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The Dr Raj Chandavarkar Seminar - Global Islam: what is it and where did it come from?

The seminar will be followed by a reception in the Bateman Room at Caius at which all are welcome

UserProfessor Nile Green (UCLA).

HouseThe Bateman Auditorium, Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 03 March 2020, 17:00-18:00

Beyond religion in India and Pakistan: gender and caste, borders and boundaries

UserProfessor Navtej Purewal (SOAS) & Professor Virinder Kalra (Warwick).

HouseSeminar Room SG1, ground floor, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

ClockWednesday 19 February 2020, 17:00-18:00

The enabling powers of authoritarian coercion: state forms of Islam at work in Brunei and Singapore

UserProfessor Dominik Műller (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg).

HouseSeminar Room SG1, ground floor, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

ClockWednesday 29 January 2020, 17:00-18:00

Contemporary Sri Lankan Anglophone writing

UserDr Ruvani Ranasinha (King's College, London).

HouseSeminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

ClockWednesday 06 November 2019, 17:00-18:00

Literary activism in Cold War India: the short story, the magazine and the world

The Gordon Johnson Seminar

UserProfessor Francesca Orsini (SOAS).

HouseSeminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

ClockWednesday 30 October 2019, 17:00-18:00

Exhibiting South Asia: panel discussion

UserDr Mark Elliot (Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology, Cambridge),Dr Devika Singh (Tate Modern) & Mrinalini Venkateswaran (Museum Consultant, Maharaja Sawai Man Singh II Museum Trust and PhD candidate, Cambridge).

HouseSeminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

ClockWednesday 09 October 2019, 17:00-18:00

White noise, séances and colonial linguistics

UserProfessor Javed Majeed (King’s College London).

HouseSeminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

ClockWednesday 12 June 2019, 17:00-18:00

The Economics of Religion in India

UserDr Sriya Iyer (University of Cambridge).

HouseSeminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

ClockWednesday 05 June 2019, 17:00-18:00

Rethinking the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan

A joint event with the World History Seminar

UserDr Elisabeth Leake (University of Leeds).

HouseRoom 5, Cripps Court, Magdalene College (Chesterton Road).

ClockThursday 16 May 2019, 17:00-18:00

Jugaad Innovation: the implications for South Asia

UserProfessor Jaideep Prabhu (University of Cambridge).

HouseSeminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

ClockWednesday 01 May 2019, 17:00-18:00

Moor “culture” in independent Ceylon: the 1940s establishment of the Moors Islamic Cultural Home

UserDr Farzana Haniffa (University of Colombo & Smuts Visiting Fellow at the Centre of South Asian Studies).

HouseSeminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

ClockWednesday 06 March 2019, 17:00-18:00

The Colombo Plan for aid to South and Southeast Asia: power, process and possibilities of the long 1950s

UserDr David Lowe (Deakin University & Smuts Visiting Fellow at the Centre of South Asian Studies).

HouseSeminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

ClockWednesday 06 February 2019, 17:00-18:00

Islamophobia and securitization. Religion, ethnicity and the female voice

UserDr Tania Saeed, Lahore University of Management Sciences.

HouseSeminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

ClockWednesday 21 November 2018, 17:00-18:00

Eve's mistakes? Islamic feminism and the pursuit of female religious authority in contemporary India

The Dr Gordon Johnson Seminar

UserProfessor Justin Jones, University of Oxford.

HouseSeminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

ClockWednesday 17 October 2018, 17:00-18:00

TBC

UserProfessor Tanika Sarkar (Jawaharlal Nehru University).

HouseSeminar Room S1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

ClockWednesday 13 June 2018, 17:00-18:00

Intergenerational mobility in post-liberalisation India

Please note this seminar takes place on a Thursday in Room S1, 1st floor of the ARB

UserProfessor Vegard Iversen (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad).

HouseSeminar Room S1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

ClockThursday 17 May 2018, 17:00-18:00

1984 and the sacred ends of sovereignty

Please note this seminar takes place on a Monday in room SG2, ground floor of the ARB

UserDr Shruti Kapila, University of Cambridge.

HouseSeminar Room SG2, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

ClockMonday 07 May 2018, 17:00-18:00

Ayutthaya in Asian history from the 13th to 18th century

UserProfessor Chris Baker and Professor Pasuk Phongpaichet (Chulalongkorn University).

HouseSeminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

ClockWednesday 25 April 2018, 17:00-18:00

'Nobody comes with an empty head': enterprise Hindutva and social media in urban India

UserProfessor Dr Sahana Udupa (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München).

HouseSeminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

ClockWednesday 14 February 2018, 17:00-18:00

Global Christianity and the Transformation of the Emotional World of Dalits: A Critical Reading of the Missionary Writings

UserDr P. Sanal Mohan (Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala and Smuts Visiting Fellow at the Centre of South Asian Studies).

HouseSeminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

ClockWednesday 24 January 2018, 17:00-18:00

Depicting the British abroad. Discontinuities in Johan Zoffany's Tuscan and Indian experience, 1772-1789

Seminar co-hosted by CSAS and the Early Modern World History Seminar

UserDr Arundhati Vermani and Dr Jean Boutier, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Marseille.

HouseSeminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

ClockWednesday 17 January 2018, 17:00-18:00

Nature's Sovereignty: The Indus Basin and India's Partition

Seminar co-organised with Critical Pakistan

UserProfessor David Gilmartin, NC State University.

HouseSeminar Room S1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

ClockTuesday 05 December 2017, 17:00-18:00

Caste, class, and culture in contemporary Nepal

UserProfessor David Gellner, University of Oxford.

HouseSeminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

ClockWednesday 22 November 2017, 17:00-18:00

Unknowable God and knowable women: gender of piety in the Mala Poetics of Malabar

UserDr Yasser Arafath Pothukandiyil, Dr L.M. Singhvi Visiting Fellow at the Centre of South Asian Studies.

HouseSeminar Room S1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

ClockMonday 09 October 2017, 17:00-18:00

Alternatives to citizenship at the end of empire: princes, subjects and mass migration

UserProfessor Joya Chatterji, Director of the Centre of South Asian Studies and Professor of South Asian History, University of Cambridge.

HouseSeminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

ClockWednesday 04 October 2017, 17:00-18:00

Dirty words a historyof swearing and abuse in Tamil

UserProfessor A.R. Venkatachalapathy, Madras Institute of Development Studies.

HouseSeminar Room S1, first floor, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

ClockMonday 05 June 2017, 17:00-18:00

The Kingsley Martin Memorial Lecture: - Thinking religion today with Gandhi

The Lecture will be followed by a reception in the Blue Boar Common Room, Trinity College

UserProfessor Ajay Skaria, University of Minnesota.

HouseWinstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College, Trinity Street, Cambridge, CB2 1TQ.

ClockWednesday 24 May 2017, 17:00-18:00

Indian democracy in the 70th year of independence: understanding the 2017 Uttar Pradesh elections. A round-table discussion

UserDr Manali Desai, University of Cambridge; Sagnik Dutta, University of Cambridge; Dr Ali Khan Mahmudabad, Ashoka University; Dr Raphael Susewind, King's College London and Dr Philippa Williams, Queen Mary Uniersity of London.

HouseSeminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

ClockWednesday 10 May 2017, 17:00-18:00

On writing a population history of india

UserProfessor Timother Dyson, London School of Economics.

HouseSeminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

ClockWednesday 15 March 2017, 17:00-18:00

New Frontiers: Reworking the International History of the Afghanistan-Pakistan Borderlands - a round table discussion to be chaired by Professor Magnus Marsden, University of Sussex. Title tbc

UserDr Elisabeth Leake, University of Leeds; Dr Martin Bayly, London School of Economics and Professor Magnus Marsden , University of Sussex.

HouseSeminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

ClockWednesday 15 February 2017, 17:00-18:00

Fear, Violence, and the Making of British Power in India

UserDr Mark Condos, Queen Mary University of London.

HouseSeminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

ClockWednesday 18 January 2017, 17:00-18:00

The uniqueness of downtown Yangon

UserProfessor Su Su, Charles Wallace Burma Trust Visiting Fellow, CSAS and Department of Architecutre, Mandalay Technological University.

HouseSeminar Room S2, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

ClockTuesday 22 November 2016, 17:30-18:30

A Sri Lankan evening in conjunction with the University Language Centre

UserDr Sujit Sivasundarm, Dr Shailaja Fennell, Jocelyn Wyburd, University of Cambridge.

HouseSeminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

ClockWednesday 02 November 2016, 17:00-18:00

On the Indian origins of Nationalism

UserDr Norbert Peabody, University of Cambridge.

HouseSeminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

ClockWednesday 26 October 2016, 17:00-18:00

Between bazaar logics and the commodity fetish: notes on Trademark Law in Colonial India

Note: this seminar is on a Monday in Seminar Room S2

UserProfessor Arvind Rajagopal, New York University.

HouseSeminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

ClockMonday 06 June 2016, 17:00-18:00

South Asia's minorities - rough road to citizenship!

UserDr Sajjad Hassan, Centre for Equity Studies - Misaal, New Delhi.

HouseSeminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

ClockWednesday 18 May 2016, 17:00-18:00

'Produce or perish'. The crisis of the late 1940s and the place of labour in postcolonial India

This is the Dr Raj Chandavarkar Seminar

UserProfessor Ravi Ahuja, University of Gottingen.

HouseSeminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

ClockWednesday 04 May 2016, 17:00-18:00

Tolerance in Islamic thought: South Asian innovations

UserDr Humeira Iqtidar, King's College London.

HouseSeminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

ClockWednesday 20 April 2016, 17:00-18:00

The water of Delhi: pre-colonial modernity in Urdu poetry

UserProfessor Ruth Vanita, University of Montana.

HouseSeminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

ClockWednesday 10 February 2016, 17:00-18:00

Hindu nationalist training camps and the Indian diaspora

UserEdward Anderson, Centre of South Asian Studies, University of Cambridge.

HouseSeminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

ClockWednesday 27 January 2016, 17:00-18:00

Consolidating a State: Pakistan's integration of the Princely States, 1947-56

UserDr Yaqoob Khan Bangash, Information Technology University, Lahore.

HouseSeminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

ClockWednesday 20 January 2016, 17:00-18:00

The Indian village: from Marx to Modi

UserProfessor Edward Simpson, School of Oriental and African Studies.

HouseSeminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

ClockWednesday 13 January 2016, 17:00-18:00

The fugitive sojourns of Gurdit Singh, 1914-1922

UserProfessor Renisa Mawani, University of British Columbia.

HouseSeminar Room S1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

ClockWednesday 02 December 2015, 17:00-18:00

National wealth or national poverty? Economic statistics, citizenship and the emergence of Indian democracy

UserDr Eleanor Newbigin, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.

HouseSeminar Room S1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

ClockWednesday 11 November 2015, 17:00-18:00

SAARC and regional trade integration: a political economy perspective

UserDr Khalid Ahmed, Charles Wallace Pakistan Trust Visiting Fellow and Sukkur Institute of Business Administration.

HouseSeminar Room S1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

ClockWednesday 04 November 2015, 17:00-18:00

Intimate voices of empire: women and letter writing in eighteenth century India

The Dr B.H. Farmer Seminar

UserProfessor Rosland O'Hanlon, University of Oxford.

HouseSeminar Room S1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

ClockWednesday 14 October 2015, 17:00-18:00

Old conflicts and new frontiers: the historic origins of the challenge to connectivity in Myanmar's borderlands

UserProfessor Robert Anderson, Simon Fraser University and Martin Smith, Senior Advisor to the Transnational Institute.

HouseSeminar Room S1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

ClockWednesday 07 October 2015, 17:00-18:00

The colonial hajj from India and Malaya

UserDr John Slight, St John's College, Cambridge.

HouseSeminar Room SG1 Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

ClockWednesday 10 June 2015, 17:00-18:00

The natural wealth of nations: ecology and agriculture in nineteenth century Tamilnad

The inaugural Dr Raj Chandavarkar Seminar

UserProfessor Prasannan Parthasarathi, Boston College.

HouseSeminar Room SG1 Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

ClockWednesday 27 May 2015, 17:00-18:00

Ambedkar in his time and ours

UserDr Anupama Rao, Columbia University.

HouseSeminar Room S2, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

ClockTuesday 12 May 2015, 17:00-18:00

Urdu migrant literati and Lahore's culture

UserDr Tahir Kamran, Allama Iqbal Fellow, Centre of South Asian Studies.

HouseSeminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 5.00 pm.

ClockWednesday 29 April 2015, 17:00-18:00

Transfigured Landscape: The Spectre of Kashmir and Bombay Cinema

UserProfessor Shohini Ghosh, AJK Mass Communication Research Center, Jamia Millia Islamia.

HouseSeminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 5.00 pm.

ClockWednesday 11 March 2015, 17:00-18:00

Rethinking (South) Asian Studies: Spaces and Inter-linkages

The inaugural Dr Gordon Johnson Seminar

UserProfessor Willem van Schendel, University of Amsterdam.

HouseSeminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 5.00 pm.

ClockWednesday 04 March 2015, 17:00-18:00

The Politics of Islamic Law: Local Elites, Colonial Authority and the Making of the Muslim State.

UserDr Iza Hussin, Department of POLIS, University of Cambridge.

HouseSeminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 5.00 pm.

ClockWednesday 25 February 2015, 17:00-18:00

India's development cooperation: managing transitions, opportunities, challenges and uncertainties in the decade ahead

UserDr Emma Mawdsley, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge.

HouseSeminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 5.00 pm.

ClockWednesday 11 February 2015, 17:00-18:00

A Muslim Conspiracy in Colonial South India: Wahhabis in the Deccan, 1830-40

UserProfessor Chandra Mallampalli, Westmond College.

HouseSeminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 5.00 pm.

ClockWednesday 04 February 2015, 17:00-18:00

Rebuilding Lives, Redefining Spaces: Women in Post Colonial Delhi, 1947-1980

UserAnjali Bhardwaj-Datta, University of Cambridge.

HouseSeminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 5.00 pm.

ClockWednesday 28 January 2015, 17:00-18:00

Public Space and the Demand for Recognition: Lawful and Unlawful Assembly and the ‘Conditions of Listening’ in Indian History

UserProfessor Lisa Mitchell, Visiting Fellow at Clare Hall, Cambridge and University of Pennsylvania.

HouseSeminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 5.00 pm.

ClockWednesday 21 January 2015, 17:00-18:00

Murder at London Zoo: Race, Masculinity and Empire

UserDr Jonathan Saha, University of Bristol.

HouseSeminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 5.00 pm.

ClockWednesday 03 December 2014, 17:00-18:00

Being the change: the Aam Aadmi Party and the politics of curative democracy

UserProfessor Srirupa Roy, Professor of State and Democracy in Modern India, Centre for Modern Indian Studies, University of Göttingen.

HouseSeminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 5.00 pm.

ClockWednesday 26 November 2014, 17:00-18:00

Rewriting the bureaucratic colonial imagination in the preparation for India's first elections

UserDr Ornit Shani, St John's College, Cambridge and Haifa University.

HouseSeminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 5.00 pm.

ClockWednesday 19 November 2014, 17:00-18:00

The Republic of India: between hope and despair

UserProfessor Deepak Nayyar.

HouseSeminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 5.00 pm.

ClockWednesday 12 November 2014, 17:00-18:00

From untouched to untouchable: the history and politics of naming

UserDr Ramnariyan Rawat, Smuts Fellow, Centre of South Asian Studies, University of Cambridge.

HouseSeminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 5.00 pm.

ClockWednesday 05 November 2014, 17:00-18:00

India today and the politics of happiness

UserProfessor Veronique Bénéï, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris.

HouseSeminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 5.00 pm.

ClockWednesday 29 October 2014, 17:00-18:00

Indian citizenship: a century of disagreement

UserProfessor Niraja Gopal Jayal, Jawaharlal Nehru University.

HouseSeminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 5.00 pm.

ClockWednesday 22 October 2014, 17:00-18:00

Crossing the Bay of Bengal: the rise & decline of a South Asian region

This is the inaugural Dr B.H. Farmer Seminar

UserProfessor Sunil Amrith, Birkbeck, University of London.

HouseSeminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 5.00 pm.

ClockWednesday 15 October 2014, 17:00-18:00

'Birth 1871' a film screening to be followed by a Q and A session

UserProf William Gould, University of Leeds and Dakxinkumar Bajrange.

HouseSeminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 5.00 pm.

ClockWednesday 08 October 2014, 17:00-18:00

Intimate violence: age of consent controversies in the age of Nationalism

UserProfessor Tanika Sarkar, Jawaharlal Nehru University.

HouseSeminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 5.00 pm.

ClockWednesday 18 June 2014, 17:00-18:00

Science not culture: South India in global concept history

UserDr David Washbrook, Trinity College, Cambridge.

HouseSeminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 5.00 pm.

ClockWednesday 04 June 2014, 17:00-18:00

Suppressing 'the gift of Krishna': India, piracy and the littoral politics of Empire

UserDr Simon Layton, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge.

HouseSeminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 5.00 pm.

ClockWednesday 21 May 2014, 17:00-18:00

Film screening: Where the clouds end

UserWanphrang Diengdoh.

HouseSeminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 5.00 pm.

ClockWednesday 23 April 2014, 17:00-18:00

The sacrificial self: recasting renunciation in South Asia

The Kingsley Martin Memorial Lecture

UserProfessor Thomas Blom Hansen, Stanford University.

HouseSeminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 5.00 pm.

ClockThursday 17 April 2014, 17:00-18:00

Rethinking colonial violence

UserDr Deana Heath, University of Liverpool.

HouseSeminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 5.00 pm.

ClockWednesday 12 March 2014, 17:00-18:00

Development and basic democracy: the state and the governed in Ayub's Pakistan

UserDr Markus Daeschel, Royal Holloway, University of London.

HouseSeminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 5.00 pm.

ClockWednesday 05 March 2014, 17:00-18:00

German expatriate art historians and the writing of Indian art history

UserDr Devika Singh, Centre of South Asian Studies.

HouseSeminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 5.00 pm.

ClockWednesday 26 February 2014, 17:00-18:00

Trading worlds: Afghan merchants across modern frontiers

UserProfessor Magnus Marsden, University of Sussex.

HouseSeminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 5.00 pm.

ClockWednesday 12 February 2014, 17:00-18:00

The most relaxing way to fly: women, PIA and the making of 'modern' Pakistan

UserDr Pippa Virdee, De Montfort University.

HouseSeminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 5.00 pm.

ClockWednesday 05 February 2014, 17:00-18:00

Citizenship and the idea of the Muslim minority in postcolonial South India: anxieties of belonging in Hyderabad

UserDr Taylor Sherman, London School of Economics and Political Science.

HouseSeminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 5.00 pm.

ClockWednesday 22 January 2014, 17:00-18:00

Global history from an Islamic angle

UserFrancis Robinson (Royal Holloway, University of London).

HouseSeminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 5.00 pm.

ClockWednesday 20 November 2013, 17:00-18:00

The cinema in Lahore, c. 1919-1947

UserNasreen Rehman (Corpus Christi College, Cambridge).

HouseSeminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 5.00 pm.

ClockWednesday 13 November 2013, 17:00-18:00

The Murderous Outrages Act and the Colonial Rule of Law in Punjab, 1867-1920

UserMark Condos (Wolfson College, Cambridge).

HouseSeminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 5.00 pm.

ClockWednesday 06 November 2013, 17:00-18:00

Conceptualising Asia's postcolonial Cold War

UserHeonik Kwon (Trinity College, Cambridge).

HouseSeminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 5.00 pm.

ClockWednesday 16 October 2013, 17:00-18:00

Long-distance nationalism and the legitimation of political violence: Shyamji Krishnavarma's 'Scientific terrorism'

UserProfessor Harald Fischer Tine (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich).

HouseSeminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 5.00 pm.

ClockWednesday 09 October 2013, 17:00-18:00

Film screening: 'Red Ant Dream', followed by Q & A session with the Director

Note: this event is on a Tuesday in Room SG2 (not on a Wednesday as is normal for the South Asian Seminar series)

UserSanjay Kak, Director.

HouseSeminar Room SG2, Alison Richard Building, 5.00 pm.

ClockTuesday 01 October 2013, 17:00-18:00

Artists as film-makers - three Indian artists

UserBehroze Gandhy (film-maker and critic).

HouseSeminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 5.00 pm.

ClockWednesday 08 May 2013, 17:00-18:00

Public opinion and the twenty-point programme during the Indian Emergency, 1975-77

UserPatrick Clibbens, Pembroke College, University of Cambridge.

HouseSeminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 5.00 pm.

ClockWednesday 24 April 2013, 17:00-18:00

Dirty labour, filthy caste: corporation scavengers in colonial Calcutta

UserProfessor Tanika Sarkar, Jawaharlal Nehru University.

HouseSeminar Room S1, Alison Richard Building, 5.00 pm.

ClockThursday 14 March 2013, 17:00-18:00

Sacred and secular sounds: Qwaali in Pakistan

UserDr Virinder Kalra, Manchester University.

HouseSeminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 5.00 pm.

ClockWednesday 13 March 2013, 17:00-18:00

Reason and religion: debates in colonial India

UserProfessor Deepak Kumar, Jawaharlal Nehru University.

HouseSeminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 5.00 pm.

ClockWednesday 06 March 2013, 17:00-18:00

Military labour and the Company state in India, 1780-1830

UserMesrob Vartavarian, Robinson College Cambridge.

HouseSeminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 5.00 pm.

ClockWednesday 27 February 2013, 17:00-18:00

Geographies of post trafficking in Nepal

UserProf Nina Laurie, University of Newcastle.

HouseSeminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 5.00 pm.

ClockWednesday 23 May 2012, 17:00-18:00

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