3010, 2015

SOAS’ incognito academic inspires world’s most famous fictional archaeologist

By Katie Price|October 30, 2015|1920s, SOAS in the world, Uncategorized|0 comments

Remembering a diplomatic spat caused by Japanese lecturer William McGovern In 2015, few places in our world are inaccessible to the daring field academic or discerning traveller. Lhasa, the capital city of Tibet in the Himalayas, is one of the world’s highest and remotest cities; yet, if you charter a plane from London, it can be reached in approximately 17 hours. The story in the early 1920s, however, was very different.

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1610, 2015

Julia Leslie: liberal feminist whose work influenced Hindu Studies, gender studies and the study of Hindu Law

By Katie Price|October 16, 2015|Uncategorized|0 comments

Dr Isobel Julia Leslie (1948 – 2004) was Lecturer in Hindu Studies at SOAS from 1990 until her death, serving as Pro-Director for Undergraduate Studies in 1997-98. ‘I do believe Julia’s work to be seminal. It won’t be forgotten. It will go on branching and flowering and fruiting in the work of other students, researchers and scholars, and may even influence social reform. A tree cut down, after all, can grow up

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0510, 2015

The founding and development of the History of Art and Archaeology Department

By Katie Price|October 5, 2015|1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, Exhibitions, SOAS in the world, The World at SOAS, Uncategorized|0 comments

by the first official member of the Department, Emeritus Professor Elizabeth H Moore, who retired in July 2015.   My connections to SOAS began in 1981 as a doctoral student with the late Professor Anthony Christie. In 1986, after completing my PhD at the Institute of Archaeology under the wise supervision of Dr Ian Glover, I became a Research Associate with the Centre of South East Asian Studies (CSEAS). The late

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