SOAS History Blog Podcast 11: Poetic Knowledges and West African Histories [Live Recording Event]
The intersections of poetry and story, history and legend, guided by feminist understandings of West Africa today.
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What’s in a Banknote: Controlling Legacy and Shaping the Ideal Confucian Woman
Artist Saimdang was selected to feature of the 50,000-won banknote to raise awareness of gender equality within Korea. However, this choice caused great controversy amongst many feminist commentators, who saw the selection as a way for the government to promote historic Confucian notions of gender identity and patriarchal expectations of women.
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Beyond Descartes: Walking Through Jute Stalks to Embodied Knowledge
Have you ever found yourself overthinking things? Or perhaps you spend more time contemplating than moving? To better understand my world, I moved. These days, however, I seem to spend more time thinking. “But isn’t that normal?” you might ask. Maybe, but it isn’t the only way to make sense of the world.
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Malaysian-Iranian Relations from the Cold War to the Present Day
In 1968, Muhammad Reza Shah, the Pahlavi monarch of Iran made his first official visit to Malaysia. For the Iranian Shah, his visit to the region was part of his outreach to Third World nations to position himself as a leader of the Global South.
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SOAS History Blog Podcast Ep. 10: Monarchy and Pluralism in the UK
In a global era of ever diminishing influence for the construct of monarchy, and the Commonwealth specifically, why did people queue for hours to pay respects to a deceased monarch? In the latest SOAS History Blog episode, we investigate the motivations behind this phenomenon through interviews with those who participated in Queen Elizabeth II’s lying in state.
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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.
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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.”
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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.
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The 1951 Oil Strike in Iran: Student–Worker Solidarity Against Colonial Capitalism
The 1951 Oil Strike in Iran is characterised by an unprecedented solidarity and collaboration between students and workers in their fight against colonial capitalism.
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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.
