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
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 he 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

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