Events archive
South Asia Seminar
Papia Sen Gupta (JNU)
28 November 2023 - 2:00pm
Pavilion Room
Citizens' movements resisting an authoritarian, unjust and high-handed states have faced immense coercion and police violence across the globe. State narratives of these protests term them as '... Read more
South Asia Seminar
Kalathmika Natarajan (Exeter)
21 November 2023 - 2:00pm
Pavilion Room
This talk explores the histories, journeys, and legacies of 'coolie' migrants as central to the making of Indian diplomacy. I argue that the Indian state framed the 'international' realm as a... Read more
South Asia Seminar
Diya Gupta (City, University of London)
14 November 2023 - 2:00pm
Pavilion Room
In 1940s India, revolutionary and nationalistic feeling surged against colonial subjecthood and imperial war. Two-and-a-half million men from undivided India served the British during the Second... Read more
South Asia Seminar
Katharine Adeney (Nottingham)
7 November 2023 - 2:00pm
Pavilion Room
There has been a rise in majority nationalism globally, often linked to the rise of populism and (causing?) democratic backsliding. Many of the countries within South Asia have also seen a rise in... Read more
6 November 2023 - 5:00pm
Investcorp Lecture Theatre
This documentary looks at Sri Lanka’s 2022 Aragalaya protests from a protest movement building and mobilization perspective and centers around interviews with several key core activists—belonging to... Read more
Rajmohan Gandhi
31 October 2023 - 5:30pm
Pavilion Room
A rare opportunity to sit with a veteran peacemaker, thinker, and campaigner for justice, Rajmohan Gandhi’s work has shed light on hidden aspects of the struggle for freedom in the subcontinent and... Read more
South Asia Seminar
Indrajit Roy (University of York)
31 October 2023 - 2:00pm
Pavilion Room
On March 25, 2020, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi imposed the world’s largest lockdown in a bid to stem the threat of COVID 19. The stringent lockdown triggered a mass exodus from cities across... Read more
30 October 2023 - 5:00pm
Investcorp Lecture Theatre
Film Showing and Panel discussion Panel: Behroze Gandhy, Dilesh Korya, Partha Mitter, Mishka Sinha, Shireen Azam Chair: Faisal Devji The documentary tells the story of modern Indian art and the role... Read more
Rohan Mukherjee (LSE)
24 October 2023 - 5:00pm
Lecture Theatre, Oxford China Centre, St Hugh's College
Why do rising powers sometimes challenge an international order that enables their growth, and at other times support an order that constrains them? Based on a recently published book, Ascending... Read more
South Asia Seminar
Gehan Gunatilleke (Oxford)
24 October 2023 - 2:00pm
Pavilion Room
Sri Lanka’s Constitution authorises the government to limit fundamental freedoms on the grounds of various public interests. In this seminar, we will examine how this limitation regime in Sri Lanka... Read more
South Asia Seminar
Pervez Hoodbhoy
17 October 2023 - 2:00pm
Pavilion Room & on Zoom
The Zoom link to register to join the webinar - https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_snw0VJWPTc6720z8W0sCpw What had been a relatively small gap in 1947 between Pakistan and India is turning... Read more
South Asia Seminar
Shannon Philip (UEA)
10 October 2023 - 2:00pm
Pavilion Room
In this talk I explore the gendering of everyday urban spaces and the social production of gendered violence. Through ethnographic data collected by ‘hanging out’ with young Indian men in New Delhi,... Read more
South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
Amar Sohal (Cambridge)
9 October 2023 - 4:00pm
Old Fellow's Dining Room, St Antony's College
BOOK LAUNCH: The Muslim Secular (Oxford University Press, 2023) by Dr Amar Sohal Join us for a roundtable discussion with Dr Amar Sohal on his new publication, titled The Muslim Secular: Parity and... Read more
Lihyun Grace Lin (National Taiwan University) & Chun-Yi Lee (University of Nottingham)
27 September 2023 - 10:30am
Nissian Lecture Theatre, St Antony's College
Keynote Address: Media and Democratization: The Taiwan Media in the Shadow of China Professor Lihyun Grace Lin, Graduate Institute of Journalism, National Taiwan University, and Commissioner at the... Read more
Various Speakers
27 September 2023 - 9:00am to 6:00pm
Nissian Lecture Theatre, St Antony's College
Sponsored by Ministry of Education – Taiwan Representative Office, UK; Oxford School of Global and Area Studies; Oxford Taiwan Studies Programme; Asian Studies Centre – St Antony’s College, Oxford.... Read more