Events archive
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
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
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
South Asia Seminar
Ina Zharkevich (Oxford)
21 February 2023 - 2:00pm
Syndicate Room
While international migration in Nepal is often lauded for its significant contribution to the nation’s GDP (almost 30 per cent), the dark side of this success story is that much of the international... Read more
South Asia Seminar
Jon Keune (Michigan State University)
14 February 2023 - 2:00pm
Syndicate Room
As Ambedkarite Buddhists increasingly migrate outside India in the past thirty years, they interact with other Buddhist traditions and socio-political contexts that prompt new considerations of... Read more
South Asia Seminar
Edward Anderson (Northumbria University)
7 February 2023 - 2:00pm
Syndicate Room
The political lives, identities, and influence of the Indian diaspora have been much discussed in recent years. This paper will contextualise current political trends within a longer historical... Read more
South Asia Seminar
Radha Kapuria (Durham University)
31 January 2023 - 2:00pm
Syndicate Room
This presentation will examine the role of music festival organisers as “postcolonial custodians” fostering communal amity through classical music in newly created India and Pakistan. Focused on... Read more
South Asia Seminar
Saif Mahmood (Oxford)
24 January 2023 - 2:00pm
Syndicate Room
Freedom of speech and expression is a critical indicator of the health of any society and guarantee of such freedom is integral to democracy. Yet, does a legal or constitutional guarantee necessarily... Read more
South Asia Seminar
Ankita Pandey (Oxford)
17 January 2023 - 2:00pm
Syndicate Room
The talk analyses civil rights activism in Indian politics. It traces the path taken by voluntary and independent citizen groups to secure civil rights. In that backdrop the talk proposes some... Read more
South Asia Seminar
Laura Trajber Waisbich (Oxford)
22 November 2022 - 2:00pm
Syndicate Room
.In the past decades, India and other emerging developing economies have been playing a growing role in global development, mostly through what is known as South-South Cooperation (SSC). This... Read more
South Asia Seminar
Yasser Kureshi (Oxford)
15 November 2022 - 2:00pm
Syndicate Room & Zoom
Book Launch - Seeking Supremacy: The Pursuit of Judicial Power in Pakistan In this talk, Kureshi will launch his recently-published book that maps out the evolution of the relationship between the... Read more