Name: Zobia Haq
University of Oxford

Events this person is organising:

Monday 18 January 2021 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

Nation and Its Discontents: The Poetics and Politics of Siraiki Nationalism in Pakistan
Date: 18 January 2021, 16:00 - 17:30 (Monday, 1st week, Hilary 2021)
Speaker : Ali Usman Qasmi (LUMS)
Venue Details: Online with Zoom
Organiser: Zobia Haq (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 25 January 2021 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

Gandhian Satyagraha in the Mirror of Marxism
Date: 25 January 2021, 16:00 - 17:30 (Monday, 2nd week, Hilary 2021)
Speaker : Karuna Mantena (Columbia University)
Venue Details: Online with Zoom
Organiser: Zobia Haq (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 1 February 2021 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

The Making of "Veer Savarkar": Methods for Writing an Intellectual History
Date: 1 February 2021, 16:00 - 17:30 (Monday, 3rd week, Hilary 2021)
Speaker : Vinayak Chaturvedi (University of California, Irvine)
Venue Details: Online with Zoom
Organiser: Zobia Haq (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 8 February 2021 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

The Curious Career of Shunya: Politics and Metaphysics of Caste Thinking in India
Date: 8 February 2021, 16:00 - 17:30 (Monday, 4th week, Hilary 2021)
Speaker : Prathama Banerjee (Centre for the Study of Developing Societies)
Venue Details: Online with Zoom
Organiser: Zobia Haq (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 15 February 2021 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

Bedil’s Bisemic Ghazal Poetics
Date: 15 February 2021, 16:00 - 17:30 (Monday, 5th week, Hilary 2021)
Speaker : Prashant Keshavmurthy (McGill University)
Venue Details: Online with Zoom
Organiser: Zobia Haq (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 22 February 2021 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

On Violence or the Civil War of 1947 and the Importance of Indian Political Thought
Date: 22 February 2021, 16:00 - 17:30 (Monday, 6th week, Hilary 2021)
Speaker : Shruti Kapila (University of Cambridge)
Venue Details: Online with Zoom
Organiser: Zobia Haq (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 1 March 2021 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

Graduate Student Research Presentations
Date: 1 March 2021, 16:00 - 18:00 (Monday, 7th week, Hilary 2021)
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue Details: Online with Zoom
Organiser: Zobia Haq (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 8 March 2021 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

Graduate Student Research Presentations
Date: 8 March 2021, 16:00 - 18:00 (Monday, 8th week, Hilary 2021)
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue Details: Online with Zoom
Organiser: Zobia Haq (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 26 April 2021 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

Theft of Time: Notes on Spolia and the Writing of Indian History
Date: 26 April 2021, 16:00 - 17:30 (Monday, 1st week, Trinity 2021)
Speaker : Sudipta Sen (University of California, Davis)
Venue Details: Online with Zoom
Organiser: Zobia Haq (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 3 May 2021 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

Emotions and Temporalities. On Ghosts, Jinns and their Exorcism
Date: 3 May 2021, 16:00 - 17:30 (Monday, 2nd week, Trinity 2021)
Speaker : Margrit Pernau (Max Planck Institute for Human Development)
Venue Details: Online with Zoom
Organiser: Zobia Haq (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 10 May 2021 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

"Our History": The Everyday Social and the Sense of Historical Touch
Date: 10 May 2021, 15:00 - 16:30 (Monday, 3rd week, Trinity 2021)
Speaker : Sundar Sarukkai (Centre for Society and Policy, Indian Institute of Science)
Venue Details: Online with Zoom
Organiser: Zobia Haq (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 17 May 2021 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

Pure Kashmir: Nature in the Political Thought of Sheikh Abdullah, Muhammad Iqbal and Jawaharlal Nehru
Date: 17 May 2021, 16:00 - 17:30 (Monday, 4th week, Trinity 2021)
Speaker : Amar Sohal (University of Cambridge)
Venue Details: Online with Zoom
Organiser: Zobia Haq (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 24 May 2021 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

POSTPONED - Freedom Between Order and Chaos: Reading a Political Satire From India
Date: 24 May 2021, 16:00 - 17:30 (Monday, 5th week, Trinity 2021)
Speaker : Jyotirmaya Sharma (Lichtenberg-Kolleg, University of Göttingen)
Venue Details: Online with Zoom
Organiser: Zobia Haq (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 31 May 2021 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

A Historian among the Goddesses of Modern India
Date: 31 May 2021, 16:00 - 17:30 (Monday, 6th week, Trinity 2021)
Speaker : Sumathi Ramaswamy (Duke University)
Venue Details: Online with Zoom
Organiser: Zobia Haq (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 7 June 2021 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

Monuments in Replica: Imperial Commemorations in Britain and its Colonies
Date: 7 June 2021, 16:00 - 17:30 (Monday, 7th week, Trinity 2021)
Speaker : Durba Ghosh (Cornell University)
Venue Details: Online with Zoom
Organiser: Zobia Haq (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 14 June 2021 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

Conceptual Problems in Distinguishing Global from Planetary Histories
Date: 14 June 2021, 16:00 - 17:30 (Monday, 8th week, Trinity 2021)
Speaker : Dipesh Chakrabarty (The University of Chicago)
Venue Details: Online with Zoom
Organiser: Zobia Haq (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 11 October 2021 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

The making of a populist: Entering politics and autonomy-seeking in contemporary India
Date: 11 October 2021, 16:00 - 17:30 (Monday, 1st week, Michaelmas 2021)
Speaker : Dr Jean-Thomas Martelli (Centre de Sciences Humaines, New Delhi)
Venue Details: Online with Zoom
Organiser: Zobia Haq (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 18 October 2021 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

Savarkar and the Making of Hindutva “Secularism”
Date: 18 October 2021, 16:00 - 17:30 (Monday, 2nd week, Michaelmas 2021)
Speaker : Dr Vikram Visana (University of Huddersfield)
Venue Details: Online with Zoom
Organiser: Zobia Haq (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 25 October 2021 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

Feminist Historiography and the Political: Reflections on the Past and Future Tense
Date: 25 October 2021, 16:00 - 17:30 (Monday, 3rd week, Michaelmas 2021)
Speaker : Professor Mrinalini Sinha (University of Michigan)
Venue Details: Online with Zoom
Organiser: Zobia Haq (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 1 November 2021 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

The Nomos of the Globe: Currency, Empire and Financialization
Date: 1 November 2021, 16:00 - 17:30 (Monday, 4th week, Michaelmas 2021)
Speaker : Professor Ritu Birla (University of Toronto)
Venue Details: Online with Zoom
Organiser: Zobia Haq (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 8 November 2021 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Freedoms after Freedom: Lawyering as Political Practice in Post-Independent India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka
Date: 8 November 2021, 16:00 - 17:30 (Monday, 5th week, Michaelmas 2021)
Speaker : Professor Rohit De (Yale University)
Venue Details: Online with Zoom
Organiser: Zobia Haq (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 15 November 2021 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

They Refused to Tell Me Their Dreams: Psychoanalysis, Colonialism, Trans
Date: 15 November 2021, 16:00 - 17:30 (Monday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2021)
Speaker : Dr Akshi Singh (Queen Mary University of London)
Venue Details: Online with Zoom
Organiser: Zobia Haq (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 22 November 2021 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

British Imperial Thought, British Nationality, and Overseas Indians after 1947
Date: 22 November 2021, 16:00 - 17:30 (Monday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2021)
Speaker : Dr Ian Sanjay Patel (London School of Economics)
Venue Details: Online with Zoom
Organiser: Zobia Haq (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 29 November 2021 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

The Option of Nonviolence
Date: 29 November 2021, 16:00 - 17:30 (Monday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2021)
Speaker : Dr Humeira Iqtidar (King's College London)
Venue Details: Online with Zoom
Organiser: Zobia Haq (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 17 January 2022 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

Rule by Fear: Conceptualizing Democracy and Authoritarianism in Pakistan
Date: 17 January 2022, 16:00 - 17:30 (Monday, 1st week, Hilary 2022)
Speaker : Dr Ammar Ali Jan (Haqooq-e-Khalq Movement)
Venue Details: Online with Zoom
Organiser: Zobia Haq (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 24 January 2022 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

How 'Dynasty' Became a Modern Global Concept: Intellectual Histories of Sovereignty and Property
Date: 24 January 2022, 16:00 - 17:30 (Monday, 2nd week, Hilary 2022)
Speaker : Dr Milinda Banerjee (University of St Andrews)
Venue Details: Online with Zoom
Organiser: Zobia Haq (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 31 January 2022 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

"Downward Equalization”: A Gandhian Inversion of Dignity and Rights-Claims
Date: 31 January 2022, 16:00 - 17:30 (Monday, 3rd week, Hilary 2022)
Speaker : Professor Manu Samnotra (University of South Florida)
Venue Details: Online with Zoom
Organiser: Zobia Haq (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 7 February 2022 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

A Debatable Empire
Date: 7 February 2022, 16:00 - 17:30 (Monday, 4th week, Hilary 2022)
Speaker : Dr Mishka Sinha (St John's, Oxford)
Venue Details: Online with Zoom
Organiser: Zobia Haq (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 14 February 2022 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

Waiting for the People: Anticolonialism and the Idea of Democracy in India
Date: 14 February 2022, 16:00 - 17:30 (Monday, 5th week, Hilary 2022)
Speaker : Dr Nazmul Sultan (University of Cambridge)
Venue Details: Online with Zoom
Organiser: Zobia Haq (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 21 February 2022 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

The Infrastructure of Rumor: Development and Democracy in a Postcolony
Date: 21 February 2022, 16:00 - 17:30 (Monday, 6th week, Hilary 2022)
Speaker : Professor Nusrat S. Chowdhury (Amherst College)
Venue Details: Online with Zoom
Organiser: Zobia Haq (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 28 February 2022 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

B.R. Ambedkar's Sociophilia and Other Anti-Caste Sciences
Date: 28 February 2022, 16:00 - 17:30 (Monday, 7th week, Hilary 2022)
Speaker : Professor J. Daniel Elam (University of Hong Kong)
Venue Details: Online with Zoom
Organiser: Zobia Haq (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 7 March 2022 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

Reflections on Gandhi’s Anti-Modernism
Date: 7 March 2022, 16:00 - 17:30 (Monday, 8th week, Hilary 2022)
Speaker : Professor Akeel Bilgrami (Columbia University)
Venue Details: Online with Zoom
Organiser: Zobia Haq (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 25 April 2022 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

Justice Beyond Rights
Date: 25 April 2022, 16:00 - 17:30 (Monday, 1st week, Trinity 2022)
Speaker : Dr Humeira Iqtidar (King's College London)
Venue Details: Online with Zoom
Organisers: Alizeh Paracha (University of Oxford), Zobia Haq (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 2 May 2022 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

Seeing the People in Mughal India
Date: 2 May 2022, 16:00 - 17:30 (Monday, 2nd week, Trinity 2022)
Speaker : Professor Abhishek Kaicker (UC Berkeley)
Venue Details: Online with Zoom
Organisers: Alizeh Paracha (University of Oxford), Zobia Haq (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 9 May 2022 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

Queer Azaadi and the origins of Indian homonationalism in Kashmir
Date: 9 May 2022, 16:00 - 17:30 (Monday, 3rd week, Trinity 2022)
Speaker : Anish Gawande (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online with Zoom
Organisers: Alizeh Paracha (University of Oxford), Zobia Haq (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 16 May 2022 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

Freedom Between Order and Chaos: Reading a Political Satire From India
Date: 16 May 2022, 16:00 - 17:30 (Monday, 4th week, Trinity 2022)
Speaker : Professor Jyotirmaya Sharma (University of Hyderabad)
Venue Details: Online with Zoom
Organisers: Alizeh Paracha (University of Oxford), Zobia Haq (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 23 May 2022 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

Ma'na and War
Date: 23 May 2022, 16:00 - 17:30 (Monday, 5th week, Trinity 2022)
Speaker : Dr James Caron (SOAS University of London)
Venue Details: Online with Zoom
Organisers: Alizeh Paracha (University of Oxford), Zobia Haq (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 30 May 2022 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

POSTPONED - The Poetics of Hindutva
Date: 30 May 2022, 16:00 - 17:30 (Monday, 6th week, Trinity 2022)
Speaker : Professor Janaki Bakhle (UC Berkeley)
Organisers: Alizeh Paracha (University of Oxford), Zobia Haq (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 6 June 2022 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

Pan-Nationalist Notions of Rights, Indian Khilafat Movement and the Treaty of Lausanne (1923)
Date: 6 June 2022, 16:00 - 17:30 (Monday, 7th week, Trinity 2022)
Speaker : Professor Cemil Aydin (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Organisers: Alizeh Paracha (University of Oxford), Zobia Haq (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 13 June 2022 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

‘Jim-Crowed the World Over’: Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay and the Idea of the Global South
Date: 13 June 2022, 16:00 - 17:30 (Monday, 8th week, Trinity 2022)
Speaker : Professor Nico Slate (Carnegie Mellon University)
Organisers: Alizeh Paracha (University of Oxford), Zobia Haq (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 31 October 2022 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

‘Power to the People?’: Citizens and the Everyday State in Early Postcolonial South Asia
Date: 31 October 2022, 16:00 - 17:30 (Monday, 4th week, Michaelmas 2022)
Speaker : Professor Sarah Ansari (Royal Holloway, University of London)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: HYBRID - Old FDR, St Antony's College AND Zoom
Organisers: Alizeh Paracha (University of Oxford), Zobia Haq (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 7 November 2022 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Who are the Muslims? Savarkar on Indian Muslim Origin
Date: 7 November 2022, 16:00 - 17:30 (Monday, 5th week, Michaelmas 2022)
Speaker : Professor Luna Sabastian (Northeastern University - London)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: HYBRID - Old FDR, St Antony’s College AND Zoom
Organisers: Alizeh Paracha (University of Oxford), Zobia Haq (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 23 November 2022 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

POSTPONED - Uncivil Liberalism and the Globalisation of Dadabhai Naoroji’s Ideas of Sociality
Date: 23 November 2022, 16:00 - 17:30 (Wednesday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2022)
Speaker : Dr Vikram Visana (University of Leicester)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: HYBRID - Old FDR, St Antony’s College AND Zoom
Organisers: Alizeh Paracha (University of Oxford), Zobia Haq (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 16 January 2023 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

The Logic of Cruelty and Violence in Ambedkar and Gandhi
Date: 16 January 2023, 16:00 - 17:30 (Monday, 1st week, Hilary 2023)
Speaker : Professor Uday Singh Mehta (The City University of New York)
Venue: St Antony's College - Main Site, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: HYBRID - Old FDR, St Antony’s College AND Online
Organisers: Alizeh Paracha (University of Oxford), Zobia Haq (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 7 March 2023 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

Uncivil Liberalism and the Globalisation of Dadabhai Naoroji’s Ideas of Sociality
Date: 7 March 2023, 16:00 - 17:30 (Tuesday, 8th week, Hilary 2023)
Speaker : Dr Vikram Visana (University of Leicester)
Venue: St Antony's College - Main Site, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Old FDR, St Antony’s College, Oxford AND Online
Organisers: Alizeh Paracha (University of Oxford), Zobia Haq (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 13 March 2023 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

Nations Ascendant: Towards a Global Intellectual History of Self Determination
Date: 13 March 2023, 16:00 - 17:30 (Monday, 9th week, Hilary 2023)
Speaker : Professor Zaib un Nisa Aziz (University of South Florida, Tampa)
Venue: St Antony's College - Main Site, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Old FDR, St Antony’s College, Oxford AND Online
Organisers: Alizeh Paracha (University of Oxford), Zobia Haq (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 1 May 2023 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

Along The Path To Gandhi's Neighbor
Date: 1 May 2023, 16:00 - 17:30 (Monday, 2nd week, Trinity 2023)
Speaker : Ajay Skaria (University of Minnesota)
Venue Details: Online with Zoom
Organiser: Zobia Haq (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 8 May 2023 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

A New Vision of Vivekananda?
Date: 8 May 2023, 16:00 - 17:30 (Monday, 3rd week, Trinity 2023)
Speaker : Ruth Harris (University of Oxford )
Venue: St Antony's College - Main Site, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Syndicate Room, St Antony’s College, Oxford AND Zoom
Organiser: Zobia Haq (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 15 May 2023 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

Seduced by God or Man? Religious Conversions and Women’s Desire in Pakistan
Date: 15 May 2023, 16:00 - 17:30 (Monday, 4th week, Trinity 2023)
Speaker : Ghazal Asif Farrukhi (Lahore University of Management Sciences)
Venue Details: Online with Zoom
Organiser: Zobia Haq (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 22 May 2023 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

Empires of Complaints: Mughal Law and the Making of British India
Date: 22 May 2023, 16:00 - 17:30 (Monday, 5th week, Trinity 2023)
Speaker : Robert Travers (Cornell University)
Venue Details: Online with Zoom
Organiser: Zobia Haq (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 29 May 2023 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

Dharma, Artha, and the Politics of Law and Sovereignty in Colonial India
Date: 29 May 2023, 16:00 - 17:30 (Monday, 6th week, Trinity 2023)
Speaker : Sunil Purushotham (Fairfield University)
Venue Details: Online with Zoom
Organiser: Zobia Haq (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 5 June 2023 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

“His Soul was a Bird of the Divine Throne”: Persian Inscriptions on Mughal Imperial Tombs and Mosques
Date: 5 June 2023, 16:00 - 17:30 (Monday, 7th week, Trinity 2023)
Speaker : A. Azfar Moin (The University of Texas at Austin)
Venue: St Antony's College - Main Site, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Syndicate Room, St Antony’s College, Oxford AND Zoom
Organiser: Zobia Haq (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 12 June 2023 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

CANCELLED - Red Maulanas: Islam and the Left in South Asia
Date: 12 June 2023, 16:00 - 17:30 (Monday, 8th week, Trinity 2023)
Speaker : Layli Uddin (Queen Mary University of London)
Venue: St Antony's College - Main Site, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Syndicate Room, St Antony’s College, Oxford AND Zoom
Organiser: Zobia Haq (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA