Events archive

South Asia Seminar

The Challenges to Liberal Democratic Order in South Asia: Democray Redefinded

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

The Paradox of Sinhalese Buddhist Nationalism

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

Between Collaboration and Confrontation: Judicial-Military Interactions in Pakistan

Yasser Kureshi (Senior Teaching Fellow, SOAS/ CSASP Academic Visitor)
16 May 2019 - 12:30pm
Deakin Room, St Antony's College
South Asia Seminar

Single in the City: Women, Migration and Domestic Work in India

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
South Asia Seminar

Small Towns and the Middle Class: Migration, Mobility and Status Seeking in Pakistani Punjab

Ali Jan (Wolfson Collge, Oxford)
9 May 2019 - 12:30pm
Deakin Room, St Antony's College
South Asia Seminar

Commodities, Merchants, and Refugees: Inter-Asian circulations and Afghan mobility

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