Thursday 24 May and Friday 25 May
All day, 6th floor staff room, Chrystal Macmillan Building.
[Centre for South Asian Studies]
Prof Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad (Lancaster University): The phenomenology of dispassion across Hindu and Buddhist traditions.
Asian Religions: Boundaries, Connections, Identities annual lecture
[Centre for South Asian Studies]
Faisal Devji (University of Oxford): Iqbal’s Political Ideology.
[Centre for South Asian Studies]
Panellists: Prof Krishna Menon, Prof Rachana Johri, Prof Sumangala Damodaran, Dr Rukmini Sen, Dr Bindu KC.
[Centre for South Asian Studies]
Tuesday 20th February, 6-8pm
Chrystal Macmillan Lecture
Professor Krishna Menon (Ambedkar University Delhi) 'Feminist Explorations of Contemporary South Asia: Possibilities and Challenges'
King Khalid Lecture Theatre (Behind Surgeon's Hall), Hill Square, Edinburgh EH8 9DR
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Pankaj Pankaj (UoE): Building Resilience to Disasters in South Asia.
[Centre for South Asian Studies]
Thiruni Kelegama, University of Zurich - Occupying Weli Oya: Frontier Politics and Post-war Sri Lanka.
[Centre for South Asian Studies]
Delwar Hussain (Social Anthropology, UoE): Class, Gender, Sexuality – An Intersectional Example from Bangladesh.
[Centre for South Asian Studies]
Adjitya Sarkar (University of Warwick): The Authoritarian Handbook: Reflections on Indian Politics since 2014.
[Centre for Modern and Contemporary History / Centre for South Asian Studies]
The Diaspora Studies Graduate Workshop, scheduled to take place on Wednesday 14 March, is postponed owing to ongoing industrial action.
It is anticipated that Francesca Young Kaufman's presentation will be rescheduled later in the semester. (see below for original listing)
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Francesca Kaufman (University of Edinburgh): Ways of Seeing: Chinese rural-urban migration and its representation on film in the 1990s