Section: Events

Seminar Series

2011 / 2012

Date / Time Details Where
14th Jun 2012 16:00 (2 hours) Seminar: Ethics, Equity and Genocide
Speaker: Binayak and Ilina Sen # Public Health practitioner and Human Rights Defender and Social Worker and Human Rights Activist respectively
Meeting room 6, CMB, 15a George Square
31st May 2012 16:00 (1 hour and 30 minutes) Seminar: Forced Migration, Land Grabbing and Ethnic Conflict: Demographic and Socio-Economic Transformation of the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh
Speaker: Shapan Adnan # University of Oxford
Seminar room 2, CMB, 15a George Square
24th May 2012 16:00 (1 hour and 30 minutes) Seminar: Ulama's Response to English Language in South Asia, 1803-2002: Internal Debates and Reform Initiatives
Speaker: Muhammad Arshad # Imam Tirmizi Visiting Research Fellow, Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies
Seminar room 5, CMB, 15a George Square
17th May 2012 16:00 (1 hour and 30 minutes) Seminar: Film as Infrastructure: Colonial and early Independent India, 1920s-1950s
Speaker: Ravi Vasudevan # Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi, Smuts Visiting Research Fellow, Cambridge
Seminar room 5, CMB, 15a George Square
10th May 2012 16:00 (2 hours) Seminar: What Was the Impact of British Rule in India on Living Standards?
Speaker: Antonia Strachey # Nuffield, Oxford
Seminar room 5, CMB, 15a George Square
3rd May 2012 16:00 (1 hour and 30 minutes) Seminar: The froth that swathes the scars
Speaker: Mihirini Sirisena # University of Edinburgh
Seminar room 5, CMB, 15a George Square
26th Apr 2012 16:00 (2 hours) Seminar: Translation and the Indian Social Sciences
Speaker: Veena Naregal # University of Edinburgh
Seminar room 5, CMB, 15a George Square
5th Apr 2012 16:00 (1 hour and 30 minutes) Seminar: An 'Indian Summer': Lokpal and the Framing of Accountability
Speaker: Aalok Khandekar # University of Maastricht
7 Buccleuch Place
29th Mar 2012 16:00 (1 hour and 30 minutes) Seminar: Corruption and the Making of the Colonial State in Burma, c.1890-1910
Speaker: Jonathan Saha # University of Bristol
7 Buccleuch Place
22nd Mar 2012 16:00 (1 hour and 30 minutes) Seminar: Meanings of Monotheism: Ethnographic Evidence and the Intolerance Thesis
Speaker: Nate Roberts # Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen
7 Buccleuch Place
15th Mar 2012 16:00 (1 hour and 30 minutes) Seminar: "Heathen Aboriginals" to "Christian Tribes": Locating the Oraons in Missionary Writings on Chhotanagpur'
Speaker: Sangeeta Dasgupta # Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
7 Buccleuch Place
8th Mar 2012 16:00 (1 hour and 30 minutes) Seminar: The Right to Information Act in India: Deepening Democracy in a “Shallowing” State?
Speaker: Prashant Sharma # London School of Economics
7 Buccleuch Place
1st Mar 2012 16:00 (1 hour and 30 minutes) Seminar: A postcolonial renaissance “Indianness” contemporary art and the market in the age of neoliberal capital
Speaker: Manuela Ciotti # Aarhus University, Denmark
7 Buccleuch Place
23rd Feb 2012 16:00 (1 hour and 30 minutes) Seminar: Revival of Gandhism in India? : Lage Raho Munna Bhai, Anna Hazare and …
Speaker: Shinya Ishizaka # Kyoto University
Seminar room 2, CMB, 15a George Square
16th Feb 2012 16:00 (1 hour and 30 minutes) Seminar: Village Men or Gentlemen? : The importance of contextualising class for understanding migratory flows between the UK and Pakistan
Speaker: Parveen Akhtar # University of Bristol; Hosted by: CO-HOSTED BY THE ALWALEED CENTRE # University of Edinburgh
7 Buccleuch Place
9th Feb 2012 16:00 (1 hour and 30 minutes) Seminar: Breaking the Mould?: Market-oriented reforms and economic growth in India since 1991
Speaker: Tom Tomlinson # SOAS
7 Buccleuch Place
2nd Feb 2012 16:00 (1 hour and 30 minutes) Seminar: The NGO-isation of the State on the Bangladesh/India Border
Speaker: Delwar Hussain # University of Cambridge
7 Buccleuch Place
26th Jan 2012 16:00 (1 hour and 30 minutes) Seminar: Environmental Citizenship: Lessons from India's Tribal Conundrum
Speaker: Piyush Mathur # Charles Wallace India Trust Fellow
Rm 2.13, Geography Building, 1 Drummond Street
19th Jan 2012 16:00 (1 hour and 30 minutes) Seminar: Political Society and Pro-Poor Discourse: Between Deliberation and Agonism
Speaker: Indrajit Roy # University of Oxford
7 Buccleuch Place
1st Dec 2011 04:00 (1 hour and 30 minutes) Seminar: Migration, Aspiration, and Labour among Nepali Performers
Speaker: Anna Stirr # Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Oxford
Seminar room 2, CMB, 15a George Square
24th Nov 2011 04:00 (1 hour and 30 minutes) Seminar: Deconstructing the Maoist Insurgency in India
Speaker: Tej Pratap Singh # Banaras Hindu University, India
Seminar room 2, CMB, 15a George Square
17th Nov 2011 16:00 (1 hour and 30 minutes) Seminar: Dalit Memoirs: Re-scripting the Subaltern Body
Speaker: Gyan Pandey # Emory University
Seminar room 2, CMB, 15a George Square
10th Nov 2011 16:00 (1 hour and 30 minutes) Seminar: Mutating Identities?: Military Recruits and Labour Migrants in North India, 1810-1865
Speaker: Crispin Bates # University of Edinburgh
Seminar room 2, CMB, 15a George Square
3rd Nov 2011 04:00 (1 hour and 30 minutes) Seminar: Laws Liberty and Livelihood: Towards a Bottom Up Agenda of Economic Reforms
Speaker: Madhu Kishwar # Senior Fellow, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Founder Editor, Manushi
Seminar room 2, CMB, 15a George Square
27th Oct 2011 16:00 (1 hour and 30 minutes) Seminar: Translation and the Indian Social Sciences
Speaker: Veena Naregal # Associate Professor
Seminar room 2, CMB, 15a George Square
20th Oct 2011 16:00 (1 hour and 30 minutes) Seminar: Laboro, Ergo Sum: 'White Gold' in the Brown Atlantic
Speaker: Devi Hardeen # University of Liverpool
Seminar room 2, CMB, 15a George Square
13th Oct 2011 16:00 (1 hour and 30 minutes) Seminar: Looking Beyond Flags: The 1940s in India
Speaker: Indivar Kamtekar # Visiting Professor CeMIS (Centre for Modern Indian Studies, University of Gottingen
Seminar room 2, CMB, 15a George Square
6th Oct 2011 16:00 (1 hour and 30 minutes) Seminar: Kolkata's Changing Feminist Field
Speaker: Srila Roy # University of Nottingham
Seminar room 2, CMB, 15a George Square
29th Sep 2011 16:00 (1 hour and 30 minutes) Seminar: An Ethnographic Investigation of Type 2 Diabetes among Indian and Pakistani migrants in Scotland
Speaker: Tania Porqueddu # University of Edinburgh
Seminar room 2, CMB, 15a George Square
22nd Sep 2011 16:00 (1 hour and 30 minutes) Seminar: Political Economy of Indian Development since 1991
Speaker: Venkatesh Athreya # Swaminathan Research Foundation in Chennai
Seminar room 2, CMB, 15a George Square
20th Sep 2011 16:00 (1 hour and 30 minutes) Seminar: Traces of Reflexive Imagination: Matriliny, Modern Law, and Spirit Worship in South India
Speaker: Dr Miho Ishii # Kyoto University
7 Buccleuch Place
2nd Feb 2011 16:00 (1 hour and 30 minutes) Seminar: The NGO-isation of the State on the Bangladesh/india Border
Speaker: Delwar Hussain # Cambridge University
7 Buccleuch Place

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