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 |
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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 |
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Clerics in the time of Tishreen |
The evolution of religion-civil society relations in post-2003 Iraq. |
Marsin Alshamary, Maryam Alemzadeh |
3 March, 2023 |
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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 |
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The struggle for Salafism in Egypt’s post-revolutionary period |
A Middle East Centre Seminar on Salafism. |
Stéphane Lacroix, Thomas Hegghammer |
21 February, 2023 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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‘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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Seeking Supremacy: The Pursuit of Judicial Power in Pakistan |
Book Launch with Yasser Kureshi |
Yasser Kureshi |
20 December, 2022 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Yemen’s Enduring Crisis |
Helen Lackner speaks about Yemen’s enduring crisis. |
Helen Lackner, Michael Willis |
29 March, 2022 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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"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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Researching South Asia: Kashmir |
Round table discussion |
Mona Bhan, Mohamad Junaid, Hafsa Kanjwal |
27 January, 2022 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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कृषितंत्रज्ञानाचे आदान प्रदान |
Part of the International conference on Maharashtra in September 2021 - Pankaj Jaiswal, SPPU, Pune |
Pankaj Jaiswal |
21 January, 2022 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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‘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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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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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 |
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‘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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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मराठ्यांचे नजराणे |
Part of the International conference on Maharashtra in September 2021 - Rahul Magar, SPPU, Pune |
Rahul Magar |
14 January, 2022 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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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