Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

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Type: Seminar Series
Timing: Tuesdays at 2pm

Talks:

Tuesday 14 October 2025

Souls in the Kalyug: The Politics and Cosmologies of Migrant Workers in Contemporary India
Date: 14 October 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker : Shankar Ramaswami (O. P. Jindal Global University)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Dahrendorf Room
Organiser: Janaki Srinivasan (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 21 October 2025

From redress to reimagining: a decolonial lens on justice for women war survivors in Sri Lanka
Date: 21 October 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker : Dr Farah Milhar (Oxford Brookes University)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room
Organiser: Janaki Srinivasan (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 28 October 2025

Beyond the Mountains: Social and Political Imaginaries in Gilgit-Baltistan
Date: 28 October 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker : Dr Nosheen Ali (NYU)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room
Organiser: Janaki Srinivasan (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 4 November 2025

Making India Work: The Development of Welfare in a Multi-level Democracy
Date: 4 November 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker : Dr Louise Tillin (King’s College London)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room
Organiser: Janaki Srinivasan (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 11 November 2025

Forms of the Left for the 21st Century: Contemporary Art, Digital Media, and Repressive Politics in Bangladesh
Date: 11 November 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker : Lotte Hoek (University of Edinburgh)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room
Organiser: Janaki Srinivasan (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 18 November 2025

Post colonial capital – a genealogy
Date: 18 November 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker : Professor Barbara Harriss-White ((Emeritus Professor of Development Studies, Oxford))
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room
Organiser: Janaki Srinivasan (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 25 November 2025

The Uncertain State: Uncertainty as everyday experience and mode of governmentality in contemporary India
Date: 25 November 2025, 16:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Geert de Neve (University of Sussex)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room
Organisers: Janaki Srinivasan (University of Oxford), Prof Nandini Gooptu (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 2 December 2025

Strange Fruit in Comparative Perspective
Date: 2 December 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker : Dr Adnan Naseemullah (Kings College London)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room
Organiser: Janaki Srinivasan (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

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