Wednesday 28 October 2020 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - India's Agrarian Economy: Farm Bills, COVID-19 & Climate Change
  Professor Barbara Harriss-White ((Emeritus Professor of Development Studies, Oxford)), Dr Shailaja Fennell (University of Cambridge)

Thursday 25 February 2021 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:30 - Food Security and Farm Laws in India
  Professor Madhura Swaminathan (Indian Statistical Institute, Bengaluru), Professor R Ramakumar (Tata Institute of Social Science, Mumbai)

Thursday 4 March 2021 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Reimagining Sustainable Cities: Environmentalism and Equity in Urban India
  Professor Harini Nagendra (Azim Premji University)

Wednesday 26 May 2021 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Thermal Inequalities: Heat, Health and Social Policy in India
  Carolin Kroeger (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 7 July 2021 (11th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:30 - How can the private sector in India engage with climate change?
  Prof Myles Allen (School of Geography and the Environment), Rt Hon Patricia Hewitt (Adviser to the UK Board of Trade), Mr Jamshyd Godrej (Co-chair of the India-US Track II Dialogue on Energy and Climate Change)
  India and Climate Change COP26 Dialogues

Tuesday 7 June 2022 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Women, Caste, Tribe and Urban Waste: The Physical and Social Toxicity of Shit-Work
  Professor Barbara Harriss-White ((Emeritus Professor of Development Studies, Oxford))
  Thinking Through Toxicity

Tuesday 13 June 2023 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Class, caste and gender in the Tamil Nadu countryside: OICSD Research Showcase
  Prof Judith Heyer (University of Oxford)

Friday 9 February 2024 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Forecasting for Sustainable Development (IIF and OICSD collaboration)
  Various Speakers

Tuesday 20 February 2024 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Exploring Opportunities for Community Resilience in Mumbai’s Dense Urban Settlements
  Lubaina Rangwala (WRI India)
  OICSD Sustainability Series

Tuesday 11 June 2024 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Violence and the City: Perspectives from India and Syria
  Ammar Azzouz, Fahad Zuberi (Oxford India Centre for Sustainable Development)

Friday 15 November 2024 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:15 - OICSD Research Showcase - Michaelmas 2024
  Various Speakers
  OICSD Research Showcase

Thursday 21 November 2024 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:30 - Book launch: Art Under the Indian Sun with Ratna Vira (Artist and Author)
  Ratna Vira (Stephenson College, Durham University)

Tuesday 26 November 2024 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:30 - Sexual Violence in India: The State of Legal Reforms
  Aradhana CV (University of Oxford), Mr Gopal Subramaniam (Former Indian Solicitor General and Foundation Fellow, Somerville College)

Thursday 20 February 2020 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Nationalism and its discontents: Excluded and stateless in Modi's India
  Prof Niraja Gopal Jayal (Centre for the Study of Law and Governance, Jawaharlal Nehru University), Nikita Sud (University of Oxford), Meena Kandasamy, Mirza Waheed

Monday 24 February 2020 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:30 - Indian media and caste: why are lower caste journalists missing from newsrooms?
  Tejas Harad (Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism)

Wednesday 28 October 2020 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - India's Agrarian Economy: Farm Bills, COVID-19 & Climate Change
  Professor Barbara Harriss-White ((Emeritus Professor of Development Studies, Oxford)), Dr Shailaja Fennell (University of Cambridge)

Wednesday 11 November 2020 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Food and Nutrition in India Reading Group
  Dr Anant Jani (Honorary Research Fellow Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences)

Thursday 19 November 2020 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 10:00 - India and Climate Change Reading Group
  Dr Sharachchandra Lele (Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology & the Environment)

Wednesday 25 November 2020 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Food and Nutrition in India Reading Group
  TBA

Thursday 3 December 2020 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 10:00 - India and Climate Change Reading Group
  Thomas Spencer (The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI))

Wednesday 20 January 2021 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Improving Infant and Young Child Feeding Practices in India
  Dr Komal Bhatia (Research Fellow in Adolescent Health, UCL Institute for Global Health)

Thursday 4 February 2021 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 10:00 - Urban Growth and the 'Other' Cities in India
  Safa Fanaian (University of Oxford)

Thursday 25 February 2021 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:30 - Food Security and Farm Laws in India
  Professor Madhura Swaminathan (Indian Statistical Institute, Bengaluru), Professor R Ramakumar (Tata Institute of Social Science, Mumbai)

Thursday 4 March 2021 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Reimagining Sustainable Cities: Environmentalism and Equity in Urban India
  Professor Harini Nagendra (Azim Premji University)

Tuesday 9 March 2021 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Natural Resource Management, Conservation and Climate Change in India
  Dr Sushil Saigal (The Nature Conservancy - India)

Wednesday 7 July 2021 (11th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:30 - How can the private sector in India engage with climate change?
  Prof Myles Allen (School of Geography and the Environment), Rt Hon Patricia Hewitt (Adviser to the UK Board of Trade), Mr Jamshyd Godrej (Co-chair of the India-US Track II Dialogue on Energy and Climate Change)
  India and Climate Change COP26 Dialogues

Thursday 18 November 2021 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Water Security in South Asia
  Professor Rob Hope (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 24 November 2021 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:30 - Seeing Mumbai and India through its detritus
  Saumya Roy (Journalist and activist), Keshava Guha (Journalist and writer of fiction)

Friday 26 November 2021 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Forest restoration and nature-based climate solutions frequently fail because they are not grounded in social science
  Forrest Fleischman (University of Minnesota)

Friday 3 December 2021 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:30 - Institutional Activism and Girls' Education in Rural India
  Prof Akshay Mangla (University of Oxford), Professor Barbara Harriss-White ((Emeritus Professor of Development Studies, Oxford))
  Gender and Development seminar series

Thursday 3 February 2022 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Women, Power, and Property: The Paradox of Gender Equality Laws in India
  Maya Tudor (BSG, Oxford), Prof Akshay Mangla (University of Oxford), Prof Rachel Brule (Boston University)
  Gender and Development seminar series

Thursday 28 April 2022 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Dust and Smoke: Air Pollution and Colonial Urbanism in India
  Prof Awadhendra Sharan (Centre for the Study of Developing Societies)
  Thinking Through Toxicity

Thursday 5 May 2022 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Capable Women, Incapable States: Negotiating Violence and Rights in India
  Poulami Roychowdhury (Assistant Professor, McGill University), Prof Akshay Mangla (University of Oxford), Aradhana CV (University of Oxford)
  Thinking Through Toxicity

Tuesday 7 June 2022 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Women, Caste, Tribe and Urban Waste: The Physical and Social Toxicity of Shit-Work
  Professor Barbara Harriss-White ((Emeritus Professor of Development Studies, Oxford))
  Thinking Through Toxicity

Monday 27 June 2022 (10th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Reimagining the role of global agriculture on the path to Net Zero emissions
  Dr Agnes Kalibata (President of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa), Jan Royall (Principal of Somerville), Dr Radhika Khosla (Oxford India Centre for Sustainable Development), Jeevan Vasagar (Climate Editor at Tortoise Media)
  OpenAg Symposium: Food Futures in a Changing Climate
• 14:30 - What are the opportunities and challenges for financing the transition to Net Zero agriculture?
  Prof Paul Brereton (Professor, School of Biological Sciences, Queen’s University Belfast), Suzanne van Tilburg (Global Head (Food & Agri Networks), Rabobank), Sami Khan (Director (Coverage & Strategy) Food and Agriculture, BII), Helena Wright (Policy Director, FAIRR), Dr Michael Clark (University of Oxford)
  OpenAg Symposium: Food Futures in a Changing Climate
• 15:35 - How do we pave an equal and inclusive path to Net Zero Agriculture?
  Dr Shailaja Fennell (University of Cambridge), Dr Radhika Khosla (Oxford India Centre for Sustainable Development), Professor Madhura Swaminathan (Indian Statistical Institute, Bengaluru), Dr Jyotsna Puri (IFAD), Joshua Omonuk (Climate Activist, Rise Up Movement)
  OpenAg Symposium: Food Futures in a Changing Climate
• 17:00 - Competing or collaborating? Synergies between renewable energy and agriculture for accelerating Net Zero
  Prof Kathy Willis (University of Oxford), Dr Zitouni Ould-Dada (Deputy Directory in the Office of Climate Change, Biodiversity and Environment, FAO), Prof Sue Hartley (Professor and Vice-President of Research, University of Sheffield)
  OpenAg Symposium: Food Futures in a Changing Climate

Tuesday 18 October 2022 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 10:00 - How can we improve cooling sustainability for factory workers? Learning from the case of Bangladesh's ready-made garment industry
  Prof Jean Palutikof (Griffith University, Australia)

Tuesday 1 November 2022 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:30 - Durable Derangements: The Climate of Mumbai's Coastal Road
  Nikhil Anand (UPenn), Hannah Knox (UCL)

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

• 16:30 - Rebellion: XR Documentary Screening and Panel Discussion
  Farhana Yamin (Systemiq), Maia Kenworthy

Wednesday 1 March 2023 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Oxford India Centre Scholars Research Showcase
  TBA

Friday 12 May 2023 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:30 - The Savitribai Phule Scholarship launch event
  Professor Barbara Harriss-White ((Emeritus Professor of Development Studies, Oxford)), Raju Kendre (Eklavya India), Surajkumar Thube (University of Oxford), Lord Harries of Pentregarth

Tuesday 13 June 2023 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Class, caste and gender in the Tamil Nadu countryside: OICSD Research Showcase
  Prof Judith Heyer (University of Oxford)

Friday 9 February 2024 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Forecasting for Sustainable Development (IIF and OICSD collaboration)
  Various Speakers

Tuesday 20 February 2024 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Exploring Opportunities for Community Resilience in Mumbai’s Dense Urban Settlements
  Lubaina Rangwala (WRI India)
  OICSD Sustainability Series

Friday 24 May 2024 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:00 - Education and Inequity: Perspectives from South Asia
  Various Speakers

Tuesday 11 June 2024 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Violence and the City: Perspectives from India and Syria
  Ammar Azzouz, Fahad Zuberi (Oxford India Centre for Sustainable Development)

Friday 15 November 2024 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:15 - OICSD Research Showcase - Michaelmas 2024
  Various Speakers
  OICSD Research Showcase

Thursday 21 November 2024 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:30 - Book launch: Art Under the Indian Sun with Ratna Vira (Artist and Author)
  Ratna Vira (Stephenson College, Durham University)