The Cambridge South Asia Seminar
The programme for the Centre of South Asian Studies Seminar for the Easter 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.
26th April
Decolonising the University: A View from India
Professor Amita Baviskar (Ashoka University)
Venue: Bateman Auditorium, Gonville and Caius College
Time: 6:30pm
Organised by the Consortium of the Global South
3rd May
Towards a Free Economy: Swatantra and Opposition Politics in Democratic India
Aditya Balasubramanian (Australian National University, Canberra)
Also available online: click here to register
FRIDAY 12th May
BASAS Annual Lecture 2023: ‘If you don’t stop that noise, I can’t talk to you’: Public Meetings and Mass Politics in Interwar India
Professor Kama Maclean (Heidelberg University)
Co-organised with BASAS
17 May
India’s authoritarianism in the time of Modi, and climate change
Nikita Sud (Oxford University)
24th May
Inventing the urban river: the case of the Cooum in Madras city
Aditya Ramesh (University of Manchester)
Please note time change: 5:30pm
Also available online: click here to register
31st May
Divorce and Democracy: Personal Law and the Making of Modern Indian Nation State
Saumya Saxena (University of Cambridge)
Also available online: click here to register
7th June
Jaipur Literature Festival in Cambridge
In conversation with Namita Gokhale, Author of Paro: Dreams of Passion
Discussant: Michael Edwards
Also available online: click here to register
Please note the event has changed from previously advertised due to unforeseen circumstances.
14 June
South Asia Public Policy Annual Lecture : Saving Sri Lanka’s Giants
Dr Asha de Vos (Oceanswell, Sri Lanka)
21 June
The Vulgarity of Caste: Dalits, Sexuality, and Humanity in Modern India
Shailaja Paik (University of Cincinnati)
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