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Centre of South Asian Studies

Seminar Programme

The seminars are free and open to the public unless otherwise stated.

As during any SOAS seminar we can never guarantee seats as no places are reserved. Admission is on a first come first serve basis.

Please note that we do not distribute seminar notes.

Enquiries

Dr Francesca Orsini (Centre Chair): fo@soas.ac.uk or 020 7898 4242
Dr Lawrence Saez (De facto Chair from 1 January to 30 August 2010): ls4@soas.ac.uk or 020 7898 4725
Centres & Programmes, centres@soas.ac.uk or 020 7898 4892/3

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Forthcoming Events

Film Screening: Sthaniya Sambaad (Spring in the colony)

Director: Arjun Gourisaria and Moinak Biswas (Jadavpur University)

18 March 2010, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Seminar: From Disaster To Catastrophe – A Memoir Of Life In The Kalash Valleys On The Pakistan-Afghanistan Border

Maureen Lines (author and Field Director of HKCA)

The talk is for those who are interested in small and endangered ethnic groups living in isolated and extreme environments, and the relationship of these endangered groups to global issues of war and peace.

24 March 2010, Russell Square: College Buildings, 116, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM

Seminar: Normativity, Power and Politics in Post/colonial India

Lakshmi Arya (Charles Wallace Indian Fellow 2009-10)

25 March 2010, Russell Square: College Buildings, 116, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM

Seminar: Reading sexuality in South Asia: wandering the quilted surface of a story

Geeta Patel (University of Virginia)

10 May 2010, Russell Square: College Buildings, B102, 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM