SOAS (CCCAC) Centre of Contemporary Central Asia and the Caucasus

08/01/2025

SOAS Department of Music is delighted to be hosting Honoured Artist of Uzbekistan, Ilyos Arabov, to discuss and demonstrate his art.

15/02/2023

SOAS and KazNU signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) and engaged in positive discussion on the possibility of interdisciplinary academic and student mobility. The two higher education institutions also discussed the scope for research collaboration, and SOAS hosting doctoral and post-doctoral scholars who would be funded by the Bolashak ('Future') Programme of the Kazakhstani Government.

SOAS University of London and Al Farabi Kazakh National University sign Memorandum of Understanding to further develop existing collaboration between the two institutions.

04/05/2022

Anthony Hyman Memorial Lecture 2022: The Refugee Crisis and Afghanistan

The Refugee Crisis and Afghanistan was a lecture by Matthieu Aikins on the 11th April 2022. Find out more at: https://www.soas.ac.uk/cccac/events/anthonyhyma...

12/04/2022

'Ukraine conflict: Kazakhstan’s difficult balancing act between need for Russian support and popular opposition to the war'

By Bhavna Dave (SOAS)

Pressure is mounting on Kazakhstan’s president, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, to distance the country from Putin’s Russia.

14/12/2021

'Afghanistan: he**in and human trafficking are the only two sectors of the economy still thriving'

By Jonathan Goodhand (SOAS) and Jan Koehler (SOAS)

As the Afghan economy collapses, drugs and people smuggling are booming.

04/11/2021

'Arts in Dark Times: Endangered in Afghanistan'

A half day symposium by Exiled Writers Ink in partnership with the SOAS Centre for Cultural, Literary and Postcolonial Studies.

Date: Saturday, 13 November 2021

This event will focus on the state of Afghan arts under the two Taliban regimes and the period between. It also aims to generate activism.

08/09/2021

'How to aid Afghanistan? Hold your nose'

By Michael Jennings (SOAS)

How do you support the people of Afghanistan without giving succor to the Taliban? That is a question donor countries and aid organizations have been grappling with since the fall of Kabul. To be s…

13/08/2021

'Afghanistan: what the conflict means for the global he**in trade'

By Jonathan Goodhand, Professor in Conflict and Development Studies at SOAS.

Having taken charge of multiple vital border trading posts, the Taliban is now increasingly in control of the Afghan drug trade.