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 14 October 2024

16:00 - Oriental Christ: What India did with Jesus and Why it is Important
Registration Required
Ruth Harris (University of Oxford )

Monday 11 November 2024

16:00 - Nightmares of Decolonization: Paramilitary Violence and the Making of South Asia
Registration Required
Ali Raza (Lahore University of Management Sciences)

Monday 18 November 2024

16:00 - The Charismatic Paradigm and Modernist Muslim Thought
Registration required for online attendance
Teena Purohit (Boston University)

Monday 20 January 2025

18:00 - The Islamicate Buddha: Between Manuscript Idolography and Vernacular Orientalism in India (and Beyond)
Zoom registration required
Nile Green - Professor & Ibn Khaldun Endowed Chair in World History (UCLA)

Monday 3 February 2025

16:00 - The Twilight of Khilafat Thought
Registration required for zoom attendance
Dr Faridah Zaman (Somerville College, Oxford)

Monday 10 February 2025

16:00 - Decolonising Religious Liberty in Sri Lanka
Registration required for zoom attendance
Gehan Gunatilleke (Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka, formerly Oxford)

Monday 17 February 2025

16:00 - Circuits of South Asian labour and Post-War British Warfare
Registration required for zoom
Yasmin Khan (University of Oxford)

Monday 10 March 2025

16:00 - Rereading Property in Law’s Rule: Between Representation and Reality in the Shifting Political Economy of the Company’s India
Registration required for zoom attendance
Faisal Chaudhry ((University of Massachusetts Dartmouth)

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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