School of Oriental and African Studies
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University of Louisville graduate named school's first Rhodes Scholar...her Fulbright scholarship year, Marks said she had planned to finish her master's degree in Islamic law at the University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies. She ll now forego that to take part in the Rhodes program. Her... In this article: Islam, Rhodes Scholarship, University of Louisville, Kentucky, and University of London |
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Telegraph.co.uk - UK news | November 18, 2009
University and college awards: the winners
...of field-based practice into undergraduate programmes through their Silchester Field School and forensic services to law enforcement. The School of Oriental and African Studies - In-depth and highly specialised teaching of a uniquely wide...
In this article: University of Oxford, UK, Newcastle University, University of Warwick, Edinburgh Napier University, Archaeology, Chronic pain, City of Sunderland College, and Aberystwyth University
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JPost.com Front Page Top Stories | November 16, 2009
Borderline Views: Studying Israel on campus
Tomorrow, my colleague Professor Colin Shindler will deliver his inaugural lecture as the new professor of Israel studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) at the University of London. This comes against the backdrop of...
In this article: Israel, UK, North America, Palestine, UCLA, University of London, New York University, and Harvard
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Telegraph.co.uk - All news | November 16, 2009
Peace process on hold as Nepal's Maoists protest
"It's not unusual for the Maoists to turn two different faces to two different audiences," said Michael Hutt, professor at the London-based School of Oriental and African Studies and an expert on Nepal. "If there's a loss of direction there...
In this article: Nepal, Cadre, and Kathmandu Post
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Taipei Times | November 15, 2009
ANALYSIS: Foreign academics urge Ma to seek public consensus
...in interviews with the Taipei Times. Dafydd Fell, senior lecturer of the department of political and international studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, said Ma needs to be very cautious on the...
In this article: Taiwan, EU, China, Beijing, Taiwan, Democracy, and E mail
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Times Online | November 12, 2009
Hugh Dinwiddy: Kent cricketer
He continued to promote literature and African affairs back in England, conducting classes for Southampton and Sussex universities and the School of Oriental and African Studies in London. Among many academic papers, he published a book,...
In this article: Jack Hobbs, T.S. Eliot, Literature, University of East Africa, Don Bradman, England, and Cambridge University
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Telegraph.co.uk - Obituaries | November 11, 2009
Lives Remembered
...fled the Soviet Union in 1974 and spent the last 30 years of his life in Britain. Professor emeritus of the History of South Asia at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Published numerous scholarly articles and...
In this article: Jens Lehmann, World Cup, Isaiah Berlin, Jimmy Rowles, Germany, Suicide, 2010 World Cup, Anthony Delon, Amino acid, and Literary Review
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Guardian | November 10, 2009
The coffins will keep coming until we conquer our amnesia on Afghanistan Jonathan Freedland
...throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries," says Dan Plesch, director of the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy at the School of Oriental and African Studies. "We have no memory of that - but the Afghans do." Or, if we were...
In this article: Afghanistan, Al-qaida, Barack Obama, Osama bin Laden, Taliban, Pakistan, Joe Biden, and US
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New Kerala | November 07, 2009
Missing legs of 900-year-old Buddhist statue found in Cambodian jungle
...the professor in question is Dr Peter Sharrock, a senior teaching fellow in the art and archaeology of Southeast Asia at London's School of Oriental and African Studies. Sharrock was at a conference in Cambodia in July when he decided...
In this article: Buddhist, Archaeology, London, Khmer Rouge, Cambodia, Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Southeast Asia
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Independent.co.uk - World | November 06, 2009
British 'Indiana Jones' finds missing legs of 900-year-old Buddhist statue
...history in the process. Dr Peter Sharrock, a senior teaching fellow in the art and archaeology of Southeast Asia at London's School of Oriental and African Studies, was at a conference in Cambodia in July when he decided to spend a...
In this article: Buddhist, Indiana Jones, Archaeology, New York, Philosophy, Hinduism, and Jayavarman VII
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Telegraph.co.uk - UK news | November 06, 2009
Exeter is a lovely place for the BNP says actress Emma Thompson
...them at every opportunity. " Tindy, 22, graduated this summer with a 2:1 in politics and is now studying for a master's degree at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London. He brought the issue of racism in the Devon city to...
In this article: Exeter University, Emma Thompson, London, Greg Wise, Cornwall, and New Economics Foundation
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The School of Oriental and African Studies (commonly abbreviated to "SOAS", pronounced ['səuæs] (so as) or ['səuæz] (so az)) is a constituent college of the University of London specialising in the arts, humanities, languages, cultures, law and social sciences concerning Asia, Africa, the Near East and the Middle East. SOAS currently offers over 300 undergraduate Bachelor's degree combinations and over 70 one-year intensively taught Master's degrees. MPhil/PhD research degree programmes are also available in every academic department. Located in the heart of London, SOAS describes itself as the "world's leading centre for the study of a highly diverse range of subjects concerned with Asia, Africa and the Middle East."
- Name:
- The School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS)
- Type:
- Public
- Location City:
- London
- Location Country:
- United Kingdom
- Founding Date:
- January 01, 1916
- Head:
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- The Baroness Kennedy of The Shaws QC
- Professor Graham Furniss
- HRH The Princess Royal (Chancellor of the University of London)
- Associated With:
- Endowment:
- £45.1 million (2005)
- Motto:
- Knowledge is Power
- Undergrad:
- 2,430
- Postgrad:
- 2,095
- Enrollment:
- 4,525
- Website:
- http://www.soas.ac.uk
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