Tuesday 3 November 2015

• 14:00 - The Raj at War
  Yasmin Khan (Oxford)
  Modern South Asia Seminar

Tuesday 10 November 2015

• 14:00 - Politics and the Promise of Bhagat Singh
  Chris Moffat (Queen Mary)
  Modern South Asia Seminar

Tuesday 17 November 2015

• 14:00 - Longing for the state: The dialectics of the Local and Transnational in Pakistan's Sunni-Shi'i Sectarianism
  Simon Fuchs (Cambridge)
  Modern South Asia Seminar

Wednesday 18 November 2015

• 17:30 - A Discussion of 'The Calling of History: Sir Jadunath Sarkar and His Empire of Truth'
  Dipesh Chakrabarty (The University of Chicago), Rosalind O'Hanlon (Oxford), Shruti Kapila (Cambridge), Sanjay Seth (Goldsmiths)
  Modern South Asia Seminar

Tuesday 24 November 2015

• 14:00 - A National History for Pakistan: Ishtiaq Hussain Qureshi (1903-1981) and the Genealogy of the 'Master Narrative'
  Ali Usman Qasmi (LUMS)
  Modern South Asia Seminar

Tuesday 1 December 2015

• 14:00 - Paradoxes of the Shia Minority in Pakistan
  Andreas Rieck (Berlin)
  Modern South Asia Seminar

Tuesday 19 January 2016

• 14:00 - The Making of a Constitution: Pakistan and the Question of Sovereignty
  Yaqoob Khan Bangash (Lahore)
  Modern South Asia Seminar

Tuesday 26 January 2016

• 14:00 - Spirits of Discord and Everyday Labours of Peace: Intercommunal Relations in Amroha
  Laurent Gayer (Scievnces-Po)
  Modern South Asia Seminar

Tuesday 2 February 2016

• 14:00 - Postgraduate Research Seminar
  Amar Sohal, Ria Kapoor, Daniel Hunt
  Modern South Asia Seminar

Tuesday 9 February 2016

• 14:00 - Postgraduate Research Seminar
  Gautham Shiralagi, Smriti Sawkar, Conor Meleady
  Modern South Asia Seminar

Tuesday 16 February 2016

• 14:00 - Mechanism of oppression, Dalits and legal developments in India
  Dag Erik Berg (Göttingen)
  Modern South Asia Seminar

Tuesday 23 February 2016

• 14:00 - Postgraduate Research Seminar
  Niroshini Sundaresan, Emile Rolland, Sam McNeil
  Modern South Asia Seminar

Tuesday 1 March 2016

• 09:00 - Workshop on Pakistani Historiography
  TBA
  Modern South Asia Seminar

Monday 7 March 2016

• 17:30 - An Undocumented Wonder - the Making of the Great Indian Election
  S.Y. Quraishi (Former Chief Election Commissioner of India)
  Modern South Asia Seminar

Tuesday 8 March 2016

• 14:00 - Histories of the ephemeral: writing on music in the late Mughal world
  Katherine Butler Schofield (King’s College, London)
  Modern South Asia Seminar

Tuesday 26 April 2016

• 14:00 - Colonial India and the Hajj, 1865-1950
  TBA
  Southeast Asia Seminar
• 14:00 - Colonial India and the Hajj, 1865-1950
  John Slight (St John's College, Cambridge)
  Modern South Asia Seminar

Wednesday 27 April 2016

• 14:00 - The Gift of Education? Learning, Migration and intergenerational Relations among Karen Refugees in Thailand and the United Kingdom
  TBA
  Southeast Asia Seminar

Tuesday 3 May 2016

• 14:00 - The Fires of Hell: Communalism and Satire in the Hindi Short Stories of Pandey Bechan Sharma "Ugra"
  David Lunn (SOAS)
  Modern South Asia Seminar

Wednesday 4 May 2016

• 14:00 - Living in a Time of Deception: a historical Memoir of Singapore 1945-65
  TBA
  Southeast Asia Seminar

Tuesday 10 May 2016

• 14:00 - Distinction or Distraction? The Politics of Connoisseurship in eighteenth-century Rajput Courts
  Richard Williams (Oriental Studies; Trinity College, Oxford)
  Modern South Asia Seminar

Wednesday 11 May 2016

• 14:00 - Shifting Words: Language Pride and Language Endangerment in Indonesia
  TBA
  Southeast Asia Seminar

Tuesday 17 May 2016

• 14:00 - Gandhian Entrepreneurship - Kamalnayan Bajaj, Architect of the Bajaj Group
  Gita Piramal (Said Business School, Oxford)
  Modern South Asia Seminar

Wednesday 18 May 2016

• 14:00 - The Traffic in Hierarchy: Precedence and Power in Burmese Social Life
  TBA
  Southeast Asia Seminar

Tuesday 24 May 2016

• 14:00 - Rediscovering the Primitive: Adivasi Histories in and after Subaltern Studies
  Uday Chandra (Georgetown, Qatar)
  Modern South Asia Seminar

Wednesday 25 May 2016

• 14:00 - The Other Side of Abdurrahman Wahid (Gus Dur): The Personal-Elitism Tendencies in Leading Party and Internal Fragmentation of National Awakening Party (1998-2008)
  TBA
  Southeast Asia Seminar
• 18:30 - Fighting Extremism through Islamic Moderation
  TBA
  Southeast Asia Seminar

Tuesday 31 May 2016

• 14:00 - Can Britain be liable for reparations for the 1943-44 Bengal Famine?
  Sarmila Bose (DPIR, Oxford)
  Modern South Asia Seminar

Wednesday 1 June 2016

• 16:00 - Women and Conflict in India
  Sanghamitra Choudhury (St Antony's College; Sikkim)
  Modern South Asia Seminar

Wednesday 8 June 2016

• 14:00 - The Prospects for enhancing Democracy and Development in the Philippines: The 2016 Elections and beyond
  TBA
  Southeast Asia Seminar
• 14:00 - The prospects for enhancing democracy and development in the Philippines: The 2016 elections and beyond
  TBA
  Southeast Asia Seminar

Tuesday 11 October 2016

• 14:00 - Of Nomadology and India(n-ness)
  Avishek Ray (Silchar; Edinburgh)
  Modern South Asia Seminar

Wednesday 12 October 2016

• 14:00 - Burma: When Women lead the Way to Peace, Freedom and Democracy
  TBA
  Southeast Asia Seminar

Tuesday 18 October 2016

• 14:00 - A Zionist Passage to India?
  Arie Dubnov (Haifa; George Washington)
  Modern South Asia Seminar

Tuesday 25 October 2016

• 14:00 - Book launch: Defending British India Against Napoleon: The Foreign Policy of Governor-General Lord Minto, 1807-13
  Aditya Das (Swansea), Huw Bowen (Swansea)
  Modern South Asia Seminar

Wednesday 26 October 2016

• 14:00 - Book Launch: The Karen and the Gift of Education
  TBA
  Southeast Asia Seminar
• 14:00 - The Uniqueness of Downtown Yangon
  TBA
  Southeast Asia Seminar

Tuesday 1 November 2016

• 14:00 - Re-building Democracy: Parekh on Indian Nationalism and the Common Good
  Colin Tyler (Hull)
  Modern South Asia Seminar

Tuesday 8 November 2016

• 14:00 - Eastminster – Decolonisation and State-Building in British Asia
  Harshan Kumarasingham (Frankfurt; Commonwealth Studies, London)
  Modern South Asia Seminar

Wednesday 9 November 2016

• 14:00 - Challenges and Opportunities for strengthening State and Regional Parliaments in Myanmar
  Myat The Thitsar (Enlightened Myanmar Research Foundation; Oxford)
  Southeast Asia Seminar

Tuesday 15 November 2016

• 14:00 - Feminine Abandon and the Abducted Woman in Post-Partition Shorey Comedies
  Salma Siddique (Freie Universität Berlin)
  Modern South Asia Seminar

Tuesday 22 November 2016

• 14:00 - Feeling Untouched: Space, Emotions and Untouchability
  Jesús Cháirez-Garza (Leeds)
  Modern South Asia Seminar

Wednesday 23 November 2016

• 14:00 - The Bureaucratisation of Islam and its Socio-Legal Dimensions in Southeast Asia: Outlines of a Collaborative Research Project
  Dominik M. Müller (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle)
  Southeast Asia Seminar

Tuesday 29 November 2016

• 14:00 - Pakistan and Ireland: Exploring Comparative Constitutional Perspectives on Decolonisation, Dominion Status, & Beyond
  Luke McDonagh (City, London), Mara Malagodi (City, London)
  Modern South Asia Seminar

Monday 16 January 2017

• 14:00 - Controlling the Narrative: The Law, Human Rights and 1MDB in Malaysia
  Kerstin Steiner (Monash)
  Southeast Asia Seminar

Tuesday 17 January 2017

• 14:00 - Directive Principles and the Expressive Accommodation of Ideological Dissenters in the Indian Constitution
  Tarunabh Khaitan (Wadham)
  Modern South Asia Seminar

Tuesday 24 January 2017

• 14:00 - Britain's Anglo-Indians: The Invisibility of Assimilation
  Rochelle Almeida (NYU)
  Modern South Asia Seminar

Tuesday 31 January 2017

• 14:00 - The Majewski Lecture: The Colloquy between Muhammad and Saytān: The 18th century Bangla Iblichnāmā of Garībullā
  Tony K. Stewart (Vanderbilt)
  Modern South Asia Seminar

Wednesday 1 February 2017

• 14:00 - Positioning Myanmar as an attractive new investment destination in Southeast Asia
  Sufian Jusoh (National University of Malaysia)
  Southeast Asia Seminar

Tuesday 7 February 2017

• 14:00 - Postgraduate Student Presentations on South Asian History
  Various Speakers
  Modern South Asia Seminar

Monday 13 February 2017

• 15:30 - A Journey from Cambodia to America and Back!
  TBA
  Southeast Asia Seminar
• 17:00 - Book launch: Buddhism, Politics and Political Thought in Myanmar
  Matthew J Walton (St Antony’s)
  Southeast Asia Seminar

Tuesday 14 February 2017

• 14:00 - Postgraduate Student Presentations on South Asian History
  Various Speakers
  Modern South Asia Seminar

Tuesday 21 February 2017

• 14:00 - Hindu Militarism, P.D. Tandon and the Politics of Scale in 1940s Uttar Pradesh
  William Gould (Leeds)
  Modern South Asia Seminar

Tuesday 28 February 2017

• 14:00 - A Dreadful Scourge: Comprehending Cholera in Early Nineteenth Century India
  Mark Harrison (Green Templeton)
  Modern South Asia Seminar

Wednesday 1 March 2017

• 14:00 - Transforming Memory: Community Recollections of Inter-Religious Peace and Conflict in Myanmar
  Phyu Phyu Thi (Myanmar ICT for Development), Matthew J Walton (St Antony’s)
  Southeast Asia Seminar

Friday 3 March 2017

• 17:00 - Witness to Paradise: Photojournalism in Kashmir's Present, 1986-2016
  Please note this special talk will be held at 5 p.m. on a Friday in the Pavilion Room, St Antony’s College.
  Sanjay Kak (Independent Film-Maker and Photographer)
  Modern South Asia Seminar

Tuesday 7 March 2017

• 14:00 - The Unmaking of an Imperial Army: The Indian Army in World War II
  Please note this seminar will be held in the Pavilion Room, St Antony's College
  Tarak Barkawi (LSE, London)
  Modern South Asia Seminar

Tuesday 25 April 2017

• 14:00 - An Eminent Victorian: Gandhi and the Crisis of Liberal Democracy in the 19th century
  Dilip Menon (Witswatersrand)
  Modern South Asia Seminar
• 14:00 - An Eminent Victorian: Gandhi and the Crisis of Liberal Democracy in the 19th century
  Dilip Menon (Witswatersrand)
  Modern South Asia Seminar

Wednesday 26 April 2017

• 14:00 - Boundaries and Belonging in the Indo-Myanmar Borderlands: Chin refugees in Mizoram
  TBA
  Southeast Asia Seminar

Tuesday 2 May 2017

• 14:00 - Title TBC
  Tim Harper (Cambridge)
  Modern South Asia Seminar

Tuesday 9 May 2017

• 14:00 - The Spectral Wound: Sexual Violence, Public Memories and the Bangladesh War of 1971
  Nayanika Mookheerjee (Durham)
  Modern South Asia Seminar

Wednesday 10 May 2017

• 14:00 - The Southeast Asia Seminar: Postgraduate Research Session
  TBA
  Southeast Asia Seminar

Tuesday 16 May 2017

• 14:00 - India Conquered: The British Raj and the Chaos of Empire’
  Jon Wilson (King's College London)
  Modern South Asia Seminar

Tuesday 23 May 2017

• 14:00 - Scribes, ‘Paper and the Formation of the colonial State in North India, 1780-1840
  Hayden Bellenoit (United States Naval Academy)
  Modern South Asia Seminar

Wednesday 24 May 2017

• 14:00 - Change & Challenge: Philippine Foreign Policy and the Philippine-U.S. Alliance
  TBA
  Southeast Asia Seminar

Tuesday 30 May 2017

• 14:00 - Jamal al-din al-Afghani and Syed Ahmad Khan: Reform, Rivalry, and Heresy in late 19th-century India’
  Teena Purohit (Boston)
  Modern South Asia Seminar

Monday 5 June 2017

• 17:00 - The Dismissal of a Teacher and Academic Freedom: An Annal of early Calcutta and its Echoes
  Please note that this special talk, organised with the Department for International Development and the Free Speech Debate Project, will be held at 5 p.m. on a Monday in the Pavilion Room, St Antony’s College.
  Rudrangshu Mukherjee (Ashoka)
  Modern South Asia Seminar

Tuesday 6 June 2017

• 14:00 - The Untouchable Citizen
  Jason Keith Fernandes (Lisbon)
  Modern South Asia Seminar

Tuesday 10 October 2017

• 14:00 - The Age of Fasad: Jihad, Piety and Liturgical Islam in the Indian Ocean (1500-1750)
  Yasser Arafath (Delhi)
  Modern South Asia Seminar

Wednesday 11 October 2017

• 14:00 - Opium and Coercive State Formation: Strongmen and Armed Conflicts in Burma’s Shan State (1948-1996)
  John Buchanan (University of Washington)
  Southeast Asia Seminar

Tuesday 17 October 2017

• 14:00 - India's Search for Prosperity: Is Modi on the Right Track?
  Vijay Joshi (Merton College)
  Modern South Asia Seminar

Tuesday 24 October 2017

• 14:00 - Sepia Paise: The Politics and Poetics of Art and Photography in South Asia and Beyond
  Natasha Eaton (University College London)
  Modern South Asia Seminar

Wednesday 25 October 2017

• 14:00 - Understanding Indonesia's Post-Independence Elite: Data from the Constitutional Assembly
  Kevin Fogg (Centre for Islamic Studies), Syahrul Hidayat (University of Exeter; University of Indonesia)
  Southeast Asia Seminar

Tuesday 31 October 2017

• 14:00 - Parallel Governance and Political Order in Contested Territory: Evidence from the Indo-Naga Ceasefire
  Rajesh Venugopal (London School of Economics)
  Modern South Asia Seminar

Tuesday 7 November 2017

• 14:00 - The Sweatshop Regime: Garments, Exploitation, and labouring Bodies made in India
  Alessandra Mezzadri (School of Oriental and African Studies)
  Modern South Asia Seminar

Wednesday 8 November 2017

• 14:00 - Thailand's Post-2014 Foreign Policy: Riding on the International Trend
  Pavin Chachavalpongpun (Kyoto University; London School of Economics)
  Southeast Asia Seminar

Tuesday 14 November 2017

• 14:00 - Tracing Conscience in Time of War: Archiving a History of Dissent in Sri Lanka 1960s to 2000s
  Johnathan Spencer (Edinburgh)
  Modern South Asia Seminar

Tuesday 21 November 2017

• 14:00 - The British High Commission in Pakistan 1947-71: Role and History
  Ian Talbot (Southampton)
  Modern South Asia Seminar

Wednesday 22 November 2017

• 14:00 - Inducement and Smaller-States' Triple Trade-offs: Southeast Asian Responses to China's Belt and Road Initiative
  Cheng-Chwee Kuik (National University of Malaysia)
  Southeast Asia Seminar

Tuesday 28 November 2017

• 14:00 - The Political Economy of Business-State Deals in Indian States
  Kunal Sen (Manchester)
  Modern South Asia Seminar

Tuesday 16 January 2018

• 14:00 - Subaltern Counter-Publics: Dalits and Missionary Christianity in Kerala
  Sanal Mohan (Mahatma Gandhi Universit)
  Modern South Asia Seminar

Wednesday 17 January 2018

• 14:00 - The Naga Serpent in Malay Divination
  TBA
  Southeast Asia Seminar
• 14:00 - The Naga Serpent in Malay Divination
  Farouk Yahya (Ashmolean Museum)
  Southeast Asia Seminar

Tuesday 23 January 2018

• 14:00 - The Rohingya Exodus: Orchestrated Violence and Strategies of Surviva
  Shapan Adnan
  Modern South Asia Seminar

Tuesday 30 January 2018

• 14:00 - Violence, Rents and Investment: Explaining Growth Divergence in South Asia
  Adnan Naseemullah (King's College London)
  Modern South Asia Seminar

Wednesday 31 January 2018

• 14:00 - Beyond Victimhood? Experiences of New Vietnamese Migrants in Britain: Modern Slavery, Trafficking and the Cannabis Trade
  Tamsin Barber (Oxford Brookes)
  Southeast Asia Seminar

Tuesday 6 February 2018

• 14:00 - Querying the Cosmopolitan in Sri Lankan and Indian Ocean History
  Zoltán Biedermann (University College London), Alan Strathern (Brasenose)
  Modern South Asia Seminar

Tuesday 13 February 2018

• 14:00 - Ambivalence, Ambiguity and Alienation: Making Sense of 'Tension' in North India
  Raphael Susewind (King's College London)
  Modern South Asia Seminar

Wednesday 14 February 2018

• 14:00 - Myanmar’s “Buddhist Nationalist” Movement: A Challenge to Religious Authorities?
  Matthew Walton (University of Oxford), Khin Mar Mar Kyi (International Gender Studies Centre, Lady Margaret Hall), Aye Thein (Politics and International Relations)
  Southeast Asia Seminar

Tuesday 20 February 2018

• 14:00 - My Enemy's Enemy: India in Afghanistan from the Soviet Invasion to the US Withdrawal
  Avinash Paliwal (School of Oriental and African Studies, London)
  Modern South Asia Seminar

Tuesday 27 February 2018

• 14:00 - Money, Enticements, Modernity: Indian Elite Women between Anxiety and Privilege
  Parul Bhandari (Centre of Social Sciences and Humanities)
  Modern South Asia Seminar

Wednesday 28 February 2018

• 14:00 - Religion and Development: Interactions and Reconfigurations as viewed from Southeast Asia
  Dr Michael Feener (Sultan of Oman Fellow, OCIS)
  Southeast Asia Seminar

Tuesday 6 March 2018

• 14:00 - Farmers Matter in New India but not the Same Way: Political Settlement, Discontinuous Agrarian Policy and Class-Formations
  Sejuti Das Gupta (James Madison)
  Modern South Asia Seminar

Tuesday 24 April 2018

• 14:00 - Harem Histories and Princely Politics: Tipu Sultan, the Family and East India Company Rule
  Margot Finn (UCL)
  Modern South Asia Seminar

Wednesday 25 April 2018

• 14:00 - Radicalizing liberalism: the ideological inversions of Islamic liberalism and moderation in Malaysian politics
  Carlo Bonura (SOAS)
  Southeast Asia Seminar

Tuesday 1 May 2018

• 14:00 - Economic Mobility, Islamic Piety and Caste: Ashrafization in Pakistani Punjab
  Muhammad Ali Jan (Wolfson)
  Modern South Asia Seminar

Tuesday 8 May 2018

• 14:00 - Globalisation, Public Policy and Labour
  Zaad Mahmood (ODID, Presidency University, Kolkata)
  Modern South Asia Seminar

Wednesday 9 May 2018

• 14:00 - Southeast Asia Seminar: Postgraduate Research Session
  Junko Asano (St Antony’s, International Development), Jieun Baek (Hertford, Blavatnik School of Government), Adrian Calo (School of Oriental and African Languages, London)
  Southeast Asia Seminar

Tuesday 15 May 2018

• 14:00 - Peopling Policy Processes? Methodological Populism in the Bangladesh Health and Education Sectors
  David Lewis (LSE)
  Modern South Asia Seminar

Tuesday 9 October 2018

• 14:00 - How India became democratic
  Ornit Shani (Haifa)
  Modern South Asia Seminar

Tuesday 16 October 2018

• 14:00 - India’s new Indian Ocean vision: Outward syncretization, inward Hinduization?
  Kate Sullivan de Estrada (St Antony's College)
  Modern South Asia Seminar

Tuesday 23 October 2018

• 14:00 - Sri Lanka In and Out of South Asia
  Mick Moore (Institute of Development Studies)
  Modern South Asia Seminar

Tuesday 30 October 2018

• 14:00 - The problem of origins in Early Modern Eurasian empires
  Ali Anooshahr (University of California at Davis)
  Modern South Asia Seminar

Tuesday 6 November 2018

• 14:00 - The Political anthropology of India
  Anastasia Piliavsky (University of Cambridge)
  Modern South Asia Seminar

Tuesday 13 November 2018

• 14:00 - Marketing Muslims: Islam in the Bazaars of Modern South Asia
  Ali Altaf Mian (Seattle)
  Modern South Asia Seminar

Thursday 15 November 2018

• 17:00 - Modern Greek Seminar: In search of a usable past: the case of the first cathedral of modern Athens
  LYCOURGOS SOPHOULIS (University of Oxford)
  Southeast Asia Seminar

Tuesday 20 November 2018

• 14:00 - West Africans in WW2 India
  Oliver Coates
  Modern South Asia Seminar

Tuesday 27 November 2018

• 14:00 - Hierarchy and Imperialism in Late Colonial Indian International Thought
  Martin Bayly (LSE)
  Modern South Asia Seminar

Tuesday 22 January 2019

• 14:00 - The Cast(e) of the Colonial Police: Constables and Chaukidars in Colonial Bengal
  Partha Shil (Trinity College, Cambridge)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 29 January 2019

• 14:00 - The Economics of Religion in India
  Sriya Iyer (University of Cambridge)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 5 February 2019

• 14:00 - Unfixed land and the making of Contemporary India
  Nikita Sud (University of Oxford)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 12 February 2019

• 14:00 - Connected Histories? Arabia, India and the Architecture of Medieval Ethiopia
  Finbarr Barry Flood (Director, Silsila: Center for Material Histories, New York University)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 19 February 2019

• 14:00 - What's the Party like? The Normative state of the Politcial Party in Souh Asia
  Change of venue - Syndicate Room - Old Main Building, St Antony's College
  Udit Bhatia (University of Oxford)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 26 February 2019

• 14:00 - Continuity in mind: Imagination and migration on India and the Gulf
  Change of Venue - Syndicate Room, Old Main Building, St Antony's College
  Thomas Chambers (Oxford Brookes University)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 5 March 2019

• 14:00 - Before the Nation-State: Christian Internationalism and the Inter-War Years
  Sneha Krishnan (University of Oxford)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 30 April 2019

• 14:00 - Fundamental Rights Lawfare: Religious Freedom and Public Order in Pakistan and Malaysia
  Matthew Nelson (SOAS)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Book Launch: In Their Own Words -Understanding Lashkar-e-Tayyaba
  C. Christine Fair (Georgetown University)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 7 May 2019

• 14:00 - Commodities, Merchants, and Refungees: Inter-Asian circulations and Afghan mobilty
  Magnus Marsden (University of Sussex)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 14 May 2019

• 14:00 - Single in the City: Women, Migration and Domestic Work in India
  TBA
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 21 May 2019

• 14:00 - The Paradox of Sinhalese Buddhist Nationalism
  Mick Moore (Institute of Development Studies)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 15 October 2019

• 14:00 - Cultural Practices and Child Health in Pakistan
  Professor Theresa Thompson Chaudhry (Lahore School of Economics)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 22 October 2019

• 13:30 - Tribal land and alienation and Adivasi movement for autonomy in India and Bangladesh
  Dr Dalel Benbabaali (Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in Area Studies, St John's Oxford)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 29 October 2019

• 14:00 - Centralisation and nationalism in the making of Indian capitalism
  Professor Pritam Singh (Wolfson College, Oxford)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 5 November 2019

• 14:00 - Nationalism, Development, and Ethnic Conflict in Sri Lanka
  TBA
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 12 November 2019

• 14:00 - Gandhi @150: Rethinking India’s Non-Violent Revolutionary
  Dr Talat Ahmed (Edinburgh)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 19 November 2019

• 14:00 - Towards a Religious Internationalism? The Indian Khilafat Movement in Interwar Europe
  Faridah Zaman
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 26 November 2019

• 14:00 - Gandhi's Spell on the Bollywood Hero
  Sanjay Suri (Europe correspondent, CNN News18 media group)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 21 January 2020

• 14:00 - Capitalism in the Himalaya
  Professor Barbara Harriss-White ((Emeritus Professor of Development Studies, Oxford))
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 28 January 2020

• 14:00 - Forests, Famines and livlihoods: towards an environmental history of Eastern India
  CANCELLED
  Vinita Damodaran (Sussex)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 4 February 2020

• 14:00 - Arms, Arts and Agriculture: Indo-Mexican Intellectual Connections in the Early Twentieth Century
  Jesus Chairez-Garcia (Manchester)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 11 February 2020

• 14:00 - 'For a better future': Education and unstable future-making in Nepal
  Uma Pradhan
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 18 February 2020

• 14:00 - A millenarian sultan and a teacher to the world: New directions in early modern Indo-Muslim kingship
  Roy Fischel (SOAS, University of London)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 25 February 2020

• 14:00 - Highways to the end of the World: Roads, Road-Builders and the Archiecture of Power in South Asia
  CANCELLED
  Ed Simpson (SOAS< University of London)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 28 April 2020

• 14:00 - The white ant's burden: Insects, empire and entomo-politics in South Asia
  Rohan Deb Roy (University of Reading)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 13 October 2020

• 14:00 - Global histories of hierarchy? Reflections from India on caste, race and the Black Lives Matter movement
  Rosalind O'Hanlon (Oxford), Dr Nayanika Mathur (University of Oxford)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 20 October 2020

• 14:00 - Pandemic as event: thinking modern Indian society through a crisis
  Dilip Menon (Witswatersrand)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 27 October 2020

• 14:00 - “Chai – why?” The making of the Indian “national drink”
  Philip Lutgendorf (Iowa)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 3 November 2020

• 14:00 - Domestic audience costs and foreign policy making in India: recent shifts in the BJP's strategy
  Happymon Jacob (JNU)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 10 November 2020

• 14:00 - Rajput loyalties in the Mughal age
  Cynthia Talbot (Texas at Austin)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 17 November 2020

• 14:00 - Domestic devotion: Jain wooden house shrines from Gujarat in American museum collections
  John E Cort (Denison)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 24 November 2020

• 14:00 - Jeko Khere So Khaye (He who tills has the right to eat): 'development' and the politics of agrarian reform in late 1940s and early 1950s in Sindh
  Sarah Ansari (RHUL)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 19 January 2021

• 14:00 - Kalki and the Mahdi: The Twenty-Four Avatars of the Dasam Granth
  Professor Robin Rinehart (Lafayette College)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 26 January 2021

• 14:00 - Highway 31: A road trip through the heart of modern India
  Ed Simpson (SOAS< University of London)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 2 February 2021

• 14:00 - A Contrapuntal History of Hindustan
  Dr Manan Ahmed Asif (University of Columbia)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 9 February 2021

• 14:00 - Delusional states: Love, Citzenship and resistance in Gilgit-Baltistan
  Dr Nosheen Ali (NYU)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 16 February 2021

• 14:00 - Encoutering Kabir: From Old Manuscripts to Living Oral Traditions
  Dr Linda Hess (Standford)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 23 February 2021

• 14:00 - Communist Internationalism and Decolonization in South Asia
  TBA
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 2 March 2021

• 14:00 - The Play of the Guru: Braj Historical Poetry in Early Modern Punjab
  Dr Julie Vig (University of Toronto)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 4 May 2021

• 14:00 - Maoists, peasant rebellion and state formation in post-colonial Northwest Pakistan
  Noaman G Ali (LUMS)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 11 May 2021

• 14:00 - The place of many moods: Udaipur's painted lands and India's eighteenth century
  Dipti Khera (NYU)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 18 May 2021

• 14:00 - Printing the Urdu public: Madinah newspaper and lithography as Muslim technology
  Megan Eaton Robb (Pennsylvania)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 12 October 2021

• 14:00 - Borders and Identities: Who is a “Bangladeshi” in Assam?
  Malini Sur (University of Western Sydney)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 19 October 2021

• 14:00 - Affect as a Technology of Rule: Militarism in Pakistan
  Maria Rashid (UCL)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 26 October 2021

• 14:00 - Decolonise Mosquitoes
  Rohan Deb Roy (University of Reading)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 2 November 2021

• 14:00 - The Lessons of 1950: Partition, and the making of the India- Pakistan Dynamic
  Pallavi Raghavan (Ashoka University, Delhi)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 9 November 2021

• 14:00 - Citizenship, Publicness and the Politics of Inclusive Democracy in India
  Suryakant Waghmore (IIT-Bombay), Hugo Gorringe (University of Edinburgh)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 16 November 2021

• 14:00 - Hidden histories of science; Ammal, Darlington, Haldane, and India, 1930-1060
  Vinita Damodaran (Sussex)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 23 November 2021

• 14:00 - Atrocity Nation / State Amnesia : The Photographic Debris of the Sri Lankan Civil War
  Vindhya Buthpitiya (University of St Andrews)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 18 January 2022

• 14:00 - Researching South Asia: Kashmir
  Mona Bhan (Syracuse University), Mohamad Junaid (MCLA), Hafsa Kanjwal (Lafayette College)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 25 January 2022

• 14:00 - Researching South Asia: Bureaucracy
  Yamini Aiyar (CPR, Delhi), Maira Hayat (Notre Dame), Zehra Hashmi (Brown University), Prof Akshay Mangla (University of Oxford)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 1 February 2022

• 14:00 - Researching South Asia: Animals
  Naisargi Dave (Toronto), Radhika Govindrajan (Washington), Muhammad Kavesh (Toronto), Dolly Kikon (Melbourne), Ambika Aiyadurai (IIT, Gandhinagar)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 8 February 2022

• 14:00 - Researching South Asia: Climate Change
  Various Speakers
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 22 February 2022

• 14:00 - Joint African Studies/South Asian Centre Seminar: Queer Politics
  Dr Adriaan Van Klinken (University of Leeds), Erick Keizi (Cosmopolitan Affirming Community, Nairobi)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 1 March 2022

• 14:00 - Joint African Studies/South Asian Centre Seminar: Covid-19
  Shaeera Kalla (C19 Peoples’ Coalition, South Africa), Tarangini Sriraman (Goldsmiths), Jeevan Baniya (Social Science Baha, Nepal)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 8 March 2022

• 14:00 - Joint African Studies/South Asian Centre Seminar: Corruption
  Rui Verde and Rafael Marques (Oxford and Maka Angola), Malini Ranganathan (American University)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 26 April 2022

• 14:00 - Fashioning Subjects: From Farmer, to Soldier, to Patriot
  Thiruni Kelegama (Oxford)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 3 May 2022

• 14:00 - ‘British Bolé Baap Re Baap’ - World War II and the Prospect of ‘Quit India’ in Bengal: ‘War’ Rumours and ‘Revolutionary’ Parties
  Anwesha Roy (Oxford)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 10 May 2022

• 14:00 - ‘Technology at the Wheel’: Computers, Data and Tech-Utopianisms in the Political Imagination of 1980s India
  Amogh Dhar Sharma (University of Oxford)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 17 May 2022

• 14:00 - The Cosmopolitan Standard of Civilization: A Critical Sociology of Elite Belonging among Indian Diplomats
  Dr Kira Huju (University of Oxford)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 11 October 2022

• 14:00 - A ‘Harry Potter’ in 1354 and the emergence of a vernacular literary tradition in the Hindi Belt
  Imre Bangha (University of Oxford)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 18 October 2022

• 14:00 - Rising India's Hidden Transcripts: The Long Shadow of 'Nuclear Apartheid' in the Global Nuclear Order
  Kate Sullivan de Estrada (University of Oxford)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 25 October 2022

• 14:00 - A supercyclone, landscapes of ‘emptiness’ and shrimp aquaculture: The lesser-known trajectories of disaster recovery in coastal Odisha, India
  Professor Vasudha Chhotray (University of East Anglia)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 1 November 2022

• 14:00 - Urdu as a language for Science? Textbook experiments in Roorkee College of Engineering in the nineteenth century
  Sajid Nizami (Government M.A.O. College, Lahore; Academic Visitor, OS)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 8 November 2022

• 14:00 - Coercion and Compromise: Militarism and Informality in Everyday Policing
  Dr Zoha Waseem (University of Warwick)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 15 November 2022

• 14:00 - Book Launch – Seeking Supremacy: The Pursuit of Judicial Power in Pakistan
  Registration required for zoom attendance
  Dr Yasser Kureshi (University of Oxford)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 22 November 2022

• 14:00 - Global India and the politics of accountability in South-South Cooperation
  Laura Trajber Waisbich (University of Oxford)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 17 January 2023

• 14:00 - The Ethical Impulse(s) behind Civil Rights Activism in India
  Ankita Pandey (University of Oxford)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 24 January 2023

• 14:00 - Free Speech in Mughal India: Dissent and Resistance in Poetic Expression
  Saif Mahmood (Bonavero Institute, Oxford)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 31 January 2023

• 14:00 - Musical Citizens and Postcolonial Custodians: Inter-religious Dialogue in Post-Partition Punjab and Beyond
  Radha Kapuria (Durham University)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 7 February 2023

• 14:00 - The Indian Diaspora and Transnational Political Identities
  Edward Anderson (Northumbria University)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 14 February 2023

• 14:00 - Buddhism and Marginality in Translation among Ambedkarites in East Asia
  Dr Jon Keune (Michigan State University)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 21 February 2023

• 14:00 - The Materiality of Debt, Kinship, and the Invisible Violence of Migration in Nepal
  Dr Ina Zharkevich (University of Oxford)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 28 February 2023

• 14:00 - A Cowherd’s Chapbook: An Inquiry into the Ethics of Literary Historiography
  Pranav Prakash (University of Oxford)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 25 April 2023

• 14:00 - Documenting oral histories of Partition collaboratively across a communal divide
  Guneeta Singh Bhalla (Partition Archive, India)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 2 May 2023

• 14:00 - Rohingyas in Decolonisation as a Moment, Process, and Movement
  Dr Jayita Sarkar (Glasgow)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 9 May 2023

• 14:00 - Spaces of Melancholia, Melancholias of Space: Shifting Structures of Feeling in Post-Independence Karachi
  Dr Ayyaz Mallick (Liverpool)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 16 May 2023

• 14:00 - Entangled Objects, Entangled Nations: Partition and Museums in Lahore and Chandigarh
  Aparna Kumar (UCL)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 23 May 2023

• 14:00 - India as a ‘civilisational state’
  Emma Mawdsley (University of Cambrdige), Kate Sullivan de Estrada (University of Oxford), Sebastian Haug (University of Cambrdige), Jayati Sristava, Esra Elif Nartok, Udayan Das, Shibashis Chatterjee
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 30 May 2023

• 14:00 - Resistance and Change in Pakistan’s Political Order
  Various Speakers
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 10 October 2023

• 14:00 - A City of Men? Youth Masculinities and Everyday Gendered Violences in Urban India
  Shannon Philips (UEA)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 17 October 2023

• 14:00 - Pakistan & India: Common Origins, Divergent Trajectories
  Also on Zoom - registration required - https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_snw0VJWPTc6720z8W0sCpw
  Pervez Hoodbhoy
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 24 October 2023

• 14:00 - Limitations on fundamental freedoms in Sri Lanka: majoritarian influence of constitutional practice
  Gehan Gunatilleke (University of Oxford)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Rising Powers and the Politics of Status: China and India in the Liberal International Order
  Rohan Mukherjee (LSE)

Monday 30 October 2023

• 17:00 - Film Showing & Discussion: Kekee Manzil - House of Art
  Various Speakers
  Asian Studies Centre seminars and events

Tuesday 31 October 2023

• 14:00 - Rising power, precarious citizens: Mobility and democracy in India after 1989
  Indrajit Roy (QEH, Oxford)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 17:30 - The Future of Democracy in India: a conversation with Rajmohan Gandhi
  Rajmohan Gandhi
  Asian Studies Centre seminars and events

Monday 6 November 2023

• 17:00 - Film Screening and Discussion: #GO HOME GOTA
  Various Speakers
  Asian Studies Centre seminars and events

Tuesday 7 November 2023

• 14:00 - Majoritarian nationalisms and religion in South Asia
  Katharine Adeney (University of Nottingham)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 14 November 2023

• 14:00 - An Emotional History of India in the Second World War
  Gupta Diya (City, University of London)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 21 November 2023

• 14:00 - Migration, Caste, and the Figure of the 'Coolie' in Indian Diplomatic History
  Kalathmika Natarajan (University of Exeter)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 28 November 2023

• 14:00 - Rethinking urban resistance as sites for rebuilding differential solidarities
  Papia Sen Gupta (Jawaharlal Nehru University)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 16 January 2024

• 14:00 - Thirty seconds at Quetta: Time and disaster on the North-West Frontier, 1935
  Dan Haines (UCL)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Wednesday 17 January 2024

• 16:00 - OPTS: Resistance
  Zoom - Registration required (online only)
  Jean-Pierre Filiu (Science Po), Rusha Latif (Independent Researcher)
  Political Thought Seminar

Tuesday 23 January 2024

• 14:00 - The Rājā Yogī through the ages: Ascetic Sovereignty in India
  Jim Mallinson (University of Oxford)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 30 January 2024

• 14:00 - An Anthropology of 'Sovereignty'. New Land Markets, an Entrepreneurial State and the Aspirations of a ‘Criminal Caste’ in Gurgaon, Haryana
  Sanjay Srivastava (SOAS)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Wednesday 31 January 2024

• 16:00 - OPTS: Constitutionalism
  Zoom - Registration Required (online only)
  Gianluca Parolin (Aga Khan University), Jocelyn Cesari (Georgetown University)
  Political Thought Seminar

Tuesday 6 February 2024

• 14:00 - Comparative understanding of climate change news audiences across eight countries
  Dr Waqas Ejaz (University of Oxford)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 13 February 2024

• 14:00 - The value of difference: Hindu Muslim encounters in Karachi, Pakistan
  Ammara Maqsood (UCL)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 20 February 2024

• 14:00 - Towards an Anthropology of Answers: The Lost Trajectories of the Racialized Colonial Domestic Workers in South India and Beyond.’
  Shalini Grover (LSE)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 27 February 2024

• 14:00 - Temporary Exhibits: The Cultural Politics of South Asian ‘Folk’ Performances in Contemporary Fairs and Festivals
  Priyanka Basu (Kings College London)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Wednesday 28 February 2024

• 16:00 - OPTS: Power
  Zoom - registration required (online only)
  Hayrettin Yucesoy (Washington University at St. Louis), Mona Hassan (Duke University)
  Political Thought Seminar

Tuesday 12 March 2024

• 16:00 - Film Screening: No City for Women
  N/A
  Asian Studies Centre seminars and events

Thursday 14 March 2024

• 16:00 - OPTS: Crisis
  Zoom - Registration required (online only)
  Walaa Quisay (University of Edinburgh), David Warren (Washington University at St. Louis)
  Political Thought Seminar

Thursday 21 March 2024

• 09:00 - Gender in an Age of Global Care Crisis Conference
  Various Speakers

Tuesday 23 April 2024

• 14:00 - Networked Bollywood: How Star Power Globalized Hindi Cinema
  Swapnil Rai (University of Michigan)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Wednesday 24 April 2024

• 16:00 - OPTS: Environment
  On Zoom - registration required
  Mohamed Amer Meziane (Brown University), Naveeda Khan (John Hopkins University)
  Political Thought Seminar

Tuesday 30 April 2024

• 14:00 - "Politics and Persecution: Pashto, Pashtun and Pashtunistan" - Autobiography of Samad Khan Achakzai
  Ayaz Achakzai (Independent Public Policy Expert)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 17:30 - Bangladesh and the Changing International Order
  Dr. A. K. Abdul Momen (Chairman, Standing Committee on Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Bangladesh National Parliament)
  Asian Studies Centre seminars and events

Thursday 2 May 2024

• 17:30 - Book Launch: Savarkar and the Making of Hindutva
  Professor Janaki Bakhle (UC Berkeley)
  Asian Studies Centre seminars and events

Tuesday 7 May 2024

• 14:00 - Performing Sovereign Aspirations: Tamil Insurgency and Postwar Transition in Sri Lanka
  Bart Klem (Gothenburg University, Sweden)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Wednesday 8 May 2024

• 09:45 - Breathing through Water: Power and agency in the post-colonial Indian Ocean
  Bérénice Guyot-Réchard (King's College London)
  Asian Studies Centre seminars and events
• 16:00 - OPTS: Alids
  Registration required
  Professor Tahera Qutbuddin (University of Oxford), Nebil Husayn (University of Miami)
  Political Thought Seminar

Tuesday 14 May 2024

• 14:00 - The nationalisation of rice. The postwar global crisis and the emergence of India’s national economy
  Jon Wilson (King's College London)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Friday 17 May 2024

• 17:00 - A Region-centric Approach to International Relations and Order in East Asia
  Evelyn Goh (Australian National University)
  Asian Studies Centre seminars and events

Tuesday 21 May 2024

• 14:00 - “We are religious, patriotic, and self-sacrificial”: Baniya Power, Privilege, and Wealth Anxieties in India
  Ujithra Ponniah (Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of the Witwatersrand)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Wednesday 22 May 2024

• 16:00 - OPTS: Gender
  Registration Required
  Ziba Mir-Hosseini (legal activist, academic and co-founder of Musawah), Susanna Ferguson (Smith College)
  Political Thought Seminar

Thursday 23 May 2024

• 09:30 - Day 1 - 2-Day Conference: 'The India-China Dispute: History, Politics and Law'
  Various Speakers
  Asian Studies Centre seminars and events
• 17:30 - Can China and India live in harmony?
  Professor Kishore Mahbubani (National University of Singapore)
  Asian Studies Centre seminars and events

Friday 24 May 2024

• 09:00 - Day 2 - 2-Day Conference: 'The India-China Dispute: History, Politics and Law'
  Various Speakers
  Asian Studies Centre seminars and events

Tuesday 28 May 2024

• 14:00 - Deconstructing State and Identity in Pakistan
  Various Speakers
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Monday 3 June 2024

• 17:30 - Book Launch: The States of the Earth: An Ecological and Racial History of Secularization
  Mohamed Amer Meziane (Brown University)
  Asian Studies Centre seminars and events

Tuesday 11 June 2024

• 16:00 - OPTS: Ideology
  Professor Raihan Ismail (St Antony's College), Andrew March (University of Massachusetts)
  Political Thought Seminar

Friday 14 June 2024

• 09:00 - Tamil Literature: From the Madurai Sangam to the Halls of Oxford
  TBA
  Asian Studies Centre seminars and events

Monday 24 June 2024

• 09:00 - Day 1: International Conference - Global Gender: Pasts, Presents, Futures - Gender Pasts
  Various Speakers
  3-Day International Conference - Global Gender: Pasts, Presents, Futures

Tuesday 25 June 2024

• 09:00 - Day 2: International Conference - Global Gender: Pasts, Presents, Futures - Presents and Futures
  Various Speakers
  3-Day International Conference - Global Gender: Pasts, Presents, Futures

Wednesday 26 June 2024

• 09:30 - Day 3: International Conference - Global Gender: Pasts, Presents, Futures - Gender in Film and Fiction
  Various Speakers
  3-Day International Conference - Global Gender: Pasts, Presents, Futures

Thursday 27 June 2024

• 09:00 - Minoritisation in South Asia: Religion, Caste, Gender
  Abraham Akhter Murad (Kellogg College), Dr Faisal Devji, Justin Jones (Pembroke), Ruth Harris (University of Oxford ), Soheb Niazi (Freie Universität), Layli Uddin (Queen Mary University), Yaqoob Khan Bangash (Lahore), Madhurima Sen, Ghazal Asif Farrukhi (Lahore University of Management Sciences), Uday Chandra (Georgetown, Qatar), Shikoh Zaidi (Georgetown University, Qatar), Radhika Hettiarachchi (Collective for Historical Dialogues and Memory), Ipshita Basu (University of Westminster), Dr Meera Sabaratnam (New College, Oxford), S Akbar Zaidi (Institute of Business Administration Karachi), Thiruni Kelagama (Wolfson College, Oxford), Madura Rasaratnam (University of London), Maria Misra, Shehan Karunatilaka, Yasmin Khan (Kellogg College, Oxford), Adnan Hossain (University of Glasgow), Afiya S Zia (Wesleyan University), Daanish Mustafa (Kings College London), Julian Kuttig (Ghent University), Brahma Prakash (Jawaharlal Nehru University), Timothy Cooper (King's College, Cambridge), Mukesh Kumar (University of Zurich), Mathilde Maitrot (University of Bath), Joe Devine (University of Bath), Arif Naveed (University of Bath), Ajmal Khan AT (Shiv Nadar University)

Monday 14 October 2024

• 16:00 - Oriental Christ: What India did with Jesus and Why it is Important
  Registration Required
  Ruth Harris (University of Oxford )
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminars

Tuesday 15 October 2024

• 14:00 - Being Hindu, Being Indian: Lala Lajpat Rai’s Ideas of Nationhood
  Vanya Vaidehi Bhargav (National Law School of India University, Bangalore, India)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 22 October 2024

• 14:00 - The Muslim son of a Hindu zamindar - family quarrels and religious boundaries in a Mughal landlord's lineage
  Nandini Chatterjee (Oxford)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 29 October 2024

• 14:00 - Populism, piety and postfeminism in Pakistan
  Afiya Zia (Independent scholar)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 5 November 2024

• 14:00 - The political lives of Information: Information and invisibilisation in digital India
  Janaki Srinivasan (University of Oxford)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 12 November 2024

• 14:00 - Radical Futures or Pristine Pasts? : The Afterlives of Anti-Casteism in Western India
  Surajkumar Thube (University of Oxford)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Monday 18 November 2024

• 16:00 - The Charismatic Paradigm and Modernist Muslim Thought
  Registration required for online attendance
  Teena Purohit (Boston University)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminars

Tuesday 19 November 2024

• 14:00 - Book Talk: Atmospheric Violence: Disaster and Repair in Kashmir
  Omer Aijazi (Manchester)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Friday 22 November 2024

• 17:30 - Book Talk: The Trial that Shook Britain: How a Court Martial Hastened Acceptance of Indian Independence
  Ashis Ray (Journalist), Kevin Noles
  Asian Studies Centre seminars and events

Monday 25 November 2024

• 16:00 - Visual Storyboards: Ethnographic Insights of an Experimental Research Design and the Lives-Livelihoods of Vulnerable Communities Across India and Cambodia...
  Deepanshu Mohan (JGU, India)
  Asian Studies Centre seminars and events

Tuesday 26 November 2024

• 14:00 - Hate crime law as Meliorist Hope: Seeking justice for caste atrocities in Rajasthan
  Sandhya Fuchs (University of Bristol)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 3 December 2024

• 14:00 - Legalizing the Revolution: India and the Constitution of the Postcolony
  Sandipto Dasgupta (New School for Social Research, New York and Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Friday 6 December 2024

• 10:00 - Taiwan and Indo-Pacific Geopolitics: Implications of 2024 Pivotal Elections Around the World (Annual Oxford Taiwan Studies Conference 2024)
  Professor Paul Chaisty (University of Oxford), Mr Andy Cheu-an Bi (Taipei Representative Office in the UK), Dr Monique Ming-chin Chu (University of Southampton), Professor Yeh-chung Lu (National Chengchi University), Dr Nicola Leveringhaus (King's College London), Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford), Professor Chris Hughes (University of Warwick), Professor Ramon Pacheco Pardo (King's College London), Dr Bo-jiun Jing (University of Oxford), Professor Patricia Thornton (University of Oxford), Dr Zsuzsa Anna Ferenczy (National Dong Hwa University), Dr Michael Reilly (University of Nottingham), Dr Una Aleksandra Bērziņa-Čerenkova (Riga Stradins University), Professor Paul Irwin Crookes (University of Oxford), Representative Vincent Chin-hsiang Yao (Taipei Representative Office in the UK), Professor Rachel Murphy (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Taiwan Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 4 February 2025

• 14:00 - Unfair ID: Digital Identity from Injustice to Resistance
  Silvia Masiero (University of Oslo)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 11 February 2025

• 14:00 - Threatening Dystopias: Development, Scientific Knowledge, and Adaptation to Climate Change
  Kasia Paprocki (The London School of Economics)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 18 February 2025

• 14:00 - Plantation Crisis: Ruptures of Dalit Life in the Indian Tea Belt
  Jayaseelan Raj (Kinds College London)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 25 February 2025

• 14:00 - Between Nation and Community. Muslim Universities and Indian Politics after Partition (1947-1990s)
  Laurence Gautier (Centre de Sciences Humaines, New Delhi)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series