South Asian Intellectual History Seminars - Oxford Talks

South Asian Intellectual History Seminars

Seminar will be held 4.00 pm to 5.30pm on Monday, all talks take place on Zoom (registration required). Some talks are hybrid, taking place in person in the Old FDR, St Antony’s College. Graduate-run series of seminars exploring the rich discipline of intellectual history rooted in South Asia. All talks followed by Q&A and discussion.

Type: Seminar Series
Series organisers: Zaki Rehman (University of Oxford) , Bhadrajee Hewage (University of Oxford)
Timing: Mondays 4.00-5.30pm
Organising department: Asian Studies Centre

Monday 5 May 2025

16:00 - Ghost in the courtroom: Gender, belief, spirit possession, and the postcolonial state
Registration required for Zoom
Saumya Saxena (OP Jindal Global University)

Monday 12 May 2025

16:00 - Title TBC
Registration required for Zoom
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Toiz Tundawala (University of Oxford)

Monday 26 May 2025

16:00 - Sacred Geographies, Political Communities: Burma’s South Asian History
Registration required for Zoom
Sana Aiyar (MIT)

Monday 9 June 2025

16:00 - The Birth of Indian Liberalism
Registration required for Zoom
Rahul Sagar (NYU Abu Dhabi)

Monday 16 June 2025

16:00 - The Bangladesh Liberation War and Mass Internment of Bengalis in (West) Pakistan, 1971-1974
Registration required for zoom
Ilyas Chattha (Lahore University of Management Sciences)

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