Events archive
South Asia Seminar
Sanjay Suri (Europe Correspondent for CNN News 18 Media Group)
26 November 2019 - 2:00pm
Syndicate Room, St Antony's College
Gandhi cast an inescapable spell on the story path of the Bollywood hero from the days of Indian independence through to the seventies. Heroism is shown to lie in rejection of wealth and sexual... Read more
South Asia Seminar
Faridah Zaman (Oxford)
19 November 2019 - 2:00pm
Syndicate Room, St Antony's College
In the history of anticolonial internationalism, pan-Islamism occupies a vexed position. Its history prior to the First World War, particularly in India, suggested it could be a friend to nascent... Read more
South Asia Seminar
Talat Ahmed (Edinburgh)
12 November 2019 - 2:00pm
Syndicate Room, Old Main Building
2019 marks the 150th birth anniversary of Mohandas Gandhi. To many he remains an inspirational figure - the apostle of peace who almost single-handedly led the struggle to free India from the yoke of... Read more
South Asia Seminar
Rajesh Venugopal (LSE)
5 November 2019 - 2:00pm
Syndicate Room, St Antony's College
Rajesh Venugopal book: Nationalism, Development, and Ethnic Conflict in Sri Lanka was published in November 2018 by Cambridge University Press. In it, he explores how the economic and the ethnic have... Read more
South Asia Seminar
Pritam Singh ( Wolfson)
29 October 2019 - 2:00pm
Syndicate Room, St Antony's College
Abstract: Centralisation has been the defining characteristic of the Indian state's politico-economic policy objective irrespective of the political party in power at the federal/central level. This... Read more
South Asia Seminar
Dalel Benbabaali (Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Oxford School of Global and Area Studies)
22 October 2019 - 2:00pm
Syndicate Room, St Antony's College
This seminar will analyse the factors that have led to tribal land alienation in South Asia and how Adivasis’ struggles for autonomy constitute a response to their dispossession, based on a... Read more
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
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
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