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
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
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
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 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
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
A Shared Vision? Reflections on the creation of unity in opposition in Myanmar’s civil disobedience movement since February 2021 - Part 2	Since the Myanmar army overturned the November 2020 election and asserted itself violently against the will of its own people in February 2021.	Khin Ohmar, Martin Smith	19 October, 2021
A Shared Vision? Reflections on the creation of unity in opposition in Myanmar’s civil disobedience movement since February 2021 - Part 1	Since the Myanmar army overturned the November 2020 election and asserted itself violently against the will of its own people in February 2021.	Tom Sheahan, David Moe	19 October, 2021
Theft of Time: Notes on Spolia and the Writing of Indian History	Sudipta Sen (University of California, Davis) speaks at the Oxford South Asian Intellectual History Seminar on 26 April 2021.	Sudipta Sen	23 June, 2021
"Our History": The Everyday Social and the Sense of Historical Touch	Sundar Sarukkai (Centre for Society and Policy, IISc) speaks at the Oxford South Asian Intellectual History Seminar on 10 May 2021. For more information on the event, see here. For queries, please contact the seminar convenor at saih@history.ox.ac.uk.	Sundar Sarukkai	17 June, 2021
A Historian among the Goddesses of Modern India	Sumathi Ramaswamy (Duke University) speaks at the Oxford South Asian Intellectual History Seminar on 31 May 2021.	Sumathi Ramaswamy	17 June, 2021
Monuments in Replica: Imperial Commemorations in Britain and its Colonies	Durba Ghosh (Cornell University) speaks at the Oxford South Asian Intellectual History Seminar on 7 June 2021.	Durba Ghosh	17 June, 2021
"वासाड गावाचा धनगर राजा": Ecological Refugees in Ancestral Grass-scape (Historical life space and changing socio-economic dynamics)	Saili Palande-Datar gives the fourth and final presentation on the second day of the Maharashtra Studies Conference.	Saili Palande-Datar	28 April, 2021
Mobilizing transregional indigenous identities on cross-sectional borders	Bina Sengar gives the third presentation on the second day of the Maharashtra Studies Conference.	Bina Sengar	28 April, 2021
Persian Cosmopolis and World Literature in Precolonial Marathi Literary Historiography	Sachin Ketkar gives the second presentation on the second day of the Maharashtra Studies Conference.	Sachin Ketkar	28 April, 2021
Circuits of interchange and influence: The 1979 Rucha issue on Urdu and Marathi modernist poetry	Anjali Nerlekar gives the first talk on the second day of the Maharashtra Studies Conference.	Anjali Nerlekar	28 April, 2021
Education, Nationalism and the Native Body: the Pradnya Pathshala Project	Rahul Sarwate gives the fourth presentation on the first day of the Maharashtra Studies Conference.	Rahul Sarwate	28 April, 2021
सत्ता तुझी राणीबाई: Royals in Marathi Writings	Shraddha Kumbhojkar gives the third presentation for the first day of the Maharashtra Studies Conference.	Shraddha Kumbhojkar	28 April, 2021
Like Milk and Sugar	Dominic Vendell gives the second presentation for the first day of the Maharashtra Studies Conference.	Dominic Vendell	28 April, 2021
Chand Bibi between Persianate cosmopolitanism and regional particularism	Roy Fischel gives the first presentation for the first day of the Maharashtra Studies Conference.	Roy Fischel	1 April, 2021
Delusional states: Love, Citizenship and Resistance in Gilgit-Baltistan	This talk examines the emotional and intimate logics of occupation, citizenship, and state-making in Gilgit-Baltistan, a contested borderland between India and Pakistan that forms part of the Kashmir dispute.	Nosheen Ali	10 February, 2021
A Contrapuntal History of Hindustan	Manan Amend (Columbia), gives a talk for the Asian Studies Centre seminar series.	Manan Amend	4 February, 2021
Jeko Khere So Khaye (He who tills has the right to eat); 'development' and the politics of agrarian reform in late 1940s and early 1950s in Sindh	Sarah Ansari (Royal Holloway) gives a talk for the Asian Studies Centre seminar series.	Sarah Ansari	26 November, 2020
Rajput loyalties in the Mughal age	Cynthia Talbot (Texas at Austin) gives a talk for the Asian Studies Centre seminar series on Mughal India and the Rajput.	Cynthia Talbot	12 November, 2020
Global histories of hierarachy? Reflections from India on Caste, race and the Black Lives Matter movement	Nayanika Mathur (Oxford) and Rosalind O'Hanlon (Oxford) give a talk for the Modern South Asian Studies seminars on the Black Lives Matter movement.	Nayanika Mathur, Rosalind O'Hanlon	11 November, 2020
Domestic audience costs and foreign policy making in India: recent shifts in the BJP's strategy	Unlike ever before in India’s history, domestic political calculations and audience costs dictate the shaping of the country’s foreign and security policy.	Happymon Jacob	5 November, 2020
Pandemic as event: thinking modern Indian society through a crisis	Conjunctures and crises reveal the fault lines of a society. Covid 19 and the resultant lockdown in India have brought back memories of the devastation wrought by the flu epidemic of 1918 and the political crackdown by the colonial government.	Dilip Menon	5 November, 2020
Ethics at the Edge of Madness	Ethics at the Edge of Madness - Mental Health in India – Bridging the Gap	Anand Vivek Taneja	20 January, 2020
The Opioid Epidemic in India	The Opioid Epidemic in India - Mental Health in India – Bridging the Gap	Bhrigupati Singh	20 January, 2020
Psychoanalysis of the Oppressed, A Practice of Freedom	Psychoanalysis of the Oppressed, A Practice of Freedom - Mental Health in India – Bridging the Gap	Ankhi Mukherjee	20 January, 2020
Issues in Public Health in India	Issues in Public Health in India - Mental Health in India – Bridging the Gap	Keshav Desiraju	20 January, 2020
The Indian Oedipus	The Indian Oedipus - Mental Health in India – Bridging the Gap	Shruti Kapila	20 January, 2020
Welcome	Welcome - Mental Health in India – Bridging the Gap	Roger Goodman, Baroness Royall of Blaisdon	20 January, 2020
Mental health and stress the multi-disciplinary teams approach	Mental health and stress the multi-disciplinary teams approachl - Mental Health in India – Bridging the Gap	Georgia Watson	20 January, 2020
Community-based interventions for common mental disorders in low and middle-income countries	Community-based interventions for common mental disorders in low and middle-income countries - Mental Health in India – Bridging the Gap	Soumitra Pathare	20 January, 2020
Public Health England’s Global Mental Health initiative	Public Health England’s Global Mental Health initiative - Mental Health in India – Bridging the Gap	Anees Pari	20 January, 2020
Non-specialist health worker interventions for mental health care in low- and middle- income countries	Non-specialist health worker interventions for mental health care in low- and middle- income countries - Mental Health in India – Bridging the Gap	Prathap Tharyan	20 January, 2020
Opening address	Opening address - Mental Health in India – Bridging the Gap	Premila Webster	20 January, 2020

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