South Asia Forum | Queen Mary University of London

A critical and collaborative platform for research and teaching on South Asia at @QMUL

[South Asia Forum | Queen Mary University of London @qmulsaf]

Please join this exciting online event we are co-hosting with @SAsiaLSE on Asad Ali and Kamran Asdar Ali’s brilliant edited volume *Towards Peoples’ Histories in Pakistan*. Registration details in quoted tweet.

[LSE South Asia Centre @SAsiaLSE]

Which histories remain inaudible when we write/study History? How do we write Peoples' histories? Join us to discuss Pakistan's many histories.

📅 Mon 2 Feb - ONLINE
🕓 4pm🇬🇧 9pm🇵🇰
🗣️ & 🆓 reg. details: https://t.co/bq5EVIXFK8

@qmulsaf @UKSAsia_Network @FatimaZahidAli @echo_vub

[UK-South Asia Network @UKSAsia_Network]

We’re delighted to announce the next event of the Network > a collaboration between @SAsiaLSE & @qmulsaf on Histories (yes, in the plural!) of Pakistan 🇵🇰

It’s online, w/ fantastic Speakers & FREE to attend! Registration & Speakers’ details 👇🏼

[RaphaelSamuelHistCen @RSHistCentre]

Come to the launch of ‘Waning Crescent: the rise and fall of global Islam’. Professor Faisal Devji discusses his examination of the rise of Islam as a global historical actor.
1st December, London E1.
Book here (https://t.co/enj1pUOXcv)
@QMHistory
@BirkbeckHCA

[South Asia Forum | Queen Mary University of London @qmulsaf]

All welcome to a book panel on Stephen Legg’s ‘Spaces of Anticolonialism’ (2025), featuring @SandhuTanroop, Romola Sanyal and @PhilippaGeog.

🗓️22 October
✍️Register at: https://t.co/J4SLgo2tpX

@QMHistory @QMUL_HSS @LSEGeography @uongeography

[South Asia Forum | Queen Mary University of London @qmulsaf]

Tonight! All welcome

[South Asia Forum | Queen Mary University of London @qmulsaf]

Join us to celebrate Jesús Cháirez-Garza's 'Rethinking Untouchability' (@ManchesterUP), w/Nivi Manchanda, Jayaseelan Raj & Srilata Sircar (@TwinerTweets). Co-hosted w/@QMhpt.

🗓️20 March
✍️Register at: https://t.co/spOJXweE73

@QMHistory @QMUL_HSS @QMPoliticsIR @KingsIndiaInst

[South Asia Forum | Queen Mary University of London @qmulsaf]

Next week, filmmaker @sarkarjaydeep will be at QM to discuss (and screen an episode of!) ‘Rainbow Rishta’. All welcome! Co-hosted with @peacein_india.

📅 27 March, 4-6pm
✍️ Register at: https://t.co/ynvVX0lpDh

@qmul_hss @filmstudiesqmul
@adrijadey

[South Asia Forum | Queen Mary University of London @qmulsaf]

Reminder! 📢Join us NEXT THURS (20 March) for a discussion on 'Rethinking Untouchability' with Jesús Cháirez-Garza, Nivi Manchanda, @JayRaj_anthro and @TwinerTweets. Register at https://t.co/sxRSz2PnFf .

@QMUL_HSS @QMHistory @KingsIndiaInst @kudos4nemo

[South Asia Forum | Queen Mary University of London @qmulsaf]

Join us to celebrate Jesús Cháirez-Garza's 'Rethinking Untouchability' (@ManchesterUP), w/Nivi Manchanda, Jayaseelan Raj & Srilata Sircar (@TwinerTweets). Co-hosted w/@QMhpt.

🗓️20 March
✍️Register at: https://t.co/spOJXweE73

@QMHistory @QMUL_HSS @QMPoliticsIR @KingsIndiaInst

[South Asia Forum | Queen Mary University of London @qmulsaf]

Tonight at @UCL_IAS:

[South Asia Forum | Queen Mary University of London @qmulsaf]

Register for launch event here: https://t.co/uMWgUvWv3F - featuring Majed Akhter (@kclgeography) and @KasiaPaprocki (@LSEGeography)

[South Asia Forum | Queen Mary University of London @qmulsaf]

Register for launch event here: https://t.co/uMWgUvWv3F - featuring Majed Akhter (@kclgeography) and @KasiaPaprocki (@LSEGeography)

[South Asia Forum | Queen Mary University of London @qmulsaf]

🚨FREE BOOK!🚨

‘Lahore in Motion’ is OUT NOW via @UCLpress. Download PDF at https://t.co/VJM8lvQUzx

SAF co-Director Chris Moffat (@QMHistory) is one of the volume editors, alongside Ammara Maqsood and @FizzahSajjad.

🚀 Book launch @UCL_IAS on 5 March. All welcome!

@QMUL_HSS

[South Asia Forum | Queen Mary University of London @qmulsaf]

Join us to celebrate Jesús Cháirez-Garza's 'Rethinking Untouchability' (@ManchesterUP), w/Nivi Manchanda, Jayaseelan Raj & Srilata Sircar (@TwinerTweets). Co-hosted w/@QMhpt.

🗓️20 March
✍️Register at: https://t.co/spOJXweE73

@QMHistory @QMUL_HSS @QMPoliticsIR @KingsIndiaInst

[Jamhoor @jamhoormedia]

Here's our 5 most read pieces of 2024:

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[South Asia Forum | Queen Mary University of London @qmulsaf]

A reminder to join us next week (30 oct) for this seminar with @whbutt, @kudos4nemo and @JulesCorwin ! ‘Life Beyond Waste’ @QMUL_HSS . All welcome! #Lahore #Pakistan

[South Asia Forum | Queen Mary University of London @qmulsaf]

Excited to welcome @whbutt to @QMUL_HSS for a discussion of his book 'Life Beyond Waste' (@stanfordpress) with @JulesCorwin and @kudos4nemo. October 30th - please join us! @QMHistory @QMPoliticsIR

[Centre for Climate Crime & Climate Justice @ccccjustice]

We're very excited to be co-hosting @FranceskAlb - alongside 10 other @qmul research centres and @QUEENMARY_UCU - next month.

Online and in-person.

Sign up here: https://t.co/Y7lDUWeRho

[South Asia Forum | Queen Mary University of London @qmulsaf]

Excited to welcome @whbutt to @QMUL_HSS for a discussion of his book 'Life Beyond Waste' (@stanfordpress) with @JulesCorwin and @kudos4nemo. October 30th - please join us! @QMHistory @QMPoliticsIR

[South Asia Forum | Queen Mary University of London @qmulsaf]

Not to be missed - featuring SAF’s own Ashvin Devasundraram! @QMULSLLF @QMUL_HSS @ukasianfilmfest

[The Garden Cinema @TheGardenCinema]

Original Copy is an essential documentary for cinephiles. In an old Film Palace in Mumbai, the last painter of film posters and his colleagues battle against declining audiences. This screening will be introduced by Dr Ashvin Immanuel Devasundaram

29 July
https://t.co/sOqxOrWcHN

[LSE South Asia Centre @SAsiaLSE]

When Afia Begum was deported to 🇧🇩 in the 1980s, it stirred South Asian women in 🇬🇧 to fight for their rights. Ayisha Uddin @QMHistory explores archives in The Women's Library @LSELibrary to tell the story.

https://t.co/VIRwh5fUAF

@_gillianmurphy @qmulsaf @N_Kabeer @lewisd100

[South Asia Forum | Queen Mary University of London @qmulsaf]

For those in @qmul community following the recent protests in Bangladesh, an important local event from our friends in @nijjormanush

[Nijjormanush @nijjormanush]

🇧🇩Solidarity with the Bangladeshi Student Protests

🚨 Join our Emergency Rally/ Teach-In @ Altab Ali Park this Sunday at 2 pm as we demand an end to state-sanctioned violence against the students defending their future.

✊🏾NO MORE DEATHS! PROTECT THE STUDENTS!

[UK-South Asia Network @UKSAsia_Network]

Sunday pick ⚡️

Not quite ‘South Asia’ (using Admin privilege here!) but a brilliant read on a US-led massacre in 1906 ‘erased’ from History. A lot for historians to chew on!

Well done ⁦@KimAtiWagner⁩ ⁦@qmulsaf⁩ ⁦@LittleBrownUK⁩ 👍🏼👏🏼👏🏼
https://t.co/N3ST9C8CGE