The SOAS South Asia Institute (SSAI) is the forum for South Asian-related research activities at SOAS, University of London
The principal role of the Institute is to promote, coordinate and disseminate information relating to, the academic study of South Asia across the disciplines and to act as a resource for academic, governmental, non-governmental and business constituencies with an interest in South Asia. It does so through the research and publications of its staff, new teaching programmes, an established seminar series and special events.
16/05/2023
Shadowlands (Film Screening)
Date: 6 June 2023
Time: 6:00 pm
Venue: Alumni Lecture Theatre, Paul Webley Wing. SOAS, University of London
Registration:
Shadowlands (Film Screening) Shadowlands: Life After Conflict in Lyari, Karachi
12/05/2023
SSAI event 'The Return of the Taliban' will be hosted online via zoom, not in-person as previously listed.
Click here to register - http://ow.ly/W36h50OmrZI
Date: 18 May 2023
Time: 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm
Room: Online via zoom
05/05/2023
Book Launch: The Scattered Court by Richard David Williams
Date: 23 May 2023
Time: 5:00 pm
Venue: Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS University of London
Join call: http://ow.ly/1CAK50OgNur
05/05/2023
Losing Home: Finding Home
Date: 30 May 2023
Time: 5:30 pm
Venue: Khalili Lecture Theatre (KLT), Lower Ground Floor of Main Building, SOAS University of London
Registration: http://ow.ly/wstb50OgMPX
https://www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/panel-discussion-citizenship-and-politics-identity-south-asia
A Panel Discussion on Citizenship and the Politics of Identity in South Asia
Date/Time: 19 April 2023, 5:00 pm
Venue: Room B203, Brunei Building, SOAS University of London
A Panel Discussion on Citizenship and the Politics of Identity in South Asia A Panel Discussion on Citizenship and the Politics of Identity in South Asia
28/03/2023
Call for Papers - Countercurrents: Pasts Present in the Future
Call for Papers - Countercurrents: Pasts Present in the Future The South Asia* of today manifests through a multitude of imaginations and encounters between the future, past and present. There is a resilience with which South Asia is imagined, as well as a slipperiness to its social and political communities, both within the region as well as across its diaspor...
28/03/2023
10,000 MEMORIES - A lived history of Partition, Independence and World War II in South Asia
Date/time - 26 April, 2023. 6 to 7pm.
Venue - Alumni Lecture Theatre, Paul Webley Wing. SOAS University of London
10,000 MEMORIES - A lived history of Partition, Independence and World War II in South Asia A lived history of Partition, Independence and World War II in South Asia
25/02/2023
SSAI SANGLAAP: Tongues on Fire - UK Asian Film Festival
Date: 28 March 2023
Time: 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Venue: Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre
SSAI SANGLAAP: Tongues on Fire - UK Asian Film Festival Tongues on Fire -UK Asian Film Festival will be celebrating its 25th year on the day at a reception and film screening event marking the richness and vibrancy of South Asian culture, history, arts, storytelling, and self-expression. For 25 years it has done so by opening doors and providing a platfo...
21/02/2023
The Yogi in Sufi Romances: Lovelorn Seeker or Laughing Stock?
Date: 22 February 2023,
Time: 19:30 – 20:45 GMT
Venue: Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS University of London
Heidi Pauwels The Yogi in Sufi Romances: Lovelorn Seeker or Laughing Stock?
13/02/2023
Poetry Reading with Kalyani Thakur Charal
Date: 17 February 2023
Time: 5:30 am
ROom RG01, SOAS Main Building.
03/02/2023
Book discussion:
Insecure Guardians: Enforcement, Encounters and Everyday Policing
6 February 2023
6:00 pm
Room: S209, Paul Webley Wing (Senate House), SOAS
19/01/2023
Terror Trials: Life and Law in Delhi's Courts
Please join us for the launch of Dr Mayur Suresh's new book, Terror Trials: Life and Law in Delhi's Courts.
Date: 24 January 2023
Time: 6:00 pm
Venue: Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS