Centre for South Asian Studies

Centre for South Asian Studies

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14 January 2021
16:00 - 17:30

Partisan Aesthetics: Modern Art and India’s Long Decolonisation

Partisan Aesthetics explores art's entanglements with histories of war, famine, mass politics and displacements that marked late-colonial and postcolonial India.

03 December 2020
09:30 - 18:00

CSAS Work in Progress Workshop

Online event

19 November 2020
16:00 - 17:30

Covid-19 and Precarity of Low-income Migrant Workers in Indian Cities

Indian cities attract a considerable number of low-income migrants from marginal rural households experiencing difficult economic, political, and social conditions at home who migrate in search of livelihoods and security.

05 November 2020
16:00 - 17:30

‘Something has to be done’: forestalled futures in East Pakistan, 1947-52

On 21st February 1952 in Dhaka, police shot and killed at least five people participating in province-wide language protests demanding that Bangla be recognised as an official state language.

22 October 2020
16:00 - 17:30

Transnational feminisms: shame, suffering, and moral personhood in Sri Lanka

Transnational feminisms: shame, suffering, and moral personhood in Sri Lanka
06 October 2020
16:00 - 18:00

South Asia Week The Indestructible Gandhi

The Indestructible Gandhi
01 October 2020
16:00 - 17:00

Online welcome event for all staff and students working on and in collaboration with South Asia.

Online welcome event
06 - 17 December 2019
14:00 - 17:00

Work in Progress Half Day

CSAS events will culminate this semester in a half-day workshop dedicated to visiting scholars, post-doctoral fellows and new colleagues.

14 November 2019
16:00 - 17:30

Where the Whole World Meets in One Nest: the Contribution and Legacy of Rabindranath Tagore

About Rabindranath Tagore William Radice has written, ‘He wrote so much, he did so much, he created so much. He was truly global.’ (2012) Rabindranath’s output was phenomenal.

07 November 2019
18:00 - 19:30

To the Divine Through the Path of Beauty : An Exploration

Vidya Dehejia is the Barbara Stoler Miller Professor of Indian and South Asian Art at Columbia University.
31 October 2019
16:00 - 17:30

The Wild East – Criminal Economies in South Asia

This talk follows the publication – free and open access – of an edited collection entitled The Wild East.
17 October 2019
16:00 - 17:30

Translation and the Missionary Archive: multilingual texts and linguistic memory

My talk draws on the experience of working with the ‘missionary archive’ on a recent research project focusing on accounts of conversion from nineteenth-century South Asia.

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