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| The South and Southeast Asian Studies Seminar meets on Wednesdays at 5 p.m. in the Centre of South Asian Studies, Laundress Lane, Cambridge (except where stated).
The seminar provides an opportunity to study South Asia from a wide variety
of disciplines within the humanities and social sciences.
The following programme has been arranged at the Centre of South Asian Studies for the Michaelmas Term 2009: If you wish to download a copy of this programme, click here |
| Thursday 15 October: |
Dr Chua Ai Lin (National University of Singapore),
Consuming modern mass media: Chinese dialects and the English-educated Chinese in 1930s colonial Singapore To be held in the Rushmore Room, St. Catharine's College, at 5.00 p.m. | |
| Monday 19 October: |
Mr Bill Noblett (University Library),
Official publication sources for the study of Indian history To be held at the Centre of South Asian Studies at 4.00 p.m. | |
| 21 October: |
Mr Andrew Francis (Trinity College),
The Asian fiction of Joseph Conrad (1857-1924): some literary-commercial perspectives | |
| 28 October: |
Professor Christopher Pinney
(University College London),
The colonial dromosphere: speed, transmission and prosthesis in colonial India | |
| 4 November: |
Ms Akhila Yechury
(Clare Hall),
Title to be confirmed | |
| 11 November: |
Dr Sunil Kumar (School of Oriental and African Studies, London),
The woman and the hisab of men: Sultan Raziyya and early Muslim society | |
| 18 November: | Dr Stephen Legg (University of Nottingham),
Scales of prostitution: international governmentalities and interwar India | |
| 25 November: |
Dr Sara Shneiderman (St. Catharine's College),
Historicising ethnicity in Darjeeling: from tribe to nation and back again | |
| 2 December: | Professor Polly O'Hanlon (University of Oxford),
In God's country: Brahman rights and Brahman identities in the Maratha Konkan, c.1600-1850 |