12 March 2025
Aishwarj Kumar attended the 18th Jaipur Literature Festival earlier this year, please read his report about his Hindi book launch and participation in the festival:
19 February 2025
As part of a continuing collaboration between Keio University’s Center for Strategy, the Centre for Geopolitics, and the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (FAMES)’s Japan Section, we held a seminar to explore the nature of bilateral cooperation between the United Kingdom and Japan.
06 February 2025
A group of Cambridge students were invited to attend the Emirates Literary Festival due to the good offices of Emeritus Professor Yasir Suleiman.
16 January 2025
Dr John Nilsson-Wright analyses the recent political turmoil in South Korea in an essay for Engelsberg Ideas
09 January 2025
as a representative of the School of Arts and Humanities.
09 January 2025
Barak Kushner starred in and conducted the interviews for a Japanese NHK documentary on the history and popular culture of ramen.
07 January 2025
The festival will take place 17-20 January 2025.
06 January 2025
It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Dr Michael Loewe (1922-2025).
06 January 2025
Aaron's book titled Diachronic Diversity in Classical Biblical Hebrew has been featured in a blog
20 December 2024
Dr Thomas P. Barrett's latest article, 'Qing Diplomacy’s Scottish Face: Halliday Macartney, Yamen Culture, and Diplomatic Transformation in China’s London Legation, 1877-1905' has just been published in volume 45, issue 2 of Late Imperial China.
10 December 2024
We are delighted to announce that Queens College is offering The Yen Ming Deh Scholarship - this scholarship is open to applicants starting a PhD or MPhil course at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern studies in October 2025, and preference may be given to candidates specialising in Chinese studies.
09 December 2024
The project is entitled "The image and perceptions of Armenia in the Arab world through the eyes of Arabic media" and begins in January 2025, led by Dr Mushegh Ghahriyan of Yerevan State University.
06 December 2024
This has included various news media outlets such as Channel 4 News, the Sky News Podcast, CNN, the Times and the Guardian
06 December 2024
Aishwarj Kumar has translated an English novel into Hindi, and the title of the novel is 'Never Never Land'. The novel is by the esteemed Indian author Namita Gokhale.
06 December 2024
We are very excited to announce the acquisition of a large series of facsimiled Buddhist texts titled Zhongguo fojiao banhua quanji 中國佛教版畫全集.