Dr Lina AbiRafeh is an activist, academic, and aid worker recognised as one of the world’s leading women’s rights experts. She has worked on gender issues in developing and humanitarian contexts around the world for nearly three decades. The history of Afghanistan is one of occupation. The country had been previously occupied by the British…
“The RSAA Travel Award has had a profound impact on my project, allowing me to conduct essential field research in East Asia… . [It] truly opens doors.” – Yi-Ting Chang, 2024 “The RSAA Travel Award has enabled me to conduct research that would not have been possible otherwise. …I am very grateful for the support…
Click here to register Owen Matthews (@owenmatth) is a British writer, historian and journalist. His first book, Stalin’s Children, was shortlisted for the 2008 Guardian First Books Award, the Orwell Prize for political writing, and France’s Prix Medicis Etranger. His books have been translated into 28 languages. He is a former Moscow and Istanbul Bureau…
Click to register Victoria Schofield in conversation about her thirty-year friendship with her Oxford contemporary, Benazir Bhutto. Her book, The Fragrance of Tears, which will be published on 15 October, is a memoir, drawing on diaries and letters, of Bhutto’s transformation from Oxford undergraduate to political activist, prisoner and politician against the backdrop of an…
Click here to register Misinformation about China’s spy apparatus helps fuel a racist response in Washington and allied capitals. Matt Brazil seeks to improve the debate for the sake of both national defense and civil rights. Matt Brazil is a former US Army officer, diplomat, and corporate security investigator who spent most of his career…
Click here to register The Asian University for Women (AUW) was established in 2008 in Chittagong, Bangladesh, to provide women drawn from diverse social, economic and language backgrounds with opportunities to become critical thinkers and ethical leaders in their home communities. The AUW already has a significant record of achievement, but it needs help and…
Click here to register A long, tense, and deadly border spat in the region of Ladakh has plunged India-China relations to their lowest point in decades. Michael Kugelman will explain what may have caused the current border crisis, consider possible endgames, and discuss the implications of the crisis for the bilateral relationship and regional and…
Exceptionally, this event is open only to members of the RSAA. If you are a current member, please click here to register. If you not a current member and would like to participate in this webinar, then please go to our Membership page to join and then return here to register. Dr Rudra Chauduri is the…
Click here to register The Russian conquest of Central Asia was the 19th century’s most dramatic and successful example of European imperial expansion, adding 1.5 million square miles of territory and at least 6 million people – most of them Muslims – to the Tsar’s domains. However its historiography has been blighted by a number of…
Click here to register We are delighted to be able to host this event jointly with the Shute Festival. Chrsitna Lamb’s book is the first major account to address the scale of sexual assault in modern conflict, which exposes the unheard stories of women in war zones with unfailing care and humanity. Samantha Knights QC will be in…
