UCL South Asia

Caregiving at the Centre of Empire and the Contemporary World Order, 1930-2023 Exploring the vast and blurred domains of paid and unpaid caregiving, from 1930-2023 in South Asia and beyond.

Thursday’s seminar asks why caregiving is central to understanding empire & today’s world. New research traces how paid & unpaid care shaped labour, migration & political change across South Asia & beyond.
5 Feb, 12–1pm, Gordon Sq
#SocialResearch #socialInclusion
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@ioe.bsky.social

🇮🇳 is facing #tariffs from 🇺🇸; 🇨🇳 is part of South Asian #geopolitics; 🇺🇸 is altering global dynamics. Join us to discuss this w/ experts.

📆 Mon, 26 Jan - ONLINE
🕒 3pm🇬🇧 8.30pm🇮🇳 11pm🇨🇳
🗣️ & 🆓 reg. details > tinyurl.com/33vykcz3

@filippoboni.bsky.social @lseideas.bsky.social @lsegovernment.bsky.social

The first talk in the Urban Multiplicities Seminar Series will be delivered by @rikjaz.bsky.social (@uclgeography.bsky.social)

Tuesday 27th January, 16:30–18:00, Small Lecture Theatre. All welcome!

Beyond Creative Placemaking This talk explores how public art in Delhi’s Lodhi Art District shapes encounters, access and belonging, showing how placemaking becomes a contested arena for community, identity and power.

How public art shapes community and identity in Delhi’s Lodhi Art District.

📅 25 November | ⏰ 1 PM – 2 PM |
Free and open to all!

Find out more: tinyurl.com/ucl-lodhi

#UCLGeography #PublicArt #UrbanIdentity #CityLife #CreativePlacemaking @ucl.ac.uk @ucl-ias.bsky.social

Visualizing Design and its Values in Postcolonial India A seminar on postcolonial Indian design by Dr Vishal Khandelwal (Assistant Professor of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University)

Visualizing Design and its Values in Postcolonial India
Nov 26 3-5pm GMT
The Queen's College, Oxford
A seminar on postcolonial Indian design by Dr Vishal Khandelwal (Assistant Professor of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University)
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Prof Tirthankar Roy – Building a state in late-18th century India: Revisiting the Permanent Settlement debate
9th Oct 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm BST
Royal Asiatic Society, London
The talk will suggest how we should read institutional reforms in early-colonial India.
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In celebration of South Asian Heritage Month, students and staff have shared their book recommendations with us. Read through the list here: www.ucl.ac.uk/library/news...

india & me: engage. reflect. act. A participatory, cross-disciplinary, and innovative decolonial educational programme on intersectional justice in India.

india & me: engage. reflect. act.
27 Sept –12 Oct with @ioe.bsky.social
A participatory, cross-disciplinary, and innovative decolonial educational programme on intersectional justice in India.
www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/events/2...

Masculinity & Madness in Western India 1871-1940 Join us at Wellcome Collection for our Historical Health & The Body Reading Group for PhD, ECR & interested historical researchers.

Masculinity & Madness in Western India 1871-1940
25 September 2025, 1pm-2pm
Join us at Wellcome Collection for our Historical Health & The Body Reading Group for PhD, ECR & interested historical researchers.
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

I am beyond thrilled to announce I have been awarded a Mid-Career Fellowship from @paulmelloncentr.bsky.social and a Visiting Fellowship at @ucl-ias.bsky.social to write a book on ‘Queer Ecologies and Abundant Aesthetics in Sri Lankan Art, 1926-2024’. Pictured: Chathuri Nissansala, ‘Saudade’, 2024.

Trace the Forgotten History of South Asian Seafarers Join scholars and artists to uncover South Asian seafarer histories through talks and a soundscaped walking tour in East London.

Trace the Forgotten History of South Asian Seafarers
15 July 2025–16 July 2025, 11am-5pm
Join scholars and artists to uncover South Asian seafarer histories through talks and a sound-scaped walking tour in East London.
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

The Bombay Film Colour Symposium The Bombay Film Colour Symposium

Bringing together South Asian film researchers & industry specialists from India, @uclselcs.bsky.social aim to open up new perspectives on colour’s distinctive role in Bombay film culture.
The Bombay Film Colour Symposium
June 23 · 10am - 6pm GMT+1
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Crowdsourcing the Past: Memory Projects in South Asia (HAP Summer Seminar)

Crowdsourcing the Past: Memory Projects in South Asia
Online via Zoom with @ihr.bsky.social and Mallika Leuzinger (@ghilondon.bsky.social)
24 July 2025, 1-1:30PM
www.history.ac.uk/events/crowd...

The Bombay Film Colour Symposium The Bombay Film Colour Symposium

The Bombay Film Colour Symposium
23 June 10am-6pm @uclselcs.bsky.social
Inviting researchers from South Asian film studies, global colour film history & India's industry specialists, to open new perspectives on colour’s distinctive role in Bombay film culture
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-bombay...

Buddhism in Asia: Anthropology & Everyday Life This workshop and exhibition explore Buddhist-influences material culture, embodied practices and everyday experiences across Asia through conversations with scholars, spiritual teachers and Buddhist ...

Buddhism in Asia: Anthropology & Everyday Life
5 June 9am–6pm
This workshop & exhibition explore Buddhist-influences material culture, embodied practices & everyday experiences across Asia through conversations with scholars, spiritual teachers & Buddhist practitioners
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Inaugural Lecture: Professor Mohammad Shamsudduha RDR Monthly Event: Join us as Dr Mohammad Shamsudduha (Shams), Professor of Water Crisis and Risk Reduction, delivers his inaugural lecture at UCL.

How Data-Driven Science Transforms Lives: Spotlight on Water Security
13 May 6–8:30 pm, UCL
Join @uclrdr.bsky.social for an inspiring talk on how Prof Shams’ research evolved, focusing on his data-driven research in groundwater science, particularly in Bangladesh.
www.ucl.ac.uk/risk-disaste...

Anti-colonialism in the ‘post-colonial’ state The political independence of (certain) nation-states in the Global South during the twentieth century was not the end of anticolonialism. The geographical borders and social projects of these new sta...

Anti-colonialism in the ‘post-colonial’ state
7 April 2025, 5pm–7pm
- Mahvish Ahmad, “A Colony in a Colony: Balochistan and the Unfinished Project of Decolonisation.”*
- Sara Salem, “Faded Dreams – On Encountering Traces of Anticolonial Pasts.”
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Ramadan Mubarak to all observing in our UCL community and beyond 🌙✨

Book Launch: Lahore in Motion Please join us for a night of conversation, readings and refreshments to celebrate the publication of 'Lahore in Motion: Infrastructure, History and Belonging in Urban Pakistan'

Book Launch: Lahore in Motion: Infrastructure, History and Belonging in Urban Pakistan
5 March 2025, 6pm-7:30pm
Please join us for a night of conversation, readings and refreshments to celebrate the publication of 'Lahore in Motion'
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

IAS Early Career Network Workshop: Getting Published This interactive workshop will cover all aspects of building a strong publication record as an ECR.

📢 Calling all UCL SHAPE ECRs (arts, humanities or social sciences)
Want some advice on Getting Published? 📑📚
Join our interactive workshop on 5th March, 2-4pm at the IAS, UCL
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Book Launch: Lahore in Motion, Infrastructure, History and Belonging in Urban Pakistan
5 March 2025, 6pm-7:30pm
Please join us for a night of conversation, readings and refreshments to celebrate the publication of 'Lahore in Motion'
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Book Launch: Lahore in Motion Please join us for a night of conversation, readings and refreshments to celebrate the publication of 'Lahore in Motion: Infrastructure, History and Belonging in Urban Pakistan'

Book Launch: Lahore in Motion
5 March 2025, 6–7:30 pm
Please join us for a night of conversation, readings and refreshments to celebrate the publication of 'Lahore in Motion: Infrastructure, History and Belonging in Urban Pakistan'
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

IAS Octagon Fund open for applications The Octagon Small Grants Fund supports UCL-based early-career researchers, including research students, from Arts & Humanities and Social & Historical Sciences. Apply by 24th February.

📢Calling all UCL ECRs & PhDs in A&H and SHS 📢
(if you are not in A&H or SHS you just need to find a suitable collaborator who is!)
The IAS Octagon Grant is open for applications 🎉🙌🏽
Apply by 24 Feb - get writing!
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Provincialising the Anthropocene Research Labs Grants The IAS and UCL Anthropocene are offering up to five grants of £2,000-£3,000 to support teams of researchers to come together in a virtual Research Lab to work on cross-disciplinary themes or topics r...

Provincialising the Anthropocene Research Labs Grants
Closing 23 February 2025
We are offering up to 5 grants of £2-3K to support teams of researchers in a virtual Research Lab to work on cross-disciplinary themes/ topics related to 'Provincialising the Anthropocene'
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Panel discussion: The Great Mughals at the V&A The Centre for the Study of South Asia and the Indian Ocean World is delighted to welcome V&A curators Susan Stronge and Emily Hannam to take part in this panel discussion.

Panel discussion: The Great Mughals at the V&A
3 February 2025, 5-7pm
We are delighted to welcome V&A curators Susan Stronge and Emily Hannam to take part in this panel discussion.
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Tour of the exhibition: ‘The Imaginary Institution of India, 1975-1998’

Tour of ‘The Imaginary Institution of India, 1975-1998’
10 Dec 4:30pm Barbican Centre
An exhibition exploring how artists metabolised social upheaval, economic collapse & rapid urbanisation from Indira Gandhi’s 1975 state of emergency to 1998 Pokhran nuclear tests
www.ucl.ac.uk/art-history/...