This workshop is supported by South Asia Research Cluster (SARC) at Wolfson College.

9.00 Welcome: Matthew McCartney

9.10 Introduction: Uma Pradhan

9.15 – 10.45 SESSION I The Idea of South Asia
Discussant: Faisal Devji – Saddling South Asia and South East Asia: Burma/Myanmar & Her Concentric Fictions (Maung Zarni, Sleuk Rith Institute) – The Globalisation of a “Rogue State”: Afghanistan after 9/11 (Nematullah Bizhan, BSG Oxford, and William Maley, Australian National University) – Cartographic Anxieties of Akhand Bharat (Amogh Dhar Sharma, Oxford)

10.45 – 11.00 Break

11.00 – 12.30 SESSION II South Asia as Practice
Discussant: David Gellner – A Region by Association? SAARC and the Institutional Practice of “South Asia” (Kate Sullivan, SIAS, Oxford) – Discourses about Rights in South Asia: Law, politics and social history (Rosalind O’Hanlon, Oriental Institute, Oxford) – “Intermediate classes”/ provincial capital in south Asia (Mohammad Ali Jan, QEH, Oxford) – National regimes and local realities across South Asia (Maya Tudor, BSG, Oxford)

12.30 – 1.30 Break

1.30 – 3.00 SESSION III – SOUTH ASIA LENS
Discussant: Nandini Gooptu – Studying the State in South Asia (Lipika Kamra, QEH, Oxford) – Neoliberalism and Nationalist Revival in South Asia (Feyzi Ismail, SOAS) – Democracy: Liberalism Plus/Minus (Indrajit Roy, QEH, Oxford)

3.00 – 3.15 Break

3.15 – 4.00 Keynote Address: Professor David Washbrook “South Asia in Theory and Practice”

4.00 – 4.30 Q&A Session. Chair: Nandini Gooptu

4.30 Closing & Thanks: Sneha Krishnan