***BASAS Annual Lecture 2024***

Speaker: Prof Ravinder Kaur (University of Copenhagen)

Title: 'Protocols of Memory: 1947 Partition and the Return of the Political'

Oxford Brookes University, 23 April 2024

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Ravinder Kaur @[email protected]

Sunday pick ⚡️

Sujit Sivasundaram Cambridge History⁩ ⁦Cambridge University⁩ traces the origins of our times from the perspective of indigenous & non-European people in the Indian and Pacific Oceans […] a fresh account of the origins of British empire.
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🌟Announcing the Berggruen Prize Essay Competition!

Seeking innovative and cross-cultural perspectives that tackle philosophical questions vital for our times.

Select Winners will receive $25,000 Prize

CALL for APPLICATIONS
Short-term Research Stays 2024-25

Deadline for applications: 28 February, 2025

See swedishcollegium.se/subfolders/Fel… for further details.

Watch this space for the launch of our exciting new one-year MSc in Global South Asia Studies, recruiting for Sept 2024 Institute of Communities and Society Brunel Public Policy Brunel Research UK-South Asia Network Brunel University London

📣 Hear, hear!

Delighted that our late January ‘Sunday pick⚡️’ has won 🥇 the Publishing Next Printed Book of the Year award. Congratulations 💐 Arati Kumar-Rao Pan Macmillan India. Enjoy the moment!

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So … who should be teaching ‘South Asian Studies’? 🤔 Thoughts, reactions, comments welcome.
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📒 Open for registration
Rethinking anthropological fieldwork in historical perspective

🗓️ 22 April 2024
📍 CRASSH

A workshop on Susan Drucker-Brown with themes of race, gender, indigeneity, photography, anthropology, archaeology collections, and museums
crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/42090

📢Calling folks interested in the issues of #Diversity in #Legal and #Judicial #Profession in #India .
Myself and Arvind Kumar hv successfully secured the Reid Research Fund from Royal Holloway n are organising a HYBRID symposium Royal Holloway Law and Criminology! Send in ur abstract now! Details👇

Happy to share that the special issue on 'Rethinking Regional Polity in North India and the Deccan, 14th-16th Centuries', edited by Daud Ali and myself, is finally out! tandfonline.com/toc/rsas20/39/2 Thanks to all the contributors! Extra special since it features my first publication!

Sunday pick ⚡️

The idea that India is a Hindu majority nation rests on the idea that its Dalit population is, & always has been, in some meaningful sense, Hindu. Lee challenges these presuppositions.

⁦Williams College⁩ Cambridge University Press⁩ cambridge.org/core/books/dec…

Job alert: LSE Law School has advertised for a fixed-term fellowship in any area of law. Closing date: 14 April 2024

jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/15…

Anyway, please circulate and spread the word about the Cfp on gender and climate justice that I am co-editing with Lori ( why can’t I tag you ?)

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*A volume celebrating the work of Professor Patricia Jeffery (Chair of BASAS, 2014 – 2020) has just been published*

Edited by Radhika Govinda, Hugo Gorringe and Shruti Chaudhry

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This tells the subcontinent's story from British Raj to independence/partition through food, leisure & the household along with nationhood, migration & the state. Great read 👍🏼👏🏼👏🏼 pb in July ⁦Penguin Books UK⁩ ⁦Women's Prize⁩ penguin.co.uk/books/438348/s…

Fellowship in Ethnographic Writing is now open for applications for the 2024 cycle. Find out more about the fellowship and how to apply through the link in our bio!!

#utsc anthro #utsc anthro pology #centreforethnography #uoft #utsc #anthropology

Last year, WOW collaborated with Dhaka Doclab to commission four short films on how women of marginal communities are coping up the challenges of climate change. 🌍

The result was our Bangladesh-Cymru Climate Stories, funded by the British Council Int.Collab. Grants.

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Call for submissions: shorturl.at/rAH26

The South Asian Urban Climates collective invites scholars, writers, artists, activists, designers, planners, and others working on contemporary politics and cultures of urban environments in South Asia to submit case studies...

Thrilled to be partnering with the Critical Himalayan Collective for this short film festival — at #brunel on 6 April. Save the date! Brunel Research Institute of Communities and Society PhDs@Brunel Union of Brunel Students