St Antony's College

St Antony's College is the most cosmopolitan of the seven graduate colleges of the University of Oxford, specialising in international relations, economics, politics and history of particular parts of the world. There are more than 400 students from some 77 different countries studying for postgraduate degrees and each year around 100 visiting senior members from the academic, diplomatic, business and political worlds come to the College.

St Antony's College

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Title	Description	People	Date
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
Clerics in the time of Tishreen	The evolution of religion-civil society relations in post-2003 Iraq.	Marsin Alshamary, Maryam Alemzadeh	3 March, 2023
The International Thought of Turkish Islamists: History, Civilization and Nation	Katerina Dalacoura will presents her research project entitled ‘The International Thought of Turkish Islamists’, funded by a Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship.	Katerina Dalacoura, Michael Willis	22 February, 2023
The struggle for Salafism in Egypt’s post-revolutionary period	A Middle East Centre Seminar on Salafism.	Stéphane Lacroix, Thomas Hegghammer	21 February, 2023
Resurrecting the Caliphate: The Creed of Abraham and ISIS’s Hermeneutics of Power	A talk with a focus on the contemporary militant group referred to by the acronym ISIS (or ISIL) and its views on the “caliphate.”	Asma Afsaruddin, Eugene Rogan	21 February, 2023
Jihad, Radicalism, and the New Atheism	Professor Mohammad Khalil scrutinises the claim by New Atheists like Richard Dawkins that Islam is a fundamentally violent religion	Mohammad Khalil, Eugene Rogan	7 February, 2023
Friendship	Associate Professor Nuha al-Sha’ar speaking on ‘Friendship in Islamic Ethical Political Thought: Foundations and Modern Implications’ // Associate Professor SherAli Tareen speaking on ‘Debating Hindu-Muslim Friendship After Empire’	Faisal Devji, Nuha al-Sha’ar, SherAli Tareen	20 January, 2023
The Left	Fadi Bardawil speaking on ‘Nation, Class, Community: Milestones on the path of the 1960s Lebanese New Left’. Nadia Bou Ali speaking on ‘Is the Heart for the East and Reason for the West? Mehdi Amel’s Critique of Edward Said’.	Fadi Bardawil, Nadia Bou Ali, Faisal Devji	16 January, 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
Centres, Peripheries and New Histories of the Left in Iran	How historians can gain new insights from global history, and how historians and histories of Iran can contribute	Rasmus Elling, Stephanie Cronin	23 December, 2022
Dissent	Valerie Hoffman speaking on Charges of Radicalism: Ibāḍī–Wahhābī Polemics and Articulations of Identity.	Valerie Hoffman, Faisal Devji, Usaama al-Azami	23 December, 2022
Seeking Supremacy: The Pursuit of Judicial Power in Pakistan	Book Launch with Yasser Kureshi	Yasser Kureshi	20 December, 2022
Nemir Kirdar Memorial Event	Memorial event for the late Mr Nemir Amin Kirdar (1936-2020).	Roger Goodman, Margaret MacMillan, Eugene Rogan, Serra Kirdar, Yusef Abu Khadra, Mohammed Alardhi, Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa	15 November, 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
Religion II	Professor Elizabeth Shakman Hurd (Northwestern University) speaking on 'Decolonizing the category of religion' and Dr Rushain Abbasi (Stanford University) speaking on 'Regulating Religion in Premodern Islamic Governance'.	Elizabeth Shakman Hurd, Faisal Devji, Usaama al-Azami	15 July, 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
Women's Rights Research Seminar: Threatened motherhood in the Israeli welfare state: The discourse and the practice behind the disqualification of disadvantaged women's motherhood	Prof. Esther Hertzog gives a talk on the vulnerable situation of motherhood in the Israeli welfare state.	Esther Hertzog, Soraya Tremayne	19 May, 2022
Law	Professor Mohammad Fadel speaking on ‘The Protean Sovereign of Sunni Law’ and Professor Lena Salaymeh speaking on ‘Reconsidering the Political in Premodern Islam.'	Mohammad Fadel, Lena Salaymeh	28 April, 2022
Violence	Nesrine Badawi speaking on ‘Debating Militancy in the Modern World’ and Murad Idris speaking on ‘Theorizing Colonialism, Capitalism, and Violence in an Islamist Key.'	Nesrine Badawi, Murad Idris, Faisal Devji, Usaama al-Azami	8 April, 2022
Yemen’s Enduring Crisis	Helen Lackner speaks about Yemen’s enduring crisis.	Helen Lackner, Michael Willis	29 March, 2022
The Global Merchants: The Enterprise and Extravagance of the Sassoon Dynasty	Professor Joseph Sassoon in conversation with Dr Michael Willis about his recent book, The Global Merchants: The Enterprise and Extravagance of the Sassoon Dynasty (Allen Lane, Penguin Group, 2022). Emeritus Professor Avi Shlaim joins them.	Joseph Sassoon, Michael Willis, Avi Shlaim, Eugene Rogan, Faisal Devji	24 March, 2022
All Jihad Is Local: the Micro-Politics of Militant Islamism in 1980s Lebanon and Beyond	Dr Raphaël Lefèvre in conversation with Dr Neil Ketchley about his recent book, 'Jihad in the City: Militant Islamism and Contentious Politics in Tripoli' (Cambridge University Press, 2021).	Raphael Lefevre, Neil Ketchley	16 March, 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
Sovereignty	Neguin Yavari speaking on ‘Islamic imperatives and Islamic rulers’, Samy Ayoub speaking on ‘Law and the Exercise of Power: Debates on Political Legitimacy and Authority in the 19th - 20th centuries Egypt’.	Neguin Yavari, Samy Ayoub, Faisal Devji, Usaama al-Azami	2 March, 2022
The Career and Communities of Zaynab Fawwaz: Feminist Thinking in Fin-de-siècle Egypt	Marilyn Booth speaking on her new book.	Marilyn Booth	2 March, 2022
Religion	Madawi al-Rasheed speaking on ‘Islamic Reform in Saudi Arabia between “the Violence of the Minority and the Apathy of the Majority”. Pascal Menoret speaking on ‘Graveyard of Clerics’.	Madawi al-Rasheed, Pascal Menoret, Faisal Devji, Usaama al-Azami	2 March, 2022
Caliphate	Elizabeth Alexandrin speaking on ‘Empire of the End Time: Fāṭimid Sovereignties in the 4th Century AH/11th Century CE’. Hüseyin Yilmaz speaking on ‘The Ottomans and the Question of the Caliphate'.	Elizabeth Alexandrin, Hüseyin Yilmaz, Faisal Devji, Usaama al-Azami	1 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
The Fate of Colonial Elites in Post-Colonial Regimes: Evidence from the 1952 Egyptian Revolution	Dr Neil Ketchley in conversation with Professor Walter Armbrust about his current research.	Neil Ketchley, Walter Armbrust	3 February, 2022
Islam and the Arab Revolutions – the Ulama between Democracy and Autocracy	Join us as we listen to Dr Usaama al-Azami (Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford) in conversation about his new book, 'Islam and the Arab Revolutions, the Ulama between Democracy and Autocracy'.	Usaama al-Azami, Michael Willis	31 January, 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
Trade, Circulation of Commodities and Transition in urban patterns in Deccan and Konkan towns in 17th& 18th Century	Part of the International conference on Maharashtra in September 2021 - Neelambari Bharat Jagtap, Shivaji University, Kolhapur	Neelambari Bharat Jagtap	18 January, 2022
‘Government of Order’: Summary Executions & Official Impunity in Company India (c. 1818-1825)	Part of the International conference on Maharashtra in September 2021 - Nishant Gokhale, University of Cambridge	Nishant Gokhale	14 January, 2022
Legal Categories, Approaches and Responses to Kidnapping and Forced Marriages in Early Modern Marathi Documents	Part of the International conference on Maharashtra in September 2021 - Prashant, University of Exeter, UK	Prashant	14 January, 2022
Circulation of silver coins in the transition from Maratha to British rule	Part of the International conference on Maharashtra in September 2021 - Michihiro Ogawa, University of Tokyo, Japan	Michihiro Ogawa	14 January, 2022
मराठ्यांचे नजराणे	Part of the International conference on Maharashtra in September 2021 - Rahul Magar, SPPU, Pune	Rahul Magar	14 January, 2022
So Near Yet So Far: Marathi Speakers in Belgaum, Karnataka	Part of the International conference on Maharashtra in September 2021 - Gopa Sabharwal, University of Delhi	Gopa Sabharwal	21 December, 2021
From Russia to Bombay, from Bombay to Soviet Union and back: The journey of Annabhau Sathe’s Maza Russia cha Pravas.	Part of the International conference on Maharashtra in September 2021 - Anagha Bhat Behere, SPPU, Pune	Anagha Bhat Behere	21 December, 2021
Embodied Circulation of an Icon: The case of Janata Raja	Part of the International conference on Maharashtra in September 2021 - Aishwarya Walvekar, JNU, New Delhi	Aishwarya Walvekar	21 December, 2021
त्यांनी पाहिलेली विलायत: मराठी प्रवाशांनी १८६७ ते १९४७ या काळात लिहिलेल्या इंग्लंडच्या प्रवासवर्णनांचा सामाजिक अभ्यास	Part of the International conference on Maharashtra in September 2021 - Aditya Panse, Independent scholar, London	Aditya Panse	21 December, 2021
Travelling Santas, Circulation and Formation of ‘the Multilingual Local’ of World Literature in the early modern Marathi	Part of the International conference on Maharashtra in September 2021 - Sachin Ketkar, MS University, Vadodara	Sachin Ketkar	21 December, 2021
Circulation, Patronage, and Silence in the Practice of History Writing in Early Modern Maharashtra	Part of the International conference on Maharashtra in September 2021 -Roy S. Fischel, SOAS, University of London	Roy S. Fischel	21 December, 2021
Writing and circulation: a Material Approach to Early Modern Marathi Literature	Part of the International conference on Maharashtra in September 2021 -Prachi Deshpande, CSSS, Kolkata	Prachi Deshpande	21 December, 2021
Beggars On the Move: Hijra Journeys in the Eighteenth-century Deccan	Part of the International conference on Maharashtra in September 2021 - Mario da Penha, Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA	Mario da Penha	21 December, 2021
Vanvās to Vārī: The Travel History of Songs and Poetry in Maharashtra	Part of the International conference on Maharashtra in September 2021 - Madhuri Deshmukh, Oakton Community College, Des Plaines, USA	Madhuri Deshmukh	21 December, 2021
Language Ideologies as Urban Infrastructure: A Socio-Spatial Analysis of Identity, Belonging, and Multilingualism in Pune, Maharashtra	Part of the International conference on Maharashtra in September 2021 - Jessica Chandras, Wake Forest University, USA	Jessica Chandras	21 December, 2021
Lingayat - Virasaiva Sect: Migration, Identity & Marathi Lingayat literature in Colonial Maharashtra	Part of the International conference on Maharashtra in September 2021 - Kishore More - University of Mumbai	Kishore More	21 December, 2021
Circulation for Intervention: The Comic, the Folk and the Democratic in Marathi Theatre	Part of the International Conference on Maharashtra Sept 2021. Madhuri Dixit, PS College, Ahmadnagar	Madhuri Dixit	21 December, 2021
Comparing two traditions: Workers' Theatre movement and Rashtra Seva Dal Kalapathak to trace the circulation of the form of Tamasha in nineteenth and twentieth century	Part of the International conference on Maharashtra in September 2021 - Makarand Sathe -Independent scholar, Pune	Makarand Sathe	21 December, 2021
मुस्लिम मराठी साहित्य चळवळ : मराठी मुस्लिम अस्मितेचे अभिसरण	Part of the International Maharashtra Conference held in September 2021. Muphid Mujawar from Shivaji University, Kolhapur	Muphid Mujawar	21 December, 2021
Savarkar and the Making of Hindutva “Secularism”	Vikram Visana (University of Huddersfield) speaks at the Oxford South Asian Intellectual History Seminar on 18 October 2021.	Vikram Visana	17 December, 2021
Feminist Historiography and the Political: Reflections on the Past and Future Tense	Feminist Historiography and the Political: Reflections on the Past and Future Tense Mrinalini Sinha (University of Michigan) speaks at the Oxford South Asian Intellectual History Seminar on 25 October 2021.	Mrinalini Sinha	16 December, 2021
Atrocity Nation / State Amnesia : The Photographic Debris of the Sri Lankan Civil War	The final years of the Sri Lankan civil war were transformed by a significant development in the technics of photography	Vindhya Buthpitiya	9 December, 2021
What does political ecology tell us about the environmental crises in the Middle East?	This is a recording of a live webinar held on Friday 3rd December 2021 for the Middle East Centre	Christian Henderson, Walter Armbrust	8 December, 2021
Afghanistan and the Middle East	This is a recording of a live webinar held on Thursday 25th November 2021 for the Middle East centre.	Ibrahim al-Marashi, Michael Willis, Kate Clark	6 December, 2021
Failing Flows: The Politics of Water Management in Southern Iraq	This is a recording of a live webinar held on Friday 19th November 2021 for the MEC.	Michael Willis, Michael Mason	1 December, 2021
Air Pollution, Toxicity, and Environmental Politics in the History of Iranian Oil Nationalisation	This is a recording of a live webinar held on Friday 12th November 2021 for the MEC. Dr Mattin Biglari (SOAS, University of London) presents “Air Pollution, Toxicity, and Environmental Politics in the History of Iranian Oil Nationalisation”.	Stephanie Cronin, Mattin Biglari	1 December, 2021
Citizenship, Publicness and the Politics of Inclusive Democracy in India	Suryakant Waghmore and Hugo Gorringe will discuss their recent edited volume on civility in India	Suryakant Waghmore, Hugo Gorringe	29 November, 2021
Hidden histories of science; Ammal, Darlington, Haldane, and India, 1930-1960	The twentieth century was a period which saw debates on ecology, cytology, genetics and eugenics in the West develop in new and interesting ways both positive and negative to understand the position of humans within the natural world.	Vinita Damodaran	29 November, 2021
The Tunisian Political Crisis; the end of Democracy?	On 25 July 2021 Tunisian President Kais Saied dismissed the government and suspended parliament, subsequently employing the army and security forces around government buildings to thwart any opposition to his power grab.	Youssef Cherif, Anne Wolf, Michael Willis	25 November, 2021
Environment Discounted: Energy and Economic Diversification Plans in the Gulf	Oil price volatility and accelerated energy transitions away from hydrocarbons to meet climate change mitigation measures have presented existential threats to the economies of hydrocarbon-dependent welfare states of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC).	Manal Shehabi, Walter Armbrust, Michael Willis	22 November, 2021
The Lessons of 1950: Partition, and the making of the India- Pakistan Dynamic	The years that immediately followed their partition offer many interesting insights into the shaping of the India- Pakistan dynamic	Pallavi Raghavan (Ashoka University, Delhi)	19 November, 2021
The Blue-Clad Fennec: Authoritarian Environmentalism in Tunisia, and its afterlives	This is a recording of a live webinar held on 29th October 2021 for the MEC Friday Seminar Michaelmas Term 2021 series on the overall theme of The Environment and The Middle East.	jamie furniss, Walter Armbrust	17 November, 2021
The Politics of Water Scarcity in the Case of Jordan	Dr Hussam Hussein investigates the construction of the discourse of water scarcity in Jordan, and the political economy of the water sector.	Hussam Hussein, Neil Ketchley, Michael Willis	11 November, 2021
Roundtable: The Environment and the Middle East	MEC Friday Webinar. This is a recording of a live webinar held on 15th October 2021 for the first episode of the MEC Friday Seminar Michaelmas Term 2021 series on the overall theme of The Environment and The Middle East.	Michael J. Willis, Walter Armbrust, Laurent Mignon, Usaama al-Azami	4 November, 2021
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	26 October, 2021
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 October, 2021

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