Events archive
Navtej Sarna
28 October 2022 - 5:30pm
Syndicate Room
On 13 April 1919, about twenty-five thousand unarmed Indians had gathered in Jallianwala Bagh in Amritsar, an open area enclosed by the high walls of flat-roofed houses in a densely populated part of... Read more
Chun-tu Hsueh Distingished Lecture
David Shambaugh (Elliot School of International Affairs)
27 October 2022 - 5:00pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre
In this lecture eminent China scholar David Shambaugh will discuss his new book Where Great Powers Meet. Currently, the United States and China are engaged in a broad-gauged and global competition... Read more
South Asia Seminar
Vasudha Chhotray (University of East Anglia)
25 October 2022 - 2:00pm
Syndicate Room
Ersama block in coastal Odisha, India, was devastated in the supercyclone of October 1999, an event that marked a turning point in the disaster mitigation and management approach for the state.... Read more
South Asia Seminar
Kate Sullivan de Estrada (Oxford)
18 October 2022 - 2:00pm
Syndicate Room
The condition of rising powers’ simultaneous reproduction of, and resistance to, dominant modes of global leadership in world politics poses a puzzle. Scholarly work both anticipates that the... Read more
South Asia Seminar
Imre Bangha (Oxford)
11 October 2022 - 2:00pm
Syndicate Room
The talk will scrutinise theories on the emergence of a vernacular literary tradition in the “Hindi Belt” (Madhyadeśa) and examine the earliest extant works coming from the region. While both Hindi... Read more
Frank Dikotter (Hong Kong University), Jieyu Liu (SOAS)
31 August 2022 - 5:00pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre
This lecture will be avilable live on Zoom - please register to recieve the link - https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_jdUzNnNuRYKJookmlnfP0A Keynote Speakers Frank Dikotter, Hong Kong... Read more
Various Speakers
31 August 2022 - 9:30am to 1 September 2022 - 5:00pm
St Antony's College
British Association for Chinese Studies Co-hosted by Asian Studies Centre at St Antony’s College, Oxford School of Global and Area Studies (OSGA), and the Oxford China Centre. 31st August – 1st... Read more
30 August 2022 - 8:30am to 31 August 2022 - 4:00pm
Syndicate Room
In a span of a generation, rural China has undergone a dramatic transformation: infrastructure – ranging from roads to electricity grids – has been constructed; the majority of rural residents are... Read more
Steve Swerdlow , Neil Clarke , Syinat Sultanalieva
28 June 2022 - 4:00pm
Online - Zoom
Panel disccussion: Human Rights in the Pamirs: An Indigenoues Peoples Under Threat Neil Clarke (Minority Rights Groups International) Steve Swerdlow Syinat Sultanalieva Chair: Faisal Devji Please... 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
South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
James Caron (SOAS University of London)
23 May 2022 - 4:00pm
Online - Zoom
This paper contrasts two Afghan Pashto critical-literary responses to one of modern war's main characteristics: ontological devastation as a tactic. Large-scale violence over 40 years of occupations... Read more
Bapsybanoo Marchioness of Winchester Lecture: A Reflection on Idi Amin and the 1972 ‘Asian Expulsion
Mahmood Mamdani (Columbia)
20 May 2022 - 4:30pm
Investcorp Lecture Theatre & online
To join this on zoom please register: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_lXYbwP-nQZqMFvz3MzWytw Mahmood Mamdani is the Herbert Lehman Professor of Government. He was also professor and... Read more
20 May 2022 - 9:30am
Investcorp Lecture Theatre & online
Expulsion as Statecraft: Histories of Violence from the Asian Expulsion of 1972 to the Banyarwanda Crisis of 1982, Insecurities of Expulsion: Race, Violence, Citizenship and Afro-Asian Entanglements in Transregional Uganda, Don't call yourselves Asian! Uganda's Indians and the problem of naming, Making Victory Visible in Idi Amin's Uganda, Afrocentrism and the Indian Question: A Continental Reckoning with the Ugandan Expulsion
To join the zoom registration is required: Panel 1 - History and Violence - https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_0bz6Jdx5TwS02UwdfYO82w Panel 2 - Postcolonial Politics - https://us02web.zoom.... Read more