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View all previous South Asia-related events here. Events are sorted in reverse chronological order.

2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021| 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016

2024

2023

2022

2021

  • 9 December 2021: CSSA event: 'Leaving' by Anar, with Sri Lankan poet Anar, and translator-poets Hari Rajaledchumy and Fran Lock
  • 11 June 2021: UCL Political Science Lunch & Learn: Lunch & Learn: Stories of Immigration: Writing and the South Asian Experience in Britain, with Shahnaz Ahsan
  • 27 May 2021: SPRC roundtable: Contested Nationalisms in Contemporary India, with Sharik Laliwala, Kalpana Wilson, Srilata Sircar, Dibyesh Anand and Karthick Ram Manoharan
  • 27 May 2021: CSSA 'Objects Across Borders': Of Hooks and Handkerchiefs, with Luke Heslop and Adhitya Dhanapal
  • 24 May 2021: IAS roundtable: Emancipatory Spaces from Camps to Cities: Refugees and the Built Environment
  • 20 May 2021: CSSA 'Objects Across Borders': Of Nido Cans and Taka Notes, with Mohamed Shafeeq Karinkurayil and Saif Osmani
  • 13 May 2021: CSSA 'Objects Across Borders': Of Master-copies and Video CDs, with Timothy Cooper and Wazhmah Osman.
  • 6 May 2021: IAS Festival: Re-humouring the Golden Elixir, with Dr Chila Burman, Professor Sonu Shamdasani and Professor Vivienne Lo.
  • 6 May 2021: CSSA 'Objects Across Borders': Of Fezzes and China Root, with Shamara Wettimuny and Shireen Hamza.
  • 5 May 2021: IAS Festival/CSSA event: Imaginative Geographies, with With Professor Tariq Jazeel, Ameena Hussein, Dr Shermal Wijewardene, Packiyanathan Ahilan, Kanchuka Dharmasiri, Ruhanie Perera, Shyam Selvadurai and Neloufer de Mel.
  • 4 May 2021: IAS Festival: The Weight of Numbers on Bodies, with Raqs Media Collective
  • 29 April 2021: CSSA 'Objects Across Borders': Of Matchbooks and Gold Jewellery with Prof Mythri Jegathesan and artist Chinar Shah.
  • 15 March 2021: IAS Book Launch: India and the Silk Roads: The History of a Trading World with Jagjeet Lally
  • 9 February 2021: qUCL ONLINE Queer Histories and Presents for LGBT History Month inc 'LGBT+ People in the Indian Workplace' with Lars Aaberg – SOAS  

2020

  • 17 December 2020: CSSA ONLINE Book launch 'Waves Across the South' with Sujit Sivasundaram
  • 4 February 2020: CSSA seminar: Automating property on India’s urban frontier: the bureaucrat, survey and grid with Tom Cowan
  • 27 January 2020: EME in Conversation with Iqbal Khan
  • 23 January 2020: CSSA lecture: The Indian Ocean’s Port Cities in the Anthropocene with Sunil Amrith

2019

  • 29 October 2019: CSSA Seminar: Curating Nation / Exhibiting Collaboration with Hammad Nasar
  • 23 October 2019: CSSA Seminar: On Curatorial Blindness: South Asia and the Contemporary Dutch Ethnographic Museum with Priya Swamy (Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen) 
  • 24 September 2019: IAS Talking Points Seminar: An area of darkness? with Dr Souvik Naha, IAS Visiting Research Fellow
  • 5 July 2019: UCL IRDR International Conference on the Rohingya Crisis in Comparative Perspective
  • 29 May 2019: IAS Book Launch: Vivan Sundaram Is Not a Photographer by Ruth Rosengarten
  • 20 May 2019: IAS Book Launch: Handbook of South-South Relations ed. Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh and Patricia Daley 
  • 30 April 2019: IAS Book Launch: Postcolonialism by Tariq Jazeel
  • 7 March 2019: CSSA seminar: An 18th Century View of the Royal Precinct: The Curious Case of the Daniells and the Delhi School with Yuthika Sharma (Edinburgh College of Art)
  • 28 January 2019: IAS Book Launch: (Dis)connected Empires by Zoltán Biedermann

2018

  • 6 December 2018: CSSA Seminar: ‘Aesthetics of Expropriation: Abstraction in Fazal Sheikh’s Desert Bloom’ with Zahid R. Chaudhury (Princeton)
  • 19 November 2018: IAS Book Launch: 'The Price of Aid: The Economic Cold War in India' by David C. Engerman
  • 27 September 2018: CSSA Conference: 'Putting South Asia on Display'
  • 7-8 June 2018: CSSA Workshop: Early Career Researchers' Workshop 2018
  • 6 June 2018: UCL Festival of Culture: 'Filming the Nation into Being'
  • 8-11 May 2018: UCL Grand Challenges: 'In Otto Konigsberger's Footsteps'
  • 26 February 2018: CSSA Book Launch: 'The East India Company at Home, 1757-1857', ed. by Margot Finn and Kate Smith
  • 31 January 2018: CSSA Seminar: 'Akbar’s Dream: The Mughal Emperor in Nineteenth-Century Literature' with Phiroze Vasunia (UCL Classics)

2017

  •  6 December 2017: CSSA Seminar: 'Vertical Mumbai: 3D urbanism in twenty-first-century Asia' with Andrew Harris (UCL Geography)
  • 29 November 2017: CSSA Seminar: 'Meta-colour in South Asia' with Natasha Eaton (UCL History of Art)
  • 30 October 2017: CSSA and IAS Book Launch: 'Sri Lanka at the Crossroads of History', ed. by Zoltan Biedermann and Alan Strathern
  • 16 October 2017: CSSA and IAS Book Launch: 'River of Life, River of Death: The Ganges and India’s Future' by Victor Mallet
  • June 2017: Queer Asia Film Screening : 'Aligarh' (2016)
  • June 2017: Queer Asia Exhibition and Discussion: 'Photographing Communities of Belonging'
  • May 2017: Urban Lab Film Screening: Cities of Sleep
  • May 2017: Urban Lab Lecture: Urvashi Butalia
  • May 2017: CSSA Seminar: 'Talvin Singh in Conversation'
  • April 2017: CSSA Seminar: 'Indian Ocean Histories and Modern Art' with Dr Subodh Kerkar (Museum of Goa)
  • 22 March 2017: CSSA Seminar: 'Trial, bigotry, designs' with Dr Manujendra Kundu (University of Delhi)
  • 20 March 2017: CSSA Discussion: 'Viceroy's House (2017) - A Discussion with Gurinder Chadha'
  • 1 March 2017: CSSA Seminar: 'Urban environments and situated institutions' with Natasha Cornea (Visiting Research Fellow, UCL Geography)

2016

  • 08 June 2016: CSSA Workshop: Postgraduate Researchers Workshop
  • 23 March 2016: CSSA Seminar: 'The Great Game and…British Burma?' with Jagjeet Lally (UCL History)
  • 2 March 2016: CSSA Seminar: 'Schooling and Conflict' with Marie Lall (UCL Institute of Education)
  • 10 February 2016: CSSA Seminar: 'Mafia Raj in South Asia' with Lucia Micchelutti (UCL Anthropology)
  • 20 January 2016: CSSA Seminar: 'Architecture and Auroville' with Tariq Jazeel (UCL Geography)