Events archive
South Asia Seminar
Vijay Joshi (Merton)
17 October 2017 - 2:00pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre
Vijay Joshi is Emeritus Fellow of Merton College, Oxford. His main areas of interest are Macroeconomics, International Economics and Development Economics, and he has published widely in these fields... Read more
Romila Thapar (Jawaharlal Nehru University), Faisal Devji (St Antony's), Gautham Shiralagi (St Antony’s) , Adam Roberts (Balliol)
16 October 2017 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Pavilion Room, St Antony's College
An event held under the auspices of St Antony’s College and the Oxford University Research Project on Civil Resistance and Power Politics, to mark 70 years of Indian independence.
Southeast Asia Seminar
John Buchanan (Washington)
11 October 2017 - 2:00pm
Deakin Room
The predominance of the state is overstated. In Burma and other countries, pockets of territory remain under the control of non-state actors. The processes through which these counter state orders... Read more
South Asia Seminar
Yasser Arafath (Delhi)
10 October 2017 - 2:00pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre
As the Portuguese’s entry opened up a turbulent time in the Indian Ocean, Muslim scribal elites across the region presented them within the image of idolatrous infidels. Writing in Arabic, the... Read more
Rajesh Basrur (S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University)
5 October 2017 - 1:00pm to 2:00pm
Fellows' Dining Room
Why has Indian foreign/security policy been characterized by drift from time to time? Neoclassical realism offers a useful but incomplete way of explaining the phenomenon of suboptimal policy... Read more
Lion König (DFG-Postdoctoral Research Fellow, DPIR-St Antony’s) et al.
19 June 2017 - 5:00pm
Cayley Lecture Theatre, University of Westminster
Please note this event will be held at the University of Westminster. See here for further details.
15 June 2017 - 9:30am to 4:30pm
Pavilion Room, St Antony's College
On Thursday June 15th 2017, a special one-day workshop from 9:30AM-4:30PM at St Antony’s College, University of Oxford will take stock of the aspirations, adaptive strategies and politics of ordinary... Read more
Burma/Myanmar Events in Oxford
Gerald McCarthy (ANU)
14 June 2017 - 4:00pm
Seminar Room B, Manor Road Building
Why are there so few advocates for state-mediated economic redistribution and social welfare in contemporary Myanmar (Burma)? Moving beyond a focus on the regime-led political transition since 2011,... Read more
14 June 2017 - 2:00pm
43 Banbury Road
Justine Chambers PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology, School of Culture, History and Language, Australian National University 2 p.m., Wednesday 14th June, 43 Banbury Road After decades of ethno... Read more
Richard Sorabji (Wolfson), Peter Adamson (King's College London)
9 June 2017 - 2:00pm
Haldane Room, Wolfson College
Speakers: Richard Sorabji Honorary Fellow, Wolfson College Peter Adamson Professor of Ancient and Medieval Philosophy, King’s College London Schedule: 2-3.30: Professor Sir Richard Sorabji 3.30-4:... Read more
South Asia Seminar
Jason Keith Fernandes (Lisbon)
6 June 2017 - 2:00pm
Fellows' Dining Room
Exploring the emotional terrain of the citizenship experiences of groups in Goa this paper will argue that through the linguistic choices made by the government of Goa it is not merely caste that is... Read more
Rudrangshu Mukherjee (Vice-Chancellor, Ashoka University)
5 June 2017 - 5:00pm
Pavilion Room
This lecture is co-organised by the Asian Studies Centre of St Antony’s College, the Free Speech Debate Project – a research project of the Dahrendorf Programme for the Study of Freedom at St Antony'... Read more
Akeel Bilgrami (Columbia), Shruti Kapila (Cambridge), Saeed Naqvi (Foreign Correspondent and Author)
2 June 2017 - 5:00pm
TORCH Seminar Room, Radcliffe Humanities Building - please note new venue
A Roundtable Conversation with Akeel Bilgrami (Sidney Morgenbesser Professor of Philosophy, Columbia University), Shruti Kapila (Fellow and Director of Studies, Corpus Christi College; Faculty of... Read more
Robert J. C. Young (NYU)
30 May 2017 - 5:00pm
Pavilion Room
In this talk Robert Young will be discussing the new volume of writings by Frantz Fanon, edited by Jean Khalfa and the speaker, the first new material by Fanon to be published in over 60 years.... Read more
South Asia Seminar
Teena Purohit (Boston)
30 May 2017 - 2:00pm
Fellows' Dining Room
This talk examines the writings of Jamal al-din al-Afghani (1838-1897) with particular attention to his polemical piece against Syed Ahmad Khan (1817-1898), entitled “The Refutation of the... Read more