Pauline Blanchet is a Third Year Development Studies and Linguistics student. For the past year she has been producing her own podcast about mental health and young people where she has investigated some of the biggest issues young people are facing. The first episode was released on October 10th 2018.
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شُكُوكِي فِي حَبَنًا فِي الصَّبَاحِ، أُحِبُّكَ لَكِنْ فِي المَسَاءِ، لَا أَفْهَمْنا. أَذْهَبُ إِلَى قَلْبِكَ دَائِمًا، لِ
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The city of Kamaishi, in North-eastern Japan, has a brand new 16,187 seat rugby stadium. While this might seem unremarkable, the Recovery Memorial Stadium has a significant symbolic value to the people of Kamaishi, perhaps none more so than 61-year-old resident Jiro Ishiyama. Back in the 1980s, Ishiyama represented
So, first, as our agony aunt this year for The SOAS Spirit, tell us about yourself. Pauline: My name is Pauline Blanchet, and I am a third-year student, studying Linguistics and Development. I have been passionate about mental health for a long time. At the age of fifteen, I was
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Dear Society, Recently, I am not so fond of you anymore. The older I get, the more I see your true face. You are such a cheat. Promising happiness and security, when all you do is oppress us. Here is my open letter to you, asking you to finally change
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A sensory experience of walking down Balham High Road: Balham High Road is the type of place where you’d expect to come across a cafe decorated with old books and selling homemade apple cake, and sure enough, such an establishment can be found. It has tables outside, on the
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The dramatic story of one SOAS student’s time in Calais An empty field and rows and rows of men. When I entered the Jungle, that was the first thing I saw. It was the start of a trip with SOAS goes to Calais, and we had just entered the
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Where: I am currently on my year abroad in Jaipur, Rajasthan, India, studying Hindi at the American Institute of Indian Studies (AIIS). AIIS specialises in immersion-based language courses throughout India, mainly aimed at American university (undergraduate, postgraduate and PHD) students. Jaipur is the capital of the state of Rajasthan in
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For Black History Month, The SOAS Spirit interviewed black professors on campus. We discuss BME underrepresentation in academia, personal backgrounds, and how Black History should be taught. DR KWADWO OSEI NYAME, Jnr We’re going to talk about Black History Month a little bit, with the focus on your experience
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By Ahmad Jamal Wattoo, BA Economics and Politics On Friday the 9th of February, SOAS witnessed one of the biggest Late License events in its 102-year history, aptly named ‘Qawwaal and Dhamaal’. The event was organised by the International Pakistan Students Association, the SOAS India Society and the SOAS Students’
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Writer: Stephen Stratton, MA Medical Anthropology, Marta Perez Fernandez, BA Economics and Development Studies I am a nurse. I first trained as a psychiatric nurse 35 years ago, in a nursing school at a Victorian asylum (with all its connotations) in Essex. I’m still unsure why I chose this
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Writer: Ilaria Grasso Macola, BA International Relations CROSSERS * Ellis Warren, BA Japanese and Economics: “I support the strike, I’m fully behind it. At the same time, I really value my classes and my Japanese teacher has been very kind in going ahead with the classes despite the strike, so