UCL Centre for the Study of South Asia and the Indian Ocean World

IAS Workshop: Global Fascisms
30 June 2026, 9:30 am–7:00 pm
Including papers on ‘Contemporary fascism and capitalism in the Global South: an ethnographic study of Muslim gig-workers in India’ (Khawla Zainab, University of Oxford) and ‘The Shaheen Bagh protests in New Delhi, 2019-20: anti-fascism at the interface of formal and unofficial politics’ (Pragya Dhital, SAS, University of London).

IAS Workshop: Global Fascisms This one-day workshop brings together a range of voices and presents new work that reconsiders the complex legacies of fascism, the Second World War and genocide in global context.

Drawing History
27 May 2026. 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm
Senate House, Malet Street, London
Including the Indian graphic novelist Sarnath Banerjee and copies of Jadavpur University Press’s amazing 'Famine Tales' will be on sale afterwards.

Drawing History In this free public event, organised by the IES and the IHR,  two artist-educators discuss their experience of both doing historical research and collaborating with historians through their creative practice. It complements the IHR’s earlier event on Doing History with Poetry and the upcoming Lon...

Out Laws follows three q***r activists, from Namibia, Sri Lanka and Barbados, as they fight to overturn the colonial-era laws that still criminalise their lives.

Out Laws: Screening and discussion Please join us for a film screening and discussion of the documentary Out Laws (2025, Lexi Powner & James Lewis) with director James Lewis, Professor Bob Mills (UCL) and activist Friedel Dausab.

The politics of the ungovernable: Bengali translocalism in London
14 May 2026, 12:00 – 13:00
Based on multi-sited fieldwork in Tower Hamlets and Bangladesh, Ashraf Hoque examines how British Bengalis practice what postcolonial theorists term “political society".

The politics of the ungovernable: Bengali translocalism in London Based on multi-sited fieldwork in Tower Hamlets and Bangladesh, Ashraf Hoque examines how British Bengalis practice what postcolonial theorists term “political society".