Asian Studies Centre

The Asian Studies Centre was founded in 1982 at St Antony's College and is primarily a co-ordinating organisation which exists to bring together specialists from a wide variety of different disciplines. Geographically, the Centre predominantly covers South, Southeast and East Asia. The Asian Studies Centre works closely with scholars in the Oriental Institute, the Oxford China Centre, the Contemporary South Asian Studies Programme and the Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies (in premises at St Antony's). The Asian Studies Centre is host to the Taiwan Studies Programme, Modern Burmese Studies Programme, the South Asian History Seminar Series and the Southeast Asian Studies Seminar Series.

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Episode	Description	People	Date
Interview with Joe Cribb on the British Museum coin collection by Shreya Gupta	This interview discusses Joe's interest and approach in studying and curating coins, as well as the research being undertaken on the British Museum's South Asian coin collection.	Joe Cribb, former Keeper of the British Museum Money and Medals department and expert in Asian numismatics. Shreya Gupta, Doctoral Researcher, Ashmolean Museum and University of Exeter	4 December, 2024
The Trial that Shook Britain: How a Court Martial Hastened Acceptance of Indian Independence	Book talk with Ashis Ray	Ashis Ray	4 December, 2024
Dr Shailendra Bhandare on the Ashmolean Museum’s South Asian coin collections	Shreya Gupta interviews Dr Shailendra Bhandare, Curator of South Asian and Far-eastern Coins and Paper Money at the Ashmolean Museum	Shailendra Bhandare, Shreya Gupta	23 August, 2024
Jan Lingen, President of the Royal Dutch Numismatic Society, on collecting South Asian Coins	Shreya Gupta interviews Indian coin expert Jan Lingen on his collection.	Jan Lingen, Shreya Gupta	20 August, 2024
Interview with Robert Bracey on South Asian Coin Collections in the British Museum by Shreya Gupta	This interview discusses the afterlives of coin collections from South Asia held in UK museums today.	Robert Bracey, Shreya Gupta	31 July, 2024
Interview with Dr Paul Stevens on collecting Indian coins by Shreya Gupta	This interview discusses Paul Steven’s journey of collecting and researching Indian coins	Paul Stevens, Shreya Gupta	31 July, 2024
Pakistan & India: Common Origins, Divergent Trajectories	Pervez Hoodbhoy seminar given as part of the Modern South Asian Seminar series in October 2023	Pervez Hoodbhoy	26 October, 2023
Along The Path To Gandhi's Neighbor	Ajay Skaria - University of Minnesota, speaks at the Oxford South Asian Intellectual History Seminar on 1 May 2023.	Ajay Skaria	16 June, 2023
Pakistan: Political Economy of an Elite Captured State	Miftah Ismail Pakistan’s former Minister of Finance gives a lecture	Miftah Ismail	19 May, 2023
Nations Ascendant: Towards a Global Intellectual History of Self Determination	Zaib un Nisa Aziz (University of South Florida, Tampa) speaks at the Oxford South Asian Intellectual History Seminar on 13 March 2023. For queries, please contact seminar convenor at saih@history.ox.ac.uk	Zaib un Nisa Aziz	23 March, 2023
Uncivil Liberalism and the Globalisation of Dadabhai Naoroji’s Ideas of Sociality	Vikram Visana (University of Leicester) speaks at the Oxford South Asian Intellectual History Seminar on 7 March 2023.	Vikram Visana	20 March, 2023
‘Power to the People?’: Citizens and the Everyday State in Early Postcolonial South Asia	Sarah Ansari (Royal Holloway, University of London) speaks at the Oxford South Asian Intellectual History Seminar on 31 Oct 2022	Sarah Ansari	12 January, 2023
Who are the Muslims? Savarkar on Indian Muslim Origin	Luna Sabastian (Northeastern University- London) speaks at the Oxford South Asian Intellectual History Seminar on 7 Nov 2022.	Luna Sabastian	12 January, 2023
Seeking Supremacy: The Pursuit of Judicial Power in Pakistan	Book Launch with Yasser Kureshi	Yasser Kureshi	20 December, 2022
Freedom Between Order and Chaos: Reading a Political Satire From India	Freedom Between Order and Chaos: Reading a Political Satire From India Jyotirmaya Sharma (University of Hyderabad) speaks at the Oxford South Asian Intellectual History Seminar on 16 May 2022. For queries, please contact seminar convenors at saih@history	Jyotirmaya Sharma	23 September, 2022
Queer Azaadi and the origins of Indian homonationalism in Kashmir	In 2019, the Indian government unilaterally revoked the autonomy of the disputed region of Kashmir amidst one of the harshest and longest military blockades and communications blackouts in history of the region	Anish Gawande	23 September, 2022
Pan-Nationalist Notions of Rights, Indian Khilafat Movement and the Treaty of Lausanne (1923)	Talk by Cemil Aydin from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	Cemil Aydin	22 September, 2022
Human Rights Violations in Tajikistan	Steve Swerdlow, Neil Clarke, Syinat Sultanalieva discuss human rights violations in Tajikistan, chaired by Faisal Devji	Steve Swerdlow, Neil Clarke, Syinat Sultanalieva	8 July, 2022
Expulsion as Statecraft: Histories of Violence from the Asian Expulsion of 1972 to the Banyarwanda Crisis of 1982	Alicia Decker (Penn State) as part of the Conference - Expulsion: Uganda’s Asians and the Remaking of Nationality	Alicia Decker	27 June, 2022
Insecurities of Expulsion: Race, Violence, Citizenship and Afro-Asian Entanglements in Transregional Uganda	Anneeth Kaur Hundle (UC Irvine) as part of the Conference - Expulsion: Uganda’s Asians and the Remaking of Nationality	Anneeth Kaur Hundle	27 June, 2022
Don't call yourselves Asian! Uganda's Indians and the problem of naming	Taushif Kara (Cambridge) as part of the Conference - Expulsion: Uganda’s Asians and the Remaking of Nationality	Taushif Kara	27 June, 2022
Making Victory Visible in Idi Amin's Uganda	Derek Peterson (Michigan) as part of the Conference - Expulsion: Uganda’s Asians and the Remaking of Nationality	Derek Peterson	27 June, 2022
Afrocentrism and the Indian Question: A Continental Reckoning with the Ugandan Expulsion	Shobana Shanker (Stonybrook) as part of the Conference - Expulsion: Uganda’s Asians and the Remaking of Nationality	Shobana Shanker	27 June, 2022
A Debatable Empire	Mishka Sinha (University of Oxford) speaks at the Oxford South Asian Intellectual History Seminar on 7 February 2022	Mishka Sinha	11 March, 2022
B.R. Ambedkar's Sociophilia and Other Anti-Caste Sciences	J. Daniel Elam (University of Hong Kong) speaks at the Oxford South Asian Intellectual History Seminar on 28 February 2022.	J. Daniel Elam	11 March, 2022
How ‘Dynasty’ Became a Modern Global Concept: Intellectual Histories of Sovereignty and Property	Milinda Banerjee (University of St Andrews) speaks at the Oxford South Asian Intellectual History Seminar on 24 January 2022	Milinda Banerjee	11 March, 2022
Reflections on Gandhi’s Anti-Modernism	Akeel Bilgrami (Columbia University) speaks at the Oxford South Asian Intellectual History Seminar on 7 March 2022.	Akeel Bilgrami	11 March, 2022
Media, Communications, and Public Opinion in Tajikistan	Irna Hofman (Oxford) Malik Kadirov (Media Analyst, Tajikistan) Salimjon Aioubov (Director of RFE/RL's Tajik Service) round table discussion	Irna Hofman, Malik Kadirov, Salimjon Aioubov, Faisal Devji	3 March, 2022
Researching South Asia: Climate Change	Aditya Ramesh, Nausheen Anwar, Camelia Dewan, Chitra Venkatramani, Nikhil Anand in discussion	Aditya Ramesh (Manchester) Nausheen Anwar (IBA, Karachi) Camelia Dewan (Oslo) Chitra Venkatramani (NUS) Nikhil Anand (UPenn)	1 March, 2022
Researching South Asia: Animals	Panel discussion on researching no human animals in South Asia	Ambika Aiyadurai, Naisargi Dave, Radhika Govindrajan, Muhammad Kavesh, Dolly Kikon	1 March, 2022
Researching South Asia: Bureaucracy	A panel discussion on the problems of research in South Asia.	Yamini Aiyar, Maira Hayat, Zehra Hashmi, Akshay Mangla	1 March, 2022
"Downward Equalization”: A Gandhian Inversion of Dignity and Rights-Claims	Manu Samnotra (University of South Florida) speaks at the Oxford South Asian Intellectual History Seminar on 31 January 2022. For queries, please contact the seminar convenor at saih@history.ox.ac.uk	Manu Samnotra	11 February, 2022
Tajikistan: Politics After Civil War	A discussion with Suzanne Levi-Sanchez, Edward Lemon, Muhiddin Kabiri, Alim Sherzamonov	Suzanne Levi-Sanche, Edward Lemon, Muhiddin Kabiri, Alim Sherzamonov	8 February, 2022
Researching South Asia: Kashmir	Round table discussion	Mona Bhan, Mohamad Junaid, Hafsa Kanjwal	27 January, 2022
Rule by Fear: Conceptualizing Democracy and Authoritarianism in Pakistan	Ammar Ali Jan (Haqooq-e-Khalq Movement) speaks at the Oxford South Asian Intellectual History Seminar on 17 January 2022. For queries, please contact the seminar convenor at saih@history.ox.ac.uk.	Ammar Ali Jan	27 January, 2022
Yamunaparyatan: Journeying and Religious Conversion	Part of the International conference on Maharashtra in September 2021 - Deepra Dandekar, Leibnitz Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin, Germany	Deepra Dandekar	21 January, 2022
The cycle of devotion: circulation in pilgrimage, procession, and Darshan’s circuit in the Vithoba’s cult	Part of the International conference on Maharashtra in September 2021 - Eric Ferrie, Independent Scholar, Paris, France	Eric Ferrie	21 January, 2022
कृषितंत्रज्ञानाचे आदान प्रदान	Part of the International conference on Maharashtra in September 2021 - Pankaj Jaiswal, SPPU, Pune	Pankaj Jaiswal	21 January, 2022
Debating Sexuality: Morality in the Early-Twentieth-Century Marathi Literary Culture	Part of the International conference on Maharashtra in September 2021 - Rahul Sarwate, University of Ahmadabad	Rahul Sarwate	21 January, 2022
Marx Comes to Maharashtra: Javdekar, Satyagrahi Samajwad and the shaping of Transnational Emancipatory Thought Zones	Part of the International conference on Maharashtra in September 2021 - Rajeshwari Deshpande, SPPU, Pune	Rajeshwari Deshpande	21 January, 2022
Prabodhankar Thackeray: a paradoxical instigator of plurality in the Non-Brahmin Print sphere	Part of the International conference on Maharashtra in September 2021 -Suraj Thube, University of Oxford	Suraj Thube	21 January, 2022
Shimaga Reforms: Mapping Idea(s) of Obscenity in Colonial Maharashtra	Part of the International conference on Maharashtra in September 2021 - Madhura Damle, Presidency University, Kolkata	Madhura Damle	18 January, 2022
Circulation of thought processes as reflected in medieval temple sculptures in Maharashtra.	Part of the International conference on Maharashtra in September 2021 - Kumud Dileep Kanitkar, Independent Scholar, Mumbai	Kumud Dileep Kanitkar	18 January, 2022
‘Sarudar khamb ani mahirapi’ among other things – Acculturation in the Architecture of eighteenth century Maharashtra	Part of the International conference on Maharashtra in September 2021 - Chetan Sahasrabuddhe, BN College of Architecture, Pune	Chetan Sahasrabuddhe	18 January, 2022
Mobility into Power of the Dalit-Women Sarpanchs and a Comparison with the Upper Caste- Male Sarpanchs in Maharashtra: A Story of Two Extremes on the Spectrum.	Part of the International conference on Maharashtra in September 2021 - Dhanmanjiri Sathe, Azeem Premji University, Bangalore	Dhanmanjiri Sathe	18 January, 2022
Circulation of Concepts in Ancient Western India: Some Case Studies	Part of the International conference on Maharashtra in September 2021 - Manjiri Bhalerao, Tilak Maharashtra Vidyapeeth, Pune	Manjiri Bhalerao	18 January, 2022
Countering the Visual Modern: A Case Study of A Periodical and A Public Sculpture	Part of the International conference on Maharashtra in September 2021 - Noopur Desai, Asia Art Archive in India, New Delhi	Noopur Desai	18 January, 2022
Resettling of the Learned Brahmanas of ancient Karad: An Epigraphical Analysis	Part of the International conference on Maharashtra in September 2021 - Rupali Mokashi, Ulhasnagar, Thane	Rupali Mokashi	18 January, 2022
Circulation of Communalism: The study of cow protection movement in Maharashtra (1890-1947)	Part of the International conference on Maharashtra in September 2021 - Devkumar Ahire, SPPU, Pune	Devkumar Ahire	18 January, 2022
Like Ink on the Water: Examining a Medieval Genealogical Document from	Part of the International conference on Maharashtra in September 2021 - Durga Kale, University of Calgary, Canada	Durga Kale	18 January, 2022

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