Events archive
South Asia Seminar
David Lewis (LSE)
15 May 2018 - 2:00pm to 3:30pm
Headley Lecture Theatre, Ashmolean Museum
Policy-makers are often seen as being out of touch with the communities they serve. But closing the “gap” between policy makers and people is not straightforward. An experimental initiative in... Read more
India on the World Stage: International Relations of India Seminar Series
Lawrence Sáez (SOAS)
9 May 2018 - 4:00pm to 5:30pm
Syndicate Room
The seminar is organised by the Indian National Student Association (INSA), with support from the South Asian Studies Programme at the School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies, and from the Asian... Read more
Southeast Asia Seminar
Junko Asano, Jieun Baek and Adrian Calo
9 May 2018 - 2:00pm to 3:30pm
Deakin Room
The Making of the Indonesian Migrant Labour Movement Junko Asano (St Antony’s, International Development) The Bold and Brave of Burma: A Micro-Level Study of the first Movers of Dissent between 1988-... Read more
South Asia Seminar
Zaad Mahmood (ODID, Presidency University, Kolkata)
8 May 2018 - 2:00pm to 3:30pm
Headley Lecture Theatre, Ashmolean Museum
Are political actors still relevant in shaping policy in the interest of domestic socio-economic concerns under conditions of globalization? This book draws attention to the continuing relevance of... Read more
India on the World Stage: International Relations of India Seminar Series
Kate Sullivan de Estrada (St Antony's)
2 May 2018 - 4:00pm to 5:30pm
Syndicate Room
The seminar is organised by the Indian National Student Association (INSA), with support from the South Asian Studies Programme at the School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies, and from the Asian... Read more
Carrie Gracie (BBC)
1 May 2018 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre
Carrie Gracie grew up mostly in North-East Scotland and set up a restaurant before taking a degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Oxford. She spent a year teaching in two Chinese... Read more
South Asia Seminar
Muhammad Ali Jan (Wolfson)
1 May 2018 - 2:00pm to 3:30pm
Headley Lecture Theatre, Ashmolean Museum
Despite the non-recognition of caste identity by the Pakistani state, caste relations are a pervasive feature of everyday life, particularly in small-town and rural Pakistan. Using the case of the... Read more
Southeast Asia Seminar
Dr Carlo Bonura (SOAS, London)
25 April 2018 - 2:00pm to 3:30pm
Deakin Room
The emergence of Islamic liberalism in Southeast Asia over the last two decades has been characterized by its highly uneven reception across and within national contexts. In Malaysia, liberalism is a... Read more
South Asia Seminar
Margot Finn (UCL)
24 April 2018 - 2:00pm to 3:30pm
Headley Lecture Theatre, Ashmolean Museum
Professor Margot Finn is an historian of modern Britain (Britain since 1750), with a predominant focus on the period to 1914. Her previous work has ranged from the history of Victorian popular... Read more
Muhammad Samrez Salik (National Defence University Islamabad)
8 March 2018 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Fellows' Dining Room
Can the China Pakistan Economic Corrridor (CPEC) affect regional stability and the prospect for peace? Will Russia, Iran, and China be part of a new regional order at this crossroads of empire? This... Read more
South Asia Seminar
Sejuti Das Gupta (James Madison)
6 March 2018 - 2:00pm to 3:30pm
Headley Lecture Theatre, Ashmolean Museum
With cultural nationalism and symbolic politics holding the media attention, the significant transformation of India’s political economy and its contribution to victory of the Bharatiya Janata Party... Read more
Salman Khurshid (Former Minister of External Affairs, Former Minister of Law and Justice, Republic of India)
28 February 2018 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Investcorp Lecture Theatre
Speaker: Salman Khurshid Former Minister of External Affairs, Former Minister of Law and Justice, Republic of India Respondent: Shruti Kapila Fellow and Director of Studies in History, Corpus Christi... Read more
Southeast Asia Seminar
R. Michael Feener (Centre for Islamic Studies; History)
28 February 2018 - 2:00pm to 3:30pm
Deakin Room, Founder’s Building, St Antony's College
Religion has been profoundly reconfigured in the age of development. The past half-century has witnessed broad transformations in the understandings and experiences of ‘religion’ across traditions in... Read more
South Asia Seminar
Parul Bhandari (Cambridge; Centre of Social Sciences and Humanities, New Delhi)
27 February 2018 - 2:00pm to 3:30pm
Headley Lecture Theatre, Ashmolean Museum
Parul Bhandari is currently a Visiting Scholar at St Edmund’s College and the Centre for South Asian Studies (CSAS), University of Cambridge, UK. She is also a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Centre of... Read more
South Asia Seminar
Avinash Paliwal (School of Oriental and African Studies, London)
20 February 2018 - 2:00pm to 3:30pm
Headley Lecture Theatre, Ashmolean Museum
The archetype of ‘my enemy’s enemy is my friend’, India’s political and economic presence in Afghanistan is often viewed as a Machiavellian ploy aimed against Pakistan. The first of its kind, this... Read more