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Centre of South Asian Studies

CSAS Seminar Programme

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

Admission is on a first-come, first-served basis.

Please note that we do not distribute seminar notes.

For further information contact the Centres and Programmes Office

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Forthcoming Events

Arun Kolatkar and modernism in India I: the ‘Bombay scene’ in the 60s

Laetitia Zecchini

4 February 2013, Faber Building, FG01, 5:15 PM - 7:00 PM

Arun Kolatkar and modernism in India II: the ‘many cycles of give-and-take’ set in motion between languages

Laetitia Zecchini

5 February 2013, Faber Building, FG01, 5:15 PM - 7:00 PM

Arundhati Roy's "The God of Small Things" (1997)

Kavita Ramdya (SOAS)

11 February 2013, Russell Square: College Buildings, 4421, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM

'That Obscure Object of Desire': Desi Porn in the Age of World Wide Web

Bhaskar Mukhopadhyay (Goldsmiths College)

21 February 2013, Russell Square: College Buildings, 116, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM

“We’re Indian and African”: Sidis of India

Shihan de Silva (Institute of Commonwealth Studies)

22 February 2013, Russell Square: College Buildings, G51, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM

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)

28 February 2013, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM

TBC

Somnath Batabyal

5 March 2013, Russell Square: College Buildings, 116, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM

Jhumpa Lahiri's "Interpreter of Maladies" (1999)

Kavita Ramdya (SOAS)

11 March 2013, Russell Square: College Buildings, 4421, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM

Beyond the Politics of Representation: the Adivasi in Literature

Rashmi Varma

12 March 2013, Russell Square: College Buildings, 116, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM

Anita Desai's "Fasting, Feasting" (2000)

Kavita Ramdya (SOAS)

8 April 2013, Russell Square: College Buildings, 4421, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM