Below is a calendar of seminars and events for this term which might be of interest to students of South and Southeast Asian subjects. If you wish to add an event of your own, then please feel free to do so by clicking here.


April


DateSpeakerSeminar series TitleLocation
25Dr Nandini Chatterji (University of Plymouth)South Asian Seminar'Christian citizenship' - a political theology popular among Indian Christian leaders in the early Twentieth Century.
Held jointly with the Henry Martyn Centre
Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 5.00 pm

May


DateSpeakerSeminar series TitleLocation
02Dwayne Menezes (Gonville and Caius College)South Asian SeminarAcculturising subjects: Kanara Catholics and their religious and social institutions
Held jointly with the Henry Martyn Centre
Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 5.00 pm

09Professor Radhika Singha (Jawaharlal Nehru University)South Asian SeminarWaged work or war service: the short career of the Indian Labour Corps in France, 1917-1919Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 5.00 pm

09Oliver Balch, Christ's/Faber&Faber Book Launch"India Rising: Tales from a Changing Nation" Faber & Faber) Oliver Balch will be discussing his new travel book about contemporary IndiaLloyd Rm, Christ's College, 7:30pm

16Professor Hayden Bellenoit (United States Military Academy)South Asian SeminarThe cultural and service worlds of the pensmen of Hindustan, 1750-1900Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 5.00 pm

23Professor Nina Laurie (Newcastle University)South Asian SeminarGeographies of post trafficking in NepalSeminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 5.00 pm

30Pallavi Raghavan (St. John's College)South Asian SeminarThe making of the India-Pakistan dynamic: Nehru, Liaquat and the no-war correspondence of 1950Seminar Room S1, Alison Rchard Building, NB: MONDAY 28 May, 5.00 pm

June


DateSpeakerSeminar series TitleLocation
06Dr Daniel Grey (University of Oxford)South Asian SeminarCreating the 'Problem Hindu': Sati, Thuggee & Female Infanticide in India 1800-1861Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 5.00 pm

11Dr Rosinka Chaudhuri (CSSS, Calcutta)South Asian Seminar'The literary thing': history, poetry, and the making a modern cultural sphere.
Please note - MONDAY 11 June
Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 5.00 pm