Tuesday 29 April 2025

• 14:00 - A Kerala Pilgrimage Approaches Its Centenary - why it matters for South India and the wider world
  Alex Gath (University of Oxford)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

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)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminars

Tuesday 6 May 2025

• 14:00 - The Modern Life of Sanskrit: An Encounter with Psychoanalysis
  Ananya Vajpeyi (Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi)
• 17:00 - East of Empire: Egypt, India, and the World between the Wars
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Erin M.B. O’Halloran (University of Cambridge)
  Book Talks

Tuesday 13 May 2025

• 14:00 - Afghanistan and the Concept of Asia: Intellectual Geographies in an Age of Reform
  Marya Hannun (University of Exeter)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 20 May 2025

• 14:00 - Labour as Method: Studying Technologies of the South
  Hemangini Gupta (University of Edinburgh)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - The World After Gaza
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Pankaj Mishra
  Book Talks

Monday 26 May 2025

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

Tuesday 27 May 2025

• 14:00 - Designing with the Rohingya: Trauma, Resilience, Memory
  Professor Esther da Costa Meyer (Princeton University and Yale University)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 3 June 2025

• 14:00 - Ecologies of Caste and Waste: Dependence and Value Making at the Bhalswa Landfill in Delhi
  Aparna Agarwal (University of Lausanne)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Monday 9 June 2025

• 16:00 - The Birth of Indian Liberalism
  Registration required for Zoom
  Rahul Sagar (NYU Abu Dhabi)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminars

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)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminars