Monday 10 March 2025

• 16:00 - Rereading Property in Law’s Rule: Between Representation and Reality in the Shifting Political Economy of the Company’s India
  Registration required for zoom attendance
  Faisal Chaudhry ((University of Massachusetts Dartmouth)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminars

Tuesday 11 March 2025

• 14:00 - ‘Home’ in Sikh Polity: Understandings of mīrī pīrī in contemporary Britain
  Jaskiran Kaur Bhogal (University of Oxford)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Friday 14 March 2025

• 18:45 - Celebration of Spring: Performance of South Asian Classical Music
  Pete Yelding
  Asian Studies Centre seminars and events

Monday 31 March 2025

• 17:00 - "Gods, Guns & Missionaries: The Making of the Modern Hindu Identity": Manu Pillai in conversation with Faisal Devji and Faridah Zaman
  Manu S. Pillai, Faisal Devji (University Reader in Modern South Asian History, University of Oxford), Dr Faridah Zaman (Somerville College, Oxford)
  OICSD Book Talks

Tuesday 6 May 2025

• 17:00 - Detour: The Middle Eastern Road to India’s Partition
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Erin M.B. O’Halloran (University of Cambridge)
  Book Talks

Thursday 8 May 2025

• 17:00 - Radhakrishnan Lecture 1: Acceleration as a Riposte to Colonialism
  Sunil Amrith (Yale University)
  Radhakrishnan Lecture Series 2025: The Developmental State in Climate Crisis

Tuesday 13 May 2025

• 14:00 - Afghanistan and the Concept of Asia: Intellectual Geographies in an Age of Reform
  Marya Hannun (University of Exeter)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Thursday 15 May 2025

• 17:00 - Radhakrishnan Lecture 2: Population as a Planetary Force
  Sunil Amrith (Yale University)
  Radhakrishnan Lecture Series 2025: The Developmental State in Climate Crisis

Tuesday 20 May 2025

• 17:30 - Rights in Crisis: The Theatre of Death
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Anup Surendranath (Project 39A (India)), Samantha Knights QC (Matrix Chambers)
  Rights in Crisis: Conversations on Human Rights in India (OICSD and OxHRH)

Thursday 22 May 2025

• 17:00 - Radhakrishnan Lecture 3: The Freedom to Breathe
  Sunil Amrith (Yale University)
  Radhakrishnan Lecture Series 2025: The Developmental State in Climate Crisis

Tuesday 27 May 2025

• 14:00 - Designing with the Rohingya: Trauma, Resilience, Memory
  Professor Esther da Costa Meyer (Princeton University and Yale University)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 3 June 2025

• 14:00 - Ecologies of Caste and Waste: Dependence and Value Making at the Bhalswa Landfill in Delhi
  Aparna Agarwal (University of Lausanne)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Friday 6 June 2025

• 16:30 - In Between Climate Chaos and War
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA

Friday 13 June 2025

• 17:30 - "Women and the Sikh Diaspora: Music and Mobility Across the Seven Seas" Dr Nicole Ranganath in conversation with Dr Priya Atwal
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Priya Atwal (Oxford), Dr Nicole Ranganath (University of California Davis)
  OICSD Book Talks