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Why do freedom movements betray their ideals in power?
Join Lord Peter Hain for the launch of "Liberation and Corruption – Why Freedom Movements Fail"
🗓️ Oct 27, 7PM
📍 SOAS BGLT
🎤 Talk, Q&A, book signing
🔗 Register here: eventbrite.com/e/book-launch…
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📚 Why do liberation movements often fail in power?
Join Lord @PeterHain @SOAS for the launch of Liberation and Corruption – Why Freedom Movements Fail
🗓️ 27 Oct, 7PM | 📍SOAS BGLT
🎤 Talk + Q&A + book signing
🔗 Register: eventbrite.com/e/15437674329…
#PeterHain #SOAS
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Please note - Essential maintenance this weekend, 26-27 July means we will have very limited services.
The Library will be open for study [9.30am - 8pm], but almost all services requiring the Internet will be unavailable.
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📚 Join us for a book talk with Dr. Florence Kuek on An Ethical Literary Criticism of Han Suyin’s Autobiography – Braving Irrationality.
🗓️ 4 July, 12PM
📍 MB G3, SOAS
Free & open to all!
🔗 Register: soas.ac.uk/about/event/han-s…
#HanSuyin #SOAS #BookTalk
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🎬 rites – A short documentary on grief, resilience & hope
📍 Exclusive UK screening at SOAS Library
📅 17 June | 🕕 6pm | 📽️ KLT
🎤 Q&A w/ director @AlvinCarpio (SOAS alum, Forbes 30 Under 30)
🔗 Register: soas.ac.uk/about/event/rites…
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📚 Join us at SOAS Library for "The Living Legend: Ramayana" by Vayu Naidu – a powerful retelling of the epic, followed by a live Q&A!
🗓️ Fri 9 May
📍 SALT (SOAS)
🎟️ Free & open to all! (registration link below)
#Ramayana #VayuNaidu #SOAS #BookEvent #Storytelling
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🎬 Defying Limits: Women’s Voices in Challenging Professions
Join us for a powerful Women's History Month event! Screening The Jill of the Trade + Q&A with filmmaker Charysse Tia Harper.
📅18 Mar |⏰6:45 PM |📍KLT, SOAS
🔓 Open to all – Register now!
#WomensHistoryMonth #SOAS
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Come work at SOAS Library!
Image:
A portion of Al-Inkishafi
(reference: MS 47770) © SOAS Library
We are looking for a Manuscript Metadata officer. This is a full-time, fixed-term post for 7 months. Come and join us! vacancies.soas.ac.uk/job/648…
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Christmas and New Years opening hours
The library will close:
at 12:00 noon on Tuesday
the 24th of December
The library will reopen:
at 9:30am on Saturday, 4 January
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Calling all crafters! Excited to announce that from next term, we'll be starting a knitting club in the library!
Our first session will be held on 15 January, 1-2pm. Bring along your project. All crafts are welcome.🧶✂️🧵
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Imagining of Asian Women in Historical Photography
Author Elaine Chiew will discuss her research on the self-imaging of Chinese women in Singapore photography as a limited exercise of agency, that formed her novel The Light Between Us
📅12 Dec, 6:30pm
soas.ac.uk/about/event/imagi…
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December Library Meditation Class
🧘♀️❄️🧘❄️🧘♂️
We are pleased to welcome Kadam John McBretney from the Heruka Kadampa Meditation Centre as our meditation coach
Who: Everyone in the SOAS community
When: 12 Dec, 12-1pm
Where: SOAS Library
Sign up➡️ forms.office.com/pages/respo…
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Vacancies at SOAS Library! vacancies.soas.ac.uk
- Subject Librarian (Social Sciences - law)
- Special Collections Research Services Co-ordinator
- Digitisation Manager
All Permanent, Full time, and closing date 1st December
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Note - The deadline has been extended until 1st December
Vacancy at SOAS Library:
Law and Politics Librarian
vacancies.soas.ac.uk/job/636…
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Last couple of days to apply for this vacancy @SOASLibrary
Engagement Librarian [Permanent Full time]
vacancies.soas.ac.uk/job/623…
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Our Homemaking in Fragile Environments seminar series continues next Thursday 14 November with Sana Murrani (@sanamurrani). She will speak about her work through the lens of Mapping Home Practices Between Refuge and Rupture.
Join us! 5pm in SOAS RG01. No registration required.
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Very excited to add to our library the Handbook of Sport and Japan, co-edited by one of our academics in @SOASsfm
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This in-person event will take place from 11AM – 4PM, Tuesday 5th November, at Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU with online collections and activities running alongside it.
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Did you know SOAS library has a monthly bulletin? 📚Sign up today! listserv.soas.ac.uk/cgi-bin/…
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📕Come see the new library display celebrating Black History Month, curated by our Art & Archeology librarian, Burzine. 📍Level E, next to the staircase
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At SOAS Library, we're committed to sustainability. Have ideas on how we can become more eco-friendly? Please share - we’d love to hear them! 🌍📚🌱
Read the manifesto: cdn.ymaws.com/www.cilip.org.… #GreenLibrariesWeek
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Remembering Archbishop Desmond Tutu (1931 -2021), who was born 93 years ago on this day.
Visit our book display next to the staircase on Level E, or search our library catalogue:
soas.on.worldcat.org/search?…
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Are you a new student at SOAS? Join us for a introduction session to get to know the library, including our Special Collection and Archives. 📚We'll be repeating the session throughout the next few weeks, both in-person and online.
Find out more: soas.libguides.com/c.php?g=7…
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Welcome to SOAS! Do come find us at our library stall in the Paul Webley wing (ground floor), and join one of our library tours!
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Congratulations to those graduating this week! 🎓🎉All the best for the next chapter of your life.
Before you go, do sign up for Alumni Library Membership - you are always welcome at SOAS library! 📚
soas.libguides.com/c.php?g=7…
For Alumni access to JSTOR:
soasworld.org/e-journal-acce…
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Now is a great time to sign up for our monthly library bulletin. The August issue is coming out soon! Lots of things are happening over the summer. Stay in the know. listserv.soas.ac.uk/cgi-bin/…
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TODAY! Lunch Time Talk: Shan Manuscripts
Though not well known, Shan manuscripts are an invaluable primary resources for Southeast Asian studies. Come learn about the collection in our library!
1-3pm, Library room E17
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Hope you're having a good start to July! It's a great time to sign up for the library bulletin - this month's issue will be coming out soon!
Be informed on what's going on in the library. We'll be busy this summer getting ready for the new academic year! listserv.soas.ac.uk/cgi-bin/…
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Looking forward to welcoming new summer programme students on Monday! Finished folding 30 library quiz booklets.
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NEW! A Very Short Introduction collection by Oxford University Press.
The link to the database can be found at soas.libguides.com/az.php
We also recommend the podcast: piped.video/playlist?list=PL…
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Dear SOAS students and staff, did you know our library's subscription to the Financial Times includes access to the app?
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So interesting - @mayursuresh talking about how he uses in-class reading and writing for more effective learning.
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Really stimulating discussion panel: Creative futures: Implications & applications of AI in HE
@GordonCE [@EdenLSE]
@sombatabyal [@SOAS’s Centre for Global Media & Communications]
@mjgw [@SOASArts]
@sdiep [@Dept_of_POLIS & @ODI_Global]
@R_IB99 [@SOASSU & @SOASDevelopment]
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Great welcome from Professor Laura Hammond
@lhammondsoas [Pro-Director Research & Knowledge Exchange]
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ALT Depicts a projected image of the SOAS Learning & Teaching conference 2024. Screen is on the wall of a university lecture theatre.
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Vacancy! - Library Events and Outreach Manager at SOAS Library - Extended, now closing this week, 20th June 2024
Fixed Term for 12 months, 21 hrs/wk, starting 1st August 2024
vacancies.soas.ac.uk/job/566…
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The Library will be open during Spring Bank Holiday.
Sat 25th & Sun 26th May: 9:30am - 10:30pm
Mon 27th May: 10am - 11pm
Have a lovely weekend. Hope to see you in the library!
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Excited to have catalogued a new book by SOAS Head of School of Finance and Management @albertoasquer @SOASsfm
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Work at SOAS Library..?
We are recruiting a Collections & E-Resources Team Leader [F/T, permanent role] to work within our
Access & Discovery team. Closing: May 19, 2024.
vacancies.soas.ac.uk/job/553…
#Libraryjobs #LISjobs #UKlibraryjobs
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ALT Photograph of the Level E, the ground floor, of SOAS Library. It shows book stacks, a display case, air-conditioning ducts, and carpeted corridors.
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Popular book of the day: Business and Society: Stakeholders, Ethics, Public Policy.
We've had multiple enquires about how to find it. It's here! soas.on.worldcat.org/oclc/13…
We have multiple print and e-copies!
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Printing in SOAS Library
📍 Enter the library gates & go straight till you reach the staircase. Turn right. Row of printers behind the Lady David display case.
Printer name: PRINT Follow Me on Paper Cut
📎Printer comes with stapler!
🪙To top-up credit, use PC next to IT Desk
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Dear SOAS students, just to let you know the library printers are really busy at the moment. Please come print things well in advance!
Good luck on your exams!
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Good luck to all SOAS students starting their exams this week! If you're looking for a quiet spot to study or access resources, the Library is always here to help.
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📢Gnomes are causing mischief in the library! Please come the the enquiry desk NOW to help (and gain valuable library skills). Exclusive SOAS library prizes for all participants 🏆
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We've got lots of things going on today in the library!
1-2pm "Finding sources for your dissertation in Middle Eastern Studies" (E17 and online) soas.libguides.com/c.php?g=7…
Anytime between 1-3pm "Escape Room: Gnome Games" (Starts at the Enquiry Desk)
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🎉📚 Team up to save the nation at our #GnomeGamesEscape Room! 🕵️♂️🌍 Crack codes, solve puzzles & decipher the gnomes' clues to unlock the safe and stabilise our economy! Are you ready ? 🔐✨
Learn how to navigate and utilise library resources!
Wed 1 May: 1-3pm @ enquiry desk
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TOMORROW's library learning hour: Feminist Publishing & Library Activism
Our Arts & Humanities Librarian will talk about #feministpublishing houses across the global South.
We're also excited to welcome @feministlibrary to show us some of their collection.
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SOAS students, Did you know the library subscribes to Foreign Policy? Online magazine on international politics, security and economy
The best way to find it is on our A-Z database list:
soas.libguides.com/az.php?a=…
Make sure to also check out its Newsletters, Print Archive & FT Live
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