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'South Asia': A Roundtable Discussion 

Thursday, 28 March

Participants:  (Emeritus Professor in History, University of Warwick),  (@SarahAshraf01; Institute for Strategic Dialogue),  (@MukulikaB; Director, South Asia Centre & Associate Professor in Anthropology at ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳),   (Professor in Nepali and Himalayan Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies),   (@muskanajibullah; Photographer),  (@PaliwalAvi; Lecturer in Diplomacy & Public Policy, and Deputy Director, SOAS South Asia Institute) and Naufel Vilcassim (Professor of Marketing, Department of Management, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳).

Co-Chairs:  (Associate Professor, International History, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳) and  (Professor in Social Anthropology, University of Sussex).

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End of Empire

Monday, 11 March 

Speaker: Alex von Tunzelmann (@alexvtunzelmann) is a historian and author.

Chair: Nilanjan Sarkar is Deputy Director of the South Asia Centre at ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳.

Alex von Tunzelmann considers the interplay of personalities and politics in the events leading up to Britian's exit from Inida.  

This lecture is organised in collaboration with the 

Annual Bacha Khan Lecture 

Experiments with Education for Peace in Pakistan's History 

Saturday, 9 March

Participants:  (@Khadimhussain4) -  Managing Director of  (BKTEF) &  - prominent Pashto Poet and writer.

Chair:  (@ZiauddinY) -  Special Advisor on Global Education and author of  (2018) &  (@MukulikaB) - Director,  and author of  (2000). 

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Inclusive Development Transformation in India

A critique and a proposal? 

Friday, 8 March

Speaker: Rathin Roy (@) is Director, National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, New Delhi.

Discussant: Maitreesh Ghatak (@) is Professor in the Department of Economics, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳.

Chair:  (@MukulikaB) is Director of the South Asia Centre, and Associate Professor in Anthropology at ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳.

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ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳-UC Berkeley Bangladesh Summit 2

Friday, 22 February

The day-long conference included 3 panel discussions on ‘Negotiating Uncertainty: Health, Politics and Environment in Bangladesh’, ‘The Entrepreneurship Model and Women's Empowerment', and ‘Forms of Sovereignty: Art, Cinema and Popular Culture'.

Invited participants included  (VU Amsterdam),  (UC Berkeley),  (UC Berkeley),  (UC Berkeley),  (@Juli_Q_Huang) (Edinburgh), (Oregon),  (UC Berkeley),  (Edinburgh),  (Jadavpur, Kolkata),  (UC Berkeley),  (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳),  (Amherst),  (UC Berkeley),  (BRAC, Dhaka),  (UC Berkeley) and  (@Shameran) (BRAC, Dhaka) .

 (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳) delivered the Keynote Address on ‘Bangladesh: Politics, Economy and Civil Society Revisited’.

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This event is in collaboration with , UC Berkeley.

DEMOCRACY ON THE ROAD

Ruchir Sharma in conversation with Mukulika Banerjee

Monday, 18 February 

Speaker:  works at Morgan Stanley; he has authored one of the international bestsellers The Rise and Fall of Nations: Ten Rules of Change of in the Post-Crisis World (2016). 

Chair:  (@MukulikaB) is Director, South Asia Centre, and Associate Professor in Anthropology at ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳.

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Human Rights and Constitutionalism in Nepal

Wednesday, 13 February 

Speaker:   is Professor of International Law at the University of Leeds. 

Chair:  is Deputy Director of the South Asia Centre at ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳.

In recent years, Nepal has gone through its share of tragedies. It has experimented with liberalism and communism, and adopted an ambitious Constitution designed to usher the country from a Monarchy to a Republic, and from a unitary system to a federal structure. The Constitution enshrines a long list of rights, and the country has ratified most major international human rights treaties. However, the question that arises is: how democratic is this Constitution, and is it robust enough to guarantee basic freedoms such as the freedom of speech?

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Dark Hero: Nicholson of Delhi

Monday, 11 February 

Speaker: Stuart Flinders is a BBC Journalist, broadcaster and author of Cult of a Dark Hero: Nicholson of Delhi (2018). 

Chair: Nilanjan Sarkar is Deputy Director of the South Asia Centre at ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳.

In this lecture Stuart Flinders consider the life and reputation of Brigadier General John Nicholson. 

This lecture is organised in collaboration with the 

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The Great March of India's Democracy

Friday, 1 February 

Speakers: Taylor Sherman, Karamjit Singh, S.Y. Quraishi 

Chair: Mukulika Banerjee

The Election Commission of India celebrates its
70th anniversary in 2019, as it prepares for the 17th Lok Sabha elections. The Great March of Democracy (2019) celebrates seven decades of the Election Commission’s excellence in conducting free and fair elections in the world's largest democracy.

 is Associate Professor in International History, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳

 is a Former Member of the Electoral Commission, UK,

 (@DrSYQuraishi) is Former Chief Election Commissioner

 (@MukulikaB) is Director of the South Asia Centre, and Associate Professor in Anthropology at ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳.

Contributors from the UK include  (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳),  (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳),  (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ & House of Lords),  (House of Lords), and  (Former Member of the Electoral Board, UK).

This event is in collaboration with  (@BridgeIndiaOrg),  (@NISAU_UK),  (@ijaeurope) and .

This event was recorded via Facebook live, which can be watched by clicking the links below.  

Empress: Queen Victoria and India

Monday, 14 January 

Speaker: Miles Taylor - Author & Professor, University of York.

Chair: Nilanjan Sarkar - Deputy Director, South Asia Centre

In this lecture Miles Taylor discusses the impact India had on the Queen and the pivotal role she played. 

This lecture is organised in collaboration with the