Events archive
Various Speakers
23 June 2023 - 9:30am
Full details and registration: Caste Beyond South Asia: Diaspora and the Internet Tickets, Fri, Jun 23, 2023 at 9:30 AM | Eventbrite 10:00 - 10:40 Keynote Address 11:00 - 12:30 Panel 1 : Caste in the... Read more
16 June 2023 - 10:00am to 4:00pm
Investcorp Lecture Theatre
10:00 Keynote Lecture by Michiel Leezenberg (University of Amsterdam) Welcome and Introduction by Axel Rudi 11:15 Coffee Break 11:30 Panel 1: Kurdistan Beyond its Parts: Continuities,... Read more
South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
A. Azfar Moin (The University of Texas at Austin)
5 June 2023 - 4:00pm
Syndicate Room & Zoom
The Mughals are known for building the largest and most magnificent imperial mausoleums of any Muslim dynasty in or outside of South Asia. However, these monuments differ from one another as much as... Read more
2 June 2023 - 10:00am to 4:00pm
Investcorp Lecture Theatre
10:00 Keynote Lecture by Nazan Üstündağ (Independent Scholar) Welcome and Introduction by Axel Rudi 10:45 Coffee Break 11:00 Panel 1: Dealing with/in the State: Violence, Autonomy and (Im)practical... Read more
Southeast Asia Events in Oxford
Shashi Jayakumar (Oliver Smithies Visiting Lecturer, Balliol College)
30 May 2023 - 5:00pm
Pavilion Room
Singapore is apt to be thought of as the proverbial “poisoned shrimp” – a seemingly tempting morsel, but with defences formidable enough to deter those nearby with predatory instincts. The... Read more
South Asia Seminar
Asma Faiz, Hidayat Ullah Khan, Arifa Noor
30 May 2023 - 2:00pm
Syndicate Room
Panel discussion with Rangoonwalla Visiting Fellows: Title - Resistance and Change in Pakistan’s Political Order Speakers - Asma Faiz, Hidayat Ullah Khan, Arifa Noor
South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
Sunil Purushotham (Fairfield University)
29 May 2023 - 4:00pm
Online - Zoom
Dr. Sunil Purushotham, Associate Professor of History at Fairfield University, is an historian of modern South Asia whose research focuses on the history of sovereignty and democracy in India, Indian... Read more
South Asia Seminar
Emma Mawdsley (Cambridge), Kate Sullivan de Estrada (Oxford), Sebastian Haug (Cambridge), Jayati Sristava, Esra Elif Nartok, Shibashis Chatterjee, Udayan Das
23 May 2023 - 2:00pm
Pavilion Room
In recent years, Indian foreign policy has seen a sharp surge in projections of the 'civilisational'. Under the Modi administration, civilisational tropes are used to promote certain identities and... Read more
South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
Robert Travers (Cornell University)
22 May 2023 - 4:00pm
Online - Zoom
My recently published book, Empires of Complaints. Mughal Law and the Making of British India, 1765-93 (Cambridge, 2022) explores how British conquerors built a new colonial state in eighteenth-... Read more
South Asia Seminar
Aparna Kumar (UCL)
16 May 2023 - 2:00pm
Syndicate Room
This presentation presents a new history of the Lahore Museum in Pakistan, an institution whose collections of art and archaeological were dramatically divided between India and Pakistan in response... Read more
South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
Ghazal Asif Farrukhi (Lahore University of Management Sciences)
15 May 2023 - 4:00pm
Online - Zoom
For the past decade, the press in Pakistan has remained rife with stories of the kidnapping, forcible conversion to Islam, and marriages of young Hindu women at the hands of Muslim men. Women’s... Read more
Miftah Ismail (Pakistan’s former Minister of Finance)
12 May 2023 - 5:00pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre
Many Pakistani colonial institutions such has the bureaucracy, the judiciary and especially the army have evolved into self-perpetuating elite institutions that resist change and seek to maintain the... Read more
South Asia Seminar
Ayyaz Mallick (Liverpool)
9 May 2023 - 2:00pm
Syndicate Room
This paper draws upon Henri Lefebvre and Fredric Jameson to trace the shifting coordinates of social and spatial experience through novels set in Karachi (Pakistan). I bring Lefebvre's understanding... Read more
South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
Ruth Harris (Oxford)
8 May 2023 - 4:00pm
Syndicate Room & Zoom
In this paper, I will explore why Vivekananda’s words challenged and enticed so many audiences around the world. Why did publics as diverse as respectable New Englanders and Swadeshi “terrorist”... Read more
South Asia Seminar
Jayita Sarkar (Glasgow)
2 May 2023 - 2:00pm
Syndicate Room
Decolonisation as a moment, process, and movement is polyvalent. This talk explores decolonisation through its many prisms while focusing on the statelessness of the Rohingya people of present-day... Read more