Contextualising Jahandar Shah and the 'Later' Mughals of Banaras A talk by Professor Malavika Kasturi on Banaras’s Mughal past, revealing the city’s cosmopolitan histories.
Archiving Gaza in the Present: Art, Memory, Erasure This event will mark the publication of the book 'Archiving Gaza in the Present', co-edited by Professor Dina Matar and Dr Venetia Porter.
Haenyeo Voices: Merging Tradition and Science to Monitor Reef Changes The Haenyeo Voices project explores the effects of environmental change on Jeju Island's reefs by combining Haenyeo divers’ Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) with scientific monitoring, using 3D modelling, to assess transformations and foster interdisciplinary collaboration.
Citizens to Traitors: The Bengali Internment in Pakistan Join author Ilyas Chattha for a book talk on the internment of Bengalis in Pakistan after the 1971 war, exploring how citizens were reclassified as suspected traitors.
Moving as Labour The webinar will explore the gig workers mobility, platform labor in India, and comparisons with British and Brazilian contexts.
The Global Taiwan—Literature and Translation Workshop The Centre of Taiwan Studies is delighted to organise The Global Taiwan—Literature and Translation Workshop, bringing together writers, translators, and scholars to explore Taiwanese literature.
Stylistic Networks in Early Southeast Asia: Mitred Viṣṇu Sculptures from Bangka This project re-examines Sumatran sculpture by comparing it directly with material from South and Southeast Asia. It aims to identify both stylistic connections and the extent to which a Sumatran style can be defined.
What Do We Need to Know About the Chinese Communist Party? Professor Timothy Creek will explore the nature of the CCP in this webinar.
Emergent Genders: Living Otherwise in Tokyo’s Pink Economies Michelle Ho traces the genders manifesting alongside Japanese popular culture in Akihabara, an area in Tokyo renowned for the fandom and consumption of anime, manga, and games.