Centre of South Asian Studies occasional events


2013-03-04 17:00: A conversation with Shabana Azmi (actor, activist and parliamentarian) and Javed Akhtar (screenwriter, lyricist, activist and parliamentarian) (Shabana Azmi, Javed Akhtar, Chair: Professor C.A. Bayly)

2013-11-18 17:00: White Van Stories: a film screening in the presence of the Director, Leena Manimekalai (Speaker to be confirmed)

2014-02-10 18:00: Unmanned: America's Drone Wars (Jemima Khan et al)

2014-03-24 18:00: Pakistan's Member of the National Assembly (MNA), Shafqat Mahmood, visits Cambridge University (Shafqat Mahmood)

2014-04-03 18:00: Pakistan's unpredictable political scene: an informative talk (Professor Dr. Yasmin Rashid, Professor Dr. Yasmin Rashid is a Pakistani politician and a prominent Gynecologist who is serving as the Punjab Secretary General of Imran Khan led Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI). She is currently working as the Professor and )

2014-05-29 17:00: 'Eastminster' - State-building in Asia in the aftermath of Empire (Dr Harshan Kumarasingham, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munic)

2014-08-04 18:00: Blood Earth Project; screening of award-winning short film followed by spoken word and discussion with Taru Dalmia (Taru Dalmia, Delhi Sultanate, song-writer, vocalist and co-founder of Word Sound Power)

2014-10-17 18:00: The World Before Her: a film by Nisha Pahuja (Akanksha Mehta, SOAS)

2015-02-26 17:00: The 2015 Delhi Elections: what do they tell us about Indian democracy? (Dr Ramnarayan Rawat, University of Cambridge and University of Delaware)

2015-04-30 18:30: The fragile Himalayas (Professor Shekhar Pathak, Founder of People's Association for Himalay Area Research, former Professor of History at Kumaun University, Nainital, Nehru Fellow at the Centre Contemporary Studies at Teen Murti in New Delhi)

2015-05-21 17:00: Parallel publics: an Indian history of democracy (Dr Ramnarayan Rawat, Smuts Visiting Fellow and University of Delaware)

2015-06-03 17:00: The political in question: abolitionism in India's twentieth century (Professor Mrinalini Sinha, University of Michigan)

2015-10-29 19:00: Documentary film Screeing of 'An ordinary election' (Lalit Vachani (Editor))

2016-03-04 18:00: Film screenting - Quarter 4/11 (Director: Ranu Ghosh.  Chaired by Cleo Roberts)

2016-04-07 18:00: Hidden Citizens: Space, place and rights in India and Pakistan, 1947-1952 (Professor William Gould, University of Leeds)

2016-04-27 17:00: Kingsley Martin Memorial Lecture, 2015-16: Three scenes from rural life: Cambridge to Colombo and back again, 1954 to 2016 (Professor Jonathan Spencer, University of Edinburgh)

2016-04-27 17:00: The Kingsley Martin Memorial Lecture - Three scenes from rural life: Cambridge to Colombo and back again, 1954 to 2016 (Professor Jonathan Spencer, University of Edinburgh)

2016-11-14 17:00: The Inaugural CSAS Lecture on South Asian Public Affairs - Looking away: inequality, prejudice and indifference in new India (Harsh Mander, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam)

2017-05-24 17:00: Thinking religion today with Gandhi (Professor Ajay Skaria, University of Minnesota)

2017-08-01 09:30: Freedom and Fragmentation; Images of Independence, Decolonisation and Partition from the Centre of South Asian Studies aRchive (Speaker to be confirmed)

2017-09-18 17:30: The CSAS Lecture on South Asian Public Affairs: The rule of law and democratic development in Pakistan (Asma Jahangir, human rights lawyer and activist)

2017-11-10 17:30: The Centre of South Asian Studies Lecture on South Asian Public Affairs: The rule of law and democratic development in Pakistan (Asma Jahangir, human rights lawyer and activist)

2017-11-16 19:00: Sameer: film screening (Dakxin Chhara)

2018-05-16 17:30: Global Christianity and the transformation of Dalits in Colonial and Postcolonial Kerala (Dr P. Sanal Mohan (Smuts Visiting Fellow and Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam))

2018-05-30 17:00: Koh-i-Noor: violence, law, and the moral politics of colonialism (Professor Neeladri Bhattacharya )

2019-01-23 17:00: gloknos Annual Lecture Series in conjunction with the CSAS Seminar Series: In the Bay of Bengal: modelling empire, globe and self (Dr Sujit Sivasundaram (Director of the Centre of South Asian Studies))

2019-03-07 19:00: Christopher Bayly’s `Remaking the Modern World’. Round-table discussion with Alison Bashford, Richard Drayton, Ruth Harris and Sujit Sivasundaram (a joint event with the World History Seminar)  (Professor Alison Bashford, Professor Richard Drayton, Professor Saul Dubow, Professor Ruth Harris & Dr Sujit Sivasundaram)

2019-05-15 17:00: Discourses of caste over the long duree: re-framing Brahman identity in modern India (Professor Polly O’Hanlon (University of Oxford))

2019-07-04 17:00: Communist women in Bengal: patterns of self-representations (Professor Tanika Sarkar (Jawaharlal Nehru University))

2019-07-09 15:00: Populism and/as Nationalism: ideas, sentiment and the nation (Nitasha Kaul (Westminster); Edward Anderson (Cambridge); Pragya Dhital (SOAS); Dhiren Borisa (Leicester); Chair - Sandhya Devesan (Cambridge))

2019-11-08 17:00: Recognising the Other: religion and society in pre-modern North India (Professor Romila Thapar (Professor Emerita at Jawaharlal Nehru University))

2019-11-14 17:00: The Mauritius Truth and Justice Commission: personal reflections with special attention to South Asian labour in Mauritius (Vijayalakshmi Teelock, G.O.S.K. (University of Mauritius))

2020-01-17 17:00: Democracy and Emergency in India (Professor Gyan Prakash (Princeton University))

2020-03-11 17:00: THIS LECTURE IS CANCELLED  AND WILL BE RESCHEDULED: Artfully walking with Gandhi (Professor Sumathi Ramaswamy (Duke University))