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
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
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 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 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 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 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
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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
South Asia Seminar
Guneeta Singh Bhalla (Partition Archive, India)
25 April 2023 - 2:00pm
Syndicate Room
In this Modern South Asian Seminar talk, I will discuss recent interventions made by The 1947 Partition Archive in documenting a significant yet much-silenced moment in history through the invention... Read more
South Asia Seminar
Pranav Prakash (Oxford)
28 February 2023 - 2:00pm
Syndicate Room
Abstract : On February 2, 1901, the Krishna Press in Bhagalpur published 1000 copies of Bābū Bṛj Bihārī Lāl Maṇḍal’s Mithilā Nāṭak . This was an ambitious undertaking for a small-town... Read more