Events this person is speaking at:

Tuesday 26 April 2022 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Tuesday 7 November 2023 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Tuesday 14 November 2023 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

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

Tuesday 14 May 2024 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 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