Friday 19 May 2017

• 13:00 - SACRIFICE REVISITED
  Dr Faisal Devji, Dr Jonathan Leader Maynard (Oxford)
  Crisis, Extremes and Apocalypse Research Network
• 13:00 - SACRIFICE REVISITED
  Dr Faisal Devji
  Crisis, Extremes and Apocalypse Research Network

Thursday 27 June 2024

• 09:00 - Minoritisation in South Asia: Religion, Caste, Gender
  Abraham Akhter Murad (Kellogg College), Dr Faisal Devji, Justin Jones (Pembroke), Ruth Harris (University of Oxford ), Soheb Niazi (Freie Universität), Layli Uddin (Queen Mary University), Yaqoob Khan Bangash (Lahore), Madhurima Sen, Ghazal Asif Farrukhi (Lahore University of Management Sciences), Uday Chandra (Georgetown, Qatar), Shikoh Zaidi (Georgetown University, Qatar), Radhika Hettiarachchi (Collective for Historical Dialogues and Memory), Ipshita Basu (University of Westminster), Dr Meera Sabaratnam (New College, Oxford), S Akbar Zaidi (Institute of Business Administration Karachi), Thiruni Kelagama (Wolfson College, Oxford), Madura Rasaratnam (University of London), Maria Misra, Shehan Karunatilaka, Yasmin Khan (Kellogg College, Oxford), Adnan Hossain (University of Glasgow), Afiya S Zia (Wesleyan University), Daanish Mustafa (Kings College London), Julian Kuttig (Ghent University), Brahma Prakash (Jawaharlal Nehru University), Timothy Cooper (King's College, Cambridge), Mukesh Kumar (University of Zurich), Mathilde Maitrot (University of Bath), Joe Devine (University of Bath), Arif Naveed (University of Bath), Ajmal Khan AT (Shiv Nadar University)

Tuesday 19 February 2019

• 18:00 - The Young and the Restless: Youth and Politics in India
  Gurmehar Kaur

Tuesday 3 November 2015

• 14:00 - The Raj at War
  Yasmin Khan (Oxford)
  Modern South Asia Seminar

Tuesday 10 November 2015

• 14:00 - Politics and the Promise of Bhagat Singh
  Chris Moffat (Queen Mary)
  Modern South Asia Seminar

Tuesday 17 November 2015

• 14:00 - Longing for the state: The dialectics of the Local and Transnational in Pakistan's Sunni-Shi'i Sectarianism
  Simon Fuchs (Cambridge)
  Modern South Asia Seminar

Wednesday 18 November 2015

• 17:30 - A Discussion of 'The Calling of History: Sir Jadunath Sarkar and His Empire of Truth'
  Dipesh Chakrabarty (The University of Chicago), Rosalind O'Hanlon (Oxford), Shruti Kapila (Cambridge), Sanjay Seth (Goldsmiths)
  Modern South Asia Seminar

Tuesday 24 November 2015

• 14:00 - A National History for Pakistan: Ishtiaq Hussain Qureshi (1903-1981) and the Genealogy of the 'Master Narrative'
  Ali Usman Qasmi (LUMS)
  Modern South Asia Seminar

Tuesday 1 December 2015

• 14:00 - Paradoxes of the Shia Minority in Pakistan
  Andreas Rieck (Berlin)
  Modern South Asia Seminar

Tuesday 3 May 2016

• 14:00 - The Fires of Hell: Communalism and Satire in the Hindi Short Stories of Pandey Bechan Sharma "Ugra"
  David Lunn (SOAS)
  Modern South Asia Seminar

Tuesday 10 May 2016

• 14:00 - Distinction or Distraction? The Politics of Connoisseurship in eighteenth-century Rajput Courts
  Richard Williams (Oriental Studies; Trinity College, Oxford)
  Modern South Asia Seminar

Tuesday 17 May 2016

• 14:00 - Gandhian Entrepreneurship - Kamalnayan Bajaj, Architect of the Bajaj Group
  Gita Piramal (Said Business School, Oxford)
  Modern South Asia Seminar

Tuesday 24 May 2016

• 14:00 - Rediscovering the Primitive: Adivasi Histories in and after Subaltern Studies
  Uday Chandra (Georgetown, Qatar)
  Modern South Asia Seminar

Tuesday 31 May 2016

• 14:00 - Can Britain be liable for reparations for the 1943-44 Bengal Famine?
  Sarmila Bose (DPIR, Oxford)
  Modern South Asia Seminar

Wednesday 1 June 2016

• 16:00 - Women and Conflict in India
  Sanghamitra Choudhury (St Antony's College; Sikkim)
  Modern South Asia Seminar

Tuesday 25 April 2017

• 14:00 - An Eminent Victorian: Gandhi and the Crisis of Liberal Democracy in the 19th Century
  TBA

Tuesday 2 May 2017

• 14:00 - The Case of the bobbed-hair Woman: Passion and Revolution in Asia, 1924-25
  TBA

Wednesday 3 May 2017

• 17:00 - Nihilism in the 21st Century: A Conversation with Pankaj Mishra, Shruti Kapila and David Priestland
  TBA
  Rethinking the Contemporary: The World since the Cold War

Tuesday 9 May 2017

• 14:00 - The Spectral Wound: Sexual Violence, Public Memories and the Bangladesh War of 1971
  TBA

Tuesday 16 May 2017

• 14:00 - India Conquered and Unconquered: The Chaos of Empire and the End of British power in India
  TBA

Tuesday 23 May 2017

• 14:00 - Scribes, Paper and the Formation of the Colonial State in North India, 1780-1840
  TBA

Tuesday 30 May 2017

• 14:00 - Jamal al-din al-Afghani and Syed Ahmad Khan: Reform, Rivalry, and Heresy in late 19th century India
  TBA
• 17:00 - Fanon Transformed? The New Writings
  TBA
  Rethinking the Contemporary: The World since the Cold War

Friday 2 June 2017

• 17:00 - Populism as a Global Form: A Roundtable Conversation
  Saeed Naqvi (Foreign Correspondent and Author), Akeel Bilgrami (Columbia ), Shruti Kapila (Cambridge)
  Rethinking the Contemporary: The World since the Cold War

Monday 5 June 2017

• 17:00 - The Dismissal of a Teacher and Academic Freedom: An Annal of early Calcutta and its Echoes
  TBA

Tuesday 6 June 2017

• 14:00 - The Untouchable Citizen
  TBA

Thursday 31 May 2018

• 17:00 - Crime, Sovereignty, and the State: On the Metaphysics of Global Disorder
  Jean Comaroff (Harvard), John Comaroff (Harvard)
  Rethinking the Contemporary: The World since the Cold War

Friday 8 June 2018

• 17:00 - Liberty, Equality, and Alienation
  Akeel Bilgrami (Columbia )
  Rethinking the Contemporary: The World since the Cold War

Monday 5 November 2018

• 14:00 - “In Search of the Sociology of Islam: The Revue du monde musulman”
  Edmund Burke III (UC Santa Cruz)

Tuesday 22 January 2019

• 14:00 - The Cast(e) of the Colonial Police: Constables and Chaukidars in Colonial Bengal
  Partha Shil (Trinity College, Cambridge)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 29 January 2019

• 14:00 - The Economics of Religion in India
  Sriya Iyer (University of Cambridge)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 5 February 2019

• 14:00 - Unfixed land and the making of Contemporary India
  Nikita Sud (University of Oxford)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 30 April 2019

• 17:00 - Book Launch: In Their Own Words -Understanding Lashkar-e-Tayyaba
  C. Christine Fair (Georgetown University)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 4 June 2019

• 17:00 - Rethinking Pakistan Book Launch
  Various Speakers

Friday 28 January 2022

• 15:00 - Tajikistan: Politics After Civil War
  Suzanne Levi-Sanchez (Non-Resident Fellow, School of International Service, American University, Retired (Tenured) Associate Professor, US Naval War College), Edward Lemon (Research Assistant Professor, Bush School of Government and Public Service, Texas A&M University), Muhiddin Kabiri (chairman of NAT (National Alliance of Tajikistan) and chairman of the IRPT (Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan)), Alim Sherzamonov (Politician in Tajikistan)

Monday 28 February 2022

• 14:00 - Media, Communications, and Public Opinion in Tajikistan
  Malik Kadirov ((Secretary General, Media-Alliance of Tajikistan)), Irna Hofman (Oxford), Salimjon Aioubov ((Director of RFE/RL's Tajik Service))

Friday 20 May 2022

• 16:30 - Bapsybanoo Marchioness of Winchester Lecture: A Reflection on Idi Amin and the 1972 ‘Asian Expulsion
  This will also be available on Zoom, please register
  Mahmood Mamdani (Columbia University)
  Expulsion: Uganda’s Asians and the Remaking of Nationality