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Name: Thiruni Kelegama
Oxford
Events this person is speaking at:
Tuesday 26 April 2022
Fashioning Subjects: From Farmer, to Soldier, to Patriot
Date: 26 April 2022, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker
:
Thiruni Kelegama (Oxford)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room
Organiser:
Dr Nayanika Mathur (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Events this person is organising:
Tuesday 11 October 2022
A ‘Harry Potter’ in 1354 and the emergence of a vernacular literary tradition in the Hindi Belt
Date: 11 October 2022, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker
:
Imre Bangha (University of Oxford)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Syndicate Room
Organisers:
Imre Bangha (University of Oxford),
Thiruni Kelegama (Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 25 October 2022
A supercyclone, landscapes of ‘emptiness’ and shrimp aquaculture: The lesser-known trajectories of disaster recovery in coastal Odisha, India
Date: 25 October 2022, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker
:
Professor Vasudha Chhotray (University of East Anglia)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Syndicate Room
Organiser:
Thiruni Kelegama (Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 1 November 2022
Urdu as a language for Science? Textbook experiments in Roorkee College of Engineering in the nineteenth century
Date: 1 November 2022, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker
:
Sajid Nizami (Government M.A.O. College, Lahore; Academic Visitor, OS)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Syndicate Room
Organiser:
Thiruni Kelegama (Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 17 January 2023
The Ethical Impulse(s) behind Civil Rights Activism in India
Date: 17 January 2023, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker
:
Ankita Pandey (University of Oxford)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Syndicate Room
Organisers:
Imre Bangha (University of Oxford),
Thiruni Kelegama (Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 24 January 2023
Free Speech in Mughal India: Dissent and Resistance in Poetic Expression
Date: 24 January 2023, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker
:
Saif Mahmood (Bonavero Institute, Oxford)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Syndicate Room
Organisers:
Imre Bangha (University of Oxford),
Thiruni Kelegama (Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 14 February 2023
Buddhism and Marginality in Translation among Ambedkarites in East Asia
Date: 14 February 2023, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker
:
Dr Jon Keune (Michigan State University)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Syndicate Room
Organiser:
Thiruni Kelegama (Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 28 February 2023
A Cowherd’s Chapbook: An Inquiry into the Ethics of Literary Historiography
Date: 28 February 2023, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker
:
Pranav Prakash (University of Oxford)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Syndicate Room
Organiser:
Thiruni Kelegama (Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 2 May 2023
Rohingyas in Decolonisation as a Moment, Process, and Movement
Date: 2 May 2023, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker
:
Dr Jayita Sarkar (Glasgow)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Syndicate Room
Organiser:
Thiruni Kelegama (Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 9 May 2023
Spaces of Melancholia, Melancholias of Space: Shifting Structures of Feeling in Post-Independence Karachi
Date: 9 May 2023, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker
:
Dr Ayyaz Mallick (Liverpool)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Syndicate Room
Organiser:
Thiruni Kelegama (Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 10 October 2023
A City of Men? Youth Masculinities and Everyday Gendered Violences in Urban India
Date: 10 October 2023, 14:00 - 16:30
Speaker
:
Shannon Philips (UEA)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room
Organiser:
Thiruni Kelegama (Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 17 October 2023
Pakistan & India: Common Origins, Divergent Trajectories
Date: 17 October 2023, 14:00 - 16:30
Speaker
:
Pervez Hoodbhoy
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room
Organiser:
Thiruni Kelegama (Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 24 October 2023
Limitations on fundamental freedoms in Sri Lanka: majoritarian influence of constitutional practice
Date: 24 October 2023, 14:00 - 16:30
Speaker
:
Gehan Gunatilleke (University of Oxford)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room
Organiser:
Thiruni Kelegama (Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 6 November 2023
Film Screening and Discussion: #GO HOME GOTA
Date: 6 November 2023, 17:00 - 18:45
Speaker
Various Speakers
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre
Organiser:
Thiruni Kelegama (Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 7 November 2023
Majoritarian nationalisms and religion in South Asia
Date: 7 November 2023, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker
:
Katharine Adeney (University of Nottingham)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room
Organiser:
Thiruni Kelegama (Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 14 November 2023
An Emotional History of India in the Second World War
Date: 14 November 2023, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker
:
Gupta Diya (City, University of London)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room
Organiser:
Thiruni Kelegama (Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 21 November 2023
Migration, Caste, and the Figure of the 'Coolie' in Indian Diplomatic History
Date: 21 November 2023, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker
:
Kalathmika Natarajan (University of Exeter)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room
Organiser:
Thiruni Kelegama (Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 28 November 2023
Rethinking urban resistance as sites for rebuilding differential solidarities
Date: 28 November 2023, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker
:
Papia Sen Gupta (Jawaharlal Nehru University)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room
Organiser:
Thiruni Kelegama (Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 16 January 2024
Thirty seconds at Quetta: Time and disaster on the North-West Frontier, 1935
Date: 16 January 2024, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker
:
Dan Haines (UCL)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room
Organiser:
Thiruni Kelegama (Oxford)
Host:
Kate Sullivan de Estrada (University of Oxford)
Tuesday 23 January 2024
The Rājā Yogī through the ages: Ascetic Sovereignty in India
Date: 23 January 2024, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker
:
Jim Mallinson (University of Oxford)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room
Organiser:
Thiruni Kelegama (Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 30 January 2024
An Anthropology of 'Sovereignty'. New Land Markets, an Entrepreneurial State and the Aspirations of a ‘Criminal Caste’ in Gurgaon, Haryana
Date: 30 January 2024, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker
:
Sanjay Srivastava (SOAS)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room
Organiser:
Thiruni Kelegama (Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 6 February 2024
Comparative understanding of climate change news audiences across eight countries
Date: 6 February 2024, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker
:
Dr Waqas Ejaz (University of Oxford)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room
Organiser:
Thiruni Kelegama (Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 13 February 2024
The value of difference: Hindu Muslim encounters in Karachi, Pakistan
Date: 13 February 2024, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker
:
Ammara Maqsood (UCL)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room
Organiser:
Thiruni Kelegama (Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 20 February 2024
Towards an Anthropology of Answers: The Lost Trajectories of the Racialized Colonial Domestic Workers in South India and Beyond.’
Date: 20 February 2024, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker
:
Shalini Grover (LSE)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room
Organiser:
Thiruni Kelegama (Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 27 February 2024
Temporary Exhibits: The Cultural Politics of South Asian ‘Folk’ Performances in Contemporary Fairs and Festivals
Date: 27 February 2024, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker
:
Priyanka Basu (Kings College London)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room
Organiser:
Thiruni Kelegama (Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 23 April 2024
Networked Bollywood: How Star Power Globalized Hindi Cinema
Date: 23 April 2024, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker
:
Swapnil Rai (University of Michigan)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room
Organiser:
Thiruni Kelegama (Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 30 April 2024
"Politics and Persecution: Pashto, Pashtun and Pashtunistan" - Autobiography of Samad Khan Achakzai
Date: 30 April 2024, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker
:
Ayaz Achakzai (Independent Public Policy Expert)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room
Organiser:
Thiruni Kelegama (Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 7 May 2024
Performing Sovereign Aspirations: Tamil Insurgency and Postwar Transition in Sri Lanka
Date: 7 May 2024, 14:00 - 15:35
Speaker
:
Bart Klem (Gothenburg University, Sweden)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room
Organiser:
Thiruni Kelegama (Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Wednesday 8 May 2024
Breathing through Water: Power and agency in the post-colonial Indian Ocean
Date: 8 May 2024, 9:45 - 11:00
Speaker
:
Bérénice Guyot-Réchard (King's College London)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Syndicate Room
Organisers:
Thiruni Kelegama (Oxford),
Kate Sullivan de Estrada (St Antony's College)
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 14 May 2024
The nationalisation of rice. The postwar global crisis and the emergence of India’s national economy
Date: 14 May 2024, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker
:
Jon Wilson (King's College London)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room
Organiser:
Thiruni Kelegama (Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 21 May 2024
“We are religious, patriotic, and self-sacrificial”: Baniya Power, Privilege, and Wealth Anxieties in India
Date: 21 May 2024, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker
:
Ujithra Ponniah (Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of the Witwatersrand)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room
Organiser:
Thiruni Kelegama (Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 28 May 2024
Deconstructing State and Identity in Pakistan
Date: 28 May 2024, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker
Various Speakers
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room
Organiser:
Thiruni Kelegama (Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA