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Collection: Asian Studies Centre

Tuesday 14 October 2025

14:00 - Souls in the Kalyug: The Politics and Cosmologies of Migrant Workers in Contemporary India
Shankar Ramaswami (O. P. Jindal Global University)
Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 21 October 2025

14:00 - From redress to reimagining: a decolonial lens on justice for women war survivors in Sri Lanka
Dr Farah Milhar (Oxford Brookes University)
Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 28 October 2025

14:00 - Beyond the Mountains: Social and Political Imaginaries in Gilgit-Baltistan
Dr Nosheen Ali (NYU)
Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Monday 3 November 2025

16:00 - Partition, Bengali Refugee Critiques of Postcolonial Sate and Capitalism, and the Subaltern Origins of the Cold War in India, 1947-1950
Registration required for Zoom
Dr Milinda Banerjee (University of St Andrews)
South Asian Intellectual History Seminars

Tuesday 4 November 2025

14:00 - Making India Work: The Development of Welfare in a Multi-level Democracy
Dr Louise Tillin (King’s College London)
Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 11 November 2025

14:00 - Forms of the Left for the 21st Century: Contemporary Art, Digital Media, and Repressive Politics in Bangladesh
Lotte Hoek (University of Edinburgh)
Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Monday 17 November 2025

16:00 - The Buddha of Berlin: The German Career of the Indian Film Pioneer Himansu Rai
Registration Required for Zoom
Andrew Halladay (London School of Economics)
South Asian Intellectual History Seminars

Tuesday 18 November 2025

14:00 - Post colonial capital – a genealogy
Professor Barbara Harriss-White ((Emeritus Professor of Development Studies, Oxford))
Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Monday 24 November 2025

16:00 - The Idea of India beyond Nationalist Thought
Registration Required for Zoom
Salmoli Choudhuri (Oxford and National Law School of India)
South Asian Intellectual History Seminars

Tuesday 25 November 2025

16:00 - The Uncertain State: Uncertainty as everyday experience and mode of governmentality in contemporary India
Geert de Neve (University of Sussex)
Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Monday 1 December 2025

16:00 - A Cacophony of (Ir) Responsibilities
Registration Required for Zoom
Anwesha Roy (University of Sheffield)
South Asian Intellectual History Seminars

Tuesday 2 December 2025

14:00 - Strange Fruit in Comparative Perspective
Dr Adnan Naseemullah (Kings College London)
Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

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