The Cambridge South Asia Seminar

The programme for the Centre of South Asian Studies Seminar for the Lent Term is given below. We will be welcoming an exciting line up of scholars to debate some key themes in the field.

All seminars will take place in Room SG1, Alison Richard Building at 5pm (UK) unless stated otherwise.

Where possible, the content of the presentations will be made available on this page shortly after the seminar, as well as on the Centre’s podcast series ‘South Asia Conversations’, to which you can subscribe at your regular podcast supplier.

1 May

Silver screens and golden dreams: A social history of Burmese cinema

Jane Ferguson (Australian National University)

8 May

On the Road in India: Travelling Theatre Companies in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries

Asha Kuthari Chaudhuri (Visiting Fellow, Centre of South Asian Studies & University of Gauhati)

15 May

From silences to the politics of the in-between: exploring unconventional modalities of agency in oppression and struggle 

Aliya Khalid (University of Oxford)

22 May

The Long Wall of Quang Ngai (Vietnam): The Making of a Southeast Asian Frontier

Andrew Hardy (EFEO, Paris)

27 May

Annual South Asia Public Policy Lecture

Vandana Singh (Framingham State University)

Note: Time Change 3pm

5 June

Event in collaboration with the Jaipur Literature Festival

TBC

12 June

TBC

K. Kalyani (Azim Premji University)

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