India focused events
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: Pavilion Room
Organiser: Janaki Srinivasan (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 17 October 2025

Oxford Centre for Global History 4th Anthony Gwilliam Annual Lecture - Femina Oeconomica: Global Gender Orders and the Rise of Neoliberal Woman
Date: 17 October 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Professor Maria Misra (Oxford)
Venue: H B Allen Centre,
Organisers: TBA
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: Dahrendorf 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

Rights in Crisis: Unpaid Domestic Labour and Cash Transfer Schemes
Date: 28 October 2025, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker s: Prof. Prabha Kotiswaran (King's College London), Prof Sandra Fredman (University of Oxford), Aradhana CV (University of Oxford)
Venue: Flora Anderson Hall,
Venue Details: Please enter from the main entrance on Woodstock Road
Organisers: Oxford Human Rights Hub, Oxford India Centre for Sustainable Development
Hosts: Neeraj Shetye (Oxford India Centre for Sustainable Development), Aradhana CV (University of Oxford)

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

Thursday 27 November 2025

India in Focus: OICSD Research Showcase (Michaelmas 2025)
Date: 27 November 2025, 17:30 - 20:30
Speaker s: Medha Mukherjee (Oxford India Centre for Sustainable Development and SoGE), Ishani Mookherjee (Oxford India Centre for Sustainable Development and Faculty of Law), Shreya Sharma (Oxford India Centre for Sustainable Development and Department of Chemistry), Bhimraj Muthu (Oxford India Centre for Sustainable Development and Faculty of Law), Tanaya Nair (Oxford India Centre for Sustainable Development and SoGE), Ashish Gaurav (Oxford India Centre for Sustainable Development and Department of Chemistry)
Venue: Flora Anderson Hall,
Venue Details: Please enter from the main entrance on Woodstock Road
Organiser: Oxford India Centre for Sustainable Development
Host: Oxford India Centre for Sustainable Development

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

Friday 5 December 2025

Roopa Panesar's Atma (The Soul): Classical Music Concert by Music at Oxford, Asian Arts Agency and OICSD
Date: 5 December 2025, 19:30 - 21:00
Speaker : Roopa Panesar (Indian Classical Musician)
Venue: Sheldonian Theatre, Broad Street OX1 3AZ
Organisers: Asian Arts Agency, Music at Oxford, Oxford India Centre for Sustainable Development
Hosts: Rebecca Dawson (Executive Director, Music at Oxford), Oxford India Centre for Sustainable Development

This list contains talks from the following series:
India on the World Stage: International Relations of India Seminar Series
Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
OICSD Book Talks
OICSD Research Showcase
OICSD Sustainability Series
Rights in Crisis: Conversations on Human Rights in India (OICSD and OxHRH)