Events archive
South Asia Seminar
Zoha Waseem (University of Warwick)
8 November 2022 - 2:00pm
Syndicate Room
The Pakistani police forces are notorious for corruption and coercion. In both colonial and postcolonial contexts, directives to confront security threats have empowered law enforcement agents, while... Read more
South Asia Seminar
Sajid Nizami (Institute of Urdu Language and Literature, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan as Assistant Professor)
1 November 2022 - 2:00pm
Syndicate Room
In the beginning of colonial period in India, many efforts, at both individual and collective level, were made to describe the scientific knowledge in Urdu language. In continuation of this tradition... 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
South Asia Seminar
Kira Huju (Oxford)
17 May 2022 - 2:00pm
Pavilion Room
This talk asks what it takes to belong among the “cosmopolitan elite” in international society. With a reflexive sociological sensibility, it examines the ways in which the career diplomats of the... Read more
South Asia Seminar
Amogh Sharma (Oxford)
10 May 2022 - 2:00pm
Pavilion Room
During the 1980s, the Indian electorate was characterized by a rise in partisan de-alignment and an increased volatility in its voting intensions. How did India’s political elites respond to the... Read more
South Asia Seminar
Anwesha Roy (Oxford)
3 May 2022 - 2:00pm
Pavilion Room
This talk will look at the years 1940–42 in Bengal with a view to analyse the social fuel that made the Quit India Movement possible in the province. War-time colonial policies created multiple... Read more
South Asia Seminar
Thiruni Kelegama (Oxford)
26 April 2022 - 2:00pm
Pavilion Room
The imagination of the frontier as "empty" (of civilization) but "full" (of resources) not only allows for the making of a particular landscape, it also helps create and make a certain kind of... Read more
South Asia Seminar
Rui Verde and Rafael Marques (Oxford and Maka Angola), , Malini Ranganathan (American University)
8 March 2022 - 2:00pm
Dahrendorf Room, St. Antony’s College and online
This special set of joint events run by Oxford’s African Studies and South Asian Studies Centres focuses on activism and researching activism. In celebrating the global South’s rich experience of... Read more
South Asia Seminar
Shaeera Kalla (C19 Peoples’ Coalition, South Africa), Tarangini Sriraman (Goldsmiths), Jeevan Baniya (Social Science Baha, Nepal)
1 March 2022 - 2:00pm
Dahrendorf Room, St. Antony’s College and online
Dahrendorf Room, St Antony's College and online Africa: Shaeera Kalla (C19 Peoples’ Coalition, South Africa), South Asia: Tarangini Sriraman (Goldsmiths), Jeevan Baniya (Social Science Baha, Nepal)... Read more
South Asia Seminar
Aditya Ramesh (Manchester) , Nausheen Anwar (IBA, Karachi) , Camelia Dewan (Oslo) , Chitra Venkatramani (NUS) , Nikhil Anand (UPenn)
8 February 2022 - 2:00pm
Online - Zoom
Registration Required - Registration Link Camelia Dewan is an environmental anthropologist focusing on the anthropology of development. She is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of... Read more
South Asia Seminar
Ambika Aiyadurai (IIT, Gandhinagar), Naisargi Dave (Toronto), Radhika Govindrajan (Washington) , Muhammad Kavesh (Toronto), Dolly Kikon (Melbourne)
1 February 2022 - 2:00pm
Online - Zoom
Registration Required - Registration link Muhammad Kavesh is a Faculty of Arts and Science Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Toronto and Discovery Early Career Research Award (DECRA) fellow at... Read more
South Asia Seminar
Yamini Aiyar (CPR, Delhi), Maira Hayat (Notre Dame) , Zehra Hashmi (Brown University), Akshay Mangla (Oxford)
25 January 2022 - 2:00pm
Online - Zoom
Registration link Zehra Hashmi is a postdoctoral fellow at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University. She is an anthropologist and historian researching... Read more
South Asia Seminar
Mona Bhan (Syracuse) , Mohamad Junaid (Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts), Hafsa Kanjwal (Lafayette College)
18 January 2022 - 2:00pm
Online - Zoom
Registration required - Registration link Hafsa Kanjwal is an Assistant Professor of South Asian History at Lafayette College. Her current book project, Controlling Kashmir: State-building Under... Read more