Events archive
Southeast Asia Seminar
Johan Fischer (Roskilde)
25 November 2015 - 2:00pm to 3:30pm
Deakin Room
Halal (literally, "permissible" or "lawful") production, trade, and standards have become essential to state-regulated Islam and to companies in contemporary Malaysia and Singapore, giving these two... Read more
Sheila Smith (Council on Foreign Relations)
24 November 2015 - 5:30pm to 7:00pm
Dahrendorf Room
No country feels China's rise more deeply than Japan. CFR Senior Fellow Sheila A. Smith will discuss her new book, Intimate Rivals: Japanese Domestic Politics and a Rising China . Smith explores the... Read more
South Asia Seminar
Ali Usman Qasmi (LUMS)
24 November 2015 - 2:00pm to 3:30pm
Fellows' Dining Room
This paper will look at the role played by Ishtiaq Hussain Qureshi (1903-81) – Cambridge-trained historian of medieval India – in developing a master narrative for the history of Pakistan. The... Read more
18 November 2015 - 5:30pm to 7:30pm
Pavilion Room
Dipesh Chakrabarty, Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor of History, University of Chicago A panel discussion of The Calling of History: Sir Jadunath Sarkar and His Empire of Truth... Read more
South Asia Seminar
Simon Fuchs (Cambridge)
17 November 2015 - 2:00pm to 3:30pm
Fellows' Dining Room
The talk investigates the transformation of sectarian discourses in Pakistan since the 1970s. I contend that anti-Shiʿi religious scholars considered the Iranian Revolution as a threatening attempt... Read more
Southeast Asia Seminar
Patrick McCormick (École française d'Extrême-Orient, Yangon)
11 November 2015 - 2:00pm to 3:30pm
Deakin Room
The nation has hijacked history in Burma. Prasenjit Duara rescued history from the nation, and much historiography has moved in other directions. Yet the nation and nation-state continue to shape how... Read more
South Asia Seminar
Chris Moffat (Queen Mary)
10 November 2015 - 2:00pm to 3:30pm
Fellows' Dining Room
This paper interrogates the continuing political potential of the martyred revolutionary Bhagat Singh (1907-1931) in twenty-first century India. Rather than the wilful conjuring of the dead for... Read more
Noor Azlan Ghazali
9 November 2015 - 2:00pm to 3:30pm
Clock Room
The Association of Southeast ASEAN Nation or ASEAN is transforming itself from a mere inter-governmental organisation into a Community at the end of 2015. The ASEAN Community will include the ASEAN... Read more
Southeast Asia Seminar
Amie Kirkham (CPCS)
6 November 2015 - 3:00pm to 4:30pm
Dahrendorf Room
A Report from the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, Siem Reap, Cambodia The report elevates community voices from six locations in Myanmar that experienced communal violence to reveal a strong... Read more
South Asia Seminar
Yasmin Khan (Oxford)
3 November 2015 - 2:00pm to 3:30pm
Fellows' Dining Room
This seminar will stress India's extensive and diverse involvement in the Second World War through the perspectives of British and Indian life-histories. It will also reflect on writing narrative... Read more