📌Life after SOAS: Alumni in Progressive Politics and Policy-Making
See how SOAS alumni are shaping politics and public policy!
🗓️16 March, 6–8pm
SOAS, KLT. Drinks to follow
Register shorturl.at/8LfGa
@carlosoya.bsky.social @soaseconomics.bsky.social @naomihossain.bsky.social @soasuni.bsky.social
🌍This Thursday at 5pm!
Are Global Value Chains really benefiting us?
Join Benjamin Selwyn ( @sussexfss.bsky.social) chaired by @lorena-lombardozzi.bsky.social, at @soasuni.bsky.social to find out.
📌 Registration below. Don’t miss it!
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🌍This Thursday at 5pm!
Are Global Value Chains really benefiting us?
Join Benjamin Selwyn ( @sussexfss.bsky.social) chaired by @lorena-lombardozzi.bsky.social, at @soasuni.bsky.social to find out.
📌 Registration below. Don’t miss it!
shorturl.at/l6Gc6
@naomihossain.bsky.social @eadi.bsky.social
Join us for a book launch with Guy Standing, as he explores how education has been reshaped by market logics and what it would take to revive it for the common good
🗓17 Feb
🕕6pm
📍SOAS BGLT
@soaseconomics.bsky.social @naomihossain.bsky.social @carlosoya.bsky.social @possibilist.bsky.social
📚 Human Capital: The Tragedy of the Education Commons — Book launch
Does the education system make better people? Why are so many teachers and students stressed? Do we need to revive real education?
📅 17 Feb 2026
📍 @soasdevelopment.bsky.social & Online
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📌Join us this Thursday, 5:30pm at @soasuni.bsky.social
SWLT!!!
@possibilist.bsky.social @soas-dld.bsky.social @soaseconomics.bsky.social @naomihossain.bsky.social @carlosoya.bsky.social @eadi.bsky.social
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✅ Featuring @inef-duisburg.bsky.social's "Prospects for Development and Peace", @horizoneu.bsky.social's funding opportunities for social sciences and picks & news from us and our member community
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📣 @soasdevelopment.bsky.social in the media on Bangladesh & West Africa
@naomihossain.bsky.social analyses Bangladesh’s journey from a “basket case” to development pioneer; & analyses the current political climate including the verdict of Sheikh Hasina.
Read more: buff.ly/yOTw76W
📢Tomorrow at 6pm GMT! Don’t miss a thought-provoking talk with Jawied Nawabi. Join us in person or on Zoom, register ➡️: buff.ly/SPcm2Xi
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🎉Happy New Year from #SOAS #DLD!
🌍As we enter 2026, geopolitical shifts, weakening of multilateral norms, and budget cuts continue to unsettle aid & development.
💡Join our soasuni.bsky.social #DLD Conversation on the continued relevance of Albert Hirschman in today's context: shorturl.at/ZO6Kz
The SOAS Global Development Seminar Series is back!
Join us for a great lineup of speakers and talks designed to spark conversations on GD.
Register here: shorturl.at/An9HU (scroll down for seminar details)
@soaseconomics.bsky.social @naomihossain.bsky.social @eadi.bsky.social @devcomms.bsky.social
New policy brief by Fola Aina showing how climate change acts as a threat multiplier in the Sahel, rather than a direct cause of conflict.
Read full brief➡️: shorturl.at/P8e0x
@naomihossain.bsky.social @carlosoya.bsky.social @eadi.bsky.social @devcomms.bsky.social @soasuni.bsky.social
Why do online scam hubs in Myanmar keep bouncing back?
Read Xu Peng, @soasdevelopment.bsky.social researcher, article in @theconversation.com
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📣 @soasdevelopment.bsky.social in the media on Bangladesh & West Africa
@naomihossain.bsky.social analyses Bangladesh’s journey from a “basket case” to development pioneer; & analyses the current political climate including the verdict of Sheikh Hasina.
Read more: buff.ly/yOTw76W
Join @soasdevelopment.bsky.social for Jawied Nawabi on how state power and early battles with landed elites shape long-term development.
Chaired by @carlosoya.bsky.social
📅 27 Jan, 18:00 GMT
📍 SWLT & Zoom
Register here: shorturl.at/eGDjm
Join us for Jawied Nawabi on how state power and early battles with landed elites shape long-term development. Chaired by @carlosoya.bsky.social
📅27 Jan, 18:00 GMT
📍SWLT & Zoom
🔗Register: shorturl.at/eGDjm
@naomihossain.bsky.social @eadi.bsky.social @devcomms.bsky.social @soasuni.bsky.social
Why do online scam hubs in Myanmar keep bouncing back?
Read Xu Peng, SOAS researcher, article in @theconversation.com.
👉 theconversation.com/huge-online-...
@soasuni.bsky.social @eadi.bsky.social @naomihossain.bsky.social @carlosoya.bsky.social @devcomms.bsky.social
Check out Giuseppina Siciliano’s latest analysis exploring the social and environmental ramifications of large and megadams for hydropower.
Read the full analysis here ➡️ fwr.org/the-great-hy...
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Read Alex Dryden,@soasuni.bsky.social PhD, analysing the latest UK budget in the @uk.theconversation.com
"How the financial markets reacted to the UK budget (and why they matter)"
Read the full article here⬇️
shorturl.at/zF2Za
@soaseconomics.bsky.social @naomihossain.bsky.social @eadi.bsky.social
Fola Aina on @deutschewellerss.newsmast.social.ap.brid.gy News Africa explains why Nigeria’s security challenges need both reform and strategic innovation. Listen here⬇️
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@soasuni.bsky.social @naomihossain.bsky.social @carlosmaza.bsky.social @eadi.bsky.social @devcomms.bsky.social
Fola Aina’s latest chapter explores how weak states and arms proliferation drive instability in West Africa. #Peace #Security #Conflict
Read more: shorturl.at/ZW3uV
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🚀 @soasuni.bsky.social DLD is delighted to announce the next Future Leaders Programme:
💡 Economic Development in #Africa: Critical Policies in a ‘New’ World 🌎
📅 Date: 24–27 February 2026
📍 #London
📌 Deadline: 05 December 2025
🔗 application ⬇️ tinyurl.com/42s8d9xx
New article in World Development Perspectives by @carlosoya.bsky.social, Fekadu Nigussie Deresse and Christian Samen Otchia explores the paradox of job switching in a wage cartel.
Read here: shorturl.at/woaYi
@soasuni.bsky.social @naomihossain.bsky.social @eadi.bsky.social @devcomms.bsky.social
Excellent new article in Third World Quarterly by Navtej Purewal & Althea-Maria Rivas on gendered racial capitalism. They critique the “smart economics” approach to gender equity & its colonial legacies.
Read here: shorturl.at/ptD9k
@naomihossain.bsky.social @eadi.bsky.social @devcomms.bsky.social
Happening today at 5pm! Join us for Stefania Barca's talk at SOAS, DLT or via Zoom.
Register to attend - > shorturl.at/WNDbn
Join us next Monday for Stefania Barca’s talk exploring how workers can drive ecological change, and why climate justice is social justice.
📅 10 Nov, 5pm
📍 SOASVDLT & Zoom
Register: shorturl.at/WNDbn
@naomihossain.bsky.social @eadi.bsky.social @soaseconomics.bsky.social @devcomms.bsky.social
HAPPENING TODAY at 5pm! Join us at SOAS (SWLT) or via Zoom as @terminalias.bsky.social offers fresh perspectives on the European migration crisis!
@soasuni.bsky.social
@naomihossain.bsky.social @carlosoya.bsky.social @eadi.bsky.social @devcomms.bsky.social @laurahammond.bsky.social
Join us this Thursday for @terminalias.bsky.social's book launch!
Buildings of Refuge and the Postcoloniality of Asylum Infrastructure
📅30 Oct, 5pm, SWLT
Register here➡️: shorturl.at/OGUoh
@soasuni.bsky.social @carlosoya.bsky.social @naomihossain.bsky.social @eadi.bsky.social @devcomms.bsky.social
✨Coca Talks: Futuro Coca in London
Join us for a dialogue on the alternative uses of coca leaves with activists, scholars & experts.
📅 17 Oct 2025, 18:00–20:30
📍KLT, SOAS
➡️ Register: shorturl.at/3AWXF
@carlosoya.bsky.social @naomihossain.bsky.social @eadi.bsky.social @devcomms.bsky.social
📌What does it mean to ‘return’?
Join the SOAS Centre for Migration & Diaspora Studies for a two-day workshop on the concept and practices of return.
📅 17 Oct, 5:30pm, DLT, SOAS
📅 18 Oct, 1pm, SOAS Bar
🔗 Details & registration: shorturl.at/ScRNW
@naomihossain.bsky.social @terminalias.bsky.social
