legitimacy Effect’”, published in Perspectives on Politics.
Read the article: cambridge.org/core/journals/…
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Prof. Phil Clark's 3-year, 6-person Leverhulme research project ends with a hybrid seminar at the Uni of Cape Town on 8 Sept.
The project challenges conventional understandings of transitional justice actors & processes.
No registration for in-person. QR code below for online
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🎉 A throwback to April, when Professor Fiona B. Adamson received the 2026 Distinguished Scholar Award from the ISA’s Ethnicity, Nationalism & Migration Section for her contribution to migration studies & international relations,
Read the SOAS story: soas.ac.uk/about/news/intern…
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🇹🇼📚 A major boost for Taiwan Studies at SOAS!
A new grant from Taiwan’s National Science and Technology Council will fund MA scholarships, a visiting scholar programme, and student research & conference opportunities in Taiwan. Read more soas.ac.uk/about/news/major-…
How AI works on our cognition. New interview @adib_moghaddam
Your mind being rewritten by code
‘Decolonize data’ to achieve equitable AI, techno-resistance: Expert
Interview
Arshin Adib-Moghaddam
Professor at SOAS University of London
newspaper.irandaily.ir/8182/…
SOAS Centre for Pan-African Studies, led by @danielmulugeta, is delighted to host Prof. Anthony Butler from @UCT this Wed (8 July) 12pm.
Prof Butler will present, "Four Dimensions of Presidential Leadership in South Africa: From Mandela to Ramaphosa".
soas.ac.uk/about/event/four-…
Prof. Phil Clark was a panelist on Al Jazeera's "Inside Story" last night, discussing the #DRC taking #Rwanda to the International Court of Justice over its alleged crimes in Congo since 1996. @AJEnglish
aljazeera.com/video/inside-s…
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Prof. Phil Clark debated @michelawrong & @freyntje over #Rwanda's model of development & post-genocide recovery. He discussed his forthcoming book Rwanda under the RPF, which examines how welfare delivery shapes citizens' interactions w/ a powerful state.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=cFj62N…
The debate was on @AfricaDeskLive, moderated by Liberian journalist Semantics King Jr.
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⚠️”The Myth of Good AI” recommended for all readers in latest @Choice_Reviews
@SOAS @SOASalumni @SOASpress @ai_soas2023 @ManchesterUP soas.ac.uk/about/news/myth-g…
Prof. Phil Clark @FRANCE24 discussing Kagame & Macron's unveiling of a Paris memorial to the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in #Rwanda.
Clark argues France refuses to acknowledge its role in the genocide, which leaves survivors still seeking justice.
france24.com/en/1994-tutsi-g…
📸 Great to host the School of Methods at SOAS last week — bringing together students from across SOAS, 15 UK universities, and a visiting scholar from the University of Konstanz
Thanks to all our partners and supporters for making it possible!
#SOAS #Politics #ResearchMethods
Prof. Phil Clark features in the @AJEnglish documentary, "Why Can't International Law Stop Mass Atrocities?" Produced by @hey_alirae + insights from @DrMelOB @4noura & Jean-Marie Kamatali on the prospects & limits of international law from Rwanda to Gaza.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=JYXa5A…
Phil Clark debates the future of the ICC with @BethvanSchaack @janethanderson & Barney Afako.
Ep. 1 of "Dead Men Walking" podcast series by @IFITtransitions & @Justiceinfonet.
Clark argues the ICC has long stymied other forms of post-atrocity justice.
ifit-transitions.org/blog/de…
Join us tomorrow at 1pm for: 'Impunity from below: Law and the state in democratic Indonesia' with Dr. @sdjaffrey. Register here: bit.ly/4pXqd1A
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HAPPENING TODAY 5pm: 'Race and the Question of Palestine' (Stanford University Press, 2025) explores the politics of racialisation and regimes of race, racism and antiracism, race and capital accumulation, and Black–Palestinian solidarity.
📎Register: bit.ly/4irei9E
