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Screening of All That Breathes & Discussion with Director and Cast Members
Nissan Lecture Theatre, St Antony's College

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

Education South Asia Seminar: 'Gatecrashing into Gurukuls: Caste in Indian Academia'
Online

The February 2023 session of the Education South Asia Seminar is on 'Gatecrashing into Gurukuls: Caste in Indian Academia' with Professor N. Sukumar. The discussion will centre around Professor Sukumar's book, "Caste Discrimination and Exclusion in Indian Universities: A Critical Reflection".

This talk from Education South Asia is in partnership with the University of Oxford, the Oxford South Asian Alternative Forum, the India-Oxford Initiative (IndOx), and UCL Institute of Education.

Education South Asia Seminar: 'Making Bureaucracy Work: Norms, Education and Public Service Delivery in Rural India'
Online

The January 2023 session of the Education South Asia Seminar is on Dr Akshay Mangla's new book "Making Bureaucracy Work: Norms, Education and Public Service Delivery in Rural India".

This is an Education.SouthAsia seminar series in partnership with the University of Oxford, the India-Oxford Initiative (IndOx), and UCL Institute of Education.

Oxford South Asian Intellectual History Seminar: The Logic of Cruelty and Violence in Ambedkar and Gandhi
Hybrid: Old FDR, St Antony’s College, Oxford and Zoom

Speaker: Professor Uday Mehta, The City University of New York

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.

Oxford South Asian Intellectual History Seminar: The Intellectual History of Partition
Ashmolean Museum - Lecture Theatre

A special panel on Partition and its legacies, with presentations from two Oxford graduate students, Danish Khan and Naveen Zaidi Farhan, followed by Q&A and a tour of Manisha Gera Baswani’s ‘Postcards from Home: 1947 and the Partition of India’ exhibition.

In collaboration with the India-Oxford Initiative.

Oxford South Asian Intellectual History Seminar: Who are the Muslims? Savarkar on Indian Muslim Origin
Hybrid: Old FDR, St Antony’s College, Oxford and Zoom

Speaker: Professor Luna Sabastian, Northeastern University – London

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.

Durable Derangements: The Climate of Mumbai's Coastal Road
Flora Anderson Hall, Somerville College

Prof Nikhil Anand in conversation with Hannah Knox on how and why unsustainable development projects continue to be built in a climate changed Mumbai.

This lecture will be followed by a reception.

Oxford South Asian Intellectual History Seminar: ‘Power to the People?’: Citizens and the Everyday State in Early Postcolonial South Asia
Hybrid: Old FDR, St Antony’s College, Oxford and Zoom

Speaker: Professor Sarah Ansari (Royal Holloway, University of London)

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.

Is ‘Displacement’ Debilitating? An Archaeology of Post-Partition Resettlement in Delhi
Hybrid: in-person (Ashmolean Museum) and online

Dr Erin Riggs, Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign presents on her research about refugee resettlement in post-1947 Partition Delhi, explored through methods of contemporary archaeology. Followed by discussion and a Q&A session facilitated by Sumedha Chakravarty (OISCD Scholar).

Barking up the wrong tree: conundrums of sharing living spaces with animals that respond to urban waste
Online

Dr Nishant Kumar and Professor Greger Larson discuss public health concerns raised by the lifeworlds that interact with people on a daily basis, and how at PAWS-Web, they are studying their variable distribution, abundance and behaviour to address the conundrums of sharing living spaces with growing waste that supports opportunistic animals.

AfOx Insaka with Professor Kalpana Hiralal and Professor Shadreck Chirikure
Hybrid: in-person (St Cross College) and online

Professor Kalpana Hiralal: Women in the anti-apartheid struggle

Professor Shadreck Chirikure: Can archaeology and heritage enable sustainable development in Africa?

This Africa Oxford Initiative (AfOx) Insaka is organised in partnership with the Oxford Department of International Development and the India Oxford Initiative.

 

The Challenges of Health Research in the North East Region of India
Online

Professor Sandra Albert, Director of the Indian Institute of Public Health Shillong and Dr Rajiv Sarkar, Associate Professor in Epidemiology, Indian Institute of Public Health Shillong present on and discuss the challenges of health research in the North East Region of India with Dr Toral Gathani, Senior Clinical Research Fellow in Epidemiology and Consultant Surgeon at the Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford.