Kolloquium

Abteilungskolloquium - Wintersemester 2023-2024

During the winter semester, we will delve into a selection of contemporary insights within modern South Asian History, featuring the work of renowned scholars. Topics include Sri Lanka’s ongoing Political and Economic Crisis; Decoloniality and Dispossession in the Age of Social Media; Terror and Technicalities in the context of Delhi’s courts’ life; Contemporary Vernacular History and Discourse in Western India and (non) Subject and Frontier Jurisdictions in British India. Most of the talks are in person, in Heidelberg.

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Our program:

• 19.10.2023 | Crisis in Sri Lanka and the World: Colonial and Neoliberal Origins: Ecological and Collective Alternatives
  Asoka Bandarage (California Institute of Integral Studies)


• 02.11.2023 | Inventing a 'Tribal' (non) Subject and Frontier Jurisdictions in British India
  Reeju Ray (JSJC, O.P. Jindal Global University)


• 09.11.2023 | Terror and Technicalities: Looking for life in Delhi's Courts
  Mayur Suresh (SOAS University of London)


• 16.11.2023 | Tea with a Tiger: Contemporary Vernacular History and Discourse in Western India
  Deepra Dandekar (Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient)


• 30.11.2023 | AI, Decoloniality and Extreme Speech
  Sahana Udupa (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)


• 07.12.2023 | Partition’s Yet Another Face: The Case of Hyderabad and the Muslim Question (Online)
  Afsar Mohammad (University of Pennsylvania)


• 08.02.2024 | The All-India Khilafat Committee in the Age of Minority Rights: An Alternative HIstory, 1917-1932"
  Roy Bar Sadeh (Freie Universität Berlin)