Hilary term: Week 1 seminar CANCELLED The seminar scheduled to take place on Tuesday 15 January with Laura Bear of the LSE has had to be cancelled due to illness.
Final deadline for applications for MSc and MPhil Modern South Asian Studies approaches The final deadline for applications for entry in Michaelmas 2019 is 12 noon (UK time) on Friday 25 January (now less than two weeks' away). This is also the deadline for applications to the DPhil in Area Studies.
Film Screening: Muzaffarnagar Baaqi hai Thursday 31 January, 4.30pm Nissan Lecture Theatre, St Antony's College
Modern South Asian Studies seminar Term Card published for Hilary term 2019 The term card for Hilary has recently been published. Seminars take place on Tuesday afternoons 2.00-3.30pm in the Fellows' Dining Room at St Antony's College. The first seminar on 15 January will feature Laura Bear (LSE).
Call for Abstracts: Urban Frontiers Workshop - deadline extended to 25 January Abstracts are sought for a workshop on Urban Frontiers to be convened by Dr Tara van Dijk and Professor Christian Lund (Copenhagen). The deadline for receipt of applications has been extended to Friday 25 January 2019. The workshop is scheduled to take place in Oxford, 8-10 April 2019.
New ASC podcast: Professor Gyan Prakash on 'Indira Gandhi's Emergency' The public lecture given by Professor Prakash of Princeton University on 31 October has now been released as an audio podcast on the University's website.
Research Spotlight: The Indian state, law and bureaucracy Nayanika Mathur is an anthropologist with an area interest in South Asia and the author of Paper Tiger: Law Bureaucracy and the Developmental State in Himalayan India. Paper Tiger won the Sharon Stephens Prize awarded bi-annually by the American Ethnological Society for the best first book by a junior scholar.
22 Jan MSAS seminar: HT19: Week 2: The Cast(e) of the Colonial Police: Constables and Chaukidars in Colonial Bengal (Partha Shil, Trinity College, Cambridge) Tuesday 22 January, 2:00pm to 3:30pm The Fellows' Dining Room, St Antony's College
25 Jan OCGH seminar: Redefining the Caliphate: Indian pan-Islamism in the early twentieth century Friday 25 January, 4:00pm Colin Matthew Room, History Faculty
29 Jan MSAS seminar: HT19: Week 3: The Economics of Religion in India (Sriya Iyer, Cambridge) Tuesday 29 January, 2:00pm to 3:30pm The Fellows' Dining Room, St Antony's College
31 Jan Film screening: Muzaffarnagar Baaqi hai Thursday 31 January, 4:30pm Nissan Lecture Theatre, St Antony's College
Call for abstracts: Urban Frontiers Workshop (Oxford, 8-10 April, 2019) - deadline extended to 25 January Tuesday 8 January
