BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:talks.ox.ac.uk BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:What Next for Pakistan ? - Stefan Dercon (Blavatnik School of Gove rnment)\, Ms Sulema Jehagir (Human Rights lawyer and advocate at Pakistan Supreme Court\,)\, Dr Farzana Shaikh (Chatham House\, London) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20250627T170000 DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20250627T180000 UID:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/b45f6622-d4d2-4262-b3a0-88e25874fe2e/ DESCRIPTION:Pakistan’s history is a story of crisis - economic\, politic al\, cultural and developmental\, often scarred as earlier this year by tr oubled relations with its rising neighbour\, India. Times of optimism and change have too often been dashed. Yet Pakistan survives\, and grows. Its economy is seen by many as more robust than figures suggest\, particularly when including its black economy. With a burgeoning middle class gaining influence\, seeking order and stability\, and given its geo-political sign ificance in an uncertain global order\, maybe there are positive pathways. We plan to explore whither Pakistan ? in this seminar\, led by three dist inguished speakers on the economy\, politics and law.\n\nThis panel is co- hosted by the Vicky Noon Education Foundation\, and the Asian Studies Cent re at St Antony's College\, Oxford. The moderator will be Dr Paul Flather\ , chair of the VNEF trust.\n\nOver the past 30 years\, the VNEF has helped provide c £7m worth of support for more than 230 top young Pakistani stu dents to study as Noon Scholars at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridg e. \n\nThis event will celebrate three decades of work and forms part of t he VNEF’s annual general meeting\, when trustees will also select the 20 25-26 Noon Scholars. All welcome\, to be followed by a reception.\n\nSpeak ers:\nStefan Dercon (Blavatnik School of Government)\, Ms Sulema Jehagir ( Human Rights lawyer and advocate at Pakistan Supreme Court\,)\, Dr Farzana Shaikh (Chatham House\, London) LOCATION:St Antony's College (Pavilion Room)\, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF TZID:Europe/London URL:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/b45f6622-d4d2-4262-b3a0-88e25874fe2e/ BEGIN:VALARM ACTION:display DESCRIPTION:Talk:What Next for Pakistan ? - Stefan Dercon (Blavatnik Schoo l of Government)\, Ms Sulema Jehagir (Human Rights lawyer and advocate at Pakistan Supreme Court\,)\, Dr Farzana Shaikh (Chatham House\, London) TRIGGER:-PT1H END:VALARM END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PRIVACY China Workshop DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20250703T090000 DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20250703T173000 UID:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/0eb24033-02f3-4798-943f-cb0e2e995393/ DESCRIPTION:08:45 Arrival\n\n09:15 Opening remarks - Rachel Murphy and Gen ia Kostka\n\n09:30 Roundtable: What is Privacy (in Authoritarian Contexts) ?\nDaniel Miller (UCL) and WANG Xinyuan (UCL):\n “The depth and breadth of privacy”\nZHAO Jun (Oxford): \n“Data\, algorithmic manipulation\, a nd their privacy implications for young children and families”\nLIU Ruox i (Oxford):\n “Privacy – independent cultural workers and youth commun ities in China”\nModerator: Genia Kostka (Berlin)\n\n11:00 Tea / Coffee\ n\n11:30 Privacy: The Party-State View\nZHOU Hui (Berlin):\n“Chinese cou rt documents on privacy: an analysis of current legal cases”\nGUO Danqi and YAN Yang (Berlin): \n“State narratives of digital surveillance and p rivacy and their effects on citizens’ support in China”\nChair: Vivien ne Shue (Oxford)\n\n12:30 Lunch\n\n13:30 Privacy: The Citizens’ View (1) \nAlexander Trauth-Goik and Christoph Steinhardt (Vienna):\n“Menacing so ciety and the stalwart state: the privacy debate on Chinese social media ”\nBlake Miller (LSE): \n“Banning TikTok: US-China dialogue on social media platforms”\nChair: Merethe Borge Macleod (GBCC)\n\n14:30 Tea / Cof fee\n\n14:45 Privacy: The Citizens’ View (2)\nElisa Oreglia (Oxford): \n “Digital privacy from the margins: a view from rural China (and Southeas t Asia)”\nRachel Murphy (Oxford): \n“The privacy of children in digita l China”\nChair: Christoph Steinhardt (Vienna) \n\n15:45 Tea / Coffee\n\ n16:15 Visualising Privacy\nMargaret Hillenbrand (Oxford):\n“The relatio nship between facial recognition technologies and contemporary art”\nGAO Ang (UCA): \n“PRIVACY China: a documentary in the making”\nChair: XUE Kefan (Oxford)\n\n17:15 Lena Wesemann (Berlin): \n“Brainstorming: A Tra vel Gallery as means of visualising PRIVACY China”\n\n17:30 Closing rema rks - Genia Kostka and Rachel Murphy\nSpeakers:\n Various Speakers LOCATION:St Antony's College (Pavilion Room)\, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF TZID:Europe/London URL:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/0eb24033-02f3-4798-943f-cb0e2e995393/ BEGIN:VALARM ACTION:display DESCRIPTION:Talk:PRIVACY China Workshop TRIGGER:-PT1H END:VALARM END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Conference: The Self-Respect Movement and Its Legacies DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20250904T090000 DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20250905T180000 UID:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/3ff5db74-d924-46a3-bc0e-4efb307d00c9/ DESCRIPTION: The Self-Respect Movement and its Legacies Conference\, a two -day conference in September 2025 at the University of Oxford\, commemorat es the centenary of the Self-Respect Movement rooted in South India's Drav idian ideologies. This movement profoundly influenced socio-political thou ght in Tamil Nadu by challenging entrenched hierarchies of caste and gende r. Simultaneously\, the conference aims to explore global interpretations of self-respect\, social justice\, and human dignity\, fostering an academ ic dialogue that bridges regional and international perspectives.\n\nThis interdisciplinary event will examine the ongoing relevance of self-respect as a foundational concept in social and political systems worldwide. It w ill juxtapose the Dravidian approach with diverse global movements\, such as civil rights struggles\, anti-apartheid efforts\, and contemporary prot ests against systemic inequalities\, that have sought to dismantle oppress ive power structures. Scholars from various backgrounds will discuss how p rinciples of self-respect have evolved in different cultural contexts and how they can address contemporary challenges like authoritarianism\, relig ious extremism\, and gender-based oppression on a global scale.\n\nA key f ocus will be a comparative analysis of caste-based oppression in India and analogous social hierarchies worldwide\, such as racial segregation\, eth nic discrimination\, and class stratification. Participants will explore h ow religion and ideology have been utilized to sustain these hierarchies a nd examine movements across the globe that have sought to deconstruct them . The Dravidian emphasis on rationalism and secularism will be considered alongside global philosophies that advocate for similar principles\, aimin g to contribute to worldwide struggles against discrimination.\n\nAnother central theme is the redefinition of gender roles integral to the Self-Res pect Movement and its parallels with global feminist movements. The confer ence will analyze how strategies for dismantling patriarchal structures in Tamil Nadu can engage with international efforts advocating for women's r ights\, LGBTQ+ inclusion\, and gender non-conformity. Issues of gender equ ity will be addressed through multiple lenses\, including race\, class\, a nd ethnicity\, exploring intersections of these identities in diverse glob al contexts. Insights from both Tamil Nadu's feminist politics and interna tional gender studies aim to inform and enrich each other.\n\nAdditionally \, the conference will examine experiences with federalism and governance in Tamil Nadu and compare them with global models of autonomy and decentra lization. Discussions will focus on how different federal structures can f oster inclusive governance\, preserve cultural diversity\, and resist the erosion of local autonomy. Lessons drawn from India's federal challenges a nd successes will be juxtaposed with case studies from other nations\, suc h as federal conflicts in Spain's Catalonia\, autonomy movements in Scotla nd\, and indigenous governance in Latin America\, to inform governance mod els worldwide.\n\nBy bringing together academics from various disciplines and regions\, the Self-Respect Movement and its Legacies Conference aims t o facilitate a critical exchange between the Self-Respect Movement's legac y in Tamil Nadu and parallel movements worldwide. This scholarly dialogue intends to deepen the understanding of self-respect in different social\, political\, and cultural contexts. The goal is to envision how these princ iples can collaboratively guide global efforts toward a more just\, equita ble\, and inclusive world.\n \n\nSpeakers:\n Various Speakers LOCATION:St Antony's College (Nissan Lecture Theatre )\, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF TZID:Europe/London URL:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/3ff5db74-d924-46a3-bc0e-4efb307d00c9/ BEGIN:VALARM ACTION:display DESCRIPTION:Talk:Conference: The Self-Respect Movement and Its Legacies TRIGGER:-PT1H END:VALARM END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Commemorative Address by the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu MK Stali n - MK Stalin (Chief Minister Tamil Nadu) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20250904T173000 DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20250904T183000 UID:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/a438bfe2-7323-48f0-a704-aa9d7f160d88/ DESCRIPTION:Address as part of the Self-Respect Movement and Its Legacies Conference (4-5 Sept)\nSpeakers:\nMK Stalin (Chief Minister Tamil Nadu) LOCATION:St Antony's College\, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF TZID:Europe/London URL:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/a438bfe2-7323-48f0-a704-aa9d7f160d88/ BEGIN:VALARM ACTION:display DESCRIPTION:Talk:Commemorative Address by the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu MK Stalin - MK Stalin (Chief Minister Tamil Nadu) TRIGGER:-PT1H END:VALARM END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Endnote Lecture: Dravidian Geography and the History of Respect - Prof Arjun Appadurai (New York University) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20250905T170000 DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20250905T183000 UID:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/96c50b46-a2e3-4694-b091-86be72a393b3/ DESCRIPTION:The DMK today is restoring two central tenets of movements for justice in Peninsular India. The first is the central principle of the Ju stice Party\, which connects the self with respect through the idea of swa yam mariyatai. Mariyatai has been a crucial part of Tamil history since at least the Chola period\, and sees its major expression in temple honors i n Tamil history. Temples were also the primary basis of cultural connectiv ity between what are today the states of Tamil Nadu\, Andhra Pradesh\, Tel angana and Karnataka. In both these regards\, the Justice Party and today' s DMK draw on a vital tradition which makes justice and respect crucial el ements of a wider Dravidian geography.\nSpeakers:\nProf Arjun Appadurai (N ew York University) LOCATION:St Antony's College (Nissan Lecture Theatre )\, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF TZID:Europe/London URL:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/96c50b46-a2e3-4694-b091-86be72a393b3/ BEGIN:VALARM ACTION:display DESCRIPTION:Talk:Endnote Lecture: Dravidian Geography and the History of Respect - Prof Arjun Appadurai (New York University) TRIGGER:-PT1H END:VALARM END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Souls in the Kalyug: The Politics and Cosmologies of Migrant Worke rs in Contemporary India - Shankar Ramaswami (O. P. Jindal Global Universi ty) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20251014T140000 DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20251014T153000 UID:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/276ff62c-15df-44ca-b732-89cd2d67d4b5/ DESCRIPTION:The development process in India\, along with its alleged achi evements\, has induced multiple difficulties and hardships for poor and wo rking people. In villages\, farming families confront an agrarian crisis\ , with rising costs of seeds\, fertilizers\, and pesticides\, inadequate i rrigation facilities\, low prices for their crops\, grave indebtedness\, a nd ecological damage to the soil\, water\, and forests. Due to a paucity of jobs in the countryside\, many are compelled to migrate to cities for w ork. \n\nOnce in the city\, migrants confront many difficulties. In workp laces\, they contend with low-paid\, insecure\, exhausting\, and hazardous work. In neighborhoods\, they deal with congested living conditions\, po or qualities of air\, water\, and sanitation\, vulnerabilities to illnesse s\, and separation from their families in the village. \n\nThis book pursu es the following inquiry. How are migrant workers confronting these myria d difficulties and hardships\, in ways which are less injurious and more l ife-promoting? The book proposes an answer in three parts. In a metal fa ctory in Delhi\, the anchoring ethnographic site of this book\, migrant wo rkers engage in resistances and collective struggles against perceived opp ression and injustice. In the city and village\, they weave integrative f ilaments to one another\, in empathetic closeness and fellowship. In the cosmological domain\, they attempt to resist soul-distorting processes in present\, decivilizing times. Through these activities\, migrant workers strive towards\, and at times realize\, elements of a good life.\n\nShanka r Ramaswami is a Professor of Sociology at O. P. Jindal Global University\ , India. He works on the anthropologies of globalization\, migration\, urb an workers\, and religion in South Asia. He completed an A.B. in Economics at Harvard College and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Sociocultural Anthropology at the University of Chicago. Prior to coming to Jindal University\, he was Lecturer on South Asian Studies in the Department of South Asian Studies a t Harvard\, where he taught courses on anthropology\, literature\, cinema\ , and religion. At Jindal\, he teaches courses on global capitalism\, auto nomous politics\, urban ethnography\, religion and justice\, the Mahabhara ta\, and Indian cinema.\n\n\nSpeakers:\nShankar Ramaswami (O. P. Jindal Gl obal University) LOCATION:St Antony's College (Pavilion Room)\, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF TZID:Europe/London URL:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/276ff62c-15df-44ca-b732-89cd2d67d4b5/ BEGIN:VALARM ACTION:display DESCRIPTION:Talk:Souls in the Kalyug: The Politics and Cosmologies of Migr ant Workers in Contemporary India - Shankar Ramaswami (O. P. Jindal Global University) TRIGGER:-PT1H END:VALARM END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:From redress to reimagining: a decolonial lens on justice for wome n war survivors in Sri Lanka - Dr Farah Milhar (Oxford Brookes University) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20251021T140000 DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20251021T153000 UID:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/ea726496-5350-4180-b303-224dd98bbc41/ DESCRIPTION:Despite limited empirical evidence of its effectiveness\, tran sitional justice remains the dominant paradigm within international peaceb uilding frameworks for addressing conflict-related harm. The field\, which expanded significantly after the Nuremberg trials and tribunals for the f ormer Yugoslavia and Rwanda\, has faced sustained critique for its legalis m\, international imposition\, and marginalisation of victims—prompting calls for structural transformation. Within this critical turn\, Sri Lanka has emerged as a key site of scholarly intervention\, contributing to the literature through empirically grounded critiques that advocate for a dec olonial reconceptualising of transitional justice. This presentation will analyse preliminary findings of a British Academy project on transforming transitional justice through decolonial methodological approaches in Sri L anka. The project navigated complex methodological terrain\, pursuing a de colonial approach within a context where colonial structures and systems r emain\, producing findings which contribute to further challenging dominan t praxis on transitional justice. Preliminary findings reinforce existing scholarly arguments for gender- and identity-based justice\, and by advanc ing notions of equity and self-determination as integral to justice\, cont ribute to expanding the conceptual imaginary of transformative justice.\nS peakers:\nDr Farah Milhar (Oxford Brookes University) LOCATION:St Antony's College (Dahrendorf Room)\, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF TZID:Europe/London URL:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/ea726496-5350-4180-b303-224dd98bbc41/ BEGIN:VALARM ACTION:display DESCRIPTION:Talk:From redress to reimagining: a decolonial lens on justice for women war survivors in Sri Lanka - Dr Farah Milhar (Oxford Brookes Un iversity) TRIGGER:-PT1H END:VALARM END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Beyond the Mountains: Social and Political Imaginaries in Gilgit-B altistan - Dr Nosheen Ali (NYU) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20251028T140000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20251028T153000Z UID:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/ef6dd256-f279-439c-885b-197481021897/ DESCRIPTION:Beyond the Mountains: Social and Political Imaginaries in Gilg it-Baltistan (Raachi\, 2024) is a multilingual\, indigenous volume and col laborative research endeavor with the aim of decolonizing knowledge. This talk will focus on the politics of race and anthropology historically in G ilgit-Baltistan\, the necessity of local knowledges\, and rethinking publi shing and the academy in this historical conjuncture. \n\nDr. Nosheen Ali is a sociologist and co-founder of the independent press\, Raachi. Her res earch is focused on state-making and border lives in Gilgit-Baltistan\, Mu slim poetic thought\, and ecological futures in South Asia. She is the aut hor of Delusional States: Feeling Rule and Development in Pakistan’s Nor thern Frontier (Cambridge University Press\, 2019). \n\nSpeakers:\nDr Nosh een Ali (NYU) LOCATION:St Antony's College (Pavilion Room)\, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF TZID:Europe/London URL:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/ef6dd256-f279-439c-885b-197481021897/ BEGIN:VALARM ACTION:display DESCRIPTION:Talk:Beyond the Mountains: Social and Political Imaginaries in Gilgit-Baltistan - Dr Nosheen Ali (NYU) TRIGGER:-PT1H END:VALARM END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Nepal’s Gen-Z ‘Revolution’: What Happened and What Lies Ahea d? - Professor David Gellner (School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnograph y\, University of Oxford)\, Dr Krishna Adhikari (School of Anthropology an d Museum Ethnography) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20251030T163000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20251030T173000Z UID:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/0acb703d-0f04-4675-a979-626d9f65bd86/ DESCRIPTION:Both participants and observers are still puzzling over what h appened in Nepal on September 8 and 9th of this year. Plenty of conspiracy theories\, simplistic explanations\, and instant analyses are on offer: W as it a monarchist plot? Could it have been organized by a distant or neig hbouring foreign power? Was it just a nihilistic expression of fury from a social-media-saturated youth angry at the banning of Facebook and WhatsAp p and furious at the images they had seen of Nepokids (the children of pol iticians and the business elite) cavorting in ski resorts while they battl ed with unemployment?\n\nThere may be elements of all these. It certainly seems that much of the arson and violence on the second day was planned\, though whether anyone will ever be held to account is very much an open qu estion. How and in what form Nepal’s old political parties will survive also remains to be seen. At the very least they will need a renewal of lea dership and some in the parties seem to have grasped this. \nA civilian\, non-party government was established through the two-day movement and it h as been mandated to organize national elections\, investigate past corrupt ion\, and hold accountable those responsible for the killings on September 8 and the arson attacks on September 9. However\, questions regarding its constitutional legitimacy persist. The situation is further complicated b y the non-cooperation of political parties demanding the restoration of pa rliament\, as well as by internal divisions and a lack of cohesive leaders hip among the Gen-Z activists\, all of which contribute to a climate of un certainty.\n\nDavid Gellner is Emeritus Professor of Social Anthropology a nd Emeritus Fellow of All Souls\, University of Oxford. He has been doing research on Nepal since 1980. His most recent publication with Krishna Adh ikari is the co-edited Nepal’s Dalits in Transition (Vajra\, 2024).\n\nK rishna Adhikari is an Affiliate of the School of Anthropology and Museum E thnography\, University of Oxford. He was in Nepal during the events of Se ptember. He has a Master’s in Social Work from Goteborg\, Sweden\, and a PhD on the dynamics of social capital in CBOs in Nepal from Reading (2007 ).\nSpeakers:\nProfessor David Gellner (School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography\, University of Oxford)\, Dr Krishna Adhikari (School of Anthr opology and Museum Ethnography) LOCATION:St Antony's College (Nissan Lecture Theatre )\, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF TZID:Europe/London URL:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/0acb703d-0f04-4675-a979-626d9f65bd86/ BEGIN:VALARM ACTION:display DESCRIPTION:Talk:Nepal’s Gen-Z ‘Revolution’: What Happened and What Lies Ahead? - Professor David Gellner (School of Anthropology and Museum E thnography\, University of Oxford)\, Dr Krishna Adhikari (School of Anthro pology and Museum Ethnography) TRIGGER:-PT1H END:VALARM END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Partition\, Bengali Refugee Critiques of Postcolonial Sate and Cap italism\, and the Subaltern Origins of the Cold War in India\, 1947-1950 - Dr Milinda Banerjee (University of St Andrews) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20251103T160000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20251103T173000Z UID:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/c42430fb-b905-4332-8e75-b4170d4b8947/ DESCRIPTION:The British Raj formally ended on 15 August 1947. In the years following the bifurcation of British India into Hindu-majority India and Muslim-majority Pakistan\, between 11 and 18 million people migrated to es cape sectarian pogroms at the hands of the majority population. By 1950\, many South Asian – specifically Bengali – refugees were radically crit iquing decolonization. Theorizing from their experiences of proletarianiza tion\, East Bengali refugees argued that decolonization had been incomplet e. The postcolonial Indian state was a neocolonial state allied to Western imperialism. Refugees imagined themselves as part of a worldwide struggle between Anglo-American imperialism and Sino-Soviet-led socialist anti-imp erialism. Refugees assembled in hundreds and thousands across the Indian s tate of West Bengal to overthrow regimes of big private property. They con demned the operations of money economy. They aimed to overcome capitalism. Inspired by Chinese communists\, they built a vast confederal democracy u niting refugee camps and colonies – a ‘refugee polis’. This talk off ers a socially-contextualized intellectual history of this epic transforma tion\, which delegitimized the postcolonial Indian state and dramatically drew the country\, through struggles waged by refugees\, into the tumult o f the Cold War. It prompts us to visualize the subaltern origins of the Co ld War in India.\n\nDr Milinda Banerjee is Lecturer in Modern History at t he University of St Andrews\, Scotland\, United Kingdom. He specializes in History of Modern Political Thought and Political Theory\, and is Program me Director for the MLitt in Global Social and Political Thought. He is th e author of The Mortal God: Imagining the Sovereign in Colonial India (Cam bridge University Press\, 2018)\, and co-author (with Jelle Wouters) of Su baltern Studies 2.0: Being against the Capitalocene (Prickly Paradigm\, 20 22). He has co-edited the volume\, Transnational Histories of the ‘Royal Nation’ (Palgrave\, 2017)\; the forum ‘Law\, Empire\, and Global Inte llectual History’\, in the journal Modern Intellectual History (Cambridg e University Press\, 2020)\; the special issue ‘The Modern Invention of ‘Dynasty’: A Global Intellectual History\, 1500-2000’\, in the journ al Global Intellectual History (Routledge\, 2022)\; the special issue ‘P olitical Theology and Democracy: Perspectives from South Asia\, West Asia\ , and North Africa’\, in the journal Political Theology (Routledge\, 202 2)\; the special issue ‘Forced Migration and Refugee Resettlement in the Long 1940s: A Connected and Global History’\, in the journal Itinerario : Journal of Imperial and Global Interactions (Cambridge University Press\ , 2022)\; the volume The Mahabharata in Global Political and Social Though t (Cambridge University Press\, 2024)\; and the special issue ‘The Refug ee Political in the Age of Imperial Crisis\, Decolonization\, and Cold War \, 1930s-1950s’ in The Historical Journal (Cambridge University Press\, 2025). Banerjee has published two other monographs and several articles on the intersections of Indian and global intellectual history and political theory. He is a founder-editor of the series ‘South Asian Intellectual History’ with Cambridge University Press\, a founder-editor of two serie s with De Gruyter\, ‘Critical Readings in Global Intellectual History’ \, and ‘Transregional Practices of Power’\, and Special Projects Edito r of the journal Political Theology (Routledge). He is Fellow of the Royal Historical Society\, and Member of the Editorial Board of the Royal Histo rical Society’s book series ‘New Historical Perspectives’.\n\n\n\nSp eakers:\nDr Milinda Banerjee (University of St Andrews) LOCATION:St Antony's College (Pavilion Room & Zoom)\, 62 Woodstock Road OX 2 6JF TZID:Europe/London URL:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/c42430fb-b905-4332-8e75-b4170d4b8947/ BEGIN:VALARM ACTION:display DESCRIPTION:Talk:Partition\, Bengali Refugee Critiques of Postcolonial Sat e and Capitalism\, and the Subaltern Origins of the Cold War in India\, 19 47-1950 - Dr Milinda Banerjee (University of St Andrews) TRIGGER:-PT1H END:VALARM END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Making India Work: The Development of Welfare in a Multi-level Dem ocracy - Dr Louise Tillin (King’s College London) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20251104T140000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20251104T153000Z UID:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/77e79810-ae90-4861-9883-0a83576f4a6a/ DESCRIPTION:Welfare policies and direct benefit transfers have been at the heart of India’s political marketplace for several decades but the long er-term history of welfare in India is surprisingly little known. Louise T illin’s new book Making India Work: The Development of Welfare in a Mult i-Level Democracy (Cambridge University Press\, 2025) recovers a history t hat is crucial for understanding the current juncture of welfare politics and political economy in India. Traversing more than a century of welfare development from the late colonial period to the present-day\, the book as ks why India has ended up with a small protected formal sector workforce s hielded by social security and protection against retrenchment\, and a muc h larger population that labours informally and does not enjoy such protec tions. It examines why India’s model of industrialisation failed to prov ide an engine for mass employment or welfare state development\, and why t he focus of policy efforts has shifted over the last fifty years from empl oyment generation to the rise of ‘direct benefits’ which subsidise pre carious livelihoods. \n\nLouise Tillin is Professor of Politics at King’ s India Institute\, King’s College London. She is the author of numerous books including Deconstructing India’s Democracy: Essays in Honour of J ames Manor (Orient Blackswan\, 2025) edited with Rob Jenkins\; The Politic s of Poverty Reduction in India: The UPA Government from 2004 to 2014 (Ori ent Blackswan\, 2020) co-authored with James Chiriyankandath\, Diego Maior ano and James Manor\; Indian Federalism (Oxford University Press\, 2019)\, Politics of Welfare: Comparisons across States (Oxford University Press\, 2015)\, edited with Rajeshwari Deshpande and KK Kailash\; Remapping India : New States and their Political Origins (Hurst & Co/Oxford University Pre ss\, 2013) and has published in many academic journals. Since 2013\, she h as been the co-organiser of a series of conferences on India’s Political Economy. She holds degrees from the University of Cambridge\, University of Pennsylvania and Institute of Development Studies\, Sussex.\n\nSpeakers :\nDr Louise Tillin (King’s College London) LOCATION:St Antony's College (Pavilion Room)\, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF TZID:Europe/London URL:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/77e79810-ae90-4861-9883-0a83576f4a6a/ BEGIN:VALARM ACTION:display DESCRIPTION:Talk:Making India Work: The Development of Welfare in a Multi- level Democracy - Dr Louise Tillin (King’s College London) TRIGGER:-PT1H END:VALARM END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Remote Eldercare: Digital Labour Extraction and Life-making in the Philippines - Stephanie Dimatulac Santos (UCLA) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20251106T120000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20251106T133000Z UID:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/655200dc-4302-4ec6-97a9-2d8b2e8b4465/ DESCRIPTION:A seeming contradiction in terms\, remote eldercare is an emer ging industry where workers in the Philippines monitor and interact with e lderly United States-based clients\, via a computer tablet and mediated by an avatar of an animated dog or cat. Using remote eldercare as a case stu dy\, I examine how internet and communications technologies (ICTs) reconfi gure an international division of reproductive labour by engendering extra ction of Southeast Asian workers’ intimate labour to sustain the lives o f people in the Global North\, this time without migration. In addition to labour time\, I build on Neferti Tadiar’s concept of “remaindered liv es” to frame remote carework as the transnational commodification of the vitality and life-times of careworkers. Through their situated testimonie s and cultural production\, I theorize how remote careworkers use ICTs to assert the materiality and affective complexity of their labour\, and ulti mately to craft modes of life-making that defy capitalist capture.\nSpeake rs:\nStephanie Dimatulac Santos (UCLA) LOCATION:St Antony's College (Pavilion Room)\, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF TZID:Europe/London URL:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/655200dc-4302-4ec6-97a9-2d8b2e8b4465/ BEGIN:VALARM ACTION:display DESCRIPTION:Talk:Remote Eldercare: Digital Labour Extraction and Life-maki ng in the Philippines - Stephanie Dimatulac Santos (UCLA) TRIGGER:-PT1H END:VALARM END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Forms of the Left for the 21st Century: Contemporary Art\, Digital Media\, and Repressive Politics in Bangladesh - Lotte Hoek (University of Edinburgh) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20251111T140000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20251111T153000Z UID:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/371cf180-4353-42a6-8729-6e71243c66ce/ DESCRIPTION:What sort of space is the gallery under contemporary condition s of political authoritarianism and “too late” capitalism? In this pap er\, I use the profusion of engaged and politically committed art practice s on display in galleries across Bangladesh to think critically about what happens to progressive and socially engaged aesthetic forms\, their commu nities of practice\, and sites of display\, when the infrastructural\, fin ancial\, and technological transformations of the 21st century realign the relationship between politics and aesthetics so that they leave behind th eir familiar 20th century articulations. By tracing the working conditions \, formal qualities and digital extensions that mark contemporary aestheti c practice in Bangladesh\, I suggest that the reconvening of forms and com munities associated with the left in the expanded gallery is a consequence of our contemporary media and infrastructural conditions. These transitio ns are not unique to Bangladesh but part of 21st century reconfigurations of the relationship between politics and aesthetics.\n\nLotte Hoek is Prof essor of Cultural Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh. She is a me dia anthropologist whose ethnographic explorations of the moving image are situated at the intersection of anthropology and film studies and are gro unded in theoretical debates emerging from South Asian contexts. She is th e author of Cut-Pieces: Celluloid Obscenity and Popular Cinema in Banglade sh (Columbia University Press\, 2014) and co-editor of Forms of the Left i n Postcolonial South Asia: Aesthetics\, Networks and Connected Histories ( Bloomsbury\, 2021). She is one of the editors of the journal BioScope: Sou th Asian Screen Studies.\n\n\nSpeakers:\nLotte Hoek (University of Edinbur gh) LOCATION:St Antony's College (Pavilion Room)\, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF TZID:Europe/London URL:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/371cf180-4353-42a6-8729-6e71243c66ce/ BEGIN:VALARM ACTION:display DESCRIPTION:Talk:Forms of the Left for the 21st Century: Contemporary Art\ , Digital Media\, and Repressive Politics in Bangladesh - Lotte Hoek (Univ ersity of Edinburgh) TRIGGER:-PT1H END:VALARM END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:The Buddha of Berlin: The German Career of the Indian Film Pioneer Himansu Rai - Andrew Halladay (London School of Economics) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20251117T160000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20251117T173000Z UID:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/686ea904-8039-4089-9110-cf9083c50c9d/ DESCRIPTION:The charismatic film pioneer Himansu Rai (1892–1940) is best remembered as the founder of Bombay Talkies\, a studio practically synony mous with early Indian cinema. That his successful career in India followe d an extended stint in Germany is widely known\, but the significance of t hose years within Rai’s wider artistic and business trajectory remains u nderstudied. Working with the German director Franz Osten\, Rai acted in a nd produced three silent films – Die Leuchte Asiens (1925)\, Das Grabmal einer großen Liebe (1928)\, and Schicksalswürfel (1929) – that would dramatize Indian history and mythology and garner enthusiastic responses f rom German audiences. This study uses Rai’s personal papers and underuti lized German newspapers to explore those films and the publicity around th em\, locating Rai himself as a critical factor in their success. It argues that Rai cultivated distinct on- and off-screen personas that worked toge ther to satisfy Orientalist visions of India on the one hand and expectati ons for an intellectual in Europe on the other. Rai – who was equally at home performing maharajas in films and granting interviews in suits – r esponded to these pressures by turning them into a career-making opportuni ty\, marketing himself as the embodiment of his country and its ethos.\n\n Andrew Halladay is a cultural historian of South Asia with a particular in terest in late colonial North India. Currently an assistant professor in t he Department of International History at the London School of Economics a nd Political Science\, he holds a doctoral degree in History and South Asi an Languages and Civilizations from the University of Chicago and was prev iously a postdoctoral fellow at Johns Hopkins University. His work has app eared in Modern Asian Studies and The Historical Journal and has received support from the Fulbright-Nehru Program and the American Institute of Ind ian Studies. His first book project\, A Distant Throne: The British Sovere ign in the Mirror of Indian Nationalism\, explores popular responses to th e figures of George V (r. 1910–36) and Edward VIII (r. 1936) in colonial India.\n\nSpeakers:\nAndrew Halladay (London School of Economics) LOCATION:St Antony's College (Pavilion Room & Zoom)\, 62 Woodstock Road OX 2 6JF TZID:Europe/London URL:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/686ea904-8039-4089-9110-cf9083c50c9d/ BEGIN:VALARM ACTION:display DESCRIPTION:Talk:The Buddha of Berlin: The German Career of the Indian Fil m Pioneer Himansu Rai - Andrew Halladay (London School of Economics) TRIGGER:-PT1H END:VALARM END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Post colonial capital – a genealogy - Professor Barbara Harriss- White ((Emeritus Professor of Development Studies\, Oxford)) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20251118T140000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20251118T153000Z UID:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/9119a8ed-2b54-4433-9ae2-7e829c638222/ DESCRIPTION:A critical examination of ‘post-colonial capitalism’ must begin by tracing the genealogy of the concept to debates about the late co lonialism that post colonial capital is post. After the first decades of i ndependent development\, the study of post-colonial capital has been join ed – and for many replaced - by ‘subaltern studies’\, ‘Saidian pos t-colonial studies’\, and the theses of Sanyal. In the light of this gen ealogy we can ask further questions: 1) whether the study of contemporary capitalism in India needs the concept of ‘post-colonial’ at all\; and 2) whether what is needed is not rather the study of Indian capital in tra nsition to a US-managed neo-colonial regime.\n\nBarbara Harriss-White: Eme ritus Professor of Development Studies and Fellow of Wolfson College. Comm itted to fieldwork\, she has been studying India’s up-country developmen t since driving from Cambridge there in 1969 – in retirement: the econom y as a waste-producing system. (Co) producer of 41 books and as many docto ral students. Former director of QEH/ODID and involved with Oxford’s M P hil in Development Studies and MSc in Contemporary India. ‘Her book ‘R ural Commercial Capital won the Edgar Graham prize for originality in deve lopment studies. Her most recent book is ‘Gold in India’ (CUP).\nSpeak ers:\nProfessor Barbara Harriss-White ((Emeritus Professor of Development Studies\, Oxford)) LOCATION:St Antony's College (Pavilion Room)\, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF TZID:Europe/London URL:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/9119a8ed-2b54-4433-9ae2-7e829c638222/ BEGIN:VALARM ACTION:display DESCRIPTION:Talk:Post colonial capital – a genealogy - Professor Barbara Harriss-White ((Emeritus Professor of Development Studies\, Oxford)) TRIGGER:-PT1H END:VALARM END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:The Idea of India beyond Nationalist Thought - Salmoli Choudhuri ( Oxford and National Law School of India) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20251124T160000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20251124T173000Z UID:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/c0ba868b-6a34-4698-89c7-860d8eaf380b/ DESCRIPTION:A century after Ernst Renan called the nation a spiritual prin ciple defying all social and natural categories\, Benedict Anderson redefi ned it as a secular\, albeit special\, idea constructed through capitalist technologies. Postcolonial scholars have since challenged Anderson’s fr aming for undermining the agential autonomy of anticolonial nationalism. T he preoccupation of this critical scholarship has primarily been sociologi cal\, focussing on how India was imagined as a nation. Taking a step back\ , my paper enquires historically into why India was imagined as an idea in the first place. Initially articulated as a rejoinder to the imperial rep resentation of India as an incoherent collection of disaggregated ‘facts ’\, this idealist appeal emanated from the revolutionary camp helmed by Aurobindo Ghose and Bipin Chandra Pal\, discontented by years of liberal d ebates over factual matters of political economy. The Indian idea was subs equently taken beyond the fold of nationalist thought by its principal pro ponent\, the poet-philosopher Rabindranath Tagore\, and reimagined as a co ncept that surpassed any fixed notion of ‘identity’. I reconstruct the intellectual history of the idea of India as it evolved in the late colon ial period as a search for the structuring basis of its underlying politic al unity. \n\n\n\nAgainst the physical and commercial might of the colonis ers\, the very immateriality of the idea was upheld by the revolutionaries for its sacred quality to mobilise a power not militaristic but sacrifici al. Tagore critiqued this conception and located the Indian idea in the pr actice of welfarism\, which had historically held together the disparate u nits of society\, bound by shared ethics of work and responsibility. Depar ting from the particularism of his civilisational construction\, he later predicated freedom and solidarity on a universally shared human capacity f or creative action. This paper reconstructs the conceptual tussle between related yet rival ideas of sacrifice\, welfare\, and creation that founded India in anticolonial political thought.\n\nSalmoli Choudhuri is an intel lectual historian of legal and political concepts that have played a found ational role in shaping modern and contemporary India and informing global thought. After completing her PhD at the University of Cambridge in 2023\ , she joined the National Law School Bengaluru as an Assistant Professor. She is currently at Oxford as a Koch History Fellow. In addition to develo ping her doctoral thesis on Tagore and freedom into a monograph\, she has begun a new project on juristic ideas of state-thinking in anticolonial po litical thought. Her work has appeared in journals such as Political Theol ogy\, Global Intellectual History\, and Economic and Political Weekly.\n\n Speakers:\nSalmoli Choudhuri (Oxford and National Law School of India) LOCATION:St Antony's College (Pavilion Room & Zoom)\, 62 Woodstock Road OX 2 6JF TZID:Europe/London URL:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/c0ba868b-6a34-4698-89c7-860d8eaf380b/ BEGIN:VALARM ACTION:display DESCRIPTION:Talk:The Idea of India beyond Nationalist Thought - Salmoli Ch oudhuri (Oxford and National Law School of India) TRIGGER:-PT1H END:VALARM END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:A Cacophony of (Ir) Responsibilities - Anwesha Roy (University of Sheffield) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20251201T160000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20251201T173000Z UID:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/f12328d0-8320-49f1-873f-99619afa5a25/ DESCRIPTION:In this talk Dr Anwesha Roy will discuss one of the chapters o f her forthcoming book\, and examine in three important\, yet hitherto ove rlooked textual sources on the Quit India Movement. She will explore pushe s and pulls on ideas of responsibility between officials in the Indian gov ernment\, the British government in England\, and M.K. Gandhi. Running the show of empire in the historical conjuncture of a global war\, attained d ifferent and complex connotations\, especially when Roosevelt and Churchil l signed the Atlantic Charter in 1941 that renewed America’s interest in the political stalemate in India. The response of the Govt. of India and of Britain\, captured in the vignettes presented in her book\, reveal for historians of empire\, a complex terrain of anxiety and struggles\, with p olitical and moral legitimacy. The intellectual and political language of ‘responsibility’ took on new tones\, where the use of excessive violen ce to crush the movement fit within the language of necessity\, not only b ecause a full blown rebellion in the midst of a global war would be disast rous for Britain and her allies\, but also because responsibility was cloa ked in colonial paternalism\, infantilising general ‘masses’ as capabl e only of nationalist (and elite) ‘manipulation’. Gandhi offered a dif ferent\, moral version of responsibility (as indeed\, of politics itself)\ , simultaneously distancing himself\, and the larger Congress leadership f rom the violence of the movement\, but also\, in doing so\, weaving a narr ative where the general ‘masses’ could be taught ‘responsible’ non -violence\, one that could only come at the heavy expense of violence.\n\n Anwesha Roy is a Lecturer in Modern History at the University of Sheffield . Her research focuses on the socio-political histories of the British Emp ire in India\, more specifically\, social and emotional histories of World War II\, identity formation(s)\, mass mobilizations and processes of deco lonization. She is the Author of Making Peace\, Making Riots: Communalism and Communal Violence\, Bengal 1940-47 (Cambridge University Press\, 2018) and Imagining Quit India: War\, Politics and the Making of a Mass Movemen t\, 1940-45 (forthcoming\, Cambridge University Press\, 2025). She is a Fe llow of the Royal Historical Society and the Royal Asiatic Society.\n\nSpe akers:\nAnwesha Roy (University of Sheffield) LOCATION:St Antony's College (Pavilion Room & Zoom)\, 62 Woodstock Road OX 2 6JF TZID:Europe/London URL:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/f12328d0-8320-49f1-873f-99619afa5a25/ BEGIN:VALARM ACTION:display DESCRIPTION:Talk:A Cacophony of (Ir) Responsibilities - Anwesha Roy (Univ ersity of Sheffield) TRIGGER:-PT1H END:VALARM END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Strange Fruit in Comparative Perspective - Dr Adnan Naseemullah (K ings College London) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20251202T140000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20251202T153000Z UID:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/a31af0dd-3f2e-4e4a-b410-5c69c67f0589/ DESCRIPTION:Adnan Naseemullah is Professor of Comparative and South Asian Politics and Fellow of Wolfson College\, the University of Oxford. He has previously taught at the London School of Economics\, Johns Hopkins Univer sity and King’s College London. His research focuses on the political ec onomy of national development\, state formation and political violence and the politics of populism. He is the author of three books: Development af ter Statism (Cambridge\, 2017)\, Patchwork States (Cambridge 2022)\, and R ighteous Demagogues (with Pradeep Chhibber\, Oxford 2024). \n\nSpeakers:\n Dr Adnan Naseemullah (Kings College London) LOCATION:St Antony's College (Pavilion Room)\, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF TZID:Europe/London URL:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/a31af0dd-3f2e-4e4a-b410-5c69c67f0589/ BEGIN:VALARM ACTION:display DESCRIPTION:Talk:Strange Fruit in Comparative Perspective - Dr Adnan Nasee mullah (Kings College London) TRIGGER:-PT1H END:VALARM END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Asian ‘Revolutions’: Youth and Protest in the 2020s DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20251205T093000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20251205T170000Z UID:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/f18a5ec5-caec-4732-b981-7b914f5e2e4a/ DESCRIPTION:This event will explore the wave of recent major political pro tests across several Asian countries. We hope to cover the themes of autho ritarianism\, populism\, corruption\, dynastic politics and crisis of poli tical authority and legitimacy as well as intergenerational inequality\, d iscontent surrounding labour\, employment and education\, and the role of social media and new political idioms. The discussion will include: Bangla desh\, Indonesia\, Myanmar\, Nepal\, Pakistan\, Philippines\, South Korea\ , Sri Lanka\, and Thailand. \n\nProgramme\n\n9.15 am - 12.30 pm\nChris Cha plin (London School of Economics)\nPolitical Dynasties and Protest in the Digital Age: Platformed Youth\, Legitimacy\, and Indonesia’s 2025 Protes ts.\n\nDavid Jackman (Oxford Department of International Development) \nTh e Politics Behind Bangladesh's Gen-Z Revolution: Corruption\, Youth Crisis and the Military \n\nAdnan Nassemullah (Oxford School of Global and Area Studies)\nRedeeming the Establishment? Naya vs Purana Pakistan\n\nNyi Nyi Kyaw (University of Bristol) \nHybridity\, Progressiveness\, Radicalism: R ethinking Resistance in Myanmar’s Spring Revolution\n\nOliver Walton and Waradas Thiyagaraja\, (University of Bath)\nFrom the Street to the System : The Aragalaya\, Political Change and Marginalised Groups in Post-2022 Sr i Lanka\n\n1.30 pm - 4.15 pm\nFraser Sugden (University of Birmingham) \nY outh protest in Nepal\, migration and the agrarian question\n\nTat Yan Kon g (School of Oriental and African Studies\, London)\nThe failure of labour inclusion in South Korea and its implications\n\nDuncan McCargo (Nanyang Technological University\, Singapore)\n‘Let it End in Our Generation’: Beyond Thailand’s 2020 Youth Protests\n\nRichard Javad Heydarian (Blava tnik School of Government\, Oxford) \nPolitical Economy of Corruption”: Authoritarian vs Liberal Populism in the Philippines\n\nGeneral Discussion \n\nSpeakers:\n Various Speakers LOCATION:St Antony's College (Pavilion Room)\, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF TZID:Europe/London URL:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/f18a5ec5-caec-4732-b981-7b914f5e2e4a/ BEGIN:VALARM ACTION:display DESCRIPTION:Talk:Asian ‘Revolutions’: Youth and Protest in the 2020s TRIGGER:-PT1H END:VALARM END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:South Asia-Africa Seminar Series: Anti-caste and Anti-imperial Pol itical Thought - Karthick Ram Manoharan (University of Cambridg e)\, Amber Murrey (University of Oxford) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260120T140000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260120T153000Z UID:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/54b807af-61ae-4f23-9578-2512678f573e/ DESCRIPTION:'A Critique of Periyar's Anti-Aryanism'\nHe had hatred towards the Brahmins and preached violence against them’ is a common accusation laid against Periyar E.V. Ramasamy (1879-1973)\, social reformer from Sou th India. This paper critically looks at Periyar's approach to the Brahmin question\, placing it within his politics of anti-Aryanism. \n\nKarthick Ram Manoharan is Smuts Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Cambr idge. He is most recently the coeditor of The Cambridge Companion to Periy ar (CUP 2025).\n\nAmber Murrey (Chair) \nDr Amber Murrey is an Associate P rofessor of Political Geography at the University of Oxford. She was a 24/ 25 Fulbright Scholar at the Université de Yaoundé 1 in Cameroon. Her awa rd-winning scholarship on political ecologies in Cameroon focuses on forms of what she calls ‘slow dissent’: community struggle and resistance a midst intergenerational and extractive violence. Amber is the co-author of Learning Disobedience: Decolonizing Development Studies (with P. Daley\, 2023) and editor of A Certain Amount of Madness: The Life\, Politics and L egacies of Thomas Sankara (2018). She is Editor-in-Chief of the African Ge ographical Review\, a current British Academy Wolfson Fellow\, and a multi ple recipient of the British Academy Writing Workshop Award in support of her collaborative work on “defiant scholarship in Africa” with colleag ues at the University of Buea (Cameroon) and Addis Ababa University.\nSpea kers:\nKarthick Ram Manoharan (University of Cambridge)\, Amber Murrey (Un iversity of Oxford) LOCATION:St Antony's College (Pavilion Room)\, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF TZID:Europe/London URL:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/54b807af-61ae-4f23-9578-2512678f573e/ BEGIN:VALARM ACTION:display DESCRIPTION:Talk:South Asia-Africa Seminar Series: Anti-caste and Anti-imp erial Political Thought - Karthick Ram Manoharan (University of Cambridge)\, Amber Murrey (University of Oxford) TRIGGER:-PT1H END:VALARM END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:South Asia-Africa Seminar Series: Talking about Unfree Labour - Bhanupriya Rao (Founder and E ditor-in-Chief\, Behanbox)\, Michael Odijie (University of Oxford) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260127T140000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260127T153000Z UID:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/f7f5940c-6acc-44c7-9342-ba943051387c/ DESCRIPTION:'Honorary labour': Women’s Labour and the Political Economy of Care\nBhanupriya Rao (Behanbox)\n\n1 million women form the edifice of India's care and health infrastructure. Yet\, they are not employees of the state. They are designated as 'volunteers' and paid an 'honorarium'. D rawing on the investigative journalism and data-driven archives of Behanbo x's "ASHA Story"\, my talk examines the lived realities of India's care providers and how the "honorary" status of frontline health workers (ASHAs and Anganwadis) serves as a legal and economic mechanism for state-sancti oned exploitation and feminised notions of care institutionalised in polic y and governance.\n\nBhanupriya Rao is the founder of Behanbox-a feminist digital platform that does deep dive reportage on issues from a lens of ge nder and marginality in India. She is a passionate advocate for just and d emocratic governance and policy making. For two decades\, she had been inv olved in grassroots movements like Right to Food\, Work and Information an d working with civil society groups in strengthening governance and welfar e delivery systems. \n\nSubsidising Chocolate: Unfree Labour and Everyday Exploitation in West Africa’s Cocoa Economies\nMichael E. Odijie (Oxford ) \n\nThis talk draws on my forthcoming book project on labour exploitatio n in West and Central African cocoa economies to rethink “unfree labour ” beyond the language of exceptional criminality. I argue that unfreedom is often produced structurally—through low and volatile farm incomes\, seasonal labour bottlenecks\, frontier expansion\, and systems of intermed iation that blur responsibility and make exit costly for workers. These co nditions generate a spectrum of coercive ties\, including indebtedness\, w age withholding\, dependency on patrons or recruiters\, and the normalisat ion of unpaid family and children’s work as a coping strategy. In conve rsation with labour struggles in India’s care economy\, the talk offers a cross-regional lens on how essential work becomes systematically underva lued—and what a worker-centred approach to reform would require.\n\nDr M ichael Ehis Odijie is an Associate Professor of African Studies and Africa n History\, holding a joint appointment between the Oxford School of Globa l and Area Studies and the Faculty of History. He is Nigerian\, and his re search focuses on a range of historical and contemporary themes in West Af rica\, including local networks against slavery and labour exploitation\, the cocoa value chain\, EU-Africa relations\, and the politics of developm ent.\n\nSpeakers:\nBhanupriya Rao (Founder and Editor-in-Chief\, Behanbox) \, Michael Odijie (University of Oxford) LOCATION:St Antony's College (Pavilion Room)\, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF TZID:Europe/London URL:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/f7f5940c-6acc-44c7-9342-ba943051387c/ BEGIN:VALARM ACTION:display DESCRIPTION:Talk:South Asia-Africa Seminar Series: Talking about Unfree La bour - Bhanupriya Rao (Foun der and Editor-in-Chief\, Behanbox)\, Michael Odijie (University of Oxford ) TRIGGER:-PT1H END:VALARM END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Radical Empire: Tilak\, Jinnah and Indian Home Rule - Amar Sohal DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260202T160000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260202T173000Z UID:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/1e04f52e-b0bc-46c2-a0ab-48fc31ca9fff/ DESCRIPTION:This paper begins the work of reconstructing the ideological f oundations of India’s campaign for home rule during the First World War. It examines the ideas of Bal Gangadhar Tilak and Mohammad Ali Jinnah—an d\, to a lesser extent\, Annie Besant—to uncover a shared argument for i mperial federation that cut across their otherwise disparate social and po litical origins.\n \nThese figures sought to preserve some of the most sig nificant products of colonial rule—namely constitutional law\, state aut hority\, and the protective shell and universal promise of crown and empir e. But they concurrently filled these old colonial containers with new con tent: representative democracy\, racial justice\, and economic freedom. Be cause racial hierarchy had so thoroughly diluted any imperial claim to uni versality\, their decision to reimagine empire for a federation of equal ( but internally hierarchical) nations amounted to an act of radical conserv atism. It would have been simpler\, at the theoretical though not practica l level\, to discard empire altogether\, rather than recast its entrenched system of racial inequality into a global democracy governed by local eli tes. By refusing a complete political and intellectual rupture\, these sti ll anticolonial leaders theorised a politics of freedom for India’s subj ect population which nevertheless worked with the conceptual terms of thei r foreign masters. This active negotiation with modernity was beset by anx ieties over the very mass democracy it tried to encourage. Tilak\, Jinnah\ , and Besant sought to manage this other conservative paradox through elit e trusteeship and gradual reform.\n \nThe exceptional success of the Home Rulers lay in overcoming institutionalised religious divisions to locate p olitical antagonism\, not in the communal other\, but in the colonial stat e itself. Therefore\, however counterintuitive it may sound\, the loyalist Home Rule Movement represented an uncommonly anticolonial moment in a fre edom struggle vexed by internal difference.\n \nBiography \nAmar Sohal is an intellectual historian of modern India and Pakistan. He is Lecturer in the History of Political Thought at King’s College London and Koch Histo ry Centre Fellow\, Oxford. His research focuses on anticolonial nationalis m\, religious politics\, and the secular state. After completing his DPhil in History at Merton College\, Oxford\, Amar was elected Early-Career Res earch Fellow in Politics and International Studies at Corpus Christi Colle ge\, Cambridge. There he revised his DPhil dissertation for a monograph\, The Muslim Secular: Parity and the Politics of India’s Partition(Oxford University Press\, 2023)\, published in the Oxford Historical Monographs s eries. Amar’s academic articles and edited special issues on minorityhoo d and Kashmir have been published in leading journals: Global Intellectual History\, Modern Intellectual History\, and South Asia. His second resear ch project explores the political thought of Hindu and Muslim conservative s across the twentieth century. Surmounting institutional divisions\, thes e thinker-politicians collectively theorised ideas of state authority\, fr eedom\, (non)violence\, and national culture.\n\nSpeakers:\nAmar Sohal LOCATION:St Antony's College (Pavilion Room & Teams )\, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF TZID:Europe/London URL:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/1e04f52e-b0bc-46c2-a0ab-48fc31ca9fff/ BEGIN:VALARM ACTION:display DESCRIPTION:Talk:Radical Empire: Tilak\, Jinnah and Indian Home Rule - Ama r Sohal TRIGGER:-PT1H END:VALARM END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:South Asia-Africa Seminar Series: Insurgency\, Conflict and Govern ance - Paula Cristina Roque\, Alpa Shah (Oxfo rd) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260203T140000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260203T153000Z UID:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/1b15c4e1-6b97-4fed-b8ef-9197ecf94236/ DESCRIPTION:A conversation on Paula Cristina Roque’s book\, Insurgent Na tions: Rebel Rule in Angola and South Sudan\, facilitated by Alpa Shah\n\n Over two separate twelve-year periods\, two opposing ‘states’ governed in parallel in Angola (1979–1991) and Sudan (1990–2002)\, each with c ompeting conceptions of society\, history and national identity. Deeply di viding communities with their counter-nationalist programmes\, rebel parti es UNITA in Angola and the SPLM/A in Sudan\, which had fought Africa’s l ongest and bloodiest civil wars\, built political and military enterprises in opposition to the established governments. Insurgent Nations unpacks t he complexities of these movements\, exploring the charisma of their leade rs\, the ruthlessness of their military operations\, their political manoe uvrings\, and their multiple transformations in war and peace. Using first -hand\, unpublished accounts from their leaders and cadres\, Paula Cristin a Roque provides unique insight into UNITA and the SPLM/A’s governing st rategies. She details the ‘nations’\, ‘states’ and ‘societies’ that were forged by the parties’ ideologies\, sub-nationalist concerns and interactions with the population. While UNITA’s political project in the Free Lands of Angola was centrally controlled and totalitarian\, the SPLM/A’s New Sudan was decentralised and minimalist\, built from the bot tom up. This is the first volume to compare the policies and perspectives of UNITA and the SPLM/A\, offering a new understanding of territory-govern ing insurgencies. Ultimately\, both rebel states were exercises in surviva l\, resilience and adaptation.\n\nPaula Cristina Roque is an author\, rese archer\, and security sector analyst with extensive expertise in human rig hts\, security\, and surveillance in Africa. She is the Executive Director of Intelwatch since 2024\, an organisation that promotes democratic overs ight of intelligence and surveillance\, monitor and report on surveillance activities\, raise awareness and provide education about the dangers of u ndemocratic intelligence and surveillance activities\, and advocate for ef fective oversight of surveillance laws\, policies\, and practices. She has served as an advisor for the Crisis Management Initiative as well as a Se nior Analyst for Southern Africa with the International Crisis Group. Prev iously\, she worked with the South Sudan-Centre for Strategic and Policy S tudies\, the Institute for Security Studies\, the South African Institute for International Affairs\, and as a journalist in West Africa and the UK. Paula holds a Dphil in Development Studies from the University of Oxford\ , a MSc in Human Rights from the London School of Economics\, and a BA in Social Anthropology from the Instituto Superior de Ciencias do Trabalho e da Empresa.\nSpeakers:\nPaula Cristina Roque\, Alpa Shah (Oxford) LOCATION:St Antony's College (Pavilion Room)\, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF TZID:Europe/London URL:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/1b15c4e1-6b97-4fed-b8ef-9197ecf94236/ BEGIN:VALARM ACTION:display DESCRIPTION:Talk:South Asia-Africa Seminar Series: Insurgency\, Conflict a nd Governance - Paula Cristina Roque\, Alpa S hah (Oxford) TRIGGER:-PT1H END:VALARM END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Early Sikh Engagements with Islam and Classical Sufi Thinkers - Sa tnam Singh DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260209T160000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260209T173000Z UID:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/8dc59f0a-87a2-4efc-837f-b5378b285e77/ DESCRIPTION:Scholarship on Sikh–Muslim relations in eighteenth-century M ughal India has often centered on narratives of military conflict and poli tical rivalry. This presentation suggests an alternative intellectual acco unt by examining the ways in which Sikh scholars engaged Islamic and class ical Sufi philosophy as objects of study\, translation\, circulation\, and interpretation. Through these scholarly engagements\, the Sikh tradition emerged as an active participant in a wider Persianate cosmopolis of mysti cal and ethical ideas.\n\nThe Sikh community appears to have been the firs t in history to translate Rumi’s Masnavi-e Manavi (the spiritual couplet s) and Imam Ghazali’s Kimiya-yi Sa'adat (the alchemy of happiness) into a ‘non-Muslim’ vernacular. Sikh scholarly engagements with Islamic and Sufi ideas unfolded over several centuries and took multiple forms. These include critical theological commentary within the Guru Granth Sahib (the central Sikh scripture)\, poetical ‘dialogue’ between leading intelle ctuals from each tradition\, and arduous translations of ancient classics such as Rumi’s Masnavi-e Manavi and Imam Ghazali’s Kimiya-yi Sa'adat. \n\nAlongside elite textual production\, popular retellings of the lives a nd teachings of prophets and Sufi mystics circulated widely through manusc ript transmission and oral performance. Indeed\, it can be argued that eng agements with Sufi-\, Quranic\, and Biblical figures such as Maulana Rumi\ , Imam Al-Ghazali\, Hafez Shirazi\, Hallaj-al Mansour\, Imam Ali\, Rabia a l-Basri\, Junayd al-Baghdadi\, Abdullah Ansari\, Hassan al-Basri\, Ibrahim Adham al-Balkhi\, as well as Mithra\, Adam\, Moses\, and Jesus appear to have been central to certain branches of the early Sikh intellectual tradi tion. Scholars such as Nand Lal Goya\, Adhan Shah\, Seva Ram\, Garhu\, and others appear at the center of this trajectory and redefine how we unders tand early Sikh intellectual history and its place in the Persianate world . \n\nBiography\nSatnam Singh is an intellectual historian and the author of The Road to Empire: The Political Education of Khalsa Sikhs in the Late 1600s (University of California Press\, 2024). Satnam’s research explor es early modern intellectual history and the construction of knowledge and authority within Sikh ranks. The research presented in this presentation forms part of his forthcoming monograph on precolonial Sikh intellectual t raditions\, scheduled for publication in 2028. More information on his pub lications can be found on www.satnam-singh.com \n\nSpeakers:\nSatnam Singh LOCATION:St Antony's College (Pavilion Room & Teams )\, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF TZID:Europe/London URL:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/8dc59f0a-87a2-4efc-837f-b5378b285e77/ BEGIN:VALARM ACTION:display DESCRIPTION:Talk:Early Sikh Engagements with Islam and Classical Sufi Thin kers - Satnam Singh TRIGGER:-PT1H END:VALARM END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:South Asia-Africa Seminar Series: Sovereignty by Exception: Global China\, Law\, and Infrastructure across Africa and South Asia - Thiruni K elagama (Wolfson College\, Oxford)\, Miriam Driessen (University of Oxford ) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260210T140000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260210T153000Z UID:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/9cf09537-1565-436d-bdef-9ada910f3f2c/ DESCRIPTION:This joint presentation examines how sovereignty is being reco nfigured through encounters with Global China across Africa and South Asia . Moving beyond narratives of sovereign erosion or capture\, we approach s overeignty as a set of practices that are actively produced\, negotiated\, and contested through legal\, infrastructural\, and institutional forms. Drawing on ethnographic research on Chinese litigation in Ethiopian courts and on the governance of the Belt and Road Initiative funded Colombo Port City project in Sri Lanka\, we explore how sovereign authority is increas ingly exercised through exception rather than rule. \n \nIn Ethiopia\, cou rts have become critical arenas where immunity is debated among those who fight\, exact\, grant\, or weigh it\, and where sovereignty is enacted thr ough everyday legal practice . In Sri Lanka\, sovereign exception is deli berately engineered through infrastructure-led development\, as elite comm issions design special zones that reconfigure territorial authority\, lega lity\, and economic governance.\n \nTaken together\, these cases describe how postcolonial states strategically invite and manage sovereign compromi se in pursuit of development and how authority is fragmented across state institutions. Most importantly it reveals how Global China serves less as an exceptional actor than as a catalyst that reveals and accelerates exist ing transformations. By placing law and infrastructure in dialogue\, the t alk highlights the multiple sites through which sovereignty is performed t oday and raises broader questions about accountability and governance unde r conditions of exception.\n \nThiruni Kelegama (Oxford School of Global a nd Area Studies\, University of Oxford\, UK) examines how development proj ects reshape power\, space\, and identity in Sri Lanka. Her forthcoming bo ok\, Central Margins: Sri Lanka's Violent Frontier (Cambridge University P ress 2026)\, analyses how postcolonial states pair narratives of benevolen t development with territorial control.\n\nMiriam Driessen is an anthropol ogist and departmental lecturer in the School of Anthropology and Museum E thnography\, University of Oxford. She is the author of Tales of Hope\, Ta stes of Bitterness: Chinese Road Builders in Ethiopia and the forthcoming book Immunity on Trial: Ethiopian Courts\, Chinese Corporations\, and Cont estations over Sovereignty.\n\n\nSpeakers:\nThiruni Kelagama (Wolfson Coll ege\, Oxford)\, Miriam Driessen (University of Oxford) LOCATION:St Antony's College (Pavilion Room)\, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF TZID:Europe/London URL:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/9cf09537-1565-436d-bdef-9ada910f3f2c/ BEGIN:VALARM ACTION:display DESCRIPTION:Talk:South Asia-Africa Seminar Series: Sovereignty by Exceptio n: Global China\, Law\, and Infrastructure across Africa and South Asia - Thiruni Kelagama (Wolfson College\, Oxford)\, Miriam Driessen (University of Oxford) TRIGGER:-PT1H END:VALARM END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Right-wing decoloniality and civilizational discourses - Ali Usman Qasmi (LUMS) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260216T160000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260216T173000Z UID:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/ffbc26e9-9610-4409-be3b-5083f3ce5243/ DESCRIPTION:Speaking about the Scandinavian model of the social welfare sy stem\, former Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan described it as inspir ed by and named after the ‘Umar Laws\,’ due to its borrowing from the welfare state model established by the second caliph of Sunni Islam\, Umar b. al-Khattab. The Indian Prime Minister\, Narendra Modi\, in his inaugur al speech in parliament in 2014\, described his ascendancy to power as mar king an end to one thousand years of slavery - an explicit reference to th e so-called ‘Muslim period’ in Indian history as a humiliating subjuga tion of Hindus. The US President\, Donald Trump\, projects himself as a po werful force against the ‘Establishment’ and an upholder of traditiona l American values. The Italian Prime Minister\, Giorgia Meloni\, similarly vows to uphold traditional Italian values while assailing the atomization of society into dissoluble individual units.\n\nWhat is common between th ese and many other instances of political rhetoric across the globe is the peculiarity of the moment\, reminiscent of the interwar period\, when com peting groups - reeling under inflationary pressures and a psychology of d efeat - aspired to a utopian future based on an idyllic vision of the past \, but ended up creating a dystopian present. It is this yearning for auth enticity that provides the moral language of political content in both mom ents - too distant and yet too close. Beyond the globality of the shared m oment\, what is also common is the political and moral language of decolon iality\, appropriated by the right wing: enabling Trump to champion a crus ade against crony capitalism\; allowing Modi and his supporters to advocat e for a Hindu rashtra as a decolonial project\; painting Imran Khan as a d ecolonial thinker for locating a welfare state model in Islamic history as an alternative superior to Scandinavia\; and positioning the Italian Prim e Minister as a critic of atomized consumerist subjectivity reduced to abs traction. What is also common among these and similar political rhetorics emerging from countries like Turkey and Russia - not to mention across the European Union - is the claim to national identity grounded in civilizati onal terms. Whereas national claims to sovereignty were previously made th rough the framework of the nation-state\, in the new political rhetoric\, it is the master signifier of civilization that encapsulates the nation\, to be protected from external and\, more importantly\, internal threats.\n \nWith a focus on South Asia\, I explore in my talk the parallel trajector ies of multiple civilizational discourses: the Nehruvian vision of India a s a flowing stream enriched by diverse currents\; the racial exclusivity o f Savarkar’s core Hindutva identity\, centered on the sacralized geograp hical entity of Bharat\; and the Muslim nostalgia for empire as a civiliza tion\, which served as a mode of belonging and a claim to equality during colonial subjugation. My talk provides an analytical and historical overvi ew of these various trends within civilizational discourse\, with a focus on contemporary debates that explore the link between the right-wing weapo nization of decoloniality and the rise of populist politics globally.\n\nB iography\nBorn and raised in Lahore\, Ali Usman Qasmi is a historian of mo dern South Asia and Islamic reform movements. He has published extensively in his area of expertise\, including three monographs and three edited vo lumes. His most recent monograph is Qaum\, Mulk\, Sultanat: Citizenship an d National Belonging in Pakistan (Stanford University Press\, 2023)\, whic h won the American Institute of Pakistan Studies (AIPS) Book Prize for 202 4. Since 2012\, Qasmi has taught history at LUMS’ School of Humanities a nd Social Sciences. Currently\, Qasmi also serves as the Director of the G urmani Center for Languages and Literature.\n\nSpeakers:\nAli Usman Qasmi (LUMS) LOCATION:Online - Teams TZID:Europe/London URL:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/ffbc26e9-9610-4409-be3b-5083f3ce5243/ BEGIN:VALARM ACTION:display DESCRIPTION:Talk:Right-wing decoloniality and civilizational discourses - Ali Usman Qasmi (LUMS) TRIGGER:-PT1H END:VALARM END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:South Asia-Africa Seminar Series: Gen Z revolutions - David Gellner (U niversity of Oxford)\, Velomahanina Razakamaharavo (University of Reading) \, Krishna Adhikari (University of Oxford) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260217T140000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260217T153000Z UID:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/aa702513-98af-418c-9572-c09158eb475d/ DESCRIPTION:Hybrid Sovereignties and Generational Rupture: Reconfiguring G overnance in Post-Crisis Madagascar\nVelomahanina Tahinjanahary Razakamaha ravo\n\nMadagascar’s 2025 conflict and political crises represent the ap ex of a long-entrenched hybrid political order in which formal institution s\, military actors\, oligarchic networks\, religious intermediaries\, and digitally mobilized youth compete for authority and legitimacy. The Gen Z -led uprising exposed deep generational cleavages and the fragmentation of sovereignty\, while the military’s renewed political role features the persistence of praetorian dynamics. Rebuilding civilian authority will req uire embracing managed hybridity through inclusive political compacts and targeted structural reforms aimed at curbing state capture\, strengthening civil-military relations\, and addressing the vulnerabilities introduced by digital mobilization.\n\nDr Velomahanina Tahinjanahary Razakamaharavo i s a Research Fellow at the University of Reading. Her work focuses on peac ebuilding\, conflict recurrence\, governance of emerging technologies\, an d resilience to climate-related risks. She holds a PhD in International Co nflict Analysis from the University of Kent and has held research\, policy and teaching positions across Europe\, including at the Technical Univers ity of Munich\, the European University Institute\, Geneva Graduate Instit ute\, Uppsala University\, Umeå University and UCLouvain. She led the ESR C-funded HYBRICON project on conflict and hybrid governance and is the Aut hor of the Monograph "Peacebuilding in Madagascar. A Multi-levelled Peace" .\n\n\nNepal’s Gen-Z ‘Revolution’: Was it a Revolution and What is L ikely to Happen in the Elections in March?\nDavid Gellner and Krishna Adhi kari\n\nBoth participants and observers are even now puzzling over what ha ppened in Nepal on September 8 and 9th 2025. Plenty of conspiracy theories \, simplistic explanations\, and instant analyses are on offer: Was it a m onarchist plot? Could it have been organized by a distant or neighbouring foreign power? Was it just a nihilistic expression of fury from a social-m edia-saturated youth angry at the banning of Facebook and WhatsApp and fur ious at the images they had seen of Nepokids (the children of politicians and the business elite) cavorting in ski resorts while they battled with u nemployment? What was the role of the Army\, of India\, and of the monarch ists? How was it possible for life to go back to ‘normal’ so quickly?\ nMuch of the arson and violence on the second day was planned\, though whe ther anyone will ever be held to account is very much an open question. Wh ether the new political forces claiming to represent the aspirations of Ge n-Z will be able to defeat the established parties in the elections is ver y much an open question. If they do so\, whether and how they will be able to renew the country is also an open question. Whether the programme of t he new forces will involve undoing the achievements of the 2015 Constituti on (secularism\, republicanism\, federalism\, quota systems for minorities ) also remains to be seen and\, either way\, their position is likely to be highly contentious. \nBy comparing Nepal to Madagascar\, it is hoped th at some larger issues of youth\, development\, migration\, and networked g lobalization can be addressed. \n\nDavid Gellner FBA is Emeritus Professor of Social Anthropology and Emeritus Fellow of All Souls\, University of O xford. He has been doing research on Nepal since 1980. His most recent pub lications with Krishna Adhikari are the co-edited Nepal’s Dalits in Tran sition (Vajra\, 2024) and an analysis of the September ‘revolution’ pu blished six weeks after the events: https://www.theindiaforum.in/politics/ gen-z-and-nepals-ongoing-struggle-change. \n\nKrishna Adhikari is an Affil iate of the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography\, University of Oxford. He was in Nepal during the events of September. He has a Master’ s in Social Work from Goteborg\, Sweden\, and a PhD on the dynamics of soc ial capital in CBOs in Nepal from the University of Reading (2007). \n\nSp eakers:\nDavid Gellner (University of Oxford)\, Velomahanina Razakamaharav o (University of Reading)\, Krishna Adhikari (University of Oxford) LOCATION:St Antony's College (Pavilion Room)\, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF TZID:Europe/London URL:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/aa702513-98af-418c-9572-c09158eb475d/ BEGIN:VALARM ACTION:display DESCRIPTION:Talk:South Asia-Africa Seminar Series: Gen Z revolutions - David G ellner (University of Oxford)\, Velomahanina Razakamaharavo (University of Reading)\, Krishna Adhikari (University of Oxford) TRIGGER:-PT1H END:VALARM END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Scholarly mobility and Sufi authority: Imdadullah's intellectual w orld between South Asia and the Hijaz - Dr Moin Ahmad Nizami (Oxford Cent re for Islamic Studies) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260223T140000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260223T160000Z UID:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/1ab62c20-8206-4776-b61b-93a8f4da868f/ DESCRIPTION:\nSpeakers:\nDr Moin Ahmad Nizami (Oxford Centre for Islamic S tudies) LOCATION:St Antony's College (Pavilion Room & Teams)\, 62 Woodstock Road O X2 6JF TZID:Europe/London URL:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/1ab62c20-8206-4776-b61b-93a8f4da868f/ BEGIN:VALARM ACTION:display DESCRIPTION:Talk:Scholarly mobility and Sufi authority: Imdadullah's intel lectual world between South Asia and the Hijaz - Dr Moin Ahmad Nizami (Ox ford Centre for Islamic Studies) TRIGGER:-PT1H END:VALARM END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:South Asia-Africa Seminar Series: The Politics of Digital Interven tions - Tom Neumark (University of Oslo )\, Nafis Aziz (University of Amsterdam) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260224T140000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260224T153000Z UID:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/4b9f27b8-5c3d-4318-b5d1-5e0f8870b47f/ DESCRIPTION:Digitization in ‘New India’: A Material and Moral Technolo gy\nDr Nafis Aziz Hasan (University of Amsterdam)\n\nAs a material\, ideol ogical\, aesthetic and moral force\, digitization of public administration in India\, has\, over the past four decades\, intervened in the social\, political and technological life of the state\, broadly conceived. In this talk\, drawing on an ethnography of public bureaucracy as it encounters t he multiple infrastructures of mobile apps\, dashboards and databases as t he interfaces through which forms of algorithmic software and now AI meet prior writing and documentary technologies\, I describe some key effects o f the charisma of new technology on a diverse constituency of actors and i nstitutions – local bureaucrats and their offices\, senior bureaucrats a nd new forms of expertise and national pride and the everyday hopes and de spairs of people interacting with a digitizing state. Undergirding these d escriptions are anthropological concerns about the shaping and re-shaping of collective and individual identities in ‘New India’.\n \nDr. Nafis Aziz Hasan is an assistant professor in the department of Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) specializing in the human and organizati onal effects of digitization in the Global South. Prior to joining the UvA \, he was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Center for the Advanced St udy of India at the University of Pennsylvania. His articles have appeared in American Ethnologist\, Science Technology and Human Values and South A sia: Journal of South Asian Studies\, among other venues. Along with Ashis h Rajadhyaksha and Nishant Shah\, he is also the author of the open access book Overload\, Creep\, Excess: An Internet from India.\n\nDwelling in Am biguity: Tanzanian-led AI Innovation and the Technological Otherwise\nTom Neumark (University of Oslo) \n\nThis talk draws on my ethnographic resear ch among Tanzanian computer and data scientists working on healthcare and medical technologies. I begin by posing a simple question: should Tanzania n-led digital technological innovation fill us with despair or inspire us? Debates that hinge on the idea of a technological otherwise often polaris e. Critics see sameness in a derivative Silicon Valley solutionism\, techn o-fixing\, and neoliberal capture. In contrast\, others emphasise differen ce\, pointing to local\, situated knowledge\, forms of care\, or technolog ical self-determination. I argue that both perspectives are as problematic as they are illuminating\, and we must focus more consistently on ambigui ty. My argument is not simply descriptive – that ambiguity exists in pra ctice – but normative and methodological: we should retain and centre it in our explanations and political response. I show how centring ambiguity potentially offers new opportunities for learning with not only our inter locutors but also other disciplines. \n\nTom Neumark is a social anthropol ogist whose research focuses on interventions to alleviate poverty and ill health in East Africa. He is the author of Caring Cash: Free Money and th e Ethics of Solidarity in Kenya\, published by Pluto Press\, and holds a P hD in Social Anthropology from the University of Cambridge. \nSpeakers:\nT om Neumark (University of Oslo)\, Nafis Aziz (University of Amsterdam) LOCATION:St Antony's College (Pavilion Room)\, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF TZID:Europe/London URL:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/4b9f27b8-5c3d-4318-b5d1-5e0f8870b47f/ BEGIN:VALARM ACTION:display DESCRIPTION:Talk:South Asia-Africa Seminar Series: The Politics of Digital Interventions - Tom Neumark (Universit y of Oslo)\, Nafis Aziz (University of Amsterdam) TRIGGER:-PT1H END:VALARM END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Book Talk: Order without Hegemony - Manjeet S. Pardesi (Victoria University of Wellington)\, Rosemary Foot (St Antony's College)\, Faisal D evji DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260226T140000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260226T153000Z UID:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/b694d03f-9ec5-4255-8eb6-4015d1f444df/ DESCRIPTION:What comes after American hegemony? In this book\, Acharya and Pardesi compare the interplay of power and ideas in the ancient Mediterra nean and Indian Ocean to explain why the two regions took divergent paths to peace and stability. They also discuss its lessons for international or der today. While the ancient Mediterranean order was shaped by the hegemon y of Rome\, the Indian Ocean developed an open and inclusive international order without the dominance of any single power. Moreover\, the Indian Oc ean provides a more robust example of the peaceful spread of ideas and cul ture than the ancient Mediterranean where Hellenization or the spread of G reek ideas was often accompanied by violence and imperialism. Applying the divergent experiences of the two regions\, the book argues that the histo ry the Indian Ocean before European colonization offers a more useful fram ework for reshaping world order as the US- and Western- dominated Liberal International Order comes to an end. The Indian Ocean framework points to an alternative model of order building\, a multiplex rather than a multipo lar approach\, that could sustain efforts to build peace and stability in the emerging Indo-Pacific region.\nBook: Amitav Acharya and Manjeet S. Par desi\, Divergent Worlds: What the Ancient Mediterranean and Indian Ocean C an Tell Us About the Future of International Order https://yalebooks.yale. edu/book/9780300214987/divergent-worlds/\n\n\nManjeet S. Pardesi is Associ ate Professor of International Relations in the Political Science and Inte rnational Relations Programme and Asia Research Fellow at the Centre for S trategic Studies\, Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington. Hi s research focuses on global orders and global history\, great power polit ics\, Asian security\, and the Sino-Indian rivalry.\nHis most recent book\ , Divergent Worlds: What the Ancient Mediterranean and Indian Ocean Can Te ll Us About the Future of International Order (co-authored with Amitav Ach arya)\, was published by Yale University Press in 2025 and received the 20 26 T. V. Paul Book Prize from the International Studies Association. A Chi nese-language edition is expected in 2026. He is also co-author of The Sin o-Indian Rivalry: Implications for Global Order (with Sumit Ganguly and Wi lliam R. Thompson\, Cambridge University Press\, 2023).\nHis work has appe ared in journals such as European Journal of International Relations\, Sec urity Studies\, Survival\, and Global Studies Quarterly\, as well as in ed ited volumes. \nHe received his PhD in Political Science from Indiana Univ ersity\, Bloomington. He holds an MSc in Strategic Studies from the Instit ute of Defence and Strategic Studies (now the S. Rajaratnam School of Inte rnational Studies)\, Nanyang Technological University\, Singapore\, and a BEng in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Nanyang Technological U niversity.\n\nSpeakers:\nManjeet S. Pardesi (Victoria University of Wellin gton)\, Rosemary Foot (St Antony's College)\, Faisal Devji LOCATION:St Antony's College (Dahrendorf Room)\, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF TZID:Europe/London URL:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/b694d03f-9ec5-4255-8eb6-4015d1f444df/ BEGIN:VALARM ACTION:display DESCRIPTION:Talk:Book Talk: Order without Hegemony - Manjeet S. Pardesi ( Victoria University of Wellington)\, Rosemary Foot (St Antony's College)\, Faisal Devji TRIGGER:-PT1H END:VALARM END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Family\, Historical Memory and Cultural Capital in Late Colonial I ndia - Polly O'Hanlon (University of Oxford) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260302T160000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260302T173000Z UID:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/b7d19072-c796-4c13-b97f-b9a20ff26eb7/ DESCRIPTION:This paper explores the reconstitution of Brahmans as caste su bjects in the late colonial period\, with a particular focus on Maharashtr a. As is well known\, Brahman scribal elites achieved remarkable success w ithin the successor states of the eighteenth century. In many parts of Ind ia\, this professional heritage helped consolidate their dominance as Angl ophone professionals in colonial service\, as writers and publicists in th e sphere of vernacular print\, and as leading interlocutors in the meaning s of colonial modernity for Indian politics and society. Non-Brahman chall enges from south and western India\, as well as the rise of Gandhian polit ics prompted Brahman communities to look for new forms of social and polit ical leadership\, from Hindu nationalist politics to investments in new ge nres of vernacular literature and poetry. For Brahman communities in weste rn India\, the writing and publication of family histories also provided a means to project their accomplishments in service of the nation. These fa mily histories or kulavrttanta emerged out of precolonial genres of histor ical writing and caste categorisation\, reworked with family trees and pho tographs for the age of vernacular print. Kulavrttantas presented these tr ansformations as successful passages from tradition to modernity. In doing so\, they also contributed to what has been described as the “culturali zation” of caste\, its transmutation from structured social hierarchy to an aspect of family “culture” and private life.\n\nBio: Rosalind O’ Hanlon is Professor Emeritus of Indian History and Culture in the Faculty of Asian and Middle East Studies in Oxford\, and a fellow of Clare College \, Cambridge. She has written extensively on caste and gender in India fro m the early modern to the late colonial period. Her most recent publicatio n is Lineages of Brahman Power: Caste\, Family and the State in Western In dia\, 1600-1900 (SUNY and Permanent Black\, 2025).\n\nSpeakers:\nPolly O'H anlon (University of Oxford) LOCATION:St Antony's College (Pavilion Room & Teams )\, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF TZID:Europe/London URL:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/b7d19072-c796-4c13-b97f-b9a20ff26eb7/ BEGIN:VALARM ACTION:display DESCRIPTION:Talk:Family\, Historical Memory and Cultural Capital in Late C olonial India - Polly O'Hanlon (University of Oxford) TRIGGER:-PT1H END:VALARM END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:CANCELLED - South Asia-Africa Seminar Series: Southern Urbanisms\, Migration and Belonging - Elisa Tamburo (Harvard University & University of Oxford)\, Bani Gill (University of Tübingen) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260303T140000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260303T153000Z UID:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/1d3a45c6-b919-43bd-9b30-81643864d8ec/ DESCRIPTION:Contested Sovereignty: Chinese-led urban development\, city-ma king\, and urban futures in Nairobi\, Kenya\nElisa Tamburo (Harvard Univer sity & Oxford) \n\nThe paper examines city-making and its stakeholders to show how sovereignty is negotiated beyond the polity of the nation-state. Since the early 2000s\, the rise of Chinese private construction firms in Nairobi\, Kenya\, has transformed how the city is planned\, built\, and in habited. Chinese-led urban development not only fragments the Kenyan urban middle class but also reveals divergent and sometimes conflicting interes ts among Chinese actors themselves. Drawing on eight months of ethnographi c fieldwork in Nairobi\, I analyse the effects of private Chinese financia l engagement in Kenya and probe which contested visions of the city may em erge\, tracing how these are entangled with notions of citizenship\, gover nance\, and sovereignty in Nairobi. I argue for the need to distinguish ca refully among different stakeholders – builders\, residents\, and munici pal authorities – and propose that we venture beyond a nation-centered a nalysis of sovereignty. Focusing on the scale of the city offers new vista s on the forces that shape visions of the future\, which often diverge fro m those that urban dwellers imagine and aspire to.\n\nElisa Tamburo is a s ocial anthropologist and Skłodowska Curie Global Postdoctoral Fellow join tly in the Department of Anthropology at Harvard and the School of Geograp hy and the Environment at Oxford. Her second main research project Negotia ting the City\, focuses on urban planning and dwelling amidst China-built urban infrastructure in Nairobi\, Kenya. Her work appeared in internationa l peer-reviewed journals such as the JRAI\, Focaal\, and the Journal of Cu rrent Chinese Affairs. Elisa is currently revising her first book manuscri pt\, Exiled in the City\, for Cornell University Press.\n\nBusiness as (un )usual: Migration and Urban Life in Afro-Asian Delhi\nBani Gill (Universit y of Tubingen) \n\nContemporary Africa–India circulations have brought a growing number of African migrants to India for trade\, education\, asylu m\, medical travel. Drawing on long-term ethnographic research with West A frican migrants in Delhi who describe “doing business” as central to t heir mobility regardless of visa category\, this talk explores how “doin g business\,” exceeds economic exchange\; it is not only a livelihood st rategy\, but also a set of spatial practices\, a social identity\, and a n egotiation of risk. The talk shows how “doing business” gives rise to “new” urban constellations\, such as African hair salons and grocery s tores\, that are located largely in mixed-demographic\, unplanned settlem ents\, and argues that such sites are analytically significant for underst anding contemporary processes of urbanism in Delhi. For migrants with prec arious legal status\, “doing business” involves navigating India’s l egal regime\, where discretionary state authority and bureaucratic logics foreclose and open opportunities for entrepreneurial aspiration. Migrants cultivate shared vocabularies and practices of licitness—socially permis sible yet legally ambivalent forms of work—through which they negotiate regulatory grey zones. Yet the fluidity of licitness generates both possib ility and anxiety\, offering opportunity yet also exposing migrants to unc ertainty. By tracing how opportunity and friction converge in this daily l abor\, the talk traces how “doing business” becomes a relational and a ffective site through which contemporary Afro-Asian encounters are produce d\, contested\, and transformed. \n \nDr Bani Gill is a Junior Professor a t the Institute for Sociology\, University of Tübingen and a Marie Curie Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology\, Hall e. She is a qualitative sociologist grounded in ethnographic sensibilities and a regional focus on South Asia and contemporary Africa- India encount ers. Her research interests include urbanisms\, migration\, race and racia lization\, gender\, and the sociology of law\, bureaucracy\, and the state . Her current project explores practices of deportation and policing in ur ban India.\n\n\nSpeakers:\nElisa Tamburo (Harvard University & University of Oxford)\, Bani Gill (University of Tübingen) LOCATION:St Antony's College (Pavilion Room)\, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF TZID:Europe/London URL:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/1d3a45c6-b919-43bd-9b30-81643864d8ec/ BEGIN:VALARM ACTION:display DESCRIPTION:Talk:CANCELLED - South Asia-Africa Seminar Series: Southern Ur banisms\, Migration and Belonging - Elisa Tamburo (Harvard Univ ersity & University of Oxford)\, Bani Gill (University of Tübingen) TRIGGER:-PT1H END:VALARM END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Prostitution and the Politics of Presence in Colonial India - Zoya Sameen (Aga Khan University) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260309T160000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260309T173000Z UID:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/067ff3ad-4b37-463a-ab53-fcc6bd447be7/ DESCRIPTION:This talk argues that prostitution in colonial India was gover ned not through a stable definition of sexual commerce but through fluctua ting demands about women’s presence and knowability. Taking as its analy tic point of departure a reformist anxiety about “disguised prostitutes ” in 1961\, it reads this concern retrospectively to illuminate a longer colonial genealogy in which governance depended on rendering prostitution legible while never fully securing it. Through close readings of three ar chival encounters—Ameer Baksh in 1875\, Munni in 1893\, and Moti Jan in 1926—the talk shows how women actively shaped the terms under which they could be seen and governed. By claiming exemption or respectability\, ref using bodily discipline\, or calibrating narratives of intimacy and reside nce\, women worked upon the classificatory logics of law and policing\, pr oducing an archive marked by faintness\, excess\, and distortion. Methodol ogically\, the article holds recuperative and nonrecuperative approaches i n tension to treat these uneven traces not as archival failures but as his torically meaningful effects of struggle over visibility and presence.\n\n Bio\nZoya Sameen is an Assistant Professor of History at Aga Khan Universi ty whose work focuses on gender\, law\, and empire in nineteenth- and twen tieth-century South Asia\; her current book project examines women subject ed to colonial prostitution laws to explore the uncertainties of empire. S he is committed to developing students’ historical and critical thinking \, serves on the organizing committee of the Pakistan History Workshop\, a nd has contributed to Pakistan’s national history curriculum review. She previously taught at University of Chicago\, where she earned her PhD in History.\n\n\nSpeakers:\nZoya Sameen (Aga Khan University) LOCATION:Online - Teams TZID:Europe/London URL:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/067ff3ad-4b37-463a-ab53-fcc6bd447be7/ BEGIN:VALARM ACTION:display DESCRIPTION:Talk:Prostitution and the Politics of Presence in Colonial Ind ia - Zoya Sameen (Aga Khan University) TRIGGER:-PT1H END:VALARM END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:South Asia-Africa Seminar Series: The Politics and Technologies of Measurement - Dr Shankar Nair (Oxford)\, Dr Rachel King (UCL) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260310T140000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260310T153000Z UID:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/e860e50a-471e-4f81-800a-9c14d599b7c2/ DESCRIPTION:The Production of Value: Metrology\, Land Revenue\, and the St ate in Colonial India\, 1820-1900\nShankar Nair (Oxford) \n\nThe mapping o f India has long been viewed as an instrument of colonial governmentality and control. In this view\, scientific survey and map-making legitimised B ritish territorial possession and extraction\, presenting an image of impe rial rule at once enlightened and powerful. More recently\, historians of science have called for a greater focus on local contributions to colonial cartography\, emphasising the labour and knowledge of the ‘go-between ’ in the circulation of scientific knowledge and the often-imperfect man ifestation of science-making on the ground. The focus in all these studies has been on grand surveys\, notably The Great Trigonometrical Survey of t he nineteenth century\, and on particular scientific innovations. \nThis p aper\, part of the AHRC-funded ‘Colonial Standards’ project at History of Science Museum (HSM) Oxford\, looks instead at the ideas and practices of land surveying in the nineteenth century that underpinned a vital func tion of the British colonial state: the land revenue system. The largest s ingle source of colonial revenue\, the land tax has long been a contentiou s issue in Indian economic and social history. Yet\, little is known of th e social\, material\, and political-economic considerations of this system \, the techniques used to determine value\, and the interaction of this ca dastral knowledge with local forms of power and ordering such as caste. Us ing the scientific instrument collections at HSM Oxford and archival mater ials\, the paper argues that an engagement with the material and social pr actice of land surveying provides fresh insight into the making of the col onial state and the lasting entanglement of land and power in India.\n\nMy research focuses on the social and economic history of science and techno logy and its relation to the history of empire in South Asia in the 19th a nd 20th century. I am particularly interested in agricultural and rural in dustrial production\, and the history of scientific and commercial standar disation in a transnational and comparative perspective. I am currently a Linda Hall Library Fellow in the History of Science and Technology (2025-2 6). I previously worked as a Lecturer in the History of Science and Techno logy at King’s College London (2024-25) and co-convened the Centre for t he History of Science\, Technology\, and Medicine (CHoSTM) during this per iod. \n\nThe Big Sequence: chronology and the pan-Africanisms of the twent ieth century\nRachel King (UCL) \n\nDuring the mid-twentieth century archa eology on the African continent was fixated on producing chronological seq uences of artefacts and dirt: elements that held the key to a comprehensiv e picture of the continent's deep past. This recognition catalysed an unpr ecedented project to collate a continent's worth of distinct sequences\, e xcavated under varying paradigms by different research teams in various la nguages\, with an ambition of presenting the first scientific pan-African archaeology: an Atlas and accompanying Lexicon of African Prehistory. Whil e this archaeological project did not explicitly align itself with other c ontemporary pan-African politics\, it had to contend with these amidst the rapidly changing landscape of the independence period. In particular\, th e ultimate pariah status of the apartheid government - representing the co untry with one of the best-documented human fossil chronologies on the con tinent - forced conversations about the limits of scientific cooperation\, with fractures ultimately forming between African and Euro-American archa eologists. This seminar explores how aspirations of organising time withou t borders in Africa's deep past confronted other forms of solidarity and r esistance\, and led to a reckoning in archaeology's purpose on the contine nt. \n\nRachel King is an inter-disciplinary scholar specialising in the s tudy of the recent past in southern Africa. Her most recent publications i nclude her 2025 book The Neoliberalisation of Heritage in Africa (Cambridg e University Press)\, her 2024 co-edited textbook Methods and Methodologie s in Heritage Studies (UCL Press)\, and several forthcoming articles on th e impacts of South Africa's framework for protecting the past after 30 yea rs of democracy.\n\nSpeakers:\nDr Shankar Nair (Oxford)\, Dr Rachel King ( UCL) LOCATION:St Antony's College (Pavilion Room)\, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF TZID:Europe/London URL:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/e860e50a-471e-4f81-800a-9c14d599b7c2/ BEGIN:VALARM ACTION:display DESCRIPTION:Talk:South Asia-Africa Seminar Series: The Politics and Techno logies of Measurement - Dr Shankar Nair (Oxford)\, Dr Rachel King ( UCL) TRIGGER:-PT1H END:VALARM END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:DPhil Asia Day DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260507T090000 DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260507T170000 UID:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/6d56049c-3e27-421b-8015-6be060e4a8c6/ DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:St Antony's College (Dahrendorf Room)\, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF TZID:Europe/London URL:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/6d56049c-3e27-421b-8015-6be060e4a8c6/ BEGIN:VALARM ACTION:display DESCRIPTION:Talk:DPhil Asia Day TRIGGER:-PT1H END:VALARM END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR