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Affect as a Technology of Rule: Militarism in Pakistan |
Positioning dead body politics and ritualistic mourning as technologies of rule, through a focus on subjectivity, intimacy and affect, the talk will explicate the persuasive powers through which they seek to produce consensus and ideological conformity. |
Maria Rashid (UCL) |
26 Oct 2021 |
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Borders and Identities: Who is a “Bangladeshi” in Assam? |
This talk explores the ambiguities surrounding Indian citizenship in Assam, Northeast India. With Malini Sur (University of Western Sydney) |
Malini Sur |
22 Oct 2021 |
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Delusional states: Love, Citizenship and Resistance in Gilgit-Baltistan |
This talk examines the emotional and intimate logics of occupation, citizenship, and state-making in Gilgit-Baltistan, a contested borderland between India and Pakistan that forms part of the Kashmir dispute. |
Nosheen Ali |
10 Feb 2021 |
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Creative Commons |
A Contrapuntal History of Hindustan |
Manan Amend (Columbia), gives a talk for the Asian Studies Centre seminar series. |
Manan Amend |
04 Feb 2021 |
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Cyclone Amphan: Living through the Climate Crisis |
In May 2020 a deadly tropical cyclone struck Eastern India and Bangladesh. Named ‘Amphan’ and classified as a ‘Super Cyclone’ this was almost certainly a climate change induced extreme event. |
Debjani Bhattacharyya, Jason Cons, Annu Jalais, Megnaa Mehtta |
24 Jul 2020 |
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The Young and the Restless: Youth and Politics in India |
Book reading and Discussion with Gurmehar Kaur |
Gurmehar Kaur, Ria Kapoor |
01 Mar 2019 |
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Creative Commons |
The Failure of South Asian Regionalism |
Lawrence Sáez speaks at the International Relations of India Seminar on 9 May 2018 |
Lawrence Sáez |
10 Jul 2018 |
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Kamila Shamsie on writing history in A God in Every Stone |
Author Kamila Shamsie reads from her 2014 novel A God in Every Stone, and discusses it with Prof. Elleke Boehmer and the audience. |
Kamila Shamsie, Elleke Boehmer |
25 Aug 2017 |
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How the BBC reaches digital audiences in South Asia |
Roopa Suchak, South Asia workstream lead, BBC gives a talk for the Business and Practice of Journalism seminar series. Introduction by Richard Sambrook. |
Roopa Suchak |
31 Oct 2016 |
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Creative Commons |
FMR 49 - Integrating resilience in South Asia |
Communities can strengthen their resilience by integrating disaster risk reduction, climate change adaptation and poverty reduction measures. |
Mi Zhou, Dorien Braam |
18 Jun 2015 |
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Creative Commons |
Dr. Ansari and the Indian Medical Mission to the Ottoman Empire, 1912-13 |
Dr Burak Akcapar talks on his book 'People's Mission: Dr. Ansari and the Indian Medical Mission to the Ottoman Empire, 1912-13' published by Oxford University Press. |
Burak Akcapar |
04 Dec 2014 |
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Pakistan is a viable and not a failed state if...? |
Mehmood Khan Achakzai, Leader and the Chairman of Pakhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party, delivered the inaugural Sarfraz lecture on October 30th 2014, at Wolfson College, Oxford. |
Mehmood Khan Achakzai |
14 Nov 2014 |
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Creative Commons |
Religion as a Motive for Exclusion in Contemporary Western Democracies |
A co-sponsored event from the Asian Studies Centre, the Dahrendorf programme for the Study of Freedom, the Middle East Centre and North American Studies Programme from the world renowned from the author of the award-winning book a Secular Age |
Charles Taylor |
20 Jun 2014 |
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Creative Commons |
Postcolonial Women Writers |
Professor Elleke Boehmer notes the distinct lack of women writers on the Post/Colonial Writing page of the Great Writers website, and explores why this is the case. |
Elleke Boehmer, Dominic Davies |
08 Oct 2012 |
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An Africanist's Legacy: Performing fragmentary movements - perspectives on the life-history of a Muslim dancer-choreographer |
Presented by Asst. prof. Zulfiker Hirji (University of York, Toronto) at 'An Africanist's Legacy - A Workship in Celebration of the Work of David Parkin', held at The School of Anthropology, Oxford, 8-9 July 2010. |
Zulfiker Hirji |
24 Aug 2010 |
