Events archive
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
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 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 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
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 Asian Intellectual History Seminar
Ajay Skaria (University of Minnesota)
1 May 2023 - 4:00pm
Syndicate Room & Zoom
The figures of the neighbor and friend are ubiquitous in Gandhi’s writings. While he himself assumes he is only reaffirming old figures, something truly radical happens in his writings (as in those... Read more
South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
Zaib un Nisa Aziz (University of South Florida, Tampa)
13 March 2023 - 4:00pm
Syndicate Room
At the turn of the twentieth century, the global imperial order was in peril. In cities across the world, revolutionary factions emerged where nationalists deliberated radical, even violent paths to... Read more
South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
Vikram Visana (University of Leicester)
7 March 2023 - 4:00pm
Old FDR, St Antony's College
Uncivil Liberalism studies how ideas of liberty from the colonized South claimed universality in the North. Recovering the political thought of Dadabhai Naoroji, India's pre-eminent liberal, this... Read more
South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
Uday Mehta (The City University of New York)
16 January 2023 - 4:00pm
Old FDR, St Antony's College
Professor Uday Singh Mehta is Distinguished Professor of Political Science at The City University of New York. A renowned political theorist, his publications include The Anxiety of Freedom:... Read more
South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
Vikram Visana (University of Leicester)
23 November 2022 - 4:00pm
Old FDR, St Antony’s College, Oxford AND Zoom
Uncivil Liberalism studies how ideas of liberty from the colonized South claimed universality in the North. Recovering the political thought of Dadabhai Naoroji, India's pre-eminent liberal, this... Read more
South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
Luna Sabastian (Northeastern University- London)
7 November 2022 - 4:00pm
Old FDR, St Antony’s College, Oxford AND Zoom
Luna Sabastian is Assistant Professor in History at Northeastern University - London. Prior to assuming this position, she held a postdoc at Cambridge University, from where she also received her PhD... Read more
South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
Sarah Ansari (Royal Holloway, University of London)
31 October 2022 - 4:00pm
Old FDR, St Antony’s College, Oxford AND Zoom
South Asia’s transition from colonialism to independence in 1947 was undoubtedly one of the most momentous events of the twentieth century. Not surprisingly perhaps, its early postcolonial years have... Read more
South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
Nico Slate (Carnegie Mellon University)
13 June 2022 - 4:00pm
Old FDR, St Antony's College
In 1946, Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay published her second book on the United States. In a chapter that connected American racism to imperialism, she wrote, ‘The international colour line has been... Read more
South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
Cemil Aydin (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
6 June 2022 - 4:00pm
Old FDR, St Antony's College
Cemil Aydin (Ph.D. Harvard University 2002) is professor of global history at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill's Department of History. Cemil Aydin’s recent publications include the... Read more
South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
Janaki Bakhle (UC Berkeley)
30 May 2022 - 4:00pm
Old FDR, St Antony's College
Dr. Janaki Bakhle is currently an Associate Professor in History at the University of California, Berkeley. Previously, she taught at Columbia University where she was also the Director of the South... Read more