Centre of South Asian Studies Events
The events draw a varied audience with an interest in the region.
All events are free and open to the public unless otherwise stated. Admission is on a first-come, first-served basis.
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2013
January
14/01/13
- Hanif Kureishi's "The Black Album" (1995)
Kavita Ramdya (SOAS)
16/01/13
- India, a 'Rising Power' and Africa: Challenges
Dr Sumit Roy (School of International Relations and Strategic Studies, Jadavpur University,Kolkata,India)
21/01/13
- Encounters, Cultural Flows and Hybridity in the Indian Ocean
Shihan de Silva (Institute of Commonwealth Studies)
31/01/13
- The Gurkha's Daughter: Stories
Prajwal Parajuly (Author)
Prajwal Parajuly’s debut book, The Gurkha's Daughter: Stories, published by Quercus, has received rave reviews and now hits the stands in the UK after being on bestseller lists in South Asia.
February
04/02/13
- Arun Kolatkar and modernism in India I: the ‘Bombay scene’ in the 60s
Laetitia Zecchini
05/02/13
- Return of a King - The Battle for Afghanistan
William Dalrymple (Princeton University)
- Meet the author and buy signed copies of his book.
05/02/13
11/02/13
- Arundhati Roy's "The God of Small Things" (1997)
Kavita Ramdya (SOAS)
21/02/13
- 'That Obscure Object of Desire': Desi Porn in the Age of World Wide Web
Bhaskar Mukhopadhyay (Goldsmiths College)
22/02/13
- “We’re Indian and African”: Sidis of India
Shihan de Silva (Institute of Commonwealth Studies)
23/02/13
- Jai Bhim Comrade
Anand Patwardhan (Director)
28/02/13
- Dis-Solving the Myth: The West in South Asian Muslims' Travel Narratives 1765-1857
Dr Najeeba Arif (Charles Wallace Pakistan Trust Visiting Fellow 2012-13)
March
05/03/13
- Creating a middle class audience and bourgeoise environmentalism
Somnath Batabyal (SOAS, University of London)
06/03/13
- Can Film be used as an instrument for Social Change?
Javed Akhtar and Shabana Azmi
In view of the horrific gangrape recently in Delhi concerns have been expressed about the role films. TV and advertisements play in commodifying women. Is self - regulation required or State Censorship? Does film have a larger role to play beyond that of entertainment?
11/03/13
- Jhumpa Lahiri's "Interpreter of Maladies" (1999)
Kavita Ramdya (SOAS)
12/03/13
14/03/13
- 'The Errant Eye' and Mughal Pastoral Poetry
Sunil Sharma
21/03/13
- The Political Economy of Research and Research Institutions in Nepali History
Pratyoush Onta (Martin Chautari, Kathmandu)
April
08/04/13
- Anita Desai's "Fasting, Feasting" (2000)
Kavita Ramdya (SOAS)
16/04/13
- Rewriting the Social History of the Multicultural Mughal Court
Dr Audrey Truschke
17/04/13
- Sanskrit Textual Production for the Mughal Elite
Dr Audrey Truschke
26/04/13
- Imperial Indo-Persian Treatments of Sanskrit Stories and Knowledge Systems
Dr Audrey Truschke
May
08/05/13
- Claiming back indigenous theater: the Saangit, Bhagat and Nautanki traditions of North India
Dr Devendra Sharma (California State University)
11/05/13
- Nautanki
Dr Devendra Sharma (California State University)
