A special IndOx screening of the multi-award winning, BAFTA and Oscar nominated documentary film All That Breathes from Director Shaunak Sen, in the Nissan Lecture Theatre at St Antony's College, University of Oxford.
Followed by a discussion with the Director, and key characters of the film Nadeem Shehzad and Salik Rehman
India’s press- is it really free? As India falls to its lowest ever ranking on the world press freedom index (161 out of 180), what is the state of press freedom in the world’s largest democracy?
Join us for our IndOx Annual Event 2023: An evening lecture and Q&A with Nidhi Razdan (Journalist and Former NDTV Anchor) on 'Press Freedom in India'. Followed by a reception.
Please note this event is only open to members of the University of Oxford and its Colleges, and registration is required.
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Building the Dream: Developing an Institute in India - 'A Bird's Eye View of the 25 years of my Journey for a Rainbow'
Join us for our final seminar of 2023 with Professor Robin Sengupta OBE (University of Newcastle), about his experiences establishing a neurosciences institute in India. Moderated by Professor Arjune Sen (Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford).
This is a hybrid seminar, taking place both in person in the Seminar Room at Corpus Christi College and online via MS Teams. Followed by a drinks reception.
All are welcome, but registration is required.
Oxford South Asian Alternative Forum Annual Conference 2023, examining 'Caste Beyond South Asia: Diaspora and the Internet'. The panels will look at 1: Caste in the UK: Way Ahead For Legislation and 2: Caste on the Internet: Need for Regulations.
This conference is supported by the Oxford Internet Institute and the India-Oxford Initiative and will be held at St Antony's College, Oxford and online.
The second Education South Asia conference, organised in partnership with the India-Oxford Initiative (IndOx), University of Oxford, UCL Institute of Education, and the Oxford India Centre for Sustainable Development (OICSD).
Language Futures in South Asia: Sustainability, Inclusivity and Technology in Education
A symposium at the University of Oxford exploring the implications of gender on healthcare in South Asia to enable an exchange of knowledge and skills between researchers and practitioners from across disciplines, both within the UK and on the Indian subcontinent.
This IndOx symposium is organised in collaboration with the Oxford Department for International Development and the Nuffield Department of Women's & Reproductive Health.
A special lunchtime lecture with Professor Esther da Costa Meyer (Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University and School of Architecture, Yale University) on the Sassoon family, and their architectural patronage in India. Moderated by Professor William Whyte (Social and Architectural History, Faculty of History, University of Oxford).
[Image of David Sassoon Library in Mumbai. Credit: Joe Ravi]
South Asia Day 2023 Hybrid Conference hosted by Oxford Department of International Development (ODID) and IndOx.
Session I: Money and the ‘Political’ - Community, Trust and Exploitation: The Political Life of money
Session II: Money and the ‘Familial’ - Currencies of care: The Familial Life of Money
Session III: Money and the ‘Personal’ - Commodifying the Body: The Intimate life of Money
Session IV: Money and the ‘Social’ - Circulation and the City: The Social Life of money
Followed by a drinks reception from 5.30pm
Over the past decades, commercial Hindi cinema, often known as Bollywood, has not only gained international visibility but also garnered increasing academic interest. This talk will focus on identifying narrative, formal, technical and aesthetic choices made by a range of filmmakers over multiple decades, explore how these decisions represent a form of cinema that is deeply rooted in longstanding narrative and performance traditions, and propose the outlines of an anti-colonial, decolonising model for examining this cinema.
Join us for our second IndOx seminar of 2023 with Professor Sunny Singh (writer and academic, London Metropolitan University). Followed by a drinks reception.
All are welcome, but registration is required.
India’s press- is it really free? As India falls to its lowest ever ranking on the world press freedom index (161 out of 180), what is the state of press freedom in the world’s largest democracy?
Join us for our IndOx Annual Event 2023: An evening lecture and Q&A with Nidhi Razdan (Journalist and Former NDTV Anchor) on 'Press Freedom in India'. Followed by a reception.
Please note this event is only open to members of the University of Oxford and its Colleges, and registration is required.
PAWS - Web (People, Animals, and Waste Systems' Web), part of the Sheldon Lab at the Edward Grey Institute, University of Oxford, and IndOx are holding a 3-day conference to kickstart the PAWS-Web project. This cross-disciplinary conference aims to explore the ecological futures of the human-animal interface in rapidly urbanizing ecosystems worldwide.
A discussion of the 'Worlding' of (South) Asian art and questions of representation with Chaitanya Sambrani, Associate Professor at the Centre for Art History and Art Theory, Australian National University.
Introduction: Professor Mallica Kumbera Landrus, Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford
Moderator for Discussion: Professor Geoffrey Batchen, University of Oxford
Image ©Ali Kazim
Speaker: Dr Zaib un Nisa Aziz, University of South Florida, Tampa
Convenors: Zobia Haq and Alizeh Tariq Paracha
This is a graduate-led seminar series at the University of Oxford, exploring themes related to Intellectual History in South Asia. All are welcome to attend.
Speaker: Dr Vikram Visana, University of Leicester
Convenors: Zobia Haq and Alizeh Tariq Paracha
This is a graduate-led seminar series at the University of Oxford, exploring themes related to Intellectual History in South Asia. All are welcome to attend.
GUEST SPEAKER
K K Shailaja Teacher, Minister for Health, Social Justice, and Woman & Child Development, Government of Kerala spoke at the IndOx inaugural seminar on 27 October 2020, which discussed the response in Kerala to the COVID-19 pandemic and why it stands out as a model.
GUEST SPEAKER
Lekha Poddar, founder of 'Devi Art Foundation' spoke at the India-Oxford Initiative Webinar on 26 November 2020, which discussed philanthropy in the field of arts in the context of South Asia.
GUEST SPEAKER
Anders Petterson, founder of 'ArtTactic' spoke at the India-Oxford Initiative Webinar on 26 November 2020 which discussed philanthropy in the field of arts in the context of South Asia.
GUEST SPEAKER
Sanjay Srivastava, Professor of Sociology, Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi; and British Academy Global Professor at the Department of Geography, University College London, spoke about Urban Theo-topias in India: Religious Identities, the State, Private Capital and the Making of the New ‘Ordinary’ Person at the India-Oxford Initiative Webinar on 26 February 2021.
GUEST SPEAKER
Romila Thapar, Professor Emerita at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, spoke about her book Voices of Dissent at the India-Oxford Initiative Webinar on 30 April 2021.
MEETING CHAIR
Subir Sarkar, Professor of Theoretical Physics at Oxford University chaired the panel session on 'Decolonising Science?' as part of the 6th Symposium in the ‘Literary Activism’ series: ‘Decolonisation’ from the Literary Activism Project, in partnership with Ashoka University, India International Centre, and TORCH
GUEST SPEAKER
Prof. Sudha Pai is the former Professor of Political Science at the Jawaharlal Nehru University where she also served as the Rector (Pro-Vice Chancellor), and spoke about the 2022 Uttar Pradesh Elections at the India-Oxford Initiative Webinar on 27 April 2022.
GUEST SPEAKER
Dr. Rahul Verma is a Fellow at the Centre for Policy Research (CPR) based in New Delhi and a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science, Ashoka University, and spoke about the 2022 Uttar Pradesh Elections at the India-Oxford Initiative Webinar on 27 April 2022.
WEBINAR CHAIR
Dr Amogh Dar Sharma is an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow, Oxford Departmental of International Development, University of Oxford. He chaired the discussion on the 2022 Uttar Pradesh Elections at the India-Oxford Initiative Webinar on 27 April 2022.