Events archive
South Asia Seminar
Theresa Thompson Chaudhry (Lahore School Of Economics)
15 October 2019 - 2:00pm
Syndicate Room, St Antony's College
In this talk, I’ll be discussing the relationship with child stunting of two practices that are common in the local context. The first is son-biased fertility stopping behaviour, where parents... Read more
East Asia Seminar
Yung E Earm (Seoul National University)
17 June 2019 - 7:00pm
Fellows Dining Room, St Antony's College
The 18th Oxford Korean Academic Society OKAS - Colloqium
6 June 2019 - 2:15pm
Western Library
In the presence of H.E. Enna Park, Ambassador of the Republic of Korea. 14:15-15:00 Welcome by Keeper of Oriental Collections, Dr Gillian Evison Exhibition of Korean Treasures in Oxford Bahari Room,... Read more
South Asia Seminar
Mahboob Hussain (University of the Punjab/ CSASP Academic Visitor)
6 June 2019 - 12:30pm
Deakin Room, St Antony's College
South Asia Seminar
Raza Rumi (Director, Park Center for Independent Media, Ithaca College and Faculty, Cornell Institute for Public Affairs, Editor in Chief, Naya Daur) , Ayesha Siddiqa (SOAS) , Bilal Zahoor (Editorial Director Folio Books) , Karamat Ali (Pakistan Institue of Labour Education)
4 June 2019 - 5:00pm
Syndicate Room, St Antony's College
South Asia Seminar
Arshi Hashmi (National Defense University, Pakistan/Charles Wallace Trust Visiting Fellow for Pakistan, CSASP)
30 May 2019 - 12:30pm
Deakin Room, St Antony's College
South Asia Seminar
Mick Moore (Institute of Development Studies)
21 May 2019 - 2:00pm
Syndicate Room, St Antony's College
Sinhalese Buddhism nationalism (SBN) has been the dominant socio-cultural-political force in SL since Independence. It has captured the state. SBN had strong class and materialist roots: it was... Read more
South Asia Seminar
Yasser Kureshi (Senior Teaching Fellow, SOAS/ CSASP Academic Visitor)
16 May 2019 - 12:30pm
Deakin Room, St Antony's College
South Asia Seminar
Samita Sen (Cambridge)
14 May 2019 - 2:00pm
Syndicate Room, St Antony's College
The paper explores long-term patterns of mobility from the colonial period to understand women’s migration today in the specific context of domestic work. In the colonial period, single women’s... Read more
Irina Lyan (Oxford)
13 May 2019 - 5:30pm
Fellows' Dining Room, St Antony's College
In this talk I propose to draw attention to the often neglected category of ex-peripheries—former developing economies which are still suspended in transition from developing to developed status. By... Read more
South Asia Seminar
Ali Jan (Wolfson Collge, Oxford)
9 May 2019 - 12:30pm
Deakin Room, St Antony's College
South Asia Seminar
Magnus Marsden (Sussex)
7 May 2019 - 2:00pm
Syndicate Room, St Antony's College
This paper analyses ethnographic material concerning Afghan trading networks involved in both the export of commodities from China to a variety of settings across Eurasia and the movement of “... Read more
South Asia Seminar
C. Christine Fair
30 April 2019 - 5:00pm
Syndicate Room, St Antony's College
This path-breaking volume reveals a little-known aspect of how Lashkar-e-Tayyaba, a jihadist terrorist group, functions in Pakistan and beyond by translating and commenting upon a range of... Read more
South Asia Seminar
Matthew Nelson (SOAS)
30 April 2019 - 2:00pm
Syndicate Room, St Antony's College
Building on constructivist theories concerning national-identity formation as well as institutionalist theories regarding the regulatory power of law (here, constitutional and international human-... Read more
7 March 2019 - 2:00pm to 5:00pm
Nissan Theatre, St Antony's College
2.00 p.m., Opening address by Dr Young-Chan Choi (Associate member, Oriental Institute) 2.10 p.m., View from Pyongyang HE Alastair Morgan (British Ambassador to Pyongyang, DPPK, 2015-2019) 2.35 p.m... Read more