Name: Zobia Haq
University of Oxford

Events this person is organising:

Monday 18 January 2021 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

Nation and Its Discontents: The Poetics and Politics of Siraiki Nationalism in Pakistan
Date: 18 January 2021, 16:00 - 17:30 (Monday, 1st week, Hilary 2021)
Speaker : Ali Usman Qasmi (LUMS)
Venue Details: Online with Zoom
Organiser: Zobia Haq (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 25 January 2021 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

Gandhian Satyagraha in the Mirror of Marxism
Date: 25 January 2021, 16:00 - 17:30 (Monday, 2nd week, Hilary 2021)
Speaker : Karuna Mantena (Columbia University)
Venue Details: Online with Zoom
Organiser: Zobia Haq (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 1 February 2021 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

The Making of "Veer Savarkar": Methods for Writing an Intellectual History
Date: 1 February 2021, 16:00 - 17:30 (Monday, 3rd week, Hilary 2021)
Speaker : Vinayak Chaturvedi (University of California, Irvine)
Venue Details: Online with Zoom
Organiser: Zobia Haq (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 8 February 2021 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

The Curious Career of Shunya: Politics and Metaphysics of Caste Thinking in India
Date: 8 February 2021, 16:00 - 17:30 (Monday, 4th week, Hilary 2021)
Speaker : Prathama Banerjee (Centre for the Study of Developing Societies)
Venue Details: Online with Zoom
Organiser: Zobia Haq (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 15 February 2021 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

Bedil’s Bisemic Ghazal Poetics
Date: 15 February 2021, 16:00 - 17:30 (Monday, 5th week, Hilary 2021)
Speaker : Prashant Keshavmurthy (McGill University)
Venue Details: Online with Zoom
Organiser: Zobia Haq (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 22 February 2021 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

On Violence or the Civil War of 1947 and the Importance of Indian Political Thought
Date: 22 February 2021, 16:00 - 17:30 (Monday, 6th week, Hilary 2021)
Speaker : Shruti Kapila (University of Cambridge)
Venue Details: Online with Zoom
Organiser: Zobia Haq (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 1 March 2021 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

Graduate Student Research Presentations
Date: 1 March 2021, 16:00 - 18:00 (Monday, 7th week, Hilary 2021)
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue Details: Online with Zoom
Organiser: Zobia Haq (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 8 March 2021 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

Graduate Student Research Presentations
Date: 8 March 2021, 16:00 - 18:00 (Monday, 8th week, Hilary 2021)
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue Details: Online with Zoom
Organiser: Zobia Haq (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 26 April 2021 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

Theft of Time: Notes on Spolia and the Writing of Indian History
Date: 26 April 2021, 16:00 - 17:30 (Monday, 1st week, Trinity 2021)
Speaker : Sudipta Sen (University of California, Davis)
Venue Details: Online with Zoom
Organiser: Zobia Haq (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 3 May 2021 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

Emotions and Temporalities. On Ghosts, Jinns and their Exorcism
Date: 3 May 2021, 16:00 - 17:30 (Monday, 2nd week, Trinity 2021)
Speaker : Margrit Pernau (Max Planck Institute for Human Development)
Venue Details: Online with Zoom
Organiser: Zobia Haq (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 10 May 2021 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

"Our History": The Everyday Social and the Sense of Historical Touch
Date: 10 May 2021, 15:00 - 16:30 (Monday, 3rd week, Trinity 2021)
Speaker : Sundar Sarukkai (Centre for Society and Policy, Indian Institute of Science)
Venue Details: Online with Zoom
Organiser: Zobia Haq (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 17 May 2021 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

Pure Kashmir: Nature in the Political Thought of Sheikh Abdullah, Muhammad Iqbal and Jawaharlal Nehru
Date: 17 May 2021, 16:00 - 17:30 (Monday, 4th week, Trinity 2021)
Speaker : Amar Sohal (University of Cambridge)
Venue Details: Online with Zoom
Organiser: Zobia Haq (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 24 May 2021 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

POSTPONED - Freedom Between Order and Chaos: Reading a Political Satire From India
Date: 24 May 2021, 16:00 - 17:30 (Monday, 5th week, Trinity 2021)
Speaker : Jyotirmaya Sharma (Lichtenberg-Kolleg, University of Göttingen)
Venue Details: Online with Zoom
Organiser: Zobia Haq (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 31 May 2021 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

A Historian among the Goddesses of Modern India
Date: 31 May 2021, 16:00 - 17:30 (Monday, 6th week, Trinity 2021)
Speaker : Sumathi Ramaswamy (Duke University)
Venue Details: Online with Zoom
Organiser: Zobia Haq (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 7 June 2021 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

Monuments in Replica: Imperial Commemorations in Britain and its Colonies
Date: 7 June 2021, 16:00 - 17:30 (Monday, 7th week, Trinity 2021)
Speaker : Durba Ghosh (Cornell University)
Venue Details: Online with Zoom
Organiser: Zobia Haq (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 14 June 2021 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

Conceptual Problems in Distinguishing Global from Planetary Histories
Date: 14 June 2021, 16:00 - 17:30 (Monday, 8th week, Trinity 2021)
Speaker : Dipesh Chakrabarty (The University of Chicago)
Venue Details: Online with Zoom
Organiser: Zobia Haq (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 11 October 2021 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

The making of a populist: Entering politics and autonomy-seeking in contemporary India
Date: 11 October 2021, 16:00 - 17:30 (Monday, 1st week, Michaelmas 2021)
Speaker : Dr Jean-Thomas Martelli (Centre de Sciences Humaines, New Delhi)
Venue Details: Online with Zoom
Organiser: Zobia Haq (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 18 October 2021 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

Savarkar and the Making of Hindutva “Secularism”
Date: 18 October 2021, 16:00 - 17:30 (Monday, 2nd week, Michaelmas 2021)
Speaker : Dr Vikram Visana (University of Huddersfield)
Venue Details: Online with Zoom
Organiser: Zobia Haq (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 25 October 2021 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

Feminist Historiography and the Political: Reflections on the Past and Future Tense
Date: 25 October 2021, 16:00 - 17:30 (Monday, 3rd week, Michaelmas 2021)
Speaker : Professor Mrinalini Sinha (University of Michigan)
Venue Details: Online with Zoom
Organiser: Zobia Haq (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 1 November 2021 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

The Nomos of the Globe: Currency, Empire and Financialization
Date: 1 November 2021, 16:00 - 17:30 (Monday, 4th week, Michaelmas 2021)
Speaker : Professor Ritu Birla (University of Toronto)
Venue Details: Online with Zoom
Organiser: Zobia Haq (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 8 November 2021 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Freedoms after Freedom: Lawyering as Political Practice in Post-Independent India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka
Date: 8 November 2021, 16:00 - 17:30 (Monday, 5th week, Michaelmas 2021)
Speaker : Professor Rohit De (Yale University)
Venue Details: Online with Zoom
Organiser: Zobia Haq (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 15 November 2021 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

They Refused to Tell Me Their Dreams: Psychoanalysis, Colonialism, Trans
Date: 15 November 2021, 16:00 - 17:30 (Monday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2021)
Speaker : Dr Akshi Singh (Queen Mary University of London)
Venue Details: Online with Zoom
Organiser: Zobia Haq (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 22 November 2021 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

British Imperial Thought, British Nationality, and Overseas Indians after 1947
Date: 22 November 2021, 16:00 - 17:30 (Monday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2021)
Speaker : Dr Ian Sanjay Patel (London School of Economics)
Venue Details: Online with Zoom
Organiser: Zobia Haq (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 29 November 2021 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

The Option of Nonviolence
Date: 29 November 2021, 16:00 - 17:30 (Monday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2021)
Speaker : Dr Humeira Iqtidar (King's College London)
Venue Details: Online with Zoom
Organiser: Zobia Haq (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA