Events this person is speaking at:

Tuesday 26 April 2022

• 14:00 - Fashioning Subjects: From Farmer, to Soldier, to Patriot
  Thiruni Kelegama (Oxford)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Events this person is organising:

Tuesday 11 October 2022

• 14:00 - A ‘Harry Potter’ in 1354 and the emergence of a vernacular literary tradition in the Hindi Belt
  Imre Bangha (University of Oxford)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 25 October 2022

• 14:00 - A supercyclone, landscapes of ‘emptiness’ and shrimp aquaculture: The lesser-known trajectories of disaster recovery in coastal Odisha, India
  Professor Vasudha Chhotray (University of East Anglia)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 1 November 2022

• 14:00 - Urdu as a language for Science? Textbook experiments in Roorkee College of Engineering in the nineteenth century
  Sajid Nizami (Government M.A.O. College, Lahore; Academic Visitor, OS)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 17 January 2023

• 14:00 - The Ethical Impulse(s) behind Civil Rights Activism in India
  Ankita Pandey (University of Oxford)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 24 January 2023

• 14:00 - Free Speech in Mughal India: Dissent and Resistance in Poetic Expression
  Saif Mahmood (Bonavero Institute, Oxford)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 14 February 2023

• 14:00 - Buddhism and Marginality in Translation among Ambedkarites in East Asia
  Dr Jon Keune (Michigan State University)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 28 February 2023

• 14:00 - A Cowherd’s Chapbook: An Inquiry into the Ethics of Literary Historiography
  Pranav Prakash (University of Oxford)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 2 May 2023

• 14:00 - Rohingyas in Decolonisation as a Moment, Process, and Movement
  Dr Jayita Sarkar (Glasgow)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 9 May 2023

• 14:00 - Spaces of Melancholia, Melancholias of Space: Shifting Structures of Feeling in Post-Independence Karachi
  Dr Ayyaz Mallick (Liverpool)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 10 October 2023

• 14:00 - A City of Men? Youth Masculinities and Everyday Gendered Violences in Urban India
  Shannon Philips (UEA)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 17 October 2023

• 14:00 - Pakistan & India: Common Origins, Divergent Trajectories
  Also on Zoom - registration required - https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_snw0VJWPTc6720z8W0sCpw
  Pervez Hoodbhoy
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 24 October 2023

• 14:00 - Limitations on fundamental freedoms in Sri Lanka: majoritarian influence of constitutional practice
  Gehan Gunatilleke (University of Oxford)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Monday 6 November 2023

• 17:00 - Film Screening and Discussion: #GO HOME GOTA
  Various Speakers
  Asian Studies Centre seminars and events

Tuesday 7 November 2023

• 14:00 - Majoritarian nationalisms and religion in South Asia
  Katharine Adeney (University of Nottingham)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 14 November 2023

• 14:00 - An Emotional History of India in the Second World War
  Gupta Diya (City, University of London)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 21 November 2023

• 14:00 - Migration, Caste, and the Figure of the 'Coolie' in Indian Diplomatic History
  Kalathmika Natarajan (University of Exeter)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 28 November 2023

• 14:00 - Rethinking urban resistance as sites for rebuilding differential solidarities
  Papia Sen Gupta (Jawaharlal Nehru University)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 16 January 2024

• 14:00 - Thirty seconds at Quetta: Time and disaster on the North-West Frontier, 1935
  Dan Haines (UCL)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 23 January 2024

• 14:00 - The Rājā Yogī through the ages: Ascetic Sovereignty in India
  Jim Mallinson (University of Oxford)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 30 January 2024

• 14:00 - An Anthropology of 'Sovereignty'. New Land Markets, an Entrepreneurial State and the Aspirations of a ‘Criminal Caste’ in Gurgaon, Haryana
  Sanjay Srivastava (SOAS)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 6 February 2024

• 14:00 - Comparative understanding of climate change news audiences across eight countries
  Dr Waqas Ejaz (University of Oxford)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 13 February 2024

• 14:00 - The value of difference: Hindu Muslim encounters in Karachi, Pakistan
  Ammara Maqsood (UCL)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 20 February 2024

• 14:00 - Towards an Anthropology of Answers: The Lost Trajectories of the Racialized Colonial Domestic Workers in South India and Beyond.’
  Shalini Grover (LSE)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 27 February 2024

• 14:00 - Temporary Exhibits: The Cultural Politics of South Asian ‘Folk’ Performances in Contemporary Fairs and Festivals
  Priyanka Basu (Kings College London)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 23 April 2024

• 14:00 - Networked Bollywood: How Star Power Globalized Hindi Cinema
  Swapnil Rai (University of Michigan)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 30 April 2024

• 14:00 - "Politics and Persecution: Pashto, Pashtun and Pashtunistan" - Autobiography of Samad Khan Achakzai
  Ayaz Achakzai (Independent Public Policy Expert)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 7 May 2024

• 14:00 - Performing Sovereign Aspirations: Tamil Insurgency and Postwar Transition in Sri Lanka
  Bart Klem (Gothenburg University, Sweden)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Wednesday 8 May 2024

• 09:45 - Breathing through Water: Power and agency in the post-colonial Indian Ocean
  Bérénice Guyot-Réchard (King's College London)
  Asian Studies Centre seminars and events

Tuesday 14 May 2024

• 14:00 - The nationalisation of rice. The postwar global crisis and the emergence of India’s national economy
  Jon Wilson (King's College London)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 21 May 2024

• 14:00 - “We are religious, patriotic, and self-sacrificial”: Baniya Power, Privilege, and Wealth Anxieties in India
  Ujithra Ponniah (Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of the Witwatersrand)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 28 May 2024

• 14:00 - Deconstructing State and Identity in Pakistan
  Various Speakers
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series