Asian Studies Centre
Talks:

Tuesday 27 January 2025

South Asia-Africa Seminar Series: Talking about Unfree Labour
Date: 27 January 2026, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker s: Bhanupriya Rao (Founder and Editor-in-Chief, Behanbox), Michael Odijie (University of Oxford)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room
Organisers: Rebekah Lee (University of Oxford), Janaki Srinivasan (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 2 February 2025

Radical Empire: Tilak, Jinnah and Indian Home Rule
Date: 2 February 2026, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Amar Sohal
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room
Organisers: Abraham Murad (University of Oxford), Jack Jacobs (Oriel College)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 3 February 2025

South Asia-Africa Seminar Series: Insurgency, Conflict and Governance
Date: 3 February 2026, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker s: Paula Cristina Roque, Alpa Shah (Oxford)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room
Organisers: Rebekah Lee (University of Oxford), Janaki Srinivasan (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 9 February 2025

Early Sikh Engagements with Islam and Classical Sufi Thinkers
Date: 9 February 2026, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Satnam Singh
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room & Zoom
Organisers: Abraham Murad (University of Oxford), Jack Jacobs (Oriel College)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 10 February 2025

South Asia-Africa Seminar Series: Sovereignty by Exception: Global China, Law, and Infrastructure across Africa and South Asia
Date: 10 February 2026, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker s: Thiruni Kelagama (Wolfson College, Oxford), Miriam Driessen (University of Oxford)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room
Organisers: Rebekah Lee (University of Oxford), Janaki Srinivasan (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 16 February 2025

Right-wing decoloniality and civilizational discourses
Date: 16 February 2026, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Ali Usman Qasmi (LUMS)
Venue Details: Zoom
Organisers: Abraham Murad (University of Oxford), Jack Jacobs (Oriel College)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 17 February 2025

South Asia-Africa Seminar Series: Gen Z revolutions
Date: 17 February 2026, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker s: David Gellner (University of Oxford), Velomahanina Razakamaharavo (University of Reading), Krishna Adhikari (University of Oxford)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room
Organisers: Rebekah Lee (University of Oxford), Janaki Srinivasan (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 24 February 2025

South Asia-Africa Seminar Series: The Politics of Digital Interventions
Date: 24 February 2026, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker s: Tom Neumark (University of Oslo), Nafis Aziz (University of Amsterdam)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room
Organisers: Rebekah Lee (University of Oxford), Janaki Srinivasan (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 26 February 2025

Book Talk: Order without Hegemony
Date: 26 February 2026, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker s: Manjeet S. Pardesi (Victoria University of Wellington), Rosemary Foot (St Antony's College), Faisal Devji
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Dahrendorf Room
Organiser: Nandini Gooptu (St Antony's College)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 2 March 2025

Family, Historical Memory and Cultural Capital in Late Colonial India
Date: 2 March 2026, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Polly O'Hanlon (University of Oxford)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room & Zoom
Organisers: Abraham Murad (University of Oxford), Jack Jacobs (Oriel College)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 3 March 2025

South Asia-Africa Seminar Series: Southern Urbanisms, Migration and Belonging
Date: 3 March 2026, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker s: Elisa Tamburo (Harvard University & University of Oxford), Bani Gill (University of Tübingen)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room
Organisers: Rebekah Lee (University of Oxford), Janaki Srinivasan (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 9 March 2025

Prostitution and the Politics of Presence in Colonial India
Date: 9 March 2026, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Zoya Sameen (Aga Khan University)
Venue Details: Zoom
Organisers: Abraham Murad (University of Oxford), Jack Jacobs (Oriel College)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 10 March 2025

South Asia-Africa Seminar Series: The Politics and Technologies of Measurement
Date: 10 March 2026, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker s: Dr Shankar Nair (Oxford), Dr Rachel King (UCL)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room
Organisers: Rebekah Lee (University of Oxford), Janaki Srinivasan (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

This list contains talks from the following series:
Asian Studies Centre seminars and events
Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
Modern South Asia Seminar
Southeast Asia Seminar
Southeast Asia Seminar