Name: Professor Santanu Das
University of Oxford

Events this person is speaking at:

Thursday 4 June 2020

Roundtable on Life, Literature and Covid-19
Date: 4 June 2020, 17:00 - 19:00
Speaker s: Professor Santanu Das (University of Oxford), Melissa Alexander (University of Oxford), Sean Ketteringham (University of Oxford), Professor Kate McLoughlin (University of Oxford), Chloe Nahum (University of Oxford), Sarah Waltcher (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online
Organisers: Santanu Das, Rebecca Beasley
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 10 March 2021

Character, Connection and Cruising: E.M. Forster in the 21st Century
Date: 10 March 2021, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker s: Professor Laura Marcus (New College, Oxford), Professor David Trotter (Cambridge), Professor Santanu Das (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online
Organisers: George Potts, Laura Marcus, Santanu Das
Hosts: TBA

Friday 1 November 2024

Professor Santanu Das, 'E.M.Forster and Mohammed El Adl: leads, clues and muddles'
Date: 1 November 2024, 10:30 - 12:30
Speaker : Professor Santanu Das (University of Oxford)
Venue: English Faculty - History of the Book Room,
Venue Details: Accessibility: https://www.english.ox.ac.uk/map-directions
Organiser: Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Host: Oxford Centre for Life Writing

Monday 12 May 2025

The 2025 Manchester Lecture: ‘Cosmopoetics in an Age of Borders: Rabindranath Tagore, Oxford and the World
Date: 12 May 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Professor Santanu Das (University of Oxford)
Venue: Harris Manchester College, Mansfield Road OX1 3TD
Organiser: Professor Santanu Das (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

The Manchester Lecture 2025: Cosmopoetics in an Age of Borders: Tagore, Oxford and the World
Date: 12 May 2025, 17:15 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Santanu Das (University of Oxford)
Venue: Harris Manchester College, Mansfield Road OX1 3TD
Venue Details: Chapel
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 27 May 2025

Special Roundtable: To celebrate the publication of India’s First Radicals: Young Bengal and the British Empire (2025) by Rosinka Chaudhuri. Chaired by Prof Santanu Das
Date: 27 May 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker s: Professors Rosinka Chaudhuri, Professor Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford), Supriya Chaudhuri (Jadavpur), Robert Young, Professor Santanu Das (University of Oxford)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organiser: Professor Santanu Das (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Events this person is organising:

Wednesday 10 November 2021

‘The Prosthetic Imagination’
Date: 10 November 2021, 17:30 - 19:15
Speaker : Professor Peter Boxall (University of Sussex)
Venue Details: Online: Zoom
Organisers: Professor Santanu Das (University of Oxford), Dr George Potts
Hosts: TBA

Monday 29 November 2021

‘The Question of the New: Thinking about Emergence of Modernism with Wittgenstein, Kuhn, and Cavell’
Date: 29 November 2021, 17:30 - 19:15
Speaker : Professor Toril Moi (Duke University)
Venue Details: Online: Zoom
Organisers: Professor Santanu Das (University of Oxford), Dr George Potts
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 19 October 2022

'Sancho’s Britain'
Date: 19 October 2022, 17:30 - 19:00
Speaker : Paterson Joseph
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 2, English Faculty
Organisers: George Potts, Santanu Das, Professor Santanu Das (University of Oxford), Dr George Potts
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 22 May 2024

'The Gamification of the Ghetto: Reading Between the Levels in Percival Everett's Erasure,' and 'Necropolitical Ecologies: Representing Nature’s Death-work in the Borderzone'
Date: 22 May 2024, 12:00 - 14:00
Speaker s: Dr Elena Violaris (University of Oxford), Dr Lucinda Newns (Bishop Grosseteste University)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Old Library
Organisers: Dr Elena Violaris (University of Oxford), Prof. Peter Boxall (New College), Professor Santanu Das (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 29 May 2024

'The Desire for Marriage'
Date: 29 May 2024, 12:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Devorah Baum (University of Southampton)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: The Old Library
Organisers: Dr Elena Violaris (University of Oxford), Prof. Peter Boxall (New College), Professor Santanu Das (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 7 October 2024

Waifs, Strays, and the Charitable Gaze
Date: 7 October 2024, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Prof. Daniela Caselli (University of Manchester)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Old Library
Organisers: Dr Elena Violaris (University of Oxford), Prof. Peter Boxall (New College), Professor Santanu Das (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 16 October 2024

Dear AI Reader: Nonhuman Perspective and Evolutionary Thinking in the Human-Machine Relation
Date: 16 October 2024, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Prof Chris Danta (Australian National University, Canberra)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Old Library
Organisers: Dr Elena Violaris (University of Oxford), Prof. Peter Boxall (New College), Professor Santanu Das (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 30 October 2024

""Drafts": A Comparative History of the Literary Draft in Europe’. A Roundtable with Bryony Randall, Hannah Sullivan, Olga Beloborodova, and Scott McCracken
Date: 30 October 2024, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Prof. Dirk van Hulle (University of Oxford)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Old Library
Organisers: Dr Elena Violaris (University of Oxford), Prof. Peter Boxall (New College), Professor Santanu Das (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 4 December 2024

DPhil work in progress, followed by Xmas drinks
Date: 4 December 2024, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Old Library
Organisers: Dr Elena Violaris (University of Oxford), Prof. Peter Boxall (New College), Professor Santanu Das (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 24 January 2025

‘Ethnography of the Oikos: Space-Making Trauma and Healing in Toni Morrison’
Date: 24 January 2025, 15:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Professor Ato Quayson (Stanford University)
Venue: New College, Holywell Street OX1 3BN
Venue Details: LR6
Organisers: Professor Peter Boxall (University of Oxford), Dr Elena Violaris (University of Oxford), Professor Santanu Das (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 5 February 2025

Roundtable on The British Novel of Ideas: George Eliot to Zadie Smith (Cambridge University Press, December 2024
Date: 5 February 2025, 17:15 - 19:00
Speaker s: Professor Rachel Potter (University of East Anglia), Professor Matthew Taunton (University of East Anglia)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: The Old Library
Organisers: Dr Elena Violaris (University of Oxford), Professor Peter Boxall (University of Sussex), Professor Santanu Das (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 26 February 2025

"World Literature and the Work of Revolution: Towards a Radical History of the Bildungsroman" / ‘The Novel, the Epic and the Collective’
Date: 26 February 2025, 17:15 - 19:00
Speaker s: Professor David Cunningham (University of Westminster), Professor Benjamin Kohlmann (University of Regensburg/Clare Hall, Cambridge)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: The Old Library
Organisers: Professor Peter Boxall (University of Oxford), Dr Elena Violaris (University of Oxford), Professor Santanu Das (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 13 March 2025

The Absent Cause: Postcolonial Thought and the Atlantic Archive
Date: 13 March 2025, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Professor Simon Gikandi (Princeton University)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: The Old Library
Organisers: Professor Peter Boxall (University of Oxford), Dr Elena Violaris (University of Oxford), Professor Santanu Das (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 7 May 2025

“Migrant Hospitalities: Scenes of Arrival in the Windrush era and after”
Date: 7 May 2025, 12:00 - 14:00
Speaker s: Jo McDonagh, Julia Hori
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organisers: Professor Peter Boxall (University of Oxford), Dr Elena Violaris (University of Oxford), Professor Santanu Das (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 12 May 2025

The 2025 Manchester Lecture: ‘Cosmopoetics in an Age of Borders: Rabindranath Tagore, Oxford and the World
Date: 12 May 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Professor Santanu Das (University of Oxford)
Venue: Harris Manchester College, Mansfield Road OX1 3TD
Organiser: Professor Santanu Das (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 21 May 2025

"'It's not what you know, it's who you know': Social Capital, Cultural Capital, and the Greatness of The Great Gatsby"
Date: 21 May 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : John Guillory (Emeritus Professor, New York University)
Venue: Merton College, Merton Street OX1 4JD
Venue Details: T. S. Eliot Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Professor Peter Boxall (University of Oxford), Dr Elena Violaris (University of Oxford), Professor Santanu Das (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 22 May 2025

Scholarship, Activism, and the Autonomy of Social Spheres
Date: 22 May 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : John Guillory (Emeritus Professor, New York University)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Downstairs Seminar Room
Organisers: Professor Peter Boxall (University of Oxford), Dr Elena Violaris (University of Oxford), Professor Santanu Das (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 28 May 2025

The Art of the Protest Novel
Date: 28 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Sarah Cole
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Old Library
Organisers: Professor Peter Boxall (University of Oxford), Dr Elena Violaris (University of Oxford), Professor Santanu Das (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 4 June 2025

“The Cold War Conscience of the Autobiographical Novel Series” / “Growing up Online: Tech Memoir and Digital Rights”
Date: 4 June 2025, 12:00 - 14:00
Speaker s: Marina McKay, Adam Guy
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organisers: Professor Peter Boxall (University of Oxford), Dr Elena Violaris (University of Oxford), Professor Santanu Das (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 18 June 2025

, “On ‘Holy Hate’ in Black US Poetry, 1919”
Date: 18 June 2025, 12:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Julian Murphet
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organisers: Professor Peter Boxall (University of Oxford), Dr Elena Violaris (University of Oxford), Professor Santanu Das (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA