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

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)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 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

Thursday 8 May 2025

• 17:00 - Radhakrishnan Lecture 1: Acceleration as a Riposte to Colonialism
  Sunil Amrith (Yale University)
  Radhakrishnan Lecture Series 2025: The Developmental State in Climate Crisis

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

Thursday 15 May 2025

• 17:00 - Radhakrishnan Lecture 2: Population as a Planetary Force
  Sunil Amrith (Yale University)
  Radhakrishnan Lecture Series 2025: The Developmental State in Climate Crisis

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
• 17:30 - Rights in Crisis: The Theatre of Death
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Anup Surendranath (Project 39A (India)), Samantha Knights QC (Matrix Chambers)
  Rights in Crisis: Conversations on Human Rights in India (OICSD and OxHRH)

Thursday 22 May 2025

• 17:00 - Radhakrishnan Lecture 3: The Freedom to Breathe
  Sunil Amrith (Yale University)
  Radhakrishnan Lecture Series 2025: The Developmental State in Climate Crisis

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

Friday 6 June 2025

• 16:30 - In Between Climate Chaos and War
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA

Tuesday 10 June 2025

• 14:00 - Rangoonwala Fellows: Development and Displacement in Pakistan
  Various Speakers
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Friday 13 June 2025

• 17:30 - "Women and the Sikh Diaspora: Music and Mobility Across the Seven Seas" Dr Nicole Ranganath in conversation with Dr Priya Atwal
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Priya Atwal (Oxford), Dr Nicole Ranganath (University of California Davis)
  OICSD Book Talks