The South Asian Studies Seminar meets on Wednesdays at 5 p.m. We are now moving into our new building, and will meet in the main seminar room on the ground floor of the Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road. The seminar provides an opportunity to study the region from a wide variety of disciplines within the humanities and social sciences. The following programme, which is available for downloading by clicking this link, has been arranged for the Easter Term 2012:
| April 25 | Dr Nandini Chatterji (University of Plymouth) '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 02 | Dwayne Menezes (Gonville and Caius College) Acculturising 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 |
| May 09 | Professor Radhika Singha (Jawaharlal Nehru University) Waged work or war service: the short career of the Indian Labour Corps in France, 1917-1919 Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 5.00 pm |
| May 16 | Professor Hayden Bellenoit (United States Military Academy) The cultural and service worlds of the pensmen of Hindustan, 1750-1900 Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 5.00 pm |
| May 23 | Professor Nina Laurie (Newcastle University) Geographies of post trafficking in Nepal Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 5.00 pm |
| May 30 | Pallavi Raghavan (St. John's College) The making of the India-Pakistan dynamic: Nehru, Liaquat and the no-war correspondence of 1950 Seminar Room S1, Alison Rchard Building, NB: MONDAY 28 May, 5.00 pm |
| June 06 | Dr Daniel Grey (University of Oxford) Creating the 'Problem Hindu': Sati, Thuggee & Female Infanticide in India 1800-1861 Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 5.00 pm |
| June 11 | Dr Rosinka Chaudhuri (CSSS, Calcutta) '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 |