Cambridge South Asia @CSASCambridge
The Centre of South Asian Studies, University of Cambridge | A cross-disciplinary research centre, library & archive for scholars of South and Southeast Asia s-asian.cam.ac.uk Cambridge, UK Joined October 2013-
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@CSASCambridge Annual South Asia Policy Event 2025 was an insightful discussion on Afghanistan followed by dinner in Wolfson College. Thank you to the panellists Sir Laurie Bristow, Zahra Joya, Hameed Hakimi and Annika Schmeding.
@CSASCambridge and Wolfson College look forward to seeing you at the Annual South Asian Public Affairs Event - TODAY - in Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, Cambridge. #Afghanistan’s Fragile Frontier: Navigating #Aid, #Rights, and #Governance. 11 June 2025. 5pm.
@CSASCambridge welcomed the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of India, Justice B R Gavai on 9 June. He was welcomed by Prof @shailajafennell, Dr Kevin Greenbank and @PrajaktiK . A big thank you to @trishantsimlai and CAMSAF for organising the visit.
@CSASCambridge and Wolfson College look forward to seeing you at the Annual South Asian Public Affairs Event on 11 June 2025 at 5pm in Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, Cambridge. #Afghanistan’s Fragile Frontier: Navigating #Aid, #Rights, and #Governance. 11 June. 5pm.
@CSASCambridge @shailajafennell @INETeconomics highlights from the conference on The Political Economy of Ecological Change and Economic Security in the Global South!
@CSASCambridge @shailajafennell @INETeconomics highlights from the conference on The Political Economy of Ecological Change and Economic Security in the Global South!
@CSASCambridge Garden party! Thank you to a wonderful cohort and all the people who supported it to be a fantastic year.
It's here! Come look at Dr Timothy Cooper's book 'Moral Atmospheres' in the Centre of South Asian Studies Library in the Alison Richard Building! #pakistan #bazars #islam #media @Kings_College
@CSASCambridge invites you to the last seminar this term- A Thousand Tiny Cuts: #Mobility and #Security Across the #Bangladesh-#India #Borderlands with Sahana Ghosh (NUS, Singapore). 14 June, 5pm, SG1, Alison Richard Building & events.teams.microsoft.com/event/65671c12…
@CSASCambridge is hosting 2 talks this week- Defiance, Disobedience and Dialogism: Exploring the multiple trajectories of anti-#caste #music, K. Kalyani (Azim Premji Univ) & A Thousand Tiny Cuts: Mobility & #Security Across the #Bangladesh-#India #Borderlands, Sahana Ghosh (NUS).
@CSASCambridge was delighted to host Ashok Ferrey yesterday evening. The event want hosted with support from @JLFLitfest. #sirlanka #literature Thank you for a most engaging discussion on #southasia.
@CSASCambridge was delighted to host Ashok Ferrey yesterday evening. The event want hosted with support from @JLFLitfest. #sirlanka #literature Thank you for a most engaging discussion on #southasia.
Join us on the 5th of June when we host Ashok Ferrey in Cambridge who will talk about 'Presenting #SriLanka to the outside world through its home-grown #writing' at 5pm in Alison Richard Building, SG1 & teams events.teams.microsoft.com/event/e4e7590b… Event co-organised with @JaipurLitFest
@CSASCambridge invites you to our Annual South Asia Public Policy Lecture with Vandana Singh (Science Fiction Writer, Author of Ambiguity and Machines & Other Stories 2018) on 27th May at 3pm in SG1, Alison Richard Building.
@CSASCambridge invites you to a talk by Andrew Hardy (EFEO, Paris) on 'The Long Wall of #Quang #Ngai (#Vietnam): The Making of a #Southeast #Asian Border', 22 May, 5pm, SG1, Alison Richard Building & events.teams.microsoft.com/event/deaec105…
@CSASCambridge talk by Aliya Khalid (Uni of Oxford) on From silences to the #politics of the in-between: exploring unconventional #modalities of #agency in #oppression and #struggle, 15 May, 5pm in SG1, Alison Richard Building & on teams: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/1567c1cc… @shailajafennell
@CSASCambridge Seminar on 8th May: 'On the road in #India: Travelling #theatre companies in the 19th and early 20th centuries' with Asha Kuthari Chaudhuri (Visiting Fellow, CSAS & University of Gauhati), 5pm, SG1, Alison Richard Building & events.teams.microsoft.com/event/25cec05c…
@CSASCambridge invites you to the seminar on Silver screens and golden dreams: A social history of #Burmese #cinema' with Jane Ferguson (Australian National University) on 1 May, 5pm, SG1 ARB, Cambridge and online events.teams.microsoft.com/event/b7f0ebad…
@CSASCambridge was delighted to welcome the Indian HC His Excellency @VDoraiswami on 26th April. We look forward to long and productive relationship.
@CSASCambridge was delighted to welcome the Indian HC His Excellency @VDoraiswami on 26th April. We look forward to long and productive relationship.
The @CSASCambridge library will be closed on the 29th of March and 1st of April. Happy holidays.

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