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Name: Zobia Haq
University of Oxford
Events this person is organising:
Monday 18 January 2021
Nation and Its Discontents: The Poetics and Politics of Siraiki Nationalism in Pakistan
Date: 18 January 2021, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker
:
Ali Usman Qasmi (LUMS)
Venue Details: Online with Zoom
Organiser:
Zobia Haq (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 25 January 2021
Gandhian Satyagraha in the Mirror of Marxism
Date: 25 January 2021, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker
:
Karuna Mantena (Columbia University)
Venue Details: Online with Zoom
Organiser:
Zobia Haq (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 1 February 2021
The Making of "Veer Savarkar": Methods for Writing an Intellectual History
Date: 1 February 2021, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker
:
Vinayak Chaturvedi (University of California, Irvine)
Venue Details: Online with Zoom
Organiser:
Zobia Haq (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 8 February 2021
The Curious Career of Shunya: Politics and Metaphysics of Caste Thinking in India
Date: 8 February 2021, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker
:
Prathama Banerjee (Centre for the Study of Developing Societies)
Venue Details: Online with Zoom
Organiser:
Zobia Haq (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 15 February 2021
Bedil’s Bisemic Ghazal Poetics
Date: 15 February 2021, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker
:
Prashant Keshavmurthy (McGill University)
Venue Details: Online with Zoom
Organiser:
Zobia Haq (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 22 February 2021
On Violence or the Civil War of 1947 and the Importance of Indian Political Thought
Date: 22 February 2021, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker
:
Shruti Kapila (University of Cambridge)
Venue Details: Online with Zoom
Organiser:
Zobia Haq (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 1 March 2021
Graduate Student Research Presentations
Date: 1 March 2021, 16:00 - 18:00
Speaker
Various Speakers
Venue Details: Online with Zoom
Organiser:
Zobia Haq (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 8 March 2021
Graduate Student Research Presentations
Date: 8 March 2021, 16:00 - 18:00
Speaker
Various Speakers
Venue Details: Online with Zoom
Organiser:
Zobia Haq (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 26 April 2021
Theft of Time: Notes on Spolia and the Writing of Indian History
Date: 26 April 2021, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker
:
Sudipta Sen (University of California, Davis)
Venue Details: Online with Zoom
Organiser:
Zobia Haq (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 3 May 2021
Emotions and Temporalities. On Ghosts, Jinns and their Exorcism
Date: 3 May 2021, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker
:
Margrit Pernau (Max Planck Institute for Human Development)
Venue Details: Online with Zoom
Organiser:
Zobia Haq (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 10 May 2021
"Our History": The Everyday Social and the Sense of Historical Touch
Date: 10 May 2021, 15:00 - 16:30
Speaker
:
Sundar Sarukkai (Centre for Society and Policy, Indian Institute of Science)
Venue Details: Online with Zoom
Organiser:
Zobia Haq (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 17 May 2021
Pure Kashmir: Nature in the Political Thought of Sheikh Abdullah, Muhammad Iqbal and Jawaharlal Nehru
Date: 17 May 2021, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker
:
Amar Sohal (University of Cambridge)
Venue Details: Online with Zoom
Organiser:
Zobia Haq (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 24 May 2021
POSTPONED - Freedom Between Order and Chaos: Reading a Political Satire From India
Date: 24 May 2021, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker
:
Jyotirmaya Sharma (Lichtenberg-Kolleg, University of Göttingen)
Venue Details: Online with Zoom
Organiser:
Zobia Haq (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 31 May 2021
A Historian among the Goddesses of Modern India
Date: 31 May 2021, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker
:
Sumathi Ramaswamy (Duke University)
Venue Details: Online with Zoom
Organiser:
Zobia Haq (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 7 June 2021
Monuments in Replica: Imperial Commemorations in Britain and its Colonies
Date: 7 June 2021, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker
:
Durba Ghosh (Cornell University)
Venue Details: Online with Zoom
Organiser:
Zobia Haq (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 14 June 2021
Conceptual Problems in Distinguishing Global from Planetary Histories
Date: 14 June 2021, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker
:
Dipesh Chakrabarty (The University of Chicago)
Venue Details: Online with Zoom
Organiser:
Zobia Haq (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 11 October 2021
The making of a populist: Entering politics and autonomy-seeking in contemporary India
Date: 11 October 2021, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker
:
Dr Jean-Thomas Martelli (Centre de Sciences Humaines, New Delhi)
Venue Details: Online with Zoom
Organiser:
Zobia Haq (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 18 October 2021
Savarkar and the Making of Hindutva “Secularism”
Date: 18 October 2021, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker
:
Dr Vikram Visana (University of Huddersfield)
Venue Details: Online with Zoom
Organiser:
Zobia Haq (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 25 October 2021
Feminist Historiography and the Political: Reflections on the Past and Future Tense
Date: 25 October 2021, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker
:
Professor Mrinalini Sinha (University of Michigan)
Venue Details: Online with Zoom
Organiser:
Zobia Haq (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 1 November 2021
The Nomos of the Globe: Currency, Empire and Financialization
Date: 1 November 2021, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker
:
Professor Ritu Birla (University of Toronto)
Venue Details: Online with Zoom
Organiser:
Zobia Haq (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 8 November 2021
Freedoms after Freedom: Lawyering as Political Practice in Post-Independent India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka
Date: 8 November 2021, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker
:
Professor Rohit De (Yale University)
Venue Details: Online with Zoom
Organiser:
Zobia Haq (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 15 November 2021
They Refused to Tell Me Their Dreams: Psychoanalysis, Colonialism, Trans
Date: 15 November 2021, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker
:
Dr Akshi Singh (Queen Mary University of London)
Venue Details: Online with Zoom
Organiser:
Zobia Haq (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 22 November 2021
British Imperial Thought, British Nationality, and Overseas Indians after 1947
Date: 22 November 2021, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker
:
Dr Ian Sanjay Patel (London School of Economics)
Venue Details: Online with Zoom
Organiser:
Zobia Haq (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 29 November 2021
The Option of Nonviolence
Date: 29 November 2021, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker
:
Dr Humeira Iqtidar (King's College London)
Venue Details: Online with Zoom
Organiser:
Zobia Haq (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 17 January 2022
Rule by Fear: Conceptualizing Democracy and Authoritarianism in Pakistan
Date: 17 January 2022, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker
:
Dr Ammar Ali Jan (Haqooq-e-Khalq Movement)
Venue Details: Online with Zoom
Organiser:
Zobia Haq (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 24 January 2022
How 'Dynasty' Became a Modern Global Concept: Intellectual Histories of Sovereignty and Property
Date: 24 January 2022, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker
:
Dr Milinda Banerjee (University of St Andrews)
Venue Details: Online with Zoom
Organiser:
Zobia Haq (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 31 January 2022
"Downward Equalization”: A Gandhian Inversion of Dignity and Rights-Claims
Date: 31 January 2022, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker
:
Professor Manu Samnotra (University of South Florida)
Venue Details: Online with Zoom
Organiser:
Zobia Haq (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 7 February 2022
A Debatable Empire
Date: 7 February 2022, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker
:
Dr Mishka Sinha (St John's, Oxford)
Venue Details: Online with Zoom
Organiser:
Zobia Haq (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 14 February 2022
Waiting for the People: Anticolonialism and the Idea of Democracy in India
Date: 14 February 2022, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker
:
Dr Nazmul Sultan (University of Cambridge)
Venue Details: Online with Zoom
Organiser:
Zobia Haq (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 21 February 2022
The Infrastructure of Rumor: Development and Democracy in a Postcolony
Date: 21 February 2022, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker
:
Professor Nusrat S. Chowdhury (Amherst College)
Venue Details: Online with Zoom
Organiser:
Zobia Haq (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 28 February 2022
B.R. Ambedkar's Sociophilia and Other Anti-Caste Sciences
Date: 28 February 2022, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker
:
Professor J. Daniel Elam (University of Hong Kong)
Venue Details: Online with Zoom
Organiser:
Zobia Haq (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 7 March 2022
Reflections on Gandhi’s Anti-Modernism
Date: 7 March 2022, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker
:
Professor Akeel Bilgrami (Columbia University)
Venue Details: Online with Zoom
Organiser:
Zobia Haq (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 25 April 2022
Justice Beyond Rights
Date: 25 April 2022, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker
:
Dr Humeira Iqtidar (King's College London)
Venue Details: Online with Zoom
Organisers:
Alizeh Paracha (University of Oxford),
Zobia Haq (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 2 May 2022
Seeing the People in Mughal India
Date: 2 May 2022, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker
:
Professor Abhishek Kaicker (UC Berkeley)
Venue Details: Online with Zoom
Organisers:
Alizeh Paracha (University of Oxford),
Zobia Haq (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 9 May 2022
Queer Azaadi and the origins of Indian homonationalism in Kashmir
Date: 9 May 2022, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker
:
Anish Gawande (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online with Zoom
Organisers:
Alizeh Paracha (University of Oxford),
Zobia Haq (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 16 May 2022
Freedom Between Order and Chaos: Reading a Political Satire From India
Date: 16 May 2022, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker
:
Professor Jyotirmaya Sharma (University of Hyderabad)
Venue Details: Online with Zoom
Organisers:
Alizeh Paracha (University of Oxford),
Zobia Haq (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 23 May 2022
Ma'na and War
Date: 23 May 2022, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker
:
Dr James Caron (SOAS University of London)
Venue Details: Online with Zoom
Organisers:
Alizeh Paracha (University of Oxford),
Zobia Haq (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 30 May 2022
POSTPONED - The Poetics of Hindutva
Date: 30 May 2022, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker
:
Professor Janaki Bakhle (UC Berkeley)
Organisers:
Alizeh Paracha (University of Oxford),
Zobia Haq (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 6 June 2022
Pan-Nationalist Notions of Rights, Indian Khilafat Movement and the Treaty of Lausanne (1923)
Date: 6 June 2022, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker
:
Professor Cemil Aydin (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Organisers:
Alizeh Paracha (University of Oxford),
Zobia Haq (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 13 June 2022
‘Jim-Crowed the World Over’: Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay and the Idea of the Global South
Date: 13 June 2022, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker
:
Professor Nico Slate (Carnegie Mellon University)
Organisers:
Alizeh Paracha (University of Oxford),
Zobia Haq (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 31 October 2022
‘Power to the People?’: Citizens and the Everyday State in Early Postcolonial South Asia
Date: 31 October 2022, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker
:
Professor Sarah Ansari (Royal Holloway, University of London)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: HYBRID - Old FDR, St Antony's College AND Zoom
Organisers:
Alizeh Paracha (University of Oxford),
Zobia Haq (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 7 November 2022
Who are the Muslims? Savarkar on Indian Muslim Origin
Date: 7 November 2022, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker
:
Professor Luna Sabastian (Northeastern University - London)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: HYBRID - Old FDR, St Antony’s College AND Zoom
Organisers:
Alizeh Paracha (University of Oxford),
Zobia Haq (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Wednesday 23 November 2022
POSTPONED - Uncivil Liberalism and the Globalisation of Dadabhai Naoroji’s Ideas of Sociality
Date: 23 November 2022, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker
:
Dr Vikram Visana (University of Leicester)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: HYBRID - Old FDR, St Antony’s College AND Zoom
Organisers:
Alizeh Paracha (University of Oxford),
Zobia Haq (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 16 January 2023
The Logic of Cruelty and Violence in Ambedkar and Gandhi
Date: 16 January 2023, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker
:
Professor Uday Singh Mehta (The City University of New York)
Venue: St Antony's College - Main Site, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: HYBRID - Old FDR, St Antony’s College AND Online
Organisers:
Alizeh Paracha (University of Oxford),
Zobia Haq (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 7 March 2023
Uncivil Liberalism and the Globalisation of Dadabhai Naoroji’s Ideas of Sociality
Date: 7 March 2023, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker
:
Dr Vikram Visana (University of Leicester)
Venue: St Antony's College - Main Site, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Old FDR, St Antony’s College, Oxford AND Online
Organisers:
Alizeh Paracha (University of Oxford),
Zobia Haq (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 13 March 2023
Nations Ascendant: Towards a Global Intellectual History of Self Determination
Date: 13 March 2023, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker
:
Professor Zaib un Nisa Aziz (University of South Florida, Tampa)
Venue: St Antony's College - Main Site, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Old FDR, St Antony’s College, Oxford AND Online
Organisers:
Alizeh Paracha (University of Oxford),
Zobia Haq (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 1 May 2023
Along The Path To Gandhi's Neighbor
Date: 1 May 2023, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker
:
Ajay Skaria (University of Minnesota)
Venue Details: Online with Zoom
Organiser:
Zobia Haq (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 8 May 2023
A New Vision of Vivekananda?
Date: 8 May 2023, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker
:
Ruth Harris (University of Oxford )
Venue: St Antony's College - Main Site, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Syndicate Room, St Antony’s College, Oxford AND Zoom
Organiser:
Zobia Haq (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 15 May 2023
Seduced by God or Man? Religious Conversions and Women’s Desire in Pakistan
Date: 15 May 2023, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker
:
Ghazal Asif Farrukhi (Lahore University of Management Sciences)
Venue Details: Online with Zoom
Organiser:
Zobia Haq (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 22 May 2023
Empires of Complaints: Mughal Law and the Making of British India
Date: 22 May 2023, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker
:
Robert Travers (Cornell University)
Venue Details: Online with Zoom
Organiser:
Zobia Haq (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 29 May 2023
Dharma, Artha, and the Politics of Law and Sovereignty in Colonial India
Date: 29 May 2023, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker
:
Sunil Purushotham (Fairfield University)
Venue Details: Online with Zoom
Organiser:
Zobia Haq (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 5 June 2023
“His Soul was a Bird of the Divine Throne”: Persian Inscriptions on Mughal Imperial Tombs and Mosques
Date: 5 June 2023, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker
:
A. Azfar Moin (The University of Texas at Austin)
Venue: St Antony's College - Main Site, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Syndicate Room, St Antony’s College, Oxford AND Zoom
Organiser:
Zobia Haq (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 12 June 2023
CANCELLED - Red Maulanas: Islam and the Left in South Asia
Date: 12 June 2023, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker
:
Layli Uddin (Queen Mary University of London)
Venue: St Antony's College - Main Site, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Syndicate Room, St Antony’s College, Oxford AND Zoom
Organiser:
Zobia Haq (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA