SOAS History Blog Podcast Ep 9: Why Central Asia Matters
I believe that what happens in Central Asia is critically important to the world we live in.
Boxed Women: Women’s History, Gender History, and How I Got Here
“I study women’s history and gender history. My thesis explores a women’s magazine from Shanghai in the early twentieth century.” “Really? I thought only women studied that.”
We Need to Talk about the History of Rape
It seems impossible to deny the ubiquity of sexualised forms of violence against gendered bodies, and that things need to change. We need to keep talking about it.
Lesbian Sex is Holding Hands: Why Depictions of Lesbian Desire Matter in UK Historical Dramas
t best this leads to far too many people asking the average lesbian minding their own business: ‘But, how do you even have sex?’ At worst, it snowballs into misconceptions of the longevity of queer, gender, and even racial and disability emancipation movements throughout history.
Thinking through Australian Coloniality: An Autoethnographic Reflection on Ancestry, Epistemology and Academia
Though I would not refer to myself as one, being ‘a colonial’ is an uncomfortable place to be when your ancestors were simultaneously the victims of horrific British penal codes, and also the instigators of genocide.
Community Profile: Dr Andrea Janku, Senior Lecturer in the History of China
Dr Andrea Janku, Senior Lecturer in the History of China of the School of History, Religions and Philosophies, is the instigator of the SOAS History Blog.